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Television Freedom Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2821
Sponsor: Rep. Ross, Mike [D-AR-4]
Introduced: 2007-06-21 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Direct broadcast satellites
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Sports and Recreation
Television broadcasting
Television broadcasting of sports
Television relay systems
Television stations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: 
Television Freedom Act of 2007 - Requires statutory licensing for a satellite carrier's secondary transmission into a television broadcast station's adjacent market if the satellite carrier also makes secondary transmissions into that adjacent market of the adjacent market's television broadcast stations. Defines &quot;adjacent market,&quot; for both commercial and noncommercial television broadcast stations, as a market area adjacent to, and at least partially in the same state as, the designated market area in which the station is located.
 
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to allow such secondary transmissions.
 
Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to revise related regulations concerning network nonduplication protection, syndicated exclusivity protection, and sports blackout protection to permit such retransmission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-06-21
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-06-21
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-06-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Introduced in House
Independent Ethics Commission Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2822
Sponsor: Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7]
Introduced: 2007-06-21 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional Record
Congressional agencies
Congressional committees (House)
Congressional employees
Congressional ethics
Congressional investigations
Congressional officers
Congressional reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
House Standards of Official Conduct
House of Representatives
House rules and procedure
Judges
Law
Members of Congress
Misconduct in office

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: 
Independent Ethics Commission Act of 2007 - Establishes within the House of Representatives an Independent Ethics Commission composed only of former federal judges.
 
Prescribes procedures for: (1) initiation of investigations, upon the filing of a complaint or upon the Commission's own initiative; and (2) for consequent actions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-21
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: 2007-06-21
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: 2007-06-21
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: 2007-06-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Introduced in House
Fair Balance Prescription Drug Advertisement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2823
Sponsor: Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2007-06-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer education
Corporation taxes
Deceptive advertising
Drug advertising
Drug industry
Drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Labeling
Tax deductions
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: 
Fair Balance Prescription Drug Advertisement Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to disallow a tax deduction for: (1) expenses for direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising that fails to provide adequate information on drug side effects, contraindications, or lack of effectiveness; and (2) expenses for direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising of a new drug, a new combination of active substances, or a new delivery system for an existing drug for a two-year period after the introduction of such drug into interstate commerce.

Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to the Secretary of the Treasury on misbranding and other violations relating to direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-06-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-06-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-06-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1375)
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend titles 28 and 10, United States Code, to restore habeas corpus for individuals detained by the United States at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-2826
Sponsor: Rep. Skelton, Ike [D-MO-4]
Introduced: 2007-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aliens
Armed Forces and National Security
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Detention of persons
Habeas corpus
Injunctions
International Affairs
Judicial review
Jurisdiction
Law
Military law
Prisoners' rights
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: 
Amends the federal judicial code to allow an alien detained by the United States as an enemy combatant to apply for a writ of habeas corpus, including an application challenging transfer, or bring an action solely for prospective injunctive relief against transfer, except for an alien in a zone of active combat involving U.S. Armed Forces. 

Limits the review of prosecutions, trials, or judgments of a military commission to that provided by the Code of Military Justice or by a habeas corpus proceeding.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-06
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by the Yeas and Nays: 7 - 4 .
action_date: 2007-09-06
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Equity and Accessibility Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2827
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2007-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Insurance premiums
Medical fees
Medical malpractice
Medicare
Physicians
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: 
Medicare Equity and Accessibility Act of 2007 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to certain factors and indices in geographic adjustments to the fee schedule for determination of payments for physicians' services.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to increase the practice expense geographic index to 1.0 for any location for which the practice expense geographic index is less than 1.0.
 
Repeals the current termination date in order to extend permanently the 1.0 floor for the work expense geographic index.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-22
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: 2007-06-22
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: 2007-06-22
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: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
Comprehensive Comparative Study of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Populations Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2832
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2007-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Autism
Epidemiology
Medical research
Nervous system diseases
Neurology
Science, Technology, Communications
Vaccines

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: 
Comprehensive Comparative Study of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Populations Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) , to conduct a comprehensive study to: (1) compare total health outcomes, including the risk of autism, between vaccinated and unvaccinated U.S. populations; and (2) determine whether vaccines or vaccine components play a role in the development of autism spectrum or other neurological conditions.

Requires the Secretary to seek to include in the study U.S. populations that have traditionally remained unvaccinated for religious or other reasons.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1388-1389)
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat income received by partners for performing investment management services as ordinary income received for the performance of services.

Bill: 110-hr-2834
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2007-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Investment advisers
Investment banking
Partnerships
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat as ordinary income (i.e., income taxed at regular income tax rates) income received by a partner from an investment services partnership interest. Defines &quot;investment services partnership interest&quot; as any interest in a partnership held by a person who provides services to a partnership by: (1) advising the partnership as to the value of specified assets (e.g., real estate, commodities, or options or derivative contracts); (2) advising the partnership about investing in, purchasing, or selling specified assets; (3) managing, acquiring, or disposing of specified assets; or (4) arranging financing with respect to acquiring specified assets.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to extend the requirements under such Act regarding the ability of absent uniformed services voters and overseas voters to use absentee registration procedures and vote by absentee ballot in Federal elections to elections for certain offices in American Samoa.

Bill: 110-hr-2835
Sponsor: Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Absentee voting
American Samoa
Armed Forces and National Security
Governors
Soldier voting
State legislators
Voter registration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: 
Amends the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to include within the elections covered under such Act elections for the governor, and member of the House of Representatives of the legislature, of American Samoa.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
To authorize appropriations for the National Sea Grant College Program Act for fiscal years 2009 through 2013.

Bill: 110-hr-2836
Sponsor: Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Authorization
Coastal zone
Department of Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to higher education
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Great Lakes
Higher education
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
National Sea Grant Program
Oceanography
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: 
Amends the National Sea Grant College Program Act to authorize appropriations for FY2009-FY2013 to carry out the Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
Indian Tribal Federal Recognition Administrative Procedures Act

Bill: 110-hr-2837
Sponsor: Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Advice and consent of the Senate
Archives
Arts, Culture, Religion
Civil actions and liability
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Evidence (Law)
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to Indians
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
History
Independent regulatory commissions
Indian claims
Indian lands
Judicial review
Law
Legal fees
Library of Congress
Minorities
Planning-programming-budgeting
Presidential appointments
State government-Indian relations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: 
Indian Tribal Federal Recognition Administrative Procedures Act - Establishes the Commission on Indian Recognition. Sets forth procedures for an Indian group to submit letters of intent and a petition to the Commission requesting federal recognition as an Indian tribe (effectively transferring the federal recognition process from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Commission). 
 
Specifies the requirements of a petition for recognition. 
 
Requires the Commission upon receiving a petition to: (1) send acknowledgment of receipt in writing to the petitioner; and (2) conduct a review to determine whether the petitioner is entitled to be recognized as an Indian tribe.
 
Authorizes the petitioner to seek judicial review of a final determination with respect to a petition in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
 
Makes an Indian tribe upon recognition by the Commission: (1) eligible for services and benefits from the federal government that are available to other federally recognized Indian tribes by virtue of their status as Indian tribes with a government-to-government relationship with the United States; and (2) have responsibilities, obligations, privileges, and immunities of those Indian tribes. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants to Indian groups seeking federal recognition as Indian tribes to enable them to conduct research to substantiate, and prepare documentation necessary for submission of, documented petitions under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-03
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
Insular Areas Energy Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2838
Sponsor: Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
American Samoa
Caribbean area
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Energy development
Energy industries
Federally-guaranteed loans
Geothermal resources
Guam
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Northern Mariana Islands
Ocean energy resources
Oceania
Palau Islands
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Puerto Rico
Subsidies
Territorial waters
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: 
Insular Areas Energy Act of 2007 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to authorize the Secretary of Energy to make loan guarantees for target ocean thermal energy conversion systems projects.
 
Authorizes such guarantees for any specified eligible innovative energy projects, including ocean thermal energy conversion systems, which are located in Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau, as well as any U.S. government installation worldwide (including military bases, embassies, other federally owned or leased facilities, and all territorial waters, seabed, and subsoil of submarine areas adjacent to such installations).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-06-22
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: 2007-06-22
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: 2007-06-22
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: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 to require protection and advocacy systems to give notice to, and obtain the authorization of, an individual (or the individual's legal representative) before pursuing remedies on behalf of the individual.

Bill: 110-hr-2839
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2007-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Civil rights enforcement
Disabled
Discrimination against the disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Intergovernmental fiscal relations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: 
Amends the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 to require states, in order to receive allotments under provisions relating to state councils on developmental disabilities or provisions relating to the protection and advocacy of individual rights, to obtain the authorization of the individual with a developmental disability or the individual's legal representative before pursuing any legal or other remedy on behalf of the individual.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House