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(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Small Business Lending Reauthorization Act of 2015

(Sec. 2) This bill authorizes the Small Business Administration to make general business loans in the amount of $20.5 billion for FY2015, and $23.5 billion for FY2016.

Date: 2015-04-16
Topic: Domestic Commerce (Small Businesses)
Subject: Commerce
SBIR and STTR Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 2016

This bill amends the Small Business Act to reauthorize and make permanent the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.

The bill specifies budget amounts for the Department of Defense and other federal agencies to obligate for expenditure with small business concerns under the SBIR and STTR programs.

The Small Business Administration (SBA) shall modify certain policy directives to eliminate automatic annual inflation adjustments to awards under Phases I and II of the SBIR program.

The bill makes the Commercialization Development Awards pilot program permanent.

The national small business goal for federal agency research and development programs shall be at least 10% for FY2018 and ensuing fiscal years.

Annual reports to Congress on the SBIR and STTR programs shall include information regarding awards under the Rapid Innovation Program under the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011.

An SBIR or STTR award may cover the indirect cost of seeking protection for intellectual property created through work performed under it.

The Government Accountability Office shall audit annually federal government compliance with SBIR and STTR goals and incentives.

Federal agencies and prime contractors shall issue Phase III awards relating to technology, including sole source awards, to the SBIR and STTR award recipients that developed the technology.

The SBA shall establish a Regional SBIR State Collaborative Initiative Pilot Program.

The bill reauthorizes the Federal and State Technology (FAST) Partnership Program through FY2021.

The bill establishes an SBIR and STTR Interagency Policy Committee to:

 determine how to collect data on achievements by small business concerns in each phase of the programs; and establish a uniform baseline for metrics that support improving the solicitation, contracting, funding, and execution of program management.

Date: 2016-04-13
Topic: Domestic Commerce (Small Businesses)
Subject: Commerce
(Sec. 1) This bill amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to require the Small Business Administration (SBA) to give priority to small business investment company (SBIC) applications for licenses to operate in a declared major disaster area.

In calculating the outstanding leverage (debt) of one or more licensed SBICs in view of the maximum leverage allowed for debenture or loan guarantee purposes, the SBA shall not include the cost basis of any investment made by an SBIC in a small business concern in a major disaster area during the one-year period beginning on the date of the disaster declaration.

Date: 2016-04-21
Topic: Domestic Commerce (Small Businesses)
Subject: Commerce
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Small Business Innovation Protection Act of 2016

(Sec. 4) This bill directs the Small Business Administration to develop partnership agreements that arrange for:

 development of high-quality training for small businesses related to domestic and international protection of intellectual property, leveraging of training materials already developed for the education of inventors and small businesses, and participation of a nongovernmental organization. These agreements must also arrange for training:

 through electronic resources, including Internet-based webinars, and at physical locations, including a small business development center; and the headquarters or a regional office of the United States Patent and Trade Office. (Sec. 5) The bill amends the Small Business Act to require services at a small business development center to include training in person or through a website relating to:

 domestic and international intellectual property protections, and how those protections should be considered in the business plans and growth strategies of small businesses.

Date: 2016-04-25
Topic: Domestic Commerce (Small Businesses)
Subject: Commerce
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Prove It Act of 2016

(Sec. 2) This bill authorizes the Chief Counsel of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to request the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to review any federal agency certification that a proposed rule, if promulgated, will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities and so need not submit a regulatory flexibility analysis of the rule.

The request for a review must:

 be published in the Federal Register and on the website of the SBA Office of Advocacy, include any documentation or comments the Chief Counsel furnished or made during the notice and comment period for the proposed rule, and explain why the Chief Counsel disagreed with the certification and statement providing the factual basis for it. Within 10 days after the request for review is published in the Federal Register, the federal agency in question shall submit to the SBA a response to the request and publish it in the Federal Register and on the agency website.

If it is determined, after a specified procedure, that the proposed rule will, if promulgated, have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities, the federal agency shall then perform both an initial and a final regulatory flexibility analysis for the rule.

Date: 2016-04-25
Topic: Domestic Commerce (Small Businesses)
Subject: Commerce
Microloan Program Modernization Act of 2016

(Sec. 3) This bill amends the Small Business Act, with respect to the Small Business Administration (SBA) Microloan Program (assisting low-income individuals to start and operate a small business), to increase from $5 million to $6 million the total amount of loans outstanding and committed to any particular intermediary (excluding outstanding grants) from the SBA business loan and investment fund for the remaining years of the intermediary's participation in the program.

