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Military Family Support Act

Bill: 110-s-3163
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2008-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Caregivers
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Defense budgets
Department of Defense
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family leave
Federal employees
Government spending reductions
Law
Leave of absence
Military dependents
Military research
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Sick leave

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: 
Military Family Support Act of 2008 - Directs the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to establish a program to authorize a caregiver (a federal employee at least 18 years of age capable of providing care to a child or other dependent family member of a member of the Armed Forces) to use: (1) any available sick leave for the provision of such care in the same manner as annual leave is used; and (2) any federal leave available to that caregiver as though that period of caregiving is a medical emergency.

 Requires the program to: (1) provide a process for reasonable notice of the need for leave; and (2) protect employees from discrimination or retaliation for the use of leave under this Act and provide the opportunity to appeal a denial of its use. Requires the service member for whom the caregiving is provided to be performing service in support of a contingency operation or in situations for which hostile fire or imminent danger pay is authorized and to designate the caregiver for his or her family.

 Terminates the program on December 31, 2012.

Provides for an offsetting reduction in FY2008 appropriations for the Department of Defense for research, development, test and evaluation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-21
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Seniors and Taxpayers Obligation Protection Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3164
Sponsor: Sen. Martinez, Mel [R-FL]
Introduced: 2008-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Health care fraud
Health information systems
Identification devices
Law
Medical supplies
Medicare
Physicians
Prosthesis
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Surety and fidelity

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: 
Seniors and Taxpayers Obligation Protection Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish and implement procedures to change the Medicare beneficiary identifier used to identify individuals entitled to benefits under part A (Hospital Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA), or enrolled under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance), so that such an individual's Social Security number is not used.
 
Amends SSA title XVIII to direct the Secretary to establish and implement a system to verify on a monthly basis that the claims for reimbursement under Medicare part B for physicians' services furnished in high risk areas are: (1) for physicians' services actually furnished by the physician (or the physician's group practice); and (2) otherwise accurate.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a system to identify the 50 counties most vulnerable (high risk areas) to Medicare fraud.
 
Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on the use of technology to provide real-time data analysis of Medicare reimbursement claims to identify and investigate unusual billing or order practices under the Medicare program that could indicate fraud or abuse. 
 
Requires the Secretary to establish procedures to require carriers, before paying a claim for reimbursement for durable medical equipment (DME), prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) to confirm with the National Supplier Clearinghouse: (1) that the supplier's Medicare identification number is active; and (2) that the item or service for which the reimbursement claim is submitted was properly identified on the CMS-855S Medicare enrollment application.
 
Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations for a unique identifier (serial number) tracking system for payment for DME.
 
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary must put in place a surety bond requirement for DME suppliers within six months of the date of enactment of this Act in order to maintain Medicare program integrity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Summer Travel Delay Prevention Act

Bill: 110-s-3165
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2008-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Airline passenger traffic
Armed Forces and National Security
Aviation safety
Department of Transportation
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Military aviation
New Jersey
New York City
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Transportation planning

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: 
Summer Travel Delay Prevention Act - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to develop: (1) a plan for opening up to commercial flights special use airspace for additional lanes of air traffic at specific choke points; and (2) a permanent plan for sharing military airspace off the eastern U.S. coast by such flights.
 
Authorizes the Director of the New York Integration Office of the FAA to transfer appropriated amounts for Office operations to flight delay reduction projects in airspace over the New York-New Jersey region.
 
Requires the FAA Administrator to establish an Aviation Traveler Task Force to: (1) clarify interpretations of FAA safety directives with which air carriers will soon need to comply; (2) develop contingency plans in the event that additional aircraft do not comply with such safety directives and need to be grounded; and (3) design a notification system to alert passengers of potential service disruptions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to impose criminal penalties on individuals who assist aliens who have engaged in genocide, torture, or extrajudicial killings to enter the United States.

Bill: 110-s-3166
Sponsor: Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL]
Introduced: 2008-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Crime and Law Enforcement
Genocide
History
International Affairs
Jewish holocaust (1939-1945)
Murder
Nazism
Torture

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to impose criminal penalties on an individual who assists an alien to enter the United States who has engaged in Nazi persecution or participated in genocide, torture, or extrajudicial killings.

action_date: 2008-09-12
text: 

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

 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to impose criminal penalties on an individual who assists an alien to enter the United States who has engaged in Nazi persecution, genocide, torture, or extrajudicial killings. 

action_date: 2008-09-26
text: 

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

 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to impose criminal penalties on an individual who assists an alien to enter the United States who has engaged in Nazi persecution or participated in genocide, torture, or extrajudicial killings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9606; text as passed Senate: CR S9606)
action_date: 2008-09-26
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S9606; text as passed Senate: CR S9606)
action_date: 2008-09-12
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 960.
action_date: 2008-09-12
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-09-12
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-09-11
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act

Bill: 110-s-3167
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2008-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Disabled
Families
Firearms
Firearms control
Mental health
Mentally disabled
Military dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: 
Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act - Prohibits considering a veteran, surviving spouse, or child who is mentally incapacitated, deemed mentally incompetent, or experiencing an extended loss of consciousness from being considered adjudicated as a mental defective for purposes of the right to receive or transport firearms without the order or finding of a judge, magistrate, or other judicial authority of competent jurisdiction that such veteran, surviving spouse, or child is a danger to him- or herself or others.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5837-5838)
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize United States participation in, and appropriations for the United States contribution to, the eleventh replenishment of the resources of the African Development Fund.

Bill: 110-s-3169
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2008-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Africa
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Authorization
Development credit institutions
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: 
Amends the African Development Fund Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the African Development Fund to contribute to the 11th replenishment of the resources of the Fund.

Authorizes appropriations.

action_date: 2008-08-01
text: 

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

 
Amends the African Development Fund Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the Fund to contribute to the 11th replenishment of the resources of the Fund.
 
Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-08-01
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 937.
action_date: 2008-08-01
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Biden without amendment. With written report No. 110-441.
action_date: 2008-08-01
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Biden without amendment. With written report No. 110-441.
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to modify the conditions for the release of products from the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve Account, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-3170
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2008-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Energy assistance for the poor
Energy efficiency
Energy prices
Energy supplies
Heating
Housing and Community Development
Northeastern States
Petroleum reserves
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: 
Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to revise requirements for the sale by the Secretary of Energy of products from the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to sell from the Reserve if the President finds that: (1) there is a severe energy supply interruption (as under existing law); or (2) the price of home heating oil threatens the health and safety of residents of the Northeast.
 

 
Requires the Secretary to sell specified percentages of the quantity of products in the Reserve as of November 1 of a fiscal year if the President finds that, on successive monthly winter dates of the same fiscal year, the average retail price of No.2 heating oil in the Northeast is equal to or more than $4.00 per gallon.
 
Requires the Secretary to use any revenue derived from such sales to provide assistance to low-income consumers of heating oil under the Weatherization Assistance Program for Low-Income Persons of the Energy Conservation and Production Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude certain tax-exempt financing of energy transportation infrastructure from the private business use tests, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-3171
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2008-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air pollution control
Bonds
Carbon dioxide
Commerce
Department of Transportation
Electric power transmission
Energy
Energy transportation
Environmental Protection
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Law
Local taxation
Natural gas
Petroleum
Pipelines
Property tax
Restrictive trade practices
State taxation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) modify tax-exempt bond financing rules to exclude from the private business use and private loan financing tests certain property used to transmit electricity or carbon dioxide or to transport crude oil and other petroleum products; and (2) reduce the state volume cap for tax-exempt bonds by the amount of bonds issued for such property.

Describes the following as acts that unreasonably burden and discriminate against interstate commerce, and prohibits states, political subdivisions, and any other taxing authority from: (1) assessing natural gas pipeline property at a value that has a higher ratio to its true market value than the ratio used to assess other commercial and industrial property in the same assessment jurisdiction; (2) levying or collecting a tax on such an assessment; (3) levying or collecting an ad valorem property tax on natural gas pipeline property at a rate that exceeds the rate applicable to commercial and industrial property in the same assessment jurisdiction; or (4) imposing any other tax that discriminates against a natural gas pipeline providing transportation subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Grants jurisdiction to U.S. District Courts and provides specified relief for claims of discriminatory taxation of natural gas pipeline property.

 

Amends federal transportation law to modify the criteria for natural gas pipeline integrity reassessments to require the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations basing the intervals for reassessments on certain technical data, risk factors, and engineering analysis.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide conditions for funds made available for certain projects located in the State of Louisiana, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-3172
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2008-06-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Drainage
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Lakes
Louisiana
Urban affairs
Urban areas

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: 
Sets forth non-federal cost allocation, non-federal share repayment, and expenditure requirements to reach the Corps of Engineers designated 100-year level of protection for the Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity project, the West Bank and Vicinity project, and elements of the Southeast Louisiana Urban Drainage project located within such projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Keeping Families Safe Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3173
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2008-06-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Adoption
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drugs and women
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Foster home care
Health
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: 
Keeping Families Safe Act of 2008 - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to allow foster care maintenance payments to be made on behalf of a child who is in a residential family treatment center. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to evaluate and report to Congress on the foster care maintenance payments made on behalf of a child who is in a residential family treatment center, including an analysis of the outcomes for such children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5941-5942)
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5941)
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Predisaster Hazard Mitigation Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3175
Sponsor: Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [ID-CT]
Introduced: 2008-06-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Authorization
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Flood control
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Predisaster Hazard Mitigation Act of 2008 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to: (1) require the President to award financial assistance under the pre-disaster hazard mitigation program on a competitive basis and to ensure that the amount guaranteed to each state under the program is not less than a specified amount; and (2) authorize appropriations for the program through FY2013.
action_date: 2008-09-22
text: 
Predisaster Hazard Mitigation Act of 2008 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to require the President to: (1) award financial assistance under the pre-disaster hazard mitigation program on a competitive basis; and (2) ensure that the amount of assistance made available to each state is not less than the lesser of $575,000 or the amount that is equal to 1% of the total funds appropriated to carry out such program for the fiscal year, and is not more than 15% of such appropriated funds.
 
 Authorizes appropriations for the program for FY2009-FY2013. Repeals the program termination date. 
 
Prohibits a state from using more than 25% of the financial assistance made available to the state under the program in a fiscal year for flood control projects.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-22
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1040.
action_date: 2008-09-22
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman with amendments. With written report No. 110-479.
action_date: 2008-09-22
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman with amendments. With written report No. 110-479.
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Disaster Recovery Substance Abuse Mental Health Treatment Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3176
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2008-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Counseling
Disaster relief
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Health
Health planning
Health surveys
Mental health services
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: 
Disaster Recovery Substance Abuse Mental Health Treatment Act of 2008 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President to provide mental health and substance abuse services to individuals affected by a major disaster to relieve or prevent mental health or substance abuse problems caused or aggravated by that disaster or its aftermath.

Allows such assistance to include financial assistance to government agencies, mental health or substance abuse organizations, or mental health providers to provide, or train individuals to provide, mental health or substance abuse services. 

Restricts assistance to an 18-month period, which in limited circumstances may be extended if the President determines it to be in the public interest. Makes this applicable to any major disaster declared by the President on or after August 29, 2005.

Requires the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the head of any other federal agency that provides mental health or substance abuse services, in coordination with the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and state and local officials with responsibilities for such services, to: (1) conduct a survey of such services; and (2) develop a strategy for the adequate provision of such services to individuals affected by major disasters and to emergency response providers responding to major disasters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate