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Community Health Centers Investment Act

Bill: 110-s-941
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2007-03-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Authorization
Community health services
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Federal aid to health facilities
Higher education
Medical education
Medicare
Public health personnel
Scholarships
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: 
Community Health Centers Investment Act - Authorizes appropriations for FY2008-FY2015 for: (1) primary health care centers for underserved populations; and (2) the National Health Service Corps. Establishes priorities for the use of such funds and the assignment of Corps personnel.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to increase amounts available for the National Health Corps Scholarship program (including scholarships to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds).

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit limitations on the per visit payment amount, or a component of such amount, for federally qualified health centers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10304)
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3512-3513)
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to modify the boundaries for a certain empowerment zone designation.

Bill: 110-s-942
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-03-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Boundaries
Economics and Public Finance
Enterprise zones
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Maine
Rural economic development
Tax incentives

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: 
Includes all of Aroostook County, Maine, within the Aroostook County Empowerment Zone (for Department of Agriculture empowerment zone purposes). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3392-3393)
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3391-3392)
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the period for which the designation of an area as an empowerment zone is in effect.

Bill: 110-s-943
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-03-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Enterprise zones
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Tax incentives
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to to extend until December 31, 2016, the designation period for certain tax-favored empowerment zones.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3393)
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3391-3392)
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require that an independent review of the efficiency and effectiveness of all headquarters offices of the Farm Service Agency of the Department of Agriculture be carried out prior to the closure of any county offices.

Bill: 110-s-944
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2007-03-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Computer software
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Department of Agriculture
Executive reorganization
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government procurement
Governmental investigations
Information technology
Missouri
Productivity in government
Science, Technology, Communications
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to contract with an independent reviewing authority to review operations efficiency at all Farm Service Agency (FSA) headquarters, including: (1) all state offices; (2) the National Headquarters office in Washington, D.C.; (3) the Kansas City, Missouri, office; and (4) the Salt Lake City office. 

Includes in such review: (1) management practices; (2) information technology purchases and deliverables; (3) software development; (4) contractor hiring practices and related cost-savings; and (5) other relevant factors. 

Prohibits the Secretary from closing or consolidating any FSA county office before the date on which the Secretary determines that each headquarters office has implemented the recommendations included in a report required under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Introduced in Senate
College Textbook Affordability Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-945
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-03-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: College costs
College teachers
Colleges
Commerce
Consumer education
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Identification devices
Internet
Prices
Publishers and publishing
Retail trade
Science, Technology, Communications
Student enrollment
Teaching materials
Textbooks

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: 
College Textbook Affordability Act of 2007 - Requires publishers informing teachers at institutions of higher education about textbooks or supplements in their subject areas to include written information concerning: (1) the price the publisher would charge the bookstore associated with such institution for such items; (2) any history of revisions for such items; and (3) whether such items are available in other formats, including paperback and unbound, and the price the publisher would charge the bookstore for items in those formats.
 
Requires a publisher that sells a textbook and any accompanying supplement as a single bundled item also to sell them separately and unbundled.
 
Directs federally-assisted institutions of higher education to include on printed or internet course schedules the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) and retail price for each required or recommended textbook or supplement for listed courses.
 
Requires such institutions to provide sellers of textbooks (other than publishers) that meet their requirements with: (1) their course schedules for the subsequent academic period; (2) the ISBN for each textbook or supplement required or recommended for each course; and (3) the number of students enrolled, and the maximum enrollment, in each course.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9552)
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3394)
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3393-3394)
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to reauthorize the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-946
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Authorization
Child nutrition
Department of Agriculture
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Families
Food relief
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: 
 Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to authorize appropriations through FY2012 for the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program.
 
Specifies Commodity Credit Corporation fund amounts to be used for the Program in each of FY2008-FY2012.
 
Makes the Secretary of Agriculture responsible for specified program administration provisions currently delegated to the President.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3519)
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3519)
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate
21st Century Housing Act

Bill: 110-s-947
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Apartment houses
Condominium (Housing)
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Information technology
Insurance premiums
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgages
Salaries
Science, Technology, Communications
Single family housing

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: 
21st Century Housing Act - Amends the Housing Act of 1948 to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), in carrying out any program through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to: (1) appoint and fix the compensation of Administration personnel; and (2) use premium-generated income for information technology upgrades.
 
Amends the National Housing Act to: (1) extend the maturity term for insured mortgages; (2) revise mortgage insurance eligibility criteria and requirements for premium charges; (3) authorize waiver of certain requirements for new product initiatives; (4) increase the maximum mortgage amount limit for multifamily housing in high-cost areas; (5) increase the FHA single family housing maximum mortgage limit; and (6) increase the capital ratio for the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund.
 
Increases prerequisites for insured mortgages covering condominiums to require that the condomium project have a HUD-insured blanket morgage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Children and Media Research Advancement Act

Bill: 110-s-948
Sponsor: Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [ID-CT]
Introduced: 2007-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advertising
Agriculture and Food
Arts, Culture, Religion
Child development
Child health
Child nutrition
Child welfare
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Diet
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Infants
Interactive media
Internet
Learning
Learning disabilities
Lifestyle
Medical research
Motion pictures
Music
Obesity
Parent and child
Psychiatry
Psychology
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Sound recording and reproducing
Television and children
Video games
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: 

Children and Media Research Advancement Act or the CAMRA Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, to enter into a contract with the National Academy of Science or another appropriate entity to: (1) review, synthesize, and report on research regarding the roles and impact of electronic media (including television, motion pictures, DVD's, interactive video games, digital music, the Internet, and cell phones) and exposures to such media on youth in core areas of development; and (2) establish research priorities regarding such issues.

Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director, to award grants for research concerning the role and impact of electronic media on the cognitive, physical, and socio-behavioral development of youth. Requires such research to: (1) focus on the impact of factors such as media content, format, length of exposure, age of youth, venue, and nature of parental involvement; and (2) include as electronic media television, motion pictures, DVDs, interactive video games, digital music, the Internet, and cell phones.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Star Print ordered on S. 948.
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3521)
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3519-3521)
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Early Plant Pest Detection and Surveillance Improvement Act

Bill: 110-s-949
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Pest control
Plant protection
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: 
Early Plant Pest Detection and Surveillance Improvement Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into a cooperative agreement with any state department of agriculture that agrees to conduct early plant pest detection surveillance activities, including inspection and surveillance of domestic plant shipments between a state and other states. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide a waiver from sanctions under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 for certain States, local educational agencies, and schools.

Bill: 110-s-951
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, John [R-VA]
Introduced: 2007-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
School choice
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: 
Holds a state, and its local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools, harmless from sanctions under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 relating to academic assessments for the 2006-2007 school year if they meet certain criteria.
 
Specifies such criteria as follows: (1) the state had at least one approved academic assessment plan for the 2005-2006 school year; (2) the state had at least one such plan subsequently held invalid by the Department of Education for the 2006-2007 school year; and (3) the state's Governor certifies, in writing, that the state cannot effectively train its educators on a new or alternative assessment before its administration, and that the administration of a new or alternative assessment is not in the best interest of the public school system and the children it serves.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3526-3527)
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3525-3526)
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental and Native American Public Policy Act of 1992 to provide funds for training in tribal leadership, management, and policy, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-952
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2007-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Authorization
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Federal aid to Indians
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
Indian education
Indian medical care
Leadership
Management
Medical education
Minorities
Policy sciences

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: 
Amends the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environment and Native American Public Policy Act of 1992 to authorize appropriations for training in tribal leadership, management, and policy. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-31
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3527)
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Residency Program Technical Correction Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-954
Sponsor: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Hospital care
Medical education
Medical residents
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: 
Medicare Residency Program Technical Correction Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to payments to hospitals for the direct graduate medical education (DGME) costs of inpatient hospital services, particularly the redistribution among qualifying hospitals of unused resident positions which figure in the calculation of DGME costs.

Requires a specified adjustment to the reduction of Medicare resident positions where that reduction was based on a cost report subsequently settled, whether as a result of an appeal or otherwise, if the reference resident level under such settled cost report is higher than the resident level used for the reduction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3528-3529)
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3528)
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 110-s-955
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Cultural property
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
Illinois
Lincoln Administration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: 
Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area in Illinois, which shall include: (1) a core area in central Illinois comprising 42 counties; (2) any sites, buildings, and districts within the core area that are recommended in the management plan; and (3) specified related historic sites, museums, and places, including the Lincoln Tomb State Historic Site, the Lincoln Douglas Debate Museum, and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum. 
 
Directs the Looking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition to submit a management plan for the Area.

action_date: 2007-09-17
text: 
Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area in Illinois, which shall include: (1) a core area in central Illinois comprising 42 counties; (2) any sites, buildings, and districts within the core area that are recommended in the management plan; and (3) specified related historic sites, museums, and places, including the Lincoln Tomb State Historic Site, the Lincoln Douglas Debate Museum, and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum. 

Directs the Looking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition to submit a management plan for the Area. 

Authorizes appropriations. Limits the federal cost share of any activity carried out using funds made available under this Act to 50%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5530)
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 375.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-177.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-177.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-158.
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3529-3531)
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Land Between the Rivers Southern Illinois National Heritage Area Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-956
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-03-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Historic sites
History
Illinois

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: 
Land Between the Rivers Southern Illinois National Heritage Area Act of 2007 - Establishes the Land Between the Rivers National Heritage Area in Illinois. Designates the Southern Illinois University Carbondale as the management entity for the Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-23
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-514.
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3531-3532)
action_date: 2007-03-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Amniotic Fluid and Placental Stem Cell Banking Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-957
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2007-03-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Authorization
Childbirth
Cytology
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Health information systems
Human embryology
Informed consent (Medical law)
Law
Science, Technology, Communications
Tissue banks
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: 
Amniotic Fluid and Placental Stem Cell Banking Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into one-time contracts with qualified amniotic fluid and placental stem cell banks to assist in the collection and maintenance of 100,000 new units of high-quality amniotic fluid and placental stem cells to be made available for treatment though the C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation and Treatment Program. Sets forth provisions relating to requirements for contract recipients, the duration of such contracts, and extensions of funding under such contracts. 

Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise the Program to provide for amniotic fluid and placental stem cell functions, recruitment, and educational activities.

Authorizes appropriations for the Program through FY2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Introduced in Senate