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Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-17
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Authorization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
County politics and government
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational facilities
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Fire prevention
Fishery management
Forest conservation
Forest ecology
Forest fires
Forest management
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Habitat conservation
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Land use
National forests
Performance measurement
Restoration ecology
Revenue sharing
Road construction
Rural education
Transportation and Public Works
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2007 - Amends the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 to extend the Act through FY2013. 
 
Revises requirements regarding the merchantable material contracting pilot program.
 
Requires counties participating in county projects to submit a specified notification for each project for which the participating county obligated county funds. Provides for the review of such notifications.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1463, H1469)
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1117)
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H961)
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H774)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor of Rosa Parks.

Bill: 110-hr-18
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Blacks
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights workers
Government Operations and Politics
Minorities
Postage stamps

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Requires the Postmaster General to issue a commemorative postage stamp in honor of Rosa Parks. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To require employers to conduct employment eligibility verification.

Bill: 110-hr-19
Sponsor: Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-44]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Alien labor
Data banks
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Employee selection
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Illegal aliens
Labor and Employment
Personnel records
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Renames the basic employment eligibility verification pilot program established under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 as the Employment Eligibility Verification System. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide for permanent nationwide implementation of the System.
 
Requires entities hiring individuals for employment in the United States to participate in such System. Phases in compliance requirements over a seven-year period according to the number of persons employed by the entity. Establishes sanctions for noncompliance. Provides for voluntary participation by entities not required to participate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To make appropriations for military construction and family housing projects for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2007, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-22
Sponsor: Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Defense budgets
Department of Defense
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Military base closures
Military construction operations
Military dependents
Military housing

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Appropriates to the Department of Defense (DOD) for FY2007 for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure functions, an amount equal to that authorized to be appropriated for such purposes for such fiscal year under the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (Division B of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act

Bill: 110-hr-24
Sponsor: Rep. Radanovich, George [R-CA-19]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Animals
Bonds
California
Central Valley Reclamation Project (California)
Civil actions and liability
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dams
Department of Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Endangered species
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal aid to water resources development
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government securities
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Hydroelectric power
Infrastructure
Land transfers
Law
Licenses
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Rivers
Salmon
Water allocation (Policy)
Water rights
Water storage
Water supply
Water use

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to implement the terms and conditions of the Stipulation of Settlement dated September 13, 2006, in Natural Resources Defense Council, et al. v. Kirk Rodgers, et al., in cooperation with the state of California, including measures to: (1) design and construct channel and structural improvements; (2) modify Friant Dam operations to provide Restoration Flows and Interim Flows; (3) acquire water, water rights, or options to acquire water from willing sellers; (4) implement terms and conditions related to recirculation, recapture, reuse, exchange, or transfer of water released for such flows; and (5) develop and implement the Recovered Water Account.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) enter into agreements with California to facilitate or expedite Settlement implementation; and (2) identify impacts associated with such actions and measures to mitigate impacts on adjacent and downstream water users and landowners. Provides that Settlement implementation and the reintroduction of Chinook salmon shall not result in the involuntary reduction in contract water allocations to Central Valley Project long-term contractors apart from Friant Division contractors.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) acquire through purchase from willing sellers property needed to implement the Settlement; and (2) dispose of such property. Requires proceeds from the disposal of such property to be deposited into the San Joaquin River Restoration Fund (established by this Act). 
 
Declares that the Settlement satisfies and discharges the Secretary's obligations under the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992. Provides for the reintroduction of Chinook salmon into the San Joaquin River.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Criminal Alien Accountability Act

Bill: 110-hr-26
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Conspiracy
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Deportation
Illegal aliens
Mandatory sentences
Smuggling

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Criminal Alien Accountability Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish minimum imprisonment terms for specified categories of aliens subject to criminal fines, imprisonment, or both, for reenrty as removed aliens. (Such provision does not apply to aliens removed for security or terrorist grounds.) 
 
Subjects an individual who knowingly aids or conspires to allow, procure, or permit any such alien to reenter the United States to criminal penalty, the same imprisonment term as applies to the alien so aided, or both.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To designate the exclusive economic zone of the United States as the "Ronald Wilson Reagan Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States".

