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SHINE Act

Bill: 110-hr-2889
Sponsor: Rep. Reynolds, Thomas M. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2007-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family services
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health education
Health information systems
Health surveys
Hereditary diseases
Infants
Internet
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medical technology
Medical tests
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: 
Screening for Health of Infants and Newborns Act or the SHINE Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop guidelines that states may follow in reporting data from newborn screening tests.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to develop guidelines to: (1) monitor and evaluate newborn screening activities; and (2) coordinate the results of surveillance activities.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of CDC and the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, to develop a surveillance system for newborn screening.
 
Directs the Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders and Genetic Diseases in Newborns and Children to advise the Secretary on the guidelines and on monitoring and evaluating newborn screening and surveillance activities.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) direct the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of HRSA to establish a central clearinghouse of current education and family support and services information, materials, resources, research, and data on newborn screening; (2) award grants for demonstration projects that increase state capacity to screen for all of the core conditions; (3) award Hunter Kelly Newborn Screening grants for demonstration projects that develop screening tests for additional newborn conditions or develop multiple markers to increase the specificity of such tests; and (4) appoint an Interagency Grant Review Panel to select grant applications and provide oversight on the grant program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Introduced in House
SUN Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2890
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2007-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Federal aid to research
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Solar energy
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: 
Solar Utilization Now Demonstration Act of 2007 or the SUN Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a program of grants to states to demonstrate advanced photovoltaic technology.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Introduced in House
Nuclear Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2891
Sponsor: Rep. Tauscher, Ellen O. [D-CA-10]
Introduced: 2007-06-27 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control agreements
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Energy
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Fissionable materials
Government Operations and Politics
International control of nuclear power
International cooperation
Military research
Nuclear facilities
Nuclear security measures
Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear weapons
President and foreign policy
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Terrorism
Uranium enrichment

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: 
Nuclear Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress: (1) that the President should make the prevention of a nuclear terrorist attack on the United States of the highest priority; and (2) regarding appropriate steps to prevent nuclear terrorism.

Directs the President to designate an individual to serve in the Executive Office of the President as the Senior Advisor to the President for the Prevention of Nuclear Terrorism. 

States as U.S. policy that all possible steps be taken to ensure that all nuclear weapons and formula quantities of strategic special nuclear materials are secure and accounted for, and that all formula quantities of strategic special nuclear material are eliminated or secure and accounted for to a level sufficient to defeat terrorist and criminal threats. Directs the President to seek an international agreement on a global implementing standard for such policy.

Requires an annual report from the President to Congress on the security of formula quantities of strategic special nuclear material.

Authorizes appropriations for: (1) removal of highly enriched uranium; (2) technical nuclear forensics research and development; (3) conversion of highly enriched uranium; and (4) the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Office of Nuclear Security.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Introduced in House
Homeownership Affordability Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2893
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Dave [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2007-06-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Families
Gift tax
Gifts
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Income tax
Mortgages
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: 
Homeownership Affordability Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deem qualified homeowner downpayment assistance as a charitable purpose for income, estate, and gift tax purposes. Defines &quot;qualified homeowner downpayment assistance&quot; as a gift of cash for the purpose of providing any downpayment for the purchase of a principal residence for a taxpayer whose modified adjusted gross income does not exceed $110,000 ($220,000 for joint returns), if: (1) such gift does not exceed 20% of 110 percent of the maximum principal obligation allowable; and (2) the purchase price of such property does not exceed 110 percent of such amount.

Denies an income tax deduction to a donor of homeowner downpayment assistance who receives a direct financial benefit in connection with the purchase of a principal residence for which downpayment assistance was provided.

Allows a gift tax exclusion for a homeowner downpayment gift.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Introduced in House
Teachers at the Table Act

Bill: 110-hr-2896
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Legislation
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Teachers at the Table Act - Amends title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to establish the Volunteer Teacher Advisory Committee to monitor the effects of such title (amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001) in classrooms, with a focus on children and families.
 
Requires that committee membership consist of a diverse group of public school classroom teachers appointed from within the National State Teachers of the Year organization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Access to Community Health Centers (MATCH) Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2897
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Clinics
Community health services
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Medicare Access to Community Health Centers (MATCH) Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise the definition of &quot;federally qualified health center services&quot; to include ambulatory services furnished by a federally qualified health center (FQHC) for which payment may otherwise be made under Medicare if such services were furnished by a non-FQHC health care provider or health care professional employed by or under contract with an FQHC.
 
Permits payment for hospital-based services. 
 
Provides for a Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for Medicare-covered services provided by FQHCs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Judicial Conduct Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2898
Sponsor: Rep. Akin, W. Todd [R-MO-2]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Bribery
Constitutional law
Crime and Law Enforcement
Decision making
District courts
Impeachments
International Affairs
International law
Judges
Judicial ethics
Misconduct in office
Supreme Court justices
Treason

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Judicial Conduct Act of 2007 - Amends the federal judicial code to define the treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors for which a justice or judge of the United States, according to Articles II and III of the U.S. Constitution, shall be removed from office.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Walter Carl Jordan, Jr. Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2899
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Sanford D., Jr. [D-GA-2]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Armed Forces and National Security
Clinics
Congressional tributes
Georgia
Health
Names
Veterans' hospitals

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Walter Carl Jordan, Jr. Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic Act of 2007 - Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Albany, Georgia, as the &quot;Walter Carl Jordan, Jr. Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Lifelong Learning Accounts Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2901
Sponsor: Rep. Allen, Thomas H. [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Education
Education savings accounts
Employee benefit plans
Higher education
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Self-employed
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Tuition tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Lifelong Learning Accounts Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish tax-exempt lifelong learning accounts to pay for certain higher education expenses and allow a tax deduction for cash contributions to such accounts; and (2) allow employers, employees, and self-employed individuals tax credits for contributions to such accounts.

Requires the Comptroller General to study the effectiveness of such accounts and the tax credits provided by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Middle Class Opportunity Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2902
Sponsor: Rep. Allen, Thomas H. [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Books
Caregivers
College costs
Day care
Education
Families
Grandparents
Higher education
Income tax
Minimum tax
Parents
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Textbooks
Tuition tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Middle Class Opportunity Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the child tax credit for the first year in which a child is claimed as a qualifying child; (2) expand eligibility for the dependent care tax credit and allow such credit for expenses to care for parents (and ancestors of such parents) not residing with the taxpayer; and (3) provide for an increased alternative minimum tax exemption amount through 2008

Replaces the Hope and Lifetime Learning tax credits with an expanded education tax credit which provides for a 100% education tax credit for qualified tuition and related expenses (including a certain allowance for books) up to $1,000, 50% for such expenses between $1,000 and $3,000, and 20% of such expense between 3,000 and $5,500. Reduces credit amounts for taxpayers with modified adjusted gross incomes over $70,000 ($140,000 in the case of a joint tax return). Allows an inflation adjustment to credit amounts beginning after 2008.

Limits such credit to three eligible students per taxpayer in any taxable year and for four taxable years. 

Denies such credit for certain part-time students and for students convicted of a felony drug offense. 

Repeals the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Keep Teachers Teaching Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2903
Sponsor: Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Colleges
Commerce
Community and school
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Economics and Public Finance
Educational innovations
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Higher education
Law
Licenses
Mentoring
Nonprofit organizations
Research
Scholarships
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Travel

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Keep Teachers Teaching Act of 2007 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to local educational agencies (LEAs), states, and partnerships of LEAs, nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education for the development and implementation of innovative teacher retention programs that include: (1) professional development; (2) teacher mentoring; (3) advanced certification or credentialing; (4) research, travel, or fellowship opportunities; and (5) pairing of teachers with research or industry professionals.
 
Requires the Secretary to identify, and inform states and LEAs of, the most promising teacher retention strategies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Charter School Program Enhancement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2904
Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-7]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Authorization
Charter schools
Curricula
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational innovations
Educational planning
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Loans
Nonprofit organizations
Performance measurement
School administration
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Charter School Program Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to authorized public chartering agencies, in addition to state educational agencies, for the provision of subgrants to charter school developers or nonprofit charter support organizations assisting such developers. Raises the maximum term of such grants.
 
Extends grant priority to states that: (1) provide public charter schools with funding commensurate with that provided to other public schools; (2) focus on creating such schools in areas that have many schools designated as needing improvement; and (3) demonstrate that a high percentage of its charter school students are meeting, exceeding, or making sufficient progress toward state academic performance standards. Eliminates from grant consideration states that have certain restrictive charter school laws.
 
Alters Charter School Per-Pupil Facilities Aid programs by changing from mandatory to discretionary the authority of the Secretary to provide states with program grants and requiring state grantees to make charter school per-pupil spending commensurate with such spending on other public schools.
 
Establishes a competitive grant program for the dissemination of successful charter school programs.
 
Requires charter schools to have independent governing boards that enter into performance-based agreements with authorized public chartering agencies. Prohibits such schools from giving admissions priority to students on the basis of prior academic achievement.
 
Amends the Charter School Credit Enhancement program by making predevelopment costs an object of credit enhancement and authorizing the use of program grants for limited loans to such schools.
 
Reauthorizes appropriations through FY2013 for the programs amended by this Act. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2905
Sponsor: Rep. Pence, Mike [R-IN-6]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Fairness doctrine
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
Broadcaster Freedom Act of 2007 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), notwithstanding any other provision of any Act, from having the authority to require broadcasters to present opposing viewpoints on controversial issues of public importance, commonly referred to as the Fairness Doctrine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H11174)
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H9188)
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7208)
10th Congressional District of Illinois School Conservation Corps Act

Bill: 110-hr-2906
Sponsor: Rep. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL-10]
Introduced: 2007-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Air pollution control
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Commerce
Community and school
Congress
Congressional districts
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection
Environmental protection groups
Federal aid to air pollution control
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to water pollution control
Great Lakes
Harbors
Illinois
Income tax
Industrial pollution
Lakes
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mercury
Performance measurement
Recycling of waste products
Secondary education
Service learning
Student activities
Tax incentives
Taxation
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 
10th Congressional District of Illinois School Conservation Corps Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to create a pilot program in Illinois' 10th Congressional District by providing grants to public high school chapters, each consisting of at least 10 students and one adult advisor, to establish and support a school conservation corps.
 

 
Requires grants to be used for environmental protection projects in the district, including specified priority projects involving water pollution control, greenhouse gas reduction, recycling, and the dissemination of information on the dangers of mercury pollution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1456-1457)
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Introduced in House