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To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a program for the provision of readjustment and mental health services to veterans who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-2689
Sponsor: Rep. Rodriguez, Ciro D. [D-TX-23]
Introduced: 2007-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Armed forces reserves
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Demography
Families
Health
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Medical statistics
Mental health services
Middle East and North Africa
Military dependents
Military operations
National Guard
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
South Asia
Telemedicine
Veterans' employment
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: 
 

Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a program to provide to veterans of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, particularly veterans who served in such Operations while in the National Guard and reserves: (1) peer outreach and support services; (2) readjustment counseling and related services; and (3) mental health services. Directs the Secretary to also provide to immediate family members of such veterans, during the three-year period following the return of the veterans from such a deployment, education, support, counseling, and mental health services to assist in: (1) readjustment to civilian life; (2) recovery from an injury or illness incurred during such deployment; and (3) readjustment of the family following the veteran's return.

Authorizes the Secretary to contract with community health centers and other qualified entities to provide such services in areas not adequately served by health care facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Requires the Secretary to: (1) contract for a program to train veterans to provide the peer outreach and support services; and (2) conduct a training program for clinicians of community health centers and entities contracted to provide such services.

Extends the eligibility for hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care for veterans who served on active duty in a theater of combat operations from two to five years after their discharge or release from such duty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional incentives for facilities producing electricity from wind.

Bill: 110-hr-2691
Sponsor: Rep. Walz, Timothy J. [D-MN-1]
Introduced: 2007-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Commerce
Electric power production
Energy
Energy industries
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Losses
Minimum tax
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) individual taxpayers investing in wind facilities used to produce electricity an exemption of up to $40,000 from limitations on passive activity losses and credits; and (2) tax credit amounts for producing electricity from wind facilities to offset alternative minimum tax liability. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Lucrecia Ramos-Chamana de Zevallos.

Bill: 110-hr-2692
Sponsor: Rep. Lantos, Tom [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2007-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Provides for the relief of Lucrecia Ramos-Chamana de Zevallos.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Motor Vehicle Owners Right to Repair Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2694
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2007-06-13 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Automobile industry
Automobile repair
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Damages
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Injunctions
Law
Legal fees
Restrictive trade practices
Tools
Trade secrets

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: 
Motor Vehicle Owners Right to Repair Act of 2007 - Requires the manufacturer of a motor vehicle sold, leased, or otherwise introduced into U.S. commerce to: (1) provide to the vehicle owner and service providers all information necessary to diagnose, service, maintain, or repair the vehicle; (2) offer for sale to consumers and service providers any related tool or equipment; and (3) provide the information necessary to enable aftermarket tool companies to manufacture tools with the same functional characteristics. Exempts trade secrets, so long as the information is not disclosed to authorized dealers or service providers. 
 
Authorizes enforcement of this Act by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and civil actions by state attorneys general, consumers, and service providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
Green McAdoo School National Historic Site Study Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2695
Sponsor: Rep. Wamp, Zach [R-TN-3]
Introduced: 2007-06-13 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Congressional reporting requirements
Desegregation in education
District courts
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Judicial opinions
Law
Tennessee

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: 
Green McAdoo School National Historic Site Study Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the site of Green McAdoo School in Clinton, Tennessee, to evaluate the national significance, suitability, and feasibility of designating such site as a unit of the National Park System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
Veterans' Dignified Burial Assistance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2696
Sponsor: Rep. Lamborn, Doug [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2007-06-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Economics and Public Finance
Grants-in-aid
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: 
Veterans' Dignified Burial Assistance Act of 2007 - Increases from $300 to $400 the burial plot allowance paid for veterans interred in cemeteries other than national cemeteries. Waives the requirement that, for a state to receive such allowance for the reimbursement of burial costs, it must file for such within two years after the burial or cremation of the veteran.
 
Authorizes the use of up to $5 million per year under the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) state cemetery grant program for operating and maintaining state cemeteries. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand eligibility for veterans' mortgage life insurance to include members of the Armed Forces receiving specially adapted housing assistance from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 110-hr-2697
Sponsor: Rep. Lamborn, Doug [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2007-06-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Housing for the disabled
Life insurance
Mortgages
Veterans' loans

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: 

 
Makes eligible for veterans' mortgage life insurance members of the Armed Forces receiving specially adapted housing assistance through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to repeal authority for adjustments to per diem payments to homeless veterans service centers for receipt of other sources of income, to extend authorities for certain programs to benefit homeless veterans, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-2699
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick J. [D-PA-8]
Introduced: 2007-06-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Counseling
Health
Home care services
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Social Welfare
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' medical care
Women
Women veterans
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: 
Repeals the requirement that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs adjust the per diem payments made to veterans under the homeless veterans' comprehensive services program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to exclude sources of income from other federal, state, or local governments, departments, agencies, or entities.
 
Directs the Secretary to carry out a demonstration program to prevent veterans who are at risk of homelessness after discharge or release from active military duty from becoming homeless.
 
Amends a demonstration program of referral and counseling for veterans transitioning from certain institutions who are at risk of homelessness to: (1) remove the &quot;demonstration&quot; designation of the program; (2) require the program to be carried out in 12 (under current law, at least six) locations; and (3) extend the program through FY2012.
 
Allows homeless veterans' comprehensive services grant funds to be used to provide funding for service center staff.
 
Repeals a provision limiting to FY2003 and FY2004 the funding for VA domiciliary care programs for homeless veterans. Requires the Secretary to ensure that such programs are adequate, with respect to capacity and safety, to meet the needs of women veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
To suspend implementation of an Absolute Priority issued by the Department of Education on July 3, 2006.

Bill: 110-hr-2700
Sponsor: Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2007-06-13 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Compensatory education
Congress
Congressional-executive relations
Department of Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational counseling
Elementary and secondary education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Law
Performance measurement
Secondary education
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Education to immediately suspend, until expressly authorized by statute, enforcement of the Notice of Final Priority, including the evaluation described within it.
 
(The Absolute Priority, issued by the Department of Education on July 3, 2006, which is the subject of the Notice: (1) sets rules regarding which high school students will be given priority for participation in the Upward Bound college preparation program; and (2) calls for an evaluation of the program using a control group of students who do not receive Upward Bound services.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1585)
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2702
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2007-06-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Education
Higher education
Iraq compilation
Student loan funds
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: 
Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2007 - Amends federal veterans' benefits provisions to entitle to educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill certain individuals who serve on active duty in the Armed Forces (including the reserves) on or after September 11, 2001. Requires such individuals to complete the requirements of a secondary school diploma (or its equivalent) before applying for such assistance. Establishes the duration of such assistance (in most cases 36 months) and assistance amounts. Requires programs of education pursued with such assistance to be approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Allows for the pursuit of an approved program of education while on active duty. Allows, under such assistance, for the pursuit of: (1) programs on less than a half-time basis; (2) apprenticeship or other on-job training; (3) correspondence courses; (4) flight training; (5) tutorial assistance; and (6) licensure and certification tests.
 
Requires such educational assistance to be used within 15 years of the individual's discharge or release from active duty (with exceptions). Allows individuals currently under the Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance program to elect to participate in the post-9/11 educational assistance program with respect to any unused entitlement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1287)
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
Private Security Officer Employment Authorization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2703
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2007-06-13 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Business records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Confidential communications
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Department of Justice
Electronic government information
Employee selection
Employers' liability
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification of criminals
Labor and Employment
Law
Private police
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: 
Private Security Officer Employment Authorization Act of 2007 - Amends the Private Security Officer Employment Authorization Act of 2004 to: (1) require a process to allow private security guard employees or applicants to challenge the accuracy and completeness of their criminal history records; (2) prohibit private security guard employers from hiring guards without obtaining certain state criminal history information; (3) specify the crimes for which states must provide conviction information to such employers; (4) impose confidentiality and recordkeeping requirements on such employers; and (5) protect such employers from liability for good faith employment determinations based upon available criminal history information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-26
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-06-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-06-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
Gulf Coast All-Hazard Readiness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2704
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-9]
Introduced: 2007-06-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Alabama
Congress
Congressional oversight
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Florida
Government trust funds
Gulf States
Hurricanes
Interstate compacts
Louisiana
Mississippi
State officials
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: 
Gulf Coast All-Hazard Readiness Act of 2007 - Grants congressional consent to any number of the Gulf Coast states (Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas) to negotiate and enter into an agreement or compact that: (1) is consented to by the legislatures of the participating states by December 31, 2010; (2) is entered into primarily to establish a plan for all-hazard mitigation, readiness, response, and recovery; (3) establishes a multi-state all-hazard fund generated by participating states to be utilized when a disaster affects those states; (4) requires states to appoint commissioners to organize the operation, management, and disbursement of the fund; and (5) prohibits participating states from taking action prohibited by federal law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H10616)
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
Children's Hope Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2706
Sponsor: Rep. Franks, Trent [R-AZ-2]
Introduced: 2007-06-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Charities
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Property tax
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
State laws
State taxation
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax-exempt organizations
Tuition tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: 
Children's Hope Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit of up to $100 ($200 for joint returns) for charitable contributions to an education investment organization that disburses 90% of its contributions to provide grants to students for elementary and secondary education expenses, if at least 50% of such disbursements go to students who qualify for free or reduced-cost school lunches. Requires a taxpayer claiming such credit, as a condition of eligibility to receive it, to first claim a state qualified scholarship tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
Mammogram and MRI Availability Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2708
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2007-06-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Consumer discounts
Consumer protection
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Employee health benefits
Health insurance
Imaging systems in medicine
Labor and Employment
Mammography
Medical ethics
Medical fees
Rebates
Standards
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: 
Mammogram and MRI Availability Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require a group health plan that provides coverage for diagnostic mammography for any woman 40 years old or older to provide no less favorable coverage for annual screening mammography for such a woman, and diagnostic mammography, annual screening mammography, and annual magnetic resonance imaging for any high risk woman. 

Prohibits a group health plan from denying enrollment or renewal solely to avoid the requirements of this Act, providing monetary incentives to encourage women to accept less than such minimum protections, penalizing providers for providing care in accordance with this Act, or providing incentives to induce providers to provide care in a manner inconsistent with this Act. 

Applies such requirements and prohibitions to coverage offered in the individual market. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-06-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-06-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
To extend the minimum wage index established by regulation for each all-urban State under the Medicare inpatient hospital prospective payment system.

Bill: 110-hr-2709
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2007-06-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Hospital rates
Indexing (Economic policy)
Labor and Employment
Medicare
Social Welfare
Urban affairs
Urban areas
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: 
Extends the minimum wage index established by regulation for each all-urban state under the inpatient hospital prospective payment system (PPS) under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Introduced in House