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  <title>Open Congress : Commercial and Administrative Law - Major Bill Actions</title>
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  <updated>2008-07-30T00:00:00Z</updated>
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    <title>Bill Enacted: H.R.3564 Regulatory Improvement Act of 2007</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-30:/action/168266</id>
    <updated>2008-07-30T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title 5, United States Code, to authorize appropriations for the Administrative Conference of the United States through fiscal year 2011, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 30, 2008: Became Public Law No: 110-290.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Signed by President: H.R.3564 Regulatory Improvement Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3564/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-30:/action/168265</id>
    <updated>2008-07-30T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title 5, United States Code, to authorize appropriations for the Administrative Conference of the United States through fiscal year 2011, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 30, 2008: Signed by President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.3564 Regulatory Improvement Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3564/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-22:/action/166822</id>
    <updated>2008-07-22T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title 5, United States Code, to authorize appropriations for the Administrative Conference of the United States through fiscal year 2011, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 22, 2008: Presented to President.    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.3564 Regulatory Improvement Act of 2007</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-14:/action/166118</id>
    <updated>2008-07-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title 5, United States Code, to authorize appropriations for the Administrative Conference of the United States through fiscal year 2011, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 14, 2008: Cleared for White House.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.6126 Fairness in Nursing Home Arbitration Act of 2008</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-22:/action/158451</id>
    <updated>2008-05-22T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend chapter 1 of title 9 of United States Code with respect to arbitration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5913 Protecting Americans from Unsafe Foreign Products Act</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5913/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-04-29:/action/151725</id>
    <updated>2008-04-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for service of process over foreign nationals in cases involving defective products causing injury in the United States, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5884 Sunshine in Litigation Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5884/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-04-23:/action/151011</id>
    <updated>2008-04-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend chapter 111 of title 28, United States Code, relating to protective orders, sealing of cases, disclosures of discovery information in civil actions, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5793 Cell Tax Fairness Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5793/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-04-15:/action/150026</id>
    <updated>2008-04-15T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To restrict any State or local jurisdiction from imposing a new discriminatory tax on cell phone services, providers, or property.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5754 Employees' Pension Security Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5754/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-04-09:/action/149262</id>
    <updated>2008-04-09T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and title 11, United State Code, to provide necessary reforms for employee pension benefit plans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5593 Congressional Review Act Improvement Act</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5593/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-11:/action/147262</id>
    <updated>2008-03-11T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title 5, United States Code, to make technical amendments to certain provisions of title 5, United States Code, enacted by the Congressional Review Act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5558 Energy Infrastructure Tax Fairness Act</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5558/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-06:/action/146900</id>
    <updated>2008-03-06T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To limit the discriminatory taxation of oil pipeline property.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5494 Savannah's Law</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5494/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-02-26:/action/146042</id>
    <updated>2008-02-26T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title 11 of the United States Code to make nondischargeable debts for personal injuries that result in permanent disability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5455 To amend title 11 of the United States Code to make nondischargeable debts for personal injuries that result in permanent disability.</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5455/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-02-14:/action/145777</id>
    <updated>2008-02-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title 11 of the United States Code to make nondischargeable debts for personal injuries that result in permanent disability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5427 Tax-Free Gold Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5427/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-02-13:/action/145440</id>
    <updated>2008-02-13T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide that no tax or fee may be imposed on certain coins and bullion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5312 Automobile Arbitration Fairness Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5312/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-02-07:/action/144752</id>
    <updated>2008-02-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend chapter 1 of title 9 of the United States Code with respect to arbitration of certain controversies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5267 Business Activity Tax Simplification Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5267/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-02-07:/action/144966</id>
    <updated>2008-02-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To regulate certain State taxation of interstate commerce, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5138 Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5138/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-01-28:/action/143944</id>
    <updated>2008-01-28T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title 11 of the United States Code to provide protection for medical debt homeowners, to restore bankruptcy protections for individuals experiencing economic distress as caregivers to ill or disabled family members, and to exempt from means testing debtors whose financial problems were caused by serious medical problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5086 To require the Attorney General to issue guidelines delineating when to enter into deferred prosecution agreements, to require judicial sanction of deferred prosecution agreements, and to provide for Federal monitors to oversee deferred prosecution agreements.</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5086/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-01-22:/action/142275</id>
    <updated>2008-01-22T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To require the Attorney General to issue guidelines delineating when to enter into deferred prosecution agreements, to require judicial sanction of deferred prosecution agreements, and to provide for Federal monitors to oversee deferred prosecution agreements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.4854 False Claims Act Correction Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h4854/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-12-19:/action/141282</id>
    <updated>2007-12-19T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the provisions of title 31, United States Code, relating to false claims to clarify and make technical amendments to those provisions, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.4279 PRO-IP Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://news.opencongress.org/bill/110-h4279/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-12-05:/action/138682</id>
    <updated>2007-12-05T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To enhance remedies for violations of intellectual property laws, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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