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International and Parental Child Abduction Remedies Assistance Act

Bill: 110-hr-6095
Sponsor: Rep. Lampson, Nick [D-TX-22]
Introduced: 2008-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aliens
Americans in foreign countries
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Custody of children
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Immigration
International Affairs
International cooperation
Judges
Kidnapping
Law
Legal aid
Legal education
Legal fees
Missing children
Parents
Prosecution
Repatriation
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Treaties
Victims of crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: 
International and Parental Child Abduction Remedies Assistance Act - Directs the Attorney General to provide state and local law enforcement agencies information on instituting or assisting investigative searches for alien children believed to be in the United States who are the subject of an application under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Parental Child Abduction (Convention) or an Interpol yellow notice. 

Amends the Crime Control Act of 1990 to require missing child reports to include a statement specifying whether a missing child is believed to have been taken outside of the United States. 

Amends the International Child Abduction Remedies Act to: (1) provide funding, technical assistance, and training to legal providers to assist victims of parental kidnappings; and (2) allow payment of costs incurred in civil actions to return abducted children.

Authorizes the Legal Services Corporation to use its funding to represent aliens in child abduction proceedings brought in the United States under the Convention.

Amends the federal judicial code to require the Federal Judicial Center to provide training programs for newly appointed judges on laws pertaining to parental kidnapping.

Authorizes additional funding for the investigation and prosecution of international parental kidnapping crimes. 

Directs the Director of the Department of Justice Office of Victims of Crime to award grants to reimburse parents, guardians, law enforcement, and other appropriate individuals for travel costs related to the safe return of U.S. children who have been abducted and taken to foreign countries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2008-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Introduced in House
International Child Abduction Progress Reports Act

Bill: 110-hr-6096
Sponsor: Rep. Lampson, Nick [D-TX-22]
Introduced: 2008-05-20 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Custody of children
Extradition
Families
Human rights
Kidnapping
Treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: 
International Child Abduction Progress Reports Act - Directs the Secretary of State to report annually to Congress on progress made by the United States in negotiating and entering into bilateral treaties (or other international agreements) relating to international child abduction with countries that are not parties to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. 
 
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to include information on efforts to prohibit international child abduction in the annual human rights and security assistance reports to Congress.
 
Directs the Attorney General to report annually to Congress respecting each case involving a request for extradition to the United States of an individual alleged to have violated international parental kidnapping provisions. 
 
Authorizes appropriations for extraditing individuals from foreign countries to the United States for violations of U.S. laws by unlawfully removing a child from the child's custodial parent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2008-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2008-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2008-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Boy Scouts of America Land Transfer Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6097
Sponsor: Rep. Matheson, Jim [D-UT-2]
Introduced: 2008-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boy Scouts
Camping
Families
Land transfers
Sports and Recreation
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: 
Boy Scouts of America Land Transfer Act of 2008 - Authorizes the Utah National Parks Council of the Boy Scouts of America (the Boy Scouts) to convey to Brian Head Resort certain public land in Utah acquired under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act for the purpose of operating a camp in exchange for conveyance by Brian Head Resort of certain of its private land to the Boy Scouts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Introduced in House
To provide for extension of existing and expiring agreements under the Moving-to-Work program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Bill: 110-hr-6099
Sponsor: Rep. Sires, Albio [D-NJ-13]
Introduced: 2008-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Housing authorities
Housing subsidies
Low-income housing
Public housing
Rental housing
Social Welfare
Welfare waivers

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, upon the request of a public housing agency (PHA) which has a Moving to Work agreement (under the demonstration program authorized by the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996), to extend it for a 12-month period under such terms as are or were in effect upon the agreement's expiration.
 
Provides that, for a PHA that previously received an extension of its agreement and entered into a subsequent agreement after January 1, 2008, the Secretary shall, upon the PHA's request, invalidate such subsequent agreement and extend any agreement that was in effect as of such date also for a 12-month period under such terms as were in effect as of that date.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from extending a Moving to Work agreement if a PHA is noncompliant with its agreement's terms.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the maximum number of PHAs authorized to participate in the Moving to Work demonstration program should not be expanded until the demonstration program has been reformed and permanently authorized through enactment of a federal law.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Patient Fairness and Indigent Care Promotion Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6101
Sponsor: Rep. Thornberry, Mac [R-TX-13]
Introduced: 2008-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Debt
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health facilities
Hospital rates
Income tax
Medical economics
Medical fees
Medical personnel
Medically uninsured
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: 
Patient Fairness and Indigent Care Promotion Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain medical care providers a tax deduction for uncompensated medical care provided to individuals with income below 135% of the poverty line.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Roberto Luis Dunoyer Mejia, Consuelo Cardona Molina, Camilo Dunoyer Cardona, and Pablo Dunoyer Cardona.

Bill: 110-hr-6103
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan [R-CA-52]
Introduced: 2008-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Provides for the relief of Roberto Luis Dunoyer Mejia, Consuelo Cardona Molina, Camilo Dunoyer Cardona, and Pablo Dunoyer Cardona.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-20
text: Introduced in House
Enhancing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6104
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2008-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Commerce
Curricula
Department of Education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Educational innovations
Educational research
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Engineering
Engineers
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to education
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Infrastructure
Mathematics
Minority education
Public-private partnerships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Special education
Teacher education
Teaching

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: 
Enhancing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Act of 2008 - Requires the President to establish, in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, a Committee on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education (STEM education) within the National Science and Technology Council.

Establishes an Office of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education in the Department of Education, to be administered by an Assistant Secretary. Requires the Assistant Secretary to conduct an annual evaluation of the STEM education programs administered by the department.

Requires the Secretary of Education to award a grant to establish a voluntary State Consortium on STEM Education and a grant to the National Science Digital Library to establish a National STEM Education Research Repository.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education.
action_date: 2008-05-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1101)
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2008-05-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2008-05-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2008-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Diesel Tax Fairness Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6106
Sponsor: Rep. Bono, Mary [R-CA-45]
Introduced: 2008-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Diesel motor
Excise tax
Tax rates
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: 
Diesel Tax Fairness Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the excise tax on diesel fuel and kerosene (from 24.3 cents to 18.3 cents per gallon) and diesel fuel emulsion (from 19.7 cents to 14.8 cents per gallon) until December 31, 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Pre-Disaster Mitigation Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6109
Sponsor: Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8]
Introduced: 2008-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Authorization
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: 
Pre-Disaster Mitigation Act of 2008 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to: (1) increase the amount guaranteed to each state under the pre-disaster mitigation program; (2) require other financial assistance under the program to be awarded on a competitive basis; and (3) authorize appropriations for the program through FY2011. 

action_date: 2008-06-19
text: 

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

 
Pre-Disaster Mitigation Act of 2008 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to: (1) increase the amount guaranteed to each state under the pre-disaster mitigation program; (2) require other financial assistance under the program to be awarded on a competitive basis; and (3) authorize appropriations for the program through FY2011. 

action_date: 2008-06-23
text: 
Pre-Disaster Mitigation Act of 2008 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to: (1) increase the amount guaranteed to each state under the pre-disaster mitigation program; (2) require other financial assistance under the program to be awarded on a competitive basis; and (3) authorize appropriations for the program through FY2011. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5816)
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H5816)
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6109.
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5816-5818)
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Ms. Norton moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 460.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Reported by the Committee on Transportation. H. Rept. 110-725.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Reported by the Committee on Transportation. H. Rept. 110-725.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the monitoring of the long-term medical health of firefighters who responded to emergencies in certain disaster areas and for the treatment of such firefighters.

Bill: 110-hr-6112
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2008-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Cardiovascular diseases
Disaster relief
Education
Emergency Management
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health surveys
Higher education
Lung diseases
Medical education
Medical research
Nervous system diseases
Occupational health and safety
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: 
Healthy Firefighters Act - Directs the United States Fire Administration to: (1) contract with a locally based medical research university to conduct long-term medical health monitoring of firefighters who responded to emergencies in a federally declared disaster area; and (2) provide for the treatment of such firefighters who suffer health-related conditions as a result of responding to such emergencies. Requires such monitoring to include: (1) monitoring of pulmonary illness, neurological damage, and cardiovascular damage; and (2) exposure documentation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2008-05-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2008-05-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2008-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Introduced in House
SUNSET Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6114
Sponsor: Rep. Doyle, Michael F. [D-PA-14]
Introduced: 2008-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Health
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Medical screening
Medical tests
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: 
Simplifying and Updating National Standards to Encourage Testing of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus of 2008 or SUNSET Act of 2008 - Amends the Veterans' Benefits and Services Act of 1988 to repeal provisions prohibiting the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from performing widespread human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing, but allowing voluntary testing of certain individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Unanimous Consent .
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2008-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Introduced in House
State Regulation of Marriage Is Appropriate Act

Bill: 110-hr-6115
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2008-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Law
Marriage
Married people
Same-sex marriage

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: 
State Regulation of Marriage Is Appropriate Act - Amends the Defense of Marriage Act to repeal the statutory definition of "marriage" as meaning only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and of "spouse" as referring only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Saving Family Homes Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6116
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2008-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Foreclosure
Landlord and tenant
Mortgages
Rental housing

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: 
Saving Family Homes Act of 2008 - Grants eligible mortgagors subject to foreclosure proceedings the right to continue to occupy forclosed properties subject to the payment of fair market rent for a period of 20 years that begins upon the commencement of occupancy of such property. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Regulatory Equity Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6117
Sponsor: Rep. Hill, Baron P. [D-IN-9]
Introduced: 2008-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Licenses
Regulatory impact statements
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: 
Small Business Regulatory Equity Act of 2008 - Directs the Comptroller General of the United States to report to Congress on the Comptroller General's analysis of the impacts of federal regulations on businesses with 15 or fewer, 16 to 35, and 36 to 50 employees. Requires the report to detail the cost and impacts of federally mandated, state-administered regulations, the time such businesses must spend working with agencies attempting to obtain written responses to their written questions, the time that passes between submitting such questions and receiving responses, how long projects are delayed by federal regulations, and how long it takes small business to obtain permits from federal agencies. Requires the report to cover, and treat separately, direct impacts such as wages, time, and fees spent on compliance and indirect impacts such as cash flow, sales, and competitiveness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the charter of the Gold Star Wives of America to remove the restriction on the federally chartered corporation, and directors and officers of the corporation, attempting to influence legislation.

Bill: 110-hr-6118
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2008-05-21 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Corporation directors
Families
Federal incorporation
Government Operations and Politics
Lobbying
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare
War casualties
Widowers
Widows

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: 
Amends provisions of federal law relating to patriotic and national organizations to remove language restricting the Gold Star Wives of America from attempting to influence legislation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1039)
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-21
text: Introduced in House