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Ambulatory Surgical Center Medicare Payment Modernization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1823
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Hospital rates
Medical fees
Medical supplies
Medicare
Social Welfare
Surgery

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Ambulatory Surgical Center Medicare Payment Modernization Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise the requirements and the formula for payments for services, including an implantable medical device, furnished to individuals in ambulatory surgical centers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-29
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: 2007-03-29
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: 2007-03-29
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: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the scope of programs of education for which accelerated payments of educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill may be used, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-1824
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Driver education
Driver licenses
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Government lending
Higher education
Income
Scholarships
Student loan funds
Transportation and Public Works
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Permits accelerated payments of educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill to an individual enrolled in an approved program of education that leads to employment as an operator of a commercial motor vehicle.
 
Excludes benefits payable under under the Montgomery GI Bill from consideration as income for purposes of determining eligibility for education grants or loans under any other provision of Federal law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' 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: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' 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: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' 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: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to require the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to offer farmers supplemental crop insurance based on an area yield and loss plan of insurance or an area revenue plan of insurance, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-1825
Sponsor: Rep. Neugebauer, Randy [R-TX-19]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Crop insurance
Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to require offering farmers supplemental crop insurance based on an area yield and loss plan of insurance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1826
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alternative energy sources
Arms control
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Congressional oversight
Conversion of industries
Diplomacy
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Energy
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
International Affairs
International cooperation
Labor and Employment
Nuclear weapons
Occupational retraining
Peace
President and foreign policy
Secondary education
Weapons of mass destruction

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act of 2007 - Requires the U.S. Government to: (1) disable and dismantle all its nuclear weapons and refrain from replacing them at any time with weapons of mass destruction; (2) undertake vigorous good faith efforts to eliminate war, armed conflict, and all military operations; (3) actively promote policies to induce all other countries to join in these commitments for world peace and security; and (4) redirect resources that are currently being used for nuclear weapons programs to constructive, ecologically beneficial peacetime activities and to address human and infrastructure needs such as housing, health care, education, agriculture, and environmental restoration. 
Makes this Act effective when the President certifies to Congress that all foreign countries possessing nuclear weapons have established legal requirements comparable to those set forth in this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.
action_date: 2007-03-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E707)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Charitable Driving Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1827
Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Automobiles
Charitable contributions
Charities
Income tax
Social Welfare
Tax exclusion
Tax returns
Tax-exempt organizations
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Charitable Driving Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that volunteers who use their automobiles for the benefit of a charitable organization may exclude from their gross income reimbursements for their automobile operating expenses at the same level as business employees (i.e., 48.5 cents per mile in 2007).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E716)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Teaching Fellows Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1828
Sponsor: Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Black colleges
Collection of accounts
College costs
Colleges
Community colleges
Curricula
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Law
Leadership
Licenses
Minorities
Minority education
Paraprofessional school personnel
Private schools
Public schools
Revolving funds
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Teaching Fellows Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to make competitive matching grants to states for Teaching and Partnership Fellows programs of scholarships for prospective public school teachers.
 
Provides for scholarships: (1) under the Teaching program for high school seniors and second-year college students to encourage them to enter the teaching field and become career educators; and (2) under the Partnership program for individuals, such as paraprofessional educational personnel and others currently in the education field, to complete a bachelor's degree with a state license or certification to teach through partnerships among associate- and bachelor-degree-granting institutions. 
Requires scholarship recipients to repay specified amounts if they do not fulfill certain obligations to teach in their state's public elementary or secondary schools, under such Teaching and Partnership Fellows program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Student Protection Act

Bill: 110-hr-1829
Sponsor: Rep. Putnam, Adam H. [R-FL-12]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child sexual abuse
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Disciplining of employees
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal-state relations
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Informers
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law
Rape
School personnel
School security
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Sex crimes
Sex offenders
State laws
Students
Teachers
Telephone
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Student Protection Act - Requires that by FY2010 states have in effect laws and policies requiring an individual educator who has reason to believe that another educator has committed an act of sexual misconduct against a student to report such act to the state as quickly as possible, within 48 hours whenever possible, or else face discipline.
 
Requires each state to have a single, statewide commission for receiving such reports that: (1) establishes policies for investigating and reporting such allegations; and (2) has a toll-free number that can be used to make anonymous allegations.
 
Directs states to report to the Secretary of Education the details of each act of sexual misconduct against a student for which an educator has been punished, including details regarding the educator and the punishment levied.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to penalize noncompliant states by reducing their funding under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 by up to 5%.
 
