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Traumatic Brain Injury Access to Options Act

Bill: 110-s-1113
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2007-04-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Brain
Case management
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Defense
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Head injuries
Health
Iraq compilation
Law
Medical tests
Mentally disabled
Military discharges
Military medicine
Physical examinations
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Retired military personnel
Sunset legislation
Trauma care
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' medical care
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: 
Traumatic Brain Injury Access to Options Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to ensure that each member of the Armed Forces who incurs a traumatic brain injury (where the member is unable to perform activities of daily living for at least five consecutive days from the date of a medical assessment) while on active duty shall be retained on active duty for one year after the date of the assessment. Prohibits such member from being evaluated during the one-year period by a physical evaluation board for determining eligibility for retirement or separation due to such disability. Allows a member (or his or her guardian or legal advocate) to choose to make such requirements inapplicable to the member. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to extend the one-year period as appropriate in light of medical progress.
 
Requires annual Comptroller General assessments of traumatic brain injury care and services provided by the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Improvement and Enhancement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1114
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-04-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Constitutional law
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Electronic surveillance
Employee training
Federal law enforcement officers
Foreign agents
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
International Affairs
Judicial review
Labor and Employment
Law
President and foreign policy
Supreme Court
Terrorism
Warrants (Law)

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: 
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Improvement and Enhancement Act of 2007 - Prescribes the federal law provisions governing domestic electronic surveillance. Amends title I (Electronic Surveillance) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to prohibit any provision of law from being construed to repeal or modify any provision of such title in any manner unless such provision of law, if enacted after the date of the enactment of this Act, expressly amends or otherwise specifically cites such title.

Directs the President to brief each member of the congressional intelligence committees on: (1) the Terrorist Surveillance Program of the National Security Agency (NSA); and (2) any program which involves the electronic surveillance of U.S. persons in the United States for foreign intelligence purposes which is conducted by any federal department or entity without fully complying with the prescribed federal law provisions.

Requires the Supreme Court to review at least one pending case concerning the constitutionality of the surveillance program. 

Revises FISA provisions concerning electronic surveillance to: (1) extend the period for the application for orders for emergency electronic surveillance; and (2) authorize the AG to appoint personnel within the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and NSA to authorize emergency surveillance.

Provides for the implementation of a document management system for, and authorizes additional personnel for the preparation and consideration of, electronic surveillance applications.

Authorizes the training of FBI and NSA personnel in foreign intelligence surveillance matters.

Requires a FISA order authorizing electronic surveillance to be supported by a finding of probable cause that the surveillance target is a foreign power or agent thereof.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4492-4494)
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4491-4492)
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Introduced in Senate
More Water, More Energy, and Less Waste Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1116
Sponsor: Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]
Introduced: 2007-04-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Arizona
California
Colorado
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to water resources development
Governmental investigations
Irrigation
Methane
Natural gas
Nevada
New Mexico
Oil well drilling
Petroleum
Prospecting
Utah
Water conservation
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: 
More Water, More Energy, and Less Waste Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to conduct a study to identify: (1) the obstacles to reducing the quantity of produced water (water from an underground source that is brought to the surface as part of the exploration for or development of oil, natural gas, coal-bed methane, or any other substance to be used as an energy source) and to increasing the extent to which produced water can be used for irrigation or other purposes without adversely affecting water quality or the environment; and (2) the actions that could reduce or eliminate such obstacles and the associated costs and benefits. 

Directs the Secretary to provide financial assistance for the development of facilities, technologies, and processes to demonstrate the feasibility, effectiveness, and safety of: (1) optimizing energy resource production by reducing the quantity of produced water generated; or (2) increasing the extent to which produced water may be recovered and made suitable for specified purposes. Requires such assistance to be provided for at least one project in: (1) each of the Upper Basin States (Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming); and (2) each of the Lower Basin States (Arizona, California, and Nevada). Prohibits such assistance from exceeding $1 million per project, from being used to pay more than 50% of the total project cost, or from being used for facility operation or maintenance.


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: 2007-04-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4672-4673)
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Vision Care for Kids Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1117
Sponsor: Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO]
Introduced: 2007-04-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Eye care
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Health education
Medical tests
Optometry
Physical examinations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: 
Vision Care for Kids Act of 2007 - Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award grants to states to: (1) provide comprehensive eye examinations by a licensed optometrist or ophthalmologist for children identified by a licensed health care provider or vision screener, with priority to children under age nine; (2) provide treatment or services to correct vision problems of such children; and (3) develop and disseminate educational materials on recognizing signs of visual impairment in children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4506)
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4505-4506)
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Fuel Efficiency Energy Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1118
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2007-04-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Automobile industry
Automobiles
Commerce
Fuel consumption
Standards
Transportation and Public Works
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: 
Fuel Efficiency Energy Act of 2007 - Amends corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) provisions to revise the definition of: (1) &quot;automobile&quot; to mean any vehicle that is propelled by fuel, or by alternative fuel, and is manufactured primarily for use on public streets, roads, and highways (currently, four-wheeled vehicles that are so propelled and manufactured for such use and that are up to 6,000 pounds and certain vehicles between 6,000 and 10,000 pounds); and (2) &quot;passenger automobile&quot; to eliminate the exception for 4-wheel drive automobiles and vehicles weighing more than 6,000 pounds. Defines &quot;medium-duty truck&quot; as a truck with a gross vehicle weight between 10,000 and 26,000 pounds.
 
Requires the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) prescribe separate increased minimum CAFE standards for different classes of automobiles manufactured beginning for model year 2012, but adds an increase of 4% per year in such standard for model years 2013 through 2030; and (2) establish CAFE standards for medium-duty trucks that are consistent with hybridization beginning for model year 2012.
 
Revises the calculation of fuel economy standards for dual fueled automobiles and gaseous fuel dual fueled automobiles manufactured in model year 2012 and beyond to require using the same calculation provisions as used for gas or diesel fueled vehicles. Repeals provisions allowing the Department of Transportation (DOT) to extend manufacturing credits for such automobiles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7508-7511)
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4507)
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Introduced in Senate
James Zadroga Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1119
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2007-04-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Claims
Compensation (Law)
Compensation for victims of crime
Crime and Law Enforcement
Families
Health
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Mental illness
September 11, 2001
Survivors' benefits
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: 
James Zadroga Act of 2007 - Amends the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 (Fund), part of the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act, to extend the current December 22, 2003, deadline for filing claims under the Fund for five years following enactment of this Act if the Special Master determines that the individual: (1) was unaware that he or she had suffered physical harm as the result of the September 11, 2001, terrorist-related aircraft crashes until after the deadline and before enactment of this Act; (2) was unaware of his or her eligibility to file a claim until after December 22, 2003; (3) suffered psychological harm as a result of the crashes; or (4) in the case of an individual who had previously filed a claim, suffered a significantly greater physical harm than was known to the individual as of the date the claim was filed, but did not know its full extent until after the claim was filed and before enactment of this Act.
 
Allows the filing of a claim also during the five years after the individual first knew that he or she had suffered physical or psychological harm as the result of such crashes, if he or she did not know that until on or after enactment of this Act. Extends the same five-year filing allowance to anyone who did not know the full extent of the harm suffered until on or after the enactment of this Act, even though he or she had previously filed a claim and had suffered a significantly greater physical or psychological harm than was known to the individual as of the date the claim was filed. Waives the single claim requirement in such circumstances.
 
Makes a claimant eligible for compensation based on the psychological harm suffered as a result of the crashes.
 
Defines &quot;immediate aftermath&quot; for compensation eligibility purposes as any period of time after the crashes that was sufficiently close in time to them that there was a demonstrable risk to the claimant of resulting physical or psychological harm, including the period of time during which related rescue, recovery, and cleanup activities were conducted.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Preventive Medicine and Public Health Training Act

Bill: 110-s-1120
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Medical education
Medical residents
Preventive medicine
Public health personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Preventive Medicine and Public Health Training Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award grants to or enter into contracts with certain eligible entities to provide training to graduate medical residents in preventive medicine specialties.
 
Requires grant funds to be used for: (1) residency programs for preventive medicine or public health; (2) financial assistance to resident physicians who plan to specialize in preventive medicine or public health; (3) preventive medicine or public health program costs, including curriculum development and practicum costs; and (4) the improvement of academic administrative units.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
LIBRARIAN Act

Bill: 110-s-1121
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Libraries
Scholarships
School personnel
Social Welfare
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Librarian Incentive to Boost Recruitment and Retention in Areas of Need Act of 2007 or the LIBRARIAN Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to permit the cancellation of Federal Perkins Loans for students who perform public service as full-time librarians, if the librarian has a master's degree in library science and is employed in: (1) an elementary school or secondary school that is eligible for assistance under title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; or (2) a public library that serves a geographic area that contains one or more schools eligible for assistance under title I of such Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4604)
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4604)
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Mapping Airport Proximity Act

Bill: 110-s-1122
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Ben [D-NE]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Access to airports
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Housing and Community Development
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Mapping Airport Proximity Act or the MAP Act - Requires the Secretary of Transportation, in determining compensation or eligibility for compensation for essential air service to a small community based on highway mileage, to use the highway mileage of the most commonly used route between an eligible place and the nearest medium hub airport or large hub airport.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Simplified Small Business Telephone Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1123
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Excise tax
Income tax
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Simplified Small Business Telephone Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Allows an extension through 2007 for filing refunds for excise tax paid on nontaxable toll telephone service billed after February 28, 2003, and before August 1, 2006.

Allows taxpayers eligible for such refunds to elect a specified refund amount based on adjusted gross income in lieu of the actual amount of nontaxable toll telephone service billed after February 28, 2003, and before August 1, 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Tax Lien Simplification Act

Bill: 110-s-1124
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Data banks
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Internet
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax liens

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Tax Lien Simplification Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise procedures for the filing of federal tax liens. 

Direct the Secretary of the Treasury to establish and maintain a federal tax lien registry, in lieu of filing tax liens in local jurisdictions, which would be accessible to and searchable by the public through the Internet at no cost.

 Establishes the priority of a federal tax lien based upon the date and time of the filing of a notice of lien in the federal tax lien registry.

 Reduces the period for releasing satisfied or unenforceable tax liens from 30 to 10 days.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4604-4606)
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Freight Rail Infrastructure Capacity Expansion Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1125
Sponsor: Sen. Lott, Trent [R-MS]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Railroad engineering
Railroad freight operations
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Freight Rail Infrastructure Capacity Expansion Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) a tax credit for 25% of the cost of new qualified freight rail infrastructure property and new qualified locomotive property; and (2) a taxpayer election to expense the cost of qualified freight rail infrastructure property (i.e., deduct all costs in the current taxable year). Terminates such credit and expensing election after 2012. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Gulf of Mexico Restoration and Protection Act

Bill: 110-s-1126
Sponsor: Sen. Lott, Trent [R-MS]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Environmental Protection Agency
Executive reorganization
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Gulf of Mexico
International Affairs
International environmental cooperation
Latin America
Marine ecology
Mexico
Restoration ecology
Waste disposal in the ocean
Water Resources Development
Water quality
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Gulf of Mexico Restoration and Protection Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reestablish the Program Office of the Gulf of Mexico Program as an office of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to be headed by a Director. Requires the Office to: (1) coordinate the actions of EPA and of other federal agencies and state and local authorities; (2) assist in developing specific action plans to carry out the program; (3) coordinate and implement priority state- and community-led restoration plans and projects and facilitate activities that support the program; (4) implement outreach programs to foster stewardship of the Gulf's resources; (5) develop and make available information about the environmental quality and living resources of the Gulf; and (6) serve as the liaison with the Mexican members of the Gulf of Mexico States Accord and Mexican counterparts of the EPA.
 
Authorizes the EPA Administrator to enter into interagency agreements to carry out this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to provide grants for use in: (1) monitoring the water quality and living resources of the Gulf ecosystem; (2) researching the effects of environmental changes on such water quality and resources; (3) developing cooperative strategies that address the water quality and needs of Gulf resources; (4) developing locally-based protection and restoration programs or projects within a watershed that complement those strategies; and (5) eliminating or reducing point sources that discharge pollutants that contaminate the Gulf ecosystem.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Alexandrea S. Banks Desutter and Nicholas S. Banks Desutter.

Bill: 110-s-1127
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Provides for the relief of Alexandrea S. Banks Desutter and Nicholas S. Banks Desutter.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in Senate