hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Legal Immigrant Children's Health Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-764
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aliens
Child health
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Health insurance
Immigrant health
Immigration
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Pregnant women
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-05
text: 
Legal Immigrant Children's Health Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to grant states the option of covering certain categories of eligible pregnant women and child resident aliens, including targeted low-income children, under the Medicaid and SCHIP programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-03-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2630)
action_date: 2007-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Graduate for a Better Future Act

Bill: 110-s-765
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2007-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
College entrance requirements
Compensatory education
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Curricula
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational counseling
Educational planning
Educational statistics
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Language arts
Mathematics
Minorities
Minority education
Nonprofit organizations
Parent-school relationships
Rating of teachers
Reading
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Service learning
Social Welfare
Student employment
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: 
Graduate for a Better Future Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to states, educational nonprofit organizations, or partnerships of such entities for their use in providing competitive subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAS) that have a high school graduation rate of no more than 60% in the aggregate or among at least two subgroups consisting of the poor or major racial or ethnic groups.
 
Requires each LEA subgrantee to use the funds to implement: (1) a college-preparatory curriculum aligned with rigorous secondary school studies; (2) accelerated remedial programs that allow underperforming students to become proficient in mathematics, reading and language arts, and science and thereby graduate in a timely manner; (3) systems to measure student progress in the core subjects and quickly identify students who are dropout risks; (4) a comprehensive college guidance program; (5) a program offering students opportunities for work-based and experiential learning; (6) a program providing students with access to courses in which they may earn college credit; (7) a program providing each student with an academic teacher advisor with whom the student regularly meets; and (8) a program of teacher professional development and institutional leadership that includes diagnostic and formative assessments.
 
Requires nonfederal matching contributions equal to the grant amount.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide for an independent evaluation of, and report to Congress on, the impact this program has on high school graduation rates, college attendance rates, and academic achievement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2697-2699)
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2696-2697)
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Fuel Economy Reform Act

Bill: 110-s-767
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Automobile industry
Automobiles
Balance of payments
Cartels
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy demand
Energy efficiency
Energy prices
Energy security
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fuel consumption
Gasoline
Gross national product
Imports
International Affairs
Judicial review
Law
Motor vehicle pollution control
Motor vehicle safety
OPEC countries
Oil pollution
Pipelines
Standards
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: 
Fuel Economy Reform Act - Amends federal transportation law to: (1) revise the definitions of automobile to require including all automobiles up to 10,000 pounds (currently, not all automobiles up to 10,000 pounds are required to be included in the definition) and passenger automobiles to eliminate the exclusion for automobiles capable of off-highway operation; and (2) continue applying the current minimum corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards for non-passenger and passenger automobiles to automobiles manufactured through model year 2012, but, for passenger automobiles, adds an increase of four percent per year in such standard for model years 2010 through 2012.
 
Requires an average fuel economy standard of 27.5 miles per gallon for all automobiles manufactured by all manufacturers for model year 2013, with an increase of four percent in the average fuel economy over the level of the prior model year for model year 2014 and beyond.
 
Subjects each manufacturer of passenger automobiles manufactured in a model year, in addition to such CAFE standards, to an average fuel economy standard equal to 92% of the average fuel economy projected by the Secretary for all passenger automobiles manufactured by all manufacturers in that model year.
 
Permits lower fuel economy standards if the minimum standards: (1) are technologically unachievable; (2) materially reduce auto safety and no offsetting safety improvements can be implemented; or (3) are not cost effective.
 
Allows, with specified exceptions, the selling of credits between manufacturers.
 
Allows a person who has been aggrieved by, or suffers a legal wrong because of (currently, adversely affected by), a CAFE standard to apply for judicial review.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2701-2703)
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2700-2701)
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Troops to Teachers Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-769
Sponsor: Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]
Introduced: 2007-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Charter schools
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Retired military personnel
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Veterans' employment

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: 
Troops to Teachers Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 with respect to the Troops-to-Teachers program (which provides armed forces veterans with teacher certification stipends in exchange for three years of service in a high-need local educational agency (LEA) or public charter school).
 
Allows a program participant, if a high-need LEA or public charter school is not located within 50 miles of his or her residence, to teach within an LEA or at a public charter school: (1) experiencing a shortage of highly qualified teachers, especially in science, mathematics, special education, or vocational or technical education; or (2) receiving grant funds because of concentrations of children from low-income families.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2707)
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2706-2707)
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Food Stamp Vitamin and Mineral Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-770
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2007-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Dietary supplements
Food stamps
Social Welfare
Vitamins

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: 
Food Stamp Vitamin and Mineral Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to permit food stamp program purchases of nutritional supplements providing a vitamin or mineral, or both.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-771
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2007-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Body weight
Child health
Child nutrition
Chronically ill
Department of Agriculture
Diet
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Fund raising
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law
Obesity
Oils and fats
Salt
School lunch program
Sugar
Vending machines

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: 
Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to revise the definition of &quot;food of minimal nutritional value,&quot; the sale of which in areas where school meals are sold or eaten is prohibited as a condition for federal funding of school lunch and breakfast programs.
 
 Applies such definition (and prohibition) to all food sold outside such programs anywhere on school campuses at any time of the day, with the possible limited exemption of food sold at school fundraisers.
 
Requires the Secretary, when revising such definition, to consider the recommendations of authoritative scientific organizations and evidence concerning the relationship between diet and health.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2707-2708)
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Federal civilian and military retirees to pay health insurance premiums on a pretax basis and to allow a deduction for TRICARE supplemental premiums.

Bill: 110-s-773
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, John [R-VA]
Introduced: 2007-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Armed Forces and National Security
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Flexible benefit plans
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Health
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Managed care
Medical economics
Military medicine
Military pensions
Retired military personnel
Retiree health benefits
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit: (1) federal civilian and military retirees to pay Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) and TRICARE supplemental premiums on a pretax basis (i.e., exclude premiums from gross income); and (2) a tax deduction (available to itemizers and nonitemizers) for TRICARE supplemental premiums or enrollment fees. 
Directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Secretary of Defense to ensure that the option of paying FEHBP and TRICARE supplemental premiums on a pretax basis is available to federal civilian and military retirees for the first open enrollment period beginning not less than 90 days after the enactment of this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2710-2711)
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2710)
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-774
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional investigations
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Deportation
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Federal aid to education
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Illegal aliens
Immigrant education
Labor and Employment
Law
Naturalization
Residence requirements
Student employment
Student loan funds
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: 
Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act of 2007 or the DREAM Act of 2007 - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to repeal the denial of an unlawful alien's eligibility for higher education benefits based on state residence unless a U.S. national is similarly eligible without regard to such state residence.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to cancel the removal of, and adjust to conditional permanent resident status, an alien who: (1) entered the United States before his or her sixteenth birthday, and has been present in the United States for at least five years immediately preceding enactment of this Act; (2) is a person of good moral character; (3) is not inadmissible or deportable under specified grounds of the Immigration and Nationality Act; (4) at the time of application, has been admitted to an institution of higher education, or has earned a high school or equivalent diploma; and (5) from the age of 16 and older, has never been under a final order of exclusion, deportation, or removal.
 
Sets forth the conditions for conditional permanent resident status, including: (1) termination of status for violation of this Act; and (2) removal of conditional status to permanent status.
 
Authorizes an alien who has satisfied the appropriate requirements prior to enactment of this Act to petition the Secretary for conditional permanent resident status. 
 
Provides for: (1) exclusive jurisdiction; (2) penalties for false application statements; (3) confidentiality; (4) fee prohibitions; (5) higher education assistance; and (6) a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report respecting the number of aliens adjusted under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12090-12091)
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2711-2712)
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the energy employees occupational illness compensation program.

Bill: 110-s-776
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Armed Forces and National Security
Business records
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Energy
Environmental Protection
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government liability
Health
Ionizing radiation
Iron and steel industry
Law
Medical records
New York State
Nuclear weapons
Occupational health and safety
Radiation
Radiation victims

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: 
Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the energy employees occupational illness compensation program. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) modify regulations and procedures to conform to amendments under this Act; and (2) initiate a petition to include workers employed at the Bethlehem Steel site in Lackawanna, New York, as a class to be included in the Special Exposure Cohort. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Withholding Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-777
Sponsor: Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2007-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government service contracts
Income tax
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: 
Withholding Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Repeals provisions of the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 requiring federal, state, and local governmental entities to withhold 3% of payments due to vendors providing goods and services to such entities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2714)
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2713-2714)
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Teaching Fellows for Expanded Learning and After-School Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-778
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Authorization
Compensatory education
Continuing education
Corporation for National and Community Service
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational innovations
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Graduate education
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Mentoring
National service
Paraprofessional school personnel
Recruiting and enlistment
Scholarships
School-age child care
Secondary education
Service learning
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: 
Teaching Fellows for Expanded Learning and After-School Act of 2007 or the T-FELAS Act - Amends title IV (21st Century Schools) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to create an Expanded Learning and After-School Fellows program under which the Secretary of Education shall award competitive three-year grants to partnerships between local educational agencies and community organizations, institutions of higher education, community learning centers or other entities to recruit, select, train, and support exemplary recent college graduates (Fellows) who: (1) establish, expand, or improve expanded learning initiatives, 21st century community learning center programs, or after-school programs in high-need schools; and (2) provide school-day support to teachers in such schools.
 
Requires grantees to: (1) provide intensive, comprehensive, and experiential training that prepares Fellows in methods of youth development and offers them a promising career path in public education and youth development; (2) place Fellows in full-time positions where they serve for at least 30 weeks per year, and for a term sufficient to qualify the Fellow for a national service educational award; and (3) provide matching funds on the basis of a sliding scale that gauges the grantees' ability to raise funds. Favors grant applicants that agree to engage Fellows for two-year terms and arrange for them to earn an undergraduate or master's degree in education while serving. 
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct an external evaluation of this program every three years and publicize the best practices of program grantees through the Federal Youth Development Council.
 
Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to make Fellows eligible for national service educational awards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2714-2718)
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-779
Sponsor: Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2007-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Authorization
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
National forests
Payments in lieu of taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: 
Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2007 - Amends the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 to extend the Act through FY2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3194-3195)
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2718)
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Consumer Phone Records Act

Bill: 110-s-780
Sponsor: Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2007-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Business records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Computer security measures
Consumer education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Data banks
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Trade Commission
Fines (Penalties)
Forfeiture
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Independent regulatory commissions
Injunctions
Internet
Law
Limitation of actions
Parties to actions
Public service advertising
Punitive damages
Restrictive trade practices
Right of privacy
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: 
Protecting Consumer Phone Records Act - Makes it unlawful for a person to: (1) acquire or use an individual's customer proprietary network information (CPNI) without written consent; (2) misrepresent that another person has consented to the acquisition of CPNI in order to obtain such information; (3) obtain unauthorized access to data processing systems or records in order to obtain such information; (4) sell, or offer to sell, CPNI; or (5) request that another person obtain CPNI from a telecommunications carrier or IP (Internet Protocol)-enabled voice service provider, knowing that the other person will obtain such information in an unlawful manner. Provides: (1) exceptions; and (2) civil and criminal penalties for violations, with a private right of action for providers and consumers.
 
Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to revise or supplement its regulations to require telecommunications carriers or IP-enabled voice service providers to protect the security and confidentiality of CPNI. Requires each such carrier or provider to notify customers of an incident in which CPNI relating to that customer was disclosed to someone other than the customer in violation of this Act (allowing a delay in such notification for law enforcement or homeland security purposes).
 
Requires enforcement of the requirements of this Act by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the FCC, and the states. 
 
Directs the FTC and FCC to jointly establish and implement a media and distribution campaign to teach the public about the protection afforded CPNI under this Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act, and the Communications Act of 1934.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate