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Food and Drug Import Safety Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3610
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-15]
Introduced: 2007-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative fees
Carbon monoxide
Commerce
Consumer protection
Deceptive advertising
Department of Health and Human Services
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Executive reorganization
Fines (Penalties)
Food additives
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Food industry
Food safety
Foodborne diseases
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Import restrictions
Imports
Injunctions
Labeling
Laboratories
Law
Licenses
Meat
Meat inspection
Poultry
Product safety
Quality control
Research
Science, Technology, Communications
Seafood
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: 
Food and Drug Import Safety Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for research on the development of tests and sampling methodologies for use on imported food.

Requires the Secretary to assess and collect fees on imported food and drugs.

Directs the Secretary to restrict the importation of all food to metropolitan ports of entry with a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) laboratory for testing such food.

 Deems a food, drug, or device to be misbranded it its labeling fails to identify its country of origin. 

Requires the Secretary to establish a program under which: (1) persons importing food voluntarily agree to abide by specified food and security guidelines; and (2) the Secretary agrees to expedite the movement of such food through the inspection process. 

Increases civil penalties for the manufacturer or importer of adulterated food.
Sets forth provisions governing the reorganization of FDA field laboratories and district offices. 
Requires the Secretary to issue an order requiring an immediate cease in the distribution of food that may cause serious, adverse health consequences or death.

Subjects all imported food to U.S. food safety standards. Sets forth a certification system for a foreign facility seeking to import food.

Requires the Secretary to require, as good manufacturing practices, that processed food undergo testing to detect substances that may render the food adulterated.

Defines the term &quot;color additive&quot; to include carbon monoxide that may affect the color of fresh meat, poultry products, or seafood, unless the label bears a specified statement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Bringing Success to Scale Act

Bill: 110-hr-3611
Sponsor: Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2007-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Arts
Arts, Culture, Religion
Athletics
Commerce
Community and school
Compensatory education
Continuing education
Disabled
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational innovations
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Literacy programs
Mentoring
Minorities
Minority education
Nonprofit organizations
Parent-school relationships
Public-private partnerships
Recruiting of employees
School administration
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Service learning
Social Welfare
Special education
Sports and Recreation
Teacher education
Teacher salaries
Teacher supply and demand
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: 
Bringing Success to Scale Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to establish a Bringing Success to Scale program making academic achievement grant awards to local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools that: (1) significantly close the achievement gap between poor, minority, disabled, limited English proficient, and other students; (2) exceed the state's annual measurable academic objectives for two or more consecutive years; (3) make significant improvement on other meaningful data, such as graduation rates and the recruitment of high quality teachers and principals; and (4) demonstrate that they have established partnerships with the private sector and will provide matching funds to help bring results to scale. 
 
Designates such LEAs and schools as Distinguished School Districts and Distinguished Schools, respectively.
 
Requires the program to award grants to school management or support organizations, nonprofit organizations, and human capital providers so that they can work in partnership with the private sector and philanthropic community to expand innovative programs that produce results and share best practices with schools and LEAs. 
 
Designates such entities as Distinguished School Support Organizations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Local Law Enforcement Restoration Act

Bill: 110-hr-3612
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Dave [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2007-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Alien labor
Civil actions and liability
Crime and Law Enforcement
Employee selection
Employers' liability
Federal preemption
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Illegal aliens
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Local laws
Punitive damages
Recruiting of employees
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: 
Local Law Enforcement Restoration Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to state that specified unlawful alien employment provisions shall not preempt any state or local law that imposes: (1) employment eligibility verification requirements imposed upon employers or employees consistent with or in addition to employment eligibility verification requirements; (2) civil or criminal penalties for violation of such state or local employment eligibility verification requirements; (3) civil or criminal penalties for prohibited acts; (4) licensing sanctions for violation of such state or local employment eligibility verification requirements; (5) licensing sanctions for prohibited acts; or (6) limitations on the private right to sue for up to treble damages. (Current law provides that such unlawful alien employment provisions shall preempt any state or local law imposing criminal or civil sanctions [other than through licensing or similar laws] upon those who employ, recruit or refer for a fee for employment, unauthorized aliens.) 
 
Applies such provisions to all applicable state or local laws that were enacted before, on, or after January 1, 2005. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1945)
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to make improvements relating to students with disabilities.

Bill: 110-hr-3613
Sponsor: Rep. Bilbray, Brian P. [R-CA-50]
Introduced: 2007-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require both the participation and performance of disabled children using reasonable accommodations, or the modifications they regularly use in daily classroom instruction as documented in their individualized education program or their plan under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, to be counted in determinations as to whether local educational agencies and schools are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward state academic performance standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Action Plan for Public Lands and Education Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3614
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Rob [R-UT-1]
Introduced: 2007-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Arizona
California
Colorado
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Hawaii
Idaho
Impact aid
Land transfers
Mines and mineral resources
Mining claims
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
Oregon
State finance
Utah
Washington State
West (U.S.)
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: 
Action Plan for Public Lands and Education Act of 2007 - Makes grants of land to the following states in lieu of receiving, for the support of the common schools, 5% of the proceeds of the sales of federally owned land within such states which have not been sold by the United States as of July 1, 2005: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. 
 
Makes the amount of land granted to each state 5% of the number of acres of federally owned land within that state as of July 1, 2005. Requires land selected to be held in trust to be sold or leased and the proceeds to be used only for the support of public education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend subtitle IV of title 40, United States Code, regarding county additions to the Appalachian region.

Bill: 110-hr-3615
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2007-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Appalachia
County politics and government
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Regional economic development
Rural economic development
Tennessee

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: 
Adds the Tennessee counties of Hickman, Perry, and Wayne to the definition of &quot;Appalachian region&quot; for purposes of Appalachian regional development efforts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Extension Study Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3616
Sponsor: Rep. Emerson, Jo Ann [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2007-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Delaware
District of Columbia
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Maryland
Missouri
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Sports and Recreation
Tennessee
Trails
Virginia
West (U.S.)
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: 
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Extension Study Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the suitability and feasibility of extending the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail to include the Eastern Legacy sites (the sites associated with the preparation or return phases of the Lewis and Clark expedition, commonly known as the &quot;Eastern Legacy,&quot; including sites in Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Missouri, and Illinois). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-30
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Las Cienegas Enhancement and Saguaro National Park Boundary Adjustment Act

Bill: 110-hr-3617
Sponsor: Rep. Giffords, Gabrielle [D-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2007-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Boundaries
Environmental Protection
Forest roads
Land transfers
Landfills
National forests
National parks
Natural areas
Right-of-way
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Water rights
Wells

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: 
 Las Cienegas Enhancement and Saguaro National Park Boundary Adjustment Act - Requires the Secretary of the Interior, if Las Cienegas Conservation, LLC offers to convey to the Secretary title to the Empirita-Simonson parcel of land and the Bloom parcel of land (the non-federal land), to accept the offer and simultaneously convey to Las Cienegas Conservation, LLC the Sahuarita parcel of land (the federal land). 

Requires the values of the federal and non-federal lands exchanged to be equal, as determined by appraisals. 

Requires Las Cienegas Conservation, LLC, to: (1) pay the costs of carrying out the exchange of such lands; (2) enter into an agreement with Pima County, Arizona, to convey to Pima County a certain well site; and (3) relinquish to Pima County any water rights to such well site held by Las Cienegas Conservation, LLC. 

Requires: (1) the Empirita-Simonson parcel of non-federal land, upon acquisition by the Secretary, to become part of the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area; and (2) the Bloom parcel of non-federal, upon acquisition by the Secretary, to become part of the Saguaro National Park. 

Modifies the boundary of the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area to exclude the 40-acre tract that is leased by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to the town of Elgin, Arizona, for a sanitary landfill. 

Instructs the Secretary to provide to the Secretary of Agriculture a right-of-way through the non-federal land for motorized public road access to the boundary of the Coronado National Forest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Safe Schools and Health Care Professional Pipeline Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3618
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2007-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Career education
Conferences
Continuing education
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Medical education
Nonprofit organizations
Public health
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: 
Safe Schools and Health Care Professional Pipeline Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make a grant to a qualified youth serving organization to establish and expand emergency preparedness pipelines consisting of: (1) health science curricula in secondary schools, institutions of higher education, and continuing education programs that prepare students for careers as health care professionals; and (2) school-based emergency preparedness chapters.

 Requires such a chapter to recruit and prepare students for federal, state, community, and school public health emergencies under the administration of such an organization and to provide training that is implemented uniformly, coordinated with and integrated into the school's health science curriculum, and provided through certified health science instructors serving as chapter advisors.

Defines a &quot;qualified youth serving organization&quot; as a nonprofit organization that prepares youth exclusively for career entry and advancement opportunities in the health professions, offers a national recognition and competitive events program, and operates at least 2,500 chapters in at least 40 states.

Requires the Secretary to make a grant each year to such an organization to conduct a national leadership conference that includes representatives of health science programs, emergency preparedness chapters, and the Medical Reserve Corps.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Access Improvement Act

Bill: 110-hr-3619
Sponsor: Rep. Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2007-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Access to health care
Health
Income tax
Medical personnel
Physicians
Psychologists
Social Welfare
Social work
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: 
Health Care Access Improvement Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a primary health service provider (i.e., a physician, clinical psychologist, or clinical social worker) a tax credit for the value of professional services provided to individuals in a health professional shortage area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Homecoming Enhancement Research and Oversight Act

Bill: 110-hr-3620
Sponsor: Rep. Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2007-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Afghanistan
Armed forces abroad
Armed forces reserves
Brain
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Head injuries
Health
Health planning
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Mental health
Middle East and North Africa
Military dependents
Military medicine
Military occupation
Military operations
Military personnel
Minorities
National Guard
Post-traumatic stress disorder
South Asia
Terrorism
Trauma care
Veterans' education
Veterans' employment
Veterans' medical care
Vocational and technical education
Women
Women soldiers
Women veterans
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: 
Homecoming Enhancement Research and Oversight Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences for a study of the physical and mental health and other readjustment needs of members and former members of the Armed Forces who deployed in Operations Iraqi Freedom or Enduring Freedom, and their families. Requires: (1) reports, from the Academy to the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs and from the Secretary to Congress, on such study; (2) the public availability of the reports; (3) such Secretaries to develop a joint plan to address report findings; and (4) the public availability of the Secretaries' response.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-09-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Safety, Accountability, and Funding Efficiency for Transportation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3621
Sponsor: Rep. Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2007-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Architecture
Arts, Culture, Religion
Cost effectiveness
Engineering
Government contractors
Government procurement
Government publicity
Infrastructure
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation engineering

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: 
Safety, Accountability, and Funding Efficiency for Transportation Act of 2007 - Requires government agencies to prepare cost benefit analyses before entering any private contract of $100,000 or more to procure private sector architectural, engineering, and related services for a surface transportation project. 
 
Provides for public disclosure of the results of such cost-benefit analysis if the government agency determines it is in the public interest to enter into the contract.
 
Authorizes the waiver of such requirements if it is determined that the government agency cannot perform the work to be conducted under the contract with existing or additional government employees because such work is of an emergency, specialty, or intermittent nature.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-09-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Introduced in House