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Alternative Energy Advancement Act

Bill: 110-hr-6383
Sponsor: Rep. Hayes, Robin [R-NC-8]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Continental shelf
Economics and Public Finance
Energy development
Energy research
Gas in submerged lands
Government trust funds
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Natural gas
Ocean energy resources
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Oil well drilling
Petroleum
Petroleum in submerged lands
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Alternative Energy Advancement Act - Establishes in the Treasury a Trust Fund for deposit of all amounts received by the United States as bonus bids, rents, royalties under leases for exploration, development, and production of oil and gas awarded after enactment of this Act for any area of federal lands or of federal submerged lands of the outer Continental Shelf that, on the enactment of this Act, are withdrawn from such leasing or for which the expenditure of federal funds for such leasing is prohibited.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2008-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend and revise incentive payments for physician scarcity areas under part B of the Medicare Program.

Bill: 110-hr-6386
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Kevin [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Governmental investigations
Housing and Community Development
Medical fees
Medicare
Physicians
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) extend through July 1, 2012, Medicare incentive payments for physician scarcity areas; and (2) establish new rules for scarcity areas in the case of physicians' services furnished on or after July 1, 2008.
 
Direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study whether the primary and specialist care ratios applied under such new rules are appropriate to provide the proper incentive payments for physician scarcity areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Afghanistan-Pakistan Security and Prosperity Enhancement Act

Bill: 110-hr-6387
Sponsor: Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Afghanistan
Clothing
Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Developing countries
Economics and Public Finance
Employee rights
Foreign investments
Free enterprise
Free trade
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Hours of labor
Imports
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Law
Minimum wages
Nontariff trade barriers
Occupational health and safety
Pakistan
President and foreign policy
Rule of law
South Asia
Technical assistance
Textile fabrics

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Afghanistan-Pakistan Security and Prosperity Enhancement Act - Authorizes the President to designate Reconstruction Opportunity Zones within Afghanistan or Pakistan, provided certain eligibility criteria are met, including that: (1) such countries establish, or make progress toward establishing, a market-based economy, instituting rule of law, protecting core labor standards, and eliminating barriers to trade and investment; (2) such countries can be designated as a beneficiary developing country; and (3) the designation of a Reconstruction Opportunity Zone is appropriate taking into account certain qualifying factors.
 
Provides for the duty-free treatment of certain textile and apparel products, as well as nontextile and nonapparel products, from a Reconstruction Opportunity Zone through September 30, 2023.
 
Sets forth requirements to prevent the unlawful transshipment of such products.
 
Continues the duty-free treatment of such products from a Reconstruction Opportunity Zone in Afghanistan or Pakistan only if the President certifies to Congress that such countries have met certain requirements, including: (1) designation of a labor official; and (2) have agreed to require textile or apparel exporting enterprises to participate in a technical assistance, capacity building, compliance assessment, and remediation program.
 
Authorizes the President to withdraw, suspend, or limit the application of duty-free treatment under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1384-1385)
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
To modify Captain Sam's Inlet Unit M08 of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System in Charleston County, South Carolina, and to revise the System map relating to the unit.

Bill: 110-hr-6389
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Barrier islands
Coastal zone
Government Operations and Politics
Maps
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Reefs
South Carolina

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Replaces the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System map &quot;Captain Sam's Inlet Unit M08&quot; (an area in South Carolina) with a map of the unit entitled &quot;John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Captain Sam's Inlet Unit M08,&quot; increasing the size of the unit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Caregiver Financial Relief Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6390
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Corrine [D-FL-3]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Caregivers
Disabled
Employee benefit plans
Families
Grandparents
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Parents
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Caregiver Financial Relief Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow caregivers of family members with long-term care needs a refundable tax credit of $3,000 for up to two such family members each year through 2010; (2) allow in 2009 and 2010 the tax credit for dependent care expenses for parents (or ancestors of such parents) who do not reside with the taxpayer; and (3) allow in 2009 and 2010 an increased exclusion from gross income for employer-provided dependent care assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Improvement Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6391
Sponsor: Rep. Burton, Dan [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Claims
Compensation (Law)
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Death
Earnings
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family services
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Guardian and ward
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal fees
Limitation of actions
Public service advertising
Trusts and trustees
Vaccines

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Improvement Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise provisions of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

Specifies how loss of earning is to be calculated for vaccine-related injuries to individuals under the age of 18.

Increases the award for vaccine-related deaths.

Allows compensation under the Program for expenses for family counseling and for establishing and maintaining a guardianship, conservatorship, or trust for an individual with a vaccine-related injury.

Allows a special master to make an interim award of attorneys' fees and costs under certain circumstances. Allows such award to be payable directly to the petitioner's attorney.

Extends the statute of limitation for vaccine-related injury or death to six years after the date of injury or onset of symptoms.

Specifies who is to be a member of the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines. Provides that the Commission shall meet at the call of the Chair (currently, the Commission must meet not less than four times a year).

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the amount of expenses for administering the Program that are allowed to be paid from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund. Allows the payment from the Trust Fund of administrative and personnel expenses that the Bureau of Public Debt incurs for financial services for the Trust Fund.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to include a public service announcement in efforts to inform the public about the Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Quit Smoking for Life Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6393
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drug therapy
Drugs
Health counseling
Health warnings
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Medicare
Pregnancy
Prescription pricing
Smoking
Social Welfare
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Quit Smoking for Life Act of 2008 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to cover diagnostic, therapy, and counseling services, furnished by or under a physician's supervision, for cessation of tobacco use. Provides for payment of 80% of the lesser of the actual charge or the fee schedule amount. Eliminates the deductible. 

Includes tobacco cessation agents as covered drugs under Medicare part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program).

Amends SSA titles V (Maternal and Child Health Services) and XIX (Medicaid) also to cover counseling and medication for cessation of tobacco use. Requires inclusion of anti-tobacco messages in health promotion counseling as part of quality maternal and child health services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Border Health Care Relief Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6394
Sponsor: Rep. Giffords, Gabrielle [D-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Federal aid to health facilities
Illegal aliens
Immigration
Medically uninsured

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Border Health Care Relief Act of 2008 - Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to extend through FY2012 federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Department of Homeland Security Preparedness, Research, and Education Program Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6395
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Alabama
Crime and Law Enforcement
Disaster relief
Disasters
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Hurricanes
Louisiana
Minorities
Minority education
Mississippi
Research
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Department of Homeland Security Preparedness, Research, and Education Program Act of 2008 or the DHS PREP Act of 2008 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, to establish a program for fellowships and research to enhance domestic preparedness and the collective response to acts of terrorism, natural disasters, and other emergencies. 

Requires the Secretary to award fellowships to individuals to: (1) promote such research and response; and (2) provide for the development of best practices for the response to and recovery from such events. Requires recipients to be individuals who: (1) are enrolled in an institution of higher education, with priority to those enrolled in minority serving institutions; (2) have demonstrated an interest in homeland security or emergency management and response; and (3) are geographically diverse.

Directs recipients to focus their research on, and participate in the rebuilding and recovery of, the Gulf Coast region in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1371-1372)
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Congress 2012 Commission Act

Bill: 110-hr-6396
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional districts
Congressional elections
Congressional reorganization
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
House of Representatives
Legislation
Members of Congress
Political platforms
Proportional representation
Voting

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Congress 2012 Commission Act - Establishes the Congress 2012 Commission to make proposals to the President and Congress regarding changes in the size of the membership of, and the method of electing Representatives to, the House of Representatives. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1371)
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
To impose a permanent prohibition on the use of funds by the Department of Defense for propaganda purposes within the United States not otherwise specifically authorized by law and to require an investigation into possible violations of the annual Department of Defense Appropriations Act prohibition on such propaganda.

Bill: 110-hr-6398
Sponsor: Rep. Hodes, Paul W. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional investigations
Defense budgets
Department of Defense
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Prohibits the use of funds made available to the Department of Defense (DOD) for propaganda purposes within the United States not otherwise specifically authorized by law.
 
Directs the DOD Inspector General and the U.S. Comptroller General to each conduct a study of, and report to Congress on, the extent to which the DOD has violated the prohibition on propaganda established in specified laws.
 
Defines &quot;propaganda&quot; as any form of communication in support of national objectives designed to influence the opinions, emotions, attitudes, or behavior of the people of the United States in order to benefit the sponsor, either directly or indirectly.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Card Security Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6399
Sponsor: Rep. Hodes, Paul W. [D-NH-2]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Identification devices
Medicare
Social security numbers

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Medicare Card Security Act of 2008 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to direct the Commissioner of Social Security and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure that Social Security numbers are not displayed on Medicare cards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
State Temporary Economic Priority (STEP) Act

Bill: 110-hr-6400
Sponsor: Rep. Hoekstra, Peter [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Economic conditions
Economic growth
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to transportation
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
State finance
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
State Temporary Economic Priority (STEP) Act - Authorizes states to transfer or consolidate funds made available to them under certain federal transportation, education, and job training programs: (1) beginning with the calendar quarter after the United States experiences economic growth at an annual rate of less than 1% for two consecutive calendar quarters; and (2) continuing until 18 months after it experiences economic growth at an annual rate of 1% or more for two consecutive calendar quarters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in House