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Teaching Residency Act

Bill: 110-s-1574
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Apprenticeship
Collection of accounts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Licenses
Mentoring
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teaching

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
Teaching Residency Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to make competitive matching grants to partnerships of high-need local educational agencies (LEAs), nonprofit community agencies, and institutions of higher education to support one-year teaching residency programs under which recent college graduates or professionals outside the field of education engage in rigorous master's level coursework while undertaking a guided teaching apprenticeship alongside a trained and experienced mentor teacher. 
 
Requires program participants to earn a master's degree and attain full state teaching certification or licensure prior to completing the program and accept placement for three years thereafter in a high-need school served by the high-need LEA. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7349-7350)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
FEED Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1575
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Economics and Public Finance
Food relief
Food service
Good samaritan laws
Grants-in-aid
Hunger
Labor and Employment
Law
Nonprofit organizations
Restaurants
Social Welfare
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
Food Employment Empowerment and Development Program Act of 2007 or the FEED Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a food employment empowerment and development program of grants to eligible public agencies and private nonprofit institutions to encourage the use of community resources to combat hunger and the root causes of hunger by creating opportunity through food recovery and job training. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Coral Reef Ecosystem Conservation Amendments Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1583
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: American Samoa
Animals
Commerce
Coral reefs
Disaster relief
Ecological research
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Finance and Financial Sector
Forfeiture
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Guam
Law
Licenses
Liens
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine ecology
Marine resources conservation
Northern Mariana Islands
Oceanography
Public-private partnerships
Puerto Rico
Revolving funds
Science, Technology, Communications
Ships
Transportation and Public Works
Virgin Islands
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
Coral Reef Ecosystem Conservation Amendments Act of 2007 - Amends the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000 to direct the Secretary of Commerce to make grants for projects for the conservation of coral reef ecosystems (under current law, conservation of coral reefs). Modifies various requirements of the grant program.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to make agreements with nonprofit organizations (under current law, an agreement with a nonprofit organization) for public-private partnerships promoting coral reef ecosystem conservation.
 
Authorizes the Secretary, in cooperation with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to provide assistance to any state, local, or territorial government agency for any unforeseen or disaster-related circumstance regarding coral reef ecosystems. (Current law does not mention FEMA.)
 
Authorizes the Secretary to conduct activities, including with local, regional, or international programs and partners, to conserve coral reef ecosystems. (Current law does not mention local, regional, or international programs and partners.)
 
Directs the Secretary to provide for the long-term stewardship of environmental data, products, and information.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish the Emergency Response, Stabilization, and Restoration Account in the existing Damage Assessment Restoration Revolving Fund.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to issue permits for activities that would otherwise be prohibited by the Act.
 
Amends the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act to include coral reef ecosystems in the definition of &quot;wildlife&quot; and &quot;wildlife resources.&quot; Requires construing the Acts commonly known as the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 and the Fish and Wildlife Improvement Act of 1978 to include coral reef ecosystems in those terms.
 
Amends the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide technical and financial assistance to states, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, for management and conservation of coral reef ecosystems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7380-7385)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Hydrographic Services Improvement Act Amendments of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1584
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Maps
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine safety
Marine transportation
Ocean currents
Shore protection
Surveying
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
Hydrographic Services Improvement Act Amendments of 2007 - Amends the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 to set forth findings and purposes for the Act. 
 
Revises the definitions of &quot;hydrographic data&quot; and &quot;hydrographic services&quot; to include shoreline surveying and water level observations. 
 
Requires the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to promote safe, efficient, and environmentally sound marine transportation and to provide hydrographic services. Revises the Administrator's authorities, including providing hydrographic services to save and protect life and property and support the resumption of commerce in response to emergencies, natural and man-made disasters, and homeland security and maritime domain awareness needs.
 
Modifies membership and compensation provisions regarding the Hydrographic Services Review Panel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7385-7386)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the "Ernest Childers Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic".

Bill: 110-s-1585
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2007-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Armed Forces and National Security
Clinics
Congress
Congressional tributes
Health
History
Minorities
Names
Native Americans
Oklahoma
Veterans' hospitals
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: 
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the &quot;Ernest Childers Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic.&quot;

action_date: 2007-12-13
text: 

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

 
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the &quot;Ernest Childers Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-17
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2007-12-17
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2007-12-14
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S15572)
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S15572)
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S15572)
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S15572)
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7454)
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7454)
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Upper Connecticut River Partnership Act

Bill: 110-s-1586
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2007-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Anadromous fishes
Animals
Boats and boating
Commemorations
Environmental Protection
Fishery management
Habitat conservation
Historic sites
History
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
New Hampshire
Outdoor recreation
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Riparian ecology
Rivers
Scenic byways
Shore protection
Sports and Recreation
Tourism
Trails
Transportation and Public Works
Vermont
Watersheds
Wetlands
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: 
Upper Connecticut River Partnership Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a Connecticut River Grants and Technical Assistance Program to provide grants and technical assistance to the governments of New Hampshire and Vermont, local governments, nonprofits, and the private sector to carry out projects for the conservation, restoration, and interpretation of historic and other resources in the Connecticut River watershed. Limits to a maximum of 75% the federal share of the cost of any project funded by a grant under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Recycling Investment Saves Energy

Bill: 110-s-1587
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bonds
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Environmental Protection
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Recycling industry
Recycling of waste products
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: 
Recycling Investment Saves Energy or the RISE Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) a first-year tax deduction of 50% of the adjusted basis of qualified reuse and recycling property; and (2) tax-exempt bond financing for recycling facilities. Defines &quot;qualified reuse and recycling property&quot; as property placed in service after December 31, 2006, which has a useful life of at least five years and which is used exclusively to collect, distribute, or recycle certain scrap materials.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Children's Access to Reconstructive Evaluation and Surgery Act

Bill: 110-s-1588
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2007-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Birth defects
Child health
Employee health benefits
Families
Health insurance
Labor and Employment
Plastic surgery
Surgery

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: 
Children's Access to Reconstructive Evaluation and Surgery Act or the CARES Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code to require a group health plan that covers surgical benefits to also cover outpatient and inpatient diagnosis and treatment of a child's congenital or developmental deformity, disease, or injury. Requires that such coverage: (1) be subject to pre-authorization or pre-certification requirements of the plan or issuer; and (2) include any surgical treatment deemed by the treating physician to be medically necessary to approximate a normal appearance. Defines &quot;treatment&quot; to include reconstructive surgical procedures that are performed on abnormal structures of the body caused by congenital defects, abnormalities, trauma, infection, tumors, or disease, including: (1) procedures that do not materially affect the function of the body part being treated; and (2) procedures for secondary conditions and follow-up treatment. Excludes cosmetic surgery performed to reshape normal structures of the body to improve appearance or self-esteem. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Drug Rebate Equalization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1589
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Commerce
Drug industry
Drugs
Managed care
Medicaid
Prescription pricing
Rebates
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: 
Drug Rebate Equalization Act of 2007 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to reduce the costs of prescription drugs for enrollees of Medicaid managed care organizations by extending to such organizations the discounts offered under fee-for-service Medicaid plans.
 
Requires the state contract with a Medicaid managed care organization to provide that: (1) payment for covered outpatient drugs dispensed to Medicaid-eligible individuals enrolled with the organization shall be subject to the same rebate as the state is subject to; and (2) the state shall allow the organization to collect such rebates from manufacturers.
 
Requires also that capitation rates paid to the organization be: (1) based on actual cost experience related to rebates; and (2) subject to the federal regulations requiring actuarially sound rates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7455)
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7454-7455,  S7455-7458)
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the reinstatement of a license for a certain Federal Energy Regulatory Commission project.

Bill: 110-s-1590
Sponsor: Sen. Byrd, Robert C. [D-WV]
Introduced: 2007-06-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Hydroelectric power
Law
Licenses
Water Resources Development
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: 
Directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), upon the request of the licensee for project numbered 7307, to extend the time required for commencement of project construction until 24 months after the date of enactment of this Act.
 
