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Striving Readers Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-958
Sponsor: Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL]
Introduced: 2007-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Compensatory education
Continuing education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational planning
Educational surveys
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Higher education
Illiteracy
Law
Licenses
Literacy programs
Parent-school relationships
Reading
School administration
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Teacher education
Teaching
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: 
Striving Readers Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Education to provide peer-reviewed grants for literacy initiatives benefiting students in grades 4 through 12 to: (1) local educational agencies (LEAs) eligible for school improvement funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, if appropriations under this Act are less than $200 million; or (2) state educational agencies (SEAs), and through them, to LEAs, if appropriations equal or exceed such amount.
 
Allots funds to SEAs on the basis of their relative proportion of needy children aged 5 to 17 and eighth graders underachieving in reading. Requires SEAs, in addition to providing subgrants, to use grant funds to: (1) provide professional development assistance to LEAs; (2) enhance public higher education for students preparing to teach any of grades 4 through 12; (3) recommend improvements to state licensure and certification standards for reading instruction in such grades; and (4) report to the Secretary of Education on SEA and LEA progress in improving adolescent literacy.
 
Requires LEAs to use grant or subgrant funds on literacy initiatives that include: (1) student need and progress assessments and reports; (2) development of adolescent literacy plans for underperforming students that provide intensive, accelerated, and extended instruction for such students and professional development for teachers; and (3) initiative training for school leaders. Prohibits the use of subgrant funds on schools that do not meet specified need criteria.
 
Authorizes the withholding of grant or subgrants funds from SEAs and LEAs making insufficient progress in improving adolescent literacy.
 
Requires a national evaluation and the dissemination of information regarding the effectiveness of the grant and subgrant programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3609-3610)
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Teach For America Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-959
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational research
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Rating of teachers
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: 
Teach for America Act of 2007- Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award a grant to Teach For America, Inc. to implement and expand its program of recruiting, selecting, training, and supporting new teachers.
 
Requires that grant funds be used to provide teachers to local educational agencies that serve a substantial percentage of students eligible for free or reduced price meals under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to provide for a study, at least once every three years, comparing the academic achievement of students taught by teachers assisted by this Act with the academic achievement of students taught by other teachers in the same schools and positions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3611-3612)
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Service Academy Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-960
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Armed Forces and National Security
Collection of accounts
College administration
College costs
College teachers
Commerce
Congress
Crime and Law Enforcement
Curricula
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to education
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign students
Fund raising
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Graduate education
Health
Higher education
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
International Affairs
International education
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Leadership
Local employees
Members of Congress
Nonprofit organizations
Presidential appointments
Public service employment
Public-private partnerships
Scholarships
Service academies
Social Welfare
State employees
Student activities
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: 
Public Service Academy Act of 2007 - Establishes in the Department of Homeland Security a U.S. Public Service Academy for the instruction in and preparation for public service of selected individuals. Sets forth provisions relating to: (1) key personnel positions and faculty and departments; (2) student qualifications and requirements for admission; (3) procedures for the appointment of students to the Academy by Members of Congress and the President; (4) curriculum standards; and (5) study abroad requirements.

Requires each Academy student to sign an agreement with respect to length of public service. Imposes tuition and cost repayment requirements for Academy students who fail to graduate or accept or complete assigned public service. 

Establishes a Board of Visitors to inquire into the efficiency and effectiveness of the operations of the Academy.

Requires the tuition of each Academy student to be fully subsidized. Provides for public (80%) and private funding for the Academy. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-30
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3612)
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Belated Thank You to the Merchant Mariners of World War II Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-961
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Ben [D-NE]
Introduced: 2007-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Ex-prisoners of war
Families
History
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Married people
Merchant marine
Merchant seamen
Survivors' benefits
Tax exemption
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Veterans' pensions
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: 
Belated Thank You to the Merchant Mariners of World War II Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay a monthly benefit of $1,000 to certain honorably-discharged veterans of the U.S. Merchant Marine who served between December 7, 1941, and December 31, 1946 (or to their survivors). Includes service in the Army Transport Service and the Naval Transport Service. Exempts from taxation benefits paid under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-07
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Department of Energy Carbon Capture and Storage Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-962
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Carbon cycle
Carbon dioxide
Coal
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Environmental research
Environmental technology
Geology
Geophysical prediction
Natural gas
Oil well drilling
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research and development
Risk
Science, Technology, Communications
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: 
Department of Energy Carbon Capture and Storage Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 2007 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to direct the Secretary of Energy to: (1) carry out fundamental science and engineering research to develop and document new approaches to capture and store carbon dioxide; (2) ensure that fundamental research is appropriately applied to energy technology development activities and the field testing of carbon sequestration activities; (3) promote regional carbon sequestration partnerships to conduct geologic sequestration tests involving carbon dioxide in a variety of geological settings; and (4) conduct at least seven initial large-volume sequestration tests for geological containment of carbon dioxide.
 
Directs the Secretary, in making competitive awards, to give preference to proposals from partnerships among industrial, academic, and government entities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 110-83.
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3612-3613)
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3612)
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Education Assistance Act

Bill: 110-s-963
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2007-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
History
Jewish holocaust (1939-1945)
Secondary education
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Teacher education
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: 
Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Education Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to educational organizations to carry out educational programs about the Holocaust. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3613)
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require States and Indian tribes to designate specific highway routes for the transportation of hazardous materials and the long-distance transportation of solid waste.

Bill: 110-s-964
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Transportation
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Indian lands
Law
Minorities
Traffic accidents and safety
Transportation of hazardous substances
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: 
Subjects 5-axle single-trailer trucks transporting solid waste for at least 200 miles on the National Highway System to federal highway routing of hazardous materials requirements. Requires states and Indian tribes to designate specific highway routes over which solid waste may be transported. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe standards for states and Indian tribes to carry out such requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
RESPECT Act

Bill: 110-s-969
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2007-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Industrial relations
Supervision of employees
Supervisors

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: 
Re-empowerment of Skilled and Professional Employees and Construction Tradesworkers Act or the RESPECT Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to revise the definition of &quot;supervisor&quot; in the following ways: (1) require the individual to have authority over employees for a majority of the individual's worktime; and (2) remove authority to assign other employees and to responsibly direct employees as conditions for being considered a supervisor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3616)
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3615-3616)
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
National Institute of Food and Agriculture Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-971
Sponsor: Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO]
Introduced: 2007-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Agricultural conservation
Agricultural education
Agricultural innovations
Agricultural production
Agricultural research
Alternative energy sources
Biological warfare
Biomass energy
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Agriculture
Developing countries
Diet
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Energy
Energy consumption
Energy crops
Environmental Protection
Executive reorganization
Farm income
Farm produce
Farms
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Food safety
Food supply
Foodborne diseases
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
Hunger
International competitiveness
Nutrition
Obesity
Presidential appointments
Research centers
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists
Sustainable agriculture
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: 
National Institute of Food and Agriculture Act of 2007 - Establishes within the Department of Agriculture the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, which shall be an agency composed of a Director (who shall be a scientist) and a Standing Council of Advisors.
 
Authorizes the Director to establish standing scientific committees. Requires the Director to establish: (1) an Office of Advanced Science and Application which shall monitor national needs and advances in research to identify problems for which solutions are realistically achievable through research; (2) an Office of Scientific Assessment and Liaison which shall monitor programs and expenditures; (3) an Office of Scientific Personnel which shall assess the number of, and need for additional, agricultural scientists in the United States.
 
Directs the Institute to provide grants to support and promote the highest quality of fundamental agricultural research, including grants to fund research proposals submitted by: (1) individual scientists; (2) research centers composed of a single institution or multiple institutions; and (3) other individuals and entities from the private and public sectors, including Department and other federal researchers. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3621-3624)
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3620-3621)
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Responsible Education About Life Act

Bill: 110-s-972
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2007-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Alcohol and youth
Career education
Child development
Child health
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Contraceptives
Drug abuse
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Federal aid to health facilities
Finance and Financial Sector
Health education
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Marriage
Minorities
Multicultural education
Parent and child
Personal budgets
Premarital sex
Preventive medicine
Sex education
Sexual abstinence
Sexual orientation
Sexually transmitted diseases
Social Welfare
Teenage pregnancy

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: 
Responsible Education About Life Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to states for family life education, including education on abstinence and contraception, to prevent teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that states are encouraged but not required to provide matching funds. 
Requires the Secretary to provide for a national evaluation of a representative sample of such programs for effectiveness in changing adolescent sexual behavior, including delaying sexual and high-risk activity, preventing pregnancy and disease (including HIV/AIDS), and increasing contraceptive knowledge. Requires states receiving such grants to provide for an individual evaluation of the state's program by an external, independent entity.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3625-3626)
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3625)
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Restitution for Victims of Crime Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-973
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2007-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Bank records
Civil actions and liability
Collection of accounts
Compensation for victims of crime
Criminal procedure
Environmental Protection
Environmental law enforcement
Evidence (Law)
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Injunctions
Law
Legal fees
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Potable water
Pretrial procedure
Searches and seizures
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Suspects' rights
Warrants (Law)
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: 
Restitution for Victims of Crime Act of 2007 - Collection of Restitution Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code relating to restitution for victims of crime to: (1) require courts to enter an order for immediate restitution at the sentencing of a convict; (2) allow prosecutors to obtain from the U.S. Probation Office, without a court order, financial information about a convict who owes restitution; (3) require identifying information about convicts to be included in restitution orders of more than $100; and (4) allow crime victims reimbursement of attorney fees incurred in seeking restitution.

 Preservation of Assets for Restitution Act of 2007 - Requires courts to issue protective orders for preservation of assets available to satisfy restitution claims. Provides for prejudgment remedies to protect assets available to satisfy restitution claims.

Environmental Crimes Restitution Act of 2007 - Provides for orders of restitution for victims of certain environmental crimes at the sentencing of a convict.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3703-3704)
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3626-3628)
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Stopping Overseas Subsidies Act

Bill: 110-s-974
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative remedies
China
Commerce
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Countervailing duties
East Asia
Expedited congressional procedure
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Governmental investigations
House rules and procedure
Law
Legislative resolutions
Manufacturing industries
Senate rules and procedure
Subsidies

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: 
Stopping Overseas Subsidies Act - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to apply countervailing duties to nonmarket economies.
 
Authorizes the use of alternative methodologies in determining whether a subsidy is countervailable with respect to the People's Republic of China (PRC).
 
 Requires congressional approval for revocation of nonmarket economy country determinations made by the administering authority.
 
Requires a United States International Trade Commission study of how the PRC uses government intervention to promote investment, employment, and exports.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3703-3704)
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3628-3629)
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Genomics and Personalized Medicine Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-976
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-03-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accreditation (Medical care)
Commerce
Continuing education
Data banks
Deceptive advertising
Distance education
Drug approvals
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Genetic counseling
Genetic research
Genetics
Governmental investigations
Health education
Health information systems
Hereditary diseases
Higher education
Marketing
Medical centers
Medical education
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical tests
Preventive medicine
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-23
text: 
Genomics and Personalized Medicine Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish the Genomics and Personalized Medicine Interagency Working Group (IWG) to facilitate collaboration, coordination, and integration of activities among federal agencies relating to genomic research and initiatives; (2) establish a national biobanking distributed database for the collection and integration of genomic data and associated environmental and clinical health information; (3) establish a grant program for academic medical centers and other entities to develop or expand biobanking initiatives; (4) improve genetics and genomics training for diagnosis, treatment, and counseling of adults and children for both rare and common disorders; (5) contract with the National Academy of Sciences to study incentives to encourage companion diagnostic test development; and (6) make information available on the safety and efficacy of genetic tests and commission a study for improving federal oversight and regulation of such tests. 

Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to: (1) conduct an analysis of the public health impact of direct-to-consumer marketing of genetic tests; and (2) expand efforts to educate the public about genomics and its health applications.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-03-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3708-3710)
action_date: 2007-03-23
text: Introduced in Senate