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Latest Action: 02/02/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Bill TextTo provide a program of national health insurance, and for other purposes. 1/4/2007--Introduced. National Health Insurance Act - Requires that medical services, hospital services, and other personal health services be made available to eligible individuals in all U.S. health-service areas as rapidly as possible. Sets forth minimum income requirements for eligibility. Allows health care professionals and hospitals to enter into agreements to furnish services to eligible individuals. Gives responsibility for administration of the benefits provided under this Act to local administrative committees or officers. Allows a state to assume responsibility for administration of the personal health benefits provided under this Act. Establishes: (1) the National Health Insurance Board in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); and (2) the National Advisory Medical Policy Council. Requires the Secretary of HHS to determine the eligibility [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/17/2007 - Conference papers: Senate report and manager's statement and message on House action held at the desk in Senate. Bill TextAn original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2008 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2007 and 2009 through 2012. 5/16/2007--Conference report filed in House. (There are 4 other summaries) Sets forth the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2008, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2007 and FY2009-FY2012. Title I: Recommended Levels and Amounts - (Sec. 101) Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts, for FY2007-FY2012, with respect to: (1) federal revenues; (2) new budget authority; (3) budget outlays; (4) deficits; (5) debt subject to limit; and (6) debt held by the public. (Sec. 102) Lists the appropriate levels of new budget authority, outlays, and administrative expenses for Social Security and specified major functional categories for FY2007-FY2012. Title II: Budget Process [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 01/31/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. Bill TextA bill to amend title 11, United States Code, to ensure that liable entities meet environmental cleanup obligations, and for other purposes. 1/31/2007--Introduced. Cleanup Assurance and Polluter Accountability Act of 2007 or CAPA - Directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) finalize regulations under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) that require facilities to establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility for the risk associated with the production, transportation, treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous substances; (2) publish proposed financial assurance rules for classes of facilities that present the highest risk associated with such substances; and (3) annually promulgate financial assurance rules for additional classes of facilities, giving highest priority to classes that may contain sites at which unreimbursed response costs are at least $12,000. Requires facilities subject [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Administrative procedure, Air pollution, Air pollution control, Alternative energy sources, Biomass energy, Business, Business records, Consumer education, Consumers, Contracts, Department of Energy, Electric power distribution, Electric power production, Electric power transmission, Electric utilities, Electric utility rates, Energy, Energy conservation, Energy conservation in buildings, Environmental protection, Executive departments, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Federal preemption, Finance, Fines (Penalties), Fuel cells, Geothermal resources, Government information, Government paperwork, Greenhouse gases, Housing, Independent regulatory commissions, Landfills, Law, Methane, Politics and government, Propane, Public meetings, Solar energy, Solid wastes, Standards, State and local government, State laws, State politics and government, Wind power
Latest Action: 02/02/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality. Bill TextTo amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to promote energy independence and self-sufficiency by providing for the use of net metering by certain small electic energy generation systems, and for other purposes. 1/30/2007--Introduced. Home Energy Generation Act - Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to require each state regulatory authority and nonregulated electric utility to conduct a hearing, and on the basis of such hearing, adopt a net metering standard. Requires retail electric suppliers to offer to arrange to make net metering available to retail customers on a first-come-first-served basis. Prescribes implementation requirements regarding: (1) net energy measurement; (2) billing practices; (3) ownership of credits; (4) safety and performance standards; (5) interconnection and model standards; and (6) consumer friendly contracts.
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Latest Action: 03/28/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Bill TextA bill to amend the Consumer Credit Protection Act to assure meaningful disclosures of the terms of rental-purchase agreements, including disclosures of all costs to consumers under such agreements, to provide certain substantive rights to consumers under such agreements, and for other purposes. 3/28/2007--Introduced. Consumer Rental-Purchase Agreement Act of 2007 - Amends the Consumer Credit Protection Act to prescribe consumer protection guidelines for rental-purchase transactions, including: (1) the determination of rental-purchase cost; (2) disclosure requirements; (3) prohibitions against confessions of judgment, wage assignments, and waiver of consumer claims or defenses; (4) furnishing of statements of account; (5) point-of-rental disclosures; and (6) rental-purchase advertising disclosures. Declares that an action for civil liability may be brought against a merchant's assignee only if the violation is apparent on the face of a rental-purchase agreement to which [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 10/30/2007 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Bill TextTo amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to require child care providers to provide to parents information regarding whether such providers carry current liability insurance. 10/29/2007--Passed House amended. (There is 1 other summary) Anthony DeJuan Boatwright Act - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to require a state to include, as part of its regulatory process for issuance and renewal of licenses to providers of child care services, a recommendation to each provider that it carry current liability insurance covering the operation of its child care business.Requires state plans for the use of child care and development block grant funds to certify that there are in effect state or local health and safety requirements that each child care provider: (1) post publicly and conspicuously in the service area of its premises a notice specifying whether it carries current liability insurance covering [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 06/15/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Bill TextA bill to provide for the reimbursement of wildland firefighters for the cost of professional liability insurance. 6/15/2007--Introduced. Amends the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1997 to provide for the reimbursement of temporary fire line supervisors (employees of the Department of the Interior or the Forest Service whose duties include temporary supervision to manage a wildland or managed fire) for the cost of professional liability insurance.
Also tagged in: Administrative procedure, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Department of Energy, Energy, Executive departments, Finance, Foreign policy, Insurance premiums, International affairs, Judicial review, Liability for nuclear damages, Nuclear fuels, Nuclear power plants, Risk, Treaties
Latest Action: 06/19/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. Bill TextA bill to implement the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage, and for other purposes. 6/19/2007--Introduced. Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage Contingent Cost Allocation Act - Declares that certain funds designated under provisions (commonly known as the Price-Anderson Act) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to provide indemnification shall be used to cover the contingent cost resulting from any nuclear incident for which such funds would be available to compensate for public liability (Price-Anderson incident).States that certain funds made available to the United States under the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage shall be used to satisfy public liability resulting from a Price-Anderson incident.Requires participation by each nuclear supplier in a retrospective risk pooling program to cover the contingent cost resulting from a nuclear incident outside the United States that is not a Price-Anderson [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 06/08/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit. Bill TextTo amend the Consumer Credit Protection Act to assure meaningful disclosures of the terms of rental-purchase agreements, including disclosures of all costs to consumers under such agreements, to provide certain substantive rights to consumers under such agreements, and for other purposes. 3/29/2007--Introduced. Consumer Rental Purchase Agreement Act - Amends the Consumer Credit Protection Act to prescribe consumer protection guidelines for rental-purchase transactions, including: (1) the determination of rental-purchase cost; (2) disclosure requirements; (3) prohibitions against confessions of judgment, wage assignments, and waiver of consumer claims or defenses; (4) furnishing of statements of account; (5) point-of-rental disclosures; and (6) rental-purchase advertising disclosures. Declares that an action for civil liability may be brought against a merchant's assignee only if the violation is apparent on the face of a rental-purchase agreement to which it relates,[...] show full description
Also tagged in: Block grants, Budgets, Building construction, Building laws, Business, Children, Community development, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Construction costs, Construction industries, Construction workers, Day care, Emergency management, Federal aid to housing, Federally-guaranteed loans, Finance, Fire prevention, Government contractors, Housing, Infrastructure, Labor, Minimum wages, Mortgage guaranty insurance, Nonprofit organizations, Public contracts, Revolving funds, Secondary mortgage market, Social services, State and local government, Subcontractors, Tax-exempt organizations, Taxation, Urban affairs, Wages
Latest Action: 04/17/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. Bill TextTo provide for the construction and renovation of child care facilities, and for other purposes. 4/17/2007--Introduced. Child Care Construction and Renovation Act of 2007 - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize the use of community development block grants to construct and renovate child care facilities.Amends the National Housing Act to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to insure mortgages for: (1) new or rehabilitated child care and development facilities, including for fire safety equipment loans; and (2) acquiring or refinancing debt of existing child care facilities.Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to study the availability of secondary markets for mortgages on child care facilities.Authorizes HUD grants to eligible nonprofit organizations for technical and financial assistance to assist eligible child care providers in acquiring or improving facilities or equipment.Applies the [...] show full description
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Also tagged in: Access to health care, Administrative procedure, Aged, Appropriations, Armed forces, Armed forces reserves, Budgets, Cancer, Children, Congress, Congressional agencies, Congressional reorganization, Congressional reporting requirements, Continuing resolutions, Defense policy, Department of Health and Human Services, Diabetes, Disabled, Drugs, Education, Elementary and secondary education, Federal aid to child health services, Government information, Government paperwork, Governmental investigations, Hawaii, Health insurance, Health policy, Hospital care, Hospital personnel, Hospital rates, Hospitals, Indian medical care, Labor, Law, Legislation, Long-term care, Managed care, Medicaid, Medical care, Medical fees, Medical laboratories, Medical tests, Medically uninsured, Medicare, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, Medicine, Minorities, Nuclear medicine, Old age assistance, Physicians, Poor children, Quality of care, Radioisotopes in medicine, Rehabilitation of the disabled, Rural affairs, Rural health, School health programs, Sexual abstinence, Student transportation, Tennessee, Transportation, Wages, Welfare, Workers' compensation
Latest Action: 12/29/2007 - Signed by President. Bill TextA bill to amend titles XVIII, XIX, and XXI of the Social Security Act to extend provisions under the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP programs, and for other purposes. 12/29/2007--Public Law. (There are 3 other summaries) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the Senate passed version is repeated here.) Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 - (Sec. 101) Title I: Increase in Physician Payment Update; Extension of the Physician Quality Reporting System - (Sec. 101) Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) increase the physician payment update; (2) revise the Physician Assistance and Quality Initiative Fund, adding limitations on expenditures; and (3) extend through 2009 the physician quality reporting system Amends the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 to provide for transitional bonus incentive payments for quality reporting in 2008,[...] show full description
Also tagged in: Aeronautics, Artificial satellites, Astronautical research, Astronautics, Astronomy, Awards, medals, prizes, Budgets, Business, Commemorations, Education, Federal aid to education, Federal aid to research, Federally-guaranteed loans, Finance, Foreign policy, Geographic information systems, Government liability, Government procurement, Graduate education, Higher education, Indemnity, Intellectual property, International affairs, International competitiveness, International cooperation in astronautics, Inventions, Launch vehicles, Law, Liability (Law), Licenses, Medical care, Medical research, Medicine, Meteorological satellites, Patents, Privatization, Public contracts, Remote sensing, Research and development, Scholarships, Science policy, Space activities, Space commercialization, Space programs, Space sciences, Space shuttles, Space stations, Spacecraft, Technology, Technology transfer, Trade
Latest Action: 12/18/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2599-2600) Bill TextTo enact title 51, United States Code, "National and Commercial Space Programs", as positive law. 12/18/2007--Introduced. Enacts title 51 of the United States Code into positive law to be entitled "National and Commercial Space Programs." Makes conforming changes to existing law and repeals specified provisions of specified laws.
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Latest Action: 06/19/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. Bill TextA bill to implement the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage, and for other purposes. 6/19/2007--Introduced. Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage Contingent Cost Allocation Act - Declares that certain funds designated under provisions (commonly known as the Price-Anderson Act) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to provide indemnification shall be used to cover the contingent cost resulting from any nuclear incident for which such funds would be available to compensate for public liability (Price-Anderson incident).States that certain funds made available to the United States under the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage shall be used to satisfy public liability resulting from a Price-Anderson incident.Requires participation by each nuclear supplier in a retrospective risk pooling program to cover the contingent cost resulting from a nuclear incident outside the United States that is not a Price-Anderson [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 06/28/2007 - Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Senator Landrieu without recommendation without amendment. Without written report. Bill TextMaking appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes. 6/28/2007--Reported to Senate without amendment. (There are 3 other summaries) (This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on June 22, 2007. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2008 - Makes appropriations to the House of Representatives for FY2008 for: (1) salaries and/or expenses of the House leadership offices, committees (including the Committee on Appropriations), officers and employees, and the Child Care Center; (2) Members' representational allowances; and (3) the preparation of statements of appropriations. (Sec. 101) Requires deposit in the Treasury of any amounts of a Member's representational allowance for FY2008 remaining after all payments are made, to be used for federal deficit reduction, or, if there is no deficit, for federal [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Administrative procedure, Biological warfare, Budgets, Business, Casualty insurance, Chemical warfare, Civil procedure, Claims, Coinsurance, Compensation (Law), Congress, Congressional investigations, Congressional reporting requirements, Corporation directors, Cost of living adjustments, Criminal justice, Department of the Treasury, Disaster relief, District courts, Emergency management, Executive departments, Executives, Expedited congressional procedure, Federal advisory bodies, Finance, Foreign policy, Government information, Government liability, Government paperwork, Government trust funds, Governmental investigations, House rules and procedure, Insurance companies, Insurance premiums, International affairs, Jurisdiction, Labor, Law, Legislative resolutions, Liability (Law), Life insurance, Losses, Nuclear terrorism, Property insurance, Reinsurance, Risk, Senate rules and procedure, State and local government, State courts, Terrorism, Workers' compensation
Latest Action: 12/26/2007 - Became Public Law No: 110-160. Bill TextTo extend the Terrorism Insurance Program of the Department of the Treasury, and for other purposes. 12/26/2007--Public Law. (There are 4 other summaries) (This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the Senate on November 16, 2007. The summary of that version is repeated here.) Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act to redefine an act of terrorism to eliminate the requirement that the individual or individuals committing a terrorist act be acting on behalf of any foreign person or foreign interest. (Sec. 3) Extends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program through calendar 2014. (Sec. 4) States that no insurer may be required to make payment for insured losses in excess of its statutory deductible combined with its statutory share of insured losses. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) notify Congress within 15 days of an act [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 06/15/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Bill TextA bill to provide for the reimbursement of wildland firefighters for the cost of professional liability insurance. 6/15/2007--Introduced. Amends the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1997 to provide for the reimbursement of temporary fire line supervisors (employees of the Department of the Interior or the Forest Service whose duties include temporary supervision to manage a wildland or managed fire) for the cost of professional liability insurance.
Also tagged in: Accident insurance, Actions and defenses, Blood, Bribery, Business, Child health, Children, Collection of accounts, Conflict of interests, Consumers, Criminal justice, Damages, Department of Health and Human Services, Disability insurance, Disabled, Drug approvals, Drug industry, Drugs, Evidence (Law), Executive departments, Federal officials, Federal preemption, Finance, Fines (Penalties), Fraud, Government employees, Health care fraud, Health insurance, Health policy, Labeling, Labor, Law, Legal fees, Liability (Law), Licenses, Liens, Limitation of actions, Medical care, Medical instruments and apparatus, Medical malpractice, Medical supplies, Medicine, Minors, Misconduct in office, Packaging, Parties to actions, Politics and government, Product safety, Products liability, Punitive damages, State and local government, State laws, Vaccines, Workers' compensation
Latest Action: 06/06/2007 - Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the commit Bill TextTo improve patient access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system. 6/6/2007--Introduced. Help Efficient, Accessible, Low Cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2007 - Sets conditions for lawsuits arising from health care liability claims regarding health care goods or services or any medical product affecting interstate commerce. Sets a statute of limitations of three years after the date of manifestation of injury or one year after the claimant discovers the injury, with certain exceptions. Provides that nothing in this Act limits recovery of the full amount of available economic damages. Limits noneconomic damages to $250,000. Makes each party liable only for the amount of damages directly proportional to such party's percentage of responsibility. Allows the court to restrict the payment of attorney contingency fees. Limits the fees to a decreasing [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 04/17/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. Bill TextTo provide for the construction and renovation of child care facilities, and for other purposes. 4/17/2007--Introduced. Child Care Construction and Renovation Act of 2007 - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize the use of community development block grants to construct and renovate child care facilities.Amends the National Housing Act to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to insure mortgages for: (1) new or rehabilitated child care and development facilities, including for fire safety equipment loans; and (2) acquiring or refinancing debt of existing child care facilities.Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to study the availability of secondary markets for mortgages on child care facilities.Authorizes HUD grants to eligible nonprofit organizations for technical and financial assistance to assist eligible child care providers in acquiring or improving facilities or equipment.Applies the [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 06/08/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit. Bill TextTo amend the Consumer Credit Protection Act to assure meaningful disclosures of the terms of rental-purchase agreements, including disclosures of all costs to consumers under such agreements, to provide certain substantive rights to consumers under such agreements, and for other purposes. 3/29/2007--Introduced. Consumer Rental Purchase Agreement Act - Amends the Consumer Credit Protection Act to prescribe consumer protection guidelines for rental-purchase transactions, including: (1) the determination of rental-purchase cost; (2) disclosure requirements; (3) prohibitions against confessions of judgment, wage assignments, and waiver of consumer claims or defenses; (4) furnishing of statements of account; (5) point-of-rental disclosures; and (6) rental-purchase advertising disclosures. Declares that an action for civil liability may be brought against a merchant's assignee only if the violation is apparent on the face of a rental-purchase agreement to which it relates,[...] show full description
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