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Enhanced Methamphetamine Treatment Grants Assistance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3130
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2007-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Caregivers
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drug addiction
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to law enforcement
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Labor and Employment
Methamphetamine
Parent and child
Pregnant women
Prison alternatives
Rehabilitation of criminals
Social Welfare
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: 
Enhanced Methamphetamine Treatment Grants Assistance Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to award grants for wraparound services, including medical services, job training service, housing assistance, and training in parenting, for methamphetamine infected individuals who: (1) resided in a residential treatment facility for the treatment of methamphetamine abuse or addiction; or (2) received treatment for methamphetamine abuse or addiction from an intensive outpatient treatment facility. 

Changes the program for substance abuse for pregnant and postpartum women to a program for treatment of substance abuse for caregiver parents, including pregnant women. Requires grantees to give priority to programs that provide services to caregiver parents who are pregnant and postpartum women.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, to award grants to assist local jails and detention facilities in providing comprehensive, family-based substance abuse treatment services to pregnant and parenting adults who are considered nonviolent offenders. Sets forth requirements if such a grant is used for a family drug treatment program that is an alternative to incarceration. 

Directs the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, to award grants for services in connection with the treatment of methamphetamine use or addiction to underserved populations.

Requires the Secretary, through the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, to conduct a study to identify and evaluate methamphetamine use and addiction treatment methodologies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1597)
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007, to strike a requirement relating to forage producers.

Bill: 110-hr-3131
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2007-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural subsidies
Animals
Crop insurance
Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Feeds
Finance and Financial Sector
Livestock

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: 
Amends the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 to eliminate the requirement that forage producers must participate in the insurance pilot program or the noninsured crop disaster assistance program in order to receive crop disaster and livestock assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1719)
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Introduced in House
Safe Schools Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3132
Sponsor: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-39]
Introduced: 2007-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Discrimination in education
Drug abuse
Drugs and youth
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grievance procedures
Minorities
Parent-school relationships
Racial discrimination
School discipline
School districts
School security
Secondary education
Sex discrimination
Women
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: 
Safe Schools Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act to require: (1) states to use grants for safe and drug-free schools to collect and report information on the incidence of bullying and harassment; and (2) local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools to use subgrants to prevent and respond to incidents of bullying and harassment.
 
Requires such LEAs or schools to: (1) notify parents and students annually of conduct prohibited in their school discipline policies, that now must include bullying and harassment; and (2) establish grievance procedures for students and parents to register complaints regarding such conduct.
 
Includes bullying and harassment within the the Act's definition of violence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2007-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Introduced in House
Financial Literacy for Homeowners Act

Bill: 110-hr-3133
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, David [D-GA-13]
Introduced: 2007-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer complaints
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Counseling
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to housing
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreclosure
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Home ownership
Housing finance
Loan defaults
Mortgages
Nonprofit organizations
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Telephone
Usury

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: 
Financial Literacy for Homeowners Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to make grants to state and local governments and nonprofit organizations to implement anti-predatory lending activities, including: (1) consumer education programs; (2) certified home ownership counseling programs; and (3) referral services for homeowners and prospective homeowners.
 
Directs the Secretary provide for establishment, operation, and publication of a nationwide toll-free telephone number to receive consumer complaints regarding predatory and unscrupulous lending practices relating to home loans.
 
Establishes the Predatory Lending Advisory Council to: (1) advise the Secretary; and (2) study and report to the Secretary and Congress on the root causes of default and foreclosure of home loans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Introduced in House
Responsible Security in Iraq Act

Bill: 110-hr-3134
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2007-07-23 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Arms control
Arms sales
Civil War
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional oversight
Crime and Law Enforcement
Defense budgets
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Insurgency
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Legislation
Middle East and North Africa
Military assistance
Military occupation
Military operations
Military training
Militia movements
Police

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: 
Responsible Security in Iraq Act - Prohibits fund use to: (1) train the Iraqi Security Forces (as defined by this Act); or (2) sell or otherwise transfer arms to the Iraqi Security Forces unless specifically authorized by an Act of Congress enacted after the date of the enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H10420)
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2007-07-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2007-07-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2007-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Introduced in House
Child Tax Credit Preservation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3135
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Dave [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2007-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: 
Child Tax Credit Preservation Act of 2007 - Makes permanent the increases in the child tax credit enacted by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003, and the Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2004. 

Provides for an annual inflation adjustment to child tax credit amounts, beginning in 2007. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Introduced in House
Administrative Law Judges Retirement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3136
Sponsor: Rep. Wynn, Albert Russell [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2007-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Judges

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: 
Administrative Law Judges Retirement Act of 2007 - Sets forth separate provisions governing Government and employee contributions, annuity eligibility requirements (ten years of service and age 60), early retirement, and annuity computation (2.5% and 1.7%, respectively, of average pay for each year of service) for administrative law judges under the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees' Retirement System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Web's Construction Company, Incorporated.

Bill: 110-hr-3137
Sponsor: Rep. Wynn, Albert Russell [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2007-07-23 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Claims

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Provides for the relief of Web's Construction Company, Incorporated.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to update the definition of electronic surveillance.

Bill: 110-hr-3138
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Heather [R-NM-1]
Introduced: 2007-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Criminal investigation
Electronic surveillance
Law
Right of privacy
Warrants (Law)

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: 
Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to redefine &quot;electronic surveillance&quot; as: (1) the installation or use of an electronic, mechanical, or other surveillance device for acquiring information by intentionally directing surveillance at a particular person believed to be in the United States when that person has a reasonable expectation of privacy and a warrant would be required for law enforcement purposes; or (2) the intentional acquisition of the contents of any communication when that person has a reasonable expectation of privacy and a warrant would be required for law enforcement purposes, if both the sender and all intended recipients are believed to be in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Perquimans River Wild and Scenic River Study Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3139
Sponsor: Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1]
Introduced: 2007-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
North Carolina
Water Resources Development
Wild rivers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: 
Perquimans River Wild and Scenic River Study Act of 2007 - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate the Perquimans River and its tributaries in Perquimans County, North Carolina, for study for potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Saving Our Community Pharmacies Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3140
Sponsor: Rep. Boyda, Nancy E. [D-KS-2]
Introduced: 2007-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Generic drugs
Medicaid
Pharmacies
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: 
Saving Our Community Pharmacies Act of 2007 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide for: (1) use of median retail acquisition cost as the basis for Medicaid reimbursement limits on generic drugs; and (2) establishment of an evidence-based prescription drug program.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the costs of community retail pharmacies to dispense prescription drugs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in House
To increase the amount in certain funding agreements relating to patents and nonprofit organizations to be used for scientific research, development, and education, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-3141
Sponsor: Rep. Latham, Tom [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2007-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Higher education
Intellectual property
Inventions
Nonprofit organizations
Patents
Research and development
Research and development facilities
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: 

 
Increases to 15% (currently 5%) of a government-owned contractor-operated facility's annual budget, for facilities with annual budgets of less than $40 million, the amount of money from royalties or income earned during any fiscal year from a patent for a subject invention under a funding agreement that a nonprofit organization can keep for scientific research, development, and education consistent with the research and development mission and objectives of the facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Violent Crime Prevention and Enforcement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3142
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2007-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault
Capital punishment
Conspiracy
Detention of persons
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Ex-offenders
Fines (Penalties)
Firearms
Firearms control
Illegal aliens
Immigration
Kidnapping
Law
Licenses
Life imprisonment
Limitation of actions
Organized crime
Rape
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Terrorism
Violence
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: 
Violent Crime Prevention and Enforcement Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) authorize the Attorney General to impose civil fines on firearms licensees who willfully violate federal firearms laws; (2) increase criminal penalties for transferring firearms for use in crimes of violence or drug trafficking and for conspiracies against the United States; (3) increase criminal penalties for felons with prior convictions for violent crimes and serious drug offenses who unlawfully possess firearms; (4) expand criteria for the detention for persons charged with firearms offenses prior to trial; (5) include other felony crimes of violence in the prohibition against interstate travel to commit murder-for-hire and increase criminal penalties for such crimes; (6) impose a 10-year limitation period for prosecutions of noncapital crimes of violence and terrorism; and (7) impose increased criminal penalties for illegal aliens who commit felony crimes of violence or drug trafficking.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Methamphetamine Kingpin Elimination Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3143
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adrian [R-NE-3]
Introduced: 2007-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Mandatory sentences
Methamphetamine
Organized crime
Prosecution

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: 
Methamphetamine Kingpin Elimination Act of 2007 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to expand the threshold criteria for designating an individual as a principal administrator, organizer, or leader of a continuing criminal enterprise involving methamphetamine. Amends the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to increase the mandatory minimum prison terms for trafficking in methamphetamine. 

Requires the Attorney General to establish methamphetamine task forces, consisting of federal, state, and local law enforcement authorities, to coordinate efforts to combat methamphetamine trafficking. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Sex Offender Internet Prohibition Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3144
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2007-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child sexual abuse
Computer crimes
Families
Mandatory sentences
Science, Technology, Communications
Sex offenders

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: 
Sex Offender Internet Prohibition Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to impose a mandatory minimum prison term of five years and a maximum term of 20 years on individuals required to register as sex offenders who knowingly access a website with the intent to communicate with a child under the age of 18 years who is unaware that such individual is a registered sex offender.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Prohibition Against Criminal Alien Reentry Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3145
Sponsor: Rep. Drake, Thelma D. [R-VA-2]
Introduced: 2007-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Deportation
Fines (Penalties)
Illegal aliens
Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: 
Prohibition Against Criminal Alien Reentry Act of 2007 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase criminal penalties for certain removed aliens who illegally reenter the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in House