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Zero Baseline Budget Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1442
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Employee benefit plans
Federal budgets
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Indexing (Economic policy)
Inflation
Off-budget expenditures
Public housing
Salaries
Social Welfare
Supplemental appropriations
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Zero Baseline Budget Act of 2007 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to eliminate sequential and cumulative adjustments for inflation from Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline projections for discretionary appropriations with respect to: (1) expiring housing contracts and social insurance administrative expenses; (2) offset pay absorption and pay annualization; (3) inflation; and (4) any accounting for changes required by law in the level of agency payments for personnel benefits other than pay.
 
Exempts from the requirement that budgetary resources (other than unobligated balances) be at the level available in the current year any resources designated as an emergency requirement or provided in supplemental appropriations laws.
 
Prohibits adjustments for inflation or any other factor.
 
Amends the Act to extend indefinitely the formula used to calculate the baseline.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Fairness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1443
Sponsor: Rep. Gutierrez, Luis V. [D-IL-4]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Commercial arbitration
Consumer protection
Contracts
Law
Restrictive trade practices

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Consumer Fairness Act of 2007 - Amends the Consumer Credit Protection Act to treat as an unfair and deceptive trade act or practice under federal or state law any written provision in a consumer transaction or contract which requires binding arbitration to resolve a controversy arising out of or related to the transaction or contract, or the failure to perform any part.
 
Declares such a provision unenforceable.
 
Permits a written agreement to determine an existing controversy by binding arbitration if the parties agree after the controversy has arisen.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make interim benefit payments under certain remanded claims, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-1444
Sponsor: Rep. Hall, John J. [D-NY-19]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Claims
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disabled
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Law
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay an interim benefit of $500 per month when a claim for veterans' benefits is remanded by either the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims or the Board of Veterans' Appeals and the Secretary does not make a decision on the matter within 180 days of the date of the remand.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Tax Free Road Home Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1445
Sponsor: Rep. Jefferson, William J. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Building construction
Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Floods
Home repair and improvement
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Hurricanes
Income tax
Louisiana
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Tax Free Road Home Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income payments to individual taxpayers from the Louisiana Road Home program for rebuilding or renewing a personal residence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7767)
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Small Business Act to allow an increased deferment period for loans under the 7(b) loan program.

Bill: 110-hr-1446
Sponsor: Rep. Jindal, Bobby [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Alabama
Collection of accounts
Disaster loans
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Floods
Government lending
Hurricanes
Louisiana
Mississippi
Small business
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Amends the Small Business Act to authorize the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), in making disaster loans to small businesses, to provide an option to defer repayment on such loans for a period of up to four years.
 
Applies such authority retroactively to any SBA disaster loan that was made: (1) in response to Hurricanes Katrina or Rita; and (2) for a small business located in a county or parish designated by the Administrator as a disaster area by reason of either such hurricane.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
CTR Modernization Act

Bill: 110-hr-1447
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Bank deposits
Bank records
Coins and coinage
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Department of the Treasury
Economics and Public Finance
Financial institutions
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Indexing (Economic policy)
Law
Money
Money laundering

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
CTR Modernization Act - Amends federal law governing mandatory reports on currency transactions to exempt depository institutions from the requirement that all domestic financial institutions file a report on every domestic coin and currency transaction. 
 
Requires such a depository institution to file a currency transaction report, however, if the transaction involves at least $30,000.
 
Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury after a certain date from requiring a depository institution to file a currency transaction report regarding a transaction of less than $30,000.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) review at least every five years the threshold for reporting currency transactions; and (2) adjust the threshold amount for inflation.
 
Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations that exempt any depository institution from reporting a currency transaction with a qualified customer.
 
Defines qualified customer as any person that: (1) is incorporated or organized under federal or state law, or registered and eligible to do business within the United States or a state; (2) has maintained a deposit account with the depository institution for at least 12 months; and (3) has engaged, using such account, in multiple currency transactions subject to reporting requirements.
 
Requires the Secretary to prescribe regulations that: (1) provide guidance on identifying currency transactions involving illegal or suspicious activities; and (2) create a list of information that may be disclosed to customers before the reporting of suspicious activity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
VA Hospital Quality Report Card Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1448
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Case mix (Medical care)
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health
Hospital care
Hospital personnel
Iraq compilation
Medical records
Nosocomial infections
Nurses
Patients' rights
Quality of care
Right of privacy
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
VA Hospital Quality Report Card Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish and implement a Hospital Quality Report Card Initiative to report on health care quality in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals. Requires the Secretary, at least semiannually, to publish reports on VA hospital quality, including assessments of effectiveness, safety, timeliness, and efficiency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Peremptory Challenge Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1449
Sponsor: Rep. Lungren, Daniel E. [R-CA-3]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Appellate courts
Bankruptcy courts
Civil procedure
Claims
Courts of special jurisdiction
Criminal procedure
District courts
Finance and Financial Sector
Judges
Magistrates
Pretrial procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Peremptory Challenge Act of 2007 - Amends the federal judicial code to require: (1) reassignment to another appropriate judicial officer of any civil or criminal case to be tried in a federal district court, the United States Court of Federal Claims, or a bankruptcy court if all parties on one side file a reassignment request within 20 days (with certain exceptions) after initial assignment of a judicial officer; and (2) the chief judge of the court of appeals for the circuit in which the case is to be tried, or another judge designated by the chief judge, to determine any question arising as to which parties should be grouped together as a side for such purpose.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
To create 4 new permanent judgeships for the eastern district of California.

Bill: 110-hr-1450
Sponsor: Rep. Lungren, Daniel E. [R-CA-3]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
California
Congress
District courts
Government Operations and Politics
Judges
Judicial districts
Presidential appointments

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Requires the President to appoint four additional district judges for the Eastern District of California.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Voters' Right to Know Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1452
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Campaign funds
Congress
Congressional elections
Election forecasting
Fund raising
Government paperwork
Political advertising
Presidential elections
Science, Technology, Communications
Social surveys
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Voters' Right to Know Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require any person conducting a federal election phone bank (except through non-political general media facilities) to report to the Federal Election Commission specified information about phone bank costs, funding sources, household contacts, and questions asked or information provided to respondents. Limits such requirement to projects contacting at least 1,500 households during the 25 days before a federal election.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E504)
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Scientific Communications Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1453
Sponsor: Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-5]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Communication in science
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Graduate education
Language arts
Scientific education
Scientists

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Scientific Communications Act of 2007 - Directs the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish a program for making grants to institutions to provide communications training to graduate students in order to improve the ability of scientists to interact with policymakers. Requires such program to be integrated with other NSF programs for the training of scientists, such as the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program.
 
Requires recipients of grants under this Act to transmit annual reports to NSF describing the operations of the program funded by the grant. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E511-512)
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
To create 4 new permanent judgeships for the eastern district of California, to provide for an additional place of holding court in the eastern district of California, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-1454
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Kevin [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
California
Congress
District courts
Government Operations and Politics
Judges
Judicial districts
Presidential appointments

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Directs the President to appoint four additional district judges for the eastern district of California. 
 
Makes Bakersfield an additional place of holding court for the eastern district.
 
Directs the chief judge of the eastern district to designate one district judge whose official duty station shall be in Bakersfield, and another whose official duty station shall be in Redding.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum and Educational Center Act

Bill: 110-hr-1455
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Anthropology
Arts, Culture, Religion
Black history
Cemeteries and funerals
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Department of the Interior
Executive reorganization
Exhibitions
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
Land transfers
Leases
Minorities
Museums
National monuments
National parks
New York City
Slavery

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum and Educational Center Act - Establishes the African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum and Educational Center at the African Burial Ground National Monument in the city of New York, New York. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service (NPS), to: (1) acquire for the Museum property that is located adjacent to the National Monument or in any other area of the African Burial Ground National Historic Landmark in the city other than the location adjacent to the Monument; (2) plan, design, and construct the Museum on the acquired property. 
 
Provides for operation of the Museum by the Secretary.
 
Establishes within the Department of the Interior the African Burial Ground Advisory Council to: (1) make recommendations to the Secretary on the planning, design, and construction of the Museum; and (2) advise and assist the Secretary on all matters relating to the administration, operation, maintenance, and preservation of the Museum. 
 
Requires: (1) the Secretary to appoint a Director for the Museum; and (2) the Director of the Museum to manage such Museum.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
American-Owned Property in Occupied Cyprus Claims Act

Bill: 110-hr-1456
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative remedies
Armed Forces and National Security
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Compensation (Law)
Crime and Law Enforcement
Cyprus
Department of Justice
District courts
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Europe
Evidence (Law)
Expropriation
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability (International law)
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
International claims
Jurisdiction
Law
Legal fees
Limitation of actions
Middle East and North Africa
Military occupation
Negotiations
New York State
Rent
Right of property
Turkey

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
American-Owned Property in Occupied Cyprus Claims Act - Amends the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949 to urge the President to authorize the Secretary of State to begin negotiations with Turkey to allow for certain claims by U.S. nationals respecting real property in the Turkish-held portions of Cyprus.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to establish in the Treasury a Claims Fund for the payment of unsatisfied claims of U.S. nationals against Turkey. Sets forth payment procedures.
 
Grants U.S. district court jurisdiction for civil actions against any private person (any natural person or legal entity other than Turkey) by a U.S. national who owns property in the Turkish-held portion of Cyprus.
 
Sets forth the conditions under which an action may be brought against the government of Turkey in U.S. or state courts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7961)
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Post-Abortion Depression Research and Care Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1457
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Access to health care
Ambulatory care
Case management
Clinical trials
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Economics and Public Finance
Epidemiology
Families
Family services
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Health education
Home care services
Medical fees
Medical research
Medical tests
Mental care facilities
Mental depression
Mental health
Mental health services
Mental illness
Pharmaceutical research
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Post-Abortion Depression Research and Care Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), to expand and intensify NIMH research and related activities with respect to post-abortion depression and psychosis.
 
Requires the Director of NIMH to: (1) conduct or support research to expand the understanding of the causes of, and to find a cure for, such post-abortion conditions; and (2) conduct a study to determine the incidence and prevalence of cases of post-abortion conditions and the symptoms, severity, and duration of such cases, toward the goal of more fully identifying the characteristics of such cases and developing diagnostic techniques. 
Requires the Secretary to make grants to establish, operate, and coordinate effective and cost-efficient systems for the delivery of essential services to individuals with such post-abortion conditions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Family Farm Preservation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1458
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agriculture and Food
Capital gains tax
Charitable contributions
Conservation easements
Environmental Protection
Environmental protection groups
Farm lands
Income tax
Land transfers
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Real estate development
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Family Farm Preservation Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income gain from the sale or exchange of qualified farmland development rights to a tax-exempt conservation organization. Defines &quot;qualified farmland development rights&quot; as a restriction limiting farmland to use as a farm for farming purposes or for exclusively conservation purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2169)