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Energy Conservation Corps Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7050
Sponsor: Rep. Inslee, Jay [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2008-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative and renewable resources
Building construction
Education of the disadvantaged
Employment and training programs
Energy efficiency and conservation
National and community service
Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Rural conditions and development
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: 
Energy Conservation Corps Act of 2008 - Establishes the Energy Conservation Corps in the Department of Energy (DOE) to hire for up to 24 months disadvantaged or disconnected individuals between the ages of 16 and 25 (Corps members) to work in service projects, primarily team-based, designed to increase energy efficiency and improve natural resources use.

Directs the Secretary of Energy to accept applications from nonprofit, governmental, or educational organizations to establish, operate and support the Corps and to undertake projects related to energy and resource conservation and rural development. Requires such organizations to provide Corps members with access to education and job training opportunities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Georges Bank Preservation Act

Bill: 110-hr-7051
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2008-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Fishery management
Gas in submerged lands
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine parks and reserves
Massachusetts
National monuments
Oil and gas leases
Petroleum in submerged lands
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: 
Georges Bank Preservation Act - Prohibits the issuance of any lease or other authorization by the federal government for exploration, development, or production of oil or natural gas in: (1) any marine national monument or national marine sanctuary; or (2) the fishing grounds known as Georges Bank in the waters of the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1973)
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Kids with Healthy Hearts Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7052
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2008-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Blacks
Blood pressure
Child health
Child nutrition
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Diet
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Exercise
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Health education
Hispanic Americans
Hypertension
Indian children
Indian medical care
Medical screening
Medical tests
Minorities
Minority health
Native Americans
School health programs

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: 
Kids with Healthy Hearts Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of Education to make five grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to conduct demonstration projects to screen children in kindergarten through grade six for high blood pressure.
 
Requires screening programs, subject to parental consent, to screen children every six months during the school year, but to screen children one month after their initial screening if they fall in the 95th percentile or above for students with high blood pressure.
 
Requires grantees to provide parents of children who remain in such range after their second screening with: (1) referrals to health care providers for consultations about high blood pressure; and (2) written information from the Department of Health and Human Services regarding hypertension risks and lifestyle changes related to diet and exercise that can improve overall health.
 
Directs the Secretary to give grant preference to at least one LEA serving a high percentage of Native American, Latino, or African-American students.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Transportation Job Corps Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7053
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2008-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Career education
Department of Transportation
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to education
Labor and Employment
Labor unions
Mass rapid transit
Minorities
Minority education
Minority employment
Nonprofit organizations
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Transportation workers
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: 
Transportation Job Corps Act of 2008 - Requires the Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to establish workforce development councils and governing boards in each of its ten regions. Replaces the current discretionary grant and contract programs addressing human resource needs as they apply to public transportation activities.
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation, acting through the Administrator, to establish programs for the award of grants to: (1) nonprofit organizations and educational institutions to introduce disconnected youth (ages 16 through 24 who are unemployed and out of school) to careers in the transit industry by providing them with basic skills education and pre-apprenticeship skills; (2) partnerships of transit agencies and unions representing non-managerial employees to develop education programs to improve job skills of transit employees and to provide education and training to assist individuals to enter the transit profession; and (3) the same or similar partnerships to develop special projects to increase education opportunities for disadvantaged transit industry individuals, including racial and ethnic minorities underrepresented in transit management, by providing student scholarships, pre-entry preparation, and retention activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Nursing Home Emergency Assistance Act

Bill: 110-hr-7054
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2008-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief
Health
Nursing homes
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: 
Nursing Home Emergency Assistance Act - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to allow the President to provide reimbursement to private for-profit nursing homes for damages and expenses from a major disaster or declared emergency. Requires that such nursing homes: (1) be located within 30 miles of the disaster or emergency; and (2) have acted during the disaster or emergency in accordance with any relevant requirements applicable to private nonprofit nursing homes seeking reimbursement. Limits the amount of reimbursement to not greater than the amount available under such Act to a public or private nonprofit nursing home for similar damages or expenses after a disaster or emergency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1913-1914)
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Evacuees Tax Relief Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7055
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2008-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Costs
Emergency Management
Evacuation of civilians
Income tax
Tax credits
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: 
Evacuees Tax Relief Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers to elect either a tax credit or tax deduction for up to $5,000 of their voluntary or mandatory evacuation expenses due to a disaster.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1929)
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Introduced in House
Military Personnel Citizenship Processing Act

Bill: 110-hr-7057
Sponsor: Rep. Rodriguez, Ciro D. [D-TX-23]
Introduced: 2008-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Citizenship and naturalization
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Justice
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Government information and archives
Military personnel and dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: 
Military Personnel Citizenship Processing Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish an Office of the FBI Liaison in United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which shall monitor and assist with Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) functions related to expeditiously processing naturalization applications filed by members and former members of the Armed Forces.

Amends the the Immigration and Nationality Act to require that USCIS, within six months of receipt of a naturalization application filed by a member of the Armed Forces: (1) process and adjudicate the application; or (2) provide the applicant with an explanation for the inability to meet such deadline and an estimate of the adjudication date.

Repeals the provisions of this Act five years after the date of enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Introduced in House
To grant the congressional gold medal, collectively, to the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, United States Army, in recognition of their dedicated service during World War II.

Bill: 110-hr-7058
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2008-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Conflicts and wars
Congressional tributes
Military history
Military personnel and dependents
Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers
Smithsonian Institution

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: 
Requires the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to make arrangements for the award of a congressional gold medal to the Army's 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team, collectively, in recognition of their dedicated service during World War II. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1976)
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2008-09-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2008-09-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2008-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Introduced in House
To require the sale of certain defense articles and defense services to Taiwan.

