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AgJOBS Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-340
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-01-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Agricultural labor
Agriculture and Food
Alien labor
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Collective bargaining
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Department of State
Deportation
Dismissal of employees
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Judicial review
Labor and Employment
Law
Married people
Mediation
Prosecution
Recruiting of employees
Right to travel
Seasonal labor
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Temporary employment
User charges
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: 
Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits, and Security Act of 2007 or the AgJOBS Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to confer "blue card status" upon an alien who: (1) has performed agricultural employment in the United States for at least 863 hours or 150 work days during the 24-month period ending on December 31, 2006; (2) applied for such status during the 18-month application period beginning on the first day of the seventh month that begins after the date of enactment of this Act; (3) is otherwise admissible to the United States; and (4) has not been convicted of any felony or a misdemeanor, an element of which involves bodily injury, threat of serious bodily injury, or harm to property in excess of $500. 
 
Directs the Secretary to adjust a blue card alien (and spouse and minor children) to permanent resident status if the alien has fulfilled specified periods of agricultural employment.
 
Amends the Social Security Act to exempt blue card aliens from prosecution for social security-related identity or payment false statements if such conduct occurred prior to the granting of blue card status. 
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise H-2A visa (agricultural labor or temporary or seasonal services) provisions. Replaces the existing labor certification requirement with a labor attestation requirement containing: (1) a description of the nature and location of the job; (2) the job's expected beginning and ending dates; (3) the number of jobs; and (4) specified labor assurances respecting job opportunities covered by collective bargaining agreements and non-covered job opportunities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S767-778)
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S766-767)
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Energy Fairness for America Act

Bill: 110-s-341
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alaska
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Depletion allowances
Electric power transmission
Energy
Energy transportation
Foreign tax credit
Gas in submerged lands
Geology
Geophysical prediction
Gulf of Mexico
Income tax
Inventories
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Natural gas
Oil and gas royalties
Oil well drilling
Petroleum in submerged lands
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Pipelines
Submarine oil well drilling
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax deferral
Taxation of foreign income
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: 
Energy Fairness for America Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to terminate: (1) the tax deduction for oil and gas intangible drilling and development costs; (2) the percentage depletion allowance for oil and gas wells; and (3) the tax credit for enhanced oil recovery costs.
 
Repeals provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 relating to: (1) oil and gas royalties in-kind; (2) marginal property production incentives; (3) incentives for natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico; (4) royalty suspension for deep water production; (5) the inventory of Outer Continental Shelf oil and natural gas resources; (6) Alaska offshore royalty suspension; (7) accelerated depreciation of electric transmission property, natural gas distribution lines, and natural gas gathering lines and expensing of liquid fuel refinery property; (8) the exemption of small oil refiners from limitations on the oil depletion allowance; and (9) two-year amortization of geological and geophysical expenditures.
 
Requires certain large integrated oil companies to revalue their LIFO inventories of crude oil, natural gas, or other petroleum productions using a specified formula. 
 
Limits or denies the foreign tax credit and tax deferrals for dual capacity taxpayers (taxpayers receiving economic and tax benefits from certain foreign jurisdictions), foreign oil and gas income, and foreign oil and gas extraction income. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Secure Travel and Counterterrorism Partnership Act

Bill: 110-s-342
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2007-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Admission of nonimmigrants
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Counterfeiting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic data interchange
Fraud
Identification devices
International Affairs
International cooperation
Law
Passports
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Strategic planning
Technical assistance
Terrorism
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: 
 Secure Travel and Counterterrorism Partnership Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should expand the visa waiver program to nationals of foreign countries that are allies in the war on terrorism.
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a pilot program to expand the visa waiver program for up to five new countries that are are cooperating with the United States on security and counterterrorism matters. 
 
Requires a country, prior to participation, to conclude a counterterrorism and security information sharing agreement with the United States.
 
Authorizes: (1) a country to participate for an initial three-year period, with an additional two-year extension; and (2) the Secretary to terminate a country's participation for program noncompliance.
 
Directs the Secretary to develop and implement procedures to improve the manner of calculating visa overstay rates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S829-830)
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S828-829)
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the District of Columbia College Access Act of 1999.

Bill: 110-s-343
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2007-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Authorization
Black colleges
College costs
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Federal-city relations
Higher education
Local budgets
Maryland
Minorities
Private schools
Public schools
Scholarships
Urban affairs
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: 
Amends the District of Columbia Access Act of 1999 to authorize the public school and private school tuition assistance programs established under the Act through FY2012.

action_date: 2007-04-11
text: 

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

 
Amends the District of Columbia Access Act of 1999 to authorize the public school and private school tuition assistance programs established under the Act through FY2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-11
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 114.
action_date: 2007-04-11
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman without amendment. With written report No. 110-52.
action_date: 2007-04-11
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman without amendment. With written report No. 110-52.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S830-831)
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S830)
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings.

Bill: 110-s-344
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2007-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Science, Technology, Communications
Supreme Court
Television broadcasting

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: 
Requires the Supreme Court to permit television coverage of all open sessions of the Court unless it decides by majority vote that allowing such coverage in a particular case would violate the due process rights of any of the parties involved.

action_date: 2008-07-29
text: 

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

 
Requires the Supreme Court to permit television coverage of all open sessions of the Court unless it decides by majority vote that allowing such coverage in a particular case would violate the due process rights of any of the parties involved.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-08
text: By Senator Leahy from Committee on the Judiciary filed written report. Report No. 110-448.
action_date: 2008-09-08
text: By Senator Leahy from Committee on the Judiciary filed written report. Report No. 110-448.
action_date: 2008-07-29
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 907.
action_date: 2008-07-29
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-07-29
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1257-1262)
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S834)
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S831-834)
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Homeland Security Trust Fund Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-345
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2007-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Air cargo
Aviation safety
Biological warfare
Chemical industries
Community policing
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Containerization
Crime and Law Enforcement
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency communication systems
Environmental Protection
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to law enforcement
Fire departments
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Income tax
Indian law enforcement
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Legislation
Marine safety
Marine terminals
Mass rapid transit
Minorities
Nonprofit organizations
Nuclear terrorism
Radio spectrum allocation
Railroad freight operations
Railroad passenger traffic
Railroad safety
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Social Welfare
Tax rates
Taxation
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation safety

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: 
Homeland Security Trust Fund Act of 2007 - Establishes in the Treasury the Homeland Security and Neighborhood Safety Trust Fund. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Senate Finance Committee should report legislation that: (1) increases revenues by $53.3 billion during taxable years 2007-2011 by reducing scheduled income tax reductions for taxpayers with taxable incomes exceeding $1 million; and (2) appropriates such revenues to the Fund.
 
Authorizes appropriations from the Fund for: (1) the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services for grants to state, local, and tribal law enforcement and to enhance state and local government interoperable communications efforts; (2) the Justice Assistance Grant; and (3) the Office of Domestic Preparedness for Fire Act grants and SAFER grants.
 
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to complete the assignment of specified electromagnetic spectrum for public safety services and permit their operation by January 1, 2007.
 
Authorizes appropriations from the Fund to: (1) implement FCC recommendations; (2) support state and local government law enforcement and first responders; (3) ensure the inspection and scanning of 100% of cargo containers destined for U.S. ports and the scanning of domestic air cargo; (4) protect critical infrastructure and other high threat targets; (5) enhance public health sector preparedness to prevent and respond to biological and nuclear terrorism; (6) develop scanning technologies to detect dangerous substances at U.S. ports of entry; and (7) protect other high risk targets.
 
Establishes within the executive branch a Homeland Security Spending Advisory Board.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S834-835)
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve Boundary Adjustment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-346
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2007-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Boundaries
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Environmental Protection
Fishing
History
Hunting
Land transfers
Landowners
Louisiana
Military parks
Natural areas
Right of property
Sports and Recreation
Trapping
Water Resources Development
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: 
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve Boundary Adjustment Act of 2007 - Amends the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978 to: (1) adjust the boundary of the Barataria Preserve Unit of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve in Louisiana by increasing the acreage limitation; and (2) authorize the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary) to acquire any such additional land, water, and interests in land and water by donation, purchase (but only with the owner's consent), transfer from any other federal agency, or exchange. 
 
Requires, with respect to the Bayou aux Carpes Addition and the CIT Tract Addition, any federal land acquired in such Additions to: (1) be transferred without consideration to the administrative jurisdiction of the National Park Service; and (2) any federal land in the Additions that is transferred, be subject to any easements that have been agreed to by the Secretary and the Secretary of the Army. Permits the acquisition of any private land, water, or interests in land and water in the Unit only with the owner's consent. 
 
Modifies and/or eliminates certain provisions related to the acquisition of property within the Unit. 
 
Permits hunting, fishing, and trapping within the Unit, but only as to land, water, or interests in land and water managed by the Secretary. Continues to provide for the designation of zones where, and established periods when, no hunting, fishing, or trapping shall be permitted except for public safety reasons. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Minimum Wage Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-347
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2007-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Accounting
Agriculture and Food
Depreciation and amortization
Due process of law
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Income tax
Inventories
Labor and Employment
Law
Leases
Minimum wages
Railroad retirement plans
Restaurants
Small business
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax liens
Tax refunds
Tax shelters
Taxation
Taxation of foreign income
Taxpayers
Transportation and Public Works
Unemployment insurance
Wages
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: 
Minimum Wage Act of 2007 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the federal minimum wage to: (1) $5.85 an hour, beginning on the 60th day after enactment of this Act; (2) $6.55 an hour, beginning 12 months after that 60th day; and (3) $7.25 an hour, beginning 24 months after that 60th day.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent accelerated cost recovery provisions for qualified leasehold improvement and restaurant property; (2) permit certain small businesses with gross receipts of not more than $10 million to use cash accounting methods and be exempt from the requirement of using inventories; (3) allow employers the work opportunity tax credit for hiring certain restaurant workers between the ages of 16 and 20; (4) set forth a definition and rules for evaluating the economic substance of financial transactions with tax consequences (economic substance doctrine); (5) impose an enhanced penalty for understatements of tax liability due to transactions lacking economic substance; (6) apply inverted corporation tax rules to certain transactions occurring after March 20, 2002; and (7) eliminate the requirement for a pre-levy collection due process hearing for taxpayers with employment tax liabilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving No Child Left Behind Act

Bill: 110-s-348
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2007-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Administrative procedure
Compensatory education
Department of Education
Disabled
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
Illiteracy
Law
School choice
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: 
Improving No Child Left Behind Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to alter requirements for adequate yearly progress (AYP) assessments of student groups by: (1) lowering, from 95% to 90%, the minimum percentage of students in each group in a school that must take such assessments; (2) allowing the fractional counting of students who are in more than one group, for each such group; (3) allowing states to treat as proficient or advanced specified scores on alternate assessments for disabled students and those not proficient in English; and (4) allowing states to use alternative methods of defining AYP.
 
Revises criteria for local educational agency identification of schools needing improvement. Declares that only those meet such criteria that fail AYP standards, for two consecutive school years (as under current law), in the same subject for the same group of students. 
 
Revises eligibility criteria for school transfers after a school is identified as needing improvement. Declares that only failing students in the failing group, instead of all students in such a school, may transfer. Allows such schools to provide students with supplemental services rather than transfers during that school year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S836-837)
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S835-836)
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Abortion Non-Discrimination Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-350
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2007-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Accreditation (Medical care)
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health facilities
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Hospitals
Local laws
Medical personnel
Preferred provider organizations (Medical care)
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: 
Abortion Non-Discrimination Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to include a health care entity's refusal to provide coverage of, or pay for, induced abortions among the bases for which the federal government or any state or local government that receives federal financial assistance may not discriminate against such an entity. Expands the definition of &quot;health care entity&quot; to include a hospital, a provider sponsored organization, a health maintenance organization, a health insurance plan, and any other kind of health care facility, organization, or plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Title X Family Planning Act

Bill: 110-s-351
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2007-01-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Appropriations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Family planning and birth control
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Pregnant women
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: 
Title X Family Planning Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit federal family planning funds from being awarded to any grantees who perform abortions or whose subgrantees perform abortions, except where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed. (Current law prohibits such funds from being used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning.) Excludes hospitals from such provisions as long as the hospital does not subgrant to a non-hospital entity that performs abortions.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to submit to Congress a list of grantees who perform abortions, regardless of how such abortions are funded. Makes such a grantee ineligible for family planning funds for subsequent fiscal years unless the grantee certifies that neither the grantee nor any subgrantee performs abortions that are not explicitly permitted under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Introduced in Senate