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United States Physician Shortage Elimination Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-410
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2007-01-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Authorization
Building construction
Community health services
Construction costs
Curricula
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Leases
Maintenance and repair
Medical education
Medical personnel
Medical residents
Medical supplies
Mentoring
Minorities
Minorities in medicine
Minority education
Physicians
Public health personnel
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: 
United States Physician Shortage Elimination Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for FY2007-FY2011 to: (1) carry out the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program and Loan Repayment Program to assure an adequate supply of physicians and other health professionals to provide primary health services; (2) assist schools in supporting programs of excellence in health professionals education for underrepresented minority individuals; and (3) assist individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to undertake education to enter a health profession.
 
Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to community health centers to: (1) establish new or alternative-campus accredited medical residency training programs affiliated with a hospital or other health care facility; or (2) fund new residency positions within existing accredited medical residency training programs at the centers and their affiliated partners. Requires the Secretary to give preference to funding medical residency training programs focusing on primary health care.
 
Allows the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to make grants to community health centers to: (1) increase the number of medical service providers associated with such centers; and (2) increase primary health care capabilities through the construction, expansion, or renovation of facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent certain temporary provisions applicable to individuals, including the sales tax deduction, the child credit, the repeal of the estate tax, and the deduction for higher education expenses.

Bill: 110-hr-411
Sponsor: Rep. Diaz-Balart, Mario [R-FL-25]
Introduced: 2007-01-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Commerce
Congress
Costs
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Estate tax
Families
Gift tax
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Income tax
Inheritance tax
Labor and Employment
Local taxation
Married people
Minimum tax
Sales tax
Secondary education
State taxation
Sunset legislation
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Teachers
Teaching materials
Textbooks
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax deductions for state and local sales taxes, for certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers, and for tuition and related expenses.

Exempts certain provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 relating to the child tax credit, marriage penalty relief, repeal of the estate tax, and the tax deduction for higher education expenses from the general terminating date of that Act (i.e., December 31, 2010).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
Independent Study of Distance Education Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-412
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-11 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Congressional reporting requirements
Distance education
Educational accountability
Educational research
Higher education
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: 
Independent Study of Distance Education Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Education to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to evaluate the quality of distance education, as compared to campus-based education programs, at institutions of higher education. Requires the study to identify the types of students that derive the most benefit from each program and the types that do not benefit from distance education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E77-78)
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107-243) and to require the withdrawal of United States Armed Forces from Iraq.

Bill: 110-hr-413
Sponsor: Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2007-01-11 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Government Operations and Politics
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military occupation
Military operations
Military withdrawal
President and foreign policy
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
United Nations
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: 
Repeals the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (P.L. 107-243). 
 
Requires the withdrawal of U.S. Armed Forces from Iraq.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
Fairness in Higher Education Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-416
Sponsor: Rep. Gallegly, Elton [R-CA-24]
Introduced: 2007-01-11 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: College costs
Colleges
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Illegal aliens
Immigration
Labor and Employment
Scholarships
State laws
Student employment
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: 
Fairness in Higher Education Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit the provision of federal funding under such Act to institutions of higher education located in states whose law expressly authorizes the provision of state student aid, including in-state tuition, to illegal aliens.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to change the eligibility requirements for appointment as Secretary of Defense.

Bill: 110-hr-417
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cabinet officers
Department of Defense
Government Operations and Politics
Officer personnel
Presidential appointments
Retired military personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: 
Amends federal armed forces provisions to prohibit a person from being appointed as Secretary of Defense within three (currently, ten) years after active-duty service as a commissioned officer in a regular component of the Armed Forces.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit military death gratuities to be contributed to certain tax-favored accounts.

Bill: 110-hr-418
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Education
Education savings accounts
Families
Health
Higher education
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Medical savings accounts
Military dependents
Survivors' benefits
Tax exclusion
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax free rollovers of military death gratuities to Roth individual retirement accounts, health savings and Archer medical savings accounts, and Coverdell education savings accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
527 Reform Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-420
Sponsor: Rep. Meehan, Martin T. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2007-01-11 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting
Campaign funds
Civil actions and liability
Congress
Congressional elections
Constitutional law
Election candidates
Finance and Financial Sector
Fund raising
Government paperwork
Injunctions
Judicial review
Law
Members of Congress
Parties to actions
Political action committees
Political advertising
Political parties
Presidential elections
Voter registration
Voting

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: 
527 Reform Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to subject to its requirements as a political committee any applicable 527 organization.
 
Excludes from the meaning of 527 organization for these purposes any committee, club, association, or other group of persons organized to influence: (1) the selection, nomination, election, appointment, or confirmation of one or more candidates to non-federal or non-elected office; or (2) any state or local ballot measure.
 
Denies exception from treatment as an applicable 527 organization to any such a committee, club, association, or other groups of persons which makes disbursements aggregating more than $1,000 for: (1) a public communication that promotes, supports, attacks, or opposes a clearly identified candidate for federal office during the one year period ending on the date of the general election for the office sought by the clearly identified candidate; or (2) certain voter drive activity.
 
Sets forth rules for allocation and funding by a political committee for certain expenses relating to federal and non-federal activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
Federal Election Administration Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-421
Sponsor: Rep. Meehan, Martin T. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2007-01-11 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Advice and consent of the Senate
Authorization
Campaign funds
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Collection of accounts
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional elections
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Directories
Economics and Public Finance
Election administration
Election candidates
Election fraud
Evidence (Law)
Executive reorganization
Federal Election Commission
Federal budgets
Federal employees
Federal officials
Fines (Penalties)
Freedom of association
Freedom of speech
Government attorneys
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Grievance procedures
Independent regulatory commissions
Injunctions
Inspectors general
Judicial review
Law
Legislation
Liability (Law)
Limitation of actions
Presidential appointments
Presidential elections
Public records
Right of privacy
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Subpoena
Transfer of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: 
Federal Election Administration Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to replace the Federal Election Commission with the Federal Election Administration (FEA) as an independent establishment to enforce federal campaign finance laws.

Requires enforcement proceedings for violations of campaign finance laws to be conducted before administrative law judges. Allows any final determination made by an administrative law judge to be appealed to the FEA for final agency action, subject to judicial review. Authorizes the FEA to impose civil penalties, issue cease-and-desist orders, and report apparent criminal violations to the appropriate law enforcement authorities. Allows the FEA to conduct audits and field examinations of campaign committees. Prescribes criminal penalties for violations.

Directs the Comptroller General to examine and report to Congress on the Attorney General's enforcement of the criminal provisions of federal campaign finance laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
Kristen's Act Reauthorization of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-423
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2007-01-11 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime prevention
Crimes against the elderly
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family services
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Labor and Employment
Missing persons
Nonprofit organizations
Police training
Prosecution
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Victims of crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: 
Kristen's Act Reauthorization of 2007- Directs the Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, to make grants to public agencies and/or nonprofit private organizations to: (1) maintain a national resource center and information clearinghouse for missing and unidentified adults; (2) maintain a national, interconnected database for tracking missing adults who are determined by law enforcement to be endangered due to age, diminished mental capacity, or the circumstances of disappearance, when foul play is suspected or circumstances are unknown; (3) coordinate public and private programs that locate or recover missing adults or reunite missing adults with their families; (4) provide assistance and training to law enforcement agencies, State and local governments, elements of the criminal justice system, nonprofit organizations, and individuals in the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and treatment of cases involving missing adults; (5) provide assistance to families in locating and recovering missing adults; and (6) assist in public notification and victim advocacy related to missing adults.

Directs the Attorney General, through the Director, to: (1) coordinate Government-funded programs relating to missing adults; and (2) provide the public agencies or nonprofit private organizations receiving grants to maintain a national resource center and information clearinghouse for missing and unidentified adults with access to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Crime Information Center.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-15
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the Military Selective Service Act.

Bill: 110-hr-424
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2007-01-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Compulsory military service
Draft registration
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal employees
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government property
Labor and Employment
Law
Public records
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Selective Service System
Transfer of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Repeals the Military Selective Service Act.
Prohibits the Office of Selective Service Records from being reestablished upon such repeal. Transfers the assets, property, and records held by the Selective Service System (SSS), as well as unexpended balances, to the Administrator of General Services. Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to assist officers and employees of the SSS to transfer to other positions in the executive branch.
Prohibits any person from being denied a right, privilege, benefit, or employment position under Federal law on the grounds that the person failed to register under the Military Selective Service Act before its repeal.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E79)
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend chapter 81 of title 5, United States Code, to authorize the use of clinical social workers to conduct evaluations to determine work-related emotional and mental illnesses.

Bill: 110-hr-425
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2007-01-11 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Disability evaluation
Disabled
Federal employees
Health
Job stress
Labor and Employment
Social Welfare
Social work
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: 
Amends civil service law concerning federal workers' compensation to authorize the use of clinical social workers to conduct evaluations to determine work-related emotional and mental illnesses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Obesity Treatment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-426
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2007-01-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drugs
Medicaid
Obesity
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: 
Medicaid Obesity Treatment Act of 2007 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require Medicaid drug coverage of drugs prescribed for treatment of obesity. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
Legal Immigrant Health Restoration Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-427
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2007-01-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aliens
Child health
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Health insurance
Immigrant health
Immigration
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Pregnant women
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: 
Legal Immigrant Health Restoration Act of 2007 - Amends titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to require a state plan to provide medical assistance to eligible permanent resident pregnant women and children under the Medicaid and SCHIP programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
To require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to ban toys which in size, shape, or overall appearance resemble real handguns.

Bill: 110-hr-428
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2007-01-11 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child safety
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Environmental Protection
Families
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Product safety
Toys

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Directs the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate a rule declaring any toy which resembles a real handgun in size, shape, or overall appearance to be a banned hazardous product under the Consumer Product Safety Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Introduced in House