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Solid Waste Compact Act

Bill: 110-hr-387
Sponsor: Rep. Kanjorski, Paul E. [D-PA-11]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Interstate commerce
Interstate relations
Refuse and refuse disposal
Transboundary pollution
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
Solid Waste Compact Act - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to allow states with approved state solid waste management plans to prohibit the importation of solid waste from outside the state. 
 
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to identify alternative solid waste disposal methods and establish and publish technical guidance regarding their implementation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
Unfair Chinese Automotive Tariff Equalization Act

Bill: 110-hr-388
Sponsor: Rep. Kildee, Dale E. [D-MI-5]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Automobile industry
China
Commerce
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
East Asia
Exports
Import restrictions
Imports
Motor vehicles
Tariff
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
Unfair Chinese Automotive Tariff Equalization Act - Prohibits the importation into the United States of any motor vehicle that is the product of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
 
Extends such prohibition until the President certifies in writing to Congress that the tariff rates imposed by the PRC on motor vehicles that are U.S. products are equal to the rates of duty applicable to similar motor vehicles that are PRC products.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
Dam Rehabilitation and Repair Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-389
Sponsor: Rep. Kuhl, John R. "Randy", Jr. [R-NY-29]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Dams
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federal aid to water resources development
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Law
Maintenance and repair
Safety measures

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
Dam Rehabilitation and Repair Act of 2007 - Amends the National Dam Safety Program Act to require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish a program to provide grant assistance to states for use in rehabilitating publicly-owned dams that fail to meet minimum safety standards and pose an unacceptable risk to the public (deficient dams).
 
Sets forth provisions regarding procedures for grant awards and fund allocation. Requires the Administrator to develop a risk-based priority system for identifying deficient dams for which such grants may be made. Limits the federal share of rehabilitation costs to 65%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to continue to insure, and to enter into commitments to insure, home equity conversion mortgages under section 255 of the National Housing Act.

Bill: 110-hr-391
Sponsor: Rep. Matheson, Jim [D-UT-2]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Home equity conversion
Housing for the aged
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgages
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to continue, until February 15, 2007, to insure, and to enter into commitments to insure, home equity conversion mortgages for elderly homeowners under the National Housing Act, without regard to the maximum aggregate number of mortgages insured or maximum dollar amount of insurance benefits specified in such Act.

action_date: 2007-01-16
text: 

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

 
Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to continue, until February 15, 2007, to insure, and to enter into commitments to insure, home equity conversion mortgages for elderly homeowners under the National Housing Act, without regard to the maximum aggregate number of mortgages insured or maximum dollar amount of insurance benefits specified in such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 8.
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: Received in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2007-01-16
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2007-01-16
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H534)
action_date: 2007-01-16
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H534)
action_date: 2007-01-16
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 391.
action_date: 2007-01-16
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H534-536)
action_date: 2007-01-16
text: Mr. Scott (GA) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
To provide for payment of certain claims against the Government of Iran.

Bill: 110-hr-394
Sponsor: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-18]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Alien property
Claims
Class actions (Civil procedure)
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Expropriation
Families
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government liability (International law)
Government trust funds
History
Hostages
Iran
Jurisdiction
Law
Married people
Middle East and North Africa
State-sponsored terrorism
Terrorism
Treaties
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
States that: (1) it is U.S. policy to seek justice for American victims of terrorism and to hold terrorists and their state-sponsors accountable for their actions; and (2) any provision of the Algiers Accords, entered into with Iran on January 19, 1981, that purports to bar a U.S. citizen from prosecuting any claim in any U.S. court or to limit the jurisdiction of any U.S. court is hereby abrogated and deemed nonapplicable. 
 
Directs the the Secretary of the Treasury to begin payments to a common fund to be: (1) established and administered by the certified class representatives for the former American hostages in Iran and their survivors (case number 1:00CV03110 (EGS) of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia); and (2) funded from the liquidation of blocked Iranian assets and from amounts in the Iran Foreign Military Sales Fund account (Foreign Military Sales Fund). 
 
Sets forth fund payment amounts for each former hostage and spouse and child identified as a class member.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
Cellulosic Ethanol Development and Implementation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-395
Sponsor: Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Cellulose
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy research
Federal aid to research
Motor vehicle pollution control
Petroleum industry
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Service stations
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
Cellulosic Ethanol Development and Implementation Act of 2007 - Amends the Clean Air Act to direct the Secretary of Energy to establish: (1) a grants program for eligible entities to implement research, development, and demonstration projects relating to the use of cellulosic ethanol fuel for motor vehicles; and (2) a pilot program to provide grants to eligible entities for use in installing infrastructure (such as pumps) that would enable retail gas stations to sell and dispense ethanol fuel.
 
Requires an eligible entity to provide matching funds in the amount of 20% of the total amount of the grant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the required beginning date for distributions from individual retirement plans and for distributions of elective deferrals under qualified cash or deferred arrangements.

Bill: 110-hr-396
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Pension funds
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate the requirement that individual retirement accounts (other than Roth IRAs) and elective deferrals under qualified cash or deferred arrangments must have a beginning date for mandatory distributions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals to defer recognition of reinvested capital gains distributions from regulated investment companies.

Bill: 110-hr-397
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Dividends
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Mutual funds
Saving and investment
Tax deferral
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that, in the case of an electing individual, no gain (up to a specified amount) shall be recognized on the receipt of a capital gain dividend distributed by a regulated investment company if such capital gain dividend is automatically reinvested in additional shares of the company pursuant to a dividend reinvestment plan.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
Healthy Places Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-398
Sponsor: Rep. Solis, Hilda L. [D-CA-32]
Introduced: 2007-01-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Citizen participation
Community health services
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental health
Environmental monitoring
Environmental research
Epidemiology
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Health planning
Health surveys
Housing and Community Development
Land use
Medical research
Minorities
Minority health
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Quality of life
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: 
Healthy Places Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an interagency working group to discuss environmental health concerns, particularly concerns disproportionately affecting disadvantaged populations.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to establish a program at the National Center of Environmental Health at CDC focused on advancing the field of health impact assessment.
 
Requires the Director to develop guidance for the assessment of potential health effects of land use, housing, and transportation policy and plans.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director, to: (1) establish a program to provide funding and technical assistance to state or local governments affected or potentially affected by an activity or proposed activity to prepare health impact assessments; and (2) establish and maintain a health impact assessment database.
 
Requires the Director to establish a grant program to award grants to state or local communities for environmental health improvement activities. Requires grantees to: (1) establish a planning and prioritizing council; and (2) conduct environmental health assessment.
 
Requires the Secretary to provide grants to public or private nonprofit institutions to conduct and coordinate research on the built environment and its influence on individual and population-based health.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3758-3759)
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-10
text: Introduced in House
Veterans' Disability Compensation Automatic COLA Act

Bill: 110-hr-402
Sponsor: Rep. Knollenberg, Joe [R-MI-9]
Introduced: 2007-01-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Clothing
Cost of living adjustments
Disabled
Families
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: 
Veterans' Disability Compensation Automatic COLA Act - Requires that, whenever there is an increase in benefit amounts payable under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall increase by the same percentage the amounts payable as veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled adult children, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E80)
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
Disabled Veteran Housing Simplification Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-403
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Julia [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2007-01-11 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Caregivers
Disabled
Families
Labor and Employment
Low-income housing
Public housing
Social Welfare
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' employment
Welfare work participation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: 
Disabled Veteran Housing Simplification Act of 2007 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to exempt from the community service requirement applicable to adult residents of a public housing project an individual who has been determined by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to be permanently and totally disabled, and who is unable to comply with such requirement, or is a primary caretaker of such individual.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
Family-Based Meth Treatment Access Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-405
Sponsor: Rep. Cubin, Barbara [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-01-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drug addiction
Drug testing
Drugs and women
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family services
Federal aid to health facilities
Health counseling
Housing and Community Development
Medical statistics
Mental health services
Methamphetamine
Minorities
Minority health
Mortality
Parent and child
Parents
Pregnant women
Prison alternatives
Rehabilitation of criminals
Rural health
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: 
Family-Based Meth Treatment Access Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand the grant program to provide residential substance abuse treatment to pregnant and postpartum women to include: (1) parenting women substance abuse treatment (including treatment for addiction to methamphetamine); and (2) outpatient treatment services. Requires that such treatment programs be accessible to pregnant and parenting women in health disparity populations. 

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to expand, intensify, and coordinate efforts to provide treatment for methamphetamine addiction to pregnant and parenting women.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to award grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts for to assist local jails and detention facilities in providing comprehensive, family-based substance abuse treatment services to pregnant and parenting adults who are considered nonviolent offenders. Sets forth criteria that must be met if such a grant is used for a family drug treatment program that is an alternative to incarceration.

Gives priority in awarding grants under this Act to any entity that agrees to use the award for programs serving an area that: (1) is a rural area, an area with a shortage of mental health professionals, or an area with a shortage of family-based substance abuse treatment options; and (2) has high rates of addiction to methamphetamine or other drugs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 23, United States Code, to permit the State of West Virginia to allow the operation of certain vehicles for the hauling of coal and coal by-products on Interstate Route 77 in Kanawha County, West Virginia.

Bill: 110-hr-408
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2007-01-11 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Coal
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Highway finance
Interstate highway system
Law
Licenses
Motor vehicle safety
State laws
Trucking
Trucks
Weights and measures
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: 
Amends Federal highway law to authorize the State of West Virginia to allow, by special permit, the operation of vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of up to 126,000 pounds for the hauling of coal and coal by-products on Interstate Route 77 in Kanawha County, West Virginia, between Exits 85 and 97.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House