Bill: 110-hr-7059
Sponsor: Rep. Tancredo, Thomas G. [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2008-09-24 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia
China
Military assistance, sales, and agreements
Taiwan

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: 
Requires the sale of certain defense articles and defense services to Taiwan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Introduced in House
U.S. and the World Education Act

Bill: 110-hr-7063
Sponsor: Rep. Sanchez, Loretta [D-CA-47]
Introduced: 2008-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Community and school
Compensatory education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Curricula
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational innovations
Educational research
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Geography and mapping
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Higher education
International Affairs
International education
Language and languages
Nonprofit organizations
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: 
U.S. and the World Education Act - Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to require the Deputy Assistant Secretary for International and Foreign Language Education to: (1) assist the Secretary of Education in administering this Act's grant program; and (2) develop an international education research repository and make it available to states and local educational agencies (LEAs).
 
Directs the Secretary, acting through the Deputy Assistant Secretary, to award competitive grants to LEAs, or partnerships between LEAs and private organizations or institutions of higher education that provide their LEA partners with funding, to promote international education in elementary and secondary schools. 
 
Requires each grantee to use: (1) one-half of its grant on enhancing international education within core curricula, such as by increasing teacher competency; and (2) the other half on providing supplemental international education services outside of normal instruction hours.
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct a biennial independent evaluation of such international education programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2043)
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Introduced in House
Cleaner Trucks for America Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7064
Sponsor: Rep. Kagen, Steve [D-WI-8]
Introduced: 2008-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Commerce
Energy
Income tax
Liquefied natural gas
Liquefied petroleum gas
Minimum tax
Natural gas
Natural gas vehicles
Service stations
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: 
Cleaner Trucks for America Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the credit amount for new qualified alternative fuel motor vehicles with gross vehicle weight ratings of more than 26,000 pounds from $40,000 to $80,000; (2) allow an increased tax credit for alternative fuel vehicle refueling properties that dispense compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, or liquefied petroleum gas; and (3) allow such credit amounts against the regular and alternative minimum tax. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Introduced in House
Health Workforce Investment Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7065
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2008-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Foreign students
Government Operations and Politics
Government statistics
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Health information systems
Higher education
Medical education
Medical personnel
Nursing education
Paramedical personnel
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: 
Health Workforce Investment Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the National Health Workforce Advisory Council to make recommendations to relevant agencies and congressional committees on health workforce issues, including on: (1) the supply and distribution of the U.S. health workforce; (2) current and future shortages or excesses of health workforce professionals; (3) issues relating to foreign medical and nursing school graduates; and (4) deficiencies in existing databases concerning the supply and distribution of, and postgraduate training programs for, health workforce professionals. Requires the Council to encourage entities providing graduate medical education to conduct activities to voluntarily address health workforce issues.

Establishes the National Center for Health Workforce Information and Analysis to conduct and support statistical and epidemiological activities for the purpose of assessing and improving the supply, distribution, diversity, and development of the health workforce in the United States. 

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to states for: (1) ensuring access to health services for all individuals, particularly those with low incomes or limited access to health services; (2) improving the supply, distribution, diversity, and development of the health workforce; and (3) creating state-specific health workforce goals and objectives consistent with health status goals and national health workforce objectives. 

Authorizes the Secretary to provide for research to identify best practices and innovative approaches to improving the health workforce.

Requires the Secretary to develop national health workforce objectives.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the work opportunity tax credit to include disconnected youth.

Bill: 110-hr-7066
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2008-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee hiring
Income tax credits
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the work opportunity tax credit for the employment of a disconnected youth. Defines &quot;disconnected youth&quot; as an individual: (1) between the ages of 16 and 25 on the hiring date; (2) not regularly employed or attending a school during the six-month period before the hiring date; and (3) not readily employable due to a lack of basic skills. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Introduced in House
Quality FIRST (From Incentives, Reporting, Standards, and Technology) Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7067
Sponsor: Rep. Altmire, Jason [D-PA-4]
Introduced: 2008-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Hospital care
Hospitals
Medicare
Peer review organizations (Medicine)
Performance measurement
Quality of care

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: 
Quality FIRST (From Incentives, Reporting, Standards, and Technology) Act of 2008 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make performance-based payments each fiscal year to hospitals that provide high quality inpatient hospital services to inpatients entitled to benefits under Medicare part A (Hospital Insurance).
 
Requires the Secretary to select appropriate evidence-based and statistically valid quality measures of care furnished by hospitals in inpatient settings for evaluating hospital performance.
 
Requires a utilization and quality control peer review organization to give priority of quality improvement assistance to low-performing hospitals.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a program under which a hospital seeking to improve the quality of inpatient hospital services based on the results of a performance evaluation may apply to the Secretary to receive quality improvement assistance from a private quality organization with expertise in supporting inpatient service quality improvement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Introduced in House
Restoring the Integrity of American Statistics Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7069
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2008-09-25 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics
Department of Commerce
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal officials
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: 
Restoring the Integrity of American Statistics Act of 2008 - Reestablishes the United States Census Bureau as an independent establishment in the executive branch, effective January 1, 2012. 
 
 Requires the Bureau Director to be appointed by the President without regard to political affiliation for a five-year term.
 
 
 
Provides for: (1) the transfer of functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of the Bureau under the Department of Commerce; (2) transition rules; and (3) appointment of an Inspector General for the Bureau.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2027)
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Introduced in House