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Social Security COLA Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2501
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2007-12-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Annuities
Cost of living adjustments
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Managed care
Medical economics
Medicare
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Prescription pricing
Railroad retirement plans
Social Welfare
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: 
Social Security COLA Protection Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to limit increases in the monthly Medicare premium, including the Medicare Advantage prescription drug program premium, to 25% of any Social Security cost of living increase.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Kalaupapa Memorial Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2502
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-12-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Hawaii
Hawaiians
Historic sites
History
Monuments and memorials
National parks
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Relocation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: 
Kalaupapa Memorial Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to authorize Ka `Ohana O Kalaupapa, a nonprofit organization consisting of patient residents at Kalaupapa National Historical Park, to establish a memorial at the location(s) approved by the Secretary at Kalawao or Kalaupapa within the boundaries of Kalaupapa National Historical Park on the island of Molokai, Hawaii, to honor those individuals who were forcibly relocated to Kalaupapa Peninsula from 1866 to 1969. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-09
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-480.
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15919)
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to exclude from admission to the United States aliens who have directly and significantly contributed to the ability of Cuba to develop its petroleum resources, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-2503
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2007-12-18 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Aliens
Boundaries
Caribbean area
Commerce
Corporation directors
Cuba
Energy
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Gas in submerged lands
Immigration
Investments
Investors
Latin America
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Married people
Natural gas
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Oil well drilling
Petroleum in submerged lands
Petroleum industry
Profit
Prospecting
Stockholders
Treaties
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: 
States that the Maritime Boundary Agreement Between the United States of America and the Republic of Cuba shall have no force and effect after the date of the enactment of this Act.
 
Amends the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 to exclude from U.S. entry an alien who: (1) is an officer or principal of an entity, or a shareholder who owns a controlling interest in an entity that makes an investment of $1 million or more (or any combination of investments that equals or exceeds $1 million in any 12-month period) that significantly contributes to Cuba's ability to develop petroleum and natural gas resources off its north coast; or (2) is a spouse, minor child, or agent of such person.
 
Exempts on a case-by-case basis entries for medical reasons or property-related litigation.
 
Defines &quot;investment&quot; for purposes of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 36, United States Code, to grant a Federal charter to the Military Officers Association of America, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-2504
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2007-12-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Federal incorporation
Nonprofit organizations
Officer personnel
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: 
Grants a federal charter to the Military Officers Association of America (a nonprofit corporation and incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia). 
 

action_date: 2008-06-24
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Grants a federal charter to the Military Officers Association of America (a nonprofit corporation and incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia). 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 834.
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. With written report No. 110-399.
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. With written report No. 110-399.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to allow employees of a commercial passenger airline carrier who receive payments in a bankruptcy proceeding to roll over such payments into an individual retirement plan, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-2505
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2007-12-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Airline employees
Airlines
Bankruptcy
Commerce
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: 
Allows employees of commercial passenger airlines who receive payments from a bankruptcy case filed between September 11, 2001, and January 1, 2007, as compensation for lost pension plan benefits to rollover such payments into an individual retirement account (IRA), except for a Roth IRA, without tax or tax penalty. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15919-15920)
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15919)
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to modify a provision relating to the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve Account.

Bill: 110-s-2506
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-12-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Emergency Management
Energy prices
Energy supplies
Heating
Housing and Community Development
Northeastern States
Petroleum reserves

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: 
Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to revise requirements for the sale by the Secretary of Energy of products from the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve.
 
Conditions any sale on a finding by the President that: (1) there is a severe energy supply interruption; or (2) the price of home heating oil threatens the health and safety of residents of the Northeast.
 
Adds to the alternative determinations on whose basis the President may make such a finding a determination that the price of home heating oil has increased by such an extent that the Northeast is experiencing, or will experience, an emergency situation that threatens the safety and health of residents of the Northeast.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Colorado Northern Front Range Mountain Backdrop Protection Study Act

Bill: 110-s-2508
Sponsor: Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]
Introduced: 2007-12-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Colorado
Congressional reporting requirements
Environmental Protection
Housing and Community Development
Landscape protection
Mountains
National forests
Open space lands
Outdoor recreation
Real estate development
Sports and Recreation
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: 
Colorado Northern Front Range Mountain Backdrop Protection Study Act - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, to review the lands within the study area (certain lands in or adjacent to the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests in southern Boulder, northern Jefferson, and northern Gilpin Counties, Colorado) and report to specified officials and to Congress on: (1) the present ownership of such lands; (2) which undeveloped land may be at risk of development; and (3) actions that could be taken by the United States, Colorado, a political subdivision, or any other parties to preserve the open and undeveloped character of such lands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-364.
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Small System Safe Drinking Water Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2509
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2007-12-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Arsenic
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental health
Environmental research
Environmental technology
Federal aid to water pollution control
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Health
Infrastructure
Law
Potable water
Research and development
Revolving funds
Science, Technology, Communications
Technology transfer
Waste water treatment
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water purification
Water treatment plants

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: 
Small System Safe Drinking Water Act of 2007 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): (1) to convene a working group to study barriers to using specified treatments; (2) to develop model guidance to assist states in regulating and promoting such treatment options; and (3) when establishing affordability criteria for variance technology, to consider specified cost factors, to give extra weight to households below the poverty level and to communities that meet state affordability criteria, and to ensure that the criteria are not more costly, on a per-capita basis, to a small public water system than the per capita cost to a large water system of acquiring feasible technology.

 Requires the Administrator or a state, before initiating any enforcement action, to ensure that sufficient funds have been made available to assist each public water system that serves fewer than 10,000 individuals in meeting regulation requirements.

Revises provisions allowing an exemption of a system from maximum containment level and treatment technique requirements to: (1) increase the population threshold; and (2) allow state determinations of a renewal period.

Revises technical assistance provisions to require water systems serving fewer than 10,000 individuals to receive adequate technical assistance and training to meet requirements of final rules. Gives priority to systems not in compliance with specified rules concerning: (1) disinfectants and disinfection byproducts; (2) arsenic and compliance and new source monitoring; and (3) groundwater. 

Establishes pilot programs to: (1) explore new technologies or approaches to comply with a drinking water standard; and (2) research technology transfer issues and disinfection strategies relating to drinking water.

Requires the Administrator to establish a panel to study the health effects of exposure to arsenic and disinfection byproducts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Cytology Proficiency Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2510
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2007-12-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accreditation (Medical care)
Administrative procedure
Continuing education
Cytology
Department of Health and Human Services
Education
Employee training
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Gynecology
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Law
Medical education
Medical laboratories
Medical tests
Quality of care
Rating of employees
Science, Technology, Communications
Student records
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: 
Cytology Proficiency Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to revise national quality assurance standards to assure consistent performance by laboratories of valid and reliable cytology services, to include requirements that each clinical laboratory: (1) ensure that all individuals involved in screening and interpreting cytological preparations participate annually in an approved continuing medical education program in gynecologic cytology that provides each participant with gynecologic cytological preparations designed to improve locator, recognition, and interpretive skills; (2) maintain a record of program results; (3) require the laboratory director to consider such results and other performance metrics in reviewing the performance of individuals involved in screening and interpreting cytological preparations; and (4) submit the continuing education program results for each individual and plans for corrective action or remedial training in a timely manner to the laboratory's accrediting organization for purposes of review and ongoing monitoring.

Requires the Secretary to terminate individual proficiency testing that was in effect before enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15920-15921)
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15920)
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the grant program for law enforcement armor vests to provide for a waiver of or reduction in the matching funds requirement in the case of fiscal hardship.

Bill: 110-s-2511
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2007-12-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Authorization
Clothing
Economics and Public Finance
Equipment and supplies
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law enforcement officers
Police
Safety measures

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: 
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to waive, in whole or in part, matching fund requirements applicable to the grant program for the purchase of armor vests for law enforcement officers.

action_date: 2008-05-15
text: 
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to waive matching fund requirements applicable to the grant program for the purchase of armor vests for law enforcement officers in the case of fiscal hardship.

Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 2008 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend such program through FY2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-15
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 737.
action_date: 2008-05-15
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy with an amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-05-15
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy with an amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-05-15
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15921)
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15921)
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-2512
Sponsor: Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS]
Introduced: 2007-12-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Archaeology
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Cultural property
Environmental Protection
Exhibitions
Historic sites
History
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Nature conservation
Outdoor recreation
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: 
Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area Act of 2007 - Establishes the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area. Designates the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Partnership as the coordinating entity for the Area. Requires the Partnership to develop and submit a management plan for the Area.

action_date: 2008-06-16
text: 
Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area Act of 2008 - Establishes the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area. 

Designates the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Partnership as the local coordinating entity for the Area. 

Requires the Partnership to submit a management plan for the Area. 

Authorizes appropriations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-16
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 800.
action_date: 2008-06-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-368.
action_date: 2008-06-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-368.
action_date: 2008-05-07
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2008-04-09
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-480.
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Minute Man National Historical Park Boundary Revision Act

Bill: 110-s-2513
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-12-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: American Revolution
Boundaries
Commemorations
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
Land transfers
Maps
Massachusetts
National parks

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: 
Minute Man National Historical Park Boundary Revision Act - Modifies the boundary of Minute Man National Historical Park in Massachusetts to include a certain area generally depicted on the map entitled &quot;Minute Man National Historical Park Proposed Boundary,&quot; dated July 2007.

action_date: 2008-06-16
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Minute Man National Historical Park Boundary Revision Act - Modifies the boundary of Minute Man National Historical Park in Massachusetts to include a certain area generally depicted on the map entitled &quot;Minute Man National Historical Park Proposed Boundary,&quot; dated July 2007.

Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire the land or an interest in the land within that area by purchase from willing sellers, donation, or exchange.

Authorizes appropriations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-16
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 801.
action_date: 2008-06-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. With written report No. 110-369.
action_date: 2008-06-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. With written report No. 110-369.
action_date: 2008-05-07
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-514.
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Standing with Minimum Wage Earners Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2514
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-12-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Congress
Congressional salaries
Cost of living adjustments
Minimum wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: 
Standing with Minimum Wage Earners Act of 2007 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the federal minimum wage to: (1) $8.00 an hour, beginning on January 1, 2010; (2) $8.75 an hour, beginning on October 1, 2010; and (3) $9.50 an hour, beginning on July 1, 2011.
 
Declares that, beginning on July 1, 2012, and adjusted annually each July 1 thereafter, the amount of the minimum wage for the preceding year shall be increased by a percentage equal to that by which the annual rate of pay for Members of Congress increased for such year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Skilled Trades Second Responders Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2515
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-12-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Construction workers
Crime and Law Enforcement
Disaster relief
Emergency medicine
Employee training
Health
Labor and Employment
Occupational health and safety
Rescue work
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: 
Skilled Trades Second Responders Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to establish a national program for the training, certification, registration, tracking, and integration of skilled construction workers to assist first responders in responding to disasters, including natural and manmade disasters and terrorist attacks.

Requires the Director to coordinate and consult with the Department of Homeland Security, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), other relevant agencies, and private organizations, including construction industry contractors, joint labor-management training funds, and building trade unions, that are experienced in providing rescue and recovery assistance to first responders and in the cleanup, demolition, rehabilitation, and reconstruction of disaster sites after recovery operations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-12-18
text: Introduced in Senate