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To direct the Secretary of the Interior to ensure that certain questions are placed on the ballot of the 2008 general election in American Samoa.

Bill: 110-hr-1785
Sponsor: Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: American Samoa
Ballots
Citizenship
District courts
Immigration
Jurisdiction
Law
Presidential elections
Referendum

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to ensure that questions on the ballot of the 2008 general election in American Samoa ask whether: (1) individuals born in American Samoa should become citizens of the United States; (2) the Senators of the American Samoa Fono should be elected by the qualified electors from the respective counties that they are to represent; and (3) American Samoa should have its own federal district court with limited jurisdiction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E691)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that Federal employees stationed in American Samoa shall be paid the same nonforeign area cost-of-living allowance as if stationed in Guam or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Bill: 110-hr-1786
Sponsor: Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: American Samoa
Federal employees
Guam
Northern Mariana Islands
Pay equity
Salaries

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Provides that federal employees stationed in American Samoa shall be paid the same allowance based on living costs and conditions of environment as if stationed in Guam or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2007-03-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E697)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Catastrophe Savings Accounts Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1787
Sponsor: Rep. Feeney, Tom [R-FL-24]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts
Coinsurance
Disasters
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Property insurance
Saving and investment
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Catastrophe Savings Accounts Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to create tax-exempt catastrophe savings accounts (CSAs). Allows tax-free distributions from CSAs to pay expenses resulting from a presidentially declared major disaster. Limits CSA balances to: (1) $2,000 (for individuals with homeowner insurance deductibles of not more than $1,000); and (2) the lesser of $15,000 or twice a homeowner's insurance deductible (for individuals with deductibles of more than $1,000). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Re-Channelization of Public Safety Spectrum Act

Bill: 110-hr-1788
Sponsor: Rep. Ferguson, Mike [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Broadband
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Licenses
Radio spectrum allocation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Re-Channelization of Public Safety Spectrum Act - Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to initiate a rulemaking to rechannelize the public safety spectrum (located in the upper 700 megahertz band) to accommodate commercially available broadband applications.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
To require the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation to use dynamic economic modeling in addition to static economic modeling in the preparation of budgetary estimates of proposed changes in Federal revenue law.

Bill: 110-hr-1789
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional Budget Office
Congressional agencies
Congressional joint committees
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic forecasting
Economic impact statements
Economic research
Economic statistics
Federal budgets
Fiscal policy
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Joint Taxation
Legislation
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Expresses the sense of Congress that it is necessary to ensure that Congress is presented with reliable information from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation as to the dynamic macroeconomic feedback effects to changes in federal law and the probable behavioral responses of taxpayers, businesses, and other parties to such changes. 
 
Requires the Joint Committee and CBO, using among other methods dynamic estimating techniques, to prepare fiscal estimates of each proposed change in federal revenue law on the basis of assumptions that estimate the probable behavioral responses of personal and business taxpayers and other relevant entities to such change and its dynamic macroeconomic feedback effects. Applies such requirement only to proposed changes that, pursuant to static fiscal estimates, have a fiscal impact exceeding $250 million in any fiscal year.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, and 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: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, and 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: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, and 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: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, and 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: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006 to expand the provision of special immigrant status for certain aliens, including translators or interpreters, serving with Federal agencies in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bill: 110-hr-1790
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Afghanistan
Aliens
Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Government Operations and Politics
Immigrants
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Law
Middle East and North Africa
Military occupation
Military operations
Refugees
South Asia
Sunset legislation
Translating and interpreting
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006 to authorize special immigrant status for certain Afghan or Iraqi translators or interpreters working with the U.S. Armed Forces or federal agencies in Afghanistan and Iraq. (Currently, such status is authorized for Afghan and Iraqi translators or interpreters working with U.S. Armed Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.)
 
Authorizes: (1) additional annual entrants; (2) adjustment to permanent resident status; and (3) eligibility for refugee assistance.
 
Sunsets such special immigrant provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Fairness in Firearm Testing Act

Bill: 110-hr-1791
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Ammunition
Criminal investigation
Discovery (Law)
Evidence (Law)
Firearms
Firearms control
Law
Science, Technology, Communications
Video tape recording

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Fairness in Firearm Testing Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to make a video recording of the entire process of its examination and testing of an item for the purpose of determining whether the item is a firearm (and if so, the type of firearm) or ammunition. Bars the Bureau from editing or erasing any such recording.

Directs the Bureau to make available a digital video disc that contains a copy of the recording: (1) at the request of a person who claims an ownership interest in such item; and (2) to a defendant in a criminal proceeding involving such item. Provides that an item which the Bureau has determined is a firearm or ammunition shall not be admissible as evidence unless: (1) the Bureau has complied with the requirements of this Act to make its digital video disc available; or (2) such compliance has been waived in writing by the person against whom the item is offered as evidence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Logan's Law

Bill: 110-hr-1793
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Accident prevention
Child safety
Drainage
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal aid to water resources development
Flood control
Government Operations and Politics
Hydraulic engineering
Infrastructure
Safety measures
Signs and signboards
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Logan's Law - Requires the head of a federal agency that is carrying out a project involving the construction or modification of a culvert or other enclosed flood or drainage system to ensure that: (1) the system intake is protected by a covering sufficient to ensure that a child may not be swept into the system; (2) a sign warning of the hazard for a child is clearly posted at such intake; and (3) the system has a hinged opening, or other type of opening and closing mechanism, to permit emergency services personnel access.

