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Community Mental Health Services Improvement Act

Bill: 110-s-2182
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2007-10-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Chronically ill
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Health planning
Medical education
Mental health services
Public health personnel
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Student loan funds
Telemedicine

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: 
Community Mental Health Services Improvement Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants for: (1) services to children, adults, and older adults with mental illnesses who have co-occurring primary care conditions and chronic diseases through the co-location of primary and specialty medical care in community-based mental and behavioral health settings; (2) programs to address behavioral and mental health workforce needs in professional shortage areas; (3) expanding behavioral and mental health education and training programs; (4) tele-mental health in medically-underserved areas; and (5) developing and implementing a plan to ensure that the National Health Information Infrastructure meets the needs of mental health and substance abuse providers.

Provides for reports to Congress on: (1) the paperwork burden on community mental health providers; and (2) the compensation structure for such providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12994-12996)
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12993-12994)
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Community-Based Mental Health Infrastructure Improvements Act

Bill: 110-s-2183
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2007-10-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Block grants
Chronically ill
Community health services
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Health services administration
Indian medical care
Mental health services
Minorities

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: 
Community-Based Mental Health Infrastructure Improvements Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to eligible entities for the construction or modernization of facilities to provide mental health and behavioral health services to individuals. Defines an &quot;eligible entity&quot; as: (1) a state that is the recipient of a Community Mental Health Services Block Grant and a Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant under such Act; or (2) an Indian tribe or a tribal organization. 

Includes among grant application requirements assurances that facilities will be used for not less than 10 years for community-based mental health or substance abuse services for those who cannot pay for such services. Permits a grant recipient to request permission to transfer such 10-year obligation to another facility.

Authorizes a state that receives a grant to award a subgrant to a qualified community program for activities such as: (1) the construction, expansion, and modernization of mental and behavioral health facilities; and (2) the construction and structural modification of facilities to permit the integrated delivery of behavioral health and primary care of specialty medical services to individuals with co-occurring mental illnesses and chronic medical or surgical diseases at a single service site.

Requires a grant recipient to agree to make available nonfederal contributions matching federal funds provided.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12996-12997)
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12996)
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Introduced in Senate
National Guard and Reservists Financial Relief Act

Bill: 110-s-2184
Sponsor: Sen. Dole, Elizabeth [R-NC]
Introduced: 2007-10-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Military operations
Military personnel
National Guard
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: 
National Guard and Reservists Financial Relief Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the exemption from tax penalties for premature distributions from retirement plans by members of the National Guard or Ready Reserve called to active duty. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 426.
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to permanently extend the current marginal tax rates.

Bill: 110-s-2185
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2007-10-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: 
Makes permanent the reductions in individual income tax rates enacted by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 427.
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Health Center Employee Health Coverage Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2186
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2007-10-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Community health services
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Labor and Employment
Medical personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: 
Community Health Center Employee Health Coverage Act of 2007 - Expands the definition of "employee" for purposes of the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program to include an individual who is an employee of a federally qualified heath center, or a grantee providing technical or other assistance to such a center, that has elected to offer FEHB coverage. Requires such an employee to pay both the employee and agency contributions and administrative expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12998)
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12997-12998)
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Quality Child Care for America Act

Bill: 110-s-2187
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-10-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Authorization
Block grants
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Government Operations and Politics
Indian children
Minorities

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: 
Quality Child Care for America Act - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to authorize appropriations for child care workforce development initiatives.
 
Provides for funds to state and local governments and Indian tribes to carry out one or more specified child care workforce development initiatives.
 
Requires a state plan to specify the activities that it will provide through any particular workforce development initiative.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Access to Community Health Centers (MATCH) Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2188
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-10-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Clinics
Community health services
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: 
Medicare Access to Community Health Centers (MATCH) Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise the definition of &quot;federally qualified health center services&quot; to include ambulatory services furnished by a federally qualified health center (FQHC) for which payment may otherwise be made under Medicare if such services were furnished by a non-FQHC health care provider or health care professional employed by or under contract with an FQHC.

Permits payment for hospital-based services. 

Provides for a Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for Medicare-covered services provided by FQHCs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12999-13000)
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12998-12999)
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Mental Health Prescription Drug Access Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2190
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2007-10-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Barbiturates
Drugs
Medicare
Mental depression
Sedatives
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: 
Medicare Mental Health Prescription Drug Access Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover barbiturates and benzodiazepines as Medicare part D drugs, beginning in 2008. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13004)
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13003-13004)
action_date: 2007-10-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to establish a user fee for follow-up reinspections under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

Bill: 110-s-2192
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-10-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Commerce
Drug industry
Economics and Public Finance
Food industry
Food safety
Medical supplies
Product safety
User charges
Veterinary medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to collect a user fee from each manufacturer of a food, drug, device, biological product, or animal drug for which a followup reinspection is required to ensure correction of a violation of a Good Manufacturing Practices requirement under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act found by the Secretary during the initial inspection of the manufacturer. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13088)
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13087)
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Introduced in Senate
More Children, More Choices Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2193
Sponsor: Sen. Martinez, Mel [R-FL]
Introduced: 2007-10-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Authorization
Citizenship
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government spending reductions
Health insurance
Immigration
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Pregnant women
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Taxation
Welfare eligibility
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: 
More Children, More Choices Act of 2007 - Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require a state SCHIP plan to specify how it will achieve coverage for 90% of targeted low-income children.
 
Prohibits SCHIP payment for children with family income above 250% of the applicable poverty line.
 
Sets forth special rules for SCHIP payment for children with family income above 200% of the applicable poverty line.
 
Provides for standardization of income determinations.
 
Applies citizenship documentation requirements to SCHIP beneficiaries, and increases the federal matching rate for citizenship documentation enforcement under SSA title XIX (Medicaid) and SCHIP.
 
Places limitations on SCHIP eligibility based on substantial net assets.
 
Requires state SCHIP plans to describe how they will provide for targeted low-income children covered under a group health plan.
 
Revises federal financial participation requirements for employer-sponsored insurance.
 
Requires the offering of alternative coverage options under SCHIP.
 
Changes the allotment distribution formula for allotments to the states and the District of Columbia, particularly for targeted low-income children and pregnant women. Prohibits redistribution of unused allotments.
 
Reauthorizes the SCHIP program through FY2012 at increased levels.
 

 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to eligible entities to improve outreach to and enrollment of eligible children.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) a limited tax credit for qualified health insurance for any dependent child; and (2) advance payment to insurance providers of health insurance credit for purchasers of such insurance.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a State Health Innovation Commission to make grants to states for innovative health reform projects.
 
Expresses the sense of the Senate that any increases in federal budget outlays resulting from this Act be fully offset by reductions in federal budget outlays, and that any reductions in federal revenues resulting from this Act be fully offset.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a partnership between the Department of Education and the National Park Service to provide educational opportunities for students and teachers, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-2194
Sponsor: Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]
Introduced: 2007-10-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Civics education
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Department of the Interior
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Federal aid to education
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
History
Mathematics
National parks
Nonprofit organizations
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research centers
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to establish the National Park Ranger School Partnerships program authorizing the Secretary of Education to award competitive, three-year grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to enter into partnerships that include the National Park Service (NPS), and may include nonprofit NPS partners, to provide kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) students with educational programs and K-12 teachers with professional development emphasizing science, the environment, natural resources, mathematics, civics, and history. 
 
Deems LEAs to be eligible for such a grant only if they: (1) have, are capable of, or will develop certain connections to the NPS; (2) have been identified as needing improvement under title I of the ESEA; and (3) are a high-need LEA.
 
Permits: (1) the NPS to participate in the Mathematics and Science Partnerships program that provides training to teachers of such subjects under title II of the ESEA; and (2) educational service agencies, including federal agencies that serve as educational service providers, to partner with LEAs under such title's Teaching American History Grant Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the Indian employment credit and the depreciation rules for property used predominantly within an Indian reservation.

Bill: 110-s-2195
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2007-10-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Depreciation and amortization
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Indian economic development
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Minorities
Minority employment
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2008 the Indian employment tax credit and the accelerated depreciation of business property used on Indian reservations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the taxable income limit on percentage depletion for oil and natural gas produced from marginal properties.

Bill: 110-s-2196
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2007-10-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Depletion allowances
Energy
Income tax
Natural gas
Oil well drilling

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2009 the suspension of the taxable income limitation on percentage depletion for oil and natural gas produced from marginal properties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Labor-Management Partnership Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2197
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-10-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Employee training
Employee-management relations in government
Federal advisory bodies
Federal employees
Labor disputes
Labor-management committees
Performance measurement

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: 
Federal Labor-Management Partnership Act of 2007 - Establishes the Federal Labor-Management Partnership Council to advise the President on matters involving labor-management relations in the executive branch. Includes among the Council's activities: (1) supporting the creation of local labor-management partnership councils that promote partnership efforts; (2) collecting and disseminating information about and providing guidance on such efforts; (3) using the expertise of individuals, inside and outside the federal government, to foster partnership arrangements in the executive branch; and (4) proposing statutory changes to improve the civil service to better serve the public and carry out the mission of the various agencies.

Requires the President to designate a Council Chairperson.

Requires the President to direct the head of each agency which is subject to labor-management relations provisions or any other authority permitting employees to select an exclusive representative, to: (1) create labor-management partnerships by forming labor-management committees or councils at appropriate levels or adapting existing committees or councils if such groups exist; (2) involve employees and their representatives as full partners with management representatives to improve the civil service to better serve the public and carry out the mission of the agency; (3) provide systemic training of appropriate employees in consensual methods of dispute resolution; (4) negotiate, at the request of the labor organization, on specified subjects and instruct subordinate officials to do the same; and (5) evaluate progress and improvements in organizational performance resulting from such labor-management partnerships.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13088-13089)
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13088)
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Andrew Larochelle God, Family, and Country Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2198
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2007-10-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Church and state
Commemorations
Flags
Government Operations and Politics
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
Religion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: 
Andrew Larochelle God, Family, and Country Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Architect of the Capitol to permit the acknowledgment of God on flag certificates issued at the request of a Member of the United States House of Representatives or of the United States Senate.
 

action_date: 2007-10-30
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Andrew Larochelle God, Family, and Country Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Architect of the Capitol to permit the acknowledgment of God on flag certificates issued at the request of a Member of the United States House of Representatives or of the United States Senate.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2007-10-30
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S13587; text as passed Senate: CR S13587)
action_date: 2007-10-30
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S13587; text as passed Senate: CR S13587)
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 430.
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2007-10-18
text: Introduced in Senate