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To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for increases in widow's and widower's insurance benefits by reason of delayed retirement.

Bill: 110-hr-1160
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Earnings
Families
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Older workers
Retirement income
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to provide for: (1) increases in widow's and widower's insurance benefits by reason of delayed retirement; and (2) the treatment of delayed retirement in cases of simultaneous entitlement to OASDI benefits and widow's or widower's insurance benefits. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Caregiver Credit Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1161
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aliens
Caregivers
Citizenship
Disabled
Domestic partners
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Grandparents
Immigration
Labor and Employment
Married people
Names
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Parents
Residence requirements
Social security numbers
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
Social Security Caregiver Credit Act of 2007 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act with respect to determining entitlement to and the amount of any monthly benefit, including any lump-sum death payment, payable under OASDI on the basis of the wages and self-employment income of any individual. Deems such an individual to have been paid a wage (according to a specified formula) during each month during which the individual was engaged for at least 80 hours in providing care to a dependent relative without monetary compensation for up to five years of such service. Makes this Act inapplicable in the case of any monthly benefit or lump-sum death payment if a larger benefit or payment would be payable without its application. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the 7-year restriction on eligibility for widow's and widower's insurance benefits based on disability.

Bill: 110-hr-1162
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disabled
Families
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security eligibility
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to repeal the seven-year restriction on eligibility for widow's and widower's insurance benefits based on disability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
Stop Obesity in Schools Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1163
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Child nutrition
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Exercise
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Health education
Lifestyle
Obesity
Performance measurement
Preventive medicine
School health programs
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
Stop Obesity in Schools Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a national strategy to reduce childhood obesity that: (1) provides for the reduction of childhood obesity rates by 10% by the year 2011; (2) addresses short-term and long-term solutions; (3) identifies how the federal government can work effectively with entities to implement the strategy; and (4) includes measures to identify and overcome obstacles.

Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to: (1) make matching grants to local educational agencies to reduce childhood obesity by adopting wellness policies and anti-obesity initiatives; (2) arrange for the evaluation of a wide variety of existing programs designed to prevent obesity in children and adolescents to determine their effectiveness, factors contributing to their effectiveness, and the feasibility of replicating the programs in other locations; and (3) make matching grants to state governments, local governments, and consortia of local governments to reduce childhood obesity through establishing or expanding healthy living and wellness coordinating councils (that are charged to increase healthy living and reduce obesity in elementary and secondary schools) and supporting regional workshops.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
Hate Crime Statistics Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1164
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Crimes against women
Criminal justice information
Criminal statistics
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Hate crimes
Prejudice
Sex discrimination
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
Hate Crime Statistics Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Hate Crime Statistics Act to require the Attorney General to acquire data about crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on gender. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E391)
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
Rural Education Equality and Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1166
Sponsor: Rep. Marshall, Jim [D-GA-8]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Administrative procedure
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Law
Rural education
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
Rural Education Equality and Improvement Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Education to extend to all rural local educational agencies (LEAs) the same level of increased flexibility or facilitated compliance that the Secretary authorizes for any category of rural LEAs with respect to part A basic LEA programs of title I requirements for improving the academic achievement of the disadvantaged under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
No Fly, No Buy Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1167
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Airline passenger traffic
Aviation safety
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Firearms
Firearms control
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification of criminals
Science, Technology, Communications
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
No Fly, No Buy Act of 2007 - Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to prohibit: (1) the sale or other disposition of a firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person is an individual required to be prevented from boarding an aircraft; and (2) the shipment, transport, possession, or receipt of a firearm or ammunition by such individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
Foreign Felon Gun Prohibition Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1168
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Ammunition
Criminal courts
Ex-offenders
Fines (Penalties)
Firearms control
International Affairs
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
Foreign Felon Gun Prohibition Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to extend prohibitions against the sale, disposition, shipment, possession, transfer, or receipt of a firearm or ammunition by convicted felons to felons convicted in a foreign court.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4759-4764)
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
Student Achievement and Successful Schools Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1169
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Administrative remedies
Child health
Compensatory education
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Curricula
Disabled
Disasters
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grievance procedures
Health
Higher education
Law
Local finance
Minorities
Minority education
Paraprofessional school personnel
Rating of teachers
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Standards
State-local relations
Teacher education
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
Student Achievement and Successful Schools Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) full funding should be provided to schools to allow them to satisfy federal mandates required under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLBA), which amended the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA); and (2) states and school districts should have the necessary flexibility in implementing NCLBA to ensure that all students are successful and achieve all of the goals of the law.
 
Amends ESEA to revise requirements relating to: (1) adequate yearly progress (AYP); (2) measurements of student achievement, allowing such measurements to be made on a longitudinal basis; (3) supplemental educational services; (4) deadlines for evaluating teachers and paraprofessionals as highly qualified; and (5) the process by which teachers of multiple subjects may demonstrate such competence.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to: (1) allocate federal funds to pay for administrative costs of demonstrating AYP and for paraprofessional training; and (2) make performance bonus grants to eligible states for non-administrative functions by schools that have closed achievement gaps to a certain degree between specified subgroups.
 
Authorizes state and local educational agencies and schools to defer implementation of certain ESEA requirements in any fiscal year when the amount appropriated under ESEA and the Individuals with Disabilities Act does not equal or exceed a specified authorized amount. 
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report on certain topics concerning how costs of NCLBA mandates may affect adequate funding for ESEA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
Comprehensive Awareness of Problem Gambling Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1170
Sponsor: Rep. Meehan, Martin T. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Advertising
Arts, Culture, Religion
Cable television
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Federal-state relations
Gambling
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Health
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Mass media
Medical research
Mental health
Mental health services
Mental illness
Motion pictures
Newspapers
Periodicals
Preventive medicine
Professional associations
Public service advertising
Radio broadcasting
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
State finance
Television broadcasting of sports

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
Comprehensive Awareness of Problem Gambling Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out a national campaign to increase knowledge and raise awareness of problem gambling.

Requires the Secretary to: (1) administer and coordinate the voluntary donation of resources to assist in implementing new programs and augmenting existing national campaigns to provide national strategies for dissemination of information intended to address problem gambling; (2) encourage media outlets to provide information aimed at preventing problem gambling; and (3) target radio and television audiences of sporting events and gambling.

Requires the President to: (1) establish and implement a national program of research on problem gambling; (2) appoint an advisory commission to coordinate federal research; and (3) consider the National Gambling Impact Study Commission's recommendations.

Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to states, local governments, and nonprofit agencies to provide comprehensive services with respect to treatment and prevention of, and education about, problem gambling.

Directs the President, acting through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to develop a Treatment Improvement Protocol for problem gambling

Expresses the sense of Congress that every state should contribute a percentage of its revenue from gambling towards prevention and treatment of, and services and education about, problem gambling.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
Money Market Fund Parity Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1171
Sponsor: Rep. Meeks, Gregory W. [D-NY-6]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Bank accounts
Brokers
Capital
Commerce
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Investments
Law
Margins (Security trading)
Money market funds
Securities
Securities and Exchange Commission
Securities industry
Securities regulation
Surety and fidelity

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
Money Market Fund Parity Act of 2007 - Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to revise, according to specified requirements, rules relating to net capital, custody and use of customers' securities, and certain underwritings to provide for: (1) treatment of securities issued by qualified money market funds comparable with the treatment under those rules of other low-risk securities and deposits; and (2) the expanded use of securities issued by qualified money market funds for financing by brokers and dealers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
Fairness to All Vietnam Veterans Act

Bill: 110-hr-1172
Sponsor: Rep. Millender-McDonald, Juanita [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Commemorations
Congressional reporting requirements
District of Columbia
Governmental investigations
History
Military history
Monuments and memorials
Vietnam veterans
Vietnamese Conflict
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Fairness to All Vietnam Veterans Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to study and report to Congress: (1) to identify veterans who died after October 31, 1955, as a result of military operations in southeast Asia whose names are not eligible for inscription on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial; and (2) on the feasibility and equitability of revising the eligibility requirements to be more inclusive of such veterans or of creating an alternative means for recognizing them, including alternatives involving an education center at the Memorial.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
Vending Machine Safety Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1173
Sponsor: Rep. Millender-McDonald, Juanita [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Child safety
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Product safety
Signs and signboards
Standards
Vending machines
Warning labels

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
Vending Machine Safety Act of 2007 - Directs the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue a consumer product safety standard for the manufacture and installation of vending machines, particularly those using a lever or crane apparatus to dispense a product. 
 
Allows such standard to include: (1) a requirement for warning labels or signs relating to the use of such machines to prevent injuries to individuals, including children; and (2) requirements for an emergency release mechanism for opening the machine if the machine has an opening big enough to permit entrapment of a small child.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
Healthy Hospitals Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1174
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Tim [R-PA-18]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Hospital care
Hospitals
Law
Medical statistics
Medicare
Nosocomial infections
Preventive medicine
Social Welfare
Surgery

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
Healthy Hospitals Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require public reporting of health care-associated infections data by hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a pilot program under Medicare to provide financial incentives or grants to hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers that demonstrate a satisfactory reduction in the rate of occurrence (or elimination) of health care-associated infections in the applicable hospital or ambulatory surgical center.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that health care providers and facilities should take measures to reduce the rate of occurrence of health care-associated infections to zero, with respect to patients to whom such providers and facilities furnish services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8124)
action_date: 2007-06-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5984-5985)
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2276)
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House