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Reduce Wasteful Tax Forms Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-636
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Brokers
Commerce
Corporate mergers
Corporate reorganizations
Dividends
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Interest
Labor and Employment
Pension funds
Securities
Stockholders
Tax administration
Tax returns
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Reduce Wasteful Tax Forms Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend until February 15 the annual deadline for reporting certain investment income to the Internal Revenue Service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2086)
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2085-2086)
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Chattahoochee Trace National Heritage Corridor Study Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-637
Sponsor: Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alabama
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural property
Environmental Protection
Georgia
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Nature conservation
Water Resources Development
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Chattahoochee Trace National Heritage Corridor Study Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to assess the suitability and feasibility of designating a specified study area in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin (Alabama and Georgia) as the &quot;Chattahoochee Trace National Heritage Corridor.&quot;

action_date: 2007-09-17
text: 
Chattahoochee Trace National Heritage Corridor Study Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of, and report on, the suitability and feasibility of designating a specified study area in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin (Alabama and Georgia) as the &quot;Chattahoochee Trace National Heritage Corridor.&quot; 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 355.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with amendments. With written report No. 110-157.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with amendments. With written report No. 110-157.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-73.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-638
Sponsor: Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Charities
Colleges
Education
Educational facilities
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Student activities
Student housing
Students
Tax deductions
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax-exempt charitable or educational organizations to make collegiate housing and infrastructure improvement grants to certain tax-exempt social clubs (e.g., college fraternities and sororities) so long as all of the active members of such clubs are full-time students at the college or university with which such clubs are associated. Defines &quot;collegiate housing and infrastructure grants&quot; to include grants to provide, improve, operate, or maintain collegiate housing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
ED 1.0 Act

Bill: 110-s-639
Sponsor: Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Alaska
Black colleges
Computer networks
Congressional reporting requirements
Depressed areas
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Educational technology
Federal aid to education
Hawaiians
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Indian education
Indigenous peoples
Minorities
Minority education
Native Americans
Science, Technology, Communications
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
ED 1.0 Act - Establishes a pilot program requiring the Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to award six-year grants to four minority-serving educational institutions, enabling them to develop digital and wireless networks for online programs of study within the institutions.
 
Gives grant priority to institutions serving counties: (1) that meet specified criteria of economic depression; (2) less than 18% of whose residents have a higher education; and (3) at least half of whose residents are minorities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2231)
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR 2/26/2007 S2231-2232)
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Men's Health Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-640
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Men

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Men's Health Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the Office of Men's Health to coordinate and promote the status of men's health in the United States. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Office, to: (1) conduct or support programs and activities to improve the state of men's health; and (2) provide for consultation among HHS offices and agencies to coordinate programs and activities relating to men's health.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to express the sense of Congress that no funds should be cut off or reduced for American troops in the field which would result in undermining their safety or their ability to complete their assigned missions.

Bill: 110-s-641
Sponsor: Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces abroad
Congress
Congress and military policy
Defense budgets
Economics and Public Finance
Government spending reductions
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military occupation
Military operations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Expresses the sense of Congress that Congress should not take any action that will endanger U.S. military forces in the field, including the elimination or reduction of funds for troops in the field, as such action would undermine their safety or harm their effectiveness in pursuing assigned missions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 45.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Disabled Veterans Insurance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-643
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Finance and Financial Sector
Government life insurance
Insurance premiums

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Disabled Veterans Insurance Act of 2007 - Increases from $20,000 to $40,000 the maximum amount of supplemental service disabled veterans' insurance for totally disabled veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2088)
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2087-2088)
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Total Force Educational Assistance Enhancement and Integration Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-644
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Apprenticeship
Armed forces abroad
Armed forces reserves
Compensatory education
Congressional reporting requirements
Correspondence schools and courses
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency Management
Employment tests
Flight training
Indexing (Economic policy)
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Mentoring
Military operations
Military training
National Guard
Recruiting and enlistment
Skilled labor
Veterans' education
Vocational and technical education
War

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Total Force Educational Assistance Enhancement and Integration Act of 2007 - Recodifies under federal veterans' benefits law (currently codified under federal armed forces law) provisions relating to educational assistance for members of the reserves. Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Secretary) (currently, the Secretary of each military department) to carry out such assistance. Makes eligible for such assistance under this Act those who, after October 1, 2008: (1) enlist or extend an enlistment in the Selected Reserve for not less than six years; or (1) are appointed or agree to serve in the Selected Reserve for at least six years. Includes under this Act those eligible for such assistance as of October 1, 2008. Increases monthly amounts of authorized assistance. Removes restrictions on the use of such assistance for apprenticeships and on-job training, flight training, licensing and certification tests, and individualized tutorial assistance.
 
Requires the Secretary (currently, the military department Secretaries) to provide educational assistance to reserve personnel ordered to active duty in response to a war or national emergency. Makes eligible for such assistance under this Act those who, on or after October 1, 2008: (1) serve on active duty in support of a contingency operation for 90 days or more; or (2) perform full-time National Guard duty for 90 days or more in response to a national emergency. Includes under this Act those eligible for such assistance as of October 1, 2008. Revises provisions concerning assistance amounts.
 
Requires funding for benefits accruing under this Act: (1) on or after October 1, 2008, to be made from funds available to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the payment of readjustment benefits; and (2) before such date from the Department of Defense Education Benefits Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to provide an alternate sulfur dioxide removal measurement for certain coal gasification project goals.

Bill: 110-s-645
Sponsor: Sen. Thomas, Craig [R-WY]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Coal
Environmental Protection
Sulphur dioxide

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to provide an alternate sulfur dioxide removal measurement for certain coal gasification project goals.
 
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to establish milestones for such projects so that by year 2020 they will be able to: (1) remove at least 99% of sulfur dioxide (as currently required); or, in the alternative, (2) emit not more than 0.04 pound SO2 per million Btu, based on a 30-day average.

action_date: 2007-09-17
text: 

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

Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to provide an alternate sulfur dioxide removal measurement for certain coal gasification project goals.

Instructs the Secretary of Energy to establish milestones for such projects so that by year 2020 they will be able to: (1) remove at least 99% of sulfur dioxide (as currently required); or, in the alternative, (2) emit not more than 0.04 pound SO2 per million Btu, based on a 30-day average.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 356.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. With written report No. 110-158.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. With written report No. 110-158.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-05-22
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-112.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Nursing Promotion Act

Bill: 110-s-646
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Alien labor
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational statistics
Emigration
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Immigrants
Immigration
International Affairs
International cooperation
Labor and Employment
Medical statistics
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing education
Physical therapy
Rural health
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Rural Nursing Promotion Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a Nurse Distance Education Pilot Program through which grants may be awarded for activities to increase accessibility to nursing education in order to: (1) provide assistance to individuals in rural areas who want to study nursing to enable such individuals to receive appropriate nursing education; (2) promote the study of nursing at all educational levels; (3) establish additional slots for nursing students at existing nursing education programs; and (4) establish new nursing education programs at institutions of higher education.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) report to Congress on the source of newly licensed nurses and physical therapists in each state; (2) contract with the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine to determine the necessary level of federal investment under the Public Health Service Act to eliminate the domestic nursing and physical therapist shortage; and (3) collaborate with other agencies in working with the five countries from which the most nurses and physical therapists arrived to address health worker shortages caused by emigration.

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt aliens seeking U.S. entry to perform labor in shortage occupations from worldwide and per-country numerical limitations through September 30, 2017. Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide for a process to review and make a determination upon a petition filed for immigrant status for such an alien within 30 days.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2088)
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2000-2002)
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
National Guard and Reserve Retirement Modernization Act

Bill: 110-s-648
Sponsor: Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Emergency Management
Health
Labor and Employment
Military civic action
Military operations
Military pensions
Retired military personnel
Retiree health benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
National Guard and Reserve Retirement Modernization Act - Amends federal law concerning receipt of retired pay for non-regular service to provide that, in the case of a member of the Ready Reserve who serves on active duty after September 11, 2001, in support of a contingency operation or in response to a national emergency, retirement eligibility age shall be reduced below 60 by three months for each aggregate of 90 days during which the member so performs in any fiscal year after such date. Prohibits such retirement eligibility date from being reduced below age 50. Continues age 60 as the minimum eligibility age for DOD-authorized health care for such retirees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to conduct an independent safety assessment of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant.

Bill: 110-s-649
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Governmental investigations
Maine
New York State
Nuclear power plants
Planning
Radiation safety
Radioactive pollution
Risk

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Requires the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to report to Congress regarding: (1) an in-depth Independent Safety Assessment of the design, construction, maintenance, and operational safety performance of the systems at the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, Reactors 2 and 3, located in Westchester County, New York; and (2) a comprehensive evaluation of the radiological emergency plan for Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, Reactors 2 and 3, conducted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Homeland Security. 
 
Requires the Independent Safety Assessment conducted at Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant to equal in depth and breadth the Independent Safety Assessment of the Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, located near Bath, Maine, conducted by the NRC in 1996.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Nevada Test Site Veterans' Compensation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-650
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Cancer
Claims
Compensation (Law)
Department of Energy
Energy
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government liability
Health
Ionizing radiation
Law
Leukemia
Nevada
Nuclear weapons
Occupational health and safety
Radiation victims

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Nevada Test Site Veterans' Compensation Act of 2007 - Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to include within the definition of a &quot;member of the Special Exposure Cohort&quot; under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program a Department of Energy (DOE) employee, contractor employee, or atomic weapons employee who was so employed at the Nevada Test Site or other similar sites located in Nevada during the period of January 1, 1950, to December 31, 1993, who contracted an occupational illness, basal cell carcinoma, or chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and who met one of other specified criteria during such employment.

Establishes deadlines for claims adjudication.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2099-2100)
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate
PLAY Every Day Act

Bill: 110-s-651
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Bicycles
Body weight
Child health
Community health services
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Health education
Infants
Physical education and training
Physical fitness
Playgrounds
Preschool education
School health programs
Sports and Recreation
Trails
Walking

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Promoting Lifelong Active Communities Every Day Act or the PLAY Every Day Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to develop the Community Play Index to measure the policy, program, or environmental barriers in communities to participating in physical activity. Requires the Index to include: (1) measurements that examine barriers to physical activities across multiple settings; and (2) measurements to assist economically and culturally diverse communities in examining the social determinants of health.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director, to award grants to state health departments for work in partnership with community-based coalitions to plan and implement model communities of play that: (1) increase the physical spaces and places available for physical activity; (2) increase the opportunities for children and families to participate in quality play and the number of children and families participating in quality play; and (3) increase knowledge and awareness about the importance of individuals achieving 60 minutes of recommended physical activity every day.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2100-2101)
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in Senate