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Containing and Managing Climate Change Costs Efficiently Act

Bill: 110-s-1874
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2007-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Carbon dioxide
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic research
Economics and Public Finance
Emissions trading
Executive reorganization
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Interest rates
Presidential appointments

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: 
Containing and Managing Climate Change Costs Efficiently Act - Establishes the Carbon Market Efficiency Board to: (1) analyze market information to promote understanding of the dynamics of each federal greenhouse gas (GHG) emission market; (2) gather information regarding the status of the markets; and (3) carry out cost relief measures if it determines that a federal GHG market poses significant harm to the U.S. economy.

Requires the Board, during the two-year period beginning on the date the initial federally established GHG market begins operation: (1) to study other markets for tradeable permits to emit covered GHGs; and (2) if it determines that the average daily closing price of GHG permits during a 180-day period exceeds the upper range of an estimate, to increase the quantity of permits that covered entities may borrow from their prescribed allocations for future years and take specified subsequent action.

Requires the Board to report to the President and Congress on the status of each federal GHG market, the economic effects of the markets, regional, industrial, and consumer responses to the markets, corrective measures that should be carried out to relieve excessive costs of the markets, and plans to compensate for those measures.

Authorizes the Board to carry out cost relief measures to ensure functioning, stable, and efficient markets for tradeable permits to emit GHGs beginning on the day after the expiration of the initial two-year period. Sets forth requirements for the Board to follow in carrying out the cost relief measures.

Limits the Board's authority, including prohibiting the Board from prescribing entity-level petitions for relief from the costs of a federal permit allocation or trading program.

Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to report to Congress on the projected price range at which GHG permits are expected to trade during the initial two-year period of the market.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Healthy Tax Reform Act

Bill: 110-s-1875
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2007-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Access to health care
Commerce
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance companies
Insurance premiums
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Minimum tax
Reinsurance
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: 
Healthy Tax Reform Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow uninsured individual taxpayers and their spouses and dependents a refundable tax credit for a limited amount of their health insurance costs; (2) direct the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program for payment of health insurance costs by advancing health insurance tax credit amounts to insurance providers during the taxable year; (3) limit the availability of certain tax preferences for individuals eligible for the health insurance tax credit; and (4) repeal the alternative minimum tax after 2006.

 Amends the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to deem whether a state has taken efforts to provide its citizens with greater access to affordable private health insurance, including by establishing a state health insurance exchange, a high risk pool, a reinsurance mechanism, or other high risk solution. Sets forth requirements for certification of a state health insurance exchange.

Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to expand Medicaid health opportunity accounts to all states as of January 1, 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
National Security with Justice Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1876
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2007-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Courts of special jurisdiction
Detention of persons
Government liability
Habeas corpus
Human rights
International Affairs
Jurisdiction
Law
Military law
Prosecution
Suspects' rights
Terrorism
Warrants (Law)

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: 
National Security with Justice Act of 2007 - Prohibits, with specified exceptions, a U.S. officer or agent from: (1) engaging in the extraterritorial (outside of the United States) detention of any individual; or (2) rendering (transferring to another legal jurisdiction) or participating in the rendition of any individual. Authorizes a U.S. officer or agent to apply for an order of rendition, and a judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (Court) to issue such an order, under specified procedures.
 
Provides for: (1) authorizations and orders for emergency detention; (2) uniform standards for the interrogation of individuals detained by the U.S. government; (3) protection of government officials engaged in interrogations; (4) monitoring and reporting regarding the treatment, conditions of confinement, and status of legal proceedings of individuals rendered to foreign governments; and (5) additional judges and other personnel for the Court.
 
Revises the definition of &quot;unlawful enemy combatant&quot; for purposes of military commissions.
 
Extends statutory habeas corpus to persons detained by the United States who have been: (1) determined to have been properly detained as an enemy combatant; or (2) detained for more than 90 days without such a determination.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9923-9926)
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9922-9923)
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 4, United States Code, to prescribe that members of the Armed Forces and veterans out of uniform may render the military salute during hoisting, lowering, or passing of flag.

Bill: 110-s-1877
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2007-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Flags
Military personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: 
Allows members of the Armed Forces and veterans who are out of uniform to render the military salute during the hoisting, lowering, or passing of the flag.

action_date: 2007-07-25
text: 

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

 
Allows members of the Armed Forces and veterans who are out of uniform to render the military salute during the hoisting, lowering, or passing of the flag.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S10045; text as passed Senate: CR S10045)
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S10045; text as passed Senate: CR S10045)
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize grants for contributions toward the establishment of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library.

Bill: 110-s-1878
Sponsor: Sen. Webb, Jim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2007-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Economics and Public Finance
Ex-presidents
Grants-in-aid
History
Presidential libraries
Presidential records
Virginia
Wilson Administration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: 
 Authorizes the Archivist of the National Archives and Records Administration to make grants to contribute funds toward the establishment in Staunton, Virginia, of a library to preserve and make available materials related to the life of President Woodrow Wilson and to provide interpretive and educational services that communicate the meaning of his life. 
 
Requires non-federal matching funds of at least double the amount of the grant. 
 
Prohibits the use of grant amounts for the maintenance or operation of such library. 
 
Bars the Archivist from: (1) having any involvement in the actual operation of the library, except at the request of the non-federal entity responsible for its operation; and (2) making such grants after September 30, 2011. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9927)
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9926-9927)
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend titles 10 and 37, United States Code, to reduce the minimum age of retirement for years of non-regular service for reserves who serve on active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, to increase the amount of educational assistance for members of the Selected Reserve, and to provide certain other benefits relating to service in the reserve components of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-1879
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Armed forces reserves
Education
Health
Higher education
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Middle East and North Africa
Military hospitals
Military medicine
Military operations
Military pensions
Military training
Retirement age
Social Welfare
South Asia
Student aid
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Veterans' education
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: 
Increases authorized monthly educational assistance amounts for members of the Selected Reserve.
 
Reduces the military retirement eligibility age in the case of a person who serves in the reserves on active duty in Iraq or Afghanistan after September 11, 2001, below 60 years of age by six months for each 90 days that the person so serves. Prohibits such eligibility age from being reduced below 50.
 
Requires that, if a member of the reserves requires treatment for more than 30 days for a wound or injury incurred on active duty, the Secretary of the military department concerned shall transfer such member to a treatment facility that is not more than 30 miles from either the hometown or permanent duty station of the member, as elected by such member.
 
Requires a member of the reserves who travels more than 50 miles for drill, instruction, or annual training duty to be reimbursed for the costs of such travel. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit dog fighting ventures.

Bill: 110-s-1880
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Dogs
Gambling
Protection of animals
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: 
Amends the Animal Welfare Act to make it unlawful to: (1) knowingly sponsor or exhibit an animal in, or knowingly attend, a dog fighting venture; and (2) knowingly sell, buy, possess, train, transport, deliver, or receive for purposes of transportation any dog or other animal for the purposes of having the dog, animal, or offspring of the dog or other animal participate in a dog fighting venture. Provides for imprisonment for up to five years for violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10409)
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Americans with Disabilities Act Restoration Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1881
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2007-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil actions and liability
Disabled
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination against the disabled
Discrimination in employment
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: 
Americans with Disabilities Act Restoration Act of 2007 - Amends the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 to remove from the definition of &quot;disability&quot; a reference to substantially limiting one or more major life activities. 
 
Prohibits, in determining whether an individual has an impairment, considering whether the individual uses a mitigating measure, the impact of any mitigating measures, or whether the impairment is episodic, in remission, or latent. Defines the term &quot;mitigating measure.&quot;
 
Defines &quot;physical&quot; and &quot;mental&quot; (used regarding an impairment), &quot;record of physical or mental impairment,&quot; and &quot;regarded as having a physical or mental impairment.&quot;
 
Declares that an adverse action taken because of an individual's use of a mitigating measure constitutes discrimination under the Act.
 
Prohibits employment discrimination against an individual on the basis of disability (currently, against a qualified individual with a disability because of the disability).
 
Allows, as a defense to a charge of discrimination, that the individual alleging discrimination is not a qualified individual with a disability.
 
Requires that the Act's provisions be broadly construed.
 
Directs the Attorney General, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
 
Requires the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board to issue guidelines to supplement the existing Minimum Guidelines and Requirements for Accessible Design. 
 
Entitles duly issued federal regulations and guidance to deference by administrative agencies or officers and courts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 110-773.
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10152-10153)
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10151-10152)
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Health Preparedness Workforce Development Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1882
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2007-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Directories
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government publications
Government publicity
Higher education
Indian medical care
Internet
Job vacancies
Medical education
Minorities
Office of Personnel Management
Public health personnel
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Student loan funds
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: 
Public Health Preparedness Workforce Development Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the Public Health Workforce Scholarship Program to assure an adequate supply of public health professionals to eliminate critical public health preparedness workforce shortages in federal, state, local, and tribal public health agencies by offering four-year scholarships in return for employment at such agencies. 

Requires the Secretary to establish the Public Health Workforce Loan Repayment Program to provide for the repayment of loans incurred by individuals in the pursuit of the relevant public health preparedness workforce educational degree or certificate in exchange for working at such agencies for at least three years.

Requires the Secretary to award grants to public health agencies that receive public health preparedness cooperative agreements from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to operate state, local, and tribal public health workforce loan repayment programs.

Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, or enter into contracts with, any eligible entity to award scholarships to eligible individuals to enroll in degree or professional training programs for the purpose of enabling mid-career professionals in the public health workforce to receive additional training in the field of public health preparedness or biodefense.

Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in cooperation with the Secretary, to ensure that included in the OPM website there is an online catalogue, or a link to an online catalogue, of public health workforce employment opportunities in the federal government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Accountability and Transparency in Medicare Marketing Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1883
Sponsor: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Drugs
Governmental investigations
Law
Licenses
Marketing
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: 
Accountability and Transparency in Medicare Marketing Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to request the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to develop standardized marketing requirements for Medicare Advantage organizations with respect to Medicare Advantage plans and prescription drug plan (PDP) sponsors with respect to Medicare PDPs. Requires such requirements to prohibit certain activities including the cross-selling of non-Medicare products or services with products or services offered by a Medicare Advantage plan or a Medicare PDP.
 
Provides for state certification prior to waiver of licensing requirements under the Medicare PDP.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to request NAIC to establish a committee to study and make recommendations to the Secretary and Congress on the establishment of standardized benefit packages for Medicare Advantage plans and for Medicare PDPs and their regulation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10154-10155)
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10153-10154)
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Family Job Protection Act

Bill: 110-s-1885
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Caregivers
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Discrimination in employment
Dismissal of employees
Employee benefit plans
Employee rights
Families
Family leave
Health
Iraq compilation
Military dependents
Military medicine
National Guard
Promotions
Veterans' medical care
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: 
Military Family Job Protection Act - Prohibits a covered family member who is caring for a servicemember who is undergoing medical treatment for an injury, illness, or disease incurred or aggravated while on active military duty from being denied retention in employment, promotion, or any employment benefit by an employer on the basis of the family member's absence from such employment for a period of not more than 52 weeks.
 
Includes as a covered family member one who, while caring for the recovering servicemember, is: (1) on invitational orders; (2) a non-medical attendee; or (3) receiving per diem payments from the Department of Defense (DOD).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Every American Insured Health Act

Bill: 110-s-1886
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2007-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Access to health care
Commerce
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance companies
Insurance premiums
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Reinsurance
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: 
Every American Insured Health Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow uninsured individual taxpayers and their spouses and dependents a refundable tax credit for a limited amount of their health insurance costs; (2) direct the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program for payment of health insurance costs by advancing health insurance tax credit amounts to insurance providers during the taxable year; and (3) limit the availability of certain tax preferences for individuals eligible for the health insurance tax credit.

 Amends the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to deem whether a state has taken efforts to provide its citizens with greater access to affordable private health insurance, including by establishing a state health insurance exchange, a high risk pool, a reinsurance mechanism, or other high risk solution. Sets forth requirements for certification of a state health insurance exchange.

Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to expand Medicaid health opportunity accounts to all states as of January 1, 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate