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Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 Technical Corrections Act

Bill: 110-s-2448
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2007-12-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Fees
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Reclamation of land
Revenue sharing
Strip mining

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: 
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 Technical Corrections Act - Amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to modify procedures governing payments of moneys derived from reclamation fees to certified states and Indian tribes.
 
 Requires that such payments: (1) be distributed as direct transfers of funds rather than in the form of grants; and (2) be made at the same time as specified payments from the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund are made available, including without fiscal year limitation.

action_date: 2008-09-16
text: 

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

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 Technical Corrections Act - Amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to modify procedures governing payments of moneys derived from reclamation fees to certified states and Indian tribes.

 Requires that such payments: (1) be distributed as direct transfers of funds rather than in the form of grants; and (2) be made at the same time as specified payments from the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund are made available, including without fiscal year limitation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 983.
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-09-11
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-603.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15140)
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in Senate
First Step Forward Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2451
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-12-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: College costs
Community service (Punishment)
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Criminal statistics
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational vouchers
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Ex-offenders
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Health
Higher education
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Medicaid
Rehabilitation of criminals
Social Welfare
Victims of crimes
Welfare eligibility
Youth employment
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: 
First Step Forward Act of 2007 - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to: (1) require information on the number of juveniles (under age 21) released from prison and their living arrangements upon release in the annual report of the Administrator of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Office; (2) require states seeking juvenile justice grants to adopt procedures to assure the availability of post-release programs and services for juvenile offenders; and (3) require research and evaluation on outcomes for juvenile offenders who have been released from custody and reintegrated into communities. 

Directs the Attorney General to: (1) award grants to states to establish programs to identify juveniles likely to be released before attaining age 21 and to help such juveniles attain self-sufficiency; (2) develop outcome measures to assess the performance of states in operating juvenile offender reentry programs and track services provided to such offenders; and (3) conduct evaluations of state juvenile offender reentry programs. 

Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to continue health care benefits for juvenile offenders after release from incarceration. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting English in the Workplace Act

Bill: 110-s-2453
Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN]
Introduced: 2007-12-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Discrimination in employment
English language
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: 
 Protecting English in the Workplace Act - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to declare that, notwithstanding any other equal employment opportunity provisions of the Act, it is not an unlawful employment practice for an employer to require an employee to speak, or an applicant for employment to agree to speak, English while engaged in work. Prohibits considering an individual to be engaged in work during a bona fide meal period, rest period, or any other break during which the individual is not required to perform any duties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Wireless 411 Privacy Act

Bill: 110-s-2454
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-12-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Affiliated corporations
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Contracts
Data banks
Directories
Federal preemption
Fees
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Local laws
Marketing
Right of privacy
State laws
Telecommunication industry
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: 
Wireless 411 Privacy Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit a provider of commercial mobile services, or any affiliate or agent of such provider (provider), from including the wireless telephone number (wireless number) of any subscriber in any wireless directory assistance service (WDAS) database unless the provider: (1) provides a conspicuous, separate notice to the subscriber of the right not be listed in any WDAS; and (2) obtains express prior listing authorization from such subscriber, and that authorization has not been withdrawn.
 
Requires a provider to remove the wireless number of any subscriber from a WDAS upon request of that subscriber and without subscriber cost. Provides limited circumstances under which a provider may connect a calling party from a WDAS to a commercial mobile service subscriber.
 
Prohibits a telecommunications carrier from disclosing in billing information provided to customers wireless numbers of subscribers who have indicated a preference to their provider for not having their wireless number disclosed.
 
Prohibits a provider from publishing (listing) in any form, selling, or otherwise distributing the contents of any WDAS database unless the provider: (1) notifies the subscriber of the right not to be listed; and (2) obtains express prior authorization for listing from such subscriber, and that authorization has not been withdrawn.
 
Prohibits a provider from charging a subscriber for the exercise of any rights under this Act.
 
 Prohibits selling, marketing for sale, or otherwise disseminating the wireless telephone information of any individual, or any directory or other list of such information of individuals, unless each such individual provides written express prior authorization. Preempts inconsistent state or local laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Foreclosure Assistance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2455
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2007-12-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Appropriations
Block grants
Community development
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreclosure
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Low-income housing
Moderate income housing
Mortgages
Relocation
Rent
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: 
Community Foreclosure Assistance Act of 2007 - Makes appropriations for additional emergency Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) assistance to states, metropolitan cities, and urban counties to carry out CDBG programs under the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1974: (1) for necessary expenses related to the impact of housing foreclosures, and other related economic and community development activities; and (2) to provide foreclosure-based rental assistance for individual renters in the form of relocation assistance.
 
 Prohibits the direct or indirect provision of such funds, except for certified housing counseling services, to an individual homeowner for foreclosure prevention purposes, including refinancing assistance, loans, or any other form of financial assistance. 
 
Increases from 15% to 25% the maximum amount of CDBG funds a local government may use for public services under the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1974, including those concerned with employment, crime prevention, child care, health, drug abuse, education, energy conservation, welfare or recreation needs.
 
Requires at least 50% of CDBG funds appropriated or otherwise made available under this Act to benefit primarily persons of low- and moderate-income.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Influenza Vaccine Security Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2456
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-12-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Communication in medicine
Drug industry
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Epidemics
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Health information systems
Health surveys
Influenza
Medical research
Medical supplies
Pharmaceutical research
Science, Technology, Communications
Vaccines

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: 
Influenza Vaccine Security Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) determine an annual production target for influenza vaccine; (2) coordinate with the private market to encourage the production of such vaccine in amounts that will meet the annual target; and (3) establish an influenza vaccine buyback protocol to purchase excess stocks of influenza vaccine to be used for specified late-season mass vaccination exercises and vaccinations. 

Directs the Secretary to: (1) increase the amount of antiviral medications, N-95 respirator masks, and other protections and treatments to treat and prevent pandemic influenza, particularly among responders and the pediatric population, in the strategic national stockpile; and (2) direct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop and publish a model standing order for administering influenza vaccine.

Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to: (1) carry out activities to increase communication between the agency and the scientific community regarding vaccine development and regulation; and (2) develop a regulatory roadmap to address issues surrounding emergency use authorization of influenza vaccine. 

Requires the Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases to: (1) coordinate efforts regarding specified influenza vaccine education, outreach, surveillance, and research activities in support of the goal of increasing overall influenza vaccination rates; and (2) coordinate educational efforts with the National Vaccine Program Office, state, and local health departments, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other relevant entities.

Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to: (1) establish an electronic tracking system for the influenza vaccine; (2) revise and expand influenza-related education materials; and (3) carry out specified influenza immunization education and outreach activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15247-15248)
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Building Code Administration Grant Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2458
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2007-12-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Building laws
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Federal aid to housing
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Local employees
Local laws

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: 
Community Building Code Administration Grant Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to award grants, on a competitive basis and with federal matching funds, to qualified local building code enforcement departments to increase staffing, provide staff training, increase staff competence and professional qualifications, support individual certification or departmental accreditation, or for capital expenditures specifically dedicated to department administration.
 
Sets forth criteria for rating and ranking of grant proposals.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize appropriations for research and enforcement activities of the Federal Trade Commission related to misleading mortgage advertisements.

Bill: 110-s-2459
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2007-12-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Authorization
Consumer protection
Deceptive advertising
Economics and Public Finance
Federal Trade Commission
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Independent regulatory commissions
Mortgages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: 
 Authorizes appropriations to carry out research and enforcement regarding misleading mortgage advertisements, in an amount double the amount spent for such purposes in the previous fiscal year, for the Division of Financial Practices of the Bureau of Consumer Protection of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend by one year the moratorium on implementation of a rule relating to the Federal-State financial partnership under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program and on finalization of a rule regarding graduate medical education under Medicaid and to include a moratorium on the finalization of the outpatient Medicaid rule making similar changes.

Bill: 110-s-2460
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-12-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Ambulatory care
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Hospital care
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical residents
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: 
Amends the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act of 1997 to extend by one year the moratorium on: (1) implementation of a specified rule relating to the federal-state financial partnership under titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)) of the Social Security Act; and (2) the finalization of a certain proposed rule regarding the authority of states to make payments related to graduate medical education (GME payments).
 
Imposes a one-year moratorium on finalization or implementation of a certain proposed rule regarding the scope of permissible Medicaid payments that redefines outpatient hospitals and specifies methodologies for calculation of the outpatient services upper payment limit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15249-15250)
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15248-15249)
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the transfer of certain earmarked funds to accounts for operations and activities in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bill: 110-s-2461
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2007-12-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Defense budgets
Department of Defense
Department of State
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military operations
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
South Asia
U.S. Agency for International Development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: 
Allows the Secretary of Defense to transfer the amount of any congressionally directed spending item in or in connection with the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2008 (division A of P.L. 110-116) to one or more of the accounts of the Department of State, Department of Defense (DOD), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), or accounts or other agencies conducting operations or activities in Iraq or Afghanistan, for the purpose of funding such operations or activities.

Defines &quot;congressionally directed spending item&quot; as language included primarily at the request of a Member of Congress providing, authorizing, or recommending a specific amount of discretionary budget authority, credit authority, or other spending authority for a contract, loan, loan guarantee, grant, loan authority, or other expenditure with or to an entity, or targeted to a specific state, locality, or congressional district other than through a statutory or administrative formula-driven or competitive award process. 

Terminates the budget, credit, or other spending authority for the congressionally directed spending item upon the transfer of the amount of such item.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 545.
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide that before the Secretary of Defense may furlough any employee of the Department of Defense on the basis of a lack of funds, the Secretary shall suspend any nonessential service contract entered into by the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-2462
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-12-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Defense budgets
Defense contracts
Department of Defense
Economics and Public Finance
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government service contracts
Layoffs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense, before furloughing Department of Defense (DOD) employees on the basis of a lack of funds, to suspend all nonessential DOD service contracts as necessary to make up for the lack of funds. Applies this Act to FY2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15251)
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15250-15251)
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Alien Smuggling and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2463
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2007-12-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Clergy
Conspiracy
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Homicide
Identification of criminals
Illegal aliens
International Affairs
Jurisdiction
Kidnapping
Law
Marine transportation
Missionaries
Obstruction of justice
Rape
Religion
Rescue work
Searches and seizures
Sentencing guidelines
Sex crimes
Slavery
Smuggling
Social Welfare
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Volunteer workers
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: 
Alien Smuggling and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to check against all available terrorist watchlists those alien smugglers and smuggled individuals who are interdicted at U.S. land, air, and sea borders.
 
Revises alien smuggling and related criminal offense and penalty provisions. Provides extraterritorial jurisdiction over such offenses.
 
Limits a defense of necessity for knowingly bringing an illegal alien into the United States from the high seas.
 
Exempts from certain of such violations (transporting or harboring in the United States) a bona fide nonprofit, religious organization in the United States (or its agents or officers) that encourages, invites, or enables an alien who is present in the United States to serve as a volunteer minister or missionary for such organization in the United States, provided the minister or missionary has been a member of the denomination for at least one year.
 
Directs the United States Sentencing Commission to review and amend as appropriate sentencing guidelines and policy statements applicable to persons convicted of alien smuggling offenses and criminal failure to heave to or obstruction of boarding.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2464
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-12-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicare
Social Welfare
Vaccines

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: 
Medicare Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) to include federally recommended vaccines under Medicare part B.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Vaccines for Children Access Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-2465
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-12-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Clinics
Families
Medicaid
Social Welfare
Vaccines

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: 
Vaccines for Children Access Act of 2008 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide for the inclusion of all public clinics for distribution of pediatric vaccines under Medicaid. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Introduced in Senate