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To amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to increase the salary of the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia.

Bill: 110-hr-2081
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Chief financial officers
District of Columbia
Local officials
Salaries

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: 
Amends the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to increase the salary of the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia to 150% of the rate of basic pay for level I of the Executive Schedule.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to improve energy standards for home appliances, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-2083
Sponsor: Rep. Gordon, Bart [D-TN-6]
Introduced: 2007-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Energy
Electric appliances
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Gas appliances
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Refrigeration
Water Resources Development
Water conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: 
Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to direct the Secretary of Energy to publish a final rule not later than December 31, 2010, determining whether to amend the standards in effect for refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers, and freezers manufactured on or after January 1, 2014.
 
Prescribes specified energy and water factors for: (1) residential clothes washers manufactured on or after January 1, 2011; and (2) dishwashers manufactured on or after January 1, 2010.
 
Requires dehumidifiers manufactured on or after October 1, 2012, to meet or exceed specified energy factor values.
 
Moves up from January 1, 2010, to January 1, 2009, the effective date for new qualifying levels for clothes washers the Secretary is required to establish.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
To enhance the integrity of the United States against the threat of terrorism.

Bill: 110-hr-2086
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, David [R-TN-1]
Introduced: 2007-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Border patrols
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Immigration
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Local employees
Police training
State employees
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: 
Authorizes appropriations for FY2008 for enhancing the integrity of the United States against the threat of terrorism.
 
Requires such funds to be used by the Secretary of Homeland Security to reimburse a state or political subdivision for expenses incurred when law enforcement officers or employees of such state or subdivision receive training to perform border security and immigration enforcement functions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
No Child Left Behind Reform Act

Bill: 110-hr-2087
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2007-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Computer software
Computers
Continuing education
Data banks
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Educational technology
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Identification devices
Labor and Employment
Licenses
Rating of teachers
Recruiting of employees
School administration
School choice
School districts
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Special education
Student enrollment
Student records
Teacher education
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: 
No Child Left Behind Reform Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to allow states to include measures of individual or cohort growth over time in determining whether students are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward state academic performance standards. Eliminates the consideration of student attendance rates.
 
Allows schools to be given credit for performing well on measures other than test scores when calculating student achievement.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive: (1) grants to state educational agencies to develop or increase the capacity of data systems for accountability purposes; and (2) subgrants to increase the capacity of local educational agencies to upgrade, create, or manage information databases for the purpose of measuring AYP.
 
 Allows schools to target school choice and supplemental services to the students who are members of specified types of groups that fail to make AYP. Requires placement and service in the least restrictive environment for students who receive services under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act who use an option to transfer under ESEA.
 
Revises the definition of highly qualified teacher to authorize states to: (1) use a generalist exam for middle school teachers; and (2) issue certificates that qualify teachers to teach a number of subjects in social studies or in science. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide cost-share payments in support of on-farm water conservation projects to enhance regional water availability and quality.

Bill: 110-hr-2088
Sponsor: Rep. Everett, Terry [R-AL-2]
Introduced: 2007-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agricultural pollution
Agricultural subsidies
Construction costs
Cost effectiveness
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Groundwater
Irrigation
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Water pollution control
Water storage

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) provide cost-share payments to agricultural producers for water conservation projects on farms involving the construction, improvement, or maintenance of irrigation ponds and the implementation of other measures that improve groundwater and surface water conservation; and (2) administer such payments as part of the environmental quality incentives program. 
 
Bases project priority on: (1) irrigation cost effectiveness (in cases of comparable project purposes); and (2) control of surface water runoff. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E905-906)
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2090
Sponsor: Rep. Kline, John [R-MN-2]
Introduced: 2007-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Families
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Labor and Employment
Military dependents
National Guard
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' employment

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: 
Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a national combat veteran reintegration program (to be known as the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program) to provide National Guard members and their families with information, services, referral, and outreach opportunities throughout the entire deployment cycle. Requires the Program to consist of informational events and activities for such members, their families, and community members through the following phases of the deployment cycle: (1) pre-deployment; (2) deployment; (3) demobilization; and (4) post-deployment-reconstitution.
 
Requires the: (1) National Guard Bureau to establish the Office for Reintegration Programs to administer state National Guard reintegration programs; and (2) Bureau Chief to establish a Center for Excellence in Reintegration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow bonds guaranteed by the Federal home loan banks to be treated as tax exempt bonds.

Bill: 110-hr-2091
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2007-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bonds
Economics and Public Finance
Federal home loan banks
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow bonds guaranteed by any federal home loan bank to be treated as tax-exempt state or local bonds (thus excluding interest on such bonds from gross income).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Education for All Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2092
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2007-05-01 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Department of State
Developing countries
Economic assistance
Education
Educational planning
Elementary and secondary education
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Nongovernmental organizations
Scholarships

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: 
Education for All Act of 2007 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to state that it is U.S. policy to work with foreign countries and international and civil society organizations to increase the global commitment to achieving universal basic education by assisting: (1) developing countries to provide all children with a quality basic education; and (2) nongovernmental and multilateral organizations working in developing countries to provide all children with a quality basic education. 
 
Directs the President to develop a comprehensive U.S. strategy to promote universal basic education by 2015. 
 
Authorizes the President to provide funds and other assistance to qualifying foreign countries to create the policies, processes, and infrastructure to develop national basic education plans. 
 
Authorizes the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to establish an education fellowship program to increase the expertise of USAID personnel in promoting universal basic education.
 
Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to establish within the Department of State a Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Provide Education for All in Developing Countries, who shall shall have primary responsibility for the oversight and coordination of all U.S. government resources and international activities to promote universal basic education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to provide for additional reporting by lobbying firms.

Bill: 110-hr-2093
Sponsor: Rep. Meehan, Martin T. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2007-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advertising
Congress
Government paperwork
Lobbying
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: 
Amends the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (LDA) to revise the definition of &quot;lobbying activities&quot; (for purposes of a lobbying firm only) to include paid communications campaigns to influence the general public to lobby Congress.
 
Redefines &quot;lobbying firm&quot; to include a person or entity retained by one or more clients (other than that person or entity) to engage in paid communications campaigns to influence the general public to lobby Congress, and receives income of, or spends or agrees to spend, an aggregate of $100,000 or more for such efforts in any quarterly period.
 
Defines &quot;paid communications campaigns to influence the general public to lobby Congress&quot; as efforts by a lobbying firm, on behalf of a client, to influence the general public or its segments to contact one or more covered legislative or executive branch officials (or Congress generally) to urge them to take specific action regarding a specific matter. Excludes from the meaning of such communications: (1) any made to the members of the client; or (2) direct mail communications to the general public or its segments made primarily to recruit members to join an organization.
 
Sets forth LDA registration and reporting requirements of such lobbying firms.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Freedom to Bank Act

Bill: 110-hr-2096
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2007-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts
Bank deposits
Commerce
Consumer protection
Credit unions
Debtor and creditor
Electronic data interchange
Financial statements
Fines (Penalties)
Law
Saving and investment
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: 
Freedom to Bank Act - Terminates any provision of federal law (other than the Internal Revenue Code) that subjects a consumer to a penalty for withdrawing or transferring funds from any transaction account or any savings or time deposit.
 
Declares that no creditor, depository institution, or credit union shall be required to provide periodic statements of account to a customer unless the customer has notified it of an election to receive such statements.
 
Requires such entities to establish a procedure for notifying customers of their right to elect to receive statements of account and the method for implementing such election.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E898-899)
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Responsibility, and Opportunity Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2097
Sponsor: Rep. Rothman, Steven R. [D-NJ-9]
Introduced: 2007-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Authorization
College costs
Compensatory education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Family planning and birth control
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Parent and child
Physical education and training
Scholarships
Secondary education
Sex education
Sexual abstinence
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Teenage pregnancy
Women
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: 
Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Responsibility, and Opportunity Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to local educational agencies, state and local public health agencies, and nonprofit private entities for projects to provide education on preventing teen pregnancies. Gives priority to communities with significantly above averages rates of teen pregnancy. Requires the Secretary to establish criteria to evaluate such projects.
 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to increase authorized appropriations for community learning centers. Authorizes appropriations for physical education programs.
 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to reauthorize appropriations for TRIO and GEARUP programs.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to make matching grants to public or nonprofit private entities for demonstrating innovative approaches to prevent teen pregnancies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the disposition of the Federal property located in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, a portion of which is currently used by the District of Columbia as the Oak Hill juvenile detention facility.

Bill: 110-hr-2098
Sponsor: Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3]
Introduced: 2007-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Building construction
Construction costs
Correctional institutions
Crime and Law Enforcement
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal-city relations
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Juvenile delinquency
Land transfers
Leases
Maryland
National parks
Parks
Recreation areas
Sports and Recreation
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: 
Provides for the disposition of the federal property located in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, a portion of which is currently used by the District of Columbia as the Oak Hill juvenile detention facility. 
 
Requires the transfer of specified portions of the property to: (1) the National Park Service; (2) the Secretary of the Army (acting through the Chief of Engineers) for use by the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA); and (3) the Administrator of General Services, who shall in turn convey that portion to Anne Arundel County, Maryland, for parkland and recreational use.
 
Requires the NSA Director, as a condition of the transfer, to enter into an agreement with the Mayor of the District of Columbia under which: (1) Oak Hill juvenile detention facility shall be closed; and (2) NSA shall pay (with reimbursement by Anne Arundel County) for the construction of a replacement facility at a site to be determined, with priority given to a location within the District of Columbia.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E917)
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
Protect Consumers Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2099
Sponsor: Rep. Sutton, Betty [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2007-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Agriculture and Food
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Cosmetics and personal care
Defective products
Department of Health and Human Services
Drugs
Electronics
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Food safety
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Health
Law
Medical supplies
Product safety
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: 
Protect Consumers Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, upon a determination that it is necessary to implement a mandatory recall of any product regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to issue an order requiring the appropriate person to: (1) immediately cease distribution, manufacture, and sale of such product; (2) immediately provide notice to individuals subject to the risks associated with the use of such product; and (3) implement an immediate recall of such product.
 
Directs that the order shall provide for an informal hearing within ten days.
 
Treats the failure to obey such an order as a prohibited act under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
 
Requires the Secretary to study and implement new procedures for voluntary and mandatory recalls.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in House