Requires a federal agency providing financial assistance to a state or local government or other entity for a project carried out with federal funds to require compliance with this Act as a condition for the award of such assistance or any letter of intent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Families Learning and Understanding English Together Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1794
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Adult education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Families
Family services
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Literacy programs
Parent and child
Parent-school relationships
Parents
Reading
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Workplace literacy

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Families Learning and Understanding English Together Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to providers of family literacy services to improve the literacy and English skills of limited English proficient individuals who are parents or children in families where each parent is at least 16 years old and where at least one child is under age eight. 
 
Directs the Secretary to reserve certain funds to: (1) provide technical assistance and training to such grantees; (2) make grants to, or enter contracts with, national organizations that have family literacy service expertise to provide grantees with technical assistance and training; and (3) evaluate and improve such grant program. 
 
Requires grantees to meet specified outcome measures. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental and Native American Public Policy Act of 1992, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-1795
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Alaska
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
Indian education
Indian medical care
Indigenous peoples
Medical education
Minorities
Native Americans
Policy sciences
Scholarships

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Amends the Morris K.Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental and Native American Public Policy Act of 1992 to: (1) require the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation to award grants to the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona to develop resources to train Native American and Alaska Native professionals in health care and public policy; (2) revise requirements regarding limitations on program priorities and require that at least 50% of the funds provided to the Center be spent for Native American education and policy activities; (3) provide for the Foundation to pay a limited amount for official reception and representation expenses; (4) prohibit any committee or group organized by the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution in connection with the services it provides pursuant to the Act from being subject to the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, provided that the committee or group is neither established nor controlled by another agency of the executive branch; and (5) instruct the Foundation to carry out the Act's provisions without regard to federal law governing appointments in the competitive service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Expensing Expansion and Permanency Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1797
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Computer software
Depreciation and amortization
Economics and Public Finance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Small Business Expensing Expansion and Permanency Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the expensing allowance (i.e., a tax deduction in the current taxable year) for small business assets to $200,000 and make such allowance permanent; (2) increase the threshold for phaseout of such allowance to $800,000 (cost basis of property placed in service); (3) allow an inflation adjustment to the expensing and threshold amounts beginning after 2007; (4) make permanent the right of a taxpayer to revoke an election to expense; and (5) make permanent the inclusion of certain computer software as property eligible for expensing. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E701-702)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Ka'u Coast Preservation Act

Bill: 110-hr-1798
Sponsor: Rep. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Coastal zone
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
Hawaii
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
National parks

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Ka'u Coast Preservation Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to study and report to specified congressional committees on the suitability and feasibility of designating the Ka'u Coast from Kapaoo Point to Kahuku Point, Hawaii, as a unit of the National Park System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-03-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E710)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
To authorize and request the President to award the Medal of Honor posthumously to Private George D. Wilson of Company B, 2nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment for his acts of valor as one of Andrews Raiders during the Civil War on April 12, 1862.

Bill: 110-hr-1799
Sponsor: Rep. Hobson, David L. [R-OH-7]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Civil War
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional Medal of Honor
History
Infantry
Military history
Military personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Authorizes and requests the President to award the Medal of Honor posthumously to George D. Wilson for acts of valor as one of the Andrews Raiders during the Civil War.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
To authorize and request the President to award the Medal of Honor posthumously to Private Philip G. Shadrach of Company K, 2nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment for his acts of valor as one of Andrews Raiders during the Civil War on April 12, 1862.

Bill: 110-hr-1800
Sponsor: Rep. Hobson, David L. [R-OH-7]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Civil War
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional Medal of Honor
History
Infantry
Military history
Military personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Authorizes and requests the President to award the Medal of Honor posthumously to Philip G. Shadrach for acts of valor as one of Andrews Raiders during the Civil War.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Dr. Muhammad Yunus, in recognition of his contributions to the fight against global poverty.

Bill: 110-hr-1801
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Bangladesh
Bank loans
Commerce
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Economists
Entrepreneurs
Finance and Financial Sector
Poverty
Small business
Social Welfare
South Asia

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation on behalf of Congress of a gold medal of appropriate design to Dr. Muhammad Yunus in recognition of his many enduring contributions to the fight against global poverty. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Keeping Small Businesses Healthy Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1802
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Employee health benefits
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Small business
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Keeping Small Businesses Healthy Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain small business employers (100 or fewer employees) a refundable tax credit for up to 60 percent of the health insurance costs paid for their employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House