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A bill to designate the United States courthouse to be constructed in Jackson, Mississippi, as the "Thad Cochran United States Courthouse".

Bill: 110-s-782
Sponsor: Sen. Lott, Trent [R-MS]
Introduced: 2007-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Courthouses
Law
Members of Congress
Mississippi
Names
Senate

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: 
Designates the United States courthouse to be constructed at the site bounded on the north by Court Street, on the west by West Street, on the south by South Street, and on the east by President Street in Jackson, Mississippi, as the &quot;Thad Cochran United States Courthouse.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Accountability for Nuclear Waste Storage Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-784
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2007-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nuclear power plants
Radioactive wastes

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: 
 Federal Accountability for Nuclear Waste Storage Act of 2007 - Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to require commercial nuclear power plant operators to transfer, within six years after enactment of this Act, spent nuclear fuel from spent nuclear fuel pools into spent nuclear fuel dry casks at an independent spent fuel storage facility generally licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and located at the power reactor site.
 
Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) make grants to compensate a contractor for expenses incurred in carrying out such transfer; and (2) accept the conveyance of title to a spent nuclear fuel dry cask (including its contents) from the contractor following certification of compliance by the NRC.
 
States that conveyance of title shall confer upon the Secretary full responsibility for the possession, stewardship, maintenance, monitoring, and ultimate disposition of all transferred spent nuclear fuel. Authorizes the Secretary to contract with the holder of an NRC operating license for power reactors located on or adjacent to the spent nuclear fuel dry cask for the performance of such tasks. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6537)
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2719-2720)
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Telecommuter Tax Fairness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-785
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2007-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commuter tax
Government Operations and Politics
Home labor
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Residence requirements
Science, Technology, Communications
State taxation
Tax exemption
Telecommuting
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: 
Telecommuters Tax Fairness Act of 2007 - Prohibits a state from imposing an income tax on the compensation of a nonresident individual for any period in which such individual is not physically present in or working in such state or from deeming such nonresident individual to be present in or working in such state on the grounds that: (1) such individual is present at or working at home for convenience; or (2) such individual's work at home fails any convenience of the employer test or any similar test.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2721)
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2720-2721)
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to foster efficient markets and increase competition and transparency among packers that purchased livestock from producers.

Bill: 110-s-786
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2007-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Commerce
Competition
Competitive bidding
Livestock
Meat packing industry

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: 
Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require that 25% of a covered packer's daily kill comes through spot market sales from nonaffiliated producers. 
 
Sets forth a different percentage through 2011 for covered packers who reported in the 2006 annual report that more than 75% of their livestock were captive supply livestock 
 
Defines &quot;covered packer,&quot; &quot;nonaffiliated producer,&quot; and &quot;spot market sale.&quot;
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2722)
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2721-2722)
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to impose a 2-year moratorium on implementation of a proposed rule relating to the Federal-State financial partnerships under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

Bill: 110-s-787
Sponsor: Sen. Martinez, Mel [R-FL]
Introduced: 2007-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: 
Imposes a two-year moratorium on implementation of a proposed rule (&quot;Medicaid Program; Cost Limit for Providers Operated by Units of Government and Provisions To Ensure the Integrity of Federal-State Financial Partnership&quot;) relating to the federal-state financial partnerships under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) under titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Moving to Work Charter Program Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-788
Sponsor: Sen. Sununu, John E. [R-NH]
Introduced: 2007-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Home ownership
Housing authorities
Housing subsidies
Labor and Employment
Low-income housing
Performance measurement
Public housing
Rent
Social Welfare
Welfare work participation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: 
Moving to Work Charter Program Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to enter into charter contracts, beginning in FY2008, with up to 250 public housing agencies administering the public housing program or the section 8 housing assistance program under the United States Housing Act of 1937. 
 
States that such charter contracts shall: (1) supersede and have a term commensurate with any annual contributions contract between a public housing agency and the Secretary; and (2) provide that a participating public housing agency shall receive capital and operating assistance allocated to it under specified laws.
 
Exempts charter contracts from the requirements of the United States Housing Act of 1937, except those for payment of wages prevailing in the community and the demolition and disposition of public housing.
 
Requires a charter contract to provide that a public housing agency: (1) may combine section 8 low-income assistance and Public Housing Capital and Operating Fund assistance and use it for housing assistance and related services for activities under this Act; (2) shall ensure that at least 75% of the families assisted are very low-income families; (3) shall establish a reasonable rent policy designed to encourage employment, self-sufficiency, and home ownership by participating families; and (4) meet specified additional requirements.
 
Directs the Secretary to appoint a federal advisory committee to assess and develop a demonstration program to test standards, criteria, and practices for a national public housing agency accreditation system or other evaluation system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to permit the simplified summer food programs to be carried out in all States and by all service institutions.

Bill: 110-s-790
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2007-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Child nutrition
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Food service
Grants-in-aid
School lunch program

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: 
Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act with respect to payment rates for meals and meal supplements provided by service institutions under summer food service programs for children.
 
Requires payments for administrative costs to be set at levels determined by the Secretary of Agriculture pursuant to a specified study.
 
(Currently, payments to service institutions shall equal the full cost of food service operations, excluding administrative costs. Payments for administrative costs shall equal the full amount of state-approved administrative costs incurred, not to exceed the maximum allowable levels the Secretary determines pursuant to such study.)
 
Repeals authority for simplified summer food pilot projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Tribal Government Equality Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-792
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2007-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Civil service retirement
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Minorities

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: 
Tribal Government Equality Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to modify the definition of governmental plan with respect to the treatment of the Indian tribal pension plans. Makes the amendments made by this Act effective as if included in section 906 (Treatment of certain pension plans of Indian tribal governments) of the Pension Protection Act of 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Prevent Prematurity and Improve Child Health Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-794
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2007-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aliens
Block grants
Child health
Cigarettes
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Contraceptives
Dental care
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Families
Family planning and birth control
Federal aid to child health services
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health counseling
Health insurance
Housing and Community Development
Identification devices
Immigrant health
Immigration
Infants
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Low birth weight
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Medical statistics
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Pregnancy
Pregnant women
Prescription pricing
Quality of care
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
Smokeless tobacco
Smoking
Social Welfare
State laws
Telemedicine
Welfare eligibility
Welfare waivers
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: 
Prevent Prematurity and Improve Child Health Act of 2007 - Amends titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to give states new options to cover: (1) low-income pregnant women; and (2) low-income legal immigrant pregnant women and children under Medicaid and SCHIP. 
 
Extends coverage under Medicaid of prescription drugs and counseling services to tobacco cessation medications to help pregnant women enrolled in the program quit using tobacco. Requires coverage of tobacco cessation counseling services for pregnant women, and exempts such services from cost-sharing charges. 
 
Gives states the option under Medicaid to: (1) provide family planning services and supplies to individuals with incomes that do not exceed a state's income eligibility level for medical assistance; and (2) extend the postpartum period for provision of family planning services and supplies. 
 
Gives states the option to provide supplemental SCHIP coverage to children who have other health coverage.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish a demonstration program to provide payments to states for telemedicine services for the treatment of applicable individuals; (2) develop and disseminate a national set of core pediatric and perinatal quality measures; and (3) collect data regarding the extent to which states use pediatric and perinatal inpatient and outpatient quality measures on an ongoing basis.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Citizenship Promotion Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-795
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Aliens
Citizenship
Civics education
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Criminal justice information
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
English language
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Identification of criminals
Illegal aliens
Immigrants
Law
Legal aid
Naturalization
Nonprofit organizations
Public service advertising
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: 
Citizenship Promotion Act of 2007 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise provisions respecting: (1) immigration service fees; and (2) naturalization testing.
 
Prohibits an applicant or petitioner for U.S. permanent residence or citizenship from being required to use an electronic method to file any application to, or access a customer account.
 
Requires: (1) a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study and report on naturalization background checks; and (2) the Attorney General to make reasonable efforts to complete background checks of applicants for temporary or permanent residence or citizenship within 90 days.
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a national citizenship promotion program to assist lawful permanent resident aliens become citizens.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2803-2804)
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Currency Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-796
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2007-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Balance of payments
Canada
China
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Countervailing duties
Defense procurement
East Asia
Export subsidies
Foreign exchange
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Import relief
International Affairs
International monetary system
Latin America
Mexico
Trade negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: 
Fair Currency Act of 2007 - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to expand 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 misalignment (undervaluation of a foreign currency) by a country as a countervailable subsidy. Requires the administering authority to use methodologies that measure certain benchmarks outside of a nonmarket economy country where exchange-rate misalignment exists when measuring the benefit of a countervailable subsidy bestowed on a product by such country in a countervailing duty proceeding. 
 
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to include exchange-rate misalignment by the People's Republic of China as a condition in determining market disruption to the domestic producers of a like or directly competitive product from products imported from China.
 
Prohibits the Department of Defense from procuring defense articles imported from China if such articles are competitive with domestic industry articles critical to the defense industrial base of the United States.
 
Applies provisions of this Act to goods from Canada and Mexico.
 
Amends the Exchange Rates and International Economic Policy Coordination Act of 1988 to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to consider in the annual analysis of foreign exchange rate policies whether countries have a currency that is in fundamental misalignment, and if so, to initiate bilateral corrective negotiations.
 
Directs the Secretary, prior to U.S. approval of a change in an international financial institution's governance, to determine whether a member who would benefit from such change has a currency that is manipulated or in fundamental misalignment, and if so, oppose such change.
 
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to require the administering authority in determining whether a country is a nonmarket economy country to consider whether such country's manipulation or fundamental misalignment of its currency adversely affects the U.S. economy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Star-Spangled Banner and War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission Act

Bill: 110-s-798
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2007-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Alabama
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Europe
Executive reorganization
Exhibitions
Flags
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Indiana
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Michigan
Military history
National monuments
National parks
New York State
Nonprofit organizations
Ohio
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Social Welfare
Tourism
United Kingdom
Virginia
War

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: 
Star-Spangled Banner and War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission Act - Establishes the Star-Spangled Banner and War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission to encourage, plan, develop, coordinate, and execute programs, observances, and activities commemorating the historic events that preceded and are associated with the War of 1812. Requires the Commission to prepare a strategic plan and annual performance plans for any activity carried out by the Commission under this Act.
 
 
Terminates the Commission on December 31, 2015.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2805-2807)
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2804-2805)
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Choice Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-799
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2007-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative remedies
Commerce
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer protection
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family services
Federal aid to health facilities
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Health services administration
Home care services
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law
Long-term care
Medicaid
Medicare
Mental care facilities
Nursing
Nursing homes
Paramedical personnel
Patient satisfaction
Patients' rights
Preventive medicine
Quality of care
Small business
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: 
Community Choice Act of 2007 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require state Medicaid plan coverage of community-based attendant services and supports for certain Medicaid-eligible individuals.
 
Outlines requirements for: (1) an enhanced federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for ongoing activities of early coverage states that enhance and promote the use of community-based attendant services and supports; and (2) increased federal financial participation for certain expenditures incurred by the state for the provision of such services and supports.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) award grants to eligible states which have established a Consumer Task Force to assist the state in its development of real choice systems change initiatives; and (2) conduct a demonstration project for the purpose of evaluating service coordination and cost-sharing approaches with respect to the provision of community-based services and supports to dually eligible individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2807-2811)
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2807)
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate