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Community Health Center Capital Investment Act

Bill: 110-s-2270
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Clinics
Community health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health facilities
Indian medical care
Minorities
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Rural health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: 
Community Health Center Capital Investment Act - Amends the National Housing Act to revise the eligibility requirements for mortgages insured by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to include a mortgage executed by a health center.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13625-13626)
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Enhanced Opportunities for Formerly Homeless Veterans Residing in Permanent Housing Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2273
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Clothing
Day care
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to housing
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Military base closures
Military housing
Poverty
Rural housing
Social Welfare
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: 
Enhanced Opportunities for Formerly Homeless Veterans Residing in Permanent Housing Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct pilot programs of grants to: (1) coordinate the provision of supportive services available in the local community to very low income, formerly homeless veterans residing in permanent housing; (2) provide outreach to inform low-income and elderly veterans and their spouses who reside in rural areas of benefits for which they may be eligible; and (3) establish new, or expand or modify existing, programs or activities to furnish transportation, childcare, and clothing assistance to certain individuals with service-related disabilities who are entitled to a rehabilitation program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-09
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Dextromethorphan Abuse Reduction Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2274
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer education
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug industry
Drug traffic
Drugs
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health education
Health warnings
Larceny
Law
Medical statistics

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: 
Dextromethorphan Abuse Reduction Act of 2007 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to: (1) set forth definitions relating to dextromethorphan in unfinished or finished dosage form; (2) classify unfinished dextromethorphan as a Schedule V controlled substance; and (3) impose civil penalties for sales of products containing dextromethorphan to individuals under the age of 18.

Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) manufacturers of products containing dextromethorphan should provide warnings about the dangers of dextromethorphan misuse; and (2) retailers should impose safeguards to protect against the theft of products containing dextromethorphan. 

Directs the Director of National Drug Control Policy to make grants to the Partnership for a Drug-Free America and the Community Anti-Drug Coalition of America for education programs to prevent the abuse of prescription and nonprescription drugs (including dextromethorphan). 

Authorizes the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to make grants to certain communities to implement comprehensive community-wide strategies for addressing abuse of prescription and nonprescription drugs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-12
text: Committee on the Judiciary Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13626-13627)
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Children's Chemical Risk Reduction Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2275
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Birth defects
Carcinogens
Child development
Child health
Child safety
Environmental Protection
Families
Health
Plastics
Product safety
Reproduction
Toys

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: 
Children's Chemical Risk Reduction Act of 2007 - Requires any children's product or child care article that contains a phthalate to be treated as a banned hazardous substance under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act. Applies certain prohibitions of that Act to such product article.
 
Provides that, if a manufacturer modifies a children's product or child care article that contains a phthalate to comply with such ban, it shall: (1) use an alternative to phthalates that is the least toxic; and (2) not use any of specified prohibited alternatives to phthalates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13628-13629)
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13628)
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Aeronautics Competitiveness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2276
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Aeronautics
Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Defense contracts
Department of Defense
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Graduate education
Higher education
Law
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Professional education
Research and development
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Technological innovations
Transportation research

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: 
Aeronautics Competitiveness Act of 2007 - Authorizes appropriations for FY2009-FY2011 for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for Science, Aeronautics, and Exploration for aeronautics research.

Establishes an advisory committee on priorities in aeronautics research.

Requires the NASA Administrator to develop particular aeronautics technologies, including for the Next Generation Air Transportation System, to a demonstration ready level.

Sets the maximum number of NASA aeronautics scholarships at no more than seven at any one time. Requires the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to establish a program to provide fellowships for graduate students in research in aviation or aeronautics.

Requires the Secretary of the Department of Defense (DOD) to prescribe regulations governing DOD's payment of contractors' costs for education and professional development of their aeronautics workforce.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13629)
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the limitation on the issuance of qualified veterans' mortgage bonds for Alaska, Oregon, and Wisconsin and to modify the definition of qualified veteran.

Bill: 110-s-2277
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alaska
Armed Forces and National Security
Bonds
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Mortgages
Oregon
Tax exemption
Veterans' loans
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase to $100 million the veterans mortgage bond limitation in Alaska, Oregon, and Wisconsin; (2) eliminate the phase-in of the bond limitation; and (3) revise the definition of &quot;qualified veteran&quot; for mortgage bond financing eligibility purposes to make such definition applicable to veterans in all states. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Community and Healthcare-Associated Infections Reduction Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2278
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Communicable diseases
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Government Operations and Politics
Health information systems
Health surveys
Hospital care
Hospitals
Law
Medical research
Medical statistics
Medicare
Preventive medicine
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: 
Community and Healthcare-Associated Infections Reduction Act of 2007 - Directs the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to develop best-practices guidelines for internal infection control plans to prevent, detect, control, and treat community and healthcare-associated infections at hospitals.

Requires AHRQ to: (1) establish best practices with supporting justification, including the establishment of an infection control oversight committee; (2) collaborate with other agencies and organizations whose area of expertise is the identification, treatment, and prevention of infectious disease; (3) publish proposed guidelines; (4) provide for a comment period of not less than 90 days; and (5) establish final guidelines.
 
Directs the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to: (1) consult best practices guidelines in evaluating hospitals' infection control plans as a condition of participation in the Medicare program; and (2) report to Congress on the feasibility of reducing healthcare-associated infection rates through a Quality Improvement Payment Program. 
 
Requires: (1) hospitals to report information about community and healthcare-associated infections to the CDC National Healthcare Safety Network, which shall be used by the CDC to develop a national database of infection rates in hospitals; (2) the Director of the CDC to award grants to states to carry out public awareness campaigns; (3) the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand and intensify NIH programs regarding research and related activities concerning such infections; (4) the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an interagency working group on community and healthcare-associated infections; and (5) the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to report to Congress on this Act's impact.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13630-13632)
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13629-13630)
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in Senate
International Violence Against Women Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2279
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Armed Forces and National Security
Child health
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Crimes against women
Department of State
Economic assistance
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Foreign service
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Health
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Human rights
International military forces
International relief
Medical screening
Mental health services
Military training
Nongovernmental organizations
Peacekeeping forces
Police training
Preventive medicine
Rape
Sex crimes
United Nations
United Nations economic assistance
War relief
Women
Women's health
Women's rights
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: 
International Violence Against Women Act of 2007 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to establish in the Department of State the Office of Women's Global Initiatives (which shall replace the Office of International Women's Issues) to coordinate U.S. government efforts respecting international women's issues. 
 
Establishes within the Department an Advisory Commission on International Violence Against Women.
 
Directs the President to develop a comprehensive strategy to prevent violence against women and girls.
 
Directs the Coordinator of the Women's Global Initiatives to ensure that foreign assistance programs incorporate measures to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls.
 
Provides that U.S. training of foreign military and police forces incorporates training on prevention of violence against women and girls.
 
Directs the Department and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to assist programs that prevent and respond to violence against women and girls in all humanitarian relief, conflict, and post-conflict operations.
 
Directs the Secretary of State to: (1) encourage U.N. member states to expand the number of female members of U.N. peacekeeping missions; and (2) take emergency measures to respond to violence against women and girls during conflict or post-conflict operations. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the United Nations should strengthen its ability to prevent violence against women and girls by U.N. military and civilian personnel.
 
Provides that Foreign Service training include instruction on prevention of violence against women and girls. 
 
Authorizes appropriations to support the United Nations Development Fund for Women Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence Against Women.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13633-13639)
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13632-13633, S13639-13641)
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005.

Bill: 110-s-2280
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2007-11-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Case management
Department of Health and Human Services
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Medicaid
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: 
Amends the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate final regulations revising case management and targeted case management under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act. (Currently, such regulations may be effective and final immediately on an interim basis as of their publication date.)

Requires such regulations to be consistent with: (1) federal rule making notice and comment requirements, except that the period of public comment on them shall be at least 80 days; and (2) congressional review requirements.

Makes the regulations effective at least 90 days after publication in the Federal Register or presentation to each chamber or the Comptroller General, whichever occurs later.

Repeals the Secretary's authority to change or revise such regulations after completion of the comment period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13686)
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve Boundary Modification Act

Bill: 110-s-2281
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-11-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Great Lakes
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine parks and reserves
Michigan
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: 
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve Boundary Modification Act - Expands, notwithstanding any provision of law or regulation, the boundaries of the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve in Lake Huron.

action_date: 2008-09-26
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve Boundary Modification Act - Expands, notwithstanding any provision of law or regulation, the boundaries of the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve in Lake Huron, located off the northeast coast of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Requires that the expanded area be managed as part of the National Marine Sanctuary System.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to certify that any license, permit, approval, other authorization, or right to conduct a prohibited activity (made pursuant to specified regulations) that exists on enactment of this Act shall apply to such an activity conducted within the area added by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1094.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Inouye without amendment. With written report No. 110-511.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Inouye without amendment. With written report No. 110-511.
action_date: 2008-05-15
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2008-05-06
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Senate Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-1164.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13686-13687)
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to increase the number of full-time personnel of the Consumer Product Safety Commission assigned to duty stations at United States ports of entry or to inspect overseas production facilities, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-2282
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-11-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Americans in foreign countries
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Federal employees
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Imports
Independent regulatory commissions
International Affairs
Manufacturing industries
Product safety

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: 
Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), subject to the availability of appropriations, to increase to not less than 50 the number of full-time personnel assigned to duty stations at United States ports of entry or to inspect overseas production facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13687)
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Preserving our Equine Heritage on Public Land Act

Bill: 110-s-2283
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2007-11-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Horses
Land use
National forests
National parks
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: 
 Preserving our Equine Heritage on Public Land Act - Provides for: (1) the continued preservation and use of pack and saddle stock animals on public land administered by the National Park Service, and Bureau of Land Management, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, or the Forest Service on which there is a historical tradition of the use of pack and saddle stock animals; and (2) defining the term &quot;historical tradition of the use of pack and saddle stock animals&quot; for purposes of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Commission on Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Insurance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2286
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2007-11-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Casualty insurance
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Disaster insurance
Disasters
Emergency Management
Federal advisory bodies
Financial services
Government Operations and Politics
Insurance companies
Property insurance
Reinsurance

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: 
Commission on Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Insurance Act of 2007 - Establishes the Commission on Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Insurance to report to Congress on its findings and assessments regarding the risks posed to the United States by natural catastrophes, and means for mitigating those risks and paying for losses caused by such catastrophes.
 


action_date: 2007-11-01
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Commission on Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Insurance Act of 2007 - Establishes the Commission on Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Insurance to report to Congress on its findings and assessments regarding the risks posed to the United States by natural catastrophes, and means for mitigating those risks and paying for losses caused by such catastrophes. 

Requires the Commission to assess: (1) the condition of the property and casualty insurance and reinsurance markets prior to and in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma in 2005, and the four major hurricanes that struck the United States in 2004; (2) the current condition of, as well as the outlook for, the availability and affordability of insurance in all regions of the country; and (3) the current ability of states, communities, and individuals to mitigate their natural catastrophe risks, including the affordability and feasibility of such activities.

Directs the Commission to report its findings and assessments to certain congressional committees on December 1, 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 462.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Dodd. Without written report.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Dodd. Without written report.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in Senate