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A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 301 Boardwalk Drive in Fort Collins, Colorado, as the "Dr. Karl E. Carson Post Office Building".

Bill: 110-s-1732
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
City councils
Colorado
Congressional tributes
Dentists
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Local officials
Mayors
Names
Postal facilities
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 301 Boardwalk Drive in Fort Collins, Colorado, as the "Dr. Karl E. Carson Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-28
text: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S12340)
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 298.
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Housing Fairness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1733
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Housing discrimination
Law
Mortgages
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Housing Fairness Act of 2007 - Instructs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to conduct, and report to Congress on, a nationwide testing program to: (1) detect and document differences in the treatment of persons seeking to rent or purchase housing or obtain or refinance a home mortgage loan; (2) measure patterns of adverse treatment because of the race, color, religion, sex, familial status, disability status, or national origin of a renter, home buyer, or borrower; and (3) measure the prevalence of such discriminatory practices across housing and mortgage lending markets.
 

 
Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to reauthorize the fair housing initiatives program.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should: (1) fully comply with such Act's requirements to establish, design, and maintain a national education and outreach program for the development and dissemination of the fair housing rights of individuals who seek to rent, purchase, sell, or facilitate the sale of a home; (2) use all amounts appropriated for such program; and (3) promulgate regulations on the fair housing obligations of each recipient of federal housing funds to affirmatively further fair housing.
 
Directs the Secretary to implement a competitive matching grant program to assist private nonprofit organizations in: (1) conducting comprehensive studies of specified aspects of the causes and effects of housing discrimination and segregation; and (2) implementing pilot projects that test solutions to help prevent or alleviate housing discrimination and segregation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8707-8708)
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8707)
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Prostate Research, Imaging, and Men's Education Act

Bill: 110-s-1734
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health education
Imaging systems in medicine
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical tests
Minorities
Minority health
Prostate cancer
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Prostate Research, Imaging, and Men's Education Act or the PRIME Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to expand and intensify research to develop advanced imaging technologies for prostate cancer detection, diagnosis, and treatment comparable to mammogram technology.

Directs the Secretary: (1) to carry out a national campaign to increase awareness and knowledge with respect to the need for prostate cancer screening and for improved detection technologies; (2) in developing such campaign, to recognize and address the racial disparities in the incidences of prostate cancer and mortality rates; (3) to establish a program to award grants to nonprofit private entities to test alternative outreach and education strategies; (4) to carry out research to develop an improved prostate cancer screening blood test using in-vitro detection; and (5) to certify compliance with this Act within one year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8705)
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to improve dispute resolution provisions related to the Federal Aviation Administration personnel management system.

Bill: 110-s-1735
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Air traffic
Collective bargaining
Department of Transportation
Employee-management relations in government
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Mediation
Personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Provides that, with respect to disputes arising after July 10, 2005, between the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and its employees in attempting to reach an agreement concerning the implementation of proposed changes to the FAA personnel management system: (1) the services of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) shall be used; (2) the Administrator and employees may by mutual agreement adopt procedures for the resolution of disputes or impasses arising in the negotiation of a collective-bargaining agreement; and (3) if the services of the FMCS have led to an impasse between the FAA and its employees in reaching an agreement with respect to implementing the proposed changes, the FAA Administrator and employees shall submit their controversy to the Federal Service Impasses Panel for binding arbitration. (Under current law, the services of the FMCS shall be used and, if the services of the FMCS do not lead to an agreement, the Administrator's proposed change to the personnel management system shall not take effect until 60 days have elapsed after the Administrator has transmitted the proposed changes, along with the objections of the employees to the changes, and the reasons for such objections, to Congress.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Claire Collier Social Security Disability Insurance Fairness Act

Bill: 110-s-1736
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disabled
Health
Nervous system diseases
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Terminally ill

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Claire Collier Social Security Disability Insurance Fairness Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide that the eligibility requirement for disability insurance benefits under which an individual must have 20 quarters of Social Security coverage in the 40 quarters preceding a disability shall not apply in the case of a disabled individual suffering from a covered terminal disease.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8708-8709)
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Critical Access Hospital Flexibility Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1737
Sponsor: Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative remedies
Department of Health and Human Services
Government Operations and Politics
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Law
Medicare
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Critical Access Hospital Flexibility Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to waive, where appropriate, the requirement for state designation of a critical access hospital that it be more than a 35-mile drive (or, in the case of mountainous terrain or in areas with only secondary roads available, a 15-mile drive) from another hospital or medical facility. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in Senate
TAA Health Coverage Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1739
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Death
Divorce
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Families
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health insurance
Health insurance continuation
Income tax
Insurance companies
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medicare
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Trade adjustment assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
TAA Health Coverage Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the tax credit for the health insurance costs of trade adjustment assistance (TAA) workers to, among other things: (1) increase the rate of such credit from 65 to 95% of health insurance costs ; (2) allow for the full amount of such credit and for full payment of TAA worker health insurance premiums for months prior to the issuance of a qualified health insurance costs credit eligibility certificate; and (3) set forth new tax credit eligibility rules for TAA workers and their family members.

 Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to establish a program to offer TAA workers enrollment in the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program (FEHBP).

Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to: (1) prevent a lapse of health care coverage for TAA workers; and (2) align coverage periods under such Act with eligibility periods for TAA workers. 

Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require a state or entity to use national emergency grant funds to provide TAA workers and their family members with health insurance coverage for periods prior to their first eligibility month. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8711-8713)
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8709-8711)
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in Senate
North Dakota Enabling Act and First Morrill Act Amendments Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1740
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agricultural colleges
Agriculture and Food
Charities
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Higher education
North Dakota
Social Welfare
State constitutions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
North Dakota Enabling Act and First Morrill Act Amendments Act of 2007 - Amends the Act of February 22, 1889 (relating to enabling North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington to become states), and the Act of July 2, 1862, commonly known as the First Morrill Act (relating to land grant aid to states for agricultural and mechanical colleges), to set forth requirements for the management and disposition of the proceeds from certain public land trust funds in North Dakota.

Grants, effective July 1, 2009, consent to the amendments to the Constitution of North Dakota proposed by North Dakota House Concurrent Resolution 3037 of the 59th Legislature concerning management of the common schools and other educational or charitable institution trust funds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 650.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. With written report No. 110-298.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. With written report No. 110-298.
action_date: 2008-01-30
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment 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: 2007-06-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in Senate
FHA Manufactured Housing Loan Modernization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1741
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Block grants
Commerce
Community development
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Evidence (Law)
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Indexing (Economic policy)
Infrastructure
Insurance premiums
Law
Mobile homes
Mortgage banks
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgages
Prefabricated buildings
Risk
Standards
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
FHA Manufactured Housing Loan Modernization Act of 2007 - Amends the National Housing Act with respect to Federal Housing Administration (FHA) housing loan insurance for manufactured homes (or lots for such homes).
 
Exempts such loans from certain financial institution portfolio limits, increasing an allowable claim for loss from 10% to 90% of an institution's total amount of such loans, credit advances, and purchases.
 
Makes any new contract of insurance for such loans, credit advances, or purchases conclusive evidence of an institution's insurance eligibility. (Thus requires each loan to be insured individually instead of as part of a bundle of such loans.)
 
Increases loan limits, requiring annual indexing.
 
Sets forth borrower premium charges, including an up-front premium of up to 2.25% and an annual premium of up to 1%.
 
Revises requirements for the handling and disposal of any real or personal conveyed to or acquired by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the pursuit of all claims against mortgagors assigned to the Secretary by mortgagees.
 
Directs the Secretary of HUD to establish underwriting criteria that will ensure the manufactured housing program's financial soundness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1742
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Fairness doctrine
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2007 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), notwithstanding any other provision of any Act, from having the authority to require broadcasters to present opposing viewpoints on controversial issues of public importance, commonly referred to as the Fairness Doctrine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the dollar limitation on contributions to funeral trusts.

Bill: 110-s-1743
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Commerce
Funeral industry
Income tax
Law
Tax deductions
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the $7,000 limitation on contributions to funeral trusts.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8714)
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8713-8714)
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Global Democracy Promotion Act

Bill: 110-s-1744
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Abortion
Developing countries
Development credit institutions
Economic assistance
Family planning and birth control
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign loans
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health counseling
Lobbying
Nongovernmental organizations
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Global Democracy Promotion Act - Declares that foreign nongovernmental organizations: (1) shall not be ineligible for assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 solely on the basis of health or medical services (including counseling and referral services) provided by them with non-U.S. government funds if such services do not violate the laws of the country in which they are being provided, and would not violate U.S. federal law if provided in the United States; and (2) shall not be subject to requirements relating to the use of non-U.S. government funds for advocacy and lobbying activities other than those that apply to U.S. nongovernmental organizations receiving such assistance.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act

Bill: 110-s-1746
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2007-06-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Corporations
Families
Federal-Indian relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Incorporation
Indian children
Indian claims
Indian lands
Land transfers
Law
Minorities
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Small towns
Social Welfare
Stockholders
Stocks
Trusts and trustees
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-29
text: 
Unrecognized Southeast Alaska Native Communities Recognition and Compensation Act - Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to permit the Native residents of each of the Native Villages of Haines, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Tenakee, and Wrangell, Alaska, to organize as Urban Corporations and to receive certain settlement lands and other compensation pursuant to this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8742-8744)
action_date: 2007-06-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8742)
action_date: 2007-06-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Presidential Signing Statements Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1747
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2007-06-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional legal counsel
Congressional-executive relations
Constitutional law
Government Operations and Politics
Judicial opinions
Judicial review
Law
Legislation
Legislative resolutions
Parties to actions
Presidential powers
Senate
State courts
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-29
text: 
Presidential Signing Statements Act of 2007 - Prohibits any state or federal court from relying on or deferring to a presidential signing statement as a source of authority when determining the meaning of any Act of Congress. 
 
Requires any federal or state court, in any action, suit, or proceeding regarding the construction or constitutionality, or both, of any Act of Congress in which a presidential signing statement was issued, to permit the Senate, through the Office of Senate Legal Counsel, or the House, through the Office of General Counsel for the House, or both, to participate as an amicus curiae, and to present an oral argument on the question of the Act's construction or constitutionality, or both.
 
Authorizes the full Congress, in any such suit, to pass a concurrent resolution declaring its view of the proper interpretation of the Act of Congress at issue, clarifying Congress's intent or its findings of fact, or both.
 
Requires the federal or state court in question to permit Congress, through the Office of Senate Legal Counsel, to submit any such passed resolution into the record of the case as a matter of right.
 
Makes it the duty of each federal or state court, including the U.S. Supreme Court, to advance on the docket and to expedite to the greatest possible extent the disposition of any matter brought under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-06-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8744-8745)
action_date: 2007-06-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1748
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2007-06-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Fairness doctrine
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-29
text: 
Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2007 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), notwithstanding any other provision of any Act, from having the authority to require broadcasters to present opposing viewpoints on controversial issues of public importance, commonly referred to as the Fairness Doctrine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8745)
action_date: 2007-06-29
text: Introduced in Senate