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National Priorities Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-818
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Affordable housing
Alternative energy sources
Armed Forces and National Security
Block grants
Budget deficits
Community health services
Congress
Day care
Defense budgets
Dental care
Disabled
Earned income tax credit
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to housing
Federal aid to transportation
Government trust funds
Health
Health insurance
Higher education
Highspeed ground transportation
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Mass rapid transit
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Preschool education
Rental housing
Residential rehabilitation
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Special education
Sunset legislation
Tax rates
Transportation and Public Works
Veterans' medical care
Waste in government spending

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
National Priorities Act of 2007 - Rescinds after 2008 income tax reductions enacted under the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 and the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 for taxpayers with gross incomes in 2008 of over $400,000.
 
Reduces funding for the Department of Defense by $60 billion in FY2008. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make reductions by eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse, and weapon systems and other programs determined to be no longer a national security priority. Exempts from such reductions the needs of military personnel, including pay increases and health care. 
 
Dedicates increases in revenues resulting from this Act to: (1) various programs for health care, education, energy conservation, and affordable housing; (2) increasing the earned income credit; and (3) reducing the federal deficit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2910-2913)
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Good IRA Rollover Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-819
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Charitable contributions
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Law
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
Public Good IRA Rollover Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income distributions from individual retirement accounts for certain charitable purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2916-2917)
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2913-2916)
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Choices in Child Care Act

Bill: 110-s-820
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Block grants
Congressional reporting requirements
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Government Operations and Politics
Infants
Labor and Employment
Poor children
Social Welfare
Working poor

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
Choices in Child Care Act - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to five to seven states for demonstration projects to provide at-home infant care benefits to low-income families. Allows grants to Indian tribes. Requires the Secretary to seek to ensure geographic diversity among participants and to give priority to states that demonstrate a commitment to improving the quality of infant care and the choices available to parents of infants, that have relevant experience, and that have a shortage of infant care.

Requires states, to participate in the demonstration project, to certify to the Secretary that the state: (1) will not reduce expenditures for child care services while carrying out the project; (2) will not give priority or preference to low-income families seeking to receive at-home infant care benefits over other families on a waiting list for child care assistance through other state programs, but will select a combination of such families; and (3) will ensure that applicants are permitted to choose between receipt of at-home care subsidies and certificates for child care needed for employment.

Sets forth eligibility requirements for families seeking assistance, including having a parent who had a recent work history prior to the application for benefits. Requires states to permit two-parent families to participate in the project, but prohibits states from limiting participation in the project to such families.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2917-2918)
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
SSI Extension for Elderly and Disabled Refugees Act

Bill: 110-s-821
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aliens
Cubans
Haitians
Immigrants
Immigration
Refugees
Right of asylum
Supplemental security income program
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
SSI Extension for Elderly and Disabled Refugees Act - Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to provide a two-year extension of supplemental security income (SSI) through FY2010 for qualified aliens (including asylees and certain Cuban and Haitian entrants).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2918)
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2918)
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
EXTEND the Energy Efficiency Incentives Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-822
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air conditioning
Alternative energy sources
Apartment houses
Building construction
Cogeneration of electric power and heat
Commerce
Computer software
Department of Energy
Employee training
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Fuel cells
Government Operations and Politics
Heat pumps
Heating
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Investment tax credit
Labor and Employment
Law
Lighting
Office buildings
Science, Technology, Communications
Solar energy
Standards
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
EXTEND the Energy Efficiency Incentives Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) to allow individual taxpayers a tax credit, through 2011, for residential energy efficiency expenditures certified to achieve certain levels of energy savings; (2) modify standards for nonbusiness energy property (i.e., air conditioners, heat pumps, water heaters, etc.) and extend the tax credit for such property through 2011; (3) revise the tax credit for solar electric and hot water property to include all technologies for solar-derived electricity; (4) extend through 2011 the tax credit for new energy efficient homes; (5) extend through 2014 the tax deduction for energy efficient commercial buildings and increase the maximum amount of such deduction; (6) allow tax deductions for energy efficient low-rise buildings used for multifamily housing and for energy efficient property expenditures; (7) extend through 2011 the investment tax credit for solar energy and fuel cell property; and (8) allow a business-related tax credit for qualified training and certification costs and equipment expenditures for certifying residential energy savings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2918-2919)
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Microbicide Development Act

Bill: 110-s-823
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Clinical trials
Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Developing countries
Drug industry
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government procurement
Human behavior
Human immunodeficiency viruses
International Affairs
Medical research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Pharmaceutical research
Preventive medicine
Product development
Research and development
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Sexually transmitted diseases
Social science research
Strategic planning
Women
Women's health
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
Microbicide Development Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Office of AIDS Research to: (1) expedite the implementation of the federal strategic plan for the conduct and support of microbicide research and development; and (2) expand, intensify, and coordinate all activities with respect to research and development of microbicides to prevent the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. 

Requires the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to: (1) establish within the Division of AIDS an organizational branch to carry out microbicide research and development; and (2) assign priority to ensuring adequate funding and support for the Microbicide Trials Network and other programs for supporting microbicides clinical trials. 
Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to fully implement the CDC's microbicide agenda to support microbicide research and development. 
Directs the head of the Office of HIV/AIDS of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to develop and implement a program to support the development of microbicides products for the prevention of the transmission of HIV/AIDS and other diseases, and facilitate wide-scale availability of such products. 
Requires the Secretary of State to report to Congress on advance market commitments of microbicides to prevent HIV infection as a means of creating private sector investment incentives.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2919-2920)
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend Public Law 106-348 to extend the authorization for establishing a memorial in the District of Columbia or its environs to honor veterans who became disabled while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States.

Bill: 110-s-824
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Disabled
District of Columbia
Monuments and memorials
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
Amends the Act of October 24, 2000, which authorized the establishment in the District of Columbia of a service-disabled veterans' memorial, to extend the authority for establishing such memorial until October 24, 2015.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-158.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide additional funds for the Road Home Program.

Bill: 110-s-825
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Louisiana

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
 Deems $1.2 billion of unexpended amounts, previously made available to the Louisiana Recovery Authority (LRA) under the Hazard Mitigation Grants program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to have been made available to the LRA pursuant to specified terms and approved by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for use under the Road Home Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Alice Paul Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 110-s-826
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Government Operations and Politics
Voting rights
Women
Women's rights
Women's voting

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
Alice Paul Congressional Gold Medal Act - Requires the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to make arrangements for the posthumous presentation of a congressional gold medal in commemoration of Alice Paul, to recognize her role in the women's suffrage movement and in advancing equal rights for women.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to strike and sell duplicates in bronze of such medal. Requires proceeds from the sale of such medals to be deposited into the U.S. Mint Public Enterprise Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Freedom's Way National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 110-s-827
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Cultural property
Historic sites
History
Land use
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Outdoor recreation
Sports and Recreation
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Freedom's Way National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Freedom's Way National Heritage Area encompassing 36 communities in Massachusetts and eight communities in New Hampshire that have made important and distinctive contributions to the national character of America.
action_date: 2008-06-16
text: 
Freedom's Way National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Freedom's Way National Heritage Area in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. 

Designates the Freedom's Way Heritage Association, Inc., (the Association) as the local coordinating entity for the Area.

Requires the Association to submit a management plan for the Area.

Authorizes appropriations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-16
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 785.
action_date: 2008-06-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-353.
action_date: 2008-06-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-353.
action_date: 2008-05-07
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-514.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
On-farm Energy Production Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-828
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agricultural subsidies
Alternative energy sources
Energy
Environmental Protection
Solar energy
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
On-farm Energy Production Act of 2007 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to make cost-share payments for on-farm energy production (including solar and wind energy and renewable fuel) under the environmental quality incentives program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
HOPE VI Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-829
Sponsor: Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Academic performance
Affordable housing
Authorization
Congress
Congressional investigations
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to housing
Housing authorities
Low-income housing
Performance measurement
Poverty
Public housing
Relocation
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
HOPE VI Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2007 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to extend and authorize appropriations for the HOPE VI revitalization program. 
 
Includes educational and relocation aims among HOPE VI purposes. Requires each HOPE VI grant recipient to establish, in partnership with local schools, a comprehensive educational reform and achievement strategy for transforming the neighborhood schools into high-performing schools (including, in certain circumstances, an alternative strategy).
 
Revises grant selection criteria. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to conduct funding-related site visits for HOPE VI applicants.
 
Requires: (1) public housing agencies to establish performance benchmarks for each of their HOPE VI projects; and (2) the Secretary to establish specified sanctions for failure to meet such benchmarks.
 
Cites conditions for extension of such benchmarks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Pediatric Medical Device Safety and Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-830
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Biomedical engineering
Business records
Child health
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic data interchange
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health information systems
Health surveys
Medical research
Medical supplies
Nonprofit organizations
Product development
Product safety
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
Pediatric Medical Device Safety and Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require an application for the approval of a medical device or a product development protocol to include: (1) a description of any pediatric subpopulations that suffer from the disease or condition that the device is intended to treat, diagnose, or cure; and (2) the number of affected pediatric patients.
 
Excludes a medical device distributed pursuant to the humanitarian device exemption from the prohibition that no device be sold for an amount that exceeds the cost of the device if: (1) the device is intended for the treatment or diagnosis of a disease or condition that occurs in pediatric patients; and (2) other specified requirements are met.
 
Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to designate a contact point to help innovators and physicians access funding for pediatric medical device development.
 
 Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants for demonstration projects to promote pediatric device development.
 
Includes as a duty of the Office of Pediatric Therapeutics increasing pediatric access to medical devices.
 
Allows the Secretary to require: (1) postmarket surveillance on certain devices that are expected to have significant use in pediatric populations; and (2) a prospective surveillance period of more than 36 months for such devices, as necessary.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to establish a publicly accessible database of all studies and surveillance of medical devices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2921-2923)
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2920-2921)
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Sudan Divestment Authorization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-831
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Africa (Sub-Saharan)
American investments
Civil service retirement
Genocide
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Pension funds
Sanctions (International law)
State laws
Sudan

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
Sudan Divestment Authorization Act of 2007 - Declares the sense of Congress that states and other governmental entities should be permitted to provide for the divestment of certain state assets within their jurisdictions as an expression of opposition to the genocidal actions and policies of the Government of Sudan.
 
Authorizes any state to adopt measures to prohibit any investment of state assets in the Government of Sudan, or in any company with a qualifying business relationship with Sudan, during any period in which the Government of Sudan, or the officials of such government are subject to sanctions authorized under the Sudan Peace Act, the Comprehensive Peace in Sudan Act of 2004, the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005, the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act of 2006, or any other federal law or executive order.
 
Defines state assets as any public pension, retirement, annuity, or endowment fund, or similar instrument managed by a state.
 
Applies this Act to measures adopted by a state before, on, or after the enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-03
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10342-10344)
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E8676-8677)
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6823-6824)
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2926-2927)
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2923-2926)
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate