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To establish procedures for causes and claims relating to the leasing of Federal lands (including submerged lands) for the exploration, development, production, processing, or transmission of oil, natural gas, or any other source or form of energy, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-7124
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2008-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Claims
District courts
District of Columbia
Energy
Judicial review
Jurisdiction
Limitation of actions
Oil and gas leases
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: 
Confers exclusive jurisdiction upon the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to hear causes and claims arising from a covered energy project, any action or decision by a federal official regarding: (1) leasing federal lands for the exploration, development, production, processing, or transmission of any source or form of energy; (2) actions and decisions regarding the selection or offering of federal lands for such leasing; or (3) any action under such a lease.
 
Bars any cause or claim not filed within a 60-day period for filing a complaint.
 
Prescribes a 180-day deadline for court resolution of a complaint or cause of action.
 
Declares that such a complaint or cause of action shall take precedence over all other pending matters before the District Court.
 
Restricts to the Supreme Court any judicial review of an interlocutory or final judgment, decree, or order of the district court. Prescribes a 180-day deadline for Supreme Court resolution of such a matter.
 
Declares that all such proceedings shall take precedence over all other matters then before the Supreme Court.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
Let Wall Street Pay for Wall Street's Illiquid Assets Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7125
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2008-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Excise tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial services
Investments
Securities

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: 
Let Wall Street Pay for Wall Street's Illiquid Assets Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on securities or commodity transactions equal to 0.25% of the value of the instruments involved in such transactions. Makes such tax payable by the trading facility on which such transactions occur.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
HOME Act

Bill: 110-hr-7126
Sponsor: Rep. Richardson, Laura [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2008-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Banking and financial institutions regulation
Consumer affairs
Consumer credit
Housing finance and home ownership
Real estate business

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: 
Housing Options Made Effective Act or the HOME Act - Requires the mortgagee of a residential mortgage to: (1) file a specified notice of default before foreclosure; and (2) make direct contact with, or exercise due diligence to contact, the borrower to provide foreclosure avoidance options.
 
Prescribes loan modification and workout plan duties for loan servicers.
 
Requires that timely payments made under a loan modification or workout plan be reported to the appropriate consumer reporting agency and included in the borrower's consumer file and consumer report.
 
Requires a covered residential mortgage agreement to grant the borrower and the mortgagee the right to negotiate a loan modification or workout plan if: (1) the mortgage is in payment default or payment default is reasonably foreseeable; or (2) the mortgagee's anticipated recovery under a loan workout plan exceeds the anticipated recovery through foreclosure on a net present value basis.
 
Prohibits the mortgagee from refusing partial mortgage payments. Requires the mortgagee to credit such partial payments to the borrower's account .
 
States that mortgagee acceptance of partial payments does not affect determination of mortgage default.
 
Sets forth the rights of renters in a property foreclosure, including a tenant right to occupy the property under a lease entered into prior to foreclosure.
 
Requires a mortgagee, where a judicial or non-judicial foreclosure has been initiated, to file a notice of sale in a public filing or recordation office before the foreclosure sale.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
Total Learning Curriculum Implementation Act

Bill: 110-hr-7127
Sponsor: Rep. Shays, Christopher [R-CT-4]
Introduced: 2008-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Arts
Arts, Culture, Religion
Class size
Continuing education
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Educational innovations
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Family services
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Parent-school relationships
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: 
Total Learning Curriculum Implementation Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award up to 20 competitive grants to states and local educational agencies to implement the Total Learning curriculum in classrooms for children in kindergarten through age nine.
 
Defines the &quot;Total Learning curriculum&quot; as a multi-sensory, arts-infused curriculum in an enhanced learning environment featuring small classes, an extended day, extensive professional development, and family support services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
Medically Fragile Children's Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7130
Sponsor: Rep. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2008-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child development
Child health
Chronically ill
Comprehensive health care
Disabled
Families
Medicaid
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: 
Medically Fragile Children's Act of 2008 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to establish a program of all-inclusive care for medically fragile children as a Medicaid state plan option. 
 
