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A bill to amend the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 to authorize the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide additional assistance to State and local governments for utility costs resulting from the provision of temporary housing units to evacuees from Hurricane Katrina and other hurricanes.

Bill: 110-s-517
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2007-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Alabama
Commerce
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency housing
Energy
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Hurricanes
Leases
Louisiana
Mississippi
Public utilities
Public utility rates
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: 
Amends the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 to extend the authority of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide funds to state and local governments for utility costs resulting from the provision of temporary housing units to evacuees from Hurricane Katrina and other hurricanes of the 2005 season where the state or local government has previously arranged to pay for such utilities on behalf of the evacuees, to cover the term of any leases for up to 24 months (currently, 12 months) contracted by or prior to February 7, 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
High School Sports Information Collection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-518
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Athletes
Athletics
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Discrimination in education
Economics and Public Finance
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
School administration
Secondary education
Sex discrimination
Sports and Recreation
Sports personnel
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Women
Women athletes
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: 
High School Sports Information Collection Act of 2007 - Amends the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 to direct the Statistics Commissioner (of the National Center for Education Statistics in the Institute of Education Sciences in the Department of Education) to collect information from coeducational secondary schools with respect to equality in their athletic programs. Requires such information to include total budget and expenditures for each team, season and postseason schedules and successes, as well as identification of: (1) each participant's gender, race, and ethnicity; and (2) each coach's gender and qualifications. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-519
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2007-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative fees
Business records
Child pornography
Child sexual abuse
Commerce
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic mail systems
Electronic surveillance
Evidence (Law)
Ex-offenders
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Informers
International Affairs
International cooperation
Internet
Law
Liability (Law)
Mandatory sentences
Missing children
Probation
Prosecution
Recidivists
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sex offenders
Telecommunication industry
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: 
Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online Act of 2007 or the SAFE Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to expand the reporting requirements of electronic communication and remote computing service providers with respect to violations of child sexual exploitation and pornography laws. Requires such service providers, in reporting violations of such laws to the CyberTipline of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to provide: (1) information on the Internet identity of a suspected sex offender, including the electronic mail address, website address, uniform resource locator, or other identifying information; (2) the time child pornography was uploaded or discovered; (3) geographic location information for the offender; and (4) images of such child pornography. Requires the Center to forward each report which it receives from a service provider to a designated law enforcement agency.
 
Requires service providers to preserve images of child pornography for evidentiary purposes. 
 
Grants service providers and the Center immunity from civil claims or criminal charges for complying the requirements of this Act, except for certain intentional or reckless misconduct.
 
Requires the U.S. Trade Representative, the Attorney General, and other relevant federal officials to encourage foreign governments to combat child sexual exploitation and pornography. 
 
Authorizes appropriations for grants to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. 
 
Authorizes courts to order monitoring of Internet use by a convicted sex offender as a condition for such offender's supervised release. 
 
Imposes enhanced criminal penalties for use of the Internet to violate child pornography or sexual exploitation laws. 
 
Requires the Attorney General to make publicly available reports on investigations and prosecutions of child sexual exploitation crimes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1714-1715)
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Wild Sky Wilderness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-520
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2007-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boundaries
Columbia River development
Easements
Ecosystem management
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Helicopters
Hydroelectric power
Land transfers
Land use
Law
Metropolitan areas
National forests
Public utilities
Real estate appraisal
Sports and Recreation
Trails
Transportation and Public Works
Urban affairs
Washington State
Water Resources Development
Watersheds
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: 
Wild Sky Wilderness Act of 2007 - Designates certain lands in the Skykomish River valley, Washington, as the Wild Sky Wilderness, to be managed by the Secretary of Agriculture. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a trail plan. Authorizes the use of helicopter access to construct and maintain a joint Forest Service-Snohomish County telecommunications repeater site to provide improved communication for safety, health, and emergency purposes. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to acquire lands in the Wild Sky Wilderness by purchase, donation, or exchange, with priority to be given to specified Priority Acquisition Lands. Requires the boundaries of the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest and the Wild Sky Wilderness to be adjusted to encompass any lands so acquired. 
 
Requires the Secretary to accept specified lands within the Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington, from the Chelan County Public Utility District if the District offers such lands to the Secretary (in title acceptable to the Secretary, and provided there is no hazardous material on the site) in exchange for a permanent easement, including helicopter access, to maintain an existing telemetry site to monitor snow pack on land within the Wenatchee National Forest, Washington. 
Provides for extinguishment of the easement and reversion of all conveyed rights to the United States if the District no longer needs to maintain a telemetry site.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1716-1717)
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1715-1716)
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Act

Bill: 110-s-522
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2007-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Arrest
Artists
Arts, Culture, Religion
Authors and authorship
Civil actions and liability
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Copyright
Counterfeiting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Customs administration
Executive reorganization
Federal employees
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Free trade
Government Operations and Politics
Intellectual property
International Affairs
International cooperation
Labor and Employment
Labor unions
Law
Patent infringement
Patents
Performance measurement
Prosecution
Searches and seizures
Small business
Standards
Strategic planning
Trade agreements
Trade negotiations
Trademarks
Transfer of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: 
Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Act - Amends the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2000 to repeal provisions establishing the National Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordination Council.

Establishes the Intellectual Property Enforcement Network (IPEN), consisting of specified representatives of various government agencies, to: (1) establish policies, objectives, and priorities concerning international intellectual property protection and law enforcement; (2) coordinate and facilitate implementation of such policies, objectives, and priorities; and (3) protect U.S. intellectual property rights overseas, including by creating an international task force.

Requires the agencies in IPEN to: (1) share the information they collect; (2) coordinate civil and criminal actions related to intellectual property rights; (3) establish formal processes for consulting and working with state and local government agencies and consulting with companies, writers, artists, labor unions, and other interested persons and groups; and (4) consult with the Register of Copyrights on law enforcement matters.

Urges the President and relevant agency officers, when meeting with certain foreign countries, to stress the importance of establishing and participating in the international task force.

Requires the Director of the Office of Mangement and Budget and the Coordinator of IPEN to submit to the President and the relevant congressional committees a strategic plan, which includes the goals, objectives, and priorities of IPEN.

Calls for other government intellectual property initiatives to be consolidated into the work of IPEN to prevent duplication.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-07
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 to authorize the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide additional assistance to State and local governments for utility costs resulting from the provision of temporary housing units to evacuees from Hurricane Katrina and other hurricanes.

Bill: 110-s-523
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2007-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Alabama
Commerce
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency housing
Energy
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Hurricanes
Leases
Louisiana
Mississippi
Public utilities
Public utility rates
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: 
Amends the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006 to extend the authority of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide funds to state and local governments for utility costs resulting from the provision of temporary housing units to evacuees from Hurricane Katrina and other hurricanes of the 2005 season where the state or local government has previously arranged to pay for such utilities on behalf of the evacuees, to cover the term of any leases for up to 24 months (currently, 12 months) contracted by or prior to February 7, 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Emergency Farm Assistance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-524
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-02-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural labor
Agricultural subsidies
Animals
California
Citrus fruits
Commerce
Crop insurance
Dairy industry
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency housing
Federal budgets
Finance and Financial Sector
Floods
Food relief
Forestry
Fruit
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Horticulture
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Labor and Employment
Law
Livestock
Losses
Migrant labor
Mortgages
Nuts
Off-budget expenditures
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Rental housing
Seasonal labor
Small business
Trees
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance
Vegetables
Weather

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: 
Emergency Farm Assistance Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to provide assistance: (1) to producers of specialty crops in disaster counties that suffered losses in 2005 or 2006; (2) to citrus producers in disaster counties that suffered losses in 2007; (3) to producers of other specialty crops in disaster counties that suffered losses in 2007; (4) to dairy producers in disaster counties that suffered losses in 2006; and (5) for livestock indemnity payments to producers in disaster counties that incurred losses in 2006 or 2007, or both.
 
Directs the Secretary to make grants to California for an expedited disaster assistance program to qualified small businesses that suffered losses during the 2005, 2006, or 2007 crop year as a result of weather-related agricultural losses to the California specialty crop or livestock production sectors.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to tree or fruit and tree nut producers in disaster counties that suffered losses in 2005, 2006, or 2007, or any combination of such years. Defines &quot;tree&quot; to include: (1) a tree (including a Christmas tree, ornamental tree, nursery tree, and potted tree); (2) a bush (including a shrub, nursery shrub, nursery bush, ornamental bush, ornamental shrub, potted bush, and potted shrub); and (3) a vine (including a nursery vine and ornamental vine).
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide unemployment assistance and temporary mortgage rental assistance to California agricultural workers (including low-income migrant and seasonal farmworkers) who are unemployed due to disasters in 2007. 
 
Directs the Secretary to provide: (1) food coupons and surplus commodities to such workers; and (2) emergency grants for California low-income migrant and seasonal farmworkers who are unemployed due to disasters in 2007. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Circuit Court of Appeals Restructuring and Modernization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-525
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2007-02-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Alaska
Appellate courts
Arizona
California
Congress
Government Operations and Politics
Guam
Hawaii
Idaho
Judges
Judicial reform
Judicial tenure
Nevada
Northern Mariana Islands
Oregon
Presidential appointments
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: 
Circuit Court of Appeals Restructuring and Modernization Act of 2007 - Amends the federal judicial code to divide the Ninth Judicial Circuit into the Ninth Circuit (to be composed of California, Guam, Hawaii, and the Northern Mariana Islands) and the Twelfth Circuit (to be composed of Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington).

Requires the President to appoint five additional circuit judges for the new Ninth Circuit and two temporary judges for the former Ninth Circuit, to be stationed in California.

Specifies the locations where new circuits are to hold regular sessions. Locates the offices of the new Twelfth Circuit in Phoenix, Arizona.

Assigns active circuit judges of the former Ninth Circuit to the new circuits. Allows senior circuit judges of the former Ninth Circuit to elect assignment.

Sets forth provisions governing the disposition of cases pending in the former Ninth Circuit before the effective date of this Act.

Authorizes the temporary assignment of circuit and district judges of the former Ninth Circuit among the new circuits. 
 
Provides that the former Ninth Circuit shall cease to exist for administrative purposes two years after enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Employment and Training Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-526
Sponsor: Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2007-02-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Commerce
Construction workers
Energy industries
Higher education
Hotels, motels, etc.
Labor and Employment
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation workers
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' education
Veterans' employment

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: 
Veterans Employment and Training Act of 2007 or VET Act - Authorizes the accelerated payment of basic educational assistance under the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) basic educational assistance program for an individual entitled to such assistance who, during the period beginning on October 1, 2007, and ending on September 30, 2011, is enrolled in a VA-approved program of education lasting less than two years that leads to employment in one of the following sectors: (1) transportation; (2) construction; (3) hospitality; or (4) energy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1783-1784)
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1783)
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Enforcement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-527
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-02-08 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: American investments
Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
East Asia
Economics and Public Finance
Executive orders
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government procurement
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Iran
Middle East and North Africa
North Korea
Nuclear nonproliferation
President and foreign policy
Sanctions (International law)
Syria
Weapons of mass destruction

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: 
Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Enforcement Act of 2007 - Amends the Iran and Syria Nonproliferation Act respecting the imposition of sanctions under such Act to: (1) apply sanctions for a minimum two-year period; (2) apply sanctions to an identified foreign person, a successor or subsidiary, and an entity controlling more than 50% of such foreign person, successor, or subsidiary (currently, such provision applies only to a foreign person); (3) include among applicable sanctions under Executive Order 12938 certain exemptions for military, medical, or humanitarian purposes; (4) establish investment, financing, and financial assistance prohibitions; and (5) require publication of sanctions applicable to such expanded entities in the Federal Register.
 
Authorizes the President to waive, with congressional notification, the imposition of any sanction for national security purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Milk Marketing Reform Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-528
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-02-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices
Agricultural subsidies
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dairy industry
Marketing of farm produce
Milk
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Federal Milk Marketing Reform Act of 2007 - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from using distance or transportation costs from a location not within a marketing area as the basis for pricing Class I (fluid) milk unless such location supplies the recipient marketing area with specified quantities of milk (single base point pricing).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1785)
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1784-1785)
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Democracy for Dairy Producers Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-529
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-02-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural cooperatives
Commerce
Dairy industry
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Marketing orders
Milk
Referendum
Stockholders

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Democracy for Dairy Producers Act of 2007 - Requires, with respect to a specified referendum on federal milk marketing orders and related reforms, that: (1) if a cooperative association of milk producers elects bloc voting on behalf of its members it shall provide each member with written notice of referendum issues, its intended voting position, and individual producer voting procedures; and (2) the Secretary of Agriculture adjust the association vote to reflect individual producer votes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1785)
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1785)
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Quality Cheese Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-530
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-02-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Dairy industry
Dairy products
Department of Health and Human Services
Farmers
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government Operations and Politics
Labeling
Law
Milk
Proteins

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Quality Cheese Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration from using federal funds to amend specified regulations to include dry ultra-filtered milk, milk protein concentrate, or casein in the definition of "milk" or "nonfat milk" as specified in the domestic natural standards for cheese and cheese products.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1786)
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1785-1786)
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in Senate