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Home Lead Safety Tax Credit Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3918
Sponsor: Rep. Ruppersberger, C. A. Dutch [D-MD-2]
Introduced: 2007-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Child safety
Costs
Environmental Protection
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Home repair and improvement
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Lead
Paints and varnishes
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tax credits
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: 
Home Lead Safety Tax Credit Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 50 percent of the costs of reducing lead hazards in U.S. homes built before 1960 in which certain low-income children less than six years of age and women of child-bearing age reside. Allows a maximum credit of $3,000 for lead abatement costs and $1,000 for the cost of interim lead control measures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2195)
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Procedural Fairness for September 11 Victims Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3921
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Timothy H. [D-NY-1]
Introduced: 2007-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Air piracy
Compensation (Law)
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
September 11, 2001
Subpoena
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Victims of terrorism
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: 
Procedural Fairness for September 11 Victims Act of 2007 - Amends the September 11 Victims Compensation Fund of 2001 to allow a subpoena requiring the attendance of a witness at a trial or hearing conducted under such Act to be served at any place in the United States.

action_date: 2007-10-29
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Procedural Fairness for September 11 Victims Act of 2007 - Amends the September 11 Victims Compensation Fund of 2001 to allow a subpoena requiring the attendance of a witness at a trial or hearing conducted under such Act to be served at any place in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-29
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 261.
action_date: 2007-10-29
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 110-413.
action_date: 2007-10-29
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 110-413.
action_date: 2007-10-24
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2007-10-24
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2189-2190)
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Offshore Deferred Compensation Reform Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3923
Sponsor: Rep. Emanuel, Rahm [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2007-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: 
Offshore Deferred Compensation Reform Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the inclusion in gross income for income tax purposes of employee compensation deferred under a nonqualified deferred compensation plan of a nonqualified foreign corporation when there is no substantial risk of forfeiture of the rights to such compensation. Defines &quot;nonqualified foreign corporation&quot; as any foreign corporation unless substantially all of its income is: (1) effectively connected with a trade or business in the United States; or (2) subject to an income tax imposed by a foreign country that has a comprehensive tax treaty with the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2192-2193)
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Introduced in House
To designate the information center at Canaveral National Seashore as the "T.C. Wilder, Jr., Canaveral National Seashore Information Center".

Bill: 110-hr-3924
Sponsor: Rep. Feeney, Tom [R-FL-24]
Introduced: 2007-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Florida
Government Operations and Politics
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Names
National seashores
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: 
Designates the information center at Canaveral National Seashore, located approximately nine miles south of New Smyrna Beach, Florida, on Highway A1A, as the T.C. Wilder, Jr., Canaveral National Seashore Information Center. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to issue an order regarding secondary cockpit barriers.

Bill: 110-hr-3925
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2007-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Airline passenger traffic
Aviation safety
Commercial aircraft
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Security measures
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: 
Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to issue an order to require: (1) the installation of secondary barriers to prevent access to the flight deck of a commercial aircraft; (2) with respect to an aircraft that is equipped with a cockpit door, such secondary barriers remain locked while the aircraft is in flight and the cockpit door separating the flight deck and the passenger area is open; and (3) with respect to an aircraft that is not equipped with a cockpit door, such secondary barriers remain locked as determined by the pilot.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Safe Building Code Incentive Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3926
Sponsor: Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-5]
Introduced: 2007-10-22 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Building laws
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: 
Safe Building Code Incentive Act of 2007 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President to increase the maximum total of contributions for a major disaster by an amount equal to 4% of the estimated aggregate amount of grants to be made under the Act, if at the time of a declaration of a major disaster the affected state has in effect and is actively enforcing an approved state building code. 

Requires a state, to be eligible for the increased federal share, to submit its state building code to the President for approval at least once every six years.

Directs the President to approve a state building code submitted upon determining that it: (1) is consistent with the most recent version of a nationally recognized model building code; (2) has been adopted by the state within six years of the most recent version of the nationally recognized code; and (3) uses the nationally recognized code as a minimum standard.

Authorizes the use by states and local governments of technical and financial assistance to implement predisaster hazard mitigation measures to establish and operate a building department and carry out enforcement activities to implement an approved state building code.

Directs the President, in determining whether to provide technical and financial assistance to a state or local government, to take into account the extent to which that government is carrying out activities to implement an approved state building code.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2195-2196)
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-22
text: Introduced in House
Third Higher Education Extension Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3927
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2007-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Authorization
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Scholarships
Student aid
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: 
Third Higher Education Extension Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Extension Act of 2005 to extend the programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 through April 30, 2008.

action_date: 2007-10-23
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Third Higher Education Extension Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Extension Act of 2005 to extend the programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 through April 30, 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-10-24
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H11885)
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H11885)
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3927.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H11885-11886)
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Mr. Hinojosa moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
Safe Highways and Infrastructure Preservation Act

Bill: 110-hr-3929
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2007-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal aid to transportation
Federal preemption
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Highway finance
Law
Motor vehicle safety
State laws
Trucking
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: 
Safe Highways and Infrastructure Preservation Act - Amends federal transportation law to prohibit a state from prescribing or enforcing any regulation that allows a restricted property-carrying unit (any trailer, semi-trailer, container, or other property-carrying unit longer than 53 feet, except for a fire-fighting unit) to operate on the National Highway System (NHS) (including the Interstate System), unless the operation of such unit is authorized by the state on June 1, 2007, and in actual and lawful operation on a regular or periodic basis (including seasonal operations) on or before that date. 
 
Prohibits a state from allowing the operation of a commercial motor vehicle combination on the NHS (except a vehicle or load that cannot be dismantled or divided easily, and that has been issued a special permit under state law) with more than one property-carrying unit (excluding the truck tractor) whose property-carrying units are more than: (1) the maximum combination trailer, semi-trailer, or other type of length limitation allowed by state law on June 1, 2007; or (2) the length of the property-carrying units of those commercial motor vehicle combinations, by specific configuration, in actual and lawful operation on a regular or periodic basis (including continual seasonal operation) in such state on or before June 1, 2007. 
 Amends federal highway law to prohibit a state from allowing the operation of a vehicle or combination (other than a longer combination vehicle) exceeding Interstate weight limits on the Interstate System unless its operation was lawful: (1) on July 1, 1956; (2) in the case of the overall gross weight of any group of two or more consecutive axles, on the date of enactment of the Federal-Aid Highway Amendments of 1974; or (3) under a special permit pursuant to state (grandfather) law. 
 
Declares that Interstate weight limitations on vehicles and combinations (other than longer combination vehicles) that operate on the Interstate System shall also apply to such vehicles and combinations that operate on non-Interstate segments of the NHS, unless: (1) such segments are subject to lower state weight limits; or (2) a state allows the operation of any vehicle or combination on an existing non-Interstate segment of the NHS that could be so operated lawfully on June 1, 2007.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Prescription Drug Savings and Choice Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3932
Sponsor: Rep. Berry, Marion [D-AR-1]
Introduced: 2007-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Drugs
Law
Medicare
Pharmacies
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: 
Medicare Prescription Drug Savings and Choice Act of 2007 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for: (1) establishment of one or more Medicare operated prescription drug plan options; (2) an appeals process for denials of benefits under a Medicare operated prescription drug plan; and (3) pharmacy payments under such a plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-11-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the election to include combat pay as earned income for purposes of the earned income tax credit and penalty-free distributions from retirement plans to individuals called to active duty, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-3933
Sponsor: Rep. Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2007-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Armed Forces and National Security
Blind
Disabled
Earned income tax credit
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Military pay
Military personnel
Social Welfare
Supplemental security income program
Tax penalties
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent: (1) the taxpayer election to include combat zone compensation as earned income for purposes of the earned income tax credit; and (2) the exemption from penalties for premature distributions from retirement plans to individuals called or ordered to active military duty.

Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled) of the Social Security Act to exclude from supplement security income benefit determinations any state annuity paid to a blind veteran.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
Affordable Footwear Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3934
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2007-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Caribbean area
Commerce
Haiti
Latin America
Plastics
Poverty
Rubber
Shoe industry
Social Welfare
Tariff
Tariff preferences

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: 
Affordable Footwear Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the elimination of duty on certain imported footwear would provide significant benefit to U.S. consumers, particularly lower-income families.
 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide for the duty-free treatment of certain footwear (including children's shoes) made of rubber or plastics that are imported into the United States.
 
Amends the Caribbean Basic Economic Recovery Act to provide footwear imported directly from Haiti into the United States with the same preferential treatment that is provided to certain imported footwear under the Dominican Republic-Central American-United States Free Trade Agreement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
To extend the time limit of the authority of the Frederick Douglass Gardens, Inc., to establish a memorial and gardens on Department of the Interior lands in the District of Columbia or its environs in honor and commemoration of Frederick Douglass, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-3935
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2007-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Blacks
Botanical gardens
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights workers
Commemorations
District of Columbia
Minorities
Monuments and memorials

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: 
Extends through December 31, 2014, the authority for the Frederick Douglass Gardens, Inc., to establish a memorial and gardens on Department of the Interior lands in the District of Columbia or its environs in honor and commemoration of Frederick Douglass.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
Food Import Safety Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3937
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2007-10-23 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Crime and Law Enforcement
Defective products
Fines (Penalties)
Food industry
Food safety
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Import restrictions
Imports
International Affairs
Judicial review
Law
Searches and seizures
Small business
Technical assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: 
Food Import Safety Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prohibit the importation of food from a particular country if there is a pattern of FFDCA violations.

Requires the Secretary to establish a certification program to ensure that imported food meets U.S. food safety standards. Prohibits food from being imported unless there are facility and country certifications in effect.

Directs the Commissioner of Food and Drugs and other appropriate federal agencies to work with foreign countries that are major U.S. trading partners to establish certification programs.

Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance to assist small businesses in developing countries in complying with this Act.

Requires a person that has reason to believe that any food introduced into interstate commerce may be in violation of the FFDCA to immediately notify the Secretary of the identity and location of the food.

Requires the Secretary, upon a determination that such food is in violation of the FFDCA and that there is a reasonable probability that the food, if consumed, would present a threat to the public health, to give appropriate persons an opportunity to: (1) cease distribution of the food; (2) notify all relevant persons to cease distribution of the food; (3) recall the food; and (4) provide notice to consumers and public health officials. Authorizes the Secretary to control and possess the food and to order the person to immediately cease distribution of the food if the person refuses or does not adequately carry out such actions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Introduced in House