Makes a child eligible if he or she is: (1) medically fragile based on health status and related indicators or is diagnosed as having one or more chronic conditions; (2) requires daily monitoring of a significant medical condition necessitating overall care planning in order to achieve or maintain optimum health and developmental status, and achieve community integration to the maximum extent possible; and (3) requires both medical assistance and at least two additional services furnished under an all-inclusive program as a result of functional deficits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
Southern Nevada Higher Education Land Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7131
Sponsor: Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2008-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Air force
Armed Forces and National Security
Colleges
Education
Higher education
Land transfers
Military bases
Nevada

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: 
Southern Nevada Higher Education Land Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey three parcels of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land to: (1) the Nevada System of Higher Education for the Great Basin College and the College of Southern Nevada; and (2) the System for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 

Specifies that the Nevada System of Higher Education may use the conveyed federal land for any purpose relating to the establishment, operation, growth, and maintenance of the System and for any uses related to such purposes, including residential and commercial development that would generally be associated with an institution of higher education. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
Gold Butte National Conservation Area and Wilderness Designation Act

Bill: 110-hr-7132
Sponsor: Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2008-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Land use and conservation
Nevada
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: 
Gold Butte National Conservation Area and Wilderness Designation Act - Establishes the Gold Butte National Conservation Area in Nevada, which shall consist of certain public land administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Clark County, Nevada. 

Requires the Secretary of the Interior to develop a management plan for the long-term protection and management of the Area.

Establishes the Gold Butte National Conservation Area Advisory Council to advise the Secretary in the preparation and implementation of the management plan.

Designates certain public lands administered by the National Park Service or the BLM in Clark County as wilderness and as either a new component of the National Wilderness Preservation System or an addition to an existing component of the System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of the Army to retain funds collected from recreation fees at Lake Texoma to repair flood-damaged recreation facilities.

Bill: 110-hr-7133
Sponsor: Rep. Boren, Dan [D-OK-2]
Introduced: 2008-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Dams
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Floods
Infrastructure
Lakes
Maintenance and repair
Oklahoma
Recreation areas
Sports and Recreation
Texas
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: 
Requires funds generated by fees collected during FY2009-FY2014 for admission to or for using recreation facilities located in public recreation areas at Denison Dam, Lake Texoma, Texas and Oklahoma, to be retained by the Secretary of the Army and used to cover the cost of repairing any federally owned recreation structure, facility, or real property at Lake Texoma damaged as a result of flooding prior to September 30, 2007.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income the gain from the sale or exchange of certain residences acquired before 2013.

Bill: 110-hr-7134
Sponsor: Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-44]
Introduced: 2008-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Income tax
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual taxpayer an exclusion from gross income of the gain from the sale or exchange of up to two residences (other than a principal residence) acquired after December 31, 2007, and before January 1, 2013. Limits the amount of such exclusion to $250,000 ($500,000 for married taxpayers filing a joint return). Allows a $500,000 exclusion amount for a surviving spouse who sells a residence within two years of the death of a spouse.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
Young Investor Financial Education Act

Bill: 110-hr-7135
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Andre [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2008-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Employee training
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Personal budgets
Saving and investment
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Teacher education
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: 
Young Investor Financial Education Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award grants to states and, through them, subgrants to local educational agencies to establish financial education programs in high schools and train teachers in such course work.
 
Allots funds to states based on their share of the country's 14 through 17 year olds, but requires each state grantee to receive at least one-half of 1% of the allotted funds.
 
Directs the Secretary to create and maintain a central clearinghouse of information on high school financial education programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
Democracy Restoration Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7136
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2008-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Correctional institutions
Ex-offenders
Government Operations and Politics
Prisoners
Prisoners' rights
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: 
 Democracy Restoration Act of 2008 - Declares that the right of a U.S. citizen to vote in any election for federal office shall not be denied or abridged because that individual has been convicted of a criminal offense unless, at the time of the election, such individual is serving a felony sentence in a correctional institution or facility. Provides for enforcement and remedies for violations of this Act.
 
Specifies that: (1) nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit a state from enacting any state law that affords the right to vote in any election for federal office on terms less restrictive than those terms established by this Act; and (2) the rights and remedies established by this Act shall be in addition to all other rights and remedies provided by law, and shall not supersede, restrict, or limit the application of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 or the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. 
Prohibits any state, unit of local government, or other person from receiving or using any federal grant amounts to construct or improve a place of incarceration unless that person has a program to notify each U.S. citizen incarcerated in that person's jurisdiction, on release from such incarceration, of that individual's rights under this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2114)
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
Supporting Mentors, Supporting Our Youth Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7137
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2008-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Compensatory education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Government lending
Higher education
Mentoring
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student activities
Student loan funds
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: 
Supporting Mentors, Supporting Our Youth Act of 2008 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide student loan forgiveness or cancellation under the Federal Family Education Loan or Direct Loan programs to student borrowers at institutions of higher education who volunteer to mentor an at-risk child for a period of at least one year.
 
Provides $10 of loan forgiveness or cancellation for each hour of mentoring, but limits such forgiveness or cancellation to no more than $10,000 and no more than five years of mentoring for each borrower.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
National Security Professionals Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7138
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Geoff [R-KY-4]
Introduced: 2008-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employment and training programs
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Homeland security

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: 
National Security Professionals Act of 2008 - Directs the President to establish a National Security Career Development Program to provide national security professionals access to integrated education, training, and professional experience interagency opportunities.

Requires: (1) the Program to establish policies to identify a threshold of interagency experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities required to obtain a national security interagency certification; and (2) the certification to be a consideration for promotion.

Requires the President's budget request to include funding requirements to establish and maintain the Program.

Requires the Program to include: (1) a rigorous and effective set of educational opportunities for national security professionals; (2) training that refreshes or enhances such a professional's expertise in planning, coordinating, and executing national security missions through instruction, drills, and exercises that take into account the full spectrum of threats and hazards that comprise America's 21st century risk environment; and (3) opportunities for professional interagency experience and intergovernmental, interagency, and interoffice assignments, fellowships, and exchanges. 

Requires the program to: (1) link career advancement or other incentives to participation in rotational or temporary detail interagency assignments; and (2) establish appropriate career development programs for political appointees in national security positions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act with respect to the qualification of the director of food services of a Medicare skilled nursing facility or a Medicaid nursing facility.

Bill: 110-hr-7139
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, David [R-TN-1]
Introduced: 2008-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Diet
Food service
Medicaid
Medicare
Nursing homes
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: 
Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require the full-time director of food services at a Medicare skilled nursing facility (SNF) or a Medicaid nursing facility, if not a qualified dietitian, to be a Certified Dietary Manager meeting the requirements of the Certifying Board for Dietary Managers or have equivalent military or academic qualifications.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-09-26
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: 2008-09-26
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: 2008-09-26
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: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
Protection for Participants in Research Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7140
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2008-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Human experimentation in medicine
Informed consent (Medical law)
Mentally disabled

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: 
Protection for Participants in Research Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require all human subject research conducted, supported, or otherwise subject to federal regulation, to be conducted in accordance with the Common Rule and the vulnerable-population rules, as set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review and harmonize such regulations. 
 
Requires informed consent before an individual may be a subject of human research.
 
Requires an Institutional Review Board to approve all human subject research proposals.
 
 Directs the Secretary to establish criteria for identifying and monitoring high-risk human subject research projects. 
 
Prohibits grants or awards to a public entity or private academic institution that does not have a program to educate investigators and Board members on the protection of human research subjects.
 
Prohibits the use of federal funds for classified human subject research if: (1) the Board has waived the informed consent requirement; or (2) the research is exempt from Board review. 
 
Establishes the Office of Human Research Protections within the Office of the Secretary. Requires the Director of the Office to: (1) provide for the protection of human research subjects; (2) establish criteria regarding assurance of compliance with Common Rule requirements; and (3) coordinate federal activities with respect to the protection of human research subjects. Authorizes the Director to make grants for a model education program.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) promulgate regulations enhancing the protection of people with diminished decisionmaking capacity participating in human subject research; and (2) study whether the number of certain members of Institutional Review Boards should be increased.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Introduced in House