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Great Lakes Water Protection Act

Bill: 110-hr-2907
Sponsor: Rep. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL-10]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Animals
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Great Lakes
Habitat conservation
Law
Licenses
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Science, Technology, Communications
Sewage disposal
Sewage treatment
Waste disposal in rivers, lakes, etc.
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Great Lakes Water Protection Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (popularly known as the Clean Water Act) to prohibit publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) from intentionally diverting waste streams to bypass any portion of the treatment facility if the diversion results in a discharge into the Great Lakes unless: (1) the bypass is unavoidable to prevent loss of life, personal injury, or severe property damage; (2) there is no feasible alternative; and (3) the treatment works provides notice; or (4) the bypass does not cause effluent limitations to be exceeded and is for essential maintenance to ensure efficient operation of the treatment facility.

Requires: (1) such notice to be provided to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (or to a state with an approved permit program) prior to an anticipated bypass or within 24 hours of becoming aware of an unanticipated bypass; and (2) follow-up notice regarding the cause and duration of, volume of discharge resulting from, and public access areas affected by an unanticipated bypass.

 Includes among prohibited bypasses those resulting in discharges from a POTW that consist of effluent routed around treatment units and blended with effluent from treatment units prior to discharge.

Directs the Administrator to establish procedures to ensure that permits issued to POTWs under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System include requirements to implement this Act.

Provides an increased maximum civil penalty for violations occurring on or after January 1, 2027.

Applies the prohibition on diverting waste streams to a bypass occurring after the last day of the one-year period beginning on the date of this Act's enactment.

Establishes the Great Lakes Cleanup Fund from which amounts shall be provided for improving wastewater discharges. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1455)
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2908
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information
Death
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Prisoners

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2007 - Requires states that receive certain criminal justice assistance grants to report to the Attorney General on a quarterly basis certain information regarding the death of any person who is under arrest, en route to incarceration, or incarcerated in state or local facilities. Imposes penalties on states that fail to comply with such reporting requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the deduction for the travel expenses of a taxpayer's spouse who accompanies the taxpayer on business travel.

Bill: 110-hr-2909
Sponsor: Rep. Abercrombie, Neil [D-HI-1]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business travel
Commerce
Families
Income tax
Married people
Parent and child
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the restrictions on the tax deduction for the travel expenses of a taxpayer's spouse, dependent, or other individual accompanying the taxpayer on business travel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
VETS Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2910
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Collection of accounts
College costs
Debtor and creditor
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Higher education
Interest rates
Iraq compilation
Military personnel
Student loan funds
Students' rights
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
 Veterans Education Tuition Support Act of 2007 or VETS Act of 2007 - Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to require an institution of higher education, whenever a servicemember is called, activated, or ordered to military service and therefore withdraws or takes a leave of absence from such institution, to: (1) refund to the servicemember tuition and other fees paid for the portion of the program of education for which the servicemember did not receive academic credit after such withdrawal or leave; and (2) provide the servicemember an opportunity to reenroll at the institution with the same educational and academic status that the servicemember had when ordered to military service.
 
Requires a provider of a student loan with respect to such a servicemember: (1) if the servicemember reenrolls in the program of education (or a comparable program) within 13 months following the period of military service, to disregard the entire period that the education was discontinued in determining the date on which student loan repayment is to begin; or (2) if the servicemember does not reenroll, to not require loan repayment to begin before the later of the last day of such 13-month period or the date the repayment was otherwise required to begin.
 
Prohibits a court from granting a creditor relief from the 6% limit on interest charged against the indebtedness of a servicemember during a period of military service in the case of an obligation or liability incurred by a servicemember who is a student at an institution of higher education at the time of the call to service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-07-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1458-1459)
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Electronic Funds Transfer Equal Consumer Protection Act

Bill: 110-hr-2911
Sponsor: Rep. Ackerman, Gary L. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts
Commerce
Consumer protection
Credit cards
Debit cards
Electronic funds transfers
Evidence (Law)
Law
Liability (Law)
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Electronic Funds Transfer Equal Consumer Protection Act - Amends the the Electronic Fund Transfer Act to treat as an error any electronic fund transfer affecting the customer's account regarding a transaction for goods or services not accepted by or not delivered to the customer, or not in accordance with the agreement made at the time of the transaction.
 
Redefines electronic fund transfer to cover any transaction initiated through an electronic terminal, telephonic instrument, or computer, including transactions initiated through the use of a check card or a debit card.
 
Revises requirements for a financial institution's discretionary provisional recredit of a consumer's account after receiving notice of an error. Makes such a provisional recredit mandatory, within one business day after receipt of such a notice.
 
