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AMT Penalty Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1855
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2007-07-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Minimum tax
Tax penalties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: 
AMT Penalty Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt taxpayers who did no owe alternative minimum tax in a preceding taxable year from penalties for failure to pay estimated tax on alternative minimum tax liabilities for the current taxable year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11739-11742)
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9782)
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9781-9782)
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to make technical corrections to the new border tunnels and passages offense.

Bill: 110-s-1856
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-07-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Boundaries
Forfeiture
Government Operations and Politics
Illegal aliens
Immigration
Law
Sentencing guidelines
Smuggling
Transportation and Public Works
Tunnels
U.S. Sentencing Commission

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: 
Amends the federal criminal code to assign a new section number (555 instead of 554) to the provision prohibiting the construction of border tunnels and passages into the United States.

action_date: 2007-07-23
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Amends the federal criminal code to assign a new section number (555 instead of 554) to the provision prohibiting the construction of border tunnels and passages into the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9792; text as passed Senate: CR S9792)
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S9792; text as passed Senate: CR S9792)
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Minority Serving Institutions for Advanced Technology and Education Act

Bill: 110-s-1857
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, John [R-VA]
Introduced: 2007-07-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Alaska
Black colleges
Conferences
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Engineering
Federal aid to education
Hawaiians
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Indian education
Indigenous peoples
Infrastructure
Mathematics
Minorities
Minority education
Paraprofessional school personnel
Preschool education
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Teacher education
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: 
Minority Serving Institutions for Advanced Technology and Education Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to eligible institutions for specified activities, including: (1) acquiring equipment, instrumentation, networking capability, hardware and software, digital network technology, wireless technology, and infrastructure; (2) developing and providing educational services, including faculty development, related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; (3) providing technology-related training for teachers, library and media specialists, early childhood educators, and teacher aides; and (4) forming technology-related consortia or collaborative projects. 
Defines &quot;eligible institution&quot; as a historically Black college or university, a Hispanic-serving institution, a Tribal College or University, an Alaska Native-serving institution, a Native Hawaiian-serving institution, or an institution with a substantial number of minority, low-income students who received a federal Pell grant for the previous academic year. 
Requires the Secretary to convene an annual meeting of grant recipients to foster collaboration and capacity-building activities and to disseminate information and ideas generated by the meetings.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Introduced in Senate
General Services Administration Portfolio Enhancement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1861
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2007-07-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
District of Columbia
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Land transfers
Museums

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: 
General Services Administration Portfolio Enhancement Act of 2007 - Directs the Administrator of General Services (GSA) to convey to the National Health Museum, Inc. (the Museum) the northern part of specified property in the District of Columbia, which the Administrator and the Museum deem appropriate for a museum facility. 

Grants the Administrator the authority to convey the southern part of such property to the Museum. 

Requires the Administrator to enter into an agreement with the Museum for the conveyance. 

Permits separate conveyance of the northern and southern parts.

Requires the northern part to be dedicated for use as a site for a national health museum for a 99-year period and allows the southern part to be used for any purposes permitted by applicable laws and regulations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1862
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2007-07-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Arts, Culture, Religion
Camping
Commemorations
Conservation easements
Cultural property
Easements
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
Indian lands
Infrastructure
Land transfers
Law
Minorities
National forests
Natural areas
Right-of-way
Road construction
Sports and Recreation
State parks
Trails
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: 
Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) to convey to Resolution Copper Mining, LLC, all interest of the United States in and to specified federal land in Pinal County, Arizona, in exchange for Resolution Copper conveying to the United States title to: (1) the Secretary to specified non-federal land in Gila, Yavapai, Maricopa, Pinal, and Coconino Counties, Arizona, and (2) the Secretary of the Interior to specified non-federal land in Pinal and Gila Counties, Arizona. 

Directs the Secretary to convey specified land in Pinal County to the town of Superior, Arizona. 

Instructs Resolution Copper to deliver to the Secretary an executed document granting a permanent conservation easement for the easement area (the surface estate of the Apache Leap Conservation Easement Area) to an entity that is: (1) a qualified unit of government or Indian tribe; or (2) a land trust or other qualified organization. Requires Resolution Copper to determine whether the area covered by the easement should be managed to establish: (1) additional cultural and historical resource protections or measures; or (2) additional or alternative public access routes, trails, and trailheads to Apache Leap. 

Directs: (1) the Secretary to construct in the Global Ranger District of the Tonto National Forest one or more replacement campgrounds for the Oak Flat Campground; and (2) the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the Arizona State Parks Board approximately 2,000 acres of land under such Secretary's jurisdiction within the exterior boundary of the proposed Tam O'Shanter Area State Park for the establishment of such Park. 

Requires the Secretary of the Interior, upon request by the Board, to grant the Board a right-of-way for the construction of an access road on a specified route in order to provide public access to the proposed State Park. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9834-9835)
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the President to posthumously award a gold medal on behalf of Congress to Robert M. La Follette, Sr., in recognition of his important contributions to the Progressive movement, the State of Wisconsin, and the United States.

Bill: 110-s-1863
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-07-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional gold medals
Ex-Members of Congress
Government Operations and Politics
Progressivism (U.S. politics)
Senate
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: 
Authorizes the President, on behalf of Congress, to award a gold medal of appropriate design posthumously to Robert M. La Follette, Sr., in recognition of his important contributions to the Progressive movement, Wisconsin, and the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9835-9837)
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 110-s-1864
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-07-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Coins and coinage
Congress
Economics and Public Finance
Ex-Members of Congress
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Progressivism (U.S. politics)
Senate
Silver
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: 
Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue $1 coins in commemoration of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., and emblematic of his life and accomplishments.

Restricts coin issuance to calendar year 2008. Imposes a surcharge of $10 per coin, to be deposited into the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Life Insurance Fairness for Travelers Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1865
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-07-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Health
Health warnings
Insurance premiums
Life insurance
Transportation and Public Works
Travel
War

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: 
Life Insurance Fairness for Travelers Act of 2007 - Amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to require an insurer to make available, in all of its life insurance policies for an insured who is either a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident, coverage that neither considers past, nor precludes future, lawful foreign travel by the insured.
 
Prohibits the insurer from: (1) declining such coverage based on past or future lawful foreign travel by the insured; or (2) charging a premium for the coverage that is excessive and not based on a good faith actuarial analysis.
 
Allows declination of or limited coverage for travel to foreign destinations for which serious health-related warnings have been issued, or in which an ongoing military conflict or serious unlawful situation is taking place. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to exempt certain local restrictions from review under the airport noise and access restriction review program.

Bill: 110-s-1866
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-07-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Access to airports
Airports
Environmental Protection
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Local laws
Noise

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: 
Amends provisions under the airport noise and access restriction review program for stage two and stage three aircraft to exempt from review under such program local restrictions limiting the hours of operation of an airport provided the airport owner had maintained such a restriction which was disallowed by a court before 1985 and certain other requirements are met.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct a study on the operation of helicopters over Long Island, New York and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-1867
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-07-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Air traffic
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
Helicopters
New York State

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: 
 Requires the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct a study and report to Congress on the helicopter operations over Long Island, New York, including regarding: (1) the effect of helicopter traffic on residential areas; and (2) the feasibility of diverting helicopters from residential areas, creating specific helicopter air lanes, and establishing helicopter altitude limits. Exempts helicopters performing operations for accredited news organizations, law enforcement, or emergency services from any limitations or restrictions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Voting Integrity and Verification Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1869
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2007-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Awards, medals, prizes
Ballots
Commemorations
Disabled
Product development
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Voting machines
Voting of the disabled

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: 
Voting Integrity and Verification Act of 2007 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require each voting system purchased after December 31, 2012, and used in an election for federal office to produce an individual permanent paper record for each ballot that is cast.
 
Requires the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish a program to award cash prizes competitively to eligible persons that advance the research, development, demonstration, and application of voting systems which are specifically designed to enhance accessibility and provide independence for persons with disabilities during the voting process.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9917-9918)
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Clean Water Restoration Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1870
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Agricultural pollution
Agriculture and Food
Dredging
Irrigation
Lakes
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil pollution
Rivers
Storm drains
Territorial waters
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: 
Clean Water Restoration Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to replace the term "navigable waters," throughout the Act, with the term "waters of the United States," defined to mean all waters subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, the territorial seas, and all interstate and intrastate waters and their tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds, and all impoundments of the foregoing, to the fullest extent that these waters, or activities affecting them, are subject to the legislative power of Congress under the Constitution. 

Declares that nothing in such Act shall be construed as affecting the authority of the Secretary of the Army or the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act related to discharges: (1) composed entirely of return flows from irrigated agriculture; (2) of stormwater runoff from certain oil, gas, and mining operations composed entirely of flows from precipitation runoff conveyances, which are not contaminated by or in contact with specified materials; or (3) of dredged or fill materials resulting from normal farming, silviculture, and ranching activities or from activities with respect to which a state has an approved program, or for the purposes of maintenance of currently serviceable structures, construction or maintenance of farm or stock ponds, irrigation ditches and maintenance of drainage ditches, or farm, forest, or temporary roads for moving mining equipment in accordance with best management practices, or construction of temporary sedimentation basins on construction sites for which discharges do not include placement of fill material into the waters of the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-09
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 110-1245.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9919-9920)
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9918-9919)
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act

Bill: 110-s-1871
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Payroll deductions
State laws
Taxation
Unemployment insurance
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: 
Unemployment Insurance Modernization Act - Amends the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Labor to make unemployment compensation modernization incentive payments in FY2008-FY2012 by certain transfers from the federal unemployment account to the accounts of the states in the Unemployment Trust Fund.
 
Prescribes a formula for determining the maximum allowable incentive payments.
 
Specifies requirements state law must meet for the state to qualify for such a payment.
 
Limits the use of transferred amounts to the payment of cash unemployment benefits to individuals.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to reserve specified funds out of the federal unemployment account for such incentive payments.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through FY2013 the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) excise tax imposed on every employer.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9920-9921)
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Farm Safety Net Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1872
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural credit
Agricultural prices
Agricultural subsidies
Crop insurance
Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: 
Farm Safety Net Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend (through crop year 2012) and revise the counter-cyclical payment program.

Makes payments available in a state for a covered commodity if the actual state revenue (as defined by this Act) for the commodity is less than the revenue counter-cyclical program guarantee (as defined by this Act) for the commodity. (Under current law, payments are provided if a commodity's effective price is less than its target price.)

Provides recourse loans for covered commodities through crop year 2012.

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Risk Management Agency, to identify necessary actions to ensure that federal crop insurance programs are properly rated to account for a rebalancing of risk resulting from enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9921-9922)
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Emergency Medical Care and Response Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1873
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Medical research
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: 
Improving Emergency Medical Care and Response Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting though the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, to award contracts or competitive grants to support demonstration programs that design, implement, and evaluate innovative models of regionalized, comprehensive, and accountable emergency care systems. Requires the Secretary to give priority to entities that serve a population in a medically underserved area.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) support federal programs involved in improving the emergency care system to expand and accelerate research in emergency medical care systems and emergency medicine; and (2) support research to determine the estimated economic impact of, and savings that result from, the implementation of coordinated emergency care systems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10143)
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate