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Meth Mouth Correctional Costs and Reentry Support Act

Bill: 110-s-1907
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child health
Criminal justice information
Criminal statistics
Dental care
Ex-offenders
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Health
Juvenile delinquency
Medical statistics
Methamphetamine
Prisoners
Rehabilitation of criminals

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: 
Meth Mouth Correctional Costs and Reentry Support Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to require the Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics to: (1) include in criminal justice system statistics data about the oral health of federal inmates and dental care provided in federal correctional facilities; and (2) conduct a study on how methampehtamine use affects the demand for (and provision of) oral health care in such facilities.

Provides for Department of Justice (DOJ) grants to states and local, territorial, and tribal governments for: (1) oral health dental programs for federal inmates; (2) evaluating the extent to which poor oral health undermines or impedes an inmate's successful reentry into the community; and (3) establishing adult and juvenile offender reentry demonstration projects for inmate oral health programs during incarceration and after release.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the procedures regarding military recruiter access to secondary school student recruiting information.

Bill: 110-s-1908
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Armed Forces and National Security
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Law
Parent and child
Parent-school relationships
Recruiting and enlistment
School districts
Secondary education
Student records
Students' rights

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise the process for blocking the access of military recruiters or institutions of higher education (IHEs) to secondary school student information. 
 
Requires ESEA-assisted local educational agencies (LEAs) to notify each secondary school student's parent of the option to submit a written request to the LEA that the student's name, address, and telephone listing not be released to military recruiters or IHEs without the parent's prior written consent. Prohibits LEAs from providing military recruiters or IHEs access to such information once they have received such consent request, unless the student's parent provides written consent to such access. Gives students the rights accorded to their parents when they reach age 18.
 
Requires the Secretary of Defense to notify the Governor of the LEA's state and the Secretary of Education when an LEA denies access to military recruiters. Requires the Secretary of Education, upon receiving such notice, to determine whether: (1) the LEA has failed to comply substantially with the requirement to provide military recruiters with access to students and student information unless the parents have filed a prior consent request under this Act; and (2) the imposition of a penalty or remedy against the LEA is warranted.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Safe Needle Disposal Coverage Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1909
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug therapy
Medical supplies
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: 
Medicare Safe Needle Disposal Coverage Act of 2007 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover as a part D drug any devices approved for home use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the safe and effective removal, decontamination, and disposal of needles and the disposal of needles and syringes through a sharps-by-mail or similar program as medically appropriate based on volume of usage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that amounts derived from Federal grants and State matching funds in connection with revolving funds established in accordance with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act will not be treated as proceeds or replacement proceeds for purposes of section 148 of such Code.

Bill: 110-s-1910
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2007-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bonds
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to water pollution control
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Potable water
Revolving funds
Tax exemption
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude any amount derived from an investment of federal grant or related state matching amounts made in connection with any revolving fund established under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act or the Safe Drinking Water Act from a determination of whether a bond is an arbitrage bond (thus allowing states to retain arbitrage earnings from state revolving loan funds). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Maha Dakar.

Bill: 110-s-1912
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2007-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Provides for the relief of Maha Dakar.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate
No Child Left Behind Enhancement Act

Bill: 110-s-1913
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2007-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
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
Licenses
School choice
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: 
No Child Left Behind Enhancement 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 (LEA) 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. 
 
Requires states to develop procedures allowing LEAs to register complaints concerning approved supplemental service providers or those seeking the state's approval.
 
Considers new middle or secondary school special education teachers to be highly qualified if, in addition to having a bachelor degree and high competence in their subject area, they have obtained a state special education certificate qualifying them to teach in the state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Nuclear Policy and Posture Review Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1914
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Arms control
Arms control negotiations
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Defense budgets
Deterrence
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Military posture
Military strategy
Missile warheads
Nuclear warfare
Nuclear weapons
President and foreign policy

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: 
Nuclear Policy and Posture Review Act of 2007 - Directs the President to conduct a nuclear policy review to consider a range of options on the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. security policy.
 
Requires the Secretary of Defense to conduct a comprehensive review of the U.S. nuclear posture to clarify U.S. nuclear deterrence policy and strategy.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President's review should be used as the basis for establishing future U.S. strategic arms control objectives and negotiating positions.
 
Prohibits the appropriation or availability of funds for the Reliable Replacement Warhead Program for FY2008-FY2010 until reports on the above reviews have been submitted to Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10608-10609)
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10606-10608)
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Electronic Prescription Drug Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1915
Sponsor: Sen. Sununu, John E. [R-NH]
Introduced: 2007-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drugs
Electronic data interchange
Medical fees
Medicare
Physicians
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: 
Electronic Prescription Drug Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for payments to physicians for writing electronic prescriptions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to include Idaho and Montana as affected areas for purposes of making claims under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (42 U.S.C. 2210 note) based on exposure to atmospheric nuclear testing.

Bill: 110-s-1917
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2007-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Cancer
Claims
Compensation (Law)
Government liability
Health
Idaho
Leukemia
Montana
Nuclear weapons

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: 
Amends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to include the states of Idaho and Montana among affected areas for purposes of payments to individuals with certain medical conditions who were exposed to fallout emitted during the U.S. government's atmospheric nuclear tests


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Christopher Kangas Fallen Firefighter Apprentice Act

Bill: 110-s-1918
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2007-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Apprenticeship
Emergency Management
Families
Fire fighters
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits
Volunteer workers
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: 
Christopher Kangas Fallen Firefighter Apprentice Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to expand the definition of &quot;firefighter&quot; for purposes of death benefit provisions to include fire department members regardless of age, status as an apprentice or trainee, or related duty restrictions. Makes this Act applicable to deaths and injuries which occur on or after May 4, 2002.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10609)
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Trade Enforcement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1919
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2007-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative remedies
China
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Countervailing duties
Dispute settlement
East Asia
Executive reorganization
Free trade
Government Operations and Politics
Import restrictions
Intellectual property
International Affairs
Law
Legislative resolutions
Nontariff trade barriers
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
Tariff
Trade agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: 
Trade Enforcement Act of 2007 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to revise certain trade provisions to require the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to identify and report to Congress on: (1) U.S. trade enforcement priorities; (2) U.S. trade enforcement actions taken during the previous year and their impact in addressing foreign trade barriers; and (3) priority foreign country trade practices the USTR will focus U.S. trade enforcement efforts.
 
Requires the USTR to seek satisfactory resolution of any identified priority foreign country trade practice (including elimination or compensatory trade benefits) with the country concerned under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO), pursuant to a bilateral or regional trade agreement to which the United States is a party, or by any other means.
 
Establishes the WTO Dispute Settlement Review Commission.
 
Requires a recommendation from the International Trade Commission (ITC) before the President can impose any duty or other import restriction on an imported Chinese product that causes or threatens market disruption to a like U.S. product. Requires an ITC recommendation to take effect upon enactment of a joint resolution by Congress disapproving presidential action where the President takes action that differs from such recommendation or declines to take action because it would have an adverse impact on the U.S. economy.
 
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to apply countervailing duty provisions to nonmarket economy countries.
 
Establishes: (1) the position of Chief Trade Enforcement Officer in the Office of the USTR; (2) an interagency Trade Enforcement Working Group.
 
Grants the ITC authority to appoint hearing officers (other than administrative law judges) to preside over intellectual property rights infringement cases before the ITC.
 
Defines the role of the interagency trade organization with respect to the performance of the functions of the USTR.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: Committee on Finance. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 110-1047.
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10609-10610)
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate
GRADUATES Act

Bill: 110-s-1920
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2007-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Apprenticeship
Arts
Colleges
Commerce
Community and school
Compensatory education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Curricula
Disabled
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational counseling
Educational innovations
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
English language
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Language arts
Literacy programs
Mathematics
Mentoring
Nonprofit organizations
Parent-school relationships
Performance measurement
Reading
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Service learning
Social Welfare
Special education
Standards
Student aid
Student employment
Technical education
Teenage pregnancy
Vocational and technical education
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: 
Getting Retention and Diplomas Up Among Today's Enrolled Students Act or the GRADUATES Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to establish a Secondary School Innovation Fund program awarding competitive matching grants to partnerships, which must include at least one state or local educational agency, for the implementation of innovative strategies to improve the achievement of at-risk students in secondary schools. Permits partnerships to award subgrants to schools for the implementation of such strategies.
 
Lists activities, one or more of which grantees or subgrantees must implement, that include: (1) creating multiple pathways that offer students a range of educational options aligned with their needs and interests and preparing them for postsecondary education and the workforce; (2) creating expanded learning time opportunities, such as arts, service, higher, and work-based education; (3) improving student transitions from middle school to high school or from high school to postsecondary education and the workforce; (4) increasing the autonomy and flexibility of secondary schools; (5) improving rural education through educational technology; (6) redesigning middle schools; and (7) improving teaching and increasing academic rigor at the secondary school level.
 
Requires the Secretary to disseminate best practices in improving secondary school student achievement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10610-10612)
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Civil War Battlefield Preservation Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-1921
Sponsor: Sen. Webb, Jim [D-VA]
Introduced: 2007-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Civil War
Economics and Public Finance
History
Military history
Military parks

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: 
Civil War Battlefield Preservation Act of 2007 - Amends the American Battlefield Protection Act of 1996 to extend the American Battlefield Protection Program until September 30, 2013. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 652.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-300.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-300.
action_date: 2008-01-30
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2007-11-08
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-282.
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10613)
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10612-10613)
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate
TSA Acquisition Reform Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1922
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Department of Homeland Security
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Transportation safety

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: 
TSA Acquisition Reform Act of 2007 - Repeals provisions exempting the Transportation Security Administration from specified federal procurement requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10613-10614)
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Student Credit Card Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1925
Sponsor: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Credit cards
Education
Federal Reserve System
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Law
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: 
Student Credit Card Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to limit by a specified formula the total credit which may be extended by a creditor during any full calendar year to a full time, traditional-aged college student under a college student credit card account, unless a parent, legal guardian, or spouse of the student assumes joint liability for debts incurred.
 
Prohibits increasing the credit limit on an account for which a parent, guardian, or spouse has assumed joint liability without that person's written approval.
 
States that a creditor must require adequate proof of income, income history, and credit history, before any such college student credit card account may be opened.
 
Prohibits a creditor from opening a credit card account for, or issue any credit card to, any college student who: (1) has no verifiable annual gross income; and (2) already maintains a credit card account under an open end consumer credit plan with the same creditor or any affiliate.
 
 Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to promulgate implementing regulations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10614)
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate