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Federal Agency Data Breach Protection Act

Bill: 110-s-1558
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2007-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Computers
Credit insurance
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Fraud
Government paperwork
Government property
Government publicity
Health
Higher education
Identification devices
Identity theft
Labor and Employment
Law
Medical records
Office of Management and Budget
Personnel records
Public records
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Student records

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: 
Federal Agency Data Breach Protection Act - Amends federal law governing public printing and documents to instruct the Director of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to establish policies, procedures, and standards for agencies to follow in the event of a breach of data security involving disclosure of sensitive personal information for which harm to an individual could reasonably be expected to result.

Requires such policies and procedures to include: (1) timely notification to individuals whose sensitive personal information could be compromised as a result of a breach; (2) guidance on determining how to provide timely notice; and (3) guidance regarding whether additional special actions are necessary and appropriate, including data breach analysis, fraud resolution services, identity theft insurance, and credit protection or monitoring services.

Authorizes each agency Chief Information Officer to: (1) enforce data breach policies; and (2) develop an inventory of all personal computers, laptops, or any other hardware containing sensitive personal information.

Requires federal agency information security programs to include data breach notification procedures to alert individuals whose sensitive personal information is compromised.

Makes it the duty of each agency Chief Human Capital Officer to prescribe policies and procedures for employee exit interviews, including a full accounting of all federal personal property assigned to the employee during the course of employment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to reauthorize the provision of telemedicine and distance learning services in rural areas.

Bill: 110-s-1559
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2007-06-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Authorization
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Health
Rural education
Science, Technology, Communications
Telemedicine

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: 
Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to reauthorize appropriations through FY2012 to allow the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial assistance for the construction of facilities and systems to provide telemedicine services and distance learning services in rural areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 11, United States Code, with respect to exceptions to discharge in bankruptcy for certain qualified educational loans.

Bill: 110-s-1561
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Collection of accounts
Education
Higher education
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
Revises federal bankruptcy law with respect to the exemption from the exception to discharge in bankruptcy for certain educational loans if excepting such debt from discharge would impose an undue hardship on the debtor and debtor's dependents.
 
Limits such exemption to the existing ones for: (1) an educational benefit overpayment or loan made, insured, or guaranteed by a governmental unit; and (2) an obligation to repay funds received from a governmental unit as an educational benefit, scholarship, or stipend.
 
Repeals the current exemption for: (1) any loan made under any program funded in whole or in part by a governmental unit or nonprofit institution; and (2) any other qualified education loan incurred by an individual debtor on behalf of the taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, or any dependent, including indebtedness used to refinance a qualified education loan. (Thus makes both kinds of loans nondischargeable in bankruptcy.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7336)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7335-7336)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Fluorescent Lightbulb Implementation Program to Save Americans Value and Energy

Bill: 110-s-1562
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Energy assistance for the poor
Energy efficiency
Grants-in-aid
Lighting
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
Fluorescent Lightbulb Implementation Program to Save Americans Value and Energy - Instructs the Secretary of Energy to establish a program of grants to states for distribution of medium base compact fluorescent lamps to households.
 

 
Requires a recipient state to give distribution priority to low-income households.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7337)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7337)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Sudan Disclosure and Enforcement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1563
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Africa (Sub-Saharan)
American investments
Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil War
Commerce
Congress
Congressional oversight
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Fines (Penalties)
Genocide
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Human rights
International Affairs
Law
Mines and mineral resources
Peacekeeping forces
Petroleum industry
President and foreign policy
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Sanctions (International law)
Securities regulation
State-sponsored terrorism
Sudan
Terrorism
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
Sudan Disclosure and Enforcement Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should bring before the U.N. Security Council a resolution requiring multilateral sanctions against the government of Sudan in response to its acts of genocide against the people of Darfur and its continued refusal to allow the implementation of a peacekeeping force. 
 
Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require specified securities issuers who are involved in the petroleum industry in Sudan to disclose to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC): (1) such activities if they result in annual gross receipts of $1 million or more; and (2) the geographic area within Sudan where such activities occurred, and specifically if such activities took place solely within Southern Sudan and designated areas. 
 
Authorizes a national security waiver.
 
Terminates disclosure requirements if the Secretary of State: (1) determines that Sudan no longer supports acts of international terrorism; and (2) certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that Sudan has demonstrated significant improvement in protecting Darfur's civilian population. 
 
Amends the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to increase civil penalties and establish criminal penalties for violations of such Act.
 
Authorizes additional appropriations for the Office of Foreign Assets Control to support intelligence gathering, licensing, compliance, and administrative activities associated with sanctions against Sudan and persons operating in Sudan.
 
Requires the President to publish notice in the Federal Register if specified sanctions have been terminated.
 
Amends the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 to repeal specified reporting requirements respecting companies performing natural resource extraction activities, including oil-related activities and mining of minerals, in Sudan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7338-7340)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7337-7338)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
All Healthy Children Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1564
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Coinsurance
Comprehensive health care
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Expedited congressional procedure
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Insurance premiums
Legislation
Maternal health services
Medical economics
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Pregnant women
Social Welfare
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
All Healthy Children Act of 2007 - Amends the Social Security Act (SSA) to establish under a new title XXII (All Healthy Children Program) a state-operated program receiving federal financial assistance to provide comprehensive health coverage for children and pregnant and post-partum women in place of benefits previously provided for them under SSA titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP).

Establishes a Commission on Children's Health Coverage to: (1) evaluate annually for Congress the status of children's health coverage in the United States; and (2) report to Congress a legislative proposal that would assure health benefits coverage for all U.S. children. 

Provides for expedited congressional consideration of such proposal.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10304)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to provide a renewable portfolio standard, and other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-1567
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alternative energy sources
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Energy
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power production
Electric power transmission
Electric utilities
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Heating
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Solar energy
Standards
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to set forth a federal renewable energy portfolio standard applicable to calendar years 2010 to 2025. 
 
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to establish: (1) a renewable energy credit trading program under which electric utilities shall submit to the Secretary renewable energy credits to certify their compliance with such standard; and (2) a state renewable energy account program for grants to state agencies to promote renewable energy production (including programs that promote technologies that reduce the use of electricity at customer sites such as solar water heating).
 

 
Requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to issue and enforce regulations to ensure that an electric utility recovers all prudently incurred costs associated with compliance with this Act.
 
Instructs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on methods to increase transmission line capacity for wind energy development.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7614-7615)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7170-7172)
Personal Philanthropy Account Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1568
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Charities
Employee benefit plans
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Self-employed
Social Welfare
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax returns
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
Personal Philanthropy Account Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction (whether or not the taxpayer itemizes deductions) for cash contributions to a personal philanthropy account. Defines &quot;personal philanthropy account&quot; as a tax-exempt trust created to make distributions for charitable purposes. Sets forth rules providing for employer contributions to such accounts, default charitable distributions in the event of an account holder's death, and minimum annual distributions.

Allows an exclusion from the gross income of an employee for contributions made by an employer to the employee's personal philanthropy account. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans Advocacy Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1569
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Grants-in-aid
Health
Law
Legal services
Military medicine
Military personnel
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
Veterans Advocacy Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a program to assess the feasibility and advisability of utilizing legal entities to provide legal services to assist veterans and members of the Armed Forces in applying for and receiving health care, benefits, and services. Requires the Secretary to award ten grants to legal entities to provide such services. Limits grant duration to one year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7341-7342)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7340-7341)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Truth in Employment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1570
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee rights
Employee selection
Employers' liability
Industrial relations
Law
Unfair labor practices

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
Truth in Employment Act of 2007 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to provide that nothing in specified prohibitions against unfair labor practices by employers shall be construed as requiring an employer to employ any person who seeks or has sought employment with the employer in furtherance of other employment or agency status. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Aviation Improvement Act

Bill: 110-s-1571
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Access to airports
Airline passenger traffic
Airlines
Airports
Aviation fuels
Charter airlines
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy prices
Federal aid to transportation
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Subsidies

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
Rural Aviation Improvement Act - Repeals the Essential Air Service Local Participation Program.
 
Prohibits the Secretary of Transportation from compensating an air carrier for providing essential air service to an eligible community in the 48 contiguous states if such community: (1) is located fewer than 70 miles from the nearest large or medium hub airport; or (2) is fewer than 210 miles from the nearest large or medium hub airport and requires a per passenger subsidy for such service in excess of $200 for calendar year 2008, including any increase for each ensuing calendar year.
 
Authorizes a state or local government to submit a proposal to the Secretary to: (1) compensate an air carrier for essential air service to an eligible community above the $200 per passenger subsidy cap; (2) compensate a preferred air carrier for providing such service (i.e., an air carrier preferred by the affected community although it is not the lowest bidder); and (3) restore the eligibility of a community to receive subsidized essential air service.
 
Requires the Secretary, in determining compensation (or eligibility for it) for essential air service based on highway mileage, to use the highway mileage of the most commonly used route between the eligible community and the nearest medium hub airport or large hub airport.
 
Establishes within the Office of the Secretary the Office of Rural Aviation.
 
Extends through FY2011 the Secretary's authority under the essential air service program to make agreements to provide assistance to underserved airports.
 
Requires adjustment of compensation to air carriers for providing essential air service in order to take into account significant increases in fuel costs.
 
Directs the Secretary to treat passenger boardings on aircraft operated by charter air carriers at airports receiving essential air service as passenger boardings for purposes of making apportionments of airport improvement grant funds.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7344)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Child Health Care Crisis Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1572
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Child development
Child health
Child psychology
Community health services
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Demography
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Family services
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Hospital rates
Marriage counseling
Medical education
Medical residents
Medical statistics
Medicare
Mental health services
Minorities
Minority children
Minority health
Poor children
Psychiatric personnel
Psychiatrists
Psychiatry
Psychologists
Psychology
Scholarships
School health programs
Social Welfare
Social work
Student loan funds
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
Child Health Care Crisis Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to establish programs related to mental health services for children and adolescents, to include: (1) entering into contracts with qualified individuals to pay educational loans in exchange for providing mental health services to children and adolescents; (2) awarding scholarships to students who agree to work as child and adolescent mental health service professionals after graduation or completion of residency or fellowship; (3) awarding competitive grants to higher education institutions to establish or expand internship or other field placement programs for students receiving specialized training or clinical experience in child and adolescent mental health; (4) awarding grants to state-licensed mental heath organizations to pay for programs for preservice or in-service training of paraprofessional child and adolescent mental health workers; and (5) awarding grants to higher education institutions to establish or expand graduate child and adolescent mental health programs.

 
 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to adjust the graduate medical education program to: (1) exclude a reasonable number of residents or fellows in child and adolescent psychiatry when calculating the maximum number of residents in the field of allopathic or osteopathic medicine for which the hospital may be paid; and (2) extend the period of board eligibility for residents and fellows in child and adolescent psychiatry. 
Directs the Administrator to study and report to Congress on the distribution of, and need for, child mental health service professionals and on a comparison of such distribution and need on a state-by-state basis.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7345-7348)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7345)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Early Childhood Investment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1573
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child care workers
Child development
Child health
Commerce
Community and school
Continuing education
Curricula
Day care
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
English language
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Higher education
Indian children
Indian education
Infants
Labor and Employment
Medical screening
Medical tests
Minorities
Native Americans
Nonprofit organizations
Parent and child
Poor children
Preschool education
Public-private partnerships
Social Welfare
Special education
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
Early Childhood Investment Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award a three-to-five-year grant to not more than one public-private partnership in each state to promote school readiness by improving the quality of, and access to, early childhood development opportunities for children throughout the state from birth to kindergarten. 
 
Requires each partnership to include the state and at least one tax-exempt organization and be led by a board of directors.
 
Reduces the federal share of the cost of activities assisted under this Act from 50% in the first year of a grant to 30% in the third and any succeeding year of the grant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7348-7349)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate