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To suspend temporarily the duty on a mixture of Poly[[6-[(1,1,3,3-tetramethylbutyl)amino]-1,3,5-triazine-2,4 diyl][(2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidinyl)imino]-1,6-exanediy [(2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidinyl)imino]]) and Bis(2,2,6,6,-tetramethyl-4-piperidyl)sebaceate.

Bill: 109-hr-1842
Sponsor: Rep. Forbes, J. Randy [R-VA-4]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on a mixture of Poly[[6-[(1,1,3,3-tetramethylbutyl)amino]-1,3,5-triazine-2,4 diyl][(2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidinyl)imino]-1,6-exanediy [(2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidinyl)imino]]) and Bis(2,2,6,6,-tetramethyl-4-piperidyl)sebaceate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on MCPA.

Bill: 109-hr-1843
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Pesticides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on 2-ethylhexyl (4-chloro-2-methylphenoxy) acetate (MCPA).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Bronate Advanced.

Bill: 109-hr-1844
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Herbicides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on ,6-dibromo-4-cyanophenyl octanoate/heptanoate 2-ethylhexyl (4-chloro-2-methylphenoxy)acetate (Bronate Advanced).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Bromoxynil Octanoate Tech.

Bill: 109-hr-1845
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Herbicides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on 2,6-dibromo-4-cyanophenyl octanoate (Bromoxynil Octanoate Tech).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Bromoxynil MEO.

Bill: 109-hr-1846
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Herbicides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on 2,6-dibromo-4-cyanophenyl octanoate/heptanoat (Bromoxynil MEO).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
To redesignate the National Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, as the "Columbia Scientific Balloon Center".

Bill: 109-hr-1847
Sponsor: Rep. Hensarling, Jeb [R-TX-5]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Astronauts
Congress
Congressional tributes
Federal installations
Government Operations and Politics
Names
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications
Space activities
Space shuttles
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Redesignates the National Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, as the &quot;Columbia Scientific Balloon Center.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain bitumen-coated polyethylene sleeves specifically designed to protect in-ground wood posts.

Bill: 109-hr-1848
Sponsor: Rep. Holden, Tim [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Plastics
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on certain bitumen-coated polyethylene sleeves specifically designed to protect in-ground wood posts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Cigarette Fire Safety Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1850
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Cigarettes
Civil actions and liability
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Drug abuse
Emergency Management
Fire prevention
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Liability (Law)
New York State
Product safety
Standards
State laws
Tobacco industry

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Cigarette Fire Safety Act of 2005 - Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to prescribe fire safety standards for cigarettes that, except as provided in this Act, are substantively the same as specified standards promulgated by the State of New York. 
 
Directs sponsors of testing methodologies employed under this Act to notify the Commission of any modifications in such methodologies. Authorizes the Commission to modify established fire safety standards to incorporate modifications that will enhance those standards.
 
Requires fire safety standards promulgated under this Act to be treated as consumer product safety standards, and directs that cigarettes shall be treated as consumer products, under the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA).
 
Precludes the preemption by this Act of the New York standard or more stringent fire safety standards for cigarettes promulgated by any State.
 
Makes the CPSA's private remedy provisions applicable to fire safety standards promulgated under this Act.
 
Denies the Commission any jurisdiction over tobacco or tobacco products except as provided in this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on nylon woolpacks used to package wool.

Bill: 109-hr-1851
Sponsor: Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-21]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Packaging
Tariff
Wool trade

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on nylon woolpacks used to package wool.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to extend certain water contracts in Idaho, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-1852
Sponsor: Rep. Otter, C. L. (Butch) [R-ID-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Government Operations and Politics
Idaho
Irrigation
Irrigation districts
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to extend 19 listed water contracts in Idaho, unless a non-Federal party to the contract objects, until the earlier of: (1) the expiration of the two-year period beginning on the date on which the contract would expire but for this Act; or (2) the date the parties execute a new contract.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
To ensure that the total amount of funds awarded to a State under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 for each of fiscal years 2005 and 2006 is not less than the total amount of funds awarded to the State under such part for fiscal year 2003.

Bill: 109-hr-1853
Sponsor: Rep. Ramstad, Jim [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Secondary education
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Requires the total amount of funds awarded to a State under part A (Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Educational Agencies) of title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 for each of FY 2005 and 2006 to be not less than the total amount of funds awarded to the State under part A for FY 2003. Directs the Secretary of Education to pay a supplementary amount to any State that did not receive such required minimum hold-harmless amount in FY 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on magnesium zinc aluminum hydroxide carbonate hydrate.

Bill: 109-hr-1854
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on magnesium zinc aluminum hydroxide carbonate hydrate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on magnesium aluminum hydroxide carbonate hydrate.

Bill: 109-hr-1855
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on magnesium aluminum hydroxide carbonate hydrate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary duty suspension on C12-18 Alkenes.

Bill: 109-hr-1856
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Polymers
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on C12-18 alkenes, polymers (TPX) with 4-methyl-1-pentene.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on polytetramethylene ether glycol.

Bill: 109-hr-1857
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Plastics
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on polytetramethylene ether glycol.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on cis-3-Hexen-1-ol.

Bill: 109-hr-1858
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on cis-3-Hexen-1-ol.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Education for Public Service Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1859
Sponsor: Rep. Renzi, Rick [R-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Charities
Collection of accounts
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Higher education
Income
Labor and Employment
Local employees
Married people
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare
State employees
Student loan funds
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Education for Public Service Act of 2005 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise certain student loan income contingent repayment plan requirements with respect to public service employees and married borrowers.
 
Provides public service employees with a shortened maximum student loan repayment period before receiving debt forgiveness under an income contingent repayment plan. Prohibits the Secretary of Education from prescribing such a repayment period exceeding 15 years (instead of the usual 25 years) in the case of those borrowers who, after electing such a plan, have been full-time public service employees for at least eight years, whether or not continuously. 
 
Revises income contingent student loan repayment schedules for married borrowers to attribute to the borrower one-half (rather than all) of the combined adjusted gross income of the borrower and the borrower's spouse.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 to exempt from the means test in bankruptcy cases, for a limited period, qualifying reserve-component members who, after September 11, 2001, are called to active duty or to perform a homeland defense activity for not less than 60 days.

Bill: 109-hr-1860
Sponsor: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-46]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy courts
Civil procedure
Crime and Law Enforcement
Debtor and creditor
Emergency Management
Law
National Guard
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Amends the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 to declare that, if the following conditions exist, the presumption of abuse guidelines do not apply and the bankruptcy court is prohibited from dismissing or converting a Chapter 7 petition based on any form of means testing: (1) while the debtor is on, and during the 180-day period after release from active duty in the U.S. military service; or (2) while the debtor is performing, and during the 180-day period after the debtor is no longer performing, a homeland defense activity performed for at least 60 days; and (3) and if after September 11, 2001, the debtor was called to active duty or performed homeland defense activity, while a member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces or a member of the National Guard.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Katie Elise and Meghan Agnes Act

Bill: 109-hr-1861
Sponsor: Rep. Schwartz, Allyson Y. [D-PA-13]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child safety
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Electric appliances
Families
Furniture industry
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Packaging
Product safety
Standards
Warning labels

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Katie Elise and Meghan Agnes Act - Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to promulgate: (1) consumer product safety standards applicable to any furniture or electronic appliance that the Commission determines poses a substantial safety hazard due to tipping because of its design, height, weight, stability, or other features; (2) regulations requiring warning labels on the packaging of such items and on the packaging of furniture with drawers that pose a danger to children due to tipping.
 
Requires the Commission, in promulgating safety standards under this Act, to take into consideration the intended uses of furniture and electronic appliances and the likelihood that children could climb on or tip the furniture. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Arts Education Advancement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1863
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Heather [R-NM-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Arts
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to the arts and humanities
Higher education
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Arts Education Advancement Act of 2005 - Amends the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 to require, when appropriations for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) exceed a certain level, that all of the excess funds be used for the arts education program. (Current law requires the use of only half such excess NEA funds for arts education, and allows the NEA to use a greater amount for other purposes before such set-aside for arts education is triggered.) 
Requires half the funds for the arts education program in any fiscal year to be used in formal systems of elementary and secondary education.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Administrative Law Judges Retirement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1864
Sponsor: Rep. Wynn, Albert Russell [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law judges
Annuities
Civil service retirement
Early retirement
Judicial compensation
Labor and Employment
Law
Payroll deductions
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Administrative Law Judges Retirement Act of 2005 - Sets forth separate provisions governing Government and employee contributions, annuity eligibility requirements (ten years of service and age 55), early retirement, and annuity computation (2.5 percent and 1.7 percent, respectively, of average pay for each year of service) for administrative law judges under the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees' Retirement System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to release the condition on a portion of land adjacent to the community of Beaver, Alaska, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-1865
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Airports
Alaska
Community development
Housing and Community Development
Indian lands
Infrastructure
Land transfers
Minorities
Native Americans
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
 Directs the Secretary of the Interior to execute such instruments as are necessary to release the condition that certain land conveyed, and which is adjacent, to the community of Beaver, Alaska, revert to the United States if the land is not used for airport purposes. Directs the Beaver Kwit'chin Corporation to reconvey all right, title, and interest of the Corporation in and to that portion to any individual (or successor in interest) who currently occupies a portion of the land. Permits the Corporation subsequently to convey the remaining land to other individuals or persons for community expansion purposes or retain it in whole or in part for community uses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-03
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2005-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House