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Solid Waste Interstate Transportation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-274
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Jo Ann [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Air pollution control
Aluminum
Beverage containers
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Contracts
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental law enforcement
Environmental monitoring
Environmental technology
Fines (Penalties)
Gifts
Glass and glass industry
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Groundwater
Health
Incineration
Interstate commerce
Interstate relations
Landfills
Law
Licenses
Maps
Medical wastes
Methane
Minorities
Municipal solid waste
Native Americans
Paper recycling
Plastics
Pollution measurement
Potable water
Public meetings
Radioactive wastes
Recycling of waste products
Refuse and refuse disposal
Road construction
Sewage disposal
Sewage sludge
State laws
State-local relations
Steel
Subsidies
Transboundary pollution
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances
Trucking
Trucks
User charges
Waste disposal sites
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: 
Solid Waste Interstate Transportation Act of 2007 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to prohibit a landfill or incinerator (facility) from receiving out-of-state municipal solid waste (MSW) for disposal or incineration unless the waste is received pursuant to a new or existing host community agreement or an exemption from this prohibition (which may be limited by the state). Establishes conditions for exemptions. 
 
Authorizes states to establish limits on the amount of out-of-state MSW received annually for disposal at each facility. Sets the limitation amount for any facility that began receiving documented out-of-state waste before enactment of this Act at the amount received during 1993 (or first subsequent year of documentation). Prohibits state limits from conflicting with permits or host community agreements. 
Authorizes states to require that a permit for a new or expanded facility include an annual limitation of not less than 20% on the total quantity of out-of-state MSW relative to the total waste received by the facility. Requires percentage limitations to be uniform and not discriminate against out-of-state MSW according to state of origin. 
Allows states to limit the amount of out-of-state MSW received annually at each facility to the amount received during 1995 if the state has a comprehensive, statewide recycling program. Prohibits discrimination against shipments of such waste on the basis of state of origin. 
Authorizes states to require inspectors to be onsite during operation of a facility that receives out-of-state MSW.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Congress Leads by Example through Alt-fuel Resources Act

Bill: 110-hr-277
Sponsor: Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Coal
Congressional allowances
Electric vehicles
Energy
Energy crops
Environmental Protection
Gasoline
Government vehicles
House of Representatives
Hydrogen
Leases
Liquefied natural gas
Liquefied petroleum gas
Members of Congress
Methanol
Natural gas vehicles
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Refuse as fuel
Synthetic fuel
Transportation and Public Works
Wood

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: 
Congress Leads by Example through Alt-fuel Resources Act or the CLEAR Act - Prohibits the use of a Members' Representational Allowance to provide individuals with any vehicle (including under a long-term lease) which is not an alternative fuel vehicle.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934 to provide that funds received as universal service contributions and the universal service support programs established pursuant to that section are not subject to certain provisions of title 31, United States Code, commonly known as the Antideficiency Act.

Bill: 110-hr-278
Sponsor: Rep. Cubin, Barbara [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Appropriations
Arts, Culture, Religion
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational facilities
Elementary and secondary education
Finance and Financial Sector
Internet
Libraries
Telecommunication rates
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: 
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to make federal provisions which prohibit the obligation or expenditure of funds either in excess of appropriated amounts or in violation of sequestration orders under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1986 inapplicable to: (1) any amount collected or received as federal universal service contributions; or (2) the expenditure or obligation of amounts attributable to such contributions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Totalization Agreement Reform Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-279
Sponsor: Rep. Cubin, Barbara [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional investigations
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Economics and Public Finance
Expedited congressional procedure
Government Operations and Politics
House rules and procedure
Income tax
International Affairs
Law
Legislative resolutions
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Public records
Senate rules and procedure
Social Welfare
Social security finance
Social security taxes
Tax treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: 
Social Security Totalization Agreement Reform Act of 2007 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to provide that any agreement to establish a totalization arrangement which is entered into with another country shall enter into force with respect to the United States if (and only if): (1) the President, at least 90 calendar days before the date on which he enters into the agreement, notifies each House of Congress of his intention to enter into it, and promply thereafter publishes notice of such intention in the Federal Register; (2) he transmits the text of such agreement to each House of the Congress; and (3) a joint resolution regarding such agreement has passed both Houses of Congress and been enacted into federal law.

Sets forth procedures for the consideration of such a joint resolution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
National Board-Certified Teachers in Low-Performing Schools Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-280
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congressional reporting requirements
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Recruiting of employees
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher salaries
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: 
National Board-Certified Teachers in Low-Performing Schools Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a pilot program of stipends for teachers in low-income, low-performing schools who: (1) are certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; and (2) serve as resident facilitators at their schools and as liaisons with the Board to help encourage other teachers to become Board-certified. Authorizes base stipends and potential bonuses for up to 500 teachers annually under such five-year program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E25)
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Universal Right to Vote by Mail Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-281
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress
Congressional elections
Election administration
Postal service
Presidential elections
State laws
Voting

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: 
Universal Right to Vote by Mail Act of 2007 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prohibit a state from imposing additional conditions or requirements on the eligibility of an individual to cast a vote in federal elections by mail, except to the extent that it imposes a deadline for requesting the ballot and returning it to the appropriate state or local election official.

action_date: 2008-04-14
text: 
Universal Right to Vote by Mail Act of 2008 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prohibit a state from imposing additional conditions or requirements on the eligibility of an individual to cast a vote in federal elections by mail, except to the extent that it imposes a deadline for requesting the ballot and returning it to the appropriate state or local election official.
 
Prohibits a state from accepting and processing such an absentee ballot unless it verifies the identification of the individual's signature on the ballot by comparing it with the individual's signature on the official list of registered voters in the state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-14
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 359.
action_date: 2008-04-14
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on House Administration. H. Rept. 110-581.
action_date: 2008-04-14
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on House Administration. H. Rept. 110-581.
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2008-04-02
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E24)
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Civilian Prisoner-of-War Medal Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-284
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Geoff [R-KY-4]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Awards, medals, prizes
Commemorations
Ex-prisoners of war
Federal employees
Hostages
International Affairs
Prisoners of war

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: 
Civilian Prisoner-of-War Medal Act of 2007 - Requires the President to issue a prisoner-of-war medal to any person who, while serving as a civilian employee of the federal government, was forcibly taken and held captive: (1) while serving in a position or otherwise performing functions in support of the U.S. Armed Forces; or (2) by foreign armed forces that are hostile to the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Steel Industry National Historic Site Act

Bill: 110-hr-285
Sponsor: Rep. Doyle, Michael F. [D-PA-14]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Bridges
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural property
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
Industrial buildings
Iron and steel industry
Land transfers
Landowners
Landscape protection
Maps
National parks
Pennsylvania
Right of property
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Steel Industry National Historic Site Act - Establishes the Steel Industry National Historic Site in Pennsylvania as a unit of the National Park System.
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire by donation specified property for inclusion within such Site.
 Requires the Secretary to prepare and submit to specified congressional committees a general management plan for the Site.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Steel Industry National Historic Site Act - Establishes the Steel Industry National Historic Site in Pennsylvania as a unit of the National Park System. 
 
Includes within such Historic Site the following lands: (1) the location of the Battle of Homestead in Munhall, Pennsylvania; (2) the location of the Carrie Furnace complex in Swissvale and Rankin, Pennsylvania; and (3) the location of the Hot Metal Bridge in Rankin and Munhall, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) acquire, by donation only, certain property for inclusion in the Historic Site; (2) enter into a cooperative agreement to further the purposes of the Historic Site; and (3) provide technical assistance for preservation and maintenance of historic structures and the natural and cultural landscape in the Historic Site. 
 Requires the Secretary to prepare and submit to specified congressional committees a general management plan for the Site. 
Grants private property owners protections from public access to private property in the Historic Site. 
Authorizes appropriations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 57.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 110-92.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 110-92.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 to require Federal agencies to impose certain requirements on recipients of awards for scientific and engineering research.

Bill: 110-hr-286
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Engineering
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Law
Liability (Law)
Metric system
Research grants
Weights and measures

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: 
Amends the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 to require guidelines on government use of the metric system of measurement to require any federal agency transaction providing for a person to perform scientific or engineering research with federal funding to include provisions: (1) clearly identifying the extent to which such system or other systems of measurement will be used under the transaction and requiring such use; and (2) assigning such person the financial responsibility for failure to follow such requirements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Notch Baby Health Care Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-287
Sponsor: Rep. Emerson, Jo Ann [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Medicare
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social Welfare
Social security beneficiaries
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Notch Baby Health Care Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for premiums paid by certain eligible individuals under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Defines an &quot;eligible individual&quot; as an individual born after 1916 and before 1927 -- so called &quot;notch baby&quot; -- who had wages or self-employment income credited for one or more years prior to 1979, who was not eligible for an old age or disability insurance benefit, and who did not die, prior to January 1979 (or such individual's spouse or surviving spouse).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Notch Baby Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-288
Sponsor: Rep. Emerson, Jo Ann [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security beneficiaries
Social security eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: 
Notch Baby Act of 2007 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act with respect to the benefit computation formula for individuals affected by the changes in benefit computation rules enacted in the Social Security Amendments of 1977 who became eligible (at age 62) for (early retirement) old-age insurance benefits after 1978 and before 1989 (and reached age 65 for full-retirement benefits after 1981 and before 1992).
 
Sets forth a schedule of additional benefit increases for such beneficiaries (and related beneficiaries), with percentages declining from 60% to 10% keyed to the year an individual became eligible for (early retirement) benefits between 1978 and 1989. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Religious Freedom for Providers of Adoption, Foster Care, and Child Welfare Services Act

Bill: 110-hr-289
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adoption
Economics and Public Finance
Foster home care
Grants-in-aid
Married people
Religion
Religious liberty

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: 
Religious Freedom for Providers of Adoption, Foster Care, and Child Welfare Services Act - Amends the Social Security Act to prohibit federal payments for foster care and adoption assistance to a state or local government that discriminates against any entity that provides adoption or foster care services to only those couples who are united in marriage (defined as a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife) and to only those individuals whose conduct is in accordance with such entity's religious principles and practices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Fair Wages for Americans with Disabilities Act

Bill: 110-hr-290
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Labor and Employment
Minimum wages
Supplemental security income program
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: 
Fair Wages for Americans with Disabilities Act - Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Secuirty Act to prescribe formulae to exclude any increase in the federal minimum wage from calculation of an individual's (or spouse's) income for SSI eligibility purposes (thus preventing ineligibility for SSI benefits by reason of such an increase).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
Safe NOW Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-291
Sponsor: Rep. Gillmor, Paul E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2007-01-05 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congressional reporting requirements
Crime prevention
Criminal justice information
Directories
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Risk
Sex crimes
Sex offenders
Standards
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: 
Safe NOW Act of 2007 - Establishes the National Sex Offender Risk Classification Task Force to create guidelines for a risk-based sex offender classification system. Authorizes the Task Force to carry out demonstration programs in five selected jurisdictions to: (1) use the Task Force's preliminary guidelines to implement such a system for their sex offender registries; and (2) identify ways to improve such guidelines. Expresses the sense of Congress that each participating jurisdiction should use final Task Force guidelines to implement such a system for its registry.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Introduced in House