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Restoring the Everglades, an American Legacy Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-353
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2007-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Estuaries
Everglades
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Flood control
Florida
Infrastructure
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Reservoirs
Restoration ecology
Water quality
Water supply
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: 
Restoring the Everglades, an American Legacy Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to carry out the project for ecosystem restoration, water supply, flood control, and protection of water quality, Indian River Lagoon, South Florida, at a specified total cost, in accordance with the recommendations of the report of the Chief of Engineers, dated August 6, 2004. 
 
Deauthorizes certain projects authorized under the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 and the Flood Control Act of 1968. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to carry out the project for ecosystem restoration, Picayune Strand, Collier County, Florida, at a specified total cost in accordance with section 601 of Water Resources Development Act of 2000 (relating to the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan) and the report of the Chief of Engineers, September 15, 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S838)
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S837-838)
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Campus Fire Safety Right-to-Know Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-354
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2007-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Building construction
Building laws
College teachers
Colleges
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Death
Drug abuse
Economics and Public Finance
Educational facilities
Educational statistics
Electric appliances
Emergency Management
Equipment and supplies
Federal aid to education
Fire prevention
Fires
Fraternal organizations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Planning
School buildings
School personnel
Smoke detectors
Smoking
Standards
Student housing
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: 
Campus Fire Safety Right-to-Know Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require each institution participating in any program under the Act to provide to all current students and employees, and to any applicant for enrollment or employment upon request, an annual fire safety report containing specified information about the campus fire safety practices and standards of that institution.
 
Requires such institutions to: (1) record all on-campus fires, including the nature, date, time, and general location of each fire and all unwanted and false fire alarms; and (2) open such information to public inspection. Requires the institutions to report on such information annually to the campus community in a manner that will aid the prevention of similar occurrences.
 
Directs each institution to require the national organizing bodies of the fraternities, sororities, and other student groups they recognize to collect specified fire safety information for each student housing facility they own, control, or occupy and report such information to the Secretary of Education, all current members, and to any interested party upon request.
 
Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on fire safety systems and standards in institution and student housing facilities, and on exemplary fire safety education and training programs at such institutions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Social Security and Medicare Solvency Commission Act

Bill: 110-s-355
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2007-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Congress
Congressional conference committees
Economics and Public Finance
Expedited congressional procedure
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Health
House rules and procedure
Legislation
Medicare
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Senate rules and procedure
Social security finance

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: 
Social Security and Medicare Solvency Commission Act - Establishes the National Commission on Entitlement Solvency to review and report to the President and Congress on the Social Security and Medicare programs with respect to: (1) their current and long-term actuarial financial condition; (2) problems that may threaten their long-term solvency, and potential solutions; and (3) recommendations and proposed legislative language that will ensure their long-term solvency and the provision of appropriate benefits.
 
Provides for expedited congressional consideration of Commission recommendations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S838-841)
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S838)
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-356
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2007-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Anesthetics
Civil actions and liability
Communication in medicine
Damages
Electronic government information
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Federal preemption
Fetus
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Health education
Informed consent (Medical law)
Internet
Law
Licenses
Medicaid
Medical associations
Medical records
Pain
Physicians
Pregnant women
Punitive damages
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
State laws
Web sites
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: 
Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require an abortion provider, before beginning any abortion of a pain-capable unborn child (defined as an unborn child who has reached a probable stage of development of 20 weeks after fertilization), to: (1) make a specified statement to the pregnant woman that Congress has determined that there is substantial evidence that the process will cause the unborn child pain, and that the mother has the option of having pain-reducing drugs administered directly to the child; (2) provide to the woman an Unborn Child Pain Awareness Brochure (unless she waives receipt) and an Unborn Child Pain Awareness Decision Form; and (3) obtain on the form the woman's signature and her explicit request for or refusal of the administration of drugs to the child. 
 
Creates an exception for certified medical emergencies. 
 
Establishes penalties for willfully failing to comply with this Act, including civil penalties, medical license suspension, or both. Authorizes: (1) specified officials to bring suit in federal court; and (2) private rights of action by a parent or guardian of a woman who is an unemancipated minor. 
 
Requires each state and state medical licensing authority to promulgate procedures for the revocation or suspension of a provider's license upon a court finding that the provider has violated this Act. Subjects a state that fails to implement such procedures to loss of Medicaid funding.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S842-843)
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Student Debt Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-359
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative fees
Appropriations
Authorization
Collection of accounts
College costs
Colleges
Cost effectiveness
Cost of living adjustments
Debtor and creditor
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Graduate education
Higher education
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Interest
Interest rates
Law
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: 
Student Debt Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend the Pell Grant program through FY2012 and increase yearly maximum Pell grant amounts. Authorizes and appropriates specified additional annual funding for such grants.
 
Requires the Secretary of Education to provide institutions of higher education Student Aid Reward Payments for participating in the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) or Direct Loan (DL) program most cost-effective for taxpayers.
 
Phases-in cuts to the interest rates charged undergraduate student borrowers under the FFEL and DL programs, thereby reducing such rate from 6.8% in July 2006 to 3.4% in July 2011.
 
Directs the Secretary to forgive the balance due on DLs and direct consolidation loans by individuals who have been public sector employees for 10 years and have made 120 income contingent payments on such loans. 
 
Caps FFEL and DL repayments by student borrowers at no more than 15% of the amount a borrower's adjusted gross income exceeds 150% of the poverty line. Requires the Secretary to cancel or repay such loans after 25 years.
 
Eliminates the three-year limit on the deferral of FFELs, DLs, and Perkins loans when borrowers are suffering economic hardship, redefined to include borrowers whose full-time earnings do not exceed 150% of the poverty line. Includes such deferral periods, as well as the months a borrower's FFEL or DL payments are capped, in calculating the maximum period an income contingent repayment plan may be in effect for a non-defaulting borrower.
 
 Allows students to consolidate loans under the FFEL program while still in school. Reduces DL origination fees. Sets limits on funds available for administrative expenses under the FFEL and DL programs for FY2007-FY2012.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the deduction for higher education expenses and make it permanent. Establishes a tax credit for student loan interest payments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S848-851)
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S847-848)
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Greater Access To Education Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-360
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Books
College costs
Education
Higher education
Income tax
Scholarships
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Teaching materials
Textbooks
Tuition tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: 
Greater Access to Education Act of 2007 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the Hope Scholarship tax credit to: (1) include room, board, fees, books, supplies, and equipment as expenses eligible for such credit; (2) exclude Pell and Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants from types of scholarship assistance which reduce the allowable amount of such credit; and (3) exempt certain expenses eligible for such credit from tax information reporting requirements.

Makes the Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning tax credits refundable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S913-914)
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S912-913)
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the United States courthouse at South Federal Place in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as the "Santiago E. Campos United States Courthouse".

Bill: 110-s-361
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Courthouses
Judges
Law
Names
New Mexico

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: 
Designates the U.S. courthouse located at South Federal Place in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as the &quot;Santiago E. Campos United States Courthouse.&quot; 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S914)
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S914)
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Stem Cell Research Expansion Act

Bill: 110-s-362
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2007-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cytology
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to research
Human embryology
Medical research
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: 
Stem Cell Research Expansion Act - Authorizes the Department of Health and Human Services to provide funding for research on embryonic stem cell lines that were created prior to January 23, 2006, that does not result in the use of federal funding to destroy an embryo.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Hope Offered through Principled, Ethically-Sound Stem Cell Research Act

Bill: 110-s-363
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2007-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cytology
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Hereditary diseases
Human embryology
In vitro fertilization
Informed consent (Medical law)
Law
Medical ethics
Medical records
Medical research
Preventive medicine
Profit
Research ethics
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: 
Hope Offered through Principled, Ethically-Sound Stem Cell Research Act or the HOPE Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct and support research to develop techniques for the isolation, derivation, production, or testing of pluripotent stem cells that have the flexibility of embryonic stem cells and that may result in improved understanding of, or treatments for, diseases and other adverse health conditions, provided that such techniques do not involve: (1) the creation of a viable human embryo for research purposes; (2) the destruction or discarding of a human embryo; or (3) knowingly subjecting a human embryo to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed on fetuses in utero.
 
Establishes the National Stem Cell Research Review Board to: (1) monitor research to ensure that it is in compliance with this Act; (2) prioritize research with the greatest potential for near term benefits; and (3) ensure fair consideration of both embryonic and adult stem cell research for funding.
 
Sets forth consent requirements for the donation of materials for research.
 
Applies federal provisions protecting individually identifiable health information to donors.
 