Revises requirements for prompt resolution of errors to authorize a financial institution to require a consumer to submit written confirmation of an oral error notice before it recredits provisionally the consumer's account.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Transport Aircraft Fuel Tank Safety Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2912
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Timothy H. [D-NY-1]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Aviation fuels
Aviation safety
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Transportation
Emergency Management
Energy
Fire prevention
Fuel storage
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Science, Technology, Communications
Transport aircraft
Transportation research

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Transport Aircraft Fuel Tank Safety Act of 2007 - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to: (1) finalize and implement the proposed FAA rule regarding the reduction of fuel tank flammability in transport category airplanes; (2) take necessary action to ensure that operators and manufacturers of airplanes take appropriate action to comply with such rule; and (3) conduct a study, and report to Congress, on ways to improve the safety and reduce the flammability of fuel tanks that are located on the wings of airplanes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7822)
action_date: 2007-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Pollinator Habitat Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2913
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agriculture and Food
Bees
Environmental Protection
Habitat conservation
Integrated pest management
Nature conservation
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Pollinator Habitat Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to require that conservation programs, except the farmland protection program, establish a priority and provide incentives for: (1) increasing habitat for native and managed pollinators; and (2) establishing cropping systems, integrated pest management regimes, and other practices to protect native and managed pollinators.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Agriculture should: (1) designate pollinator protection as a national priority resource concern for conservation programs administered by the Department of Agriculture; and (2) continue efforts to make nurseries and land managers aware of pollinator-friendly plants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1459)
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Medicare IVIG Access Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2914
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Ambulatory care
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Drugs
Health surveys
Home care services
Immune system
Medical fees
Medicare
Physicians
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Medicare IVIG Access Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to collect and review data on the differences, if any, between: (1) payments to physicians for immune globulins using average sales price payment methodology; and (2) costs incurred by physicians for furnishing these products.
 
Requires the Secretary, after completion of the review, to provide, if appropriate, an additional payment to such physicians for all items related to the furnishing of immune globulins as part of hospital outpatient services. 
 
Provides for Medicare coverage of and payment for intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) administered in the home.
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct two surveys, for reports to Congress, of Medicare and non-Medicare patients who need immune globulins in order to measure changes in patient access to those products (and providers furnishing them), as well as changes in the health care status of those patients.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
National Health Service Corps Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs Reauthorization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2915
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Authorization
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Medical education
Public health personnel
Scholarships
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
National Health Service Corps Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs Reauthorization Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize appropriations for FY2007-FY2011 for National Health Service Corps Scholarship and Loan Repayment programs. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to reserve a portion of such funds for scholarships to individuals who are enrolled in a course of study or program that leads to a degree in medicine or osteopathic medicine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-04
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Members of Congress Personal Fiscal Responsibility Act

Bill: 110-hr-2916
Sponsor: Rep. Burton, Dan [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional salaries
Cost of living adjustments

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Members of Congress Personal Fiscal Responsibility Act - Provides that no automatic pay adjustment shall be considered to have taken effect in FY2008 in the rates of basic pay for Members of Congress under the statutory pay system (thus eliminating the automatic pay adjustment for Members for such fiscal year).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Transition Education Accountability Report Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2917
Sponsor: Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadband
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Television broadcasting

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Transition Education Accountability Report Act of 2007 - Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to report to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate on the measures taken by the FCC, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and other federal agencies to inform the public of the transition to digital television broadcasting and the termination of analog broadcasting. Requires the FCC to provide for the public dissemination of the report.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
California Ocean and Coastal Protection Act

Bill: 110-hr-2918
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: California
Continental shelf
Gas in submerged lands
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas leases
Oil well drilling
Pacific Ocean
Petroleum in submerged lands
Prospecting

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
California Ocean and Coastal Protection Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit oil and gas preleasing, leasing, and related activities in areas of the Outer Continental Shelf located off the coast of California.
 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to exclude such areas from the waters of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf whose oil and natural gas resources the Secretary of Energy is required to inventory and analyze.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the suitability and feasibility of designating the Virgin Islands Military and Veterans Memorial, to be located in Fredericksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, as a unit of the National Park System.

Bill: 110-hr-2919
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commemorations
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
Military personnel
Monuments and memorials
National parks
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to carry out a study to determine the suitability and feasibility of designating the U.S. Virgin Islands Military and Veterans Memorial, to be located on ten acres in Fredericksted, St.Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, as a unit of the National Park System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
To convey certain submerged lands to the Government of the Virgin Islands, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-2920
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Land transfers
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Submerged lands
Territorial waters
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Conveys to the U.S. Virgin Islands specified submerged lands in the area between the island of Saint Croix and the islands of Saint Thomas and Saint John. 
 
States that for purposes of U.S. laws, except as otherwise provided by international law or international agreement in force for the United States, the U.S. Virgin Islands' territorial waters shall extend nine miles seaward from the line of ordinary low water along that portion of the coast which is in direct contact with the open sea and the line marking the seaward limit of inland waters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Treasury Annuity Study Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2921
Sponsor: Rep. Cooper, Jim [D-TN-5]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Annuities
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Treasury Annuity Study Act of 2007 - Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to study and report to Congress on the feasibility of authorizing or requiring the Department of the Treasury to create annuity products and sell them to U.S. citizens.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House