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Subway Cell Access Act

Bill: 110-hr-2972
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Antennas
Commerce
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Federal Communications Commission
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Law
Subways
Telecommunication industry
Transportation and Public Works
Urban affairs
Wireless communication
Zoning and zoning law

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Subway Cell Access Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to require that each commercial mobile (wireless) service provider provide service for the universal emergency telephone number (911) within each subway boarding station in any geographic area in which such provider provides service at ground level. 
Requires such providers to: (1) make available to other wireless providers appropriate infrastructure, technology, and facilities to provide such service; and (2) facilitate the sharing of such infrastructure, technology, and facilities. 
Includes such emergency number service within federal provisions limiting state regulation of the placement of wireless facilities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Truth in Lending Act to require a store in which a consumer may apply to open a credit or charge card account to display a sign, at each location where the application may be made, containing the same information required by such Act to be prominently placed in a tabular format on the application.

Bill: 110-hr-2973
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Credit cards
Federal preemption
Finance charges
Government Operations and Politics
Graphs and charts
Interest rates
Retail trade
Signs and signboards
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Amends the Truth in Lending Act to require any person selling personal property to consumers on a business premises to display conspicuously, at each location on the premises where a credit or charge card account may be submitted by a consumer, a sign that contains the same information required by the Act to be prominently placed in tabular format on the account application itself.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Innocent Check Depositor Protection Act

Bill: 110-hr-2974
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts
Bank deposits
Checks
Fees

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Innocent Check Depositor Protection Act - Amends the Expedited Funds Availability Act to prohibit a receiving depository institution from imposing check dishonorment fees upon a depositor if the check is drawn on an account at an originating institution which subsequently dishonors it for lack of sufficient funds.
 
States that this Act shall not be construed as affecting any intervening depository institution or the costs of services it provides.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
To make unlawful the establishment or maintenance within the United States of an office of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

Bill: 110-hr-2975
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Foreign agents
Government Operations and Politics
Middle East and North Africa
Offices
Palestinians
President and foreign policy

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
States that: (1) the President shall withdraw or terminate any presidential waiver of the requirements under the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1988 and 1989 prohibiting the establishment or maintenance of a Palestinian information office in the United States; and (2) such section shall apply so as to prohibit a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) or Palestinian Authority (PA) office in the United States from carrying out any function other than those functions carried out by the Palestinian information office in existence prior to the Oslo Accords.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Saudi Arabia Accountability Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2976
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Americans in foreign countries
Armed Forces and National Security
Arms sales
Bombings
California
Charities
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Diplomats
District of Columbia
Education
Educational facilities
Elementary and secondary education
Export controls
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fund raising
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
International cooperation
Law
Middle East and North Africa
New York City
President and foreign policy
Right to travel
Sanctions (International law)
Saudi Arabia
Social Welfare
State-sponsored terrorism
Terrorism
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Saudi Arabia Accountability Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the government of Saudi Arabia must: (1) cooperate fully with the United States in the investigation of terror groups and individuals; (2) close permanently all organizations in Saudi Arabia that fund, train, encourage, or in any way aid terrorism anywhere in the world; (3) end funding for terror organizations outside Saudi Arabia; and (4) block funding from private Saudi citizens and entities to Saudi-based or offshore terror organizations.
 
Directs the President to prohibit certain exports to Saudi Arabia and restrict travel of certain Saudi diplomats if the President cannot certify to the appropriate congressional committees that the government of Saudi Arabia: (1) is fully cooperating with the United States in investigating and preventing terrorist attacks; (2) has closed permanently all Saudi-based terror organizations; (3) has ended funding for any offshore terror organization; and (4) has made all efforts to block funding from private Saudi citizens and entities to offshore terror organizations. Allows the President to waive such sanctions for national security reasons.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Egyptian Counterterrorism and Political Reform Act

Bill: 110-hr-2977
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional investigations
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic assistance
Egypt
Government Operations and Politics
Israel
Middle East and North Africa
Military assistance
President and foreign policy
Treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Egyptian Counterterrorism and Political Reform Act - Prohibits military assistance to Egypt beginning in FY2008 unless the President determines and certifies to Congress that it is in the national security interests to provide assistance for a given fiscal year. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) funds that would have been provided for military assistance should be given in the form of economic support fund assistance and not used by the armed forces of Egypt; (2) the President should certify the establishment of procedures to ensure access by the Comptroller General to appropriate financial information in order to review the use of these funds; and (3) the agreement among the United States, Egypt, and Israel to decrease the overall amount of U.S. foreign assistance for both countries should continue. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit United States assistance for the Palestinian Authority and for programs, projects, and activities in the West Bank and Gaza, unless certain conditions are met.

Bill: 110-hr-2978
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arab-Israeli conflict
Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economic assistance
Foreign leaders
Gaza Strip
Government Operations and Politics
Israel
Middle East and North Africa
Palestinians
Peace
Political violence
President and foreign policy
Sanctions (International law)
Terrorism
West Bank

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Prohibits U.S. assistance to the Palestinian Authority (PA) unless the President certifies to the House Committee on International Relations and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that: (1) the PA leadership is not tainted by violence, has publicly rebuked Palestinian violence, has ended incitement, and has taken all actions within its capacity to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure; and (2) the violence in the West Bank and Gaza has subsided.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
First Responder Funding Modernization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2979
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal aid to law enforcement
Hours of labor
Labor and Employment
Law enforcement officers
Police
Salaries
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
First Responder Funding Modernization Act of 2007 - Prohibits the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from limiting the amount of grant funds provided under the Urban Area Security Initiative or the State Homeland Security Grant Program that may be used to pay salaries or overtime pay of law enforcement officials engaged in antiterrorism activities. Requires DHS to treat such a proposed use of grant funds as at least as effective as all other proposed uses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Internet Police Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2980
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Correctional personnel
Electronic mail systems
Emergency Management
Facsimile transmission
Federal employees
Federal law enforcement officers
Fines (Penalties)
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Identification devices
Internet
Judges
Judicial officers
Juries
Law
Law enforcement officers
Military personnel
Paramedical personnel
Police
Public prosecutors
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Telephone
Volunteer workers
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Internet Police Protection Act of 2007- Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit knowingly making restricted personal information about a covered official publicly available through the Internet. Defines &quot;covered official&quot; to mean a federal officer or employee, a public safety officer for a public agency that receives federal financial assistance, or a U.S. court officer, juror, or magistrate judge.

Makes it a defense to a prosecution that: (1) the defendant is an Internet service provider and did not knowingly participate in the offense; or (2) the covered official gave permission to make such information publicly available.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
To halt the issuance of visas to citizens of Saudi Arabia until the President certifies that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does not discriminate in the issuance of visas on the basis of religious affiliation or heritage.

Bill: 110-hr-2981
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
International Affairs
Jews
Middle East and North Africa
Racial discrimination
Religion
Religious liberty
Sanctions (International law)
Saudi Arabia
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Prohibits the issuance of U.S. visas to citizens of Saudi Arabia until the President certifies that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does not discriminate on the basis of religious affiliation or heritage when issuing its visas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Save the Statue of Liberty Act

Bill: 110-hr-2982
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Maintenance and repair
National monuments
New York City
Safety measures

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Save the Statue of Liberty Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the National Park Service (NPS) and using funds available to the Secretary for this purpose, to commence necessary safety and related improvements to the Statue of Liberty so that it may be fully reopened to the public to provide the same access as before September 11, 2001. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2983
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Families
Income tax
Minimum tax
Tax credits
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2007- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow individual taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes of less than $75,000 ($150,000 for joint returns) a tax credit for 10% of their income tax; (2) eliminate income taxes for individual taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes of less than $12,500 ($25,000 for joint returns); (3) double the child tax credit for individual taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes of less than $75,000 ($150,000 for joint returns); (4) eliminate the alternative minimum tax in 2008 for certain individual taxpayers; and (5) impose an income tax surtax on individual taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes of over $500,000 ($1 million for joint returns).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Home Energy Assistance Targeted for Seniors Act

Bill: 110-hr-2984
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Energy assistance for the aged
Energy assistance for the poor
Families
Households
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Home Energy Assistance Targeted for Seniors Act - Amends the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 to rename it the Low-Income and Senior Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981. 
 
Redefines low-income households as households with incomes which do not exceed that of state median income, with at least 50% of the household income attributable to persons who are at least 65 years old.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Arab Bank Accountability Act

Bill: 110-hr-2985
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Alien property
Arab countries
Bank examination
Branch banking
Claims
Compensation for victims of crime
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Expropriation
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign banks and banking
Fund raising
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
International banking
Law
Licenses
Middle East and North Africa
Public records
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Arab Bank Accountability Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to release certain documents and information relating to the Arab Bank (other than those which would impede any federal criminal or civil investigation of the Bank).
 
Directs the President to block certain Bank assets within the United States which shall be made available for payment of any terrorism-related judgment against the Bank. States that after any such judgment becomes final the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve System and the Comptroller of the Currency shall act to terminate any Bank branch or agency in the United States and to prohibit the Bank from maintaining any interest in any commercial lending company within the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Prohibit Aid to Saudi Arabia Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2986
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2007-07-10 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Credit insurance
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Export finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign loans
Islamic fundamentalism
Middle East and North Africa
Military assistance
Religion
Reparations
Sanctions (International law)
Saudi Arabia
State-sponsored terrorism
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: 
Prohibit Aid to Saudi Arabia Act of 2007 - Prohibits funds appropriated for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs to be obligated or expended for Saudi Arabia. Includes in such prohibition direct loans, credits, insurance, and guarantees of the U.S. Export-Import Bank. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-10
text: Introduced in House