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A bill to increase the number of Federal judgeships, in accordance with recommendations by the Judicial Conference, in districts that have an extraordinarily high immigration caseload.

Bill: 110-s-389
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2007-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Congress
Crime and Law Enforcement
District courts
Government Operations and Politics
Immigration
Judges
Presidential appointments

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: 
Directs the President to appoint additional district court judges as are necessary to carry out the 2005 recommendations of the Judicial Conference for district courts in which the criminal immigration filings represented more than 50% of all criminal filings for the 12-month period ending September 30, 2004.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1191)
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1190-1191)
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Utah Recreational Land Exchange Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-390
Sponsor: Sen. Bennett, Robert F. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2007-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Commemorations
Environmental Protection
Grazing
Land transfers
Landscape protection
National monuments
Natural areas
Real estate appraisal
Recreation areas
Sports and Recreation
Utah
Water Resources Development
Water rights

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: 
Utah Recreational Land Exchange Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey specified federal land to the State of Utah in exchange for specified non-federal land in Grand, San Juan, and Uintah Counties, Utah. 
 
Sets forth provisions regarding the administration of the land after the exchange, including mineral leasing and occupancy, grazing permits, and hazardous materials.

action_date: 2008-09-16
text: 
Utah Recreational Land Exchange Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey specified federal land in Grand, San Juan, and Uintah Counties, Utah, to the state of Utah in exchange for specified non-federal land in such counties. Requires the conveyance to be in three phases.
 
 Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) land valuation, appraisal, and equalization; and (2) land administration, including water rights, hazardous materials, oil shale resources, mineral leasing, and revenues.
 
Requires the conveyance of certain federal land to be subject to a 1,000-foot wide scenic easement and a 200-foot wide road of right-of-way previously granted to the National Park Service (NPS) for the Dinosaur National Monument.
 
Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 973.
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-09-11
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-91.
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1191-1192)
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
COAST Anti-Drilling Act

Bill: 110-s-391
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2007-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Atlantic Ocean
Continental shelf
Gas in submerged lands
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mining leases
Ocean mining
Oil and gas leases
Petroleum in submerged lands
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Submarine oil well drilling

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Clean Ocean and Safe Tourism Anti-Drilling Act, or the COAST Anti-Drilling Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing a lease for the exploration, development, or production of oil, natural gas, or any other mineral in either the Mid-Atlantic or the North Atlantic planning areas.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to ensure payment of United States assessments for United Nations peacekeeping operations for the 2005 through 2008 time period.

Bill: 110-s-392
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2007-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
International military forces
Peacekeeping forces
United Nations finances

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: 
Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 to provide for U.S. payments for 2005-2008 U.N. peacekeeping operations at 27.1%. (Current law provides for a 25% payment rate.) 
 
(Amends the Department of State and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2005 to repeal the provision providing for 2005 payments at 27.1%.)

action_date: 2007-07-16
text: 

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

 
Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 to provide for U.S. payments for 2005-2008 U.N. peacekeeping operations at 27.1%. (Current law provides for a 25% payment rate.) 
 
(Amends the Department of State and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2005 to repeal the provision providing for 2005 payments at 27.1%.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 271.
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Biden without amendment. With written report No. 110-130.
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Biden without amendment. With written report No. 110-130.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1192)
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Emergency Local Law Enforcement Byrne Assistance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-393
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2007-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Community policing
Crimes against women
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Violence
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: 
Emergency Local Law Enforcement Byrne Assistance Act of 2007 - Transfers unexpended funds for certain grants administered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, the Office of Justice Programs, and the Office on Violence Against Women to the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1193)
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1192-1193)
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Downed Animal and Food Safety Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-394
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural industries
Animal diseases
Animals
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Agriculture
Euthanasia
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Labeling
Law
Livestock
Meat inspection
Meat packing industry
Protection of animals
Veterinary medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: 
Downed Animal and Food Safety Protection Act of 2007 - States that it is U.S. policy that all nonambulatory livestock in interstate and foreign commerce be immediately and humanely euthanized when such livestock become nonambulatory. 
 
Amends the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act of 1958 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate regulations providing for the humane treatment, handling, and disposition of nonambulatory livestock by a covered entity, including a requirement that nonambulatory livestock be humanely euthanized. 
 
Requires an entity to: (1) humanely euthanize nonambulatory livestock (while not limiting the Secretary's ability to test nonambulatory livestock for disease, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy); and (2) not move nonambulatory livestock while such livestock is conscious, and ensure that such livestock remains unconscious until death.
 
Prohibits an inspector at an establishment covered by the Federal Meat Inspection Act to pass nonambulatory livestock, carcass, or carcass parts through inspection. Requires an inspector or other employee at such establishment to label such material as &quot;inspected and condemned.&quot;
 
Defines "covered entity," &quot;nonambulatory livestock,&quot; and "humanely euthanize." 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1194)
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1193-1194)
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require States and Indian tribes to designate specific highway routes over which hazardous materials may be transported.

Bill: 110-s-395
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Transportation
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Indian lands
Law
Minorities
Traffic accidents and safety
Transportation of hazardous substances

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: 
Requires states and Indian tribes (authorized under current law) to designate specific highway routes over which hazardous materials may be transported. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat controlled foreign corporations in tax havens as domestic corporations.

Bill: 110-s-396
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2007-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Income tax
Tax shelters
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat certain controlled foreign corporations created or organized under the laws of a tax-haven country as domestic corporations for tax purposes. Sets forth a list of &quot;tax-haven countries&quot; and grants the Secretary of the Treasury authority to remove or add a country from such list. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1265)
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1194-1195)
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Tax Equity and Affordability Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-397
Sponsor: Sen. Martinez, Mel [R-FL]
Introduced: 2007-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: 
Tax Equity and Affordability Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow individual taxpayers a refundable tax credit for health insurance costs paid for the benefit of the taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, and dependents; (2) require business taxpayers who receive payments for certain employee health insurance coverage to file informational returns; (3) direct the Secretary of the Treasury to make advance payments of health insurance tax credit amounts to health insurance providers; and (4) limit the tax exclusion for employer-provided health care coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to include podiatrists as physicians for purposes of covering physicians services under the Medicaid program.

Bill: 110-s-399
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2007-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicaid
Medical fees
Physicians
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to include podiatrists as physicians in order to cover their services under the Medicaid program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-16
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 110-472.
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1198)
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Michelle's Law

Bill: 110-s-400
Sponsor: Sen. Sununu, John E. [R-NH]
Introduced: 2007-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Education
Employee health benefits
Evidence (Law)
Families
Health insurance continuation
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Law
Leave of absence
Sick leave
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: 
Michelle's Law - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit a group health plan or health insurance coverage offered in connection with such a plan from terminating the coverage of a dependent child due to a medically necessary leave of absence from a postsecondary educational institution that causes the child to lose full-time status before the date that is the earlier of: (1) one year after the first day of the leave of absence; or (2) the date on which such coverage would otherwise terminate under the terms of the plan. Requires documentation and a certification by a physician. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1198-1199)
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Keep Children Covered Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-401
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2007-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Health insurance
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: 
Keep Children Covered Act of 2007 - Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to allot to each remaining shortfall state the amount that the Secretary determines will eliminate the estimated shortfall for the SCHIP program for the state for FY2007. Makes necessary appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Timber Tax Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-402
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2007-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Income tax
Lumber trade
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tax deductions
Timber sales

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: 
Timber Tax Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction (available to taxpayers whether or not they itemize deductions) for up to 60% of gains from certain sales or exchanges of timber.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that reimbursements for costs of using passenger automobiles for charitable and other organizations are excluded from gross income, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-403
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Automobiles
Charitable contributions
Charities
Crime and Law Enforcement
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Income tax
Law
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Social Welfare
Tax evasion
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Tax-exempt organizations
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that volunteers who use their automobiles for the benefit of a charitable organization may exclude from their gross income reimbursements for their automobile operating expenses at the same level as business employees (i.e., 48.5 cents per mile in 2007). 

Increases criminal sanctions and monetary penalties for: (1) underpayments or overpayments of tax due to fraud; (2) attempts to evade or defeat tax; (3) willful failure to file tax returns, supply information, or pay tax; and (4) fraud and false statements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1238-1239)
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1238)
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Country of Origin Labeling Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-404
Sponsor: Sen. Thomas, Craig [R-WY]
Introduced: 2007-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agriculture in foreign trade
Animals
Aquaculture
Commerce
Fishes
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Imports
Labeling
Marketing of farm produce
Meat
Peanuts
Seafood
Sheep
Swine

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: 
Country of Origin Labeling Act of 2007 - Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to change the country of origin labeling implementation date from September 30, 2008, to September 30, 2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1239)
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1239)
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Title I Integrity Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-405
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Arts, Culture, Religion
Books
Compensatory education
Computers
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational technology
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Preschool education
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student transportation
Teacher education
Teacher salaries
Teachers
Teaching
Teaching materials
Textbooks
Transportation and Public Works
Year round schools

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: 
Title I Integrity Act of 2007 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require local educational agencies (LEAs) to use only for direct or indirect instructional services any funds received under the program established to ensure that students make adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward state academic performance standards. 
 
Limits to 10% the portion of such funds that LEAs may use for indirect instructional services.
 
Sets forth the types of direct and indirect instructional services for which such funds may be used.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1240)
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1239-1240)
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Transit System Flexibility Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-406
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2007-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Mass rapid transit
Motor buses
Urban affairs
Urban areas
Urban transportation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: 
Transit System Flexibility Protection Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make public transportation formula grants for operating costs of equipment and facilities for use in public transportation in an urbanized area with a population of more than 200,000 if such public transportation system operates less than 100 buses on fixed route service during peak hours.


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
A bill to amend the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to designate a portion of Interstate Route 14 as a high priority corridor, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-407
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2007-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Alabama
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Georgia
Governmental investigations
Highway finance
Infrastructure
Interstate highway system
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
Road construction
South Carolina
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-26
text: 
Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to designate the Interstate Route 14 corridor from Wilmington, North Carolina, westward to El Paso, Texas, as a high priority corridor on the National Highway System.


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: Introduced in Senate