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  <title>Open Congress : Healthy Families and Communities - Major Bill Actions</title>
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  <updated>2008-06-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
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    <title>Bill Enacted: H.R.2517 Protecting Our Children Comes First Act of 2007</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-03:/action/158887</id>
    <updated>2008-06-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Missing Children's Assistance Act to authorize appropriations, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 03, 2008: Became Public Law No: 110-240.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Signed by President: H.R.2517 Protecting Our Children Comes First Act of 2007</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-03:/action/158886</id>
    <updated>2008-06-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Missing Children's Assistance Act to authorize appropriations, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 03, 2008: Signed by President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.2517 Protecting Our Children Comes First Act of 2007</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-23:/action/158885</id>
    <updated>2008-05-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Missing Children's Assistance Act to authorize appropriations, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 23, 2008: Presented to President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.2517 Protecting Our Children Comes First Act of 2007</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-20:/action/158343</id>
    <updated>2008-05-20T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Missing Children's Assistance Act to authorize appropriations, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 20, 2008: Cleared for White House.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5524 Reconnecting Homeless Youth Act of 2008</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-04:/action/146553</id>
    <updated>2008-03-04T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act to authorize appropriations, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.Res.1013 Expressing the sense of Congress that providing breakfast in schools through the National School Breakfast Program has a positive impact on classroom performance.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-hr1013/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-04:/action/146628</id>
    <updated>2008-03-04T00:00:00Z</updated>
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Expressing the sense of Congress that providing breakfast in schools through the National School Breakfast Program has a positive impact on classroom performance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5178 Youth Reentry Improvement Act of 2008</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-01-29:/action/144205</id>
    <updated>2008-01-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To enhance public safety by improving the reintegration of youth offenders into the families and communities to which they are returning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.4898 Best Buddies Empowerment for People with Intellectual Disabilities Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h4898/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-12-19:/action/141384</id>
    <updated>2007-12-19T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide assistance to Best Buddies to support the expansion and development of mentoring programs, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.4836 National Diabetes Coordinator Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h4836/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-12-18:/action/140933</id>
    <updated>2007-12-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To reduce the incidence, progression, and impact of diabetes and its complications and establish the position of National Diabetes Coordinator.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.4453 Underage Drinking Prevention Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h4453/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-12-11:/action/143073</id>
    <updated>2007-12-11T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To establish a grant to increase enforcement of laws to prohibit underage drinking through social sources, to improve reporting of Federal underage drinking data, to establish grants to increase parental involvement in school-based efforts to reduce underage drinking, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.4015 Job Protection for Survivors Act</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-10-31:/action/135430</id>
    <updated>2007-10-31T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide job protection for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.Res.768 Honoring the life of Thomas "Tommy" Makem.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-hr768/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-10-23:/action/134600</id>
    <updated>2007-10-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
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Honoring the life of Thomas "Tommy" Makem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3922 Gang Reduction, Investment, and Prevention Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3922/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-10-22:/action/134348</id>
    <updated>2007-10-22T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To expand and improve Federal gang prevention programs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.Res.762 Supporting the goals of National Bullying Prevention Awareness Week.</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-10-22:/action/134362</id>
    <updated>2007-10-22T00:00:00Z</updated>
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Supporting the goals of National Bullying Prevention Awareness Week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.Res.709 Recognizing and honoring the 50th anniversary of the dedication of the Sam Rayburn Library and Museum on October 9, 2007, and for other purposes.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-hr709/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-10-03:/action/131457</id>
    <updated>2007-10-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
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Recognizing and honoring the 50th anniversary of the dedication of the Sam Rayburn Library and Museum on October 9, 2007, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3733 National Foundation on Physical Fitness and Sports Establishment Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3733/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-10-02:/action/131276</id>
    <updated>2007-10-02T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To establish a National Foundation on Physical Fitness and Sports to carry out activities to support and supplement the mission of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3547 Gang Prevention, Intervention, and Suppression Act</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-09-17:/action/129243</id>
    <updated>2007-09-17T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To increase and enhance law enforcement resources committed to investigation and prosecution of violent gangs, to deter and punish violent gang crime, to protect law-abiding citizens and communities from violent criminals, to revise and enhance criminal penalties for violent crimes, to expand and improve gang prevention programs, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.Res.655 Honoring the life and accomplishments of Katherine Dunham.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-hr655/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-09-17:/action/129294</id>
    <updated>2007-09-17T00:00:00Z</updated>
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Honoring the life and accomplishments of Katherine Dunham.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3395 Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act of 2007</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-08-03:/action/127341</id>
    <updated>2007-08-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title IV of the Social Security Act to ensure funding for grants to promote responsible fatherhood and strengthen low-income families, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3409 Runaway and Homeless Youth Act Reauthorization of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3409/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-08-03:/action/127381</id>
    <updated>2007-08-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To create the conditions, structures, and supports needed to ensure permanency for the Nation's unaccompanied youth, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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