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Virgin Islands Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3367
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Caribbean area
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Excise tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Labor and Employment
Mutual funds
Tax rates
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Virgin Islands Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a reduction of taxes on distributions from certain retirement savings plans designated as being under investment by the Virgin Islands Investment Program for at least 30 years. Defines &quot;Virgin Islands Investment Program&quot; for purposes of this Act as a fund with managed amounts of less than $50 billion. Imposes a 1% annual tax on managed funds to benefit Virgin Island infrastructure development.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Quality Enhancement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3370
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Paul [R-WI-1]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Data banks
Demography
Drugs
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Health information systems
Medical records
Medicare
Performance measurement
Prescription pricing
Quality of care
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Medicare Quality Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) to provide for the development of reports, based on Medicare and private data that is publicly available or is provided by the entity requesting the report, concerning national, regional, and service provider- and supplier-specific performance, which may be in a provider- or supplier-identifiable format. Requires specified reporting procedures to provide for secure disclosure of Medicare data to Medicare Quality Reporting Organizations meeting certain requirements under contract with the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a Quality Advisory Board to: (1) coordinate existing collaborative efforts identifying quality and efficiency health care measures; (2) provide the Secretary with recommendations for development of model quality health care measures; (3) request Medicare Quality Reporting Organizations for reports on existing recommended model quality and efficiency health care measures; and (4) examine how clinical registries can be linked to Medicare data in order to develop reports on the quality and efficiency of service providers and suppliers.
 
Directs the Secretary to permit researchers that meet existing criteria for appropriate release of Centers for Medicaid and Medicaid Services data to: (1) have access to all Medicare data; and (2) report on the performance of service providers and suppliers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program and to re-allocate those visas to certain employment-based immigrants who obtain an advanced degree in the United States.

Bill: 110-hr-3371
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Alien labor
Aliens
Education
Foreign students
Higher education
Immigrants
Labor and Employment
Skilled labor
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program and provide an equal number of annual immigrant visas (55,0000) to certain employment-based aliens who obtain an advanced degree in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Contraception Education Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3372
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer organizations
Contraceptives
Education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health education
Higher education
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Emergency Contraception Education Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to develop and disseminate to the public information on emergency contraception, including, at a minimum, a description of emergency contraception and an explanation of the use, safety, efficacy, and availability of such contraception.

Requires that the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to develop and disseminate to health care providers, including pharmacists, information on emergency contraception that includes, at a minimum: (1) information describing the use, safety, efficacy, and availability of emergency contraception; (2) a recommendation regarding its use in appropriate cases; and (3) information explaining how to obtain copies of information from the CDC.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 8/4/2007 E1742-1743)
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Catalyst to Better Diabetes Care Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3373
Sponsor: Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Chronically ill
Diabetes
Education
Employee health benefits
Epidemiology
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health surveys
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Medical education
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Medicare
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Vital statistics

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Catalyst to Better Diabetes Care Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to establish an outreach program to: (1) identify existing efforts to increase awareness of the diabetes and screening benefit among Medicare beneficiaries and providers; and (2) maximize economies of scale, cost-effectiveness, and resource allocation in increasing utilization of the Medicare diabetes screening program.
 
Requires the Secretary of Commerce to establish an advisory group to examine and recommend best practices of chronic illness employee wellness incentivization and disease management programs.
 
Directs the Secretary to prepare, biennially, a diabetes report card for the nation and for each state that: (1) is adaptable by state and local agencies in order to rate or report local diabetes care, costs, and prevalence; and (2) includes trend analysis in order to track progress in meeting established national goals and objectives and to inform policy and program development.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to conduct, support, and promote the collection, analysis, and publication of data on the prevalence and incidence of type 1 and 2 diabetes and of pre-diabetes. Requires such activities to include an assessment of diabetes as a primary or underlying cause of death. Allows the Secretary to promote the addition to death certificates of language to improve the collection of diabetes mortality data.
 
Requires the Secretary to conduct a study of the impact of diabetes on the practice of medicine in the United Sates and the level of diabetes medical education that should be required prior to licensure, board certification, and board recertification.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Small Community Visioning Improvement Act

Bill: 110-hr-3374
Sponsor: Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Agricultural colleges
Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Community and school
Community development
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Infrastructure
Public-private partnerships
Rural economic development
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Small Community Visioning Improvement Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to eligible recipients for small community visioning processes to: (1) help small communities address pressing local needs; (2) facilitate coordination between small communities, land-grant and other universities, and design professionals; (3) encourage public-private partnerships; and (4) develop design projects that integrate physical planning and design techniques with sustainable community action.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-25
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2008-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Witness Protection Enhancement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3376
Sponsor: Rep. Arcuri, Michael A. [D-NY-24]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Department of Justice
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Gangs
Government Operations and Politics
Homicide
Murder
Prosecution
Relocation
Violence
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Witness Protection Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends the federal judicial code to establish in the U. S. Marshals Service a Short Term State Witness Protection Section to provide protection for witnesses in state and local trials involving homicide or other major violent crimes pursuant to cooperative agreements with state and local prosecutor's offices and the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

 Directs the Section to give priority in awarding grants and providing services to prosecutor's offices in states with an average of at least 100 murders per year or with a violent crime rate above the national average.

Authorizes: (1) the Attorney General to make grants to state and local prosecutors and to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia for providing such witness protection; and (2) each recipient to use the grant to provide witness protection or to credit the grant to the Section to cover the Section's costs of providing witness protection. 

Amends the federal criminal code to specify that federal witness relocation and protection services extend to witnesses in cases involving criminal street gangs, serious drug offenses, and homicide.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the award of a gold medal on behalf of Congress to Arnold Palmer in recognition of his service to the Nation in promoting excellence and good sportsmanship in golf.

Bill: 110-hr-3377
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Athletes
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Golf
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation of a congressional gold medal to Arnold Palmer (golf professional) in recognition of his service to the nation in promoting excellence and good sportsmanship.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
College Affordability for Working Students Act

Bill: 110-hr-3378
Sponsor: Rep. Baird, Brian [D-WA-3]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Collection of accounts
College costs
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Federally-guaranteed loans
Government lending
Higher education
Performance measurement
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
College Affordability for Working Students Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to carry out a Demonstration Loan program providing guaranteed and direct loans to less than half-time students for not more than six terms, semesters, or substantially equivalent periods of enrollment over the duration of the students' studies.
 
Limits program participation to up to 100 institutions of higher education or consortia of IHEs.
 
Requires program loans to be: (1) subject to deferral of repayment while the borrower is enrolled as a student, even if less than half-time; and (2) repaid pursuant to a repayment plan selected by the borrower that commences six months after the borrower's enrollment ends.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to waive, for IHE participants, certain requirements limiting what may be included in the cost of attendance for less than half-time students.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to include the Territory of Guam in the list of affected areas with respect to which claims relating to atmospheric nuclear testing shall be allowed, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-3379
Sponsor: Del. Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [D-GU-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Claims
Compensation (Law)
Government liability
Guam
Health
Health education
Leukemia
Medical screening
Medical tests
Nuclear weapons
Residence requirements

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Amends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to include the Territory of Guam among the affected areas for which health claims relating to atmospheric nuclear testing are allowed. 
 
Sets forth periods of required presence during testing periods for persons in Guam filing leukemia or specified disease claims. 
 
Authorizes assistance for residents of Guam not otherwise covered, to be determined on a case-by-case basis by the National Cancer Institute.
 
Makes covered individuals eligible for the costs of screening, follow-up referrals, work-up diagnosis, and disease-specific treatment.
 
Directs the Health Resources and Services Administration to conduct an education program about the health risks of fallout exposure from the U.S. nuclear-weapons testing. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 4, United States Code, to prescribe that members of the Armed Forces and veterans out of uniform may render the military salute during hoisting, lowering, or passing of flag.

Bill: 110-hr-3380
Sponsor: Rep. Boren, Dan [D-OK-2]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Flags
Military personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Allows members of the Armed Forces and veterans who are out of uniform to render the military salute during the hoisting, lowering, or passing of the flag.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Fair Pay for America's Troops Act

Bill: 110-hr-3381
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Iraq compilation
Military pay
Military personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Fair Pay for America's Troops Act - Prohibits the suspension of military active-duty deployment limits by the President for national security purposes from being used to deny the payment of a high-deployment allowance to a member of the Armed Forces if the member is otherwise qualified. Sets such such allowance at $1,000 per month. (Current law allows an amount at the discretion of the Secretary of the military department concerned, not to exceed $1,000.) Repeals the authority to exclude from eligibility for such allowance specified duty assignments approved by the Secretary of Defense.
 
Allows for the payment of such allowance in the case of excess active-duty rotation frequencies for reserve personnel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Defense Contracting Ethics Oversight Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3383
Sponsor: Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Business ethics
Commerce
Conflict of interests
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Defense contracts
Defense procurement
Department of Defense
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to research
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Labor and Employment
Law
Research and development facilities
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Defense Contracting Ethics Oversight Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe in regulations a requirement that a Department of Defense (DOD) contracting officer may not determine a contractor to be responsible for the award of a covered contract for DOD (one in excess of $5 million) unless the contracting entity has in place, within 30 days after contract award, an internal ethics compliance program to facilitate the timely detection and disclosure of improper conduct in connection with the award or performance of the contract, and to ensure that appropriate corrective action is taken with respect to such conduct. Allows for the suspension or debarment of contractors determined not to have reported suspected improper conduct.
 
Requires a report from the Administrator of Federal Procurement Policy to Congress on personal financial conflicts of interests of contractor employees and employees of federally funded research and development centers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Safe Neighborhoods Expansion Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3384
Sponsor: Rep. Chandler, Ben [D-KY-6]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation
Department of Justice
Federal employees
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Gangs
Government Operations and Politics
Paralegal personnel
Prosecution
Public prosecutors
Recruiting of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Safe Neighborhoods Expansion Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Attorney General to expand the Project Safe Neighborhoods program to require each U.S. attorney to: (1) identify, investigate, and prosecute significant criminal street gangs operating within his or her district; (2) coordinate among federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies the identification, investigation, and prosecution of criminal street gangs; and (3) hire additional personnel to support the expansion of the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House