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Latest Action: 01/04/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. Bill TextTo establish a program to provide reinsurance for State natural catastrophe insurance programs to help the United States better prepare for and protect its citizens against the ravages of natural catastrophes, to encourage and promote mitigation and prevention for, and recovery and rebuilding from such catastrophes, and to better assist in the financial recovery from such catastrophes. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Homeowners Insurance Protection Act of 2007 - Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish the National Commission on Catastrophe Preparation and Protection to advise the Secretary regarding estimated loss costs associated with contracts for reinsurance coverage. Authorizes the Secretary to make homeowners protection coverage available through contracts for reinsurance coverage. Restricts purchase of such coverage to eligible state programs. Prescribes criteria for state eligibility. Requires each contract for reinsurance coverage to provide insurance [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 01/04/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Bill TextTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the creation of disaster protection funds by property and casualty insurance companies for the payment of policyholders' claims arising from future catastrophic events. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Policyholder Disaster Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow insurance companies (other than life insurance companies) to make tax deductible contributions to a tax-exempt policyholder disaster protection fund established by this Act for the payment of policyholders' claims arising from certain catastrophic events, such as windstorms, earthquakes, fires, or floods.
Also tagged in: Access to health care, Administrative procedure, Aged, Aid to dependent children, Block grants, Budgets, Business, Caregivers, Child nutrition, Children, Chronically ill, Civil rights, Communications, Community health services, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Consumer education, Consumer protection, Consumers, Cooperative societies, Criminal justice, Disabled, Discrimination in insurance, Discrimination in medical care, Drug abuse, Economic policy, Education, Elementary and secondary education, Employee health benefits, Excise tax, Executive departments, Families, Federal aid to child health services, Federal aid to education, Federal aid to health facilities, Finance, Fines (Penalties), Food, Food stamps, Government contractors, Government information, Government paperwork, Government procurement, Government trust funds, Grants-in-aid, Health care fraud, Health education, Health insurance, Health planning, Health policy, Higher education, Homeless, Hospital care, Hospitals, Housing, Immigrant health, Immigration, Income tax, Indexing (Economic policy), Indian medical care, Insurance premiums, Job training, Labor, Law, Legislation, Lifestyle, Long-term care, Long-term care insurance, Maternal health services, Medicaid, Medical care, Medical economics, Medical education, Medical fees, Medically uninsured, Medicare, Medicine, Mental health services, Minorities, Nonprofit organizations, Nursing, Nutrition, Obesity, Parents, Part-time employment, Performance measurement, Physical education and training, Physicians, Poor children, Pregnant women, Preventive medicine, Public contracts, Public health personnel, Quality of care, Retiree health benefits, Rural affairs, Rural health, Scholarships, School health programs, School lunch program, Self-employed, Signs and symbols, Small business, Smoking, Social services, Sports, State and local government, Student loan funds, Subsidies, Tax credits, Tax deductions, Tax exclusion, Tax penalties, Tax refunds, Tax returns, Taxation, Urban affairs, Urban areas, Welfare, Welfare eligibility, Welfare work participation, WIC program, Withholding tax, Women
Latest Action: 01/04/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S149-150) Bill TextA bill to expand access to affordable health care and to strengthen the health care safety net and make health care services more available in rural and underserved areas. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Access to Affordable Health Care Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) tax credits to small businesses for qualified employee health insurance expenses; (2) tax credits for qualified health insurance; (3) deductions for long-term care premiums; and (4) tax credits for individuals with long-term care needs. Requires the Secretary of Labor to award grants to states to assist in planning, developing, and operating qualified small employer purchasing groups for health insurance. Directs the Small Business Administration to award grants to states, local governments, and nonprofit organizations to provide health insurance information to small employers. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to award demonstration grants for [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 01/09/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. Bill TextTo establish a Federal program to provide reinsurance to improve the availability of homeowners' insurance. 1/9/2007--Introduced. Homeowners' Insurance Availability Act of 2007 - Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to implement a reinsurance coverage program available only through contracts for reinsurance coverage purchased at regional auctions. States that the purpose of the program is to improve: (1) the availability of homeowners' insurance for the purpose of facilitating the pooling, and spreading the risk, of catastrophic financial losses from disasters; and (2) the solvency of the homeowners' insurance markets. Prescribes implementation guidelines that include establishment: (1) in the Treasury of the Disaster Reinsurance Fund; and (2) of a National Commission on Catastrophe Risks and Insurance Loss Costs.
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Latest Action: 01/17/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. Bill TextTo establish a bipartisan commission on insurance reform. 1/17/2007--Introduced. Commission on Catastrophic Disaster Risk and Insurance Act of 2007 - Establishes the bipartisan Commission on Catastrophic Disaster Risk and Insurance to assess: (1) the condition of the property and casualty insurance and reinsurance markets in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma in 2005, and the four major hurricanes that struck the United States in 2004; (2) the ongoing exposure of the United States to windstorms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and floods; and (3) recommend and report legislative and regulatory changes that will improve the domestic and international financial health and competitiveness of such markets.
Also tagged in: Actions and defenses, Agricultural assistance, Agriculture, Agriculture in foreign trade, Aliens, American investments, American property in foreign countries, Armed forces, Budgets, Business, Caribbean area, Civil liberties, Communications, Cuba, Debt relief, Defense policy, Democracy, Development credit institutions, Economic assistance, Embargo, Energy, Equipment and supplies, Export controls, Export finance, Expropriation, Finance, Food, Foreign aid, Foreign investments, Foreign loans, Foreign policy, Foreign tax credit, Government lending, Government liability (International law), Human rights, Immigration, Import restrictions, Income tax, Intellectual property, Intelligence activities, International affairs, International agencies, International broadcasting, International claims, International finance, Investment guaranty insurance, Latin America, Law, Negotiations, Nuclear facilities, Politics and government, Postal service, President and foreign policy, Presidents, Right of property, Right to travel, Sanctions (International law), Sugar, Taxation, Telecommunication, Telecommunication industry, Telephone, Television broadcasting, Trade, Trademarks, Trading with the enemy, Transportation, Visas, War and emergency powers
Latest Action: 04/12/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology. Bill TextTo lift the trade embargo on Cuba, and for other purposes. 1/22/2007--Introduced. Free Trade With Cuba Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to repeal the embargo on trade with Cuba. Prohibits the exercise by the President with respect to Cuba of certain authorities conferred by the Trading With the Enemy Act and exercised on July 1, 1977, as a result of a specified national emergency. Declares that any prohibition on exports to Cuba under the Export Administration Act of 1979 shall cease to be effective. Authorizes the President to impose export controls with respect to Cuba and exercise certain authorities under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act only on account of an unusual and extraordinary threat to U.S. national security that did not exist before enactment of this Act. Repeals: (1) the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992; (2) the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996; (3) the prohibition under the Food Security Act of 1985 [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 03/20/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3360-3362) Bill TextA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the creation of disaster protection funds by property and casualty insurance companies for the payment of policyholders' claims arising from future catastrophic events. 3/20/2007--Introduced. Policyholder Disaster Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow insurance companies (other than life insurance companies) to make tax deductible contributions to a tax-exempt policyholder disaster protection fund established by this Act for the payment of policyholders' claims arising from certain catastrophic events, such as windstorms, earthquakes, fires, or floods.
Also tagged in: Administrative procedure, Building construction, Building laws, Building materials, Business, Casualty insurance, Coinsurance, Congress, Congressional investigations, Congressional reporting requirements, Department of the Treasury, Disaster insurance, Earthquakes, Economic policy, Emergency management, Executive departments, Federal advisory bodies, Finance, Fires, Floods, Government information, Government publicity, Government trust funds, Governmental investigations, Housing, Hurricanes, Indexing (Economic policy), Insurance companies, Insurance premiums, Law, Losses, Property insurance, Public contracts, Risk, State and local government, State laws, Storms, Tornadoes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes
Latest Action: 03/20/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3360-3362) Bill TextA bill to establish a program to provide more protection at lower cost through a national backstop for State natural catastrophe insurance programs to help the United States better prepare for and protect its citizens against the ravages of natural catastrophes, to encourage and promote mitigation and prevention for, and recovery and rebuilding from such catastrophes, to better assist in the financial recovery from such catastrophes, and to develop a rigorous process of continuous improvement. 3/20/2007--Introduced. Homeowners Protection Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish the National Commission on Catastrophe Preparation and Protection to advise the Secretary regarding: (1) estimated loss costs associated with the contracts for reinsurance coverage; and (2) development of prevention, mitigation, recovery, and rebuilding standards that better prepare and protect the United States from catastrophes. Instructs the Secretary to implement [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Administrative fees, Business, Business insurance, Casualty insurance, Commercial arbitration, Congress, Congressional investigations, Congressional reporting requirements, Contracts, Data banks, Federal preemption, Finance, Financial statements, Government information, Government paperwork, Insurance, Insurance agents, Insurance companies, Insurance premiums, Interstate compacts, Interstate relations, Law, Licenses, Property insurance, State and local government, State laws, State taxation, Tax returns, Taxation, Technology
Latest Action: 03/20/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Bill TextA bill to streamline the regulation of nonadmitted insurance and reinsurance, and for other purposes. 3/20/2007--Introduced. Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2007 - Prohibits any state other than the home state of an insured from requiring a premium tax payment for nonadmitted insurance. Authorizes states to enter into procedures to allocate among themselves the premium taxes paid to an insured's home state. Allows an insured's home state to require surplus lines brokers and certain insureds to file annually tax allocation reports detailing the portion of the nonadmitted insurance premiums attributable to properties, risks, or exposures located in each state. Declares that Congress intends that each state adopt a nationwide or uniform procedure that provides for the reporting, payment, collection, and allocation of premium taxes for nonadmitted insurance. Subjects nonadmitted insurance solely to the regulatory requirements of the insured's [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Administrative fees, Business, Business insurance, Casualty insurance, Commercial arbitration, Congress, Congressional investigations, Congressional reporting requirements, Contracts, Data banks, Federal preemption, Finance, Financial statements, Government information, Government paperwork, Insurance, Insurance agents, Insurance companies, Insurance premiums, Interstate compacts, Interstate relations, Law, Licenses, Property insurance, State and local government, State laws, State taxation, Tax returns, Taxation, Technology
Latest Action: 06/26/2007 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Bill TextTo streamline the regulation of nonadmitted insurance and reinsurance, and for other purposes. 6/25/2007--Passed House without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2007 - Title I: Nonadmitted Insurance - (Sec. 101) Prohibits any state other than the home state of an insured from requiring a premium tax payment for nonadmitted insurance. Authorizes states to enter into procedures to allocate among themselves the premium taxes paid to an insured's home state. Declares that Congress intends that each state adopt a nationwide or uniform procedure that provides for the reporting, payment, collection, and allocation of premium taxes for nonadmitted insurance. Allows an insured's home state to require surplus lines brokers and certain insureds to file [...] show full description
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Also tagged in: Armed forces, Armed forces reserves, Budgets, College teachers, Criminal justice, Defense contracts, Defense economics, Defense policy, Education, Federal aid to transportation, Federally-guaranteed loans, Finance, Government lending, Higher education, Job training, Labor, Merchant seamen, Merchant ships, Scholarships, Service academies, Sex crimes, Sexual harassment, Shipbuilding, Shipyards, Transportation, Transportation insurance, War risk insurance, Warships
Latest Action: 09/11/2008 - Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Inouye with amendments. With written report No. 110-457. Bill TextA bill to reauthorize the Maritime Administration, and for other purposes. 5/8/2008--Introduced. Maritime Administration Act for Fiscal Year 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation, subject to limitation and sunset, to execute personal service contracts with adjunct professors to meet a United States Merchant Marine Academy temporary need. Requires the Academy's superintendent to prescribe a sexual harassment and sexual violence policy applicable to Academy cadets and other personnel. Amends the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 to revise provisions concerning riding gang member requirements on vessels under Department of Defense (DOD) contracts. Requires, subject to appropriations, grants, loans, and loan guarantees to small shipyards for capital improvements and assistance for training programs to foster technical skills and operational productivity in communities with economies related to or dependent on [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Access to airports, Air traffic, Airline passenger traffic, Airlines, Airports, Authorization, Aviation fuels, Aviation insurance, Aviation safety, Avionics, Budgets, Business, Coal, Commercial aviation, Consumer protection, Consumers, Department of Transportation, Drone aircraft, Emergency management, Energy, Environmental protection, Excise tax, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Federal advisory bodies, Federal aid to transportation, Finance, Fire prevention, Flight crews, Government trust funds, Indian lands, Infrastructure, Minorities, National parks, Natural resources, Navigation (Aeronautics), Noise, Public lands, Research and development, Rural affairs, Science policy, Taxation, Tourism, Transportation, Transportation planning, Transportation research, User charges
Latest Action: 05/06/2008 - Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 726. Bill TextA bill to reauthorize and modernize the Federal Aviation Administration. 5/2/2008--Introduced. Aviation Investment and Modernization Act of 2008 - Amends federal transportation law to authorize appropriations for FY2008-FY2011 for: (1) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) operations; (2) FAA air navigation facilities and equipment; (3) civil aviation research and development (R&D); (4) airport planning and development and noise compatibility planning programs; (5) certain other aviation programs; and (6) administrative expenses for certain airport programs. Revises passenger facility charge (PFC) provisions granting an eligible public agency that controls a commercial service airport the authority to impose a PFC on passengers boarding an aircraft. Establishes an alternative PFC collection pilot program. Authorizes the FAA Administrator to carry out a pilot program for certain airports to take over operational responsibility for airport terminal area air [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Access to health care, Administrative procedure, Budgets, Business, Chronically ill, Civil rights, Department of Health and Human Services, Discrimination in medical care, Diseases, Employee health benefits, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Federal employees, Finance, Government employees, Government employees' health insurance, Government information, Government publicity, Government trust funds, Health insurance, Health policy, Insurance companies, Insurance premiums, Labor, Law, Medical care, Medically uninsured, Presidential appointments, Presidents, Public contracts, Self-employed, Small business, Standards
Latest Action: 04/30/2008 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3599) Bill TextA bill to provide quality, affordable health insurance for small employers and individuals. 4/30/2008--Introduced. Small Business Empowerment Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a national program to make quality, affordable health insurance available to small employers and self-employed individuals in a manner that will spread risk on a national basis, modeled on the federal employees health benefit program.Requires the Secretary to enter into a contract with an eligible entity for administration of the program. Authorizes such administrator to provide health insurance coverage to employees of participating employers and individuals. Directs such administrator to: (1) establish a pilot program to provide for the offering by carriers of a model health benefits plan; and (2) contract with the Institute of Medicine to assess the impact of the program on health care coverage costs and access.Sets minimum standards for program health [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Administrative procedure, Biological warfare, Business, Casualty insurance, Chemical warfare, Coinsurance, Compensation (Law), Congress, Congressional investigations, Congressional oversight, Congressional reporting requirements, Consumer education, Consumers, Criminal justice, Department of the Treasury, Emergency management, Executive departments, Finance, Foreign policy, Insurance companies, Insurance premiums, International affairs, Law, Life insurance, Losses, Nuclear terrorism, Property insurance, Terrorism, Travel
Latest Action: 12/13/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Bill TextTo extend the Terrorism Insurance Program of the Department of the Treasury, and for other purposes. 12/12/2007--Passed House without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)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 [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Air pollution, Air pollution control, American investments, Business, Carbon cycle, Carbon dioxide, Civil liberties, Climate change, Congress, Congress and foreign policy, Congressional reporting requirements, Cooperative societies, Corporate accountability, Employee rights, Energy, Environmental assessment, Environmental protection, Environmental technology, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Finance, Fluorocarbons, Foreign aid, Foreign policy, Gas industry, Government ethics, Greenhouse gases, Home ownership, Housing, Human rights, International affairs, International finance, Investment guaranty insurance, Iraq, Iraq compilation, Labor, Low-income housing, Methane, Middle East and North Africa, Mines and mineral resources, Natural gas, Natural resources, Nitrogen oxides, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Petroleum industry, Prospecting, Public contracts, Small business, Technology, Trade
Latest Action: 11/14/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Bill TextA bill to reauthorize the programs of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and for other purposes. 11/14/2007--Introduced. Overseas Private Investment Corporation Reauthorization Act of 2007 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to reauthorize the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) through September 30, 2011. Revises international worker rights provisions. Requires OPIC to institute a climate change mitigation action plan. Requires, with a specified exception, prior to OPIC approval of a Category A extractive industry project (as defined by this Act) or an extractive industry project in which OPIC assistance would be valued at $10 million or more; (1) prior congressional notification; and (2) investor and host country agreement to implement Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative principles or substantially similar principles, and host country adherence to certain accounting procedures as they relate to such projects. [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Budgets, Business, Casualty insurance, Disaster insurance, Emergency management, Finance, Government lending, Government securities, Governmental investigations, Home ownership, Housing, Insurance companies, Nonprofit organizations, Politics and government, Property insurance, Public contracts, Risk, Securities, Social services, State and local government, State politics and government
Latest Action: 11/06/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Bill TextA bill to establish a National Catastrophic Risks Consortium and a National Homeowners' Insurance Stabilization Program, and for other purposes. 11/6/2007--Introduced. Homeowners' Defense Act of 2007 - Establishes the National Catastrophe Risk Consortium as a nonprofit, nonfederal entity to: (1) maintain an inventory of catastrophe risk obligations held by state reinsurance funds, and state residual insurance market entities; (2) issue, on a conduit basis, securities and other financial instruments linked to catastrophe risks insured or reinsured through Consortium members; and (3) act as a centralized repository of state risk information accessible by certain private-market participants. Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to implement a national homeowners' insurance stabilization program to make liquidity loans and catastrophic loans to qualified reinsurance programs to: (1) ensure their solvency; (2) improve the availability and affordability of homeowners' [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Acreage allotments, Administrative procedure, Administrative remedies, Aged, Agricultural conservation, Agricultural cooperatives, Agricultural credit, Agricultural estimating and reporting, Agricultural labor, Agricultural pollution, Agricultural prices, Agricultural research, Agricultural subsidies, Agriculture, Agriculture in foreign trade, Alaska, Alcohol as fuel, Ammonia, Animal diseases, Animals, Aquifers, Arid regions, Biomass energy, Biotechnology, Block grants, Broadband, Budgets, Business, Buy American, Chesapeake Bay, Child labor, Child nutrition, Children, Civil liberties, Civil rights, Civil rights enforcement, Collection of accounts, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Conservation easements, Consumer education, Consumers, Contracts, Cotton, Crop insurance, Customs unions, Dairy industry, Dairy products, Dams, Day care, Department of Agriculture, Developing countries, Disabled, Disaster relief, Discrimination, Dispute settlement, Droughts, Drug abuse, Economic policy, Electric power production, Electric power transmission, Electrification, Emergency management, Energy, Energy crops, Energy demand, Energy efficiency, Energy research, Environmental protection, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Export finance, Farm income, Farm lands, Farmers, Federal aid to health facilities, Federally-guaranteed loans, Feed grains, Fertilizers, Finance, Floods, Food, Food relief, Food safety, Food stamps, Forced labor, Foreclosure, Foreign policy, Foreign trade promotion, Forest conservation, Foundations, Fraud, Free trade, Fruit, Germplasm resources, Goats, Government information, Government lending, Government publicity, Governmental investigations, Grading (Agricultural products), Grassland ecology, Grazing, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Groundwater, Habitat conservation, Hawaiians, Health education, Higher education, Historic sites, Honey, Horticulture, Hospitals, Human rights, Hunger, Identification devices, Income, Indian education, Indians, Indigenous peoples, Infrastructure, Insurance premiums, International affairs, Internet, Job training, Labeling, Labor, Labor supply, Lakes, Landscape protection, Latin America, Law, Limitation of actions, Livestock, Marketing of farm produce, Marketing orders, Meat inspection, Methamphetamine, Mexico, Migrant labor, Milk, Minorities, Natural resources, Non-native species, Nongovernmental organizations, Nutrition, Organic farming, Parasitic diseases, Peanuts, Performance measurement, Pest control, Plant breeding, Plant diseases, Plant protection, Potatoes, Poultry, Propane, Puerto Rico, Rabies, Railroad freight operations, Range management, Research and development, Restoration ecology, Rice, Right of privacy, Rural affairs, Rural economic development, Rural health, Sales tax, Saline waters, Scholarships, Science policy, Seasonal labor, Seeds, Sheep, Small business, Social services, Soil conservation, Soil erosion, State and local government, Storage, Sugar, Taxation, Technology, Telecommunication, Territories (U.S.), Texas, Trade, Trade agreements, Transportation, Unemployment, Vegetables, Veterinary medicine, Waste water treatment, Water conservation, Water pollution, Water pollution control, Water resources, Water supply, Watersheds, Welfare, Welfare eligibility, Wells, Wetlands, Wheat, Working poor
Latest Action: 11/02/2007 - Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Harkin. With written report No. 110-220. Additional views filed. Bill TextAn original bill to provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes. 11/2/2007--Introduced. Food and Energy Security Act of 2007 - Revises agricultural and related programs and provisions respecting: (1) producer income; (2) conservation; (3) trade; (4) nutrition; (5) credit; (6) rural development and investment; (7) research and related matters; (8) forestry; (9) energy; (10) livestock marketing; and (11) agricultural security.
Also tagged in: Administrative procedure, Biological warfare, Business, Casualty insurance, Chemical warfare, Compensation (Law), Congress, Congressional investigations, Congressional reporting requirements, Criminal justice, Department of the Treasury, Executive departments, Finance, Insurance companies, Insurance premiums, Law, Losses, Nuclear terrorism, Property insurance, Terrorism, Weapons systems
Latest Action: 11/01/2007 - Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Dodd. With written report No. 110-215. Bill TextAn original bill to reauthorize the Federal terrorism risk insurance program, and for other purposes. 11/1/2007--Reported to Senate without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 - (Sec. 2) Amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act to revise the definition of an act of terrorism for terrorism risk insurance purposes to eliminate the requirement that the individual or individuals committing a terrorist act be acting on behalf of any foreign person or foreign interest.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 [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Business, Casualty insurance, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Cost effectiveness, Disaster insurance, Disasters, Emergency management, Executive departments, Federal advisory bodies, Finance, Financial services, Insurance companies, Property insurance
Latest Action: 11/01/2007 - Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Dodd. Without written report. Bill TextAn original bill to establish a nonpartisan commission on natural catastrophe risk management and insurance, and for other purposes. 11/1/2007--Reported to Senate without amendment. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)Commission on Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Insurance Act of 2007 - Establishes the Commission on Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Insurance to report to Congress on its findings and assessments regarding the risks posed to the United States by natural catastrophes, and means for mitigating those risks and paying for losses caused by such catastrophes. Requires the Commission to assess: (1) the condition of the property and casualty insurance and reinsurance markets prior to and in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma in 2005, and the four major hurricanes that struck [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Business, Casualty insurance, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Cost effectiveness, Disaster insurance, Disasters, Emergency management, Executive departments, Federal advisory bodies, Finance, Financial services, Hurricanes, Insurance companies, Property insurance
Latest Action: 09/24/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. Bill TextTo establish a nonpartisan Commission on Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Insurance, and for other purposes. 9/24/2007--Introduced. Commission on Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Insurance Act of 2007 - Establishes the Commission on Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Insurance to report to Congress on the natural catastrophe insurance marketplace, including: (1) the extent to which insurance costs and availability are affected by specified factors; (2) which factors the federal government should address to increase catastrophe insurance availability and competitiveness; and (3) actions the federal government can undertake to achieve this goal without requiring a long-term cross-subsidy from taxpayers. Requires the Commission to report to certain congressional committees before the beginning of the 2008 hurricane season.
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