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Preventing the Endangerment of Children on Recreational Lands by Sexual Violators Act

Bill: 110-hr-2170
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Child sexual abuse
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Employee selection
Ex-offenders
Families
Federal employees
Identification of criminals
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Sex offenders

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: 
Preventing the Endangerment of Children on Recreational Lands by Sexual Violators Act - Prohibits an individual convicted of a sexual offense involving a minor from serving in the Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture.

Provides that this Act does not require the separation of any employee or contractor whose service began before enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Knowledge Is Power Act

Bill: 110-hr-2171
Sponsor: Rep. Reyes, Silvestre [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Coal
Commerce
Consumer education
Electric power production
Electric utilities
Environmental Protection
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Hydroelectric power
Landfills
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Municipal solid waste
Natural gas
Nuclear energy
Ocean currents
Ocean energy resources
Refuse as fuel
Solar energy
State laws
Water Resources Development
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: 
Knowledge Is Power Act - Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to require electric utilities to disclose prominently on consumers' periodic billing statements the percentage mix of energy technologies and fuels used to generate the electricity sold within the distribution utility's distribution area.
 
 Requires such disclosure to specify the percentage of electricity generated from coal, from gas, from nuclear, from any other fuel, and from any particular type of renewable energy (including solar, wind, biomass, landfill gas, ocean tidal, ocean wave, ocean current, ocean thermal, geothermal, municipal solid waste, or hydroelectric).
 
 Declares compliance requirements inapplicable if before enactment of this Act: (1) the state has implemented for such utility the standard concerned, or a comparable one; (2) the state regulatory authority or relevant nonregulated electric utility has conducted a proceeding to consider the standard's implementation; or (3) the state legislature has voted on its implementation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Amputee Veteran Assistance Act

Bill: 110-hr-2172
Sponsor: Rep. Reyes, Silvestre [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Accreditation (Medical care)
Clinics
Disabled
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government procurement
Government publicity
Health
Health education
Maintenance and repair
Medical laboratories
Medical technology
Planning
Prosthesis
Science, Technology, Communications
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: 
Amputee Veteran Assistance Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure that all Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) orthotic-prosthetic laboratories and clinics are certified by either the American Board for Certification in Orthotics and Prosthetics or the Board of Orthotics and Prosthetic Certification.
 
Requires the Secretary to contract with a non-VA entity for the service and repair of prosthetic devices for a veteran if: (1) the Secretary determines that VA facilities are unable to perform such service or repair due to a lack of technology or any other reason; or (2) the veteran needing such service or repair resides more than 55 miles from the nearest VA facility capable of furnishing such service or repair.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop and carry out a plan to inform disabled veterans at least twice a year of technological advances in the field of prosthetics; (2) review all VA orthotic-prosthetic laboratories and clinics to ensure that the VA is capable of servicing and repairing the most technologically advanced prosthetic devices; and (3) review VA prosthetists and orthotists to determine the level and kinds of education required to ensure their qualification to provide the most technologically advanced prosthetic devices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize additional funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs to increase the capacity for provision of mental health services through contracts with community mental health centers, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-2173
Sponsor: Rep. Rodriguez, Ciro D. [D-TX-23]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Clinics
Community health services
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government procurement
Health
Mental care facilities
Mental health services
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to contract with a qualified community mental health center for the provision of veterans' mental health services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Jockeys' Insurance Fairness Act

Bill: 110-hr-2175
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Animals
Athletes
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Contracts
Drug abuse
Drug testing
Drugs and athletes
Gambling
Horse racing
Horses
Labor and Employment
Law
Protection of animals
Steroids
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: 
Jockeys' Insurance Fairness Act - Amends the Interstate Horseracing Act of 1978 to add as conditions for the acceptance of interstate off-track wagers by an off-track betting system that: (1) a consenting host racing associations&#146;s agreement with the horseman&#146;s group must provide that such group shall pay not less than 50% of the amount it receives to the host racing commission for the purpose of offering insurance coverage for professional jockeys, exercise riders, and backside personnel and trainers (except where such persons are included in a state worker&#146;s compensation program); and (2) the consenting host racing commission must agree to offer such insurance. Defines &quot;insurance coverage&quot; to mean health and injury insurance for jockeys, exercise riders, and backside personnel and trainers who are employed or under contract for training or horse racing in the state of the host racing association and who may be injured in the performance of their official duties.
 
Allows a jockey, exercise rider, or trainer or other backside personnel to bring a civil action for a violation of this Act.

Prohibits a person from entering a horse in any race that is the subject of an interstate off-track wager if such horse has been given anabolic steroids. Requires the appropriate host racing commission to develop procedures for and administer testing for anabolic steroids.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
To establish certain requirements relating to area mail processing studies.

Bill: 110-hr-2177
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Equipment and supplies
Executive reorganization
Federal employees
Government downsizing
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Postal facilities
Postal service
United States Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: 
Declares that the results of an AMP study (an area mail processing study relating to consolidating the operations of two or more postal facilities) shall not be cognizable for any purpose unless specified time limit and notice requirements are met. Requires the U.S. Postal Service to ensure that no reduction in the workforce of, and no removal of equipment from, any postal facility occurs while an AMP study regarding that facility is pending. Applies this Act to AMP studies started on or after enactment and to studies pending at enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Energy Independence through Bio-diesel Act

Bill: 110-hr-2178
Sponsor: Rep. Walberg, Timothy [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Diesel motor
Energy
Energy crops
Environmental Protection Agency
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Motor vehicle pollution control
Oils and fats
Refuse as fuel
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: 
Energy Independence through Bio-diesel Act - Amends the Clean Air Act to direct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring that all diesel motor vehicle fuel sold or dispensed to consumers in the United States after 2012 contain not less than 2% biodiesel on an annual average basis.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish traumatic brain injury centers.

Bill: 110-hr-2179
Sponsor: Rep. Walz, Timothy J. [D-MN-1]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Brain
Education
Head injuries
Health
Higher education
Iraq compilation
Medical centers
Medical education
Medical research
Science, Technology, Communications
Trauma care
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) establish and operate centers for traumatic brain injury (TBI) research, education, and clinical activities; (2) ensure the geographic distribution of such centers; and (3) designate no more than five centers.
 
Requires the: (1) official within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) responsible for TBI care to establish a peer review panel to assess the scientific and clinical merit of proposals submitted for the designation of such centers; and (2) Under Secretary of Health to ensure the dissemination throughout the VHA of information produced through the research, education, and clinical activities of the centers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4561)
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Adela and Darryl Bailor.

Bill: 110-hr-2180
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Julia [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Claims

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Provides for the relief of Adela and Darryl Bailor.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Mohuiddin A. K. M. Ahmed.

Bill: 110-hr-2181
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Provides for the relief of Mohuiddin A. K. M. Ahmed.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Elvira Arellano, Juan Carlos Arreguin, Martin Guerrero Barrios, Maria I. Benitez, Francisco J. Castro, Jaime Cruz,Martha Davalos, Herminion Davalos, Disifredo Adan Delvalle, Angel Espinoza, Veronica Lopez, Francisca Lino, Maria A. Martin, Juan Jose Mesa, Maria Natividad Loza,Blanca E. Nolte,Domenico Papaianni, Romina Perea, Juan Jose Rangel Sr., Dayron S. Rios Arenas, Araceli Contreras-Del Toro, Doris Oneida Ulloa, Bladimir I. Caballero, Arnulfo Alfaro, Consuelo and Juan Manuel Castellanos, Eliseo Pulido, Gilberto Romero, Maria Liliana Rua-Saenz, Aurelia and Tomas F. Martinez-Garcia, Flor Crisostomo; Fatuma Karuma, Stanislaw Rychtarczyk, Slobodan Radanovich, and Agustin Sanchez-Dominguez.

Bill: 110-hr-2182
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Provides for the relief of Elvira Arellano, Juan Carlos Arreguin, Martin Guerrero Barrios, Maria I. Benitez, Francisco J. Castro, Jaime Cruz,Martha Davalos, Herminion Davalos, Disifredo Adan Delvalle, Angel Espinoza, Veronica Lopez, Francisca Lino, Maria A. Martin, Juan Jose Mesa, Maria Natividad Loza,Blanca E. Nolte,Domenico Papaianni, Romina Perea, Juan Jose Rangel Sr., Dayron S. Rios Arenas, Araceli Contreras-Del Toro, Doris Oneida Ulloa, Bladimir I. Caballero, Arnulfo Alfaro, Consuelo and Juan Manuel Castellanos, Eliseo Pulido, Gilberto Romero, Maria Liliana Rua-Saenz, Aurelia and Tomas F. Martinez-Garcia, Flor Crisostomo; Fatuma Karuma, Stanislaw Rychtarczyk, Slobodan Radanovich, and Agustin Sanchez-Dominguez.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E953)
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Commonsense Consumption Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2183
Sponsor: Rep. Boren, Dan [D-OK-2]
Introduced: 2007-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Damages
Discovery (Law)
Food industry
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Injunctions
Jurisdiction
Liability (Law)
Marketing
Obesity
Products liability
Retail trade
State courts
Trade associations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: 
Commonsense Consumption Act of 2007 - Prohibits new, and requires dismissal of pending, civil actions by any person against a manufacturer, marketer, distributor, advertiser, or seller of food, or a trade association, for any injury related to a person's accumulated acts of consumption of food and weight gain, obesity, or any associated health condition. Subjects to such prohibition: (1) any action brought by a person other than the person on whose weight gain, obesity, or health condition the action is based; and (2) any derivative action brought by or on behalf of any person or any representative, spouse, parent, child, or other relative of that person.
 
Excludes from this prohibition any actions alleging: (1) a breach of express contract or express warranty provided that the grounds of recovery are unrelated to a person's weight gain, obesity, or related health condition; (2) a knowing violation of a federal or state statute applicable to the marketing, advertisement, or labeling of food with intent for a person to rely on that violation, where such person relied on that violation, and where such reliance was the proximate cause of injury related to that person's weight gain, obesity, or related health condition; or (3) a violation brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) under the Federal Trade Commission Act or by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Introduced in House
Enhanced Health Care Value for All Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2184
Sponsor: Rep. Allen, Thomas H. [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2007-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Health insurance
Insurance companies
Medical research
Medicare
Military medicine
Pharmaceutical research
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: 
Enhanced Health Care Value for All Act of 2007 - Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to expand the scope of research on the comparative effectiveness of health care items and services. 
 
Renames as the Comparative Effectiveness Advisory Board the stakeholders group the Secretary of Health and Human Services is required to consult in developing research priorities.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish in the Treasury the Health Care Comparative Effectiveness Research Trust Fund. Makes appropriations.
 
Imposes on health insurance policy issuers (including self-insured health plans) a fee for each specified policy for each policy year, whose equivalent amounts shall be transferred into the Fund.
 

 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a permanent council to assist the offices and agencies of the Departments of Health and Human Services, of Veterans Affairs, and of Defense, and any other department or agency, to coordinate the conduct or support of health services research.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the conveyance of National Forest System land in the State of Louisiana.

Bill: 110-hr-2186
Sponsor: Rep. Alexander, Rodney [R-LA-5]
Introduced: 2007-05-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Camping
Land transfers
Louisiana
National forests
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: 

 

 

 

 
Provides for the sale of specified federal land in Winn Parish, Louisiana, with a right of first refusal to Collins Camp Properties for the Collins Campsites and a specified parcel.
 
Requires sale proceeds to be used for the acquisition of lands and interests in the Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-07
text: Introduced in House