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To provide for a hospital in Cass County, Minnesota.

Bill: 110-hr-1744
Sponsor: Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8]
Introduced: 2007-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Medicare
Minnesota
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: 
Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to permit the designation of a certain critical access hospital in Cass County, Minnesota, by exempting it from the requirement that it be certified by the state on or after January 1, 2006, as being a necessary provider of health care services to residents in the area. (Thus restores to Minnesota state authority to waive the application of the 35-mile rule.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Introduced in House
Uniting America's Military Families Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1745
Sponsor: Rep. Ortiz, Solomon P. [D-TX-27]
Introduced: 2007-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Families
Fraud
Immigrants
Labor and Employment
Law
Military dependents
Military personnel
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: 
Uniting America's Military Families Act of 2007 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to waive inadmissibility grounds based on visa, document, or immigration benefit misrepresentation in the case of an immediate family member of an active duty or reserve member of the Armed Forces.
 
Amends V-visa (permits nonimmigrant spouses and minor children of lawful permanent residents who are beneficiaries of an immigrant petition to reside and work in the United States while waiting to obtain immigrant status) provisions to eliminate specified restrictions on a petition's filing date and length of pendency for a petition filed by an active duty or reserve member of the Armed Forces. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Introduced in House
Safe Drinking Water for Healthy Communities Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1747
Sponsor: Rep. Solis, Hilda L. [D-CA-32]
Introduced: 2007-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Chemicals
Environmental Protection Agency
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Potable water
Standards
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: 
Safe Drinking Water for Healthy Communities Act of 2007 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation for perchlorate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-08
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2007-11-08
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Introduced in House
Workforce Health Improvement Program Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1748
Sponsor: Rep. Wamp, Zach [R-TN-3]
Introduced: 2007-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Employee health benefits
Executive compensation
Fees
Fringe benefits
Health
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Physical fitness
Sports and Recreation
Sports facilities
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: 
Workforce Health Improvement Program Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of employees: (1) the value of any on-premises employer-provided athletic facility; and (2) fees, dues, or membership expenses paid to an athletic or fitness facility by an employer for its employees, but not exceeding $900 per employee per year.

Allows employers a tax deduction for fees, dues, or membership expenses paid to an athletic or fitness facility. Limits the amount of such deduction to $900 per employee per year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Introduced in House
Veterans' Care Advocate Act

Bill: 110-hr-1749
Sponsor: Rep. Welch, Peter [D-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Conflict of interests
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Defense
Disability evaluation
Executive reorganization
Families
Family services
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Iraq compilation
Military dependents
Military hospitals
Military medicine
Ombudsman
Physical therapy
Quality of care
Rehabilitation of the disabled

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: 
Veterans' Care Advocate Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish within each Department of Defense (DOD) military medical treatment facility an Ombudsman for Recovering Servicemembers to act as a liaison for recovering servicemembers and their families with respect to their evaluation and care under the physical disability evaluation systems.
 
Defines as &quot;recovering servicemembers&quot; those in a medical hold or holdover status due to an injury, illness, or disease incurred or aggravated while on active duty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E672)
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to extend from 90 days to one year the period after release of a member of the Armed Forces from active duty during which the member is protected from mortgage foreclosure under that Act.

Bill: 110-hr-1750
Sponsor: Rep. Wynn, Albert Russell [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2007-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Foreclosure
Housing and Community Development
Iraq compilation
Loan defaults
Military discharges
Mortgages
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act of 1940 to extend from 90 days to one year the period following release from active duty during which a member of the Armed Forces shall be protected from mortgage foreclosure.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-29
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2007-06-29
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make the expensing of environmental remediation costs permanent law and to repeal the recapture of such expenses under section 1245 of such Code.

Bill: 110-hr-1753
Sponsor: Rep. Weller, Jerry [R-IL-11]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Environmental Protection
Hazardous wastes
Income tax
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the current year tax deduction (expensing) for environmental remediation costs; and (2) repeal requirements for the recapture upon sale of such deduction as ordinary income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E723)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
House Ethics Commission Establishment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1754
Sponsor: Rep. Hill, Baron P. [D-IN-9]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional agencies
Congressional committees (House)
Congressional ethics
Congressional investigations
Congressional reorganization
House Standards of Official Conduct
House of Representatives
House rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
 House Ethics Commission Establishment Act of 2007 - Establishes an independent House Ethics Commission within the legislative branch.
 
Amends Rule XI (Procedures of Committees and Unfinished Business) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to revise the duties of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to conform with this Act.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2007-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3341-3342)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1755
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Arms sales
Bombs
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
President and foreign policy

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act of 2007 - Places specified restrictions on the sale, transfer, or use of cluster munitions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
To adjust the weight limits of commercial motor vehicles.

Bill: 110-hr-1757
Sponsor: Rep. Boren, Dan [D-OK-2]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Motor buses
Motor vehicle safety
Trucks
Weights and measures

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Revises weight limits of commercial motor vehicles with respect to federal commercial motor vehicle safety laws to apply such laws to vehicles having a gross vehicle weight rating or gross vehicle weight of at least 26,001 pounds, whichever is greater (currently, applies to such vehicles having a gross vehicle weight rating or gross vehicle weight of at least 26,001 pounds, whichever is greater, or a lesser gross vehicle weight rating or gross vehicle weight, but in any event not less than a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,001 pounds).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide status in each of fiscal years 2008 through 2012 for 65,000 H-1B nonimmigrants who have a master's or Ph.D. degree and meet the requirements for such status and whose employers make scholarship payments to institutions of higher education for undergraduate and postgraduate education.

Bill: 110-hr-1758
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Aliens
College teachers
Education
Graduate education
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Scholarships
Skilled labor
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide (H-1B visa) nonimmigrant status for a specified number of aliens during each of FY2008-FY2012 with a master's or Ph.D. degree whose employers make qualified scholarship payments to institutions of higher education for undergraduate and postgraduate study. (Gives scholarship priority to citizens and permanent resident aliens.)

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to authorize the interstate distribution of State inspected meat and poultry if the Secretary of Agriculture determines that the State inspection requirements are at least equal to Federal inspection requirements and to require the Secretary to reimburse State agencies for part of the costs of such inspections.

Bill: 110-hr-1760
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Commerce
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Interstate commerce
Meat inspection
Poultry
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to authorize the interstate distribution of state inspected meat and poultry if the Secretary of Agriculture determines that state inspection requirements are at least equal to federal inspection requirements.
 
 Provides partial state reimbursement for inspection costs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Teacher Incentive Fund Act

Bill: 110-hr-1761
Sponsor: Rep. Price, Tom [R-GA-6]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Fringe benefits
Higher education
Nonprofit organizations
Performance measurement
Rating of teachers
Recruiting of employees
School administration
School districts
School personnel
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Teacher salaries
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Teacher Incentive Fund Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to create a Teacher Incentive Fund program of competitive grants to assist states, local educational agencies (LEAs), and nonprofit organizations to develop and implement, or improve, appraisal and performance-based compensation systems to reward teachers and principals who raise student academic achievement and close the achievement gap, especially in the highest-need LEAs.
 
Increases required non-federal contributions to the program, on a graduated basis, from an amount equal 25% of the grant amount received in the first year to 50% of the grant amount received in the grant's fifth and final year. Allows the Secretary of Education to waive such matching requirement for high-need LEAs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
To facilitate and expedite direct refunds to coal producers and exporters of the excise tax unconstitutionally imposed on coal exported from the United States.

Bill: 110-hr-1762
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Artur [D-AL-7]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Coal
Energy
Excise tax
Exports
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Interest
Sales tax
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to refund a portion of the excise tax paid by certain coal producers on coal exported to a foreign country or shipped to a U.S. possession after October 1, 1990.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Indentured Servitude Abolition Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1763
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Age discrimination
Alien labor
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Contractors
Crime and Law Enforcement
Directories
Disabled
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Dismissal of employees
Employee benefit plans
Employee rights
Employee training
Employers' liability
Employment of the disabled
Fees
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Housing and Community Development
Immigration
Industrial relations
Injunctions
Labor disputes
Law
Lockouts
Minorities
Minority employment
Racial discrimination
Recidivists
Recruiting of employees
Religion
Religious liberty
Sex discrimination
Social Welfare
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Wages
Whistle blowing
Witnesses
Women
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Indentured Servitude Abolition Act of 2007 - Requires foreign labor contractors (recruiters) and employers to inform foreign workers accurately of specified terms and conditions of their employment at the time they are recruited. Requires such information to be provided in written form in English or, as necessary and reasonable, in the language of the worker being recruited. 
 
Prohibits charging fees to workers for recruitment.
 
Requires employers to pay such a worker's transportation costs, including subsistence costs during the period of travel: (1) from the place of recruitment to the place of employment; and (2) from the place of employment to the worker's place of permanent residence.
 
Prohibits discrimination in employment by an employer or a recruiter against an individual because of race, color, creed, sex, national origin, religion, age, or disability.
 
 Requires employers to notify the Secretary of Labor of the identity of: (1) any recruiter involved in any foreign labor contractor activity for or on behalf of the employer; and (2) any such recruiter whose activities do not comply with this Act. Subjects employers to the civil remedies of this Act for violations committed by such recruiters to the same extent as if the employers had committed the violations.
 
Prescribes civil and criminal penalties for violations of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2007-03-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E710-711)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
William H. Frist Gift of Life Congressional Medal Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1764
Sponsor: Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Awards, medals, prizes
Coins and coinage
Congress
Congressional tributes
Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Gifts
Government trust funds
Health
Health information systems
Sunset legislation
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
William H. Frist Gift of Life Congressional Medal Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to design and strike a bronze medal to commemorate organ donors and their families.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to direct the entity holding the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to contract to establish an application procedure and determine eligibility. 
Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services or the Network contractor to provide duplicates of the medal to any recipient. 
Allows the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into an agreement with the Network contractor to collect funds to offset expenditures relating to the issuance of medals, which the Secretary shall deposit in the Numismatic Public Enterprise Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2007-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E725)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House