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To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to increase the ceiling on the Federal share of the costs of phase I of the Orange County, California, Regional Water Reclamation Project.

Bill: 110-hr-1175
Sponsor: Rep. Sanchez, Loretta [D-CA-47]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
California
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Irrigation
Water conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
Amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to specify the ceiling on the federal share of the costs of phase I of the Orange County, California, Regional Water Reclamation Project for FY2007-FY2016. 

action_date: 2007-06-05
text: 

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

 
Amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to specify the ceiling on the federal share of the costs of phase I of the Orange County, California, Regional Water Reclamation Project for FY2007-FY2016. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held.
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-06-05
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2007-06-05
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5942)
action_date: 2007-06-05
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H5942)
action_date: 2007-06-05
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1175.
action_date: 2007-06-05
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5942)
action_date: 2007-06-05
text: Mrs. Christensen moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2007-02-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
To provide discretionary authority to an immigration judge to determine that an alien parent of a United States citizen child should not be ordered removed, deported, or excluded from the United States.

Bill: 110-hr-1176
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Child welfare
Citizenship
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Deportation
Families
Illegal aliens
Judges
Law
Parent and child
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act, in the case of an alien subject to removal, deportation, or exclusion who is the parent of a U.S. citizen child, to authorize an immigration judge to decline to order such removal if the judge determines that such action is against the child's best interests. 
 
States that such discretion shall not apply with respect to an alien whom the judge determines: (1) is excludable or deportable on security grounds; or (2) has engaged in sex trafficking or severe forms of trafficking in persons.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
Sole Community Hospital Preservation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1177
Sponsor: Rep. Tanner, John S. [D-TN-8]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
Sole Community Hospital Preservation Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the prospective payment system (PPS) for hospital outpatient department (OPD) services, particularly the transitional adjustment for sole community hospitals to limit any decline in payment. Holds sole community hospitals permanently harmless from any decline in payment. Increases the payment for covered OPD services in a sole community hospital by the amount of any difference between the pre-Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (pre-BBA) amount and a lesser PPS amount.

Specifies the rebasing of the payment-to-cost ratio for sole community hospitals for cost reporting periods beginning on or after October 1, 2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-16
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: 2007-02-16
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: 2007-02-16
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: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
Physician Assistants Continuity of Care Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1178
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Home care services
Long-term care
Medicare
Mental health services
Physicians' assistants
Social Welfare
Terminal care
Terminally ill

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
Physician Assistants Continuity of Care Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permit a physician assistant, when delegated by a physician, to: (1) certify that inpatient psychiatric hospital services or post-hospital extended care services are required; (2) establish and review a plan for home health services; and (3) certify a terminal illness with respect to hospice care.

Covers as hospice care any legally authorized services of a physician assistant performed under a physician's supervision.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-16
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: 2007-02-16
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: 2007-02-16
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: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
To clarify the authority of the Secretary of the Interior with regard to management of elk in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Bill: 110-hr-1179
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Colorado
Elk
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Hunting
National parks
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Volunteer workers
Wildlife management

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
Declares that nothing in the Act of March 2, 1929, (relating to prohibited acts of killing, wounding, or capturing wild birds and animals and fish in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado) or other applicable law shall be construed as prohibiting the Secretary of the Interior from using the services of qualified individuals, as volunteers or under contract with the Secretary, to assist in the implementation of the Elk and Vegetation Management Plan for the Park by using lethal means to reduce the population of elk within the Park. Instructs the Secretary to consult with the Colorado Division of Wildlife regarding possible participation by it in the implementation of such Plan. 
 
Prohibits anything in this Act from being construed as applicable to the taking of wildlife within Rocky Mountain National Park for any purpose other than the implementation of the Elk and Vegetation Management Plan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E376-377)
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
Western Waters and Farm Lands Protection Act

Bill: 110-hr-1180
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Agriculture and Food
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Commercial arbitration
Compensation (Law)
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Contracts
Department of the Interior
Environmental Protection
Farm lands
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Groundwater
Hazardous wastes
Indian lands
Infrastructure
Interstate commissions
Landowners
Law
Legal fees
Liability for environmental damages
Licenses
Methane
Minorities
Native Americans
Oil and gas leases
Oil well drilling
Planning
Pollution control
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reclamation of land
Right of property
Right-of-way
Soil pollution
State laws
Surety and fidelity
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water quality
Water rights
Water supply
Water use
Wells

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
Western Waters and Farm Lands Protection Act - Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to require operators producing oil or gas (including coalbed methane) to: (1) replace water supplies affected by drilling; and (2) submit water management plans along with their lease applications. 
 
Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from authorizing exploration and drilling operations on lands where title to oil and gas resources is owned by the United States but the surface estate is owned by a non-federal entity unless: (1) an agreement has been reached with the surface owner (with the possibility of arbitration); or (2) the operator has made a good faith attempt to secure such an agreement and meets other specified requirements. Permits the Secretary to authorize such operations, subject to certain conditions, in the absence of an agreement with the surface estate owner or owners.
 
Requires the Secretary to give surface owners advance notice of lease sales.
 
Requires operators to meet specified reclamation standards for lands affected by oil or gas production and to post reclamation bonds. 
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop a federal remediation program for abandoned wells drilled to explore or develop federally owned minerals or located on federal lands; and (2) establish a technical assistance program for states and Indian tribes addressing environmental problems caused by abandoned wells on other lands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E373-374)
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
Congress Must Co-Sign Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1181
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Government lending
Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
Congress Must Co-Sign Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to provide advance written notice to Congress before any Department of Transportation (DOT) funds may be used to make a loan in the amount of $1 billion or more. Prohibits DOT from making such loan until Congress has enacted a law specifically approving the loan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2007-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E378)
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow section 1031 treatment for exchanges involving certain mutual ditch, reservoir, or irrigation company stock.

Bill: 110-hr-1182
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Capital gains tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Land transfers
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reservoirs
Stocks
Tax exclusion
Tax-exempt organizations
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax-free exchanges of shares in certain mutual ditch, reservoir, or irrigation companies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E375)
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
Iraq Contingency Planning Act

Bill: 110-hr-1183
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Anarchism
Armed forces abroad
Civil War
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Ethnic relations
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military occupation
Military operations
Military strategy
Minorities
Muslims
President and foreign policy
Religion
Sovereignty
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
Iraq Contingency Planning Act - Requires the President by June 30, 2007, to report to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees detailing U.S. and U.S. Armed Forces contingency plans to respond to the following three scenarios regarding future developments in Iraq as identified by the most recent National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq: (1) chaos leading to partition; (2) emergence of a Shia strongman; and (3) anarchic fragmentation of power.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-02-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E378-379)
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
At-Risk Youth Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1184
Sponsor: Rep. Watson, Diane E. [D-CA-33]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Commerce
Community and school
Compensatory education
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Employment of the disadvantaged
Families
Federal aid to education
Gangs
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Secondary education
Service learning
Social Welfare
Tax deductions
Taxation
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
At-Risk Youth Protection Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to states for subgrants to alternative public schools or programs that serve the needs of students at risk of educational failure. Requires subgrantees to require their secondary school students to perform at least 100 hours of community service each school year and receive training or counseling on conflict resolution as a prerequisite to performing such service.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a tax deduction to a business of: (1) $750 per 100 hours of community service provided by such a student through such business during the taxable year; and (2) $2,000 for each graduate of such alternative school or program who completes one year of employment with such business.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
Wartime Treatment Study Act

Bill: 110-hr-1185
Sponsor: Rep. Wexler, Robert [D-FL-19]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aggression
Armed Forces and National Security
Arrest
Caribbean area
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Compensation (Law)
Concentration camps
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Deportation
Detention of persons
Directories
Europe
European American ethnic groups
Executive orders
Expropriation
Federal advisory bodies
Foreign agents
Genocide
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
History
International Affairs
Jewish holocaust (1939-1945)
Jews
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Latin Americans
Law
Legislation
Military personnel
Political persecution
President and foreign policy
Public meetings
Recruiting and enlistment
Refugees
Repatriation
Right of property
Right to travel
War
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
Wartime Treatment Study Act - Establishes the Commission on Wartime Treatment of European Americans to review U.S. government wartime treatment (from September 1, 1939, through December 31, 1948) of European Americans and European Latin Americans.

Requires the Commission to review: (1) government actions with respect to European Americans and European Latin Americans pursuant to the Alien Enemies Acts, Presidential Proclamations 2526, 2527, 2655, 2662, 2685, Executive Orders 9066 and 9095, and related directives pertaining to the registration, arrest, exclusion, internment, exchange, or deportation of such people; (2) registration requirements, travel and property restrictions, internment, and forced abandonment of property; (3) participation by European Americans in the U.S. Armed Forces; and (4) appropriate remedies, including future protection of civil liberties during wartime.

Establishes the Commission on Wartime Treatment of Jewish Refugees to review the U.S. government's refusal to allow entry into the United States of Jewish and other refugees fleeing persecution or genocide in Europe. Directs the Commission to include reviews of: (1) the rationale for such refusal, its perceived benefit, and its impact on refugees; and (2) federal refugee policy concerning those fleeing persecution or genocide.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
United States-India Energy Security Cooperation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1186
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2007-02-16 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Carbon cycle
Coal
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Energy
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Energy security
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection
Environmental technology
India
International cooperation
International environmental cooperation
Petroleum
Petroleum reserves
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
South Asia
Technical assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: 
United States-India Energy Security Cooperation Act of 2007 - Declares it is the policy of the United States to: (1) cooperate with India to address common energy challenges, to ensure future global energy security, and to increase the world-wide availability of clean energy; (2) promote dialogue and increased understanding between the United States and India on our respective national energy policies and strategies as an integral part of the expanding strategic partnership between the two countries; and (3) collaborate with India in energy research that fosters market-based approaches to energy security and offers the promise of technological breakthroughs that reduce oil dependency globally.
 
Authorizes the President to establish programs in support of greater energy cooperation between the United States and India.
 
Authorizes assistance for cooperation related to: (1) clean coal and emission reduction technologies and carbon sequestration projects; (2) alternative fuel sources, such as ethanol, bio-mass, coal-based fuels, and hydrogen; (3) energy efficiency projects; (4) commercially available technologies that promote clean and efficient energy use in India; and (5) technical assistance in support of India's development of a strategic oil reserve.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Introduced in House