Bill: 110-hr-27
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-presidents
Government Operations and Politics
History
International Affairs
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Names
Reagan Administration
Territorial waters

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Designates the U.S. exclusive economic zone (as established by Presidential Proclamation Numbered 5030, dated March 10, 1983) as the &quot;Ronald Wilson Reagan Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States&quot;.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians Land Transfer Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-28
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: California
Indian lands
Land transfers
Minorities
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians Land Transfer Act of 2007 - Transfers certain land in Riverside and San Diego counties, California, from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to the United States to be held in trust for the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians. Prohibits such transfer from including the 12.82 acres of lands more or less, including the facilities, improvements, and appurtenances associated with the existing 230kV transmission line in San Diego County and its 300 foot corridor, which shall be sold by BLM for fair market value to the San Diego Gas & Electric Company not later than 30 days after the completion of the cadastral survey described in this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Incentive Act

Bill: 110-hr-32
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Labor
Employee health benefits
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law
Medical savings accounts
Minimum wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Health Care Incentive Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to allow any employer in interstate commerce that is required by federal or state law to pay a minimum wage rate higher than the current federal rate under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to include the value of creditable health care benefits in determining the required wage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Minimum Wage Fairness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-33
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Local laws
Minimum wages
State laws
Tipping

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Minimum Wage Fairness Act of 2007 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exclude tips in determining an employee's minimum wage to the extent that tips are excluded from that employee's wage under the terms of an applicable collective bargaining agreement.
 
Requires states and localities to permit a tip credit meeting certain criteria if, after enactment of this Act, they prohibit any portion of a tipped employee's tips from being considered as wages in determining if such employee has been paid the minimum wage rate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To establish a pilot program in certain United States district courts to encourage enhancement of expertise in patent cases among district judges.

Bill: 110-hr-34
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
District courts
Education
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Intellectual property
Judges
Judicial officers
Legal education
Patents
Plant breeding
Pretrial procedure
Seeds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Establishes a pilot program in certain U.S. district courts under which: (1) those district judges who request to hear cases involving patent or plant variety protection issues are designated by the chief judge to hear them; (2) such cases are randomly assigned to the district court judges, regardless of whether they are designated; (3) a judge not designated to whom such a case is assigned may decline to accept the case; and (4) a case so declined is randomly reassigned to one of those judges so designated. 

action_date: 2007-02-12
text: 

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

Establishes a pilot program in certain U.S. district courts under which: (1) those district judges who request to hear cases involving patent or plant variety protection issues are designated by the chief judge to hear them; (2) such cases are randomly assigned to the district court judges, regardless of whether they are designated; (3) a judge not designated to whom such a case is assigned may decline to accept the case; and (4) a case so declined is randomly reassigned to one of those judges so designated. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-12
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2007-02-12
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1430)
action_date: 2007-02-12
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H1430)
action_date: 2007-02-12
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 34.
action_date: 2007-02-12
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1430-1433)
action_date: 2007-02-12
text: Mr. Berman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Science Accountability Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-35
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Science Accountability Act of 2007 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require states to: (1) establish challenging academic content and student achievement standards in science, beginning in the 2008-2009 school year; and (2) measure the achievement of students in grades three through eight against such standards, beginning in the 2009-2010 school year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E33)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
National Science Education Tax Incentive for Teachers Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-36
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary education
Engineering
Higher education
Income tax
Infrastructure
Mathematics
School administration
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Tax refunds
Teacher education
Teachers
Technical education
Tuition tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
National Science Education Tax Incentive for Teachers Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain full-time elementary and secondary school teachers of math, science, engineering, or technology courses a refundable tax credit for 10% of their undergraduate tuition up to $1,000 in any taxable year. Increases such credit amount to $1,500 for teachers in schools serving children with disabilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E33)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
National Science Education Tax Incentive for Businesses Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-37
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Commerce
Community and school
Computer literacy
Corporate philanthropy
Education
Educational facilities
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Engineering
Engineers
Higher education
Income tax
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Mathematics
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Tax credits
Teacher education
Teachers
Teaching materials
Technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
National Science Education Tax Incentive for Businesses Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a general business tax credit for contributions of property or services to elementary and secondary schools and for teacher training to promote instruction in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM contributions).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E33)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Math & Science School Readiness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-38
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Administrative procedure
Department of Health and Human Services
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Law
Mathematics
Preschool education
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Standards
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Math & Science School Readiness Act of 2007 - Amends the Head Start Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish additional scientifically-based education performance standards to ensure that children participating in the Head Start program develop and demonstrate premathematics and prescience knowledge and skills, including number concepts and operations, geometry and spatial concepts, classification, and time and measurement concepts.
 
Requires each Head Start classroom in a center-based program to be assigned one teacher with the competency to impart such knowledge and skills. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E33)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House