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To prohibit the closure of Walter Reed Army Medical Center notwithstanding the 2005 recommendations of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.

Bill: 110-hr-1417
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Army
District of Columbia
Health
Iraq compilation
Military base closures
Military bases
Military hospitals
Military medicine
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from closing Walter Reed Army Medical Center, notwithstanding the 2005 recommendations of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission pursuant to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E496-497)
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2280-2285)
Public Good IRA Rollover Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1419
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the House
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: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
Parents' Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1421
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Computers
Cost of living adjustments
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Fringe benefits
Government trust funds
Higher education
Home offices
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Interest
Labor and Employment
Married people
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Parents
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Survivors' benefits
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax exemption
Tax rates
Telecommuting
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
Parents' Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) provide for a minimum tax credit for household and dependent care services for dependents under the age of seven and to phase out such credit based on the amount by which the taxpayer's adjusted gross income exceeds a threshold amount; (2) increase to $5,000 the amount of the personal tax exemption; (3) eliminate the marriage penalty in all income tax brackets and in the tax deduction for student loan interest; (4) establish a standard tax deduction for expenses related to business usage of a home; (5) make permanent increases in the child tax credit and adjust the amount of such credit for inflation on an annual basis after 2007; (6) allow employers a tax credit for employees who telecommute; and (7) allow an exclusion from employee gross income for employer-provided computer equipment used to work at home.

Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to award social security credits to parents who stay at home, instead of working outside the home, to care for children who are either under age seven. Authorizes transfers from the general fund to specified Social Security trust funds to cover the cost of such credits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E499-500)
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1422
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agriculture and Food
Animals
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Conservation easements
Economics and Public Finance
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Grants-in-aid
Habitat conservation
Income tax
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2007- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain landowners whose property contains the habitat of an endangered or threatened species and who enter into a habitat protection agreement a tax credit for costs relating to habitat protection easements and restoration. Places limits on the amount of such credit for calendar years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. Directs the Comptroller General of the United States to study and report to Congress on the effectiveness of such credit. 

Allows a tax deduction for expenditures related to recovery plans approved by the Endangered Species Act of 1973. 

Excludes from gross income certain payments under: (1) the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program authorized by the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Act; and (2) the Landowner Incentive Program, the State Wildlife Grants Program, and the Private Stewardship Grants Program authorized by the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
Richard Helm Veterans' Access to Local Health Care Options and Resources Act

Bill: 110-hr-1426
Sponsor: Rep. Latham, Tom [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Disabled
Drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Health
Health facilities
Hospital care
Iraq compilation
Pharmacies
Preventive medicine
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Richard Helm Veterans' Access to Local Health Care Options and Resources Act - Allows a veteran enrolled in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) annual patient enrollment system to elect to receive covered health services through a non-VA facility. (Currently, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs may contract for such services when VA facilities are not capable of furnishing economic hospital care or medical services because of geographical inaccessibility or are not capable of furnishing the care or services required.) Directs the Secretary to authorize such services pursuant to a contract with such facility.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to furnish to veterans through a VA health care facility drugs and medicines ordered on prescription of a duly licensed private physician under contract with the VA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
National Guard and Reserve Retirement Modernization Act

Bill: 110-hr-1428
Sponsor: Rep. Latham, Tom [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Emergency Management
Health
Labor and Employment
Military civic action
Military operations
Military pensions
Retired military personnel
Retiree health benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
National Guard and Reserve Retirement Modernization Act - Amends federal law concerning receipt of retired pay for non-regular service to provide that, in the case of a member of the Ready Reserve who serves on active duty after September 11, 2001, in support of a contingency operation or in response to a national emergency, retirement eligibility age shall be reduced below 60 by three months for each aggregate of 90 days during which the member so performs in any fiscal year after such date. Prohibits such retirement eligibility date from being reduced below age 50. Continues age 60 as the minimum eligibility age for DOD-authorized health care for such retirees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
SAFE for America Act

Bill: 110-hr-1430
Sponsor: Rep. Goodlatte, Bob [R-VA-6]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Aliens
Department of Justice
Government Operations and Politics
Immigrants
Law
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Security and Fairness Enhancement for America Act of 2007 or SAFE for America Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E507-508)
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Workplace Religious Freedom Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1431
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Clothing
Discrimination in employment
Employee rights
Employee training
Employers' liability
Hours of labor
Labor and Employment
Law
Leave of absence
Recruiting of employees
Religion
Religion in the workplace
Religious liberty
Transfer of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Workplace Religious Freedom Act of 2007 - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to modify the definition of &quot;religion&quot; for purposes of coverage under that Act by requiring employers to make an affirmative and bona fide effort to reasonably accommodate the religious practices of employees. Defines the term &quot;perform the essential functions&quot; to exclude practices having a temporary or tangential impact on an employee's ability to perform job functions, such as practices relating to clothing or taking time off work. Sets forth factors to consider in determining whether an accommodation causes undue hardship. Defines &quot;employee&quot; to require an ability to perform essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.
 
Requires removal of the conflict between employment requirements and the employee's religious practices in order for an accommodation to be considered reasonable.
 
Considers an employer's refusal to permit an employee's use of general leave to remove a religious conflict solely because the leave will be used to accommodate religious practices to be an unlawful employment practice.
 
Prohibits the amendments made by this Act from applying to conduct occurring prior to enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Preserve Access to Affordable Generics Act

Bill: 110-hr-1432
Sponsor: Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Antitrust law
Competition
Drug industry
Generic drugs
Health
Intellectual property
Marketing
Patent infringement
Pharmaceutical research
Restrictive trade practices
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Preserve Access to Affordable Generics Act - Amends the Clayton Act to make it unlawful for a person, in connection with the sale of a drug product, to be a party to any agreement resolving or settling a patent infringement claim in which: (1) an abbreviated new drug (generic) application filer receives anything of value; and (2) such filer agrees not to research, develop, manufacture, market, or sell the generic product for any period. Excludes a resolution or settlement that includes no more than the right to market the generic product prior to the expiration of the patent.
 
Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to set forth additional filing requirements related to agreements between a brand name drug company and a generic drug applicant. Requires the Chief Executive Officer or the company official responsible for negotiating any agreement to file a certification that materials filed with respect to such agreements are complete, final, and exclusive.
 
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide that forfeiture of the 180-day exclusivity period for the marketing of a generic drug occurs if there is a final decision of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) or the court that an agreement has violated this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Department of Veterans Affairs Claims Backlog Reduction Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1435
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
California
Claims
Congressional reporting requirements
County politics and government
Data banks
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disabled
Electronic government information
Federal-local relations
Florida
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law
Ohio
Science, Technology, Communications
South Carolina
Texas
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Department of Veterans Affairs Claims Backlog Reduction Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a three-year pilot program to reduce the backlog of claims for benefits pending with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) conduct the pilot program with County Veterans Service Officers in California, Florida, Ohio, South Carolina, and Texas; and (2) refer certain claims requiring further development to such Officers. Requires such Officers to: (1) act as claimant advocates in developing such claims; and (2) have access to client information contained in the VA's Benefits Delivery Network.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Retired Pay Restoration Act

Bill: 110-hr-1436
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-9]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Labor and Employment
Military pensions
Retired military personnel
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Retired Pay Restoration Act - Allows the receipt of both military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation with respect to any service-connected disability (currently, only a disability rated at 50 percent or more). 
 
Makes the 2004 through 2013 phase-in limitations for the concurrent receipt of such pay for qualified retirees with service-connected disabilities rated as total applicable: (1) only during 2004 for retirees with a 100 percent disability; and (2) only during 2004 through 2007 for retirees with a total disability by reason of unemployability.
 
Makes eligible for the full concurrent receipt of both veterans' disability compensation and either military retired pay or combat-related special pay those individuals who were retired or separated from military service due to a service-connected disability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-03-09
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: 2007-03-09
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: 2007-03-09
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: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify and make permanent the deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses.

Bill: 110-hr-1437
Sponsor: Rep. Burton, Dan [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Education
Families
Grandparents
Higher education
Income tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses; (2) increase the maximum amount of such deduction to $5,000 and repeal provisions requiring a phaseout of the deduction based on adjusted gross income; and (3) allow grandparents to claim a deduction for the tuition and related expenses of their grandchildren. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Choices in Child Care Act

Bill: 110-hr-1438
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
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: 2007-03-09
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: 2007-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Supply Our Soldiers Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1439
Sponsor: Rep. Fossella, Vito [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Afghanistan
Armed forces abroad
Department of Defense
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Law
Middle East and North Africa
Military medicine
Military operations
Military pay
Postal service
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
South Asia
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Supply Our Soldiers Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide for a program under which postal benefits are provided to a member of the Armed Forces who is on active duty and who is either: (1) serving in Iraq or Afghanistan; or (2) hospitalized at a military medical facility as a result of such service. Provides the postal benefits in the form of coupons or other evidence of credit (vouchers) to use for postal-free mailings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Men's Health Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1440
Sponsor: Rep. Fossella, Vito [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2007-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Men

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: 
Men's Health Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the Office of Men's Health. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Office, to: (1) conduct or support programs and activities to improve the state of men's health; and (2) provide for consultation among HHS offices and agencies to coordinate programs and activities relating to men's health.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Introduced in House