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Streamlining America's Various Energy Needs Act

Bill: 110-hr-5866
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2008-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Electric power production
Electric power transmission
Energy conservation
Environmental Protection
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Judicial review
Law
Licenses
Minorities
Native Americans
Public health
State-local relations

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: 
Streamlining America's Various Energy Needs Act - Directs federal agencies to expedite their review of permits and take other actions as necessary to accelerate completion of projects that will increase energy production, transmission, or conservation, while maintaining safety, public health, and environmental protections.
 
Establishes an interagency task force to monitor and assist federal agencies to: (1) comply with this Act; and (2) set up mechanisms to coordinate federal, state, tribal, and local permitting in geographic areas where increased permitting activity is expected.
 
States that nothing in this Act affects judicial review of an agency action.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Energy Conservation Through Trees Act

Bill: 110-hr-5867
Sponsor: Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-5]
Introduced: 2008-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Energy conservation
Grants-in-aid
Nonprofit organizations
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Social Welfare
Trees

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: 
Energy Conservation Through Trees Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to provide financial, technical, and related assistance to retail power providers to assist with the establishment of new, or continued operation of existing, targeted residential tree-planting programs. 

Requires the Secretary to create a national public recognition initiative to encourage participation in tree-planting programs by such providers.

Limits assistance provided under this Act to programs that utilize targeted, strategic tree-siting guidelines to plant trees in relation to residence location, sunlight, and prevailing wind direction. Sets forth requirements that must be met for tree-planting programs to qualify for assistance.

Authorizes the Secretary to award grants only to providers that have entered into binding legal agreements with nonprofit tree-planting organizations.

Requires providers, in order to qualify for assistance, to establish and consult with a local technical advisory committee, which shall provide advice and consultation to the program, and which may: (1) design and adopt an approved plant list that emphasizes the use of hardy, noninvasive tree species, native or low water-use shade trees, or both; (2) design and adopt planting, installation, and maintenance specifications and create a process for inspection and quality control; (3) ensure that tree recipients are educated to care for and maintain their trees over the long term; (4) help the public become more engaged and educated in the planting and care of shade trees; (5) prioritize which sites receive trees, giving preference to locations with the most potential for energy conservation and secondary preference to areas where the average annual income is below the regional median; and (6) assist with monitoring and collection of data on tree health, tree survival, and energy conservation benefits generated under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E670-671)
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Caleb Martin-Travis Dodson Wounded Warrior Retention Act

Bill: 110-hr-5868
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2008-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Defense
Disabled
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Military discharges
Military medicine
Military personnel
Physical examinations
Recruiting and enlistment
Retired military personnel
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: 
Caleb Martin-Travis Dodson Wounded Warrior Retention Act - Authorizes a member of the Armed Forces who would normally be retired, placed on the temporary disability retired list, or separated as the result of a combat-related disability to elect to instead be retained on active service in an active status, as long as the member: (1) remains medically able to perform noncombat-related military occupational specialties or duties; and (2) is not disqualified from performing such specialties or duties because of performance, mandatory retirement for age, or other reasons.
 
Subjects members placed in such status to periodic physical examinations, as provided to members placed on the temporary disability retired list.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to permit, on a case-by-case basis, the reenlistment or appointment in such status of a member who, during the period beginning on September 1, 2001, and ending on the date of enactment of this Act, was retired or separated as the result of a combat-related disability.
 
Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on the number and types of noncombat-related military occupational specialties in the Armed Forces and Department of Defense (DOD) civilian employee positions that would be available for such members.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-11
text: Motion to Discharge Committee filed by Mr. Pearce. Petition No: 110-18. (<a href="http://clerk.house.gov/110/lrc/pd/Petitions/Dis18.htm">Discharge petition</a> text with signatures.)
action_date: 2008-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Southwest Border Violence Reduction Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5869
Sponsor: Rep. Rodriguez, Ciro D. [D-TX-23]
Introduced: 2008-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Boundaries
Criminal investigation
Department of Justice
Federal law enforcement officers
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Latin America
Mexico
Police training
Prosecution
Smuggling
Technical assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: 
Southwest Border Violence Reduction Act of 2008 - Directs the Attorney General to: (1) to expand resources for the Project Gunrunner initiative of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to identify, investigate, and prosecute firearms trafficking across the U.S.- Mexico border; and (2) provide ATF agents, equipment, and training to assist Mexican law enforcement officers in combating firearms trafficking and other criminal enterprises.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2008-04-22
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2008-04-22
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2008-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Neighborhood Reclamation Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5870
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Tim [D-OH-17]
Introduced: 2008-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Land banking
Land transfers
Open space lands
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Residential rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: 
Emergency Neighborhood Reclamation Act of 2008 - Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to make grants to eligible units of general local government for neighborhood reclamation.
 
Specifies grant applicant eligibility requirements, including a comprehensive plan for the demolition of all vacant and abandoned housing and other structures within the local government's jurisdiction that will increase the stability of neighborhoods, or promote the rational utilization of land within that jurisdiction.
 
Requires the use of such grant to fund: (1) the demolition of vacant and abandoned housing, and other vacant and abandoned structures, located in areas that are primarily residential in character; (2) the abatement, before demolition, of any health and safety hazards within such housing or structures, or on the site upon which such housing or other structures are located; and (3) the capping or removal, after demolition, of utility connections and public infrastructure, including street pavements and sewer lines, and the rehabilitation of a site for use as public open space, inclusion in a land bank, or for sale.
 
Prohibits the use of funds made available under this Act to demolish public housing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Introduced in House
Ludlow Massacre National Historic Landmark Act

Bill: 110-hr-5871
Sponsor: Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3]
Introduced: 2008-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Coal
Colorado
Commemorations
Energy
Historic sites
History
Labor and Employment
Labor disputes
Miners

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: 
Ludlow Massacre National Historic Landmark Act - Designates the Ludlow Tent Colony Site (a site where striking miners and their families lived during the 1913-1914 Colorado coal strike) in Las Animas County, Colorado, as the &quot;Ludlow Massacre National Historic Landmark.&quot; 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Introduced in House
National MS Disease Registry Act

Bill: 110-hr-5874
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2008-04-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Data banks
Directories
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Epidemiology
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Health information systems
Health surveys
Medical research
Multiple sclerosis
Nonprofit organizations
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: 
National MS Disease Registry Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, to: (1) develop a system to collect data on multiple sclerosis (MS); and (2) establish a national surveillance system for the collection and storage of such data, including a population-based registry of U.S. cases of MS.

Requires the Secretary to establish the Advisory Committee on the MS National Surveillance System.

Allows the Secretary to award grants to, and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with, public or private nonprofit entities for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on MS.

Requires the Secretary to: (1) identify, build upon, expand, and coordinate existing data and surveillance systems, surveys, registries, and other federal public health and environmental infrastructure wherever possible; and (2) provide for research access to MS data.

Requires the Secretary to ensure that epidemiological and other types of information collected are made available to agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and the Department of Defense (DOD).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-22
text: Introduced in House
PROTECT Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5875
Sponsor: Rep. Courtney, Joe [D-CT-2]
Introduced: 2008-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Commerce
Military and naval supplies
Military research
Quality of products
Research and development
Safety appliances
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: 
Providing Responsible Oversight and Testing of Equipment for Combat Troops Act of 2008 or the PROTECT Act of 2008 - Removes provisions requiring the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation in the Department of Defense (DOD) to provide guidance to and consult with the Secretary of Defense, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, and the Secretaries of the military departments with respect to operational test and evaluation or survivability testing (or both) in the DOD of force protection equipment (including nonlethal weapons).
 
Adds items of (or key components of) personal equipment designed to provide some degree of protection to the user in combat to provisions requiring survivability and lethality testing before full-scale production.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces.
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Shingles Prevention Act

Bill: 110-hr-5877
Sponsor: Rep. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2008-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicare
Social Welfare
Vaccines
Virus diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: 
Shingles Prevention Act - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of the shingles vaccine and its administration. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2008-04-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2008-04-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2008-04-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E708)
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Troops to Nurse Teachers Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5878
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2008-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: College teachers
Continuing education
Education
Health
Higher education
Military medicine
Military pay
Military pensions
Nurses
Nursing education
Recruiting and enlistment
Retired military personnel
Scholarships

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: 
Troops to Nurse Teachers Act of 2008 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to carry out programs under which commissioned officers of the nurse corps: (1) serve as full-time faculty of accredited schools of nursing in exchange for additional service or in exchange for scholarships provided by the school to those accepting commissions in the nurse corps; (2) receive scholarships leading to a graduate degree in nursing in exchange for service as nursing school faculty and to undertake activities to encourage nurses to serve in the Armed Forces nurse corps; (3) receive nursing faculty career placement and continuing education assistance if they are retirement-eligible and have graduate degrees qualifying them as nurse instructors; or (4) receive, while serving after retirement as faculty at a nursing school, retired pay without reduction and a pay differential to ensure that compensation for faculty member service will not be less than the basic pay received before retirement.

Requires: (1) any program established under this Act to last at least two years; and (2) the Secretary to assess each program to determine if it should be continued.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Save our Border Communities Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5879
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2008-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Boundaries
Canada
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency medicine
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to law enforcement
Fire departments
Fire fighters
Health
Latin America
Law enforcement officers
Mexico
Paramedical personnel
Police

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: 
Save our Border Communities Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide payment to first responders for costs associated with providing emergency services at U.S. international borders, but only to the extent that such costs are not otherwise reimbursed through any federal program and cannot otherwise be recovered.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Introduced in House
To require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to initiate a rulemaking proceeding to establish procedures to limit for a period of one year flight standards inspectors from accepting certain employment positions or responsibilities with an air carrier.

Bill: 110-hr-5880
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2008-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Airline employees
Airlines
Aviation safety
Commerce
Conflict of interests
Department of Transportation
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government ethics
Labor and Employment
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: 
Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to initiate a rulemaking proceeding to establish procedures to prohibit for a period of one year a flight standards inspector from accepting certain employment positions or responsibilities with an air carrier for whom the inspector has conducted inspections or had oversight responsibility in the past.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Introduced in House
To recapture employment-based immigrant visas lost to bureaucratic delays and to prevent losses of family- and employment-based immigrant visas in the future.

Bill: 110-hr-5882
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2008-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Alien labor
Aliens
Families
Immigrants
Labor and Employment
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish the fiscal year worldwide level of employment-based immigrants at 140,000 plus: (1) the previous year's unused visas; and (2) the number of unused visas from FY1992-FY2007.

Establishes the fiscal year worldwide level of family-sponsored immigrants at 480,000 minus the number of certain aliens not subject to direct numerical limitations plus: (1) the previous year's unused visas; and (2) the number of unused visas from FY1992-FY2007. States that such annual level shall not be less than 226,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-31
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 8 - 1 .
action_date: 2008-07-31
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2008-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Introduced in House
Export Promotion Enhancement Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5883
Sponsor: Rep. Manzullo, Donald A. [R-IL-16]
Introduced: 2008-04-23 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Authorization
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consultants
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental technology
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Export finance
Federal advisory bodies
Federal budgets
Federal employees
Federal officials
Foreign trade promotion
Government Operations and Politics
Presidential appointments
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Strategic planning
Transfer of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: 
Export Promotion Enhancement Act of 2008 - Amends the Export Enhancement Act of 1988 to establish in the Executive Office of the President the Office of Trade Promotion. (Currently, there exists a Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC), which the Office shall replace.)
 
Requires the Office to perform duties currently assigned to the TPCC, as well as advise the President and others within the Executive Office on matters relating to trade promotion policies and programs of the U.S. Government.
 
Requires the President to appoint an Office Director. Authorizes the President to appoint up to two Associate Directors.
 
Directs the President to establish the Advisory Board on Trade Promotion to advise the Office Director.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Introduced in House