Directs the Secretary to maintain a national database that contains, at a minimum, the details this Act requires each state to report to the Secretary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
To remove the frequency limitation on Medicare coverage for intermittent catheterization.

Bill: 110-hr-1831
Sponsor: Rep. Renzi, Rick [R-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medical fees
Medical supplies
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in making coverage determinations respecting intermittent catheterization under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, from denying coverage of a replacement catheter on the basis of frequency of use.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-29
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: 2007-03-29
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: 2007-03-29
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: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
National Hurricane Research Initiative Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1832
Sponsor: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-18]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Building construction
Building laws
Climate
Coastal zone
Computers
Conferences
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Emergency communication systems
Engineering
Evacuation of civilians
Federal aid to research
Flood damage prevention
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Hurricanes
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Meteorological research
Oceanographic research
Policy sciences
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Storms
Technological innovations
Urban affairs
Urban planning
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
National Hurricane Research Initiative Act of 2007 - Requires the Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere of the Department of Commerce and the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish a National Hurricane Research Initiative and to cooperate with other specified federal agencies to carry it out. 

Requires such Initiative to set research objectives (based on a National Science Board report on the need for such Initiative) to: (1) make recommendations to the Board; (2) assemble the expertise of U.S. science and engineering capabilities through a multi-agency effort focused on infrastructure, the natural environment, and improving understanding of hurricane prediction, intensity, and mitigation on coastal populations; and (3) make grants for hurricane research, including regarding hurricane dynamics, modification, and observation, air-sea interaction, relationships between hurricanes and climate, predicting flooding and storm surge, coastal infrastructure, building construction, emergency communication networks, information utilization by public officials, and sharing computational capability.

Directs the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, through the National Science and Technology Council, to coordinate U.S. activities related to the Initiative as a formal program with a well-defined organizational structure and execution plan. 

Directs the Under Secretary and the Director to: (1) establish a National Infrastructure Database to catalog infrastructure, provide information to improve information public policy related to hurricanes, and provide data to improve researchers' abilities to measure hurricane impacts in order to improve building codes and urban planning; and (2) develop a National Hurricane Research Model to conduct integrative research and facilitate the transfer of research knowledge to operational applications.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to engage in a feasibility study relating to long term water needs for the area served by the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, Colorado, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-1833
Sponsor: Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Colorado
Colorado River development
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal aid to water resources development
Flood control
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Hydrology
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Rivers
Water allocation (Policy)
Water quality
Water rights
Water storage
Water supply
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to conduct a study to determine the most feasible method of meeting water supply and storage requirements within the area served by the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, Colorado.

Prohibits the Secretary from entering into any new contracts or contract extensions or renewals: (1) with entities for the use of excess capacity space in Fryingpan-Arkansas facilities to store water or for use outside the natural basins of the Arkansas or Colorado rivers; or (2) for beneficial use of the facilities or water rights outside such basins.

Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to Colorado to conduct a study to identify the cumulative impacts of water transfers from the Arkansas and Colorado River basins to communities not located in such basins and from agriculturally based communities within the Arkansas River basin to expanding municipalities within that basin.
 
Sets forth conditions under which any excess project water storage capacity of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project to divert, store, impound, pump, exchange, or convey nonproject water made available under contracts may be used to increase diversion of nonproject water from the natural basin of the Colorado River within Colorado into another river basin for delivery or storage. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts for the use of excess project capacity for the purpose of diverting, storing, impounding, pumping, exchanging, or conveying nonproject water for irrigation, domestic, municipal industrial, or other beneficial purposes within the natural basin of the Arkansas River within Colorado.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Rim of the Valley Corridor Study Act

Bill: 110-hr-1835
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
California
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Endangered species
Finance and Financial Sector
Governmental investigations
Habitat conservation
Historic sites
History
Landowners
Landscape protection
Mountains
National recreation areas
Open space lands
Outdoor recreation
Sports and Recreation
Trails
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Rim of the Valley Corridor Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a resource study of and submit a report on the Rim of the Valley Corridor in California to evaluate a range of alternatives for protecting the Corridor's resources, including the alternative of establishing all or part of the Corridor as a unit of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. 
 
Lists the objectives the Secretary shall seek to achieve in conducting the study.
 
Directs the Secretary to analyze the potential impact that establishment of all or part of the Rim of the Valley Corridor as a unit of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area is likely to have on land within or bordering the area that is privately owned at the time such study is conducted. Requires the report to discuss the concerns of private landowners within the existing boundaries of the Recreation Area.
 
Instructs the Secretary, as part of evaluating each alternative considered under such study, to estimate the impact of implementing the alternative on staffing and other potential costs to federal, state, and local agencies and other organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in House