(Sec. 4) The Microloan Program "25/75" rule is repealed, which permits SBA-designated microloan intermediary lenders to expend up to 25% of the intensive marketing, management, and technical assistance grant funds they receive from the SBA to provide information and technical assistance to small business concerns that are their prospective borrowers.

(Sec. 5) The SBA shall:

 compare the operations of a representative sample of eligible intermediaries that participate in the microloan program and of eligible intermediaries that do not, study the reasons why the latter do not participate, recommend how to encourage increased participation by intermediaries in the microloan program, and recommend how to decrease the associated costs for intermediary participation. (Sec. 6) The Government Accountability Office shall evaluate:

 SBA oversight of the microloan program, including oversight of participating intermediaries; and the specific processes the SBA uses to ensure program compliance by participating intermediaries and overall microloan program performance.

Date: 2016-04-26
Topic: Domestic Commerce (Small Businesses)
Subject: Commerce
SEC Small Business Advocate Act of 2015

This bill amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to establish within the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) an Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation.

The Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation shall:

 assist small businesses and small business investors in resolving significant problems they may have with the SEC or with self-regulatory organizations; identify areas in which such businesses and investors would benefit from changes in SEC regulations or the rules of such organizations; identify problems that small businesses have with securing access to capital, including any unique challenges faced by minority-owned and women-owned small businesses; analyze the potential impact on such businesses and investors of proposed SEC regulations and proposed rules that are likely to have a significant economic impact on small businesses and small business capital formation; conduct outreach to such businesses and investors to solicit views on relevant capital formation issues; propose to the SEC changes in its regulations or orders, and propose to Congress legislative, administrative, or personnel changes, to mitigate problems identified and to promote the interests of such businesses and investors; consult with the Investor Advocate on such proposals and advise the Investor Advocate on small business-related issues; and be responsible for planning, organizing, and executing the annual Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation. The bill also establishes the Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee, which shall provide the SEC with advice on SEC rules, regulations, and policies regarding its mission of protecting investors, maintaining fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitating capital formation, as they relate to:

 capital raising by emerging, privately held small businesses and publicly traded companies with less than $250 million in public market capitalization through securities offerings; trading in the securities of such businesses and companies; and public reporting and corporate governance requirements of such businesses and companies. The SEC shall assess the Committee's recommendations and disclose any action it intends to take with respect to such recommendations.

Date: 2016-04-27
Topic: Domestic Commerce (Small Businesses)
Subject: Finance and financial sector
Small Business Relief from Disease Induced Economic Hardship Act of 2016

This bill amends the Small Business Act with respect to Small Business Administration disaster assistance to expand the definition of "disaster" to include the onset of transmissible diseases for which the federal government issues a public health advisory or declaration.

Date: 2016-09-08
Topic: Domestic Commerce (Small Businesses)
Subject: Commerce
Small Business Innovation Act of 2016

This bill amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to authorize the Small Business Administration (SBA) to guarantee the payment of up to $4 billion per fiscal year for debentures or participating securities issued by small business investment companies (SBICs) to encourage the formation and growth of small businesses.

The SBA must establish and carry out an early-stage investment program to provide, through participating investment companies, equity financing to support early-stage businesses that have not generated positive cash flow at any time prior to an initial investment by a participating investment company. The bill outlines participating investment company application requirements and selection and approval procedures. It allows the SBA to make one or more equity financings to a participating investment company, with a limit of $100 million to any one company. A participating investment company shall make all of its investments in small businesses, of which at least 50% shall be early-stage small businesses in specified targeted industries. A separate account is established for equity financings under the program.

Date: 2016-09-21
Topic: Domestic Commerce (Small Businesses)
Subject: Commerce
This bill requires the Small Business Administration (SBA), in consultation with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), to develop partnership agreements to:

 provide for development of basic training relating to federal income tax credits benefitting small businesses and startups, especially credits for research and experimentation, and informational materials relating to such credits, including IRS guidance documents; provide these basic training and informational materials through electronic resources and at physical locations; and make the materials available to SBA business development programs and business development entities that partner with SBA programs, including universities, nonprofits, business incubators, and business accelerators. The bill amends the Small Business Act to require SBA development centers to provide, in conjunction with the IRS, informational materials, education, and basic training to small businesses relating to federal income tax credits, including credits available to: (1) businesses generally; and (2) small businesses and startups specifically, especially credits for research and experimentation.

Such materials, education, and basic training may be delivered in person or through an Internet website.

Date: 2016-09-29
Topic: Domestic Commerce (Small Businesses)
Subject: Commerce
High-Performance Green Buildings Act of 2007 - Directs the Administrator of General Services to establish an Office of High-Performance Green Buildings. Requires the Office Director to: (1) establish a Green Building Advisory Committee; (2) carry out public outreach; (3) develop and recommend a high-performance green building research plan; (4) analyze current budget and contracting practices that affect achievement of high-performance green buildings; and (5) develop and implement a comprehensive indoor air quality program for federal facilities. Requires the Director to identify incentives to encourage the use of green buildings and related technology in federal government operations. Requires the Director of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy to: (1) revise applicable acquisition regulations; and (2) issue guidance to federal procurement executives on renegotiating proposed facilities design, existing facilities renovations, and leased facilities improvements. Requires the Director to consult with the Committee to assist in the implementation of the Environmental Stewardship Scorecard announced at the White House Summit on federal sustainable buildings in 2006. Requires the Office to carry out specified demonstration projects at federal buildings and universities to contribute to its research goals.

Date: 2007-01-04
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Environmental protection
Designates the federal building and U.S. courthouse and customhouse located at 515 West First Street in Duluth, Minnesota, as the "Gerald W. Heaney Federal Building and United States Courthouse and Customhouse."

Date: 2007-01-04
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 152 North 5th Street in Laramie, Wyoming, as the "Gale W. McGee Post Office."

Date: 2007-01-09
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, New York, as the "Hugh L. Carey United States Courthouse."

Date: 2007-01-11
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the United States bankruptcy courthouse located at 271 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, New York, as the "Conrad B. Duberstein United States Bankruptcy Courthouse."

Date: 2007-01-11
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the federal building and U.S. courthouse located at 101 Barr Street in Lexington, Kentucky, as the "Scott Reed Federal Building and United States Courthouse."

Date: 2007-01-16
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 16150 Aviation Loop Drive in Brooksville, Florida, as the "Sergeant Lea Robert Mills Brooksville Aviation Branch Post Office."

Date: 2007-01-17
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3903 South Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, as the "Sergeant Henry Ybarra III Post Office Building."

Date: 2007-01-19
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the federal building located at 400 Maryland Avenue Southwest in the District of Columbia as the "Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building."

Date: 2007-01-19
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2777 Logan Avenue in San Diego, California, as the "Cesar E. Chavez Post Office."

Date: 2007-01-29
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the federal building located at 210 Walnut Street in Des Moines, Iowa, as the "Neal Smith Federal Building."

Date: 2007-02-14
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Profiting from Access to Computer Technology (PACT) Act or the Child PACT Act - Directs each federal agency to: (1) safeguard and identify potential educationally useful federal equipment that it no longer needs or that has been declared surplus; and (2) transfer such equipment, either directly or through the General Services Administration (GSA), to educational recipients, military recipients, or nonprofit refurbishers.

Date: 2007-02-14
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Designates the Logistics Automation Training Facility of the Army Quartermaster Center and School at Fort Lee, Virginia, as the "General Richard H. Thompson Logistics Automation Training Facility."

Date: 2007-02-27
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
National Churchill Museum Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library located in Fulton, Missouri, and owned and managed by Westminster College to refer to itself as the "National Churchill Museum."

Date: 2007-02-28
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Arts, culture, religion
9/11 Heroes Health Improvement Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award grants to eligible entities to provide medical and mental health monitoring, tracking, and treatment to individuals whose health has been directly impacted as a result of the attacks on New York City and at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Includes as eligible individuals firefighters, police officers, paramedics, workers, volunteers, residents, students, and any other individual who worked at Ground Zero, Fresh Kills (recovery site on Staten Island), or the Pentagon or lived or worked in the vicinity of such areas, whose health has deteriorated as a result of the attacks, and who has been evaluated by a physician or mental health professional for 9/11-related health conditions and needs treatment for such conditions. Sets the order of priority for individuals covered under this Act.

Date: 2007-03-08
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Health
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4551 East 52nd Street in Odessa, Texas, as the "Staff Sergeant Marvin 'Rex' Young Post Office Building."

Date: 2007-03-09
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 896 Pittsburgh Street in Springdale, Pennsylvania, as the "Rachel Carson Post Office Building."

Date: 2007-03-09
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the U.S. courthouse located at 131 East 4th Street in Davenport, Iowa, as the "James A. Leach United States Courthouse."

Date: 2007-03-13
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the U.S. Embassy headquarters building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as the "Mickey Leland United States Embassy Building."

Date: 2007-03-20
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Authorizes the Archivist of the National Archives and Records Administration to make grants to contribute funds toward the establishment in Staunton, Virginia, of a library to preserve and make available materials related to the life of President Woodrow Wilson and to provide interpretive and educational services that communicate the meaning of his life. Permits a grant to be made under this Act only from funds appropriated to the Archivist specifically for that purpose. Requires non-federal matching funds of at least double the amount of the grant. Specifies this Act's effect in relation to other Woodrow Wilson sites and museums. Prohibits the use of grant amounts for the maintenance or operation of such library. Bars the Archivist from: (1) having any involvement in the actual operation of the library, except at the request of the non-federal entity responsible for its operation; and (2) making such grants after September 30, 2011.

Date: 2007-03-23
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Designates the United States courthouse located at 101 East Pecan Street in Sherman, Texas, as the "Paul Brown United States Courthouse."

Date: 2007-04-20
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the federal building and U.S. courthouse located at 100 East 8th Avenue in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, as the "George Howard, Jr. Federal Building and United States Courthouse."

Date: 2007-04-24
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 11033 South State Street in Chicago, Illinois, as the "Willye B. White Post Office Building."

Date: 2007-04-25
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 20805 State Route 125 in Blue Creek, Ohio, as the "George B. Lewis Post Office Building."

Date: 2007-04-30
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 701 Loyola Avenue in New Orleans, Louisiana, as the "Louisiana Armed Services Veterans Post Office."

Date: 2007-05-01
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
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.

Date: 2007-05-01
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 408 West 6th Street in Chelsea, Oklahoma, as the "Clem Rogers McSpadden Post Office Building."

Date: 2007-05-03
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
West Los Angeles Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center Preservation Act of 2007 - Prohibits the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from declaring as excess to the needs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, or otherwise disposing or reducing the acreage of, the West Los Angeles Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, California (Center). Directs the Secretary to: (1) submit to the congressional veterans' and appropriations committees a master plan for the use of the land comprising the Center; and (2) appoint a committee to advise the Secretary in developing the master plan.

Date: 2007-05-08
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Wenatchee, Washington, as the "Elwood 'Bud' Link Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic."

Date: 2007-05-09
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center located at 1100 Tunnel Road, Asheville, North Carolina, as the "Charles George Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center."

Date: 2007-05-24
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 555 South 3rd Street Lobby in Memphis, Tennessee, as the "Kenneth T. Whalum, Sr. Post Office Building."

Date: 2007-06-06
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3 Quaker Ridge Road in New Rochelle, New York, as the "Robert Merrill Postal Station."

Date: 2007-06-19
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Walter Carl Jordan, Jr. Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic Act of 2007 - Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Albany, Georgia, as the "Walter Carl Jordan, Jr. Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic."

Date: 2007-06-28
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 127 South Elm Street in Gardner, Kansas, as the "Private First Class Shane R. Austin Post Office."

Date: 2007-07-12
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to conduct a five-year Federal Real Property Disposal Pilot Program for the expedited disposal of real property that is not meeting federal government needs.Requires agencies to recommend candidate disposition properties to the Director. Prohibits real property from being sold under the program: (1) for less than fair market value; (2) if it will not generate monetary proceeds to the federal government exceeding disposal costs; or (3) in a non-cash transaction.

Date: 2007-07-16
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 20 Sussex Street in Port Jervis, New York, as the "E. Arthur Gray Post Office Building."

Date: 2007-07-26
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at Highway 49 South in Piney Woods, Mississippi, as the "Laurence C. and Grace M. Jones Post Office Building."

Date: 2007-07-31
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Redesignates: (1) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, as the "NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center;" and (2) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Western Aeronautical Test Range in California as the "NASA Hugh L. Dryden Aeronautical Test Range."

Date: 2007-07-31
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 950 West Trenton Avenue in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, as the "Nate DeTample Post Office Building."

Date: 2007-08-01
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 744 West Oglethorpe Highway in Hinesville, Georgia, as the "John Sidney 'Sid' Flowers Post Office Building."

Date: 2007-09-04
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1430 South Highway 29 in Cantonment, Florida, as the "Charles H. Hendrix Post Office Building."

Date: 2007-09-10
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1400 Highway 41 North in Inverness, Florida, as the "Chief Warrant Officer Aaron Weaver Post Office Building."

Date: 2007-09-14
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4320 Blue Parkway in Kansas City, Missouri, as the "Wallace S. Hartsfield Post Office Building."

Date: 2007-09-18
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 424 Clay Avenue in Waco, Texas, as the "Army PFC Juan Alonso Covarrubias Post Office Building."

Date: 2007-10-02
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 411 Mount Holly Road in Fairdale, Kentucky, as the "Lance Corporal Robert A. Lynch Post Office Building."

Date: 2007-10-03
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3100 Cashwell Drive in Goldsboro, North Carolina, as the "John Henry Wooten, Sr. Post Office Building."

Date: 2007-10-10
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Loyalty to Our Legacy Act of 2007 - Requires the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) to ensure that the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag and the national motto "In God We Trust" are each displayed prominently in the Capitol Visitor Center (CVC) on a permanent basis. Prohibits the AOC, in preparing and producing any exhibit or other material relating to the CVC, from removing or refusing to include any language, symbol, writing, document, or record on the grounds that they include a religious reference or Judeo-Christian content.

Date: 2007-10-18
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Congress
Amends the International Center Act to authorize the lease or sublease of property identified by the District of Columbia as tax lots 803, 804, 805, and 806 to an entity other than a foreign government or international organization, so long as the Secretary of State maintains the right to approve the occupant and the intended use of the property.

Date: 2007-10-22
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: International affairs
Designates the portion of California State Route 91 located in Los Angeles County, California, from post mile 10.4 to post mile 11.1 as the "Juanita Millender-McDonald Highway."

Date: 2007-11-09
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 401 Washington Avenue in Weldon, North Carolina, as the "Dock M. Brown Post Office Building."

Date: 2007-11-15
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
William H. Rehnquist Law Center Establishment Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Attorney General to provide a grant to the University of Arizona James E. Rogers School of Law to establish the William H. Rehnquist Center on the Constitutional Structures of Government. Requires the Law School to provide specified nonfederal contributions toward the establishment of the Law Center.

Date: 2007-11-15
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Education
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10799 West Alameda Avenue in Lakewood, Colorado, as the "Felix Sparks Post Office Building."

Date: 2007-11-15
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the James A. Haley Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center's spinal cord injury center in Tampa, Florida, as the "Michael Bilirakis Department of Veterans Affairs Spinal Cord Injury Center."

Date: 2007-12-04
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Ponce, Puerto Rico, as the "Euripides Rubio Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic."

Date: 2007-12-05
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3050 Hunsinger Lane in Louisville, Kentucky, as the "Iraq and Afghanistan Fallen Military Heroes of Louisville Memorial Post Office Building."

Date: 2007-12-11
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10250 John Saunders Road in San Antonio, Texas, as the "Cyndi Taylor Krier Post Office Building."

Date: 2007-12-18
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Prohibits until January 1, 2009, the expenditure of funds for the construction or lease of buildings or space in the District of Columbia for any federal branch or entity within it, unless: (1) a contract for the construction or lease was entered into before the enactment of this Act; or (2) the interests of national security require the expenditure of funds for such purposes.

Date: 2007-12-19
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Old Post Office Building Redevelopment Act of 2008 - Directs the Administrator of General Services to proceed with redevelopment of the Old Post Office Building (including the Pavillion Annex), located at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., consistent with the redevelopment plan approved by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Senate Committees on Appropriations and Environment and Public Works. Authorizes the Administrator to provide replacement space for federal agency tenants housed in the Building as necessary. Requires the Administrator to report to Congress on any proposed redevelopment agreement, including a summary of a cost-beneft analysis and a description of material provisions. Delays the effective date of any such agreement until 30 days of continuous session of Congress after transmittal of the Administrator's report to Congress.

Date: 2008-01-16
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Directs the Secretary of Defense to designate as the "National Military Medical Center," upon their completion, the medical facilities being constructed at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, to replace Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the District of Columbia.

Date: 2008-01-16
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to sell or exchange to the city of Norfolk, Virginia, certain real property under the administrative jurisdiction of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including land and improvements, located in Norfolk, if the Secretary: (1) determines that such conveyance is in the best interests of NOAA and the federal government; and (2) has provided prior notification to the appropriate congressional committees.Requires the proceeds of any conveyance under this Act to be made available for: (1) activities related to the operations of, or capital improvements to, NOAA property; or (2) relocation and other costs associated with the sale or exchange. Authorizes the Secretary, through the Under Secretary and the Administrator of NOAA, to enter into a land lease with Mobile County, Alabama, for a period of not less than 40 years, on such terms and conditions as NOAA deems appropriate, for the construction of a Gulf of Mexico Disaster Response Center facility, provided that the lease is at no cost to the Government. Allows NOAA to enter into agreements with state, local, or county governments for the joint use, operations, and occupancy of such facility.

Date: 2008-02-12
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 11001 Dunklin Drive in St. Louis, Missouri, as the "William 'Bill' Clay Post Office Building."

Date: 2008-02-12
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10449 White Granite Drive in Oakton, Virginia, as the "Private First Class David H. Sharrett II Post Office Building."

Date: 2008-02-25
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the federal building located at 4600 Silver Hill Road in Suitland, Maryland, as the "Thomas Jefferson Census Bureau Headquarters Building."

Date: 2008-03-12
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Federal Real Property Disposal Enhancement Act of 2008 - Requires the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) to issue guidance for federal agency real property plans, including recommendations on how to identify and dispose of excess properties, evaluate disposal costs and benefits, and prioritize disposal decisions based on agency missions and anticipated future need for holdings.Requires the Administrator to: (1) report to specified congressional committees annually for five years on agency efforts to reduce their real property assets; and (2) assist agencies in the identification and disposal of excess real property.Requires agencies to: (1) maintain adequate inventory controls and accountability systems for property under their control; (2) continuously survey such property to identify excess property; (3) promptly report excess property to the Administrator; (4) perform the care and handling of excess property; and (5) transfer or dispose of excess property as promptly as possible.Requires each agency to: (1) develop and implement a real property plan to identify and declare excess property; (2) identify and categorize all real property owned, leased, or managed by the agency; (3) establish goals and incentives to reduce excess real property in its inventory; and (4) use authorities to identify and prepare real property to be reported as excess.Requires each agency to: (1) reassign to another activity within the agency property that is no longer required for the purposes for which it was purchased; (2) transfer excess property to other federal agencies and to specified organizations; and (3) obtain excess properties from other agencies to meet mission needs before acquiring nonfederal property.(Sec. 4) Includes among the amounts the Administrator is authorized to obligate from proceeds from the disposition of surplus real and related personal property: (1) amounts to pay the costs related to identifying and preparing properties to be reported excess by another agency; and (2) amounts to pay the costs associated with the reversion, custody, and disposal of reverted real property.Requires the Administrator to: (1) take control of certain property for which reversion is recommended or determined to be necessary and to sell it at fair market value; and (2) make such property available to state and local governments and certain nonprofit entities prior to sale.(Sec. 6) Requires: (1) excess or surplus property proceeds to be deposited into the appropriate agency's real property account (currently, into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts); and (2) the funds from such deposits to be expended only as authorized in annual appropriations Acts for activities related to federal real property asset management and disposal.

Date: 2008-04-14
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Coordinated American Response To Extreme Radicals Act - Prohibits funds from being made available for assistance to the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Rescinds all amounts appropriated by the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2008 for assistance to the Carter Center, and makes rescinded amounts available for assistance to U.S. victims of terrorism.

Date: 2008-04-16
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: International affairs
Redesignates the federal building and courthouse located at 200 East Wall Street in Midland, Texas, known as the George Mahon Federal Building, as the "George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush United States Courthouse and George Mahon Federal Building."

Date: 2008-04-24
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 219 East Main Street in West Frankfort, Illinois, as the "Kenneth James Gray Post Office Building."

Date: 2008-05-14
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 101 Tallapoosa Street in Bremen, Georgia, as the "Sergeant Paul Saylor Post Office Building."

Date: 2008-05-20
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1700 Cleveland Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, as the "Reverend Earl Abel Post Office Building."

Date: 2008-06-05
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 245 North Main Street in New City, New York, as the "Kenneth Peter Zebrowski Post Office Building."

Date: 2008-06-05
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2523 7th Avenue East in North Saint Paul, Minnesota, as the "Mayor William 'Bill' Sandberg Post Office Building."

Date: 2008-06-10
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the federal building and U.S. courthouse located at 300 Quarropas Street in White Plains, New York, as the "Charles L. Brieant, Jr. Federal Building and United States Courthouse."

Date: 2008-06-20
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 440 2nd Avenue in Gallipolis, Ohio, as the "Bob Evans Post Office Building."

Date: 2008-06-20
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 200 North Texas Avenue in Odessa, Texas, as the "Corporal Alfred Mac Wilson Post Office."

Date: 2008-07-08
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Authorizes the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) to release certain restrictions in the deed for a parcel of land conveyed to the city of Eastlake, Ohio, (i.e., use of land only for recreational purposes) in exchange for $30,000.Directs the Administrator to convey, through a quit claim deed, to Koochiching County, Minnesota, certain land located in International Falls, Minnesota, (formerly the site of the Koochiching Army Reserve Training Center) in exchange for $30,000.

Date: 2008-07-16
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3624 Commercial Street Southeast in Salem, Oregon, as the "Sue Miller Post Office Building."

Date: 2008-07-23
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Government operations and politics
Authorizes the city of Aurora, Colorado, to convey by donation to the United States nonfederal lands consisting of parcel I of the former United States Army Garrison Fitzsimons, Colorado, as more specifically described in the deed, and the parcel of land described in the deed, for construction of a veterans' medical facility.

Date: 2008-07-23
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 300 Vine Street in New Lenox, Illinois, as the "Jacob M. Lowell Post Office Building."

Date: 2008-07-30
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1717 Orange Avenue in Fort Pierce, Florida, as the "CeeCee Ross Lyles Post Office Building."

Date: 2008-08-01
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 140 Merriman Road in Garden City, Michigan, as the "John J. Shivnen Post Office Building."

Date: 2008-09-08
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 156 Taunton Avenue in Seekonk, Massachusetts, as the "Lance Corporal Eric Paul Valdepenas Post Office Building."

Date: 2008-09-11
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Commemorations
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1706 NW 24th Avenue in Portland, Oregon, as the "Vera Katz Post Office."

Date: 2008-09-15
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 12877 Broad Street in Sparta, Georgia, as the "Yvonne Ingram-Ephraim Post Office Building."

Date: 2008-09-18
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Federal Real Property Disposal Enhancement Act of 2008 - Expands requirements for the identification and disposal of excess federal real property to require the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) to: (1) issue guidance for the development and implementation of real property plans, including recommendations on how to identify excess properties, evaluate disposal costs and benefits, and prioritize disposal decisions based on agency missions and anticipated future needs for holdings; (2) establish and maintain a single, comprehensive, and descriptive database of all federal real property assets under the custody and control of all executive agencies, other than assets excluded for national security reasons; (3) report to the House Committees on Oversight and and Government Reform and Transportation and Infrastructure and the Senate Committees on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Environment and Public Works annually for five years on agency efforts to reduce real property assets; and (4) assist agencies in the identification and disposal of excess real property. Includes among the amounts the Administrator is authorized to obligate from proceeds from the disposition of excess real property: (1) amounts to pay the costs related to identifying and preparing properties to be reported excess by another agency; and (2) amounts to pay the costs associated with the reversion, custody, and disposal of reverted real property.Expands requirements for the use of net proceeds from the transfer or sale of excess real property assets.Exempts in FY2009 and FY2010 certain eligible properties from requirements under the McKinney Vento Homeless Assistance Act for the use of public buildings to assist the homeless. Defines as "eligible property" a property (other than Department of Veteran Affairs property): (1) that is selected for demolition, located on land not determined to be excess for which there is an ongoing federal need, and not to be used in any lease, exchange, leaseback arrangement, or service agreement; and (2) that is located in an area to which the general public is denied access for national security reasons or that is uninhabitable, not a housing unit, and selected for demolition by an agency. Requires notification to Congress of properties demolished and scheduled for demolition and the publication of a list of such properties on the GSA website.

Date: 2008-09-29
Topic: Government Operations (Property Management)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources