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Positive Behavior for Effective Schools Act

Bill: 110-hr-3407
Sponsor: Rep. Hare, Phil [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Child health
Continuing education
Department of Education
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational counseling
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
Mental health services
Psychologists
Psychotherapy
School administration
School discipline
School districts
School health programs
School security
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Social work
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Positive Behavior for Effective Schools Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to allow states to allocate school improvement funds under title I of the ESEA for coordinated, early intervention services for all students. Includes among such services, schoolwide positive behavior support, defined as a broad range of systemic and individualized strategies for achieving important social and learning outcomes while preventing problem behavior with all students.
 
Requires improvements in schoolwide learning climates, including schoolwide positive behavior supports, to be a target of: (1) technical assistance provided by states to local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools, and by LEAs to schools identified as needing improvement; (2) schoolwide programs that allow LEAs to consolidate educational funds to upgrade the entire educational program of schools that serve a high proportion of low-income families; (3) funding under the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities program; (4) elementary and secondary school counseling programs; and (5) professional development funding.
 
Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to establish, within the Department of Education, an Office of Specialized Instructional Support Services to oversee and implement the provision of specialized instructional support services in schools by school counselors, social workers, psychologists, and other qualified professionals.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 8/4/2007 E1756-1757)
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to adjust the boundary of the Stephen Mather Wilderness and the North Cascades National Park in order to allow the rebuilding of a road outside of the floodplain while ensuring that there is no net loss of acreage to the Park or the Wilderness, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-3408
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Doc [R-WA-4]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boundaries
Land transfers
National parks
Road construction
Transportation and Public Works
Washington State
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Amends the Washington Park Wilderness Act of 1988 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to adjust the boundaries of the North Cascades National Park and the Stephen Mather Wilderness in Washington state in order to provide a 100-foot wide corridor along which the Stehekin Valley Road may be rebuilt: (1) outside the floodplain between milepost 12.9 and 22.8; (2) within the boundaries of the Park; and (3) outside of the boundaries of the Wilderness. 
 
Requires that the boundary adjustments be such that equal acreage amounts are exchanged between the Wilderness and the Park. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Hardest Working Americans Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3410
Sponsor: Rep. Jefferson, William J. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Hours of labor
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Hardest Working Americans Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers an exclusion from gross income for overtime pay.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Davis-Bacon Repeal Act

Bill: 110-hr-3412
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-5]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Commerce
Construction industries
Construction workers
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Labor and Employment
Minimum wages
Subcontractors
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Davis-Bacon Repeal Act - Repeals the Davis-Bacon Act (which requires that the locally prevailing wage rate be paid to various classes of laborers and mechanics working under federally-financed or federally-assisted contracts for construction, alteration, and repair of public buildings or public works). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3413
Sponsor: Rep. Kline, John [R-MN-2]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Collective bargaining
Employee rights
Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands
Industrial relations
Labor and Employment
Minorities
Oklahoma

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 2007 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to provide that any enterprise or institution owned and operated by an Indian tribe and located on its Indian lands is not considered an employer for purposes of such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Upward Bound Improvement Act

Bill: 110-hr-3414
Sponsor: Rep. Kline, John [R-MN-2]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Age
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Compensatory education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational counseling
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Mentoring
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Veterans Upward Bound Improvement Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit members of the Armed Forces Reserves who served on active duty in support of a contingency operation on or after September 11, 2001, from being deemed ineligible for participation in federal TRIO programs due to age. (TRIO programs prepare disadvantaged students for, and support their pursuit of, postsecondary education.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the placement in a national cemetery of memorial markers for the purpose of commemorating servicemembers or other persons whose remains are interred in an American Battle Monuments Commission cemetery.

Bill: 110-hr-3415
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces abroad
Cemeteries and funerals
Commemorations
Monuments and memorials
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish for placement a memorial headstone or marker in a national cemetery to commemorate veterans and their spouses whose remains are interred in an American Battle Monuments Commission cemetery.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-08
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 8/4/2007 E1747)
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
America's Energy Security Trust Fund Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3416
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air pollution control
Carbon dioxide
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Income tax
International Affairs
International environmental cooperation
Natural gas
Peat
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Science, Technology, Communications
Subsidies
Tax credits
Tax rebates
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
America's Energy Security Trust Fund Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on any taxable carbon substance sold by a manufacturer, producer, or importer. Defines &quot;taxable carbon substance&quot; as: (1) coal (including lignite and peat); (2) petroleum and any petroleum products; and (3) natural gas that is extracted, manufactured, or produced in the United States, or entered into the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing. 

Establishes in the Treasury the America's Energy Security Trust Fund to finance research in clean energy technology, assist industries negatively affected by this Act, and provide carbon tax rebates to individual taxpayers.

Allows individual taxpayers a tax credit equal to carbon tax rebate amounts calculated by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to study and report to Congress on the best methods to assess and collect taxes on non-carbon greenhouse gases.

Expresses the sense of Congress that the major greenhouse gas emitting countries should join with the United States in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Commission on the Tax Treatment of Hedge Funds and Private Equity Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3417
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Income tax
International competitiveness
Mutual funds
Science, Technology, Communications
Securities industry
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Commission on the Tax Treatment of Hedge Funds and Private Equity Act of 2007 - Establishes the Commission on the Tax Treatment of Hedge Funds and Private Equity to review and make recommendations to Congress on the tax treatment of the U.S. hedge fund and private equity industry.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Employee Educational Assistance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3418
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congress
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employee benefit plans
Higher education
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Scholarships
Sunset legislation
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Employee Educational Assistance Act of 2007 - Renders the general terminating date (i.e., December 31, 2010) of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 inapplicable to provisions of that Act that extended the exclusion of employer-provided educational assistance from the gross income of employees (thus making such tax exclusion permanent).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Reducing Barriers to Learning Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3419
Sponsor: Rep. Loebsack, David [D-IA-2]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Child health
Community and school
Continuing education
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational counseling
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Higher education
Mental health services
Mentoring
Psychologists
Psychotherapy
School administration
School districts
School health programs
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Social work
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Reducing Barriers to Learning Act of 2007 - Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to create an Office of Specialized Instructional Support Services within the Department of Education to improve specialized instructional support services in schools.
 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a Reduced Barriers to Learning program authorizing the Secretary of Education to award competitive matching grants to states to: (1) establish or expand specialized instructional support services and programs at the state level that are designed to provide technical assistance, coordination, and support to specialized instructional support services and programs that address barriers to learning within local educational agencies and individual schools; and (2) to hire and support specialized instructional support services coordinators to provide such assistance, coordination, and support.
 
Replaces pupil services and pupil services personnel with specialized instructional support services and specialized instructional support personnel.
 
Defines such services as those provided by school counselors, social workers, psychologists, and other qualified professionals that provide assessment, diagnosis, counseling, educational, therapeutic, and other necessary services as part of a comprehensive program to meet student needs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 8/4/2007 E1765)
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
1031 Regulation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3420
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts
Capital gains tax
Credit unions
Deposit insurance
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Land transfers
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
1031 Regulation Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the use of a federally insured depository institution or credit union to hold cash to be used in a tax-free exchange of properties to acquire like-kind property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
Credit Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3421
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Credit cards
Debt
Debtor and creditor
Interest rates

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Credit Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit a creditor from using adverse information concerning any consumer, including information in any consumer report or any change in the consumer's credit score, as the basis for increasing the annual percentage rate of interest (APR) or introductory APR applicable to a credit card account under an open end consumer credit plan for reasons other than actions or omissions of the consumer that are directly related to such account.
 
Requires conspicuous payment disclosures on a creditor's billing cycle statement, including: (1) the minimum monthly payment on the outstanding balance; (2) the number of months that it would take to pay the entire amount of the outstanding balance at the current APR if only the required minimum monthly payment is paid; and (3) the total cost to the consumer to pay the remaining balance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to ensure that certain tenants are able to return to affordable housing after a major disaster.

Bill: 110-hr-3422
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Building construction
Disaster loans
Disaster relief
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Home repair and improvement
Housing and Community Development
Low-income housing
Moderate income housing
Rental housing
Residential rehabilitation
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President to provide assistance to a person who owns or operates a rental dwelling unit damaged or destroyed by a major disaster for that unit's repair, restoration, reconstruction, or replacement if: (1) before the disaster the unit was made available for occupancy only by low- or moderate-income tenants; (2) the person will continue, for a specified minimum period, to make available rental dwelling units for occupancy only by such tenants; and (3) the person has applied for a disaster loan under the Small Business Act and either has been determined to be ineligible for such a loan or has obtained such a loan in the maximum amount for which the Small Business Administration (SBA) determines the person is eligible.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
United States Cadet Nurse Corps Equity Act

Bill: 110-hr-3423
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health
History
Military discharges
Military medicine
Nurses
Veterans' benefits
Women
Women veterans
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: United States Cadet Nurse Corps Equity Act - Deems service of a person as a member of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps between July 1, 1943, and December 15, 1945 (qualified service), to be active military service for purposes of all laws administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. 
Requires: (1) the Secretary of Defense to issue an honorable discharge to each person whose qualified service warrants one; and (2) the discharge to be issued before the end of the one-year period beginning on the enactment of this Act.
Prohibits benefits from being paid to persons as a result of such enactment for any period before the enactment date.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-08-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
To authorize appropriations for the purpose of establishing an office within the Internal Revenue Service to focus on violations of the internal revenue laws by persons who are under investigation for conduct relating to commercial sex acts, and to increase the criminal monetary penalty limitations for the underpayment or overpayment of tax due to fraud.

Bill: 110-hr-3424
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Child labor
Child sexual abuse
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Department of the Treasury
Executive reorganization
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Forced labor
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Internal revenue law
Labor and Employment
Prosecution
Prostitution
Sex crimes
Slavery
Tax evasion
Tax penalties
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Authorizes appropriations to establish an office in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to investigate and prosecute violations of tax laws by individuals under investigation for criminal commercial sex activity. 

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase criminal monetary and other penalties for attempts to evade or defeat tax, willful failure to file a tax return, supply information, or pay tax, aggravated failure to file tax returns, fraud and false statements, and underpayment or overpayment of tax due to fraud.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1733)
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House