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Lifelong Improvements in Food and Exercise (LIFE) Act

Bill: 110-hr-3503
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-09-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Community health services
Education
Exercise
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Higher education
Lifestyle
Medical education
Nutrition
Obesity
Preventive medicine
Public service advertising
Sports and Recreation
Weight loss

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-07
text: 
Lifelong Improvements in Food and Exercise (LIFE) Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to carry out a national program to conduct and support activities regarding individuals who are overweight or obese in order to make progress toward the goal of significantly reducing obesity in the United States. Requires such activities to include: (1) training health professionals; (2) educating the public; and (3) developing and demonstrating intervention strategies for use at worksites and in community settings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-09-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-09-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1832)
action_date: 2007-09-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-07
text: Introduced in House
Transparency in Corporate Filings Act

Bill: 110-hr-3504
Sponsor: Rep. Roskam, Peter J. [R-IL-6]
Introduced: 2007-09-07 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Commerce
Corporate finance
Corporations
Financial statements
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Mutual funds
Science, Technology, Communications
Securities regulation
Stockholders
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-07
text: 
Transparency in Corporate Filings Act - Amends the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, with respect to mandatory public disclosures in either registration statements, prospectuses, reports, or broadcasts, to authorize the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to provide that a disclosure form, periodic report, or document need not be filed if the SEC has otherwise prescribed another means for public disclosure of such information (including, by implication, on an Internet website).
 
Amends the Investment Company Act of 1940 to authorize the SEC to: (1) permit or require one or more alternative means of public disclosure (including, by implication, on an Internet website) in lieu of, or in addition to, filing with the SEC or transmitting to security holders a registration statement, prospectus, application, report, account, record, or other document; and (2) determine whether any information so disclosed shall be deemed filed or transmitted under the Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2007-09-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-09-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-07
text: Introduced in House
Securities Law Technical Corrections Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3505
Sponsor: Rep. Roskam, Peter J. [R-IL-6]
Introduced: 2007-09-07 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Commerce
Emergency Management
Holding companies
Investment advisers
Mutual funds
Public utilities
Securities
Securities industry
Securities regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-07
text: 
Securities Law Technical Corrections Act of 2007 - Makes technical corrections to the following Acts: (1) the Securities Act of 1933; (2) the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; (3) the Trust Indenture Act of 1939; (4) the Investment Company Act of 1940; and (5) the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.

Amends the following statutes to make conforming amendments for the repeal of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935: (1) the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; (2) the Trust Indenture Act of 1939; (3) the Investment Company Act of 1940; and (4) the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. 

action_date: 2007-12-06
text: 
Securities Law Technical Corrections Act of 2007 - Makes technical corrections to the following Acts: (1) the Securities Act of 1933; (2) the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; (3) the Trust Indenture Act of 1939; (4) the Investment Company Act of 1940; and (5) the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.

Amends the following statutes to make conforming amendments for the repeal of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935: (1) the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; (2) the Trust Indenture Act of 1939; (3) the Investment Company Act of 1940; and (4) the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-07
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 404 - 0 (Roll no. 1135). (text: CR 12/5/2007 H14180-14181)
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 404 - 0 (Roll no. 1135).(text: CR 12/5/2007 H14180-14181)
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H14259)
action_date: 2007-12-05
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2007-12-05
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3505.
action_date: 2007-12-05
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H14180-14182)
action_date: 2007-12-05
text: Mr. Scott (GA) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2007-09-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-09-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-07
text: Introduced in House
Foreclosure Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3506
Sponsor: Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18]
Introduced: 2007-09-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Income tax
Mortgages
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-07
text: 
Foreclosure Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income up to $50,000 of the amount attributable to a discharge of mortgage indebtedness or to a refinancing of a principal residence. Limits such tax exclusion to taxpayers with modified adjusted gross incomes of $100,000 or less ($200,000 in the case of a joint tax return).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-09-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-07
text: Introduced in House
Preventing Government Shutdown Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3508
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2007-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Biennial budgets
Congress
Continuing resolutions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: 
Preventing Government Shutdown Act of 2007 - Provides for automatic continuing appropriations if any regular appropriation for a fiscal year (or, if applicable, for each fiscal year in a biennium) does not become law before the beginning of such fiscal year, or a joint resolution making continuing appropriations is not in effect.
 
Appropriates amounts necessary to continue any project or activity for which funds were provided in the preceding fiscal year: (1) in the corresponding regular appropriation Act for such preceding fiscal year; or (2) if such legislation did not become law, then in the joint resolution making continuing appropriations for such preceding fiscal year.
 
Requires the appropriations and funds made available, and authority granted, for any fiscal year for a project or activity to be available for the period beginning with the first day of a lapse in appropriations and ending with the earlier of: (1) the date on which the applicable regular appropriation bill for such fiscal year becomes law (whether or not such law provides for such project or activity) or a continuing resolution making appropriations becomes law, as the case may be; or (2) the last day of such fiscal year.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Introduced in House
Medical Justice Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3509
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2007-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Damages
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Finance and Financial Sector
Good samaritan laws
Insurance companies
Juries
Law
Legal fees
Liability (Law)
Limitation of actions
Medical malpractice
Negligence
Punitive damages
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: 
Medical Justice Act of 2007 - Sets forth provisions regulating civil actions for an injury or death as the result of health care.

Limits the non-economic damages that an individual may recover to: (1) $250,000 from health care practitioners; (2) $250,000 from any single health care institution; and (3) $500,000 from the class of liable health care institutions.

Limits the total damages, including compensatory damages, that a person may recover from any single liable health care practitioner to $1,400,000. 

Provides that an insurer of a health care practitioner or health care institution is not liable for damages in excess of the liability of the insured for rejecting a reasonable settlement offer within policy limits.

Sets forth requirements for qualified expert reports.

Allows periodic or accrual payment for future damages.

Prohibits a jury from awarding punitive or exemplary damages against a health care practitioner or health care institution unless the jury is unanimous.

Makes each person liable only for a proportionate share of the total damages that directly corresponds to that person's responsibility.

Makes a person seeking damages liable for litigation costs incurred after rejection of a settlement offer if such person receives a judgment at trial that is significantly less favorable than the terms of the settlement offer.

Requires claims to be brought: (1) within two years after the act or omission if the affected individual is over the age of 12; or (2) before an affected individual under 12 attains the age of 14. Sets the statute of repose at no later than 10 years after the act or omission. 

Makes a health care practitioner or health care institution that provides emergency health care on a Good Samaritan basis immune from liability for damages caused by that care, except for willful or wanton negligence or more culpable misconduct.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H11149-11155)
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the imposition and collection of tolls on certain highways constructed using Federal funds.

Bill: 110-hr-3510
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, John E. [R-PA-5]
Introduced: 2007-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Bridges
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Highway finance
Interstate highway system
Toll roads
Tunnels

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: 
Prohibits, with a specified exception, the imposition or collection of a toll on any portion of a federal highway facility: (1) that is in existence upon enactment of this Act; and (2) on which no toll is imposed or collected under a tolling provision on such enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2150 East Hardtner Drive in Urania, Louisiana, as the "Murphy A. Tannehill Post Office Building".

Bill: 110-hr-3511
Sponsor: Rep. Alexander, Rodney [R-LA-5]
Introduced: 2007-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Louisiana
Names
Newspapers
Postal facilities
Publishers and publishing

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2150 East Hardtner Drive in Urania, Louisiana, a the "Murphy A. Tannehill Post Office Building."
action_date: 2008-10-21
text: 

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

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2150 East Hardtner Drive in Urania, Louisiana, as the "Murphy A. Tannehill Post Office Building." 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-21
text: Became Public Law No: 110-439.
action_date: 2008-10-21
text: Became Public Law No: 110-439.
action_date: 2008-10-21
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2008-10-21
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2008-10-10
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2008-10-10
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2008-09-30
text: Cleared for White House.
action_date: 2008-09-30
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2008-09-30
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S10129-10130)
action_date: 2008-09-30
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S10129-10130)
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Received in the Senate, read twice.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: On passage Passed without objection. (text: CR H8718)
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.(text: CR H8718)
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H8718)
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Ms. Sutton asked unanimous consent to discharge from committee and consider.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Committee on Oversight and Government discharged.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Committee on Oversight and Government discharged.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 110-439
College Textbook Affordability and Transparency Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3512
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Julia [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2007-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: College costs
College teachers
Colleges
Commerce
Consumer education
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Identification devices
Internet
Prices
Publishers and publishing
Retail trade
Science, Technology, Communications
Student enrollment
Teaching materials
Textbooks

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: 
College Textbook Affordability and Transparency Act of 2007 - Requires publishers informing teachers at institutions of higher education about available textbooks or supplements to include written information concerning: (1) the price the publisher would charge the bookstore associated with such institution for such items; (2) the full history of revisions for such items; and (3) whether such items are available in other formats, including paperback and unbound, and the price the publisher would charge the bookstore for items in those formats.
 
Requires a publisher that sells a textbook and any accompanying supplement as a single bundled item also to sell them as separately priced and unbundled items.
 
Directs federally-assisted institutions of higher education to include on printed or internet course schedules the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) and retail price for each required or recommended textbook or supplement for listed courses. Requires an institution to: (1) use the author and title if the ISBN is unavailable; and (2) indicate that the required information has yet to be determined if its disclosure for a course is impractical.
 
Requires such institutions to provide sellers of textbooks (other than publishers) that meet their requirements with: (1) their course schedules for the subsequent academic period; (2) the information this Act requires to be placed on each course schedule regarding each textbook or supplement required or recommended for each course; and (3) the number of students enrolled, and the maximum enrollment, in each course.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Introduced in House
Health Insurance Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3515
Sponsor: Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2007-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Medical savings accounts
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: 
 Health Insurance Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow individual taxpayers a refundable tax credit for health insurance costs paid for the benefit of the taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, and dependents; (2) require business taxpayers who receive payments for certain employee health insurance coverage to file informational returns; and (3) direct the Secretary of the Treasury to make advance payments of health insurance tax credit amounts to health insurance providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Introduced in House
Affordable Health Care for Americans Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3516
Sponsor: Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2007-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: 
 Affordable Health Care for Americans Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction from gross income for the health insurance costs of an individual taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, and dependents (available whether or not a taxpayer itemizes deductions).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Introduced in House
Long-Term Care Tax Reduction Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3517
Sponsor: Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2007-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Long-term care insurance
Medical economics
Pension funds
Tax exclusion
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: 
Long-Term Care Tax Reduction Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income distributions from an individual retirement account and other tax-exempt retirement plans used to pay long-term care insurance premiums.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Introduced in House
United States Commission on an Open Society with Security Act

Bill: 110-hr-3519
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Architecture
Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Building construction
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal employees
Federal installations
Federal office buildings
Freedom of speech
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Health
Infrastructure
International Affairs
Maintenance and repair
Occupational health and safety
Official secrets
Presidential commissions
Productivity in government
Protection of officials
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Right of petition
Science, Technology, Communications
Security clearances
Security measures
Technological innovations
Terrorism
Traffic congestion
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: 
United States Commission on an Open Society with Security Act - Establishes the United States Commission on an Open Society with Security to study how the government may provide for both security in, and public access to, federal buildings and other federal property and sites. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Management, Investigations, and Oversight.
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2007-09-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1849-1850)
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Introduced in House