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African Health Capacity Investment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3812
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2007-10-10 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Alien labor
Commerce
Communicable diseases
Community health services
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Data banks
Developing countries
Development credit institutions
Distance education
Economic assistance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Emigration
Environmental Protection
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health facilities
Health information systems
Health planning
Health services administration
Health surveys
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Immigration
International agencies
International monetary system
Labor and Employment
Malaria
Mathematics
Medical economics
Medical education
Medical personnel
Medical supplies
Nongovernmental organizations
Nursing education
Occupational health and safety
Paramedical personnel
Performance measurement
Personnel management
Potable water
President and foreign policy
Preventive medicine
Public-private partnerships
Quality of care
Recruiting of employees
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Technical assistance
Tuberculosis
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water quality
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: 
African Health Capacity Investment Act of 2007 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to provide assistance, including through international or nongovernmental organizations, for programs to improve human health care capacity in sub-Saharan Africa.
 
Directs the President to develop and transmit to the appropriate congressional committees a strategy for coordinating, implementing, and monitoring assistance programs for human health care capacity in sub-Saharan Africa.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Introduced in House
Mortgage Kickback Prevention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3813
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2007-10-10 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Fringe benefits
Housing finance
Labor and Employment
Mortgage banks
Mortgages
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: 
Mortgage Kickback Prevention Act of 2007 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit a mortgage originator from receiving payment of incentive compensation, including yield spread premium, that is based upon, or varies with, the terms of a residential mortgage loan (steering incentive).
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Introduced in House
Nuclear Gold Standard Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-3814
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2007-10-10 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Arms control verification
Authorization
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Environmental Protection
Fissionable materials
International cooperation
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear security measures
Nuclear terrorism
Russia
Standards
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: 
Nuclear Gold Standard Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense to develop a framework for a global alliance against nuclear terrorism that would incorporate the &quot;gold standard&quot; developed under this Act for the security of nuclear materials.
 
Directs the Secretary of Energy to work with: (1) the Secretary's Russian counterpart to develop a formal set of verifiable and enforceable standards to which all U.S. and Russian nuclear materials shall be secured and against which inspectors can test (&quot;gold standard&quot;); and (2) the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to extend such standards to all other countries with nuclear materials. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of State to: (1) separately and jointly, provide assistance to other countries to implement the measures required by U.N. Security Council Resolution 1540; and (2) jointly develop a set of incentives as part of such assistance.
 
Authorizes, subject to specified conditions, appropriations for: (1) specified Department of Energy and Department of Defense (DOD) nuclear materials safety and weapons reduction programs; and (2) securing nuclear materials in Russia.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2007-10-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2007-10-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 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: 2007-10-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Introduced in House
Military Financial Assistance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3816
Sponsor: Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7]
Introduced: 2007-10-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Bonds
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Military personnel
Mortgages
Tax exemption
Tax penalties
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: 
Military Financial Assistance Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2008: (1) the exemption from tax penalties for withdrawals from retirement plans made by active duty military personnel; and (2) mortgage revenue bond issuance authority for financing of home purchases by veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Introduced in House
Agricultural Bond Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3817
Sponsor: Rep. Pomeroy, Earl [D-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-10-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural credit
Agriculture and Food
Bonds
Economics and Public Finance
Farm lands
Farmers
Farms
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: 
Agricultural Bond Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exempt agricultural bonds from the volume cap applicable to private activity bonds; (2) increase the loan limit on agricultural bonds to $450,000 and index such amount for inflation after 2007; and (3) eliminate the dollar limitation in the definition of substantial farmland used for agricultural bonds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Introduced in House
Taxpayer Choice Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3818
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Paul [R-WI-1]
Introduced: 2007-10-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Dividends
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Minimum tax
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: 
Taxpayer Choice Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the alternative minimum tax on individual taxpayers after 2006; and (2) allow taxpayers to elect an alternative income tax system.

Makes permanent the capital gains and dividends rate reductions enacted by the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Introduced in House
Commercial Motor Vehicle Advanced Safety Technology Tax Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3820
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2007-10-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Income tax
Motor buses
Motor vehicle safety
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works
Trucking
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: 
Commercial Motor Vehicle Advanced Safety Technology Tax Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a general business tax credit for 50% of the cost of placing in service any qualified commercial vehicle advanced safety system. Defines &quot;qualified commercial vehicle advanced safety system&quot; as a manufacturer-certified brake stroke monitoring system, lane departure warning system, collision warning system, or vehicle stability system identified by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration or the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration as significantly enhancing the safety or security of commercial drivers, vehicles, or passengers. Terminates such credit after 2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-10
text: Introduced in House
Battle of Matewan Study Act

Bill: 110-hr-3821
Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3]
Introduced: 2007-10-12 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Employee rights
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Industrial relations
Labor and Employment
National parks
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-12
text: 
Battle of Matewan Study Act - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to complete a special resource study of the sites and resources at Matewan, West Virginia, associated with the Battle of Matewan (the Matewan Massacre) of May 19, 1920, to determine the suitability and feasibility of designating certain historic areas as a unit of the National Park System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-30
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-10-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-10-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 1 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include nongovernmental and volunteer firefighters, ground and air ambulance crew members, and first responders for certain benefits.

Bill: 110-hr-3822
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2007-10-12 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Emergency medicine
Families
Fire fighters
Health
Labor and Employment
Paramedical personnel
Rescue work
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-12
text: 
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include among individuals eligible for public safety officers' death benefits nongovernmental employees and volunteers: (1) of a fire department, ground or air ambulance service, or first responder or rescue squad that is licensed or recognized by a state or local government; and (2) who perform official duties serving the public in fire suppression, rescue, or emergency medical and ambulance services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-10-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-10-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-12
text: Introduced in House
Energy Efficient Appliance Tax Credit for Refrigerators and Freezers Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3823
Sponsor: Rep. Ferguson, Mike [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2007-10-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Electric appliances
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Income tax
Refrigeration
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-12
text: 
Energy Efficient Appliance Tax Credit for Refrigerators and Freezers Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 25% of the cost (up to $500) of refrigerators or freezers which meet requirements for the Energy Star program. Terminates such credit after 2016.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to increase the maximum amount of an award available under the Department of State rewards program for information leading to the capture of Osama bin Laden.

Bill: 110-hr-3826
Sponsor: Rep. Boren, Dan [D-OK-2]
Introduced: 2007-10-15 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arrest
Awards, medals, prizes
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Government Operations and Politics
Informers
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: 
Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to specify that an award under the Department of State rewards program may be made for information leading to the capture of Osama bin Laden.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of State to make a reward of up to $500 million for the capture or information leading to the capture of Osama bin Laden.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2195-2196)
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Introduced in House
Active Duty Military Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3827
Sponsor: Rep. Altmire, Jason [D-PA-4]
Introduced: 2007-10-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
College costs
Commerce
Earned income tax credit
Education
Education savings accounts
Health
Higher education
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Medical savings accounts
Military pay
Military personnel
Replacement workers
Self-employed
Small business
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Temporary employment
Wages
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: 
Active Duty Military Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow certain small business owners (businesses having 100 or fewer employees) and self-employed individuals a tax credit for wages paid to members of the Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces and to temporary replacement employees for such members while on active military duty; (2) treat differential wage payments made to members of the Ready Reserve as earned income for tax withholding and retirement plan purposes; (3) allow the rollover of military death gratuities to individual retirement accounts, health savings accounts, Archer medical savings accounts, and education savings accounts; (4) increase the standard tax deduction by $1,000 in 2007 and 2008 for members of the uniformed services on active duty for more than 30 days; and (5) make permanent the taxpayer election to treat combat pay as earned income for purposes of computing the earned income tax credit and tax-free retirement plan distributions to individuals called to active duty. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Introduced in House
Citizenship and Immigration Backlog Reduction Act

Bill: 110-hr-3828
Sponsor: Rep. Clarke, Yvette D. [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2007-10-15 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Aliens
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification of criminals
Illegal aliens
Planning
Productivity in government
Science, Technology, Communications
Terrorism
User charges
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: 
Citizenship and Immigration Backlog Reduction Act - Directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security to jointly provide to the appropriate congressional committees a plan for ensuring that within 18 months of the date of enactment of this Act the National Name Check Program will no longer have any requested name checks from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in backlog status (as defined by this Act). 
 
States that beginning 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act the Program is not authorized to have any file in backlog status.
 
 Provides that after such date any name check request from USCIS held by the Program for longer than six months shall: (1) be referred to the Secretary who shall adjudicate interim benefits (unless there is reasonable cause to suspect that the applicant poses a threat to national security, otherwise poses a threat to the United States, or has broken U.S. immigration law); and (2) have the name check fee refunded. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Introduced in House
Sportsmanship in Hunting Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3829
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2007-10-15 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Animals
Environmental Protection
Exotic animals
Fines (Penalties)
Hunting
Protection of animals
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sports and Recreation
Wild animal trade

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: 
Sportsmanship in Hunting Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit knowingly transferring, transporting, or possessing a confined exotic animal for purposes of allowing the killing or injuring of that animal for entertainment or for the collection of a trophy. Defines &quot;confined exotic animal&quot; as a mammal of a species not indigenous to the United States that has been held in captivity for the majority of its life or a period of one year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Introduced in House
Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3830
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2007-10-15 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Authorization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Fishery management
Idaho
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Montana
Oregon
Power marketing administrations
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: 
Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act of 2007 - Amends the Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act of 2000 to direct the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to give priority to any project that has a total cost of less than $2.5 million (currently, $5 million). 

Authorizes the Secretary, without further appropriation and without fiscal year limitation, to accept any amounts provided to the Secretary by the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration. 

Requires: (1) any amounts provided by the Bonneville Power Administration directly or through a grant to another entity for a project carried out under the Program to be credited toward the non-federal share of project costs; and (2) the Secretary's report on projects under such Act to be made after partnering with local governmental entities and the states in the Pacific Ocean drainage area (Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Idaho).
 
Authorizes appropriations for the Act through FY2014. Sets forth limits and requirements on the amount that may be used each fiscal year for federal and state administrative expenses of carrying out this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Introduced in House
Family Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3831
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2007-10-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Families
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Minimum tax
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: 
Family Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the maximum amount of the child tax credit from $1,000 to $1,200. Makes permanent amendments to such credit made by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 relating to offset against the alternative minimum tax, refundability, and inflation adjustment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Introduced in House
U.S. and Costa Rica Trade Cooperation Act

Bill: 110-hr-3832
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2007-10-15 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Caribbean area
Clothing
Costa Rica
Free trade
Imports
Latin America
Tariff
Textile fabrics

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: 
U.S. and Costa Rica Trade Cooperation Act - Amends the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act to make permanent the extension of temporary duty-free treatment of certain textile and apparel articles manufactured in a beneficiary country (particularly, Costa Rica) and imported into the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-15
text: Introduced in House