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Hunting Heritage Protection Act

Bill: 110-s-408
Sponsor: Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA]
Introduced: 2007-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Civil actions and liability
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal-state relations
Fishing
Government Operations and Politics
Hunting
Injunctions
Land use
Law
Legal fees
Licenses
Sports and Recreation
State laws
Trapping

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Hunting Heritage Protection Act - Requires that federal public lands be open to access and use for recreational hunting except (1) as limited by the federal agency with responsibility for such lands for national security or public safety reasons, or for reasons authorized in applicable federal statutes as reasons for closure; and (2) as such hunting is limited by the state in which such lands are located. 
Directs the head of each federal agency with authority to manage a natural resource or public lands on which such a resource depends to exercise that authority in a manner so as to support, promote, and enhance recreational hunting opportunities. 
Declares that federal land management decisions and actions should result in no net loss of land area available for hunting opportunities on federal public lands. 
Requires the heads of federal agencies with authority to manage federal public lands on which recreational hunting occurs to report annually to specified congressional committees on areas administered that have been closed during the previous year to recreational hunting and reasons for such closures and on areas that were open to such hunting to compensate for closed areas. 
Prohibits a withdrawal, change of classification, or change of management status that effectively closes 5,000 or more acres of federal public land for use for recreational hunting from occurring unless the head of the federal agency with authority to manage the land has submitted written notice of the action to both Houses of Congress. 
Grants states the right to file civil actions in district courts in cases where federal agencies fail to comply with state authority to manage or regulate fish and wildlife.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1241-1242)
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1240-1241)
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Water Infrastructure Revitalization Act

Bill: 110-s-409
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2007-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
North Dakota
Planning
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Waste water treatment
Water rates
Water supply
Water treatment plants

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: 
Water Infrastructure Revitalization Act - Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to establish a program to provide environmental assistance to non-federal interests in North Dakota, which may be provided in the form of design and construction assistance for water-related environmental infrastructure and resource protection and development projects. 
 
Requires projects to be publicly owned as a prerequisite for assistance.
 
Directs the Secretary to enter into local cooperation agreements with non-federal interests for project design and construction. Sets the federal share of project costs under local cooperation agreements at 75%.
 
Requires a reduction in the non-federal share of the cost of constructing projects under this Act, using a federal formula for water rate affordability, where the rate for affordability relating to the project area exceeds the average state-wide rate by a specified percentage.
 
Sets the non-federal share of operation and maintenance costs for projects constructed with assistance under this Act at 100%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1242)
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to direct the Secretary of the Army to provide assistance to design and construct a project to provide a continued safe and reliable municipal water supply system for Devils Lake, North Dakota.

Bill: 110-s-410
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2007-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Construction costs
Easements
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law
Municipal services
North Dakota
Right-of-way
Transportation and Public Works
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: 
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 to direct the Secretary of the Army to enter into a local cooperation agreement with the non-federal interest to provide assistance in designing and constructing a project to provide a continued safe and reliable municipal water supply system for Devils Lake, North Dakota.
 
Requires the agreement to provide: (1) for the development by local officials of a water supply project and related facilities, and for the establishment of such legal and institutional structures as are necessary to ensure the effective long-term operation of the project by the non-federal interest; and (2) that the federal share of the project's cost shall be 75% and may be in the form of grants or reimbursements of project costs. Provides that the non-federal share of operation and maintenance costs shall be 100%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1242)
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide credit rate parity for all renewable resources under the electricity production credit.

Bill: 110-s-411
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2007-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Coal
Electric power production
Energy
Environmental Protection
Income tax
Indian lands
Irrigation
Minorities
Municipal solid waste
Refuse as fuel
Tax credits
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate after 2006 the reduction in the rate of the tax credit for electricity produced from open-loop biomass, small irrigation power, landfill gas, trash combustion, and hydropower facilities (thus allowing the same credit rate for all renewable resource facilities).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1242-1243)
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2633 11th Street in Rock Island, Illinois, as the "Lane Evans Post Office Building".

Bill: 110-s-412
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
Government Operations and Politics
House of Representatives
Illinois
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2633 11th Street in Rock Island, Illinois, as the "Lane Evans Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-30
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
action_date: 2007-03-22
text: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2007-02-17
text: Ordered Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 56.
action_date: 2007-02-17
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2007-02-17
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1243)
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1243)
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Choice in Real Estate Act

Bill: 110-s-413
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank holding companies
Commerce
Housing and Community Development
Real estate business
Subsidiary corporations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: 
Community Choice in Real Estate Act - Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, and the Revised Statutes of the United States, to prohibit the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Secretary of the Treasury, respectively, from determining that real estate brokerage activity or real estate management activity is financial in nature, is incidental to any financial activity, or is complementary to a financial activity. (In effect, prohibits financial holding companies and national banks from engaging, directly or indirectly, in real estate brokerage or real estate management activities.) 
Exempts from such prohibition: (1) activities of a bank holding company (or any affiliate) that directly relate to managing any real property owned by national banks or their affiliates; and (2) the right, power, or ability of any financial holding company to engage in any activity, or acquire or retain the shares of any company engaged in an activity authorized for financial holding companies on December 6, 2001 (&quot;grandfather clause&quot;).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Cloned Food Labeling Act

Bill: 110-s-414
Sponsor: Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2007-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Animals
Citizen lawsuits
Cloning
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Deceptive advertising
Department of Health and Human Services
Fines (Penalties)
Food industry
Food safety
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Judicial review
Labeling
Law
Legal fees
Livestock
Meat inspection
Parties to actions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: 
Cloned Food Labeling Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Federal Meat Inspection Act to deem as misbranded a food or meat food product that contains any part of a cloned animal and does not bear a conspicuous label including a notice of that information.
 
Requires individuals to maintain a verifiable recordkeeping audit trail that will permit verification of compliance with this Act.
 
Deems as misbranded a food that bears a label indicating that it does not contain cloned product, unless the label is in accordance with applicable regulations that may not: (1) require such a label to include a statement indicating that the fact that a food does not contain such product has no bearing on the safety of the food for human consumption; and (2) prohibit such a label on the basis that, in the case of the type of food involved, there is no version of the food in commercial distribution that does contain such product.
 
Sets forth civil penalties for violation of this Act. Exempts a person who establishes a guaranty, signed by the person residing in the United States from whom the food was received in good faith, that the food does not contain any cloned product.
 
Allows a person to commence a civil action against a person who is alleged to have violated this Act or the applicable Secretary where a failure of the Secretary to perform any act or duty that is not discretionary is alleged.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1242)
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans' Memorials, Boy Scouts, Public Seals, and Other Public Expressions of Religion Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-415
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2007-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Boy Scouts
Civil rights enforcement
Commemorations
Damages
Emblems
Families
Federal incorporation
Federal office buildings
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Injunctions
Judicial opinions
Law
Legal fees
Military bases
Monuments and memorials
Religion
Religious liberty
Signs and symbols

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: 
Veterans' Memorials, Boy Scouts, Public Seals, and Other Public Expressions of Religion Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the Revised Statutes of the United States to limit the remedy, in a civil action against a state or local official for deprivation of civil rights, to injunctive and declaratory relief and deny attorneys' fees where the deprivation consists of a violation of a prohibition in the Constitution against the establishment of religion, including violations relating to: (1) religious words or imagery in veterans' memorials, public buildings, or official seals of states or their subdivisions; and (2) the chartering of Boy Scout units by states or their subdivisions and the Boy Scouts' using public buildings.
 
Imposes the same limits regarding such an action against the United States or any U.S. agency or official acting in his or her official capacity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Denes Fulop and Gyorgyi Fulop.

Bill: 110-s-416
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Provides for the relief of Denes Fulop and Gyorgyi Fulop.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1285-1286)
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Claudia Marquez Rico.

Bill: 110-s-417
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Provides for the relief of Claudia Marquez Rico.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1286)
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Shigeru Yamada.

Bill: 110-s-418
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Provides for the relief of Shigeru Yamada.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1286-1288)
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Esidronio Arreola-Saucedo, Maria Elna Cobian Arreola, Nayely Bibiana Arreola, and Cindy Jael Arreola.

Bill: 110-s-419
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Provides for the relief of Esidronio Arreola-Saucedo, Maria Elna Cobian Arreola, Nayely Bibiana Arreola, and Cindy Jael Arreola.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1288-1289)
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Jacqueline W. Coats.

Bill: 110-s-420
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Provides for the relief of Jacqueline W. Coats.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1289-1290)
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Robert Liang and Alice Liang.

Bill: 110-s-421
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Provides for the relief of Robert Liang and Alice Liang.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1290-1291)
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Secure Border Crossing Card Entry Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-422
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2007-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Aliens
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Department of Homeland Security
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Illegal aliens
Law
Tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: 
Secure Border Crossing Card Entry Act of 2007 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act provide that the initial admission period for an alien with a valid machine-readable biometric border crossing identification card who has completed required background checks and who is admitted to the United States as a nonimmigrant business or tourist visitor at a port of entry where such card is processed shall be not less than the initial admission period granted to any other nonimmigrant business or tourist visitor.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to prescribe the period of such initial admission as: (1) a minimum of six months; or (2) a different period determined on a case-by-case basis.
 
Prohibits the admission or admission extension of such an alien if: (1) the alien previously violated nonimmigrant status conditions; (2) the alien is inadmissible as a nonimmigrant; or (3) the alien's border crossing card has not been processed through a machine reader at the U.S. port of entry or land border at which the person seeks U.S. admission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1291)
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-423
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Clothing
Cost of living adjustments
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disabled
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Labor and Employment
Law
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to increase, as of December 1, 2007, the rates of veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled adult children, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children. 
Requires each such increase to be the same percentage as the increase in benefits provided under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, on the same effective date.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: 

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

 
Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to increase, as of December 1, 2007, the rates of veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, the clothing allowance for certain disabled adult children, and dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children. 
 
Requires each such increase to be the same percentage as the increase in benefits provided under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, on the same effective date.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 283.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Reported by Senator Akaka without amendment. With written report No. 110-135.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Reported by Senator Akaka without amendment. With written report No. 110-135.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1291-1292)
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Penobscot River Restoration Act

Bill: 110-s-424
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Animals
Dams
Economics and Public Finance
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to water resources development
Governmental investigations
Habitat conservation
Maine
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Riparian ecology
Rivers
Salmon

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: 
Penobscot River Restoration Act - Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to carry out the Penobscot River Restoration Project substantially in accordance with the plan described in the Lower Penobscot River Multiparty Settlement Agreement, dated June 2004, subject to a determination that the plan is cost-effective, technically sound, environmentally acceptable, and in the best interest of the United States.
 
Directs the Secretary to expedite the feasibility and pre-construction, engineering, and design of the Project by using any applicable study prepared by the state of Maine or any other non-federal interest of the Project. Provides that a nonprofit entity may be considered to be a non-federal interest of the Project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate