Also tagged in: Business, Depressed areas, Economic policy, Government contractors, Government procurement, Labor, Metropolitan areas, Public contracts, Small business, Unemployment
Latest Action: 05/15/2008 - Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.

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To amend the Small Business Act to expand the ability of suburban areas to be HUBZones.

5/15/2008--Introduced.

HUBZone Equity for Distressed Communities Act - Amends Small Business Act provisions relating to HUBZones (historically underutilized business zones) to define "qualified suburban area" as any village, city, town, or economic development area governed by a public authority, district, or other unit of general local government, located in a county that includes, or is located in, a metropolitan statistical area and that meets certain low income or high unemployment qualifications.


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Also tagged in: Alaska, Budgets, Business, Children, Colleges, Community and school, Corporations, Criminal justice, Dropouts, Drug abuse
Latest Action: 07/18/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to strengthen mentoring programs, and for other purposes. 7/18/2007--Introduced. Mentoring America's Children Act of 2007 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to make miscellaneous changes to the Mentoring grant program under title IV that include: (1) improvement of school connectedness and character education among mentoring's purposes; (2) corporations, universities, foster care group homes, and other entities among program providers; (3) a requirement that mentors help children become responsible and successful adults; (4) foster youth, children with an incarcerated parent, suburban children in high crime areas, and children living in high gang involvement, drug use, dropout, or youth suicide areas among those most in need of mentoring; (5) children's participation in internships as a program goal; (6) mandatory information on grant applicants about plans for monitoring mentor/mentee [...]

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Also tagged in: Alaska, Budgets, Business, Children, Colleges, Community and school, Corporations, Criminal justice, Dropouts, Drug abuse
Latest Action: 07/24/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

Bill Text
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to strengthen mentoring programs, and for other purposes. 6/7/2007--Introduced. Mentoring America's Children Act of 2007 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to make miscellaneous changes to the Mentoring grant program under title IV that include: (1) improvement of school connectedness and character education among mentoring's purposes; (2) corporations, universities, and other entities among program providers; (3) a requirement that mentors help children become responsible and successful adults; (4) suburban children in high crime areas and children living in high gang involvement, drug use, or dropout areas among those most in need of mentoring; (5) limitation of each mentor to no more than three children; and (6) mandatory information on grant applicants about plans for monitoring mentor/mentee matches and the satisfaction of grant matching requirements that increase from 10% to 50% [...]

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Also tagged in: Budgets, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Conservation easements, Education, Elementary and secondary education, Environmental education, Environmental protection, Environmental protection groups, Federal-state relations
Latest Action: 04/17/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4611-4612)

Bill Text
A bill to amend the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to establish a program to provide assistance to States and nonprofit organizations to preserve suburban forest land and open space and contain suburban sprawl.

4/17/2007--Introduced.

Suburban and Community Forestry and Open Space Program Act of 2007 - Amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to establish in the Forest Service the Suburban and Community Forestry and Open Space Program, which shall provide cost-share grants to preserve private forest land, contain suburban sprawl, and support value-added forest product industries in states in which less than 25% of the land is owned by the United States.

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to authorize a requesting state to permit a qualifying organization to acquire one or more conservation easements to carry out the Forest Legacy Program in such state.


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