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Summer of Service Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1128
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: American Samoa
Community and school
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Ethics
Federal aid to education
Fees
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Guam
Higher education
Indian education
Labor and Employment
Leadership
Minorities
National service
Native Americans
Northern Mariana Islands
Performance measurement
Scholarships
Secondary education
Service learning
Social Welfare
Student employment
Summer employment
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Summer of Service Act of 2007 - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to create Summer of Service programs providing at least 100 hours of summer community service learning opportunities to youth who will subsequently enroll in grades six through nine. 
 
Requires the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service to provide competitive three-year grants to: (1) states under a State Grant program; and (2) public or private organizations under a National Direct Grant program, when a state does not apply for funding or the community service program includes multiple states. 
 
Requires states and organizations, in making project subgrants, to favor entities with established track records that: (1) have leadership positions in the communities from which participating youth will be drawn; (2) focus on youth service during the transition year before high school; (3) encourage or enable youth to continue providing community service throughout the school year; (4) involve youth in the design and operation of the community service project; and (5) include youth of diverse backgrounds, at least 50% of which are from low-income families. Permits such entities to charge the parents of participants an income-based fee to contribute to the nonfederal share of project costs.
 
Makes each youth serving at least 100 hours in a service-learning project eligible for an educational award of up to $500.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4607-4611)
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4606-4607)
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Tribal Government Equality Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1129
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Civil service retirement
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Minorities

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Tribal Government Equality Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the definition of governmental plan with respect to the treatment of Indian tribal pension plans. Makes the amendments made by this Act effective as if included in section 906 of the Pension Protection Act of 2006. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Legal Services Benefit Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1130
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Law
Legal services
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Legal Services Benefit Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to restore, increase, and make permanent the exclusion from gross income for amounts received under qualified group legal services plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Suburban and Community Forestry and Open Space Program Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1131
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Conservation easements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Environmental protection groups
Federal-state relations
Forest conservation
Forest products
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Land banking
Land transfers
Land use
Nonprofit organizations
Open space lands
Private forests
Social Welfare
Suburbs
Sustainable forestry
Urban affairs
Urban growth

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Suburban and Community Forestry and Open Space Program Act of 2007 - Amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to establish in the Forest Service the Suburban and Community Forestry and Open Space Program, which shall provide cost-share grants to preserve private forest land, contain suburban sprawl, and support value-added forest product industries in states in which less than 25% of the land is owned by the United States. 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to authorize a requesting state to permit a qualifying organization to acquire one or more conservation easements to carry out the Forest Legacy Program in such state.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4611-4612)
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Indian tribes to receive charitable contributions of apparently wholesome food.

Bill: 110-s-1132
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Charitable contributions
Food relief
Income tax
Minorities
Native Americans
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to qualify Indian tribes as eligible recipients of tax deductible contributions of food inventory (i.e., apparently wholesome food as defined by the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4612)
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4612)
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Taxpayer Abuse Prevention Act

Bill: 110-s-1133
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Commercial arbitration
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Debtor and creditor
Earned income tax credit
Electronic benefits transfers
Electronic data interchange
Finance and Financial Sector
Garnishment
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Income tax
Law
Loans
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Tax refunds
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Taxpayer Abuse Prevention Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that advance payments of the earned income tax credit are not transferable or assignable or subject to the claims of any creditors, except outstanding claims of the federal government.

Prohibits: (1) the collection of a debt from a debtor's federal tax refund by means of a refund anticipation loan; and (2) mandatory arbitration as a condition of providing a refund anticipation loan.

Terminates the Department of the Treasury Debt Indicator Program. 

Excludes tax returns that have been filed subject to a refund anticipation loan from any determination of whether goals for electronic filing of tax returns have been met.

Allows earned income tax credit benefits to be paid through electronic transfer accounts. 

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) develop and implement a program to encourage the greater use of the advance earned income tax credit; and (2) enter into cooperative agreements with federally insured depository institutions to provide low- and moderate-income taxpayers with the option of establishing low-cost direct deposit accounts using appropriate tax forms.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4613-4614)
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4612-4613)
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Transparency in Federal Funding Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1134
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Ben [D-NE]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Transparency in Federal Funding Act of 2007 - Requires each cabinet-level department and independent agency that administers a program containing an earmark in the preceding year to disclose annually to Congress whether any portion of such earmarked funds were retained by the agency or any other organization tasked with distributing them.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Arbitration Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1135
Sponsor: Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Claims
Commerce
Commercial arbitration
Consumer protection
Contracts
Evidence (Law)
Right to counsel
Small claims courts
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Fair Arbitration Act of 2007 - Requires a contract containing an arbitration clause, in order to be binding on the parties, to: (1) have a heading &quot;ARBITRATION CLAUSE&quot; printed in bold, capital letters; (2) state explicitly whether participation in arbitration is mandatory or optional; (3) identify a source that a consumer or employee can contact for additional information regarding the arbitration program; and (4) provide notice that all parties retain the right to resolve a dispute in a small claims court for a claim of $50,000 or less.
 
Entitles each party under arbitration to: (1) a competent, neutral arbitrator and independent, neutral administration of the dispute; (2) representation by an attorney or other representative at such party's expense; (3) a fair arbitration hearing; (4) a face-to-face hearing; (5) the right to present evidence and cross examine witnesses; (6) a written explanation of the basis for the arbitrator's decision; and (7) the right to opt out of binding arbitration and into the small claims court (for claims of $50,000 or less).
 
Prescribes procedures for complaints by any party of denial of rights by the other party or the arbitrator.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4615-4616)
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4614-4615)
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Survivors' Empowerment and Economic Security Act

Bill: 110-s-1136
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Cash welfare block grants
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Discrimination in employment
Discrimination in insurance
Dismissal of employees
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Families
Family violence
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Leave of absence
Rape
Sex crimes
Social Welfare
Stalking
Unemployment insurance
Victims of crimes
Women
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Survivors' Empowerment and Economic Security Act - Sets forth entitlement standards and implementation guidelines for employee use of emergency leave to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking (domestic or sexual violence). Permits victims of domestic or sexual violence to substitute existing leave in lieu of emergency leave. 

Authorizes state use of funds under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) to provide nonrecurrent short-term emergency benefits for victims of domestic or sexual violence on emergency leave. 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit denial of unemployment compensation to individuals separated from employment due to their experience of domestic or sexual violence. Amends the Social Security Act to require training of unemployment compensation and TANF personnel to provide necessary services to victims of domestic or sexual violence.
Victims' Employment Sustainability Act - Prohibits certain discriminatory employer practices against victims of domestic or sexual violence. 
Victims of Abuse Insurance Protection Act - Prohibits denial or restriction of insurance coverage (including termination of health insurance coverage) based on the status of the applicant or insured as a victim of domestic or sexual violence. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Responsibility, and Opportunity Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1137
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Authorization
College costs
Compensatory education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Family planning and birth control
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Parent and child
Physical education and training
Scholarships
Secondary education
Sex education
Sexual abstinence
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Teenage pregnancy
Women
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Responsibility, and Opportunity Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to local educational agencies, state and local public health agencies, and nonprofit private entities for projects to provide education on preventing teen pregnancies. Gives priority to communities with significantly above averages rates of teen pregnancy. Requires the Secretary to establish criteria to evaluate such projects.
 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to increase authorized appropriations for community learning centers. Authorizes appropriations for physical education programs.
 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to reauthorize appropriations for TRIO and GEARUP programs.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to make matching grants to public or nonprofit private entities for demonstrating innovative approaches to prevent teen pregnancies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4616-4617)
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Working American Competitiveness Act

Bill: 110-s-1140
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Earnings
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
Working American Competitiveness Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayers to elect to exclude from gross income, without limitation, earned income (i.e., income for services performed) from sources within a foreign country.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Automatic IRA Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1141
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Payroll deductions
Small business
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
Automatic IRA Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain small employers who do not offer qualified retirement plans or arrangements to their employees to allow eligible employees to participate in a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRAs); (2) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing a payroll deposit IRA arrangement; and (3) treat automatic IRAs as individual retirement accounts (and as Roth IRAs) for income tax purposes. 

Establishes in the executive branch the TSP II Board to establish policies and procedures relating to payroll deposit IRA arrangements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1143
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Coast guard
Commemorations
Environmental Protection
Florida
Historic sites
History
Land transfers
Landscape protection
Lighthouses and lightships
Natural areas
Restoration ecology
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area Act of 2007 - Establishes the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area to protect, conserve, and enhance the unique and nationally important historic, natural, cultural, scientific, educational, scenic, and recreational values of the federal land surrounding the Lighthouse for the benefit of generations of people in the United States while: (1) allowing certain recreational and research activities to continue in the Area; and (2) ensuring that Coast Guard operations and activities are unimpeded within the boundaries of the Area. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Commandant of the Coast Guard, to develop a comprehensive management plan to provide long-term management guidance for the public land in the Area. 
 
Requires the Secretary to manage the Area as part of the National Landscape Conservation System.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) enter into cooperative agreements with federal, state, county, other local government agencies, and other partners (including the Loxahatchee River Historical Society) for the long-term management of the Area; and (2) acquire for inclusion in the Area any state or private land or any interest in state or private land that is adjacent to the Area and identified in the management plan as appropriate for acquisition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5530)
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 640.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 110-288.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 110-288.
action_date: 2008-01-30
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-216.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4682-4683)
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4682)
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for an assessment of the achievements by the Government of Iraq of benchmarks for political settlement and national reconciliation in Iraq.

Bill: 110-s-1144
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional witnesses
Constitutions
Defense budgets
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Government Operations and Politics
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Kurds
Legislative bodies
Middle East and North Africa
Military command and control
Military occupation
Military operations
Military training
Petroleum industry
Political parties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
Expresses the sense of Congress against any congressional action, including the elimination or reduction of funds, that will impair the mission of the U.S. military forces in the field, undermine their safety, or harm their effectiveness. 
 
Directs the Commander, Multi-National Forces-Iraq to report to Congress within 120 days respecting the status of the achievement of specified benchmarks and the Commander's assessment whether or not each such benchmark has been met.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4683-4685)
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Veterans Health Care Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1146
Sponsor: Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to transportation
Health
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Medical education
Medical research
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
Rural Veterans Health Care Improvement Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay travel expenses for veterans receiving treatment at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities at the rate provided to federal employees in connection with the performance of official duties.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish and operate at least one and up to five centers of excellence for rural health research, education, and clinical activities; (2) establish a grant program to provide innovative transportation options to veterans in remote rural areas; (3) carry out demonstration projects to examine alternatives for expanding care for veterans in rural areas; and (4) report annually to Congress on matters related to VA care for veterans residing in rural areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4692-4693)
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate