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Dignity for Wounded Warriors Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1268
Sponsor: Rep. Mitchell, Harry E. [D-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Agriculture and Food
Ambulatory care
Armed forces reserves
Case management
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuum of care
Counseling
Department of Defense
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Discrimination in employment
Dismissal of employees
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Employee benefit plans
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Health
Health counseling
Housing and Community Development
Inspectors general
Internet
Iraq compilation
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Law
Leave of absence
Maintenance and repair
Military dependents
Military hospitals
Military housing
Military medicine
Military training
National Guard
Occupational retraining
Ombudsman
Patients' rights
Pest control
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Promotions
Quality of care
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Social work
Spanish language
Suicide
Telephone
Veterans' medical care
War casualties
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Dignity for Wounded Warriors Act of 2007 - Requires each recovering servicemember who is assigned to a military barracks or dormitory to be assigned to one that is maintained at the highest service standard in effect for enlisted members of the Armed Forces. Requires at least semiannual inspections of, and appropriate repairs to, any such quarters, as well as alternate housing during periods of unremedied housing deficiencies.
 
Outlines requirements to be implemented for recovering servicemembers and their families, including: (1) physical disability evaluation system changes; (2) supervising officer and caseworker support; (3) increased training for caseworkers and social workers on particular servicemember conditions, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); (4) increased support services, including an Ombudsman for Recovering Servicemembers; (5) a prohibition on discrimination in employment of family members caring for such servicemembers; and (6) meal benefits for recovering servicemembers and family members caring for such servicemembers.
 
Establishes the Oversight Board for the Wounded.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Education and Tourism Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1270
Sponsor: Rep. Bartlett, Roscoe G. [R-MD-6]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Architecture
Arts, Culture, Religion
Boundaries
Citizen participation
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil War
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-state relations
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Land use
Landowners
Law
Maps
Maryland
Nonprofit organizations
Outdoor recreation
Pennsylvania
Planning
Public meetings
Public-private partnerships
Regional economic development
Right of property
Signs and signboards
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Sunset legislation
Tourism
Traffic signs and signals
Transportation and Public Works
Virginia
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Education and Tourism Act of 2007 - Establishes the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area which may consist of the 175-mile region following the Route 15 corridor and surrounding areas through Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia. 
 
Designates the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership as the management entity for the Area. Requires the membership on the Board of Trustees of the Partnership to be open to the public and to include representatives from a broad cross-section of individuals, agencies, organizations, states, and governments participating in the Area that will oversee the development of the management plan. 
 
Requires the Partnership to develop a management plan for the Area that presents strategies and recommendations for promoting tourism within the Area and for educating the public about the historic significance of the Area. 
 
Makes the Federal Advisory Committee Act inapplicable to the Board of Trustees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 5, United States Code, to make creditable for civil service retirement purposes certain periods of service performed with Air America, Incorporated, Air Asia Company Limited, or the Pacific Division of Southern Air Transport, Incorporated, while those entities were owned or controlled by the Government of the United States and operated or managed by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Bill: 110-hr-1271
Sponsor: Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Annuities
Armed Forces and National Security
Central Intelligence Agency
Civil service retirement
Commerce
Families
Federal employees
Government corporations
Labor and Employment
Law
Military aviation
Office of Personnel Management
Subsidiary corporations
Survivors' benefits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Makes creditable for civil service retirement purposes pre-1977 service performed by a U.S. citizen with Air America, Incorporated, Air Asia Company Limited, or the Pacific Division of Southern Air Transport, Incorporated, while those entities were owned or controlled by the U.S. Government and operated or managed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Veterans' Pension Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1272
Sponsor: Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Families
Labor and Employment
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Veterans' Pension Improvement Act of 2007 - Increases pension rates for: (1) veterans of a period of war for non-service-connected disability; and (2) surviving spouses and children of veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to restore plot allowance eligibility for veterans of any war and to restore the headstone or marker allowance for eligible persons.

Bill: 110-hr-1273
Sponsor: Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Disabled
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Makes eligible for a $300 plot allowance for burial in a cemetery other than a national cemetery a veteran who is eligible for burial in a national cemetery and who: (1) was discharged from active service for a disability incurred or aggravated in the line of duty; or (2) is a veteran of any war.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in lieu of furnishing a headstone or marker for an individual so entitled, to reimburse the person entitled to request such headstone or marker for acquiring a non-government headstone or marker for placement in any cemetery other than a national cemetery in connection with the burial or memorialization of the deceased individual.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income amounts awarded to qui tam plaintiffs.

Bill: 110-hr-1274
Sponsor: Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Damages
Income tax
Law
Qui tam actions
Tax exclusion
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income amounts awarded to a plaintiff in a qui tam action (a civil action brought by a private citizen on behalf of a governmental entity alleging fraud or misuse of government funds by contractors or other individuals).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians Settlement Act

Bill: 110-hr-1276
Sponsor: Rep. Bono, Mary [R-CA-45]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Animals
California
Civil actions and liability
Environmental Protection
Federal-Indian relations
Government liability
Government trust funds
Habitat conservation
Indian claims
Indian lands
Indian water rights
Infrastructure
Law
Minorities
Parties to actions
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Sewerage
Water Resources Development
Water use
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians Settlement Act - Approves, ratifies, and confirms the Settlement Agreement entered into by the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians (the Tribe) relating to alleged interferences with the water resources of the Tribe's reservation.
 
Declares that the United States consents to be made a party to the lawsuit 
Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians v. Metropolitan Water District of Southern California No. 00-04208 GAF (MANx)
 pending in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, for the purpose of entering the judgment and decree attached to the Settlement Agreement as Exhibit H. 
 
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Interior (or the Secretary's designee) to execute and implement the Settlement Agreement and any amendments approved by the parties to the Agreement to make it consistent with this Act. 
 
Establishes the: (1) San Jacinto Basin Restoration Fund for costs associated with constructing and maintaining the part of the basin recharge project necessary to accommodate supplemental imported water deliveries; and (2) Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians Water Development Fund for costs associated with constructing and maintaining water-related development projects.
 
Provides for waivers and releases of specified claims made by the Tribe.
 
Sets forth rules concerning the Tribe's use of water under the Settlement Agreement. 
 
Requires the United States, as trustee for the Tribe, and the Tribe to make available up to 98 acres of the Tribe's reservation land for habitat conservation related to the part of the basin recharge project described above.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Prescription Drug Benefits Gap Elimination Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1277
Sponsor: Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Drugs
Governmental investigations
Legislation
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Medicare Prescription Drug Benefits Gap Elimination Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study and report to Congress on how to eliminate the gap in benefits for covered part D drugs under the Medicare prescription drug program under Medicare part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII of the Social Security Act after a part D eligible individual's costs exceed the initial coverage limit, and before the individual obtains protection against high out-of-pocket expenditures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-01
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: 2007-03-01
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: 2007-03-01
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: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Trade Prosecutor Act

Bill: 110-hr-1278
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
China
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Diplomats
Dispute settlement
East Asia
Economic growth
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Foreign exchange
Free trade
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Governmental investigations
Import relief
Intellectual property
International Affairs
Nontariff trade barriers
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
Presidential appointments
Small business
Trade agreements
Trade negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Trade Prosecutor Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to establish in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) a Trade Enforcement Division, headed by a Trade Enforcement Officer, to ensure that U.S. trading partners comply with trade agreements to which the United States is a party. Establishes within the Division the Office of Trade Assistance for Small Businesses.
 
Requires the USTR, after submission of a specified report, to annually identify (and report to Congress on): (1) U.S. trade enforcement priorities; (2) enforcement actions and their impact on foreign trade barriers; and (3) priority foreign country trade practices on which the USTR will focus enforcement efforts. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Direct Support Professionals Fairness and Security Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1279
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Auditing
Caregivers
Community health services
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost of living adjustments
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Home care services
Labor and Employment
Medicaid
Paramedical personnel
Performance measurement
Planning
Recruiting of employees
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Respite care
Social Welfare
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Direct Support Professionals Fairness and Security Act of 2007 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide funds to States to enable them to increase the wages paid to targeted direct support professionals in providing services to individuals with disabilities under the Medicaid program. 

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services, to audit a sample from among the States in order to assess the effectiveness of progress made in reducing or eliminating the wage gap between targeted and reference direct support professionals through funds under this Act.

Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the wage equalization and recruitment and retention of direct support professionals who are providing services and supports to individuals with disabilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Pet Safety and Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1280
Sponsor: Rep. Doyle, Michael F. [D-PA-14]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Business records
Cats
Commerce
Dogs
Fines (Penalties)
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Laboratories
Laboratory animals
Law
Licenses
Pets
Protection of animals
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Pet Safety and Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the Animal Welfare Act to list permissible sources of dogs and cats used by research facilities to include dogs and cats obtained: (1) from a licensed dealer; (2) from a publicly owned and operated pound or shelter that meets specified requirements; (3) by donation from a person who bred and raised the dog or cat and owned it for not less than one year; or (4) from a research facility licensed by the Secretary of Agriculture. Sets forth additional monetary penalties for related violations. 
 
Prohibits federal facilities from purchasing or otherwise acquiring dogs or cats for exhibition purposes except from: (1) the operator of an auction that comports with legal requirements; or (2) a person holding a valid dealer or exhibitor license.
 
Prohibits dealers from selling or otherwise providing a research facility with random source dogs or cats unless specified certification requirements are met.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Medigap Access Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1282
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicare
Medigap
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Medigap Access Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for guaranteed issue of replacement Medicare supplemental (Medigap) policies for beneficiaries under age 65 upon first enrolling under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of Medicare.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act

Bill: 110-hr-1287
Sponsor: Rep. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Asian American ethnic groups
East Asia
Families
History
Immigrants
Naturalization
Philippines
Visas
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt sons and daughters of Filipino World War II veterans who were naturalized under the Immigration Act of 1990 from worldwide or numerical limitations on immigrant visas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E485-486)
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E449)
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide that an officer of the Army or Air Force on the active-duty list may not be promoted to brigadier general unless the officer has had a duty assignment of at least one year involving the administration of the National Guard or Reserves.

Bill: 110-hr-1288
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2007-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air force
Armed forces reserves
Army
Department of Defense
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Military promotions
National Guard
Officer personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: 
Requires officers on the active-duty list of the Army or Air Force to complete a tour of duty of at least one year in a Guard or Reserve duty assignment (other than a Reserve Officers Training Corps unit) in order to be eligible for promotion to brigadier general.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to waive this requirement: (1) when necessary for the good of the service; (2) in cases where the proposed promotion is based primarily upon scientific and technical qualifications for which Guard or Reserve requirements do not exist; (3) in the case of specified medical, chaplaincy, or judge advocate positions; or (4) if the officer selected for appointment to brigadier general by a promotion board had completed at least 180 days of a Guard or Reserve duty assignment on the date such board was convened.
 
Requires the Secretary to prescribe regulations to carry out this Act that specifically identify those categories of officers for whom the waiver applicable to scientific and technical qualifications is available.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Introduced in House