Amends the National Organ Transplant Act to prohibit the transfer of any human ovum, human blastocyst, human embryo, or stem cell derived from a human embryo for valuable consideration.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit any person from knowingly receiving any valuable consideration for any therapy that: (1) affects interstate commerce or is funded by federal assistance; and (2) utilizes cells from a human embryo if the process of deriving such cells destroyed the embryo.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Strengthening America's Trade Laws Act

Bill: 110-s-364
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2007-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Canada
China
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional hearings
Congressional oversight
Congressional reorganization
Congressional reporting requirements
Countervailing duties
Dispute settlement
Dumping
East Asia
Expedited congressional procedure
Export subsidies
Exports
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign exchange
Free trade
Government Operations and Politics
Government ownership
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
House rules and procedure
Import relief
International Affairs
Latin America
Law
Legislative resolutions
Mexico
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
President and foreign policy
Prices
Public meetings
Senate rules and procedure
Tariff
Tax exemption
Taxation
Trade agreements
Trade negotiations
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: 
Strengthening America's Trade Laws Act - Allows, under specified conditions, certain U.S. persons supportive of the government's position before a dispute settlement panel or Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to participate in consultations and panel or Appellate Body proceedings.
 
Establishes the Congressional Advisory Commission on WTO Dispute Settlement to provide advice to Congress on the operation of the WTO dispute settlement system.
 
Amends the Uruguay Round Agreements Act to require congressional approval before any modification of an agency regulation or practice that has been adversely affected by a WTO decision.
 
Directs the United States to negotiate with the WTO to determine clarification of its obligations under the Uruguay Round Agreement due to an adverse WTO decision if the United States, Congress, or Commission finds that such decision created obligations never agreed to by the United States.
 
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to make specified changes to strengthen the Act's antidumping and countervailing duty provisions. Requires congressional approval for revocation of nonmarket economy country determinations made by the administering authority.
 
Expands the authority of the administering authority or the International Trade Commission (ITC) to impose countervailing duties on products from a nonmarket economy country that have been provided a countervailable subsidy. Includes exchange-rate manipulation by a country as a countervailable subsidy.
 
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require a recommendation from the ITC before the President can impose a duty on an imported Chinese product that causes or threatens market disruption to a like U.S. product.
 
Applies the amendments made by this Act to goods from Canada and Mexico.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S916-921)
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S914-916)
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
H-Prize Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-365
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2007-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advertising
Awards, medals, prizes
Black colleges
Commemorations
Commerce
Commercialization
Congress
Education
Energy development
Energy research
Energy storage
Environmental Protection
Fuel cells
Fund raising
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Higher education
Hydrogen
Intellectual property
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Motor vehicle pollution control
Natural gas vehicles
Nonprofit organizations
Patents
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Social Welfare
Sunset legislation
Technological innovations
Technology transfer
Trade secrets
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: 
H-Prize Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to award competitive cash prizes to advance the research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of hydrogen energy technologies.
 
Designates prize-eligible categories, including: (1) advancements in certain hydrogen components or systems; (2) prototypes of hydrogen-powered vehicles or other hydrogen-based products that meet or exceed certain performance criteria; and (3) transformational changes in technologies for hydrogen distribution or production that meet or exceed far-reaching criteria, including minimal carbon emissions, and which may include cost criteria designed to facilitate the eventual market success of a winning technology.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Jornada Experimental Range Transfer Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-366
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2007-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arid regions
Easements
Environmental Protection
Hazardous wastes
Infrastructure
Land transfers
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Natural areas
New Mexico
Parks
Research natural areas
Right-of-way
Surveying
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: 
Jornada Experimental Range Transfer Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the Chihuahuan Desert Nature Park Board (Board) for educational purposes not more than 1,000 acres of land that is located in the Jornada Experimental Range in the State of New Mexico and that is subject to an easement granted by the Agricultural Research Service to the Board. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S921)
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S921)
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Act

Bill: 110-s-369
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Awards, medals, prizes
Congress
Congressional tributes
Crime and Law Enforcement
Emergency Management
Fire fighters
International Affairs
Police
Rescue work
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: 
Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Act - Authorizes the President to award a medal to be known as the &quot;Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Congressional Medal,&quot; to the personal representative or next of kin of individuals killed as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in recognition of their sacrifice and to honor their deaths.
 
Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike three medals, to be representative of and in honor of, respectively: (1) victims of the attack at the World Trade Center, including civilians, public safety officers, emergency workers, and hijack victims; (2) victims aboard United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania; and (3) victims at the Pentagon, including the hijack victims.
 
Declares eligible for such medal any individual who died on or after September 11, 2001, as a direct result of that act of terrorism within the United States.
 
States the medals are national medals. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate