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Pay for All Your Undocumented Procedures (PAY UP!) Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4021
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aliens
Ambulances
Clinics
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Illegal aliens
Immigrant health
Medical fees
Medically uninsured
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: 
Pay for All Your Undocumented Procedures (PAY UP!) Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to pay emergency ambulance and medical service providers for the cost of uncompensated care of aliens aided by a border patrol officer or other federal immigration official.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
Keeping Families Together Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4022
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Aliens
Armed Forces and National Security
Automobile theft
Bribery
Burglary
Child sexual abuse
Counterfeiting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Department of Homeland Security
Deportation
Detention of persons
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Ex-offenders
Families
Forgery
Fraud
Gambling
Government Operations and Politics
Habeas corpus
Injunctions
Intelligence officers
Judicial review
Larceny
Law
Married people
Money laundering
Obstruction of justice
Official secrets
Organized crime
Passports
Perjury
Prostitution
Protection of officials
Rape
Recidivists
Residence requirements
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Smuggling
Sports and Recreation
Tax evasion
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Violence
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: 
Keeping Families Together Act of 2007 - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (Act) to repeal the provision amending the definition of &quot;aggravated felony,&quot; and restore provisions of law amended by such provision as if it had not been enacted, including residency-or status-related rights of an affected legal alien.
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise detention of criminal alien provisions, effective as if included in the Act.
 
Repeals, as if included in the Act: (1) certain provisions respecting termination of continuous presence or physical presence in the United States; and (2) the definition of &quot;conviction.&quot;
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to admit certain lawfully admitted permanent resident aliens returning to the United States who temporarily proceeded abroad voluntarily and not under an order of deportation or removal, effective as of a specified date, as if certain sections of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 had not been enacted.
 
Revises provisions respecting judicial review of removal orders.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a post-proceeding removal relief process for affected aliens. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the collective bargaining rights and procedures for review of adverse actions of certain employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-4023
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Appellate courts
Collective bargaining
Department of Veterans Affairs
District courts
Employee rights
Employee-management relations in government
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grievance procedures
Judicial review
Labor and Employment
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: 
Repeals specified exceptions to rights of certain Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employees to engage in collective bargaining.
 
Requires a final decision of the (VA) with respect to the review of an adverse personnel action against a (VA) employee to be issued not later than 60 days after such action has been appealed. Subjects such decision to judicial review in the appropriate U.S. District Court or, if the decision is made by a labor arbitrator, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
Christopher Van Der Horn Military Survivors Mental Health Access Act

Bill: 110-hr-4024
Sponsor: Rep. Boozman, John [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Families
Health
Mental health services
Military dependents
Military medicine
Survivors' benefits
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: 
Christopher Van Der Horn Military Survivors Mental Health Access Act - Declares that preadmission authorization is not required for the first sixteen outpatient mental health visits for a dependent of a member of the Armed Forces who died while eligible to receive hostile fire pay or from a disease or injury incurred while eligible for such pay.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to clarify the minimum distribution under that Act to certain States and Indian tribes.

Bill: 110-hr-4025
Sponsor: Rep. Boyda, Nancy E. [D-KS-2]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Environmental Protection
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Mine wastes
Reclamation of land
Strip mining

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: 
Makes a technical amendment to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 with respect to minimum distributions from the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund to certain states and Indian tribes with approved abandoned mine reclamation programs.

Exempts from any other requirements or restrictions of such Act the requirement that the Secretary of the Interior ensure that grant awards for approved abandoned mine reclamation programs total at least $3 million annually to each state and each Indian tribe with an approved program (including those which otherwise do not meet the active mining threshold for full funding), as well as eligible land and water, so long as an allocation of funds to the state or tribe is necessary to achieve specified reclamation priorities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
Voter Access Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4026
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress
Congressional elections
Election administration
Identification devices
Photography
Presidential elections
Voting

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: 
Voter Access Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prohibit an election official from requiring an individual to provide a photo identification as a condition for receiving or casting a ballot in any election for federal office. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act so that it will be interpreted in accordance with the original intent of Congress to require a significant relationship be found between remains discovered on Federal lands and presently existing Native American tribes for those remains to be applicable under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

Bill: 110-hr-4027
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Doc [R-WA-4]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Archaeology
Arts, Culture, Religion
Cemeteries and funerals
Cultural property
Federal-Indian relations
Hawaiians
History
Minorities
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: 
Amends the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to redefine Native American to mean cultural items that have a significant and substantial genetic or cultural relationship, based on factors other than geography alone, to a presently existing tribe, people, or culture that is now indigenous to the United States.
 
Declares that nothing in such Act shall be deemed to restrict excavation, examination, investigation, or scientific study under the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 of any cultural item found on federal land that has not been determined to be the property of an Indian tribe or a Native Hawaiian organization. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H12351)
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
To reauthorize the Mni Wiconi Rural Water Supply Project.

Bill: 110-hr-4028
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Authorization
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
South Dakota
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: 
Amends the Mni Wiconi Project Act of 1988 to authorize appropriations for the Mni Wiconi Rural Water Supply Project, South Dakota, through 2013.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
Universal Homeowners' Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4029
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Local taxation
Property tax
State taxation
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: 
 Universal Homeowners' Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an additional standard tax deduction (available to taxpayers who do not itemize) for state and local real property taxes paid before January 1, 2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
Children's Chemical Risk Reduction Act

Bill: 110-hr-4030
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Birth defects
Carcinogens
Child development
Child health
Child safety
Environmental Protection
Families
Health
Plastics
Product safety
Reproduction
Toys

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: 
Children's Chemical Risk Reduction Act - Requires any children's product or child care article that contains a phthalate to be treated as a banned hazardous substance under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act. Applies certain prohibitions of that Act to such product article.
 
Provides that, if a manufacturer modifies a children's product or child care article that contains a phthalate to comply with such ban, it shall: (1) use an alternative to phthalates that is the least toxic; and (2) not use any of specified prohibited alternatives to phthalates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
To reduce temporarily the duty on PHBA.

Bill: 110-hr-4032
Sponsor: Rep. McHenry, Patrick T. [R-NC-10]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce temporarily the duty on PHBA.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
Golf Course Preservation and Modernization Act

Bill: 110-hr-4033
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Blacks
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Concessions
Discrimination in public facilities
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Golf
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Historic sites
History
Land transfers
Leases
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Segregation
Sports and Recreation
Sports facilities
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: 
Golf Course Preservation and Modernization Act - Requires the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service (NPS), to ensure that month-to-month concessions contracts are continued for the operation and maintenance of the Rock Creek, Langston, and East Potomac golf courses until the lease in force for East Potomac expires, at which time the lease entered into pursuant to this Act for the continued operation and maintenance of Rock Creek, Langston, and East Potomac as golf courses commences. 
 
Requires that such lease include the three golf courses in one lease agreement, and that they be operated and maintained in a manner that: (1) retains their historic nature; (2) at least two of the courses require fees related to use of the courses to be affordable; (3) may allow fees collected at one course to subsidize the maintenance and operation of at least one of the other courses; and (4) allows for a long-term ground lease on all three courses. 
 
Instructs the Secretary to solicit proposals, through a competitive process, to procure such lease. Authorizes the Secretary, after such solicitation, to enter into agreements to procure the lease. Specifies that the request for proposals be solicited in such a manner: (1) to provide that the lease be entered into not later than 180 days after this Act's effective date or not later than 30 days after expiration of the concession contract for East Potomac; and (2) which ensures the participation of disadvantaged business enterprises among the equity partners of the sponsors of the proposals. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2294-2295)
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
Lesser Prairie Chicken National Habitat Preservation Area Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4034
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Birds
Environmental Protection
Habitat conservation
Land transfers
Natural areas
New Mexico
Planning
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: 
Lesser Prairie Chicken National Habitat Preservation Area Act of 2007 - Requires the exchange of certain federal and non-federal lands in New Mexico concerning the establishment under this Act of the Lesser Prairie Chicken Habitat Preservation Area in the County of Chaves, New Mexico.

Establishes the Preservation Area for the protection, conservation, and enhancement of habitat for the lesser prairie chicken. Provides for such area to comprise certain public land in the county, as well as those non-federal lands acquired under the land exchange.

Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) only allow uses of the Preservation Area that will further the purposes for which it is established; and (2) acquire non-federal land in the Preservation Area only from a willing seller or through purchase, exchange, or donation.

Requires the Secretary to develop a plan for the long-range protection and management of the Preservation Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
To study, pilot, and implement a comprehensive, structural, market-based reform to the Federal Family Education Loan Program to reduce costs to taxpayers and improve program efficiency.

Bill: 110-hr-4035
Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Auctions
Congress
Congressional investigations
Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Interest rates
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: 
 Student Loan Auction Market Act - Directs the Secretary of Education (Secretary) and the Secretary of the Treasury to conduct a planning study of alternative market-based mechanisms for setting lenders' yields on Federal Family Education Loans under part B of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965. 

Requires such study to be followed by a limited two-year pilot program testing the mechanisms which the study finds most promising in ensuring loan availability, minimizing administrative complexity, and reducing federal costs. Allows the Secretary to implement on a program-wide basis the auction-based system proven to satisfy such criteria, after an independent evaluation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) of the pilot program, as well as the Competitive Loan Auction Pilot program established under the College Cost Reduction and Access Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2292)
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
Cents and Sensibility Act

Bill: 110-hr-4036
Sponsor: Rep. Roskam, Peter J. [R-IL-6]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Alloys
Coins and coinage
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Copper
Cost control
Economics and Public Finance
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Steel
Weights and measures

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: 
Cents and Sensibility Act - Revises the discretionary authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe the weight and the composition of the alloy of the one-cent coin.
 
Requires that the one-cent coin be: (1) produced primarily of steel; and (2) treated to impart a copper color to its appearance so that the appearance is similar to one-cent coins produced of a copper-zinc alloy.
 
Exempts from such requirement certain Lincoln Bicentennial numismatic pennies.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to report to certain congressional committees on a unified plan to change the metallic content of the five-cent, ten-cent, quarter-dollar and half-dollar circulating coins so as to return the ratios between the unit cost to produce such coins and their face value to a point where it is as close as possible to the historic production-cost-to-face-value ratios achieved in the 1980s.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Francisco Rivera and Alfonso Calderon.

Bill: 110-hr-4037
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Claims

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Provides for the relief of Francisco Rivera and Alfonso Calderon.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Adrian Rodriguez.

Bill: 110-hr-4038
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2007-10-31 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Claims

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Provides for the relief of Adrian Rodriguez.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-31
text: Introduced in House
Child Care Family Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4039
Sponsor: Rep. Barrow, John [D-GA-12]
Introduced: 2007-11-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adult day care
Caregivers
Day care
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Married people
Social Welfare
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: 
Child Care Family Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the rate of the tax credit for expenses for household and dependent care services; and (2) allow an inflation adjustment after 2007 to the adjusted gross income limitation applicable to such credit. Makes such increased tax credit permanent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Introduced in House