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Bisti PRLA Dispute Resolution Act

Bill: 109-s-692
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2005-04-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Coal
Energy
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Indian claims
Indian lands
Land transfers
Mineral reserves
Mining claims
Mining royalties
Minorities
New Mexico
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Revenue sharing
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: 
Bisti PRLA Dispute Resolution Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Land Management, if any of specified coal preference right lease applications are withdrawn by the holder or holders of those applications, to issue to each such holder a certificate of bidding rights that constitutes the combined fair market value of the coal reserves for each coal preference right lease application withdrawn by the holder. Provides that such withdrawals and issuances shall occur without any further adjudication of coal preference right lease applications. 
Directs the Secretary to establish a panel to determine the fair market value of the coal reserves of any coal preference right applications withdrawn under this Act. Instructs the Secretary to contract with a qualified coal reserve appraiser to assist the panel. 
 
Directs the Secretary, after the withdrawal of a coal preference right lease application, to: (1) accept the relinquishment of the rights associated with such application; and (2) issue a certificate of bidding rights in the amount of the fair market value of the coal reserves of such application. Provides that the Secretary's duties in issuing such patents and certificates shall be considered nondiscretionary and enforceable in a mandamus proceeding.
 
Sets forth provisions regarding the use of exchange bidding rights.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3152-3153)
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3152)
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Electronic Communications Privacy Judicial Review and Improvement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-693
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2005-04-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Air force
Aircraft pilots
Armed Forces and National Security
Emergency Management
Families
Military civic action
Rescue work
Survivors' benefits
Transportation and Public Works
Volunteer forces

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: 
Electronic Communications Privacy Judicial Review and Improvement Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize wire or electronic communication service providers (service providers) who receive national security letters (NSLs) from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) requesting subscriber information and toll billing records in connection with an authorized investigation concerning international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities to: (1) challenge the NSL in U.S. district court; and (2) challenge the statutory requirement that the receipt of an NSL may not be disclosed to any person. 
 
Authorizes the court to: (1) modify or set aside an NSL if compliance would be unreasonable or oppressive; and (2) set aside the nondisclosure requirement if there is no reason to believe that disclosure may endanger U.S. national security, interfere with specified investigations or diplomatic relations, or endanger the life or physical safety of any person. States that the Government's certification that disclosure may endanger national security or interfere with diplomatic relations shall be treated as conclusive unless made in bad faith.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to seek enforcement of an NSL in U.S. district court if the recipient refuses to comply.
 
States that disclosure of information in proceedings under this Act may be limited consistent with the Classified Information Procedures Act.
 
Modifies the NSL nondisclosure requirement to create exceptions for: (1) disclosure to an attorney for the purpose of seeking advice; or (2) disclosure to other persons as necessary to comply with the request. Makes the nondisclosure requirement applicable to such parties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3155)
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3154-3155)
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to provide for a job training grant pilot program.

Bill: 109-s-694
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2005-04-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Employment of the disadvantaged
Grants-in-aid
Taxation
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: 
Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to establish a job training grant pilot program.
 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to make such grants to qualified training programs in the following forms: (1) placement grants, upon placement of a qualified graduate in qualifying employment; and (2) retention grants, in an additional amount, upon retention of a qualified graduate in qualifying employment for one year.
Requires the Secretary, in determining the amount of such grants, to consider the economic benefit received by the Government from the employment of the qualified graduate, including increased tax revenue and decreased unemployment benefits or other support obligations. Sets forth criteria for qualified job training programs, qualified graduates, and qualifying employment.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-14
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 109-152.
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3156)
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Schools Geography Act

Bill: 109-s-696
Sponsor: Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Education
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Law
Rural education
School choice
Student transportation
Students
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Rural Schools Geography Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide that a local educational agency shall not be required, under certain requirements added by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, to give a student the option to transfer to another school if such option is impractical owing to the distance to be traveled, a geographical barrier or hazard, the duration of the travel, or an unusually high cost of travel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3204-3205)
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3203-3204)
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Higher Education Opportunity Through Pell Grant Expansion Act

Bill: 109-s-697
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Appropriations
Authorization
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Income
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Interest
Profit
Scholarships
State taxation
Student loan funds
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Higher Education Opportunity Through Pell Grant Expansion Act - Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) eligible undergraduate students should receive the maximum Federal Pell Grant amount established by this Act's amendment to the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA); and (2) sufficient funds should be appropriated to allow the awarding of such amount.
 
Authorizes and makes additional appropriations in a specified amount for FY 2006 to carry out HEA provisions for Federal Pell Grants. 
 
Amends HEA to revise the maximum amount of a Federal Pell Grant to $5,100 for academic year 2005-2006.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to adjust such maximum amount cumulatively every two academic years to account for any percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor.
 
Prohibits the application of the annual updates (published in the Federal Register on December 23, 2004) to the allowance for State and other taxes in the tables used in the Federal Needs Analysis Methodology to determine a student's expected family contribution for the award year 2005-2006, to the extent such updates will reduce the amount of Federal student assistance for which the student is eligible.
 
Terminates special allowance payments for lenders or holders of student loans: (1) made or purchased after enactment of this Act; (2) not qualified for such payments before such enactment; or (3) made or purchased before such enactment, but having retired or defeased obligations after such enactment, or having a maturity or retirement date extended after such enactment. 
 
Requires windfall profit offset payments from eligible lenders of student loans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11909)
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3205-3206)
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3205)
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on methacrylamido etheleneurae monomer.

Bill: 109-s-698
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2007, the duty on methacrylamido etheleneurae monomer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on allyl ureido monomer.

Bill: 109-s-699
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2007, the duty on allyl ureido monomer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to reduce temporarily the duty on potassium sorbate.

Bill: 109-s-700
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Chemicals
Food additives
Food preservation
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce, through December 31, 2008, the duty on potassium sorbate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to reduce temporarily the duty on certain sorbic acid (hexadienic acid) (2,4-hexadienoic acid).

Bill: 109-s-701
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Chemicals
Food additives
Food preservation
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce, through December 31, 2008, the duty on certain sorbic acid (hexadienic acid) (2,4-hexadienoic acid).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the occupational taxes relating to distilled spirits, wine, and beer.

Bill: 109-s-702
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alcohol tax
Alcoholic beverages
Beer
Business records
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Fines (Penalties)
Forfeiture
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Law
Retail trade
Wholesale trade
Wine

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal specified occupational taxes relating to distilled spirits, wine, and beer. Revises recordkeeping requirements for wholesale and retail liquor dealers. Requires liquor dealers who are subject to recordkeeping requirements to register with the Secretary of the Treasury. Makes it unlawful for any liquor dealer to purchase distilled spirits for resale from any person other than a wholesale dealer in liquor subject to recordkeeping requirements.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3206-3207)
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3206)
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the conveyance of certain Bureau of Land Management land in the State of Nevada to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-703
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Nevada
Parking facilities
Sports and Recreation
Sports facilities
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Provides for the conveyance of certain Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in Nevada to the Nevada Speedway, LLC.
 
Requires: (1) Nevada Speedway, LLC, to pay to the Secretary of the Interior the appraised value of such land; and (2) any costs of the conveyance to be paid by Nevada Speedway, LLC.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-157.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Caribbean Basin Trade Enhancement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-704
Sponsor: Sen. Martinez, Mel [R-FL]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
British West Indies
Caribbean area
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Consultants
Costa Rica
Customs administration
Distance education
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
El Salvador
Exports
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign trade promotion
Grenada
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Imports
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
International agencies
Internet
Jamaica
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Marine terminals
Montserrat
Netherlands Antilles
Nicaragua
Organization of American States (OAS)
Panama
Regional economic development
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Suriname
Technical assistance
Technical education
Trade agreements
Transportation and Public Works
Trinidad and Tobago
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Caribbean Basin Trade Enhancement Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Secretary of State to make a voluntary contribution (on a grant basis) to the Organization of American States to establish a: (1) Center for Caribbean Basin Trade; and (2) a skills-based training program for Caribbean Basin countries.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) a thorough study and analysis should be undertaken to determine a permanent location of the Center; and (2) the skills-based program should focus on mid-level technical education and training for the workforce in Caribbean Basin countries, utilizing existing educational facilities, cooperative private sector and government entities, and Internet-based training.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Prairie Island Land Conveyance Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-706
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Cultural property
Dams
Easements
Indian lands
Land transfers
Law
Minnesota
Minorities
Mississippi River
Navigation
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
 Prairie Island Land Conveyance Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey all U.S. right, title, and interest in and to described land to the Secretary of the Interior, to be held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Prairie Island Indian Community in Minnesota, and included in the Prairie Island Indian Community Reservation in Goodhue County, Minnesota. Prohibits the use of such land for: (1) human habitation; (2) construction of any structure without the written approval of the District Engineer; or (3) gaming.

action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Prairie Island Land Conveyance Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey all U.S. right, title, and interest in and to described land to the Secretary of the Interior, to be held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Prairie Island Indian Community in Minnesota, and included in the Prairie Island Indian Community Reservation in Goodhue County, Minnesota. Prohibits the use of such land for: (1) human habitation; (2) construction of any structure without the written approval of the District Engineer; or (3) gaming.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S9055-9056)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S9055-9056)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Senate Committee on Indian Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9055-9056)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Senate Committee on Indian Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S9055-9056)
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3211-3212)
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Long Term Care Quality and Consumer Information Improvement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-708
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Long-term care
Medical personnel
Medical statistics
Medicare
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing homes
Performance measurement
Quality of care
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Long Term Care Quality and Consumer Information Improvement Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish between ten and 15 additional quality measures applicable to skilled nursing facilities, including a risk adjustment methodology reflecting differences in care, not differences in resident population characteristics.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3214-3215)
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Services for Ending Long-Term Homelessness Act

Bill: 109-s-709
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2005-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Affordable housing
Case management
Community health services
Congregate housing
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuum of care
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Dental care
Disabled
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Family services
Federal aid to housing
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health education
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Labor and Employment
Management information systems
Mental health services
Mental illness
Nonprofit organizations
Parent and child
Performance measurement
Personal budgets
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: 
Services for Ending Long-Term Homelessness Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to design national strategies for providing services in supportive housing that will assist in ending chronic homelessness and to implement programs that address chronic homelessness.
 
Requires the Secretary to make matching grants to eligible entities to provide services that promote recovery and self-sufficiency and that address barriers to housing stability to chronically homeless individuals in, or who are scheduled to become residents of, permanent supportive housing and to other individuals and families who have voluntarily chosen to seek other housing opportunities after a period of tenancy in supportive housing.
 
Directs the Secretary to require grantees to report data regarding the performance outcomes of projects carried out under this Act, which shall include measuring and reporting specific performance outcomes related to the long-term goals of: (1) increasing stability within the community for people who have been chronically homeless; and (2) decreasing recurrence of periods of homelessness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3215-3217)
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3215)
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate