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Federal Judgeship and Administrative Efficiency Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3520
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2007-09-10 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Administration of justice
Advice and consent of the Senate
Alabama
Alaska
Appellate courts
Arizona
Arkansas
Bankruptcy courts
California
Colorado
Congress
Delaware
District courts
Federal-territorial relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Florida
Georgia
Government Operations and Politics
Guam
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Income tax
Indiana
Iowa
Judges
Judicial districts
Judicial reform
Jurisdiction
Kentucky
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York State
North Carolina
Northern Mariana Islands
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Presidential appointments
Puerto Rico
South Carolina
Tax courts
Taxation
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virgin Islands
Virginia
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: 
Federal Judgeship and Administrative Efficiency Act of 2007 - Federal Judgeship Act of 2007 - Directs the President to: (1) appoint additional circuit judges for the first, second, sixth, and ninth circuit courts of appeals and temporary judges for the eighth and ninth circuit courts of appeals; and (2) appoint additional permanent and temporary district judges for districts in specified states. 
 
Establishes a federal judicial district in the Virgin Islands. Revises provisions relating to the jurisdiction of courts of the Virgin Islands.

Enhanced Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 2007 - Provides for additional permanent and temporary bankruptcy judgeships in specified states.
 
Judicial Administration and Improvements Act of 2007 - Amends the federal judicial code to divide the Ninth Judicial Circuit into the Ninth Circuit (to be composed of California, Guam, Hawaii, and the Northern Mariana Islands) and the Twelfth Circuit (to be composed of Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington). 
 
Declares that the former Ninth Circuit shall cease to exist for administrative purposes two years after the enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2007-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
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
I LEAD Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3523
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2007-09-11 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Community and school
Continuing education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational planning
Educational research
Educational surveys
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Mentoring
Parent-school relationships
Recruiting and enlistment
Rural education
School administration
School districts
School personnel
School security
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Urban affairs
Urban education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: 
Improving the Leadership and Effectiveness of Administrators for Districts Act of 2007 or the I LEAD Act of 2007 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (the Act) to direct the Secretary of Education to establish a program awarding competitive School Leadership Partnership grants to partnerships, each composed of a state and a consortium of high-need local educational agencies (LEAs), to: (1) contract with experienced external agencies for research-based evaluations of the effectiveness of state school leader certification or licensure requirements and methods of recruiting, training, and retaining effective school leaders who improve student achievement at schools receiving improvement funds under part A of title I of the Act; (2) use such evaluations, if the certification or licensure requirements are shown to be ineffective, to develop plans to improve such requirements and school leadership recruitment, training, and support programs; and (3) if required to develop a plan, create model School Leadership Initiatives by implementing such plans in an urban and/or rural high-need LEA participating in their partnerships.
 
Requires grantees to contract with an independent research and evaluation firm to evaluate the effectiveness of their School Leadership Initiatives in recruiting, training, and retraining school leaders and improving student achievement. 
 
Directs the Secretary to award an additional grant to partnership grantees whose model School Leadership Initiatives are evaluated as effective so that they can implement such Initiatives in other LEAs within their states.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Introduced in House
FACT Act Rulewriting Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3525
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2007-09-14 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Consumer credit
Consumer protection
Department of the Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
Federal Trade Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
National Credit Union Administration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: 
FACT Act Rulewriting Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to confer responsibility upon the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alone to establish accuracy guidelines and prescribe regulations (according to the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003, or the FACT Act of 2003): (1) for furnishers of information to consumer reporting agencies; and (2) about the circumstances under which such a furnisher shall be required to reinvestigate a dispute concerning the accuracy of information in a consumer report, based on a consumer's direct request. (Currently the FTC, the federal banking agencies, and the National Credit Union Administration are jointly required to establish such guidelines and prescribe such regulations.)
 

 
Directs the federal banking agencies and the National Credit Union Administration to establish guidelines and prescribe regulations within their respective jurisdictions that are the same or substantially similar to those prescribed by the FTC.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Introduced in House
To extend for two months the authorities of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

Bill: 110-hr-3527
Sponsor: Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-27]
Introduced: 2007-09-14 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: American investments
Developing countries
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
International Affairs
Investment guaranty insurance
Overseas Private Investment Corporation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: 
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to extend for two months, from September 30 to November 30, 2007, the authorities of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).

action_date: 2007-09-17
text: 

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

 
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to extend for two months, from September 30 to November 30, 2007, the authorities of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2007-09-18
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 347 - 30 (Roll no. 869). (text: CR H10384)
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 347 - 30 (Roll no. 869).(text: CR H10384)
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H10407-10408)
action_date: 2007-09-17
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: 2007-09-17
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3527.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H10384)
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Mr. Faleomavaega moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent law the treatment of tax-exempt combat pay as earned income for purposes of the earned income credit.

Bill: 110-hr-3529
Sponsor: Rep. Boyda, Nancy E. [D-KS-2]
Introduced: 2007-09-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Earned income tax credit
Income tax
Military pay
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the taxpayer election to treat combat zone compensation as earned income for purposes of calculating earned income tax credit amounts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Introduced in House
Public and Teaching Hospital Preservation Act

Bill: 110-hr-3533
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2007-09-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Higher education
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law
Medicaid
Medical education
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: 
Public and Teaching Hospital Preservation Act - Amends the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act of 2007 to extend by one year the moratorium on: (1) implementation of a rule relating to the federal-state financial partnership under titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act; and (2) finalization of a Medicaid rule regarding the treatment of graduate medical education (GME).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Introduced in House
Energy Efficient Appliance Tax Credit for Washers and Dryers Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3534
Sponsor: Rep. Ferguson, Mike [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2007-09-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Electric appliances
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Income tax
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: 
Energy Efficient Appliance Tax Credit for Washers and Dryers Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 25% of the cost (up to $500) of clothes washers and dryers which meet requirements for the Energy Star program. Terminates such credit after 2016.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Introduced in House
Homebuyer's Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3535
Sponsor: Rep. Hodes, Paul W. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2007-09-14 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Bank accounts
Commerce
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Debtor and creditor
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing finance
Insurance premiums
Mortgage banks
Mortgages
Property insurance
Property tax
Real estate appraisal
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: 
Homebuyer's Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to require a creditor to establish, in an insured depository institution, an escrow or impound account for payment of taxes and hazard insurance at the time of the consummation of a subprime mortgage transaction.
 
Requires such account to remain in existence for as long as the subprime mortgage is outstanding.
 
Requires creditors, before consummating a consumer credit transaction involving an impound, trust, or escrow account, to provide the following written disclosures: (1) that an escrow or impound account will be established; (2) the amount required to fund such account; (3) the amount in the initial year of estimated taxes and hazard insurance premiums; and (4) the estimated monthly amount payable for taxes and hazard insurance.
 
Amends the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 to extend its appraisal requirements to all real estate related financial transactions, not only those that are federally related.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Introduced in House
Paget's Cancer Awareness Act

Bill: 110-hr-3536
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2007-09-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Breast cancer
Congressional reporting requirements
Demography
Health education
Medical research
Science, Technology, Communications
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: 
Paget's Cancer Awareness Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out a program to provide information and education to health professionals and the public on the symptoms of and treatment for Paget's disease of the breast. Requires the Secretary to study aspects of the disease concerning the range of symptoms, time lapse between the onset of symptoms and diagnosis and treatment, and demographic distribution. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Introduced in House
Taxpayers' Cancer Research Funding Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3537
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2007-09-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Breast cancer
Checkoff
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to research
Government trust funds
Health
Income tax
Medical research
Prostate cancer
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax returns
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: 
Taxpayers' Cancer Research Funding Act of 2007- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers to designate on their tax returns a $5 contribution to the Breast and Prostate Cancer Research Fund ($10 for joint returns). 

Establishes in the Treasury the Breast and Prostate Cancer Research Fund to award grants for breast or prostate cancer research.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Introduced in House
To declare water hoses containing lead to be banned hazardous substances.

Bill: 110-hr-3542
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2007-09-17 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Consumer protection
Defective products
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Lead
Product safety
Standards
Water Resources Development
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: 
Declares any water hose that contains more than 15 parts per billion lead to be a banned hazardous product within the meaning of the Consumer Product Safety Act. Authorizes the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to revise such standard to a lower level it determines can be achieved, based on the best available scientific and technical information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Introduced in House
Catalyst to Better Diabetes Care Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3544
Sponsor: Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18]
Introduced: 2007-09-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Chronically ill
Cost effectiveness
Diabetes
Education
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Law
Licenses
Medical education
Medical records
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Medicare
Public records
Social Welfare
Vital statistics

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: 
Catalyst to Better Diabetes Care Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to: (1) review uptake and utilization of the Medicare diabetes screening benefit; (2) establish an outreach program to identify existing efforts to increase awareness of the diabetes screening benefit among Medicare beneficiaries and providers; and (3) maximize economies of scale, cost-effectiveness, and resource allocation in increasing utilization of the diabetes screening benefit.
 
Requires the Secretary of Commerce to establish an advisory group to examine and recommend best practices of chronic illness employee wellness incentivization and disease management programs.
 
Directs the Secretary to prepare, biennially, a diabetes report card for the nation and for each state.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to: (1) promote the education and training of physicians on how to properly complete birth and death certificates and the importance of such data; (2) encourage state adoption of the latest standard revisions of birth and death certificates; and (3) work with states to reengineer their vital statistics systems to provide cost-effective, timely, and vital systems data. Allows the Secretary to promote the addition to death certificates of language to improve the collection of diabetes mortality data.
 
Requires the Secretary to conduct a study of the impact of diabetes on the practice of medicine in the United Sates and the level of diabetes medical education that should be required prior to licensure, board certification, and board recertification.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Introduced in House
Rural Education Achievement Program Reauthorization Act

Bill: 110-hr-3545
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-09-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Continuing education
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational innovations
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Immigrant education
Immigration
Language and languages
Literacy programs
Recruiting of employees
Rural education
School districts
School security
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: 
Rural Education Achievement Program Reauthorization Act - Amends part B (Rural Education Initiative) of title VI of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to revise the Small, Rural School Achievement program, which gives rural local educational agencies (LEAs) federal formula grants and greater flexibility in the use of state educational funds.
 
Limits eligibility to LEAs whose schools are all designated with a school locale code of Fringe Rural, Distant Rural, or Remote Rural, unless located in an area the state defines as rural.
 
Raises federal grant limits when funds available to implement the program equal or exceed $100 million.
 
Alters LEAs' eligibility for federal funds under the Rural and Low-Income School program by requiring that: (1) at least 40% of the children ages 5 through 17 that LEAs serve be eligible for a free or reduced price lunch under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act; and (2) all of their schools be designated with a school locale code of Distant Town, Remote Town, Fringe Rural, Distant Rural, or Remote Rural.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Introduced in House