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Enhancing the Stature and Visibility of Medical Rehabilitation Research at the NIH Act

(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to revise requirements for medical rehabilitation research.

The purpose of the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR) is revised to include coordination of research and research training.

The NCMRR must develop and periodically update a comprehensive research plan for medical rehabilitation research. Currently, this research plan is developed and updated by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Prior to updating the research plan, the NCMRR must report on progress in achieving the goals and objectives described in the plan.

The Medical Rehabilitation Coordinating Committee must periodically host a scientific conference or workshop on medical rehabilitation research.

Date: 2015-03-19
Topic: Health (R&D)
Subject: Health
Advancing Research for Neurological Diseases Act of 2016

(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to improve the collection of epidemiological and surveillance data on neurological diseases and conditions. HHS may provide support to public or nonprofit entities for such purpose. Collected data must be made available for biomedical research.

Date: 2015-03-24
Topic: Health (R&D)
Subject: Health
Wounded Warrior Research Enhancement Act

This bill directs the Secretary of Defense to award research grants for:

 actions that can be taken to prevent amputation of limbs, the most effective point for orthotic and prosthetic intervention during patient treatment, orthotic interventions that are most effective in treating the physical effects of traumatic brain injury, patients that benefit most from particular orthotic and prosthetic technologies, orthotic and prosthetic services that best facilitate the return to active duty of members of the Armed Forces, and the effect of aging on the use of prosthetics. The Secretary shall award research grants for the improvement of existing, and development of new, materials and technology used in orthotics and prosthetics.

Date: 2015-04-21
Topic: Health (R&D)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Family Asthma Act

Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to collaborate with state and local health departments to: (1) conduct activities regarding asthma, including deterring the harmful consequences of uncontrolled asthma, and disseminating health education and information regarding prevention of asthma episodes and strategies for managing asthma; and (2) develop state plans incorporating public health responses to reduce the burden of asthma, particularly regarding disproportionately affected populations.

 Revises and expands requirements for asthma surveillance activities.

 Requires the CDC to coordinate data collection activities to maximize the comparability of results.

Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to submit an assessment of current activities related to asthma prevention, management, and surveillance along with recommendations for the future direction of asthma activities.

Date: 2015-04-23
Topic: Health (R&D)
Subject: Health
(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the Senate on November 30, 2015. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Treatment of Certain Payments in Eugenics Compensation Act 

(Sec. 2) This bill excludes payments made under a state eugenics compensation program from classification as income or resources for purposes of determining the eligibility of a recipient of such compensation for, or the amount of, any federal public benefit. The bill defines "state eugenics compensation program" as a state program for compensating individuals who were sterilized under the authority of the state.

Date: 2015-06-25
Topic: Health (R&D)
Subject: Social welfare
Anna Westin Act of 2015

This bill requires the Office on Women's Health of the Department of Health and Human Services to revise, promote, and make freely available the BodyWise Handbook and BodyWorks obesity prevention program. The handbook must include information about eating disorders relating to males and females.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration must award grants: (1) to integrate training on eating disorders into existing curricula for health, mental health, and public health professionals; and (2) to states, Indian tribes, tribal organizations, and educational institutions for seminars for school personnel on eating disorders and to make resources available to individuals affected by eating disorders.

The National Institute of Mental Health must make public service announcements on eating disorders.

This bill amends the Public Health Service Act, Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and Internal Revenue Code to prohibit health insurance coverage from permanently excluding a particular condition from mental health or substance use disorder benefits. Mental health and substance use disorder benefits include residential treatment.

Date: 2015-07-27
Topic: Health (R&D)
Subject: Health
Reducing Disparities Using Care Models and Education Act of 2015

This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to contract with the National Academy of Medicine (formerly known as the Institute of Medicine) to study health disparities, existing programs and policies intended to reduce disparities, and priorities for, and expansion of, programs targeting disparities.

HHS must develop guidelines for entities to develop and implement programs to reduce health disparities. HHS must incorporate these guidelines into its activities.

HHS may award grants for programs to reduce health disparities.

The Innovation Center of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must test a payment and service delivery model that includes incentives for reducing health disparities.

Date: 2015-07-30
Topic: Health (R&D)
Subject: Health
Transparent Ratings on Usability and Security to Transform Information Technology Act of 2015 or the TRUST IT Act

This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to define "information blocking" and "interoperability" for health information technology (IT). Information blocking is preventing, discouraging, or interfering with the access, exchange, or use of electronic health information. Interoperability is the ability of health information systems to exchange information and use exchanged information.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) may publish information demonstrating how health IT meets the certification criteria of the voluntary health IT certification program. To be certified, health IT must meet security requirements, incorporate user-centered design, and achieve interoperability.

Entities seeking certification of health IT must attest to meeting requirements regarding information blocking, communication between users and a certification body, and interoperability. The ONC must: (1) recognize a council to establish a rating program to evaluate the interoperability, usability, and security of health IT; (2) publish ratings from that program; (3) convene stakeholders to develop reporting criteria for entities offering health IT; and (4) establish a process for certification bodies to collect confidential feedback.

The ONC may fine entities offering certified health IT that is rated less than satisfactory or entities that do not meet reporting requirements.

The ONC may decertify health IT. The ONC must establish a revolving fund to reimburse users of health IT that becomes decertified for the cost of new certified health IT. Such users are exempt for one year from Medicare payment adjustment under the program that incentivizes meaningful use of electronic health records.

The ONC must publish information on individuals' rights under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Date: 2015-10-06
Topic: Health (R&D)
Subject: Health
Congenital Heart Futures Reauthorization Act of 2015

This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to report annually on its research activities, including a study of congenital heart disease, from birth to adulthood, that considers health care utilization, demographic factors, and outcomes. (Congenital heart disease is a condition caused by a heart defect that is present at birth.)

The CDC must implement an awareness, outreach, and education campaign regarding congenital heart disease.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute must report on its ongoing research efforts regarding congenital heart disease, future plans for such research, and areas of greatest need for such research.

Date: 2015-11-05
Topic: Health (R&D)
Subject: Health
Advancing Standards in Regenerative Medicine Act

This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to facilitate the establishment of a public-private Standards Coordinating Body in Regenerative Medicine and Advanced Therapies. The FDA must work with this body to develop standards to support the development and review of regenerative medicine products.

Date: 2016-01-12
Topic: Health (R&D)
Subject: Health
(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the Senate on March 15, 2016. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Adding Zika Virus to the FDA Priority Review Voucher Program Act

(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to add Zika virus disease to the list of tropical diseases under the priority review voucher program, which awards a voucher to the sponsor of a new drug or biological product that is approved to prevent or treat a tropical disease. (A voucher entitles the holder to have a future new drug or biological product application acted upon by the Food and Drug Administration within six months.)

The bill makes a technical correction to the tropical disease list to refer to filovirus disease, a condition caused by the family of viruses that includes the Ebola virus, instead of the family of viruses.

Date: 2016-02-08
Topic: Health (R&D)
Subject: Health
National Biomedical Research Act

This bill establishes and makes deposits to the Biomedical Innovation Fund for initiatives at the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration for advancing medical innovation, including the Precision Medicine Initiative, the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative, and the Cancer Moonshot Initiative.

Date: 2016-03-03
Topic: Health (R&D)
Subject: Health
Safe Treatments and Opportunities to Prevent Pain Act or the STOP Pain Act

This bill authorizes the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to intensify and coordinate NIH research into the understanding of pain, therapies for chronic pain, and alternatives to opioids (drugs with effects similar to opium) for pain treatments.

The prioritization and direction of federally funded pain research must consider recommendations made by the Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee.

Date: 2016-03-15
Topic: Health (R&D)
Subject: Health
Advancing Precision Medicine Act of 2016

(Sec. 2) This bill encourages the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to carry out a Precision Medicine Initiative to address disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. The initiative may include collection of health information from a diverse cohort of individuals. HHS may carry out specified activities relating to the initiative, including coordinating with the Department of Energy to address supercomputing needs.

In implementing the initiative, HHS must: (1) collaborate with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; (2) implement secure data sharing; and (3) ensure inclusion of a broad range of participants, considering factors that contribute to health disparities.

(Sec. 3) This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to revise provisions regarding disclosure by researchers of the identifiable, sensitive information of research subjects. HHS must prohibit researchers from disclosing such information from federally funded research to persons not connected to the research. Researchers may apply to have other research covered by this prohibition.

Disclosures of such information are permitted if required by law, necessary for the medical treatment of the research subject, made with the consent of the subject, or made for the purposes of other research that is in compliance with regulations regarding protection of subjects.

(Sec. 4) HHS may exempt identifiable information collected for biomedical research from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.

(Sec. 5) The NIH may require recipients of grants or cooperative agreements to share scientific data.

(Sec. 6) The NIH may approve requests by national research institutes to fund high-impact, cutting-edge research through transactions other than contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements. National research institutes must conduct and support high-risk, high-reward research.

Date: 2016-03-17
Topic: Health (R&D)
Subject: Health
Promoting Biomedical Research and Public Health for Patients Act

(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to revise reporting requirements for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and certain national research institutes.

(Sec. 3) The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must revise policies related to the disclosure of financial conflicts of interest to reduce the administrative burden on researchers while maintaining the integrity and credibility of research findings.

The NIH must reduce administrative burdens related to monitoring subrecipients of grants.

HHS must revise expenditure reporting policies to avoid duplication and minimize burden for recipients of NIH funding.

The NIH, in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), must revise policies regarding laboratory animals to reduce administrative burdens while maintaining the integrity and credibility of research findings and protection of research animals.

HHS must clarify the applicability of regulations regarding documentation of personnel expenses by grant recipients.

The Office of Management and Budget must establish the Research Policy Board to make recommendations to minimize the administrative burden of federal research policies while maintaining responsible oversight. The board is terminated at the end of FY2020.

(Sec. 4) Contractors making substances and living organisms available for research on behalf of HHS may collect payments on behalf of HHS for incurred costs.

(Sec. 6) HHS must revise the Vaccine Injury Table to include information on vaccines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for pregnant women. A mother and child are individually considered for compensation for a vaccine injury from a vaccine administered during pregnancy.

(Sec. 7) HHS must report on ways to promote innovation in the development of vaccines.

(Sec. 8) The bill revises provisions regarding the clinical trial registry data bank to permit earlier publication of certain data and to categorize clinical trials for combination products.

(Sec. 9) The NIH and the FDA must report on information in the clinical trial registry data bank, activities undertaken to encourage compliance with data bank requirements, and actions to enforce compliance.

(Sec. 10) The Director of NIH is given the authority to appoint the directors of the national research institutes. The term of office of these directors is set to five years, with no limit on the number of reappointments.

(Sec. 11) The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences may support additional phases of clinical trials.

Date: 2016-04-04
Topic: Health (R&D)
Subject: Health
Women and Lung Cancer Research and Preventive Services Act of 2016

This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct an interagency study regarding research on lung cancer in women, access to lung cancer preventive services, and public awareness and education campaigns on lung cancer.

The study must include a comprehensive report on research and knowledge gaps related to lung cancer in women in the federal government and recommendations for: (1) a research program that would encourage innovative approaches to eliminate knowledge gaps, (2) the development of a national lung cancer screening strategy with sufficient resources to expand access to screening, and (3) the development of a national public education and awareness campaign on lung cancer in women and the importance of early detection of lung cancer.

Date: 2016-05-17
Topic: Health (R&D)
Subject: Health
Pediatric Research Improvement Act of 2016

This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to revise the Pediatric Research Initiative to require collaboration with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and require establishment of a National Pediatric Research Network comprised of pediatric research consortia.

The National Institutes of Health must award funding to entities supporting pediatric research consortia. Supported consortia must, upon request, provide assistance to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for patient registries and other surveillance systems.

Date: 2016-06-29
Topic: Health (R&D)
Subject: Health
Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Diagnosis Act of 2016

This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish the Interagency Pulmonary Hypertension Coordinating Committee. The committee must monitor research and annually summarize research and medical advances regarding pulmonary hypertension.

The committee must develop a comprehensive strategic plan to improve health outcomes for individuals with pulmonary hypertension. The plan must include recommendations regarding pulmonary hypertension diagnosis, research, transplantation criteria, public awareness, and health care delivery.

HHS must report on activities related to improving health outcomes for individuals with pulmonary hypertension. The report must include information regarding pulmonary hypertension epidemiology, treatment, support available to individuals, and research.

Date: 2016-09-20
Topic: Health (R&D)
Subject: Health
Scleroderma and Fibrosis Research Enhancement Act of 2016

This bill requires the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) to establish the National Commission on Scleroderma and Fibrosis Research. (Scleroderma and fibrosis are connective tissue conditions that cause hardening or scarring of skin and organs.)

The commission must develop a long-term, comprehensive plan for scleroderma and fibrosis research. The plan must: (1) prioritize research that has cross-cutting value and requires coordination across NIH, and (2) include specific steps for implementation of the research.

The commission must establish working groups to make research recommendations for the various organs and systems impacted by fibrotic illness.

The commission must be terminated not later than two years after establishment.

The NIAMS must create the Scleroderma and Fibrosis Working Group to oversee and assist with implementation of the long-term plan.

Date: 2016-09-28
Topic: Health (R&D)
Subject: Health
Reducing Medicare Costs through Innovation Act

This bill establishes a Medicare commercialization grant program, through which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shall award grants to eligible small businesses for certain activities related to developing novel eligible medical products and receiving Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for such products. CMS shall solicit grant applications annually, with a focus on the diseases or conditions that are the top ten cost drivers in the Medicare program.

To carry out the grant program, CMS shall use amounts allocated under the Small Business Act for the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs.

The bill also establishes a pilot program (similar to a pilot program that was previously established in regulation) for parallel review of medical products with the purpose of reducing, with respect to certain medical products developed by Medicare commercialization grant recipients, the timeline for FDA approval and Medicare national coverage determinations.

A Medicare commercialization grant applicant may choose to apply for FDA approval of novel medical products either through a traditional process or through the pilot program.

Date: 2016-09-28
Topic: Health (R&D)
Subject: Health
Congressional Integrity and Pension Forfeiture Act of 2007 - Amends federal civil service law, with respect to both the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS), to require the Office of Personnel and Management (OPM) to prescribe regulations that deny eligibility under CSRS or FERS for a Member convicted of certain offenses that are: (1) committed by the individual while a Member, (2) related to the individual's service as a Member, and (3) after enactment of this Act. Refunds annuity contributions and deposits, excluding interest earned, to a convicted individual. Defines Member as the Vice President, a member of the Senate or the House of Representatives, a Delegate to the House of Representatives, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico.

Date: 2007-01-04
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Congress
Federal Firefighters Fairness Act of 2007 - Amends federal law to provide that, with regard to an employee in fire protection activities: (1) heart disease, lung disease, specified cancers and infectious diseases shall be presumed to be proximately caused by the employee's employment; (2) the disability or death of an employee in fire protection activities due to such a disease shall be presumed to result from personal injury sustained while in the performance of such employee's duty; and (3) such presumptions may be rebutted by a preponderance of the evidence.

Date: 2007-01-04
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Deficit Accountability Act of 2007 - Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to provide that pay for Members of Congress may not be increased by any adjustment scheduled to take effect in a calendar year if the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) determines there was a deficit in the preceding fiscal year.

Date: 2007-01-04
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Congress
Congressional Pension Forfeiture Act of 2007 - Amends federal civil service law, with respect to both the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS), to require the Office of Personnel and Management (OPM) to prescribe regulations that deny eligibility under CSRS or FERS for a Member convicted of certain offenses that are: (1) committed by the individual while a Member, (2) related to the individual's service as a Member, and (3) committed during the 111th Congress or later. Refunds annuity contributions and deposits, excluding interest earned, to a convicted individual. Defines Member as the Vice President, a member of the Senate or the House of Representatives, a Delegate to the House of Representatives, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico. Requires forfeit of Thrift Savings Plan contributions made by the government for the benefit of an individual, and all earnings attributed to such contributions, as a result of the Member's conviction.

Date: 2007-01-09
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Congress
Amends federal civil service law regarding the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) to exclude from retirement accounting any service as a Member of Congress of an individual finally convicted of a felony involving: (1) bribery of public officials and witnesses; (2) acting as an agent of a foreign principal while a federal public official; (3) conspiracy to commit an offense or to defraud the United States; (4) perjury; or (5) subornation of perjury. Entitles such individual, all the same, to so much of his or her lump-sum credit as is attributable to such service. Requires, with respect to each offense, that: (1) every act or commission of the individual that is needed to satisfy the elements of the offense occurs while the individual is a Member; (2) such act or omission directly relates to the performance of the individual's official duties as a Member; and (3) the offense is committed after enactment of this Act. Defines Member as the Vice President, a member of the Senate or the House of Representatives, a Delegate to the House of Representatives, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico.

Date: 2007-01-16
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Congress
Veterans Reassignment Protection Act - Prohibits a preference eligible federal employee (including a preference eligible serving in or under the U.S. Postal Service) from being involuntarily separated for failing to accept a directed reassignment to a position outside his or her commuting area or to accompany a position outside of such area pursuant to a transfer of function unless such preference eligible: (1) receives written notice of the reassignment at least 30 days before the effective date of the reassignment; and (2) is allowed to elect to have the selection of employees for release conducted in the same manner as would be required in the case of a reduction in force. Entitles a preference eligible involuntarily separated in the circumstances described above to appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board any failure to comply with the requirements of this Act.

Date: 2007-01-30
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Guardsmen & Reservists' Tax Fairness Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the exemption from tax penalties for premature distributions from retirement plans by members of the National Guard or Ready Reserve called to active duty.

Date: 2007-02-07
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Taxation
Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to eliminate automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress.

Date: 2007-02-08
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Congress
Law Enforcement Officers Equity Act - Amends the definition of the term "law enforcement officer" under provisions of the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) and the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) to include: (1) federal employees not otherwise covered by such term whose duties include the investigation or apprehension of suspected or convicted individuals and who are authorized to carry a firearm; and (2) such employees of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whose duties are primarily the collection of delinquent taxes and the securing of delinquent returns. Requires such service that is performed by an incumbent law enforcement officer: (1) after enactment of this Act to be treated as service performed as a law enforcement officer for federal retirement purposes; and (2) before, on, or after enactment as service performed as such an officer for federal retirement purposes only if an appropriate written election is submitted to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) within five years after enactment or before separation from government service, whichever is earlier. Provides that nothing under current law respecting mandatory separation from government service under CSRS or FERS shall cause the involuntary separation of an officer before the end of the three-year period following enactment.

Date: 2007-02-15
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Judicial Disclosure Responsibility Act - Amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to: (1) restrict disclosure of personal information about family members of judges whose revelation might endanger them; and (2) extend through 2009 the authority of the Judicial Conference to redact certain personal information of judges from financial disclosure reports.Specifies addition types of information the Administrative Council of the U.S. Courts must include in its annual report to certain congressional committees on redaction of judicial financial disclosure reports.

Date: 2007-02-16
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Law
Federal Firefighters Fairness Act of 2007 - Amends federal law to provide that, with regard to an employee in fire protection activities: (1) heart disease, lung disease, specified cancers and infectious diseases shall be presumed to be proximately caused by the employee's employment; (2) the disability or death of an employee in fire protection activities due to such a disease shall be presumed to result from personal injury sustained while in the performance of such employee's duty; and (3) such presumptions may be rebutted by a preponderance of the evidence.

Date: 2007-02-16
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Increases: (1) the biweekly government contribution for health benefits for an employee or annuitant enrolled in the federal employees health benefits program from 72% to 80% of the weighted average of subscription charges; and (2) the limit on the government contribution for an employee or annuitant from 75% to 83% of the subscription charge.

Date: 2007-03-01
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Makes creditable for civil service retirement purposes pre-1977 service performed by a U.S. citizen with Air America, Incorporated, Air Asia Company Limited, or the Pacific Division of Southern Air Transport, Incorporated, while those entities were owned or controlled by the U.S. Government and operated or managed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Date: 2007-03-01
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Federal Law Enforcement Pension Adjustment Equity Act of 2007 - Amends the Law Enforcement Pay Equity Act of 2000 to apply a prohibition against treatment of the conversion of positions and members of the U.S. Park Police and the Secret Service Uniformed Division to a new salary schedule, and the associated initial adjustments in basic pay rates, with respect to any payment made prior to January 1, 2007, as an increase in salary for purposes of increased annuitant pension benefits. (Thus permits cost-of-living adjustments in pension benefits for annuitants of the U.S. Park Police and the U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division for payments made in 2007 and in subsequent years.)

Date: 2007-03-22
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Provides that federal employees stationed in American Samoa shall be paid the same allowance based on living costs and conditions of environment as if stationed in Guam or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Date: 2007-03-29
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
CSRS Retirement Repayment Technical Correction Act of 2007 - Exempts federal employees and Members of Congress from the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) interest repayment requirement with respect to retirement contribution amounts withdrawn between October 1, 1990-February 28, 1991. Makes such exemption effective as if included in the enactment of the Omnibus Budget and Reconciliation Act of 1990.

Date: 2007-03-29
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Amends federal provisions concerning the federal employee leave transfer program to exempt an employee who is undergoing medical treatment for a combat-related disability sustained while such individual was a member of the Armed Forces from the requirement that his or her annual and sick leave be exhausted before any transferred leave may be used. Limits the exemption to no more than five years.

Date: 2007-05-08
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from employment and unemployment taxes payments made on behalf of Puerto Rican residents participating in tax-exempt employee benefit cafeteria plans established under Puerto Rican law.

Date: 2007-05-09
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Taxation
Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to include within the meaning of the term member of the Special Exposure Cohort a Department of Energy employee, Department of Energy contractor employee, or atomic weapons employee who was so employed for a number of work days aggregating at least 250 work days before January 1, 2006, at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in California.Provides that a claim that an individual qualifies for compensation or benefits under such Act shall be considered notwithstanding any denial of any other claim for compensation with respect to such individual.

Date: 2007-05-09
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Law
Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island Federal Worker Fairness Act of 2007 - Requires the wage schedule and rates for prevailing rate employees in the Boston, Massachusetts Wage Area to be used to determine the rate of pay for prevailing rate employees in the Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island Wage Area.

Date: 2007-05-17
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Public Safety Officer Family Health Benefits Act - Authorizes an individual who is a family member of a public safety officer killed in the line of duty to enroll in an approved federal employee health benefits plan as an individual or for self and family. Specifies the individual's and the government's contributions toward the enrollment charge.

Date: 2007-05-17
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Amends the the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to require federal contractors and subcontractors (as defined by this Act) to participate in the employment eligibility verification pilot program. Directs the Attorney General to ensure that the pilot program is applied to all of the contractor's or subcontractor's employees and not just to those performing the contract or subcontract.

Date: 2007-05-24
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Immigration
Federal Employees Responsible Investment Act - Provides for the establishment of a Corporate Responsibility Stock Index Fund as an investment option under the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). Directs the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board to select an index which is a commonly recognized, passively managed index comprised of domestic stocks based on criteria which may include corporate governance, environmental practices, workplace relations and benefits, product safety and impact, international operations and human rights, involvement with repressive regimes, and community relations. Requires that the index's financial track record be comparable to that of the other options available under TSP. Directs that the Fund be invested in a portfolio which shall be designed such that the percentage of the Fund that is invested in each stock is the same as the percentage determined by dividing the aggregate market value of all shares of that stock by the aggregate market value of all shares of all stocks included in such index.

Date: 2007-05-24
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Enhanced Protection of the Internal Revenue Service and Its Employees Act of 2007 - Amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 to eliminate the exception to the duties of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration for protecting the physical security of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees.

Date: 2007-05-24
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
FERS Redeposit Act - Allows each federal employee who has returned to government service and who has received a refund of retirement contributions under the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) (or any other retirement system established for federal employees covering service for which such employee or Member may be allowed credit under FERS provisions) to deposit (to the credit of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund) the amount that was so received, with interest. Allows deposits in one or more installments. Disallows the recapture of credit for service covered by the refund until such a deposit is made.

Date: 2007-05-24
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Applies provisions governing the computation of an annuity under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) for a federal employee whose service includes service that was performed on a part-time basis to: (1) service performed before April 7, 1986, with respect to basing average pay on the basic pay for full-time service; and (2) service performed after such date with respect to calculating the benefit by prorating total service to reflect part-time service.

Date: 2007-06-19
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Members of Congress Personal Fiscal Responsibility Act - Provides that no automatic pay adjustment shall be considered to have taken effect in FY2008 in the rates of basic pay for Members of Congress under the statutory pay system (thus eliminating the automatic pay adjustment for Members for such fiscal year).

Date: 2007-06-28
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Congress
Provides that no automatic pay adjustment shall be considered to have taken effect in FY2008 in the rates of basic pay for Members of Congress under the statutory pay system (thus eliminating the pay adjustment for Members for such fiscal year).

Date: 2007-06-28
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Congress
Internet Police Protection Act of 2007- Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit knowingly making restricted personal information about a covered official publicly available through the Internet. Defines "covered official" to mean a federal officer or employee, a public safety officer for a public agency that receives federal financial assistance, or a U.S. court officer, juror, or magistrate judge.Makes it a defense to a prosecution that: (1) the defendant is an Internet service provider and did not knowingly participate in the offense; or (2) the covered official gave permission to make such information publicly available.

Date: 2007-07-10
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Crime and law enforcement
Administrative Law Judges Retirement Act of 2007 - Sets forth separate provisions governing Government and employee contributions, annuity eligibility requirements (ten years of service and age 60), early retirement, and annuity computation (2.5% and 1.7%, respectively, of average pay for each year of service) for administrative law judges under the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees' Retirement System.

Date: 2007-07-23
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2006 [sic] - Allows federal employees to substitute any available paid leave for any leave without pay available for either the: (1) birth of a child; (2) placement of a child with the employee for either adoption or foster care; (3) care of a seriously ill family member; or (4) employee's own serious health condition. Makes available as paid leave for any of the 12 weeks of leave an employee is entitled to for the above purposes: (1) eight weeks of paid leave and any accumulated annual or sick leave for either the birth of a child or the placement of a child with the employee for adoption or foster care; and (2) any accumulated annual or sick leave for the care of a family member or the employee's own serious health condition.

Date: 2007-07-24
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Federal Law Enforcement Congressional Badge of Bravery Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Attorney General to award a Congressional Badge of Bravery to a federal law enforcement officer who sustains a physical injury in the line of duty. Sets forth requirements for agencies in nominating a law enforcement officer for a Badge. Establishes within the Department of Justice: (1) a Congressional Badge of Bravery Board to made recommendations for awarding a Badge; and (2) a Congressional Badge of Bravery Office to assist the Board. Authorizes Members of Congress or the Attorney General to make the presentations of Badges to law enforcement officers.

Date: 2007-07-27
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Commemorations
Federal Merit System Reauthorization Act of 2007 - Amends the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 to authorize appropriations for FY2008-FY2010 for the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and the Office of Special Counsel (OSC).Repudiates assertions that federal employees are not protected from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Expresses the sense of Congress that discrimination on such basis against federal employees and applicants is currently prohibited. Prohibits any federal employee who has authority to take, direct, recommend, or approve any personnel action from discriminating for or against any federal employee or applicant on such basis.Revises procedures of the MSPB and OSC, including by requiring the MSPB to use the National Labor Relations Board model for procedural due process and by requiring the OSC to prescribe regulations necessary to receive and investigate allegations of prohibited personnel practices.Requires the Special Counsel to have professional experience that demonstrates an understanding of and a commitment to protecting the merit based civil service.Requires the OSC to publish specified whistleblower disclosures and reports.Sets forth MSPB and OSC reporting requirements with respect to incidences of prohibited personnel practices.

Date: 2007-09-17
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Allows a federal agency head to waive the application of civil service retirement system and federal employee retirement system provisions restricting annuities and pay upon reemployment with respect to an annuitant employed on a temporary basis, but prohibits waiving such provisions with respect to an annuitant for more than: (1) 520 hours of service performed during the six months following the individual's annuity commencing date; (2) 1040 hours of service performed during any 12-month period; or (3) 6240 hours of service performed during the individual's lifetime.

Date: 2007-09-19
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
One America, Many Voices Act - Entitles an employee in a position requiring the use of one or more languages besides English to premium pay amounting to 5% of the employee's rate of basic pay. Declares that this requirement does not apply to an employee in a position the classification of which takes into account such language requirement, except: (1) to the extent that the rates of basic pay for the position are not at least 5% greater than the rates that would otherwise apply in the absence of the language requirement; and (2) in other circumstances as the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) may prescribe.

Date: 2007-10-02
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Federal Judicial Salary Restoration Act of 2007 - Increases the salaries of certain federal judges and Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Amends Public Law 97-92 (the joint resolution making further continuing appropriations for FY1982), as amended by the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002, to repeal the prohibition on salary increases for such officials.

Date: 2007-10-04
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Law
Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2007 - Allows federal employees to substitute any available paid leave for any leave without pay available for either the: (1) birth of a child; or (2) placement of a child with the employee for either adoption or foster care. Makes available for any of the 12 weeks of leave an employee is entitled to for such purposes: (1) eight administrative weeks of paid leave in connection with the birth or placement involved; and (2) any accumulated annual or sick leave. Amends the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 to allow the same substitution for covered congressional employees.

Date: 2007-10-10
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Federal Labor-Management Partnership Act of 2007 - Establishes the Federal Labor-Management Partnership Council to advise the President on matters involving labor-management relations in the executive branch. Includes among the Council's activities: (1) supporting the creation of local labor-management partnership councils that promote partnership efforts; (2) collecting and disseminating information about and providing guidance on such efforts; (3) using the expertise of individuals, inside and outside the federal government, to foster partnership arrangements in the executive branch; and (4) proposing statutory changes to improve the civil service to better serve the public and carry out the mission of the various agencies.Requires the President to designate a Council Chairperson.Requires the President to direct the head of each agency which is subject to labor-management relations provisions or any other authority permitting employees to select an exclusive representative, to: (1) create labor-management partnerships by forming labor-management committees or councils at appropriate levels or adapting existing committees or councils if such groups exist; (2) involve employees and their representatives as full partners with management representatives to improve the civil service to better serve the public and carry out the mission of the agency; (3) provide systemic training of appropriate employees in consensual methods of dispute resolution; (4) negotiate, at the request of the labor organization, on specified subjects and instruct subordinate officials to do the same; and (5) evaluate progress and improvements in organizational performance resulting from such labor-management partnerships.

Date: 2007-10-18
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to prescribe regulations to allow federal employees who have performed sufficient service to qualify for the maximum annuity available under the Civil Service Retirement System to elect to terminate retirement deductions from their basic pay.Declares that an employee who makes such an election does not, by virtue of such election: (1) cease to be subject to civil service retirement provisions; (2) forfeit the right to have any subsequently accruing sick leave taken into account for purposes of computing what unused sick days are included in an annuity; (3) cease to be eligible to continue contributing to the Thrift Savings Fund; or (4) cease to be eligible to make any deposit remaining due.

Date: 2007-10-18
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to extend to citizens of the Freely Associated States (Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau) who reside in the United States eligibility for non-emergency food stamps and benefits under titles XIX (Medicaid), XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) , and part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act.

Date: 2007-10-30
Topic: Government Operations (Employees)
Subject: Social welfare