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Secondhand Smoke Education and Outreach Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2005
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Apartment houses
Child health
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Grants-in-aid
Health education
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Medical education
National parks
Parks
Playgrounds
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Smoking

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Secondhand Smoke Education and Outreach 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: (1) educational campaigns on the health consequences of secondhand smoke in multiunit housing; and (2) projects to demonstrate ways of educating the public about the health consequences of secondhand smoking in public spaces, including public parks, playgrounds, and national parks.
 
Directs the Secretary to award grants for regional or local education programs to provide health care providers and workers with minimum tobacco cessation training as part of their ongoing education. Allows the Secretary to contract, where appropriate, with public health organizations for evaluations of tobacco dependence treatment and educational programs under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10933-10935)
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Rate Payer Recovery Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2006
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Disaster relief
Electric power distribution
Electric power production
Emergency Management

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Rate Payer Recovery Act of 2007 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to cite conditions under which the President is authorized to make disaster assistance contributions for the repair, restoration, reconstruction, or replacement of private or investor-owned power transmission and distribution facilities damaged or destroyed by a major disaster.
 
Cites conditions for large in-lieu contributions to a private or investor-owned power facility in any case in which the owner determines that the public welfare would not best be served by repairing, restoring, reconstructing, or replacing the facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S11577, S11614)
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S11577, S11614)
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Equity and Accessibility Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2007
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Insurance premiums
Medical fees
Medical malpractice
Medicare
Physicians
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Medicare Equity and Accessibility Act of 2007 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to certain factors and indices in geographic adjustments to the fee schedule for determination of payments for physicians' services.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to increase the practice expense geographic index to 1.0 for any location for which the practice expense geographic index is less than 1.0.
 
Repeals the current termination date in order to extend permanently the 1.0 floor for the work expense geographic index.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
HOME Act

Bill: 110-s-2008
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Farmers
Federal aid to housing
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Home ownership
Home repair and improvement
Housing for the disabled
Income
Low-income housing
Mortgages
Rural housing
Single family housing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Home Ownership Made Easier Act or the HOME Act - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to revise eligibility, qualifying population limit, guarantee fee, and refinancing requirements of the Doug Bereuter Section 502 Single Family Housing Loan Guarantee Program.

Replaces the current 115% of area median income eligibility limit for families with three income tiers, including households of up to four members, of up to eight members, and of over eight members.

Repeals the requirement that the loan applicant qualify for other specified federal housing loans as well. Requires the single-family residence acquired or constructed with such a loan to be located in a rural area (as under current law), but allows the area population to range up to 40,000.

Increases from 1% to 2% of the principal obligation of a guaranteed loan the guarantee fee which the Secretary may collect from the lender.

Permits the refinancing of a guaranteed loan to: (1) pay off any other loan (including a first or second purchase mortgage) not made or guaranteed under such Act; (2) repair mechanical or structural deficiencies to the borrower's residence; (3) pay for authorized closing costs, including a discount of up to 200 basis points and an origination fee of up to 100 basis points; (4) allow the borrower to consolidate debts of up to the greater of $10,000 or 10% percent of the loan amount; and (5) carry out other authorized purposes.

Prohibits denial of a loan or loan guarantee to an eligible borrower solely because the borrower is not eligible (or is eligible and has not applied for) assistance under any other federal loan, housing, housing assistance, or other housing related program.

Makes $2,400 the mandatory exclusion amount in the adjusted income of minors, students, and persons with disabilities under the farm housing financial assistance program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10935)
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize additional funds for emergency repairs and reconstruction of the Interstate I-35 bridge located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that collapsed on August 1, 2007, to waive the $100,000,000 limitation on emergency relief funds for those emergency repairs and reconstruction, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-2009
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Bridges
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal aid to transportation
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Highway maintenance
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Interstate highway system
Minnesota
Road construction
Traffic engineering

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a project for the repair and reconstruction of the Interstate I-35 bridge located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that collapsed on August 1, 2007.
 
Makes the federal share of the project cost 100%.
 
Authorizes appropriations.
 
Waives, for such project, the $100 million per state single-failure (or, single-disaster) highway-related total obligation limitation.
 
Amends the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users to authorize the Secretary to: (1) use such single-failure (or, single-disaster) highway-related funds for the repair and reconstruction of the Interstate I-35 bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that collapsed on August 1, 2007; and (2) use up to $5 million of such funds to reimburse the Minnesota state department of transportation for actual and necessary costs of maintenance and operation (less the amount of fares earned) for providing additional public transportation services and traveler information services as a substitute for highway traffic service following the collapse of the Interstate I-35 bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on August 1, 2007, until highway traffic service is restored on such bridge. Makes the federal share of the project cost 100%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Private Prison Information Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2010
Sponsor: Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [ID-CT]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Correctional institutions
Freedom of information
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government service contracts
Law
Prison administration
Prisoners' rights
Prisons

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Private Prison Information Act of 2007 - Provides that each nongovernmental entity contracting with the federal government to incarcerate or detain federal prisoners or detainees in a privately-owned prison or other detention facility shall have the same duty to release information about the operation of that facility as a federal agency operating such a facility would have under the Freedom of Information Act. Authorizes any party aggrieved by a violation of that duty to obtain relief in a civil action.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill entitled "The Protect America Act of 2007".

Bill: 110-s-2011
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appellate procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Counterintelligence
Courts of special jurisdiction
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Electronic surveillance
Law
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Telecommunication industry
Warrants (Law)

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Protect America Act of 2007 - Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to provide that a court order is not required for the electronic surveillance of communication between persons who are not located within the United States for collecting foreign intelligence information, without respect to whether the communication passes through the United States or the surveillance device is located within the United States.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General (AG) to apply to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (Court) for an order, or the extension of an order, authorizing for up to one year the electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes of persons outside the United States.
 
Allows the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the AG to authorize the immediate electronic surveillance (without prior Court order) of persons reasonably believed to be outside the United States if: (1) the DNI and AG determine that it is in the U.S. national security interest to begin such surveillance; and (2) the AG submits to the Court, within five days after the commencement of the surveillance, a certification of and application for such surveillance.
 
Authorizes the AG, with respect to an authorized surveillance, to issue a directive to a communications service provider, custodian, or other person to: (1) furnish all appropriate information, facilities, and assistance necessary to accomplish the surveillance; and (2) maintain under security procedures any surveillance records.
 
Directs the Inspector General to report to the congressional intelligence and judiciary committees on surveillance conducted during the previous four-month period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-25
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Ordered placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 332.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Pursuant to the order of August 3, 2007, having failed to achieve the required 60 votes in the affirmative, the measure was ordered to be placed on the calendar.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Failed of passage in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 43 - 45. Record Vote Number: 310.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Failed of passage/not agreed to in Senate: Failed of passage in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 43 - 45. Record Vote Number: 310.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S10861-10872)
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Agricultural Emergency Financial Assistance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2012
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural subsidies
Animals
Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Indemnity
Livestock

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Agricultural Emergency Financial Assistance Act of 2007 - Amends the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 to extend the date for which emergency crop assistance and livestock indemnity payments and livestock compensation program assistance is available for disaster-caused losses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Patient and Pharmacy Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2013
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Drugs
Forgery
Health care fraud
Medicaid
Security measures
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007, to: (1) apply the required use of tamper-resistant prescription pads under the Medicaid Program at first only to Controlled Substances Act schedule II narcotic drugs prescribed after September 30, 2007; and (2) delay the application of the requirement to other covered outpatient prescription drugs until after March 31, 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10935-10936)
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for statewide longitudinal data systems to improve elementary and secondary education, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-2014
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Armed Forces and National Security
Charter schools
Child welfare
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Computer matching
Continuing education
Crime prevention
Criminal justice information
Curricula
Data banks
Disabled
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational research
Educational statistics
Educational technology
Educational tests
Electronic data interchange
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Higher education
Identification devices
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Personnel records
Rating of teachers
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Student records
Teacher education
Teachers
Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive five-year matching grants to states to build or upgrade statewide pre- through high-school longitudinal data systems that include: (1) unique and consistent statewide student identifiers; (2) the ability to track student participation and performance over time; (3) unique and consistent statewide teacher identifiers that match student records to the appropriate teacher; and (4) the ability to link their data to data from higher education, workforce development, unemployment insurance, child welfare, juvenile justice, and military services information systems. 
 
Increases the state match required as a grant matures.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award matching grants to states to build the capacity of educators and policymakers, at the local educational agency and school level, to use data and data systems by: (1) training educational personnel to effectively collect, report, and use data; (2) developing processes to analyze and disseminate the best approaches for using the data systems to enhance teaching and learning; and (3) aligning statewide longitudinal data systems with local student information management systems and curriculum or instructional management systems.
 
Provides such funding as is necessary to support a state education data center and state educational data coordinators.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Promoting Fully Informed Investment Decision Making Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2015
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil service retirement
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Federal employees
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Independent regulatory commissions
Information disclosure (Securities law)
International Affairs
International cooperation
Investments
Labor and Employment
Law
Mutual funds
Pension funds
Securities and Exchange Commission
Securities regulation
State-sponsored terrorism
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Promoting Fully Informed Investment Decision Making Act of 2007 - Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to: (1) report to Congress on business activities carried out with state sponsors of terrorism; and (2) issue regulations to require disclosure by all persons required to make filings under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 regarding any business activity of more than $20 million in or with a country that is a state sponsor of terrorism, or an instrumentality of such country. 
 
Instructs the Comptroller General to report to Congress on: (1) the completeness of the SEC report; (2) the names of such persons included in each of the major investable financial market indices and the holdings of the Federal Thrift Savings Plan; and (3) the nature of the activities concerned, and the value of U.S. government active contracting with such persons for the procurement of goods or services.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the U.S. Trade Representative, the Chairman of the SEC, the Secretary of State, and other relevant representatives of the U.S. government should encourage U.S. allies to implement disclosure standards similar to those required by this Act for the securities exchanges of those countries.
 
Amends the Investment Company Act of 1940 to prohibit civil, criminal, or administrative action against any registered investment company based solely upon its divesting from, or avoiding investing in, securities issued by persons that have business ties to a state sponsor of terrorism.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Sopuruchi Chukwueke.

Bill: 110-s-2016
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-09-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-04
text: Provides for the relief of Sopuruchi Chukwueke.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-09-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to allow the Department of Housing and Urban Development to better serve persons with limited proficiency in the English language by providing technical assistance to recipients of Federal funds.

Bill: 110-s-2018
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2007-09-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
English language
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to housing
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Science, Technology, Communications
Telephone
Translating and interpreting

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-05
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to take specified actions to allow the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to better serve persons with limited English proficiency by providing technical assistance to recipients of federal funds.
 
Requires the Secretary to convene a task force to identify vital documents for translation to improve the access of such individuals to federally conducted and federally assisted programs and activities.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) produce such translations and make them available on the HUD website; (2) develop and carry out a plan for providing HUD resources to assist federal funds recipients to improve the access of such individuals to programs and activities; and (3) develop a housing information resource center, with a 24-hour toll-free interpretation service telephone line, which may provide vital documents from competent translation services for housing services providers.
 
Requires the center to: (1) operate a document clearinghouse; (2) evaluate best-practices models; and (3) provide information relating to culturally and linguistically competent housing services for populations with limited English proficiency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-09-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the imposition and collection of tolls on certain highways constructed using Federal funds.

Bill: 110-s-2019
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2007-09-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Bridges
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Highway finance
Interstate highway system
Toll roads
Tunnels

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-05
text: 
Prohibits, with a specified exception, the imposition or collection of a toll on any portion of a federal highway facility: (1) that is in existence upon enactment of this Act; and (2) on which no toll is imposed or collected under a tolling provision on such enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-09-05
text: Introduced in Senate