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Children's Health Care Quality Act

Bill: 110-s-1226
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Chronically ill
Congress
Congressional investigations
Diseases
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Government Operations and Politics
Health information systems
Health services administration
Hospital care
Information technology
Medicaid
Performance measurement
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Children's Health Care Quality Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program to: (1) identify quality and performance measures for pediatric service providers; and (2) award grants or contracts for the development, validation, and testing of new and emerging measures.
 
Directs the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, to establish demonstration projects to award grants to states to improve the delivery of health care services to children under Medicaid and SSA title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP). Requires demonstration projects in the categories of: (1) health information technology systems; (2) disease management for children with chronic conditions; (3) evidence-based quality improvement; and (4) quality and performance measures for providers of children's health care services.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to make recommendations to Congress for the design and implementation of a demonstration project to evaluate the suitability of existing quality and performance measures for children's inpatient hospital services for public reporting, differentiating quality, identifying best practices, and providing a basis for payment rewards. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Clean Coal Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1227
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air pollution control
Carbon cycle
Carbon dioxide
Coal
Electric power production
Energy
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental technology
Geology
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Clean Coal Act of 2007 - Amends the Clean Air Act to require a new coal-fired electric generating unit (including a cogeneration facility) that commences construction on or after April 26, 2007, to meet, without interruption throughout the lifetime operation of the unit, a standard of performance that, at a minimum, requires the unit to produce not more than 285 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour for supply to the grid.

Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revise such standard to reduce the maximum rate of carbon dioxide emissions if a reduced level is achievable through the application of the best technological system of continuous emission reduction demonstrated at the time of the revision.

Provides that carbon dioxide that is injected into a geological formation in a manner that prevents the release of the carbon dioxide into the atmosphere shall not be counted as emissions discharged from a unit for purposes of meeting the standard.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Campus Law Enforcement Emergency Response Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1228
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Bombs
Colleges
Commerce
Consumer education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Environmental Protection
Explosives
Federal aid to education
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
School personnel
School security
Science, Technology, Communications
Students
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Campus Law Enforcement Emergency Response Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require each institution of higher education (IHE) participating in any program under title IV (Student Assistance) to include information concerning its law enforcement emergency response program and the occurrence of campus law enforcement emergencies in the annual campus security report it must provide to current and prospective students and employees.
 
Requires such an IHE to: (1) test annually its law enforcement emergency response program; and (2) inform those on campus of any school law enforcement emergency within 30 minutes of discovering it.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to IHEs or consortia of IHEs, or enter into competitive contracts with IHEs, consortia, and other organizations, to develop, implement, operate, improve, test, or disseminate campus law enforcement emergency response programs.
 
Defines &quot;campus&quot; for purposes of this Act to include property controlled by recognized student organizations, off-campus school-related property, and certain public property used by and adjacent to the school.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5199-5200)
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5200)
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Hass Avocado Quality Assurance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1229
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agriculture in foreign trade
California
Commerce
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fruit
Marketing of farm produce
Produce trade
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Hass Avocado Quality Assurance Act of 2007 - Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to provide for mandatory minimum maturity standards for all domestic and imported Hass avocados sold to consumers in California.
 
Provides exceptions for commercial processing and charitable and relief uses.
 
Sets forth penalty provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in Senate
College Saver's Credit Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1230
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Education
Education savings accounts
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Income tax
Personal budgets
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
College Saver's Credit Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow certain middle-income individual taxpayers age 18 or older a refundable tax credit for 50% of their contributions to a qualified tuition program (tax-exempt college savings plan), up to an annual limit of $2,000; and (2) require the distribution of financial education materials to participants in a qualified tuition program.

Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to study and report to Congress on the participation of individuals in qualified tuition programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5201-5202)
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5200-5201)
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Preparing, Recruiting, and Retaining Education Professionals Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1231
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Business and social problems
Child development
College costs
College graduates
Colleges
Commerce
Community and school
Continuing education
Curricula
Department of Education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational research
Educational statistics
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Interstate relations
Labor and Employment
Law
Leadership
Learning
Licenses
Mentoring
Parent-school relationships
Preschool education
Rating of teachers
Recruiting of employees
Retired military personnel
Scholarships
School administration
School districts
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
State laws
Teacher education
Teacher salaries
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers
Teaching

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Preparing, Recruiting, and Retaining Education Professionals Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to reauthorize and revise title II part A requirements for teacher quality enhancement grants for states and partnerships (II-A). 
 
Revises state grant, partnership grant, and recruitment grant requirements to include requirements relating to: (1) early childhood education; (2) exemplary, highly competent, and highly qualified teachers as these are defined under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; (3) teacher mentoring; (4) professional development; (5) parental involvement; and (6) high-need schools and local educational agencies. Revises requirements for peer review panel grant evaluation and for teacher preparation program accountability.

Requires states to submit teacher quality plans.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants to institutions of higher education that are II-A partner institutions to create Academies for Faculty Excellence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5202-5209)
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5202)
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Management Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1232
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Allergies
Commerce
Data banks
Drug therapy
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Employee training
Families
Federal aid to education
Food safety
Health education
Medical records
Medical statistics
Medical supplies
Parent-school relationships
School health programs
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Student activities
Student records
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Management Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and make available to local educational agencies a policy to manage the risk of food allergy and anaphylaxis in schools to be implemented on a voluntary basis only. Directs that such policy address: (1) a parental obligation to provide the school with information regarding a student's food allergy and risk of anaphylaxis; (2) creation of an individual health care plan tailored to each student with a documented risk for anaphylaxis; (3) communication strategies between schools and emergency medical services; (4) strategies to reduce the risk of exposure in classrooms and common areas; (5) food allergy management training of school personnel; and (6) authorization and training of school personnel to administer epinephrine when the school nurse is not immediately available.

Allows the Secretary to award grants to assist local educational agencies in implementing such food allergy management guidelines.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5210-5211)
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5209-5210)
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Business with Terrorists Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1234
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: American investments
Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Corporate accountability
Executive orders
Export controls
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Government Operations and Politics
Import restrictions
International Affairs
Iran
Joint ventures
Middle East and North Africa
Partnerships
Sanctions (International law)
Subsidiary corporations
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Stop Business with Terrorists Act of 2007 - Subjects the parent company of a foreign entity that violates certain executive orders prohibiting certain business transactions with Iran (or other such prohibitions imposed on Iran under the authority of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act) to penalties to the same extent as if the parent company had engaged in such violations. Provides that such prohibitions and penalties shall not apply if the parent company divests or terminates its business with such entity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5214)
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5214)
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Daniel Faulkner Law Enforcement Officers and Judges Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1235
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault
Damages
Families
Federal employees
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal officials
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
Habeas corpus
Homicide
Imprisonment
Judges
Kidnapping
Law
Law enforcement officers
Legal fees
Mandatory sentences
Murder
Protection of officials
State courts
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Daniel Faulkner Law Enforcement Officers and Judges Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) impose mandatory minimum prison terms for homicide, manslaughter, and kidnapping of federal judges and law enforcement officers; (2) expand the penalties for assaulting or interfering with federal officers and employees and for assaults against federal law enforcement officers and judges; (3) impose mandatory minimum prison terms for retaliating against a federal judge or law enforcement officer on account of the performance of official duties by murdering, kidnapping, assaulting, or threatening a family member of such judge or officer; and (4) authorize federal judges, U.S. attorneys, and Justice Department employees to carry firearms.

Places limits on the award of civil damages and attorney's fees against judicial officers for injuries incurred by an individual during the commission of a felony or crime of violence.

Amends the federal judicial code to place limits on habeas corpus petitions for review of a state court conviction for murder of a public safety officer or judge engaged in the performance of official duties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in Senate
School Accountability Improvements Act

Bill: 110-s-1236
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Alaska
Charter schools
Compensatory education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Hawaiians
Illiteracy
Indian education
Indigenous peoples
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Language arts
Mathematics
Minorities
Minority education
Native Americans
Parent-school relationships
Rating of teachers
Reading
Recruiting of employees
School choice
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
School Accountability Improvements Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to exempt teachers who teach multiple subjects in certain small middle or secondary schools from being required to be highly qualified in each of their subjects if they: (1) are highly qualified in at least one; and (2) demonstrate highly effective teaching skills on a state performance assessment.
 
Allows states to use a growth model in calculating whether students are making adequately yearly progress (AYP) toward state academic performance standards if the state plan ensures their attainment of proficiency within certain periods of time.
 
Gives schools which are identified as needing improvement an extra year to make AYP before being required to allow student transfers. Limits the transfer option to students who do not meet proficiency standards. 
 
Permits local educational agencies (LEAs) identified as needing improvement to provide supplemental educational services themselves.
 
Allows schools identified as needing improvement due to an underperforming disabled or limited English proficient (LEP) student subgroup to limit their improvement plan to such failing subgroup. Eliminates the requirement that schools be restructured and LEAs face corrective action because of such a subgroup's underperformance, if AYP can be shown using a growth model that counts students who are on track to attain proficiency by their final year in secondary school.
 
Requires AYP measurements of certain schools providing Native language instruction to kindergarten through second grade children in states with no AYP assessment in such language to exclude grade three results and employ a growth model requiring progress toward proficiency by seventh grade.
 
Allows partnerships receiving subgrants for preparing, recruiting, and training teachers and principals to include parent teacher organizations and use funds for activities enhancing parental involvement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5216-5218)
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5215-5216)
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1237
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Explosives
Firearms
Law
Licenses
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to grant the Attorney General the authority to deny the transfer of firearms or the issuance of a federal firearms and explosives license to any individual if the Attorney General: (1) determines that such individual has been engaged in or has supported terrorist activities; and (2) has a reasonable belief that such individual may use a firearm or explosive in connection with terrorism. Allows any individual whose firearm or explosives license application has been been denied to bring legal action challenging the denial.

Prohibits the sale or disribution of firearms or explosives to any individual whom the Attorney General has determined to be engaged in terrorist activities. 

Permits the Attorney General to withhold information in firearms and explosives license denial revocation suits if the Attorney General determines that the disclosure of such information would likely compromise national security

Authorizes the Attorney General to revoke firearms and explosives licenses and permits held by individuals determined to be engaged in terrorism. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Energy Security and Corporate Accountability Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1238
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Accounting
Alaska
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Commerce
Commuting
Depreciation and amortization
Diesel motor
Economics and Public Finance
Energy assistance for the poor
Energy research
Excess profits tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign tax credit
Gas in submerged lands
Gasoline
Geology
Geophysical prediction
Government trust funds
Gulf of Mexico
Income tax
Inventories
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mass rapid transit
Natural gas
Oil and gas leases
Oil well drilling
Petroleum
Petroleum in submerged lands
Petroleum industry
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Science, Technology, Communications
Service stations
Social Welfare
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation rates

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Energy Security and Corporate Accountability Act of 2007 - Requires major integrated oil companies to revalue their LIFO inventories of crude oil, natural gas, or other petroleum products according to a specified formula. 

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) set forth a special rule for the application of the foreign tax credit to major integrated oil companies which are dual capacity taxpayers; (2) provide for extended amortization (seven years instead of five) of geological and geophysical expenditures for major integrated oil companies; and (3) impose a windfall profits tax on major integrated oil companies.

Repeals provisions of the Energy Policy Act or 2005 suspending royalties from oil and natural gas production activities in the Gulf of Mexico. Terminates royalty suspension in the Planning Areas offshore Alaska.

Establishes a National Energy Security Research and Investment Reserve to fund energy research, including research relating to ethanol and biodiesel, and to defray the cost of providing fueling pumps to deliver new fuels to consumers.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish and carry out a Low-Income Transportation Energy Assistance Program and establish a Fund to assist low-income households in purchasing gasoline or diesel fuel or bus passes, train tickets, or other mass-transit fares for transportation purposes. Provides for the transfer of windfall profits tax receipts to the Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in Senate
New Markets Tax Credit Extension Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1239
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Community development
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Infrastructure
Investments
Stocks
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
New Markets Tax Credit Extension Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend the new markets tax credit through 2013; and (2) provide for an inflation adjustment to the limitation amount for such credit after 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in Senate