Provides for reinstatement of an terminated license.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7458-7459)
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Refinery Investment Tax Assistance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1591
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2007-06-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Depreciation and amortization
Energy
Income tax
Petroleum refineries
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: 
Refinery Investment Tax Assistance Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) for the expensing of the entire cost of certain liquid fuels refinery property (currently, only 50% of such cost can be expensed); and (2) a five-year recovery period for the depreciation of certain petroleum refining property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7548)
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7547)
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to reauthorize the Underground Railroad Educational and Cultural Program.

Bill: 110-s-1592
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2007-06-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Sciences and History
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Colleges
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Exhibitions
Federal aid to education
Foundations
Higher education
History
Museums
Nonprofit organizations
Public-private partnerships
Slavery
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to one or more nonprofit educational organizations established to research, display, interpret, and collect artifacts relating to the history of the Underground Railroad.
 
Requires each grant agreement to require the organization to: (1) establish a facility to house, display, and interpret the artifacts related to the history of the Underground Railroad; (2) demonstrate substantial private support for the facility through the implementation of a public-private partnership between a state or local public entity and a private entity providing certain matching funds; (3) create an endowment to fund shortfalls in the costs of ongoing facility operations; (4) establish a network of satellite centers throughout the United States to help disseminate information regarding the Underground Railroad; and (5) establish the capability to link the facility electronically with other local and regional facilities with interpretive Underground Railroad collections and programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Defenders of Freedom Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1593
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2007-06-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Bonds
Capital gains tax
Citizenship
Commerce
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Earned income tax credit
Expatriation
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Gifts
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Immigration
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Intelligence officers
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Military dependents
Military pay
Military personnel
Mortgages
Retirement income
Small business
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits
Tax credits
Tax deferral
Tax exclusion
Tax exemption
Tax liens
Tax penalties
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation
Visas
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: 
Defenders of Freedom Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to military personnel to: (1) extend the limitation period for filing tax refund claims resulting from Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) disability determinations; (2) make permanent the taxpayer election to treat combat zone compensation as earned income for purposes of the earned income tax credit; (3) treat differential wage payments made to active duty members of the uniformed services as wages for retirement plan purposes; (4) make permanent the exemption from the 10% penalty for premature retirement plan distributions made by active duty military personnel; (5) treat state payments to members of the uniformed services as qualified military benefits for purposes of the tax exclusion of such benefits; (6) make permanent the authority of the Social Security Administration to disclose tax return information to the VA for purposes of determining eligibility for certain veterans benefit programs; (7) extend through 2010 mortgage bond financing exemption rules for certain veterans; (8) make permanent the tax exclusion of gain from the sale of a principal residence by certain members of the Intelligence Community; (9) allow unlimited tax-free rollovers of military death gratuities to Roth individual retirement accounts (Roth IRAs); (10) allow employers a tax credit for differential wage payments made to active duty military personnel; and (11) set forth tax rules for U.S. citizens and certain permanent residents (expatriates) who relinquish their citizenship or residency to avoid U.S taxation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7548-7553)
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7548)
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Critical Access Hospital Flexibility Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1595
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2007-06-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Medicare
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: 
Critical Access Hospital Flexibility Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to state Medicare rural hospital flexibility programs, in particular the criteria for designation of critical access hospitals.
 
 Revises requirements for the counting of beds for purposes of determining whether a hospital may be designated as a critical access hospital. Allows a facility to provide a maximum of 20 (currently 25) acute care inpatient beds, as determined on an annual, average basis. Declares that only occupied beds shall be counted. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7556-7557)
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 103 South Getty Street in Uvalde, Texas, as the "Dolph S. Briscoe, Jr. Post Office Building".

Bill: 110-s-1596
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2007-06-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Governors
Names
Postal facilities
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 103 South Getty Street in Uvalde, Texas, as the "Dolph S. Briscoe, Jr. Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-28
text: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S12340)
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 297.
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-07-13
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Introduced in Senate