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Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3038
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2007-07-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional reporting requirements
Drugs
Medical fees
Medical laboratories
Medical tests
Medicare
Physicians
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: 
Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise physician service fee schedule requirements, particularly the conversion factors in the formula for determining fees.
 
 Provides for separate conversion factors for service categories. Establishes specified update service categories and expenditure measurement categories. Prescribes a formula for establishing updates for conversion factors for update service categories. Replaces sustainable growth rates with service category growth rates
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to the appropriate congressional committees after the end of any year in which actual expenditures exceeded allowed expenditures for such year and the preceding year for either of the expenditure measurement categories: (1) clinical diagnostic laboratory tests; or (2) drugs, biologicals, and radiopharmaceuticals. Requires an analysis of the reasons for such excess expenditures and recommendations for addressing them in the future.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-07-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-07-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-07-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Introduced in House
Farmland Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3039
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Adrian [R-NE-3]
Introduced: 2007-07-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Capital gains tax
Commerce
Farm lands
Income tax
Land transfers
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: 
Farmland Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to double the period allowed to taxpayers for identifying and completing exchanges of like kind property for purposes of the nonrecognition of gain from such exchanges. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide additional educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill to veterans pursuing a degree in science, technology, engineering, or math.

Bill: 110-hr-3040
Sponsor: Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18]
Introduced: 2007-07-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Education
Engineering
Engineers
Higher education
Infrastructure
Mathematics
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Student aid
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay to each individual entitled to basic educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill and pursuing a program of education with a focus on science, technology, engineering, or math a lump-sum payment of $2,000 per academic year, or fraction thereof for enrollment lasting less than a year. Makes such amount in addition to any other educational assistance to which the individual is entitled.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' 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: 2007-07-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' 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: 2007-07-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' 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: 2007-07-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Prescription Drug Rebate Equalization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3041
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2007-07-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Commerce
Drug industry
Drugs
Managed care
Medicaid
Prescription pricing
Rebates
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: 
Medicaid Prescription Drug Rebate Equalization Act of 2007 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to reduce the costs of prescription drugs for enrollees of Medicaid managed care organizations by extending to such organizations the discounts offered under fee-for-service Medicaid plans.

Requires the state contract with a Medicaid managed care organization to provide that: (1) payment for covered outpatient drugs dispensed to Medicaid-eligible individuals enrolled with the organization shall be subject to the same rebate as the state is subject to; and (2) the state shall allow the organization to collect such rebates from manufacturers.

Requires also that capitation rates paid to the organization be: (1) based on actual cost experience related to rebates; and (2) subject to the federal regulations requiring actuarially sound rates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Early Detection of Cancer Promotion Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3042
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2007-07-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Coinsurance
Colon cancer
Finance and Financial Sector
Mammography
Medical economics
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medicare
Physical examinations
Preventive medicine
Social Welfare
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: 
Medicare Early Detection of Cancer Promotion Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) extend the eligibility period for a &quot;Welcome to Medicare&quot; initial preventive physical examination from six months to one year; and (2) to eliminate the 20% coinsurance for screening mammography and colorectal cancer screening tests.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-07-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-07-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-07-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Introduced in House
Agrofuel Rural Energy Empowerment Act

Bill: 110-hr-3044
Sponsor: Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2007-07-13 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agricultural subsidies
Agricultural wastes
Alternative energy sources
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Environmental Protection
Farm manure
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Refuse and refuse disposal
Refuse as fuel
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-13
text: 
Agrofuel Rural Energy Empowerment Act - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to make loans, loan guarantees, and grants to farmers, ranchers, and rural small businesses to promote the use of anaerobic digesters to produce renewable energy.
 
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to include the establishment of anaerobic digesters in the list of structural practices recognized under the environmental quality incentives program for agriculture.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
action_date: 2007-07-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-07-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1522)
action_date: 2007-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-13
text: Introduced in House
Presidential Signing Statements Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3045
Sponsor: Rep. Shea-Porter, Carol [D-NH-1]
Introduced: 2007-07-16 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional legal counsel
Congressional-executive relations
Constitutional law
Government Operations and Politics
Judicial opinions
Judicial review
Law
Legislation
Legislative resolutions
Parties to actions
Presidential powers
Senate
State courts
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: 
Presidential Signing Statements Act of 2007 - Prohibits any state or federal court from relying on or deferring to a presidential signing statement as a source of authority when determining the meaning of any Act of Congress. 
 
Requires any federal or state court, in any action, suit, or proceeding regarding the construction or constitutionality, or both, of any Act of Congress in which a presidential signing statement was issued, to permit the Senate, through the Office of Senate Legal Counsel, or the House, through the Office of General Counsel for the House, or both, to participate as an amicus curiae, and to present an oral argument on the question of the Act's construction or constitutionality, or both.
 
Authorizes the full Congress, in any such suit, to pass a concurrent resolution declaring its view of the proper interpretation of the Act of Congress at issue, clarifying Congress's intent or its findings of fact, or both.
 
Requires the federal or state court in question to permit Congress, through the Office of Senate Legal Counsel, to submit any such passed resolution into the record of the case as a matter of right.
 
Makes it the duty of each federal or state court, including the U.S. Supreme Court, to advance on the docket and to expedite to the greatest possible extent the disposition of any matter brought under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Claims Processing Innovation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3047
Sponsor: Rep. Lamborn, Doug [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2007-07-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Artificial intelligence
Claims
Congressional reporting requirements
Death
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Executive reorganization
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Labor and Employment
Medical records
Military personnel
Performance measurement
Personnel records
Science, Technology, Communications
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: 
Veterans Claims Processing Innovation Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a work credit system for evaluating regional offices of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) with respect to veterans' claims processing.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop and maintain a system for processing veterans' disability compensation claims using artificial intelligence that utilizes medical and military service data to generate disability rating recommendations; and (2) maintain a regional office at which all such claims are processed exclusively electronically.
 
Provides that if a veteran who is a claimant dies before completing the submission of a claim for benefits, the person who would receive any accrued benefit(s) due to such veteran shall be treated as the claimant for purposes of completing submission of the claim.
 
Directs the Secretary to contract with a private entity to evaluate the training and assessment programs for VBA employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-08
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Introduced in House
To provide for and approve the settlement of certain land claims of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.

Bill: 110-hr-3048
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-15]
Introduced: 2007-07-16 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Gambling
Government Operations and Politics
Indian claims
Indian lands
Michigan
Minorities
Sports and Recreation
State government-Indian relations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: 
Provides for and approves the settlement of certain land claims of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to take certain alternative lands into trust for the Tribe's benefit, upon fulfillment of a specified condition, as part of the settlement and extinguishment of the Tribe's Charlotte Beach land claims. Extinguishes such claims.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Introduced in House
To establish a pilot program for the expedited disposal of Federal real property.

Bill: 110-hr-3049
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2007-07-16 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Land transfers
Real estate appraisal
Surplus government property

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: 
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to conduct a five-year Federal Real Property Disposal Pilot Program for the expedited disposal of real property that is not meeting federal government needs.

Requires agencies to recommend candidate disposition properties to the Director. Prohibits real property from being sold under the program: (1) for less than fair market value; (2) if it will not generate monetary proceeds to the federal government exceeding disposal costs; or (3) in a non-cash transaction.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Introduced in House
To grant the consent and approval of Congress to an interstate forest fire protection compact.

Bill: 110-hr-3050
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-07-16 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Colorado
Congress
Congressional oversight
Emergency Management
Fire fighters
Fire prevention
Forest fires
Great Plains
Interstate compacts
North Dakota
South Dakota
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: 
Grants the consent and approval of Congress to the interstate forest fire protection compact for the Great Plains region of the United States set forth in this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Introduced in House
Heroes at Home Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3051
Sponsor: Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3]
Introduced: 2007-07-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Brain
Caregivers
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Distance education
Education
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Head injuries
Health
Health education
Higher education
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Medical education
Medical tests
Mental care facilities
Mental health services
Military dependents
Military medicine
National Guard
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Science, Technology, Communications
Telemedicine
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' rehabilitation
Wages
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: 
Heroes at Home Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) establish a program on training and certification of family caregivers of veterans and members with traumatic brain injury (TBI); and (2) conduct outreach to enhance awareness of veterans and the public about the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and TBI and the services provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs to veterans with such symptoms. 
 
 Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs to jointly: (1) establish a demonstration project to assess the feasibility and advisability of using telehealth technology to assess cognitive functioning of members who have sustained head trauma in order to improve their diagnosis and treatment; and (2) conduct an ongoing study of all matters relating to the telehealth and telemental health services of the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-09
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-08-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' 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: 2007-07-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' 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: 2007-07-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' 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: 2007-07-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Introduced in House
Return of the Lost Boys and Lost Girls of Sudan Act

Bill: 110-hr-3054
Sponsor: Rep. Wolf, Frank R. [R-VA-10]
Introduced: 2007-07-16 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Immigration
Refugees
Repatriation
Scholarships
Student loan funds
Sudan
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
War relief

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: 
Return of the Lost Boys and Lost Girls of Sudan Act - Requires the Director of Foreign Assistance to establish and carry out a program to assist eligible Sudanese refugees in the United States known as the &quot;Lost Boys and Lost Girls of Sudan&quot; to voluntarily return to southern Sudan to assist in reconstruction efforts. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Director should: (1) review similar programs for purposes of replicating best practices; (2) consult with the Lost Boys/Lost Girls Organization in the United States to identify interested and eligible program candidates; (3) seek cooperation with local and international organizations in southern Sudan to identify appropriate sectors, programs, and projects; and (4) seek to ensure that program participants retain their U.S. immigration status.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Introduced in House