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Creating Research Extension and Teaching Excellence for the 21st Century Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1094
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-04-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Agricultural colleges
Agricultural diversification
Agricultural education
Agricultural experiment stations
Agricultural extension work
Agricultural research
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative agriculture
Animals
Appropriations
Aquaculture
Authorization
Biomass energy
Biotechnology
Congress
Developing countries
Disabled
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Energy
Energy crops
Energy research
Executive reorganization
Farmers
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Fungi
Genetics
Government Operations and Politics
Grain
Health
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Medical research
Minorities
Minority education
Nutrition
Organic farming
Pest control
Plant diseases
Presidential appointments
Quality of products
Range management
Research and development
Research centers
Research grants
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific instruments and apparatus
Self-help devices for the disabled
Veterinary medicine
Wheat

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: 
Creating Research Extension and Teaching Excellence for the 21st Century Act of 2007 or CREATE-21 Act of 2007 - Establishes the National Institutes for Food and Agriculture, which shall be located in Washington, DC. Transfers specified authorities of the Department of Agriculture and other authorities to the Institutes.
 
Sets forth organizational and funding provisions.
 
Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to repeal authority for the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board.
 
Eliminates specified funding provisions respecting agricultural research at 1890 land-grant colleges.
 
Extends specified agricultural programs, including research, extension, and education programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Airport Security Enhancement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1095
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-04-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Airline employees
Airline passenger traffic
Airports
Aviation safety
Labor and Employment
Security measures
Transportation planning

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: 
Airport Security Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends passenger and property screening provisions to require the screening by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel of: (1) air carrier employees that board a passenger aircraft; and (2) as soon as practicable after the date of enactment of certain airport perimeter screening provisions, airport and air carrier employees, contractors, and vendors before entry into a secured area of an airport in the United States.
 
Requires the heads of specified hub airports and nonhub airports to: (1) submit to the Administrator of TSA a plan for comprehensive screening of all individuals entering a secure area of an airport; and (2) implement the comprehensive screening plan not later than 60 days after its submission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans' Housing Benefits Enhancement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1096
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2007-04-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Automobiles
Burns
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Disabled
Health
Home repair and improvement
Housing and Community Development
Housing for the disabled
Housing subsidies
Iraq compilation
Military discharges
Self-help devices for the disabled
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation and the disabled
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: 
Veterans' Housing Benefits Enhancement Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in the case of a member of the Armed Forces determined to have a total disability permanent in nature which was incurred or aggravated in the line of active duty, to furnish home improvements and structural alterations for the member for the disability while the member is hospitalized or receiving outpatient care, medical services, or treatment, if the Secretary determines that the member is likely to be discharged or released from the Armed Forces for such disability.
 
Authorizes the provision of specially adapted housing assistance for: (1) disabled veterans whose disability is due to a severe burn injury; and (2) disabled members residing temporarily in housing owned by a family member. Makes veterans and members with a severe burn disability eligible for automobile and automotive adaptive equipment assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4440-4441)
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Cold War Medal Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1097
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-04-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cold War
Commemorations
History
International Affairs
Military medals, decorations, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Cold War Medal Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned, upon application, to issue Cold War service medals to military personnel who served honorably during the Cold War era (September 2, 1945, through December 26, 1991).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to revise the amount of minimum allotments under the Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness program.

Bill: 110-s-1098
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2007-04-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Case management
Community health services
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Mental health services
Mental illness
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to adjust the minimum state allotments for Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness programs to be the greater of the amount otherwise received by the state for FY2006 or $600,000. (Current law sets forth a minimum allotment of $300,000 per state.) Provides that if the funds appropriated are insufficient for all states to receive the minimum allotment, then states shall receive no less than the amount they received in FY2006 with additional money spent to give states the minimum of $600,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S4442)
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4441-4442)
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to improve energy standards for home appliances, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-1101
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2007-04-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Energy
Electric appliances
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Gas appliances
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Refrigeration
Water Resources Development
Water conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: 
Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to direct the Secretary of Energy to publish a final rule not later than December 31, 2010, determining whether to amend the standards in effect for refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers, and freezers manufactured on or after January 1, 2014.
 
Prescribes specified energy and water factors for: (1) residential clothes washers manufactured on or after January 1, 2011; and (2) dishwashers manufactured on or after January 2, 2010.
 
Requires dehumidifiers manufactured on or after October 1, 2012, to meet or exceed specified energy factor values.
 
Moves up from January 1, 2010, to January 1, 2009, the effective date for new qualifying levels for clothes washers the Secretary is required to establish.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Part D Equity for Low-Income Seniors Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1102
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-04-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health insurance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Medicare
Poverty
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare
Standards
Subsidies
Tax returns
Taxation
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: 
Part D Equity for Low-Income Seniors Act of 2007 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Commissioner of Social Security to provide for an expedited process for the qualification for low-income assistance through a request to the Secretary of the Treasury for tax return and other information.
 
Increases the alternative resource standard for determination of eligibility for a low-income subsidy for 2008, indexed for inflation for succeeding years.
 
Requires indexing of deductibles and cost-sharing above the annual out-of-pocket threshold for individuals with income below 150% of the poverty line.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S4444-4445)
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4442-4444)
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Helping Fill the Medicare Rx Gap Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1103
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-04-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Commerce
Drug industry
Drugs
Hospitals
Indian medical care
Medicare
Minorities
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: 
Helping Fill the Medicare Rx Gap Act of 2007 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA), with respect to the annual out of pocket threshold, to count costs incurred in providing prescription drugs by the Indian Health Service, a federally-qualified health center, an AIDS drug assistance program, certain hospitals, or a pharmaceutical manufacturer patient assistance program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S4445)
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4442-4444)
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Ethanol Tariff Extension and Caribbean Basin Initiative Investigation Act

Bill: 110-s-1106
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2007-04-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Caribbean area
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy industries
Energy supplies
Governmental investigations
Imports
Latin America
Tariff
Tariff preferences

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: 
Ethanol Tariff Extension and Caribbean Basin Initiative Investigation Act - Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the tariff duty on ethanol through January 1, 2011.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to conduct a study, and report the results to Congress, on the source and quantity of ethanol imported into the United States from beneficiary countries designated under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Home and Community Services Copayment Equity Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1107
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2007-04-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Coinsurance
Community health services
Congregate housing
Disabled
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Home care services
Housing and Community Development
Medicaid
Medicare
Mental care facilities
Mental health services
Mentally disabled
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare
Welfare waivers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: 
Home and Community Services Copayment Equity Act of 2007 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to eliminate part D cost-sharing for certain non-institutionalized full-benefit dual eligible individuals with income below 135% of the poverty line who: (1) reside in an assisted living facility, a resident care program facility, a board and care facility, or any other appropriate licenced facility, including a community mental health center, a psychiatric health facility, a mental health rehabilitation center, and a mental retardation developmental disability facility; or (2) receive home and community-based services in a home setting under a home and community-based waiver.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S4450)
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4448-4450)
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Part D Outreach and Enrollment Enhancement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1108
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2007-04-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Health insurance
Insurance premiums
Internet
Law
Legislation
Medicaid
Medicare
Poverty
Prescription pricing
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Standards
Subsidies
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: 
Medicare Part D Outreach and Enrollment Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to provide a special 90-day enrollment period for individuals who qualify for an income-related subsidy under the Medicare prescription drug program under part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program), with waiver of any late enrollment fee.
 
Makes appropriations to the National Center on Senior Benefits Outreach and Enrollment to provide outreach and enrollment assistance with respect to premium and cost-sharing subsidies under the drug program.
 
Requires the Commissioner of Social Security, when conducting Medicare eligibility screening, to screen also for an individual's eligibility for medical assistance under SSA title XIX (Medicaid) for any Medicare cost-sharing, and, if the results are positive, report the pertinent information to the appropriate state Medicaid agency for the individual's eligibility determination and enrollment for Medicare cost-sharing under the state plan.
 
Directs the Assistant Secretary of the Administration on Aging to study and report to Congress on screening processes used by government needs-based programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S450-4451)
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4448-4450)
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Breast Cancer Research and Screening Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1109
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2007-04-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Authorization
Breast cancer
Coinsurance
Colon cancer
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to research
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Mammography
Medical research
Medical screening
Medicare
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Physical examinations
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: 
Breast Cancer Research and Screening Act of 2007 - Authorizes appropriations to the National Institutes of Health for FY2008 for breast cancer research under the Public Health Service Act. 
 
 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) extend the eligibility period for a &quot;Welcome to Medicare&quot; physical examination from six months to one year; and (2) eliminate the 20% coinsurance for screening mammography and colorectal cancer screening tests.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Juab County Surface and Ground Water Study and Development Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1110
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2007-04-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Central Valley Reclamation Project (California)
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Groundwater
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Utah
Water use

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: 
Juab County Surface and Ground Water Study and Development Act of 2007 - Amends the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992 to include Juab County among those Utah counties for which Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project funds may be provided for a Utah Division of Water Resources feasibility study and development of systems to allow groundwater recharge, management, and the conjunctive use of surface water resources with groundwater resources.

action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 

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

 
Juab County Surface and Ground Water Study and Development Act of 2007 - Amends the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992 to include Juab County among those Utah counties for which Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project funds may be provided for a Utah Division of Water Resources feasibility study and development of systems to allow groundwater recharge, management, and the conjunctive use of surface water resources with groundwater resources.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5530)
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 248.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. With written report No. 110-115.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. With written report No. 110-115.
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4480)
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4480)
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Flat Tax Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1111
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2007-04-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Dividends
Earned income tax credit
Energy
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Flat-rate tax
Foreign corporations
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Law
Minimum tax
Petroleum industry
Property tax
Punitive damages
Sales tax
Social Welfare
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax evasion
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: 
Fair Flat Tax Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to individual taxpayers to: (1) reduce to three (15, 25, and 35%) the number of income tax brackets for married and single taxpayers; (2) repeal tax rate reductions for capital gains and dividend income; (3) allow a health care standard deduction and increase the basic standard tax deduction; (4) allow a refundable tax credit for state and local income, sales, and real and personal property taxes; (5) revise the earned income and child tax credits for taxpayers with no children; (6) repeal the alternative minimum tax for individual taxpayers; and (7) repeal certain tax credits, deductions, and exclusions after 2007. 

Imposes a flat tax of 35 percent on corporate taxable income. Allows a limited tax deduction for use of a corporate aircraft. Terminates certain preferential tax provisions for domestic and foreign corporations and large oil companies.

Increases or imposes new penalties for understatements of tax, failure to report tax information, and failure to file tax returns or pay tax. 

Sets forth rules for the application of the economic substance doctrine to transactions with tax significance. Imposes penalties for underpayments of tax due to transactions lacking economic substance.

Denies a tax deduction for payment of punitive damages.

Terminates this Act after 2012. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4481-4490)
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4480-4481)
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to allow for the renegotiation of the payment schedule of contracts between the Secretary of the Interior and the Redwood Valley County Water District, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-1112
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-04-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: California
Collection of accounts
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Government lending
Water districts

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: 
Authorizes the Redwood Valley County Water District, California, to enter into additional non-federal obligations necessary to finance procurement of dedicated water rights and needed improvements if the Secretary of the Interior and the District, as of January 1, 2006, have not renegotiated the schedule of payments for loans made by the United States to the District.

 Requires: (1) the Secretary to reschedule the payments due under specified loans; (2) such payments to commence when such additional obligations have been financially satisfied by the District; and (3) the date of the initial payment by the District to the United States to be regarded as the start of the repayment period and the time upon which any interest shall first be computed and assessed under the Small Reclamation Projects Act of 1956.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-86.
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4491)
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4490-4491)
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Introduced in Senate