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Abandoned Mine Lands Reclamation Reform Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1600
Sponsor: Rep. Cubin, Barbara [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Authorization
Coal
Commerce
Department of Agriculture
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Energy
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Health
Housing and Community Development
Indian lands
Infrastructure
Insurance premiums
Interest
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Investment of public funds
Labor and Employment
Landowners
Law
Licenses
Liens
Medical economics
Mine wastes
Mine water
Miners
Mining royalties
Minorities
Native Americans
Oil and gas royalties
Reclamation of land
Retiree health benefits
Sediment control
Social Welfare
Soil conservation
Soil erosion
State laws
Strip mining
Tennessee
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: 
Abandoned Mine Lands Reclamation Reform Act of 2005 - Amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to repeal the authorization that certain moneys in the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund may be used: (1) by the Secretary of Agriculture for reclamation of rural lands; and (2) by the Department of the Interior for studies by contract with organizations for advice and research and development projects technical assistance.
 
Reduces the reclamation fee required to be paid by operators of coal mining operations.
 
Revises Fund allocation requirements with respect to reclamation fees.
 
Repeals Fund objectives concerning: (1) protection , construction, or enhancement of public facilities affected by coal mining practices; and (2) development of publicly owned land adversely affected by coal mining practices, including land acquired for recreation and historic purposes, conservation, reclamation, and open space.
 
Expands certification guidelines to prescribe payments to: (1) qualified States and Indian tribes; and (2) non-qualified States and Indian tribes.
 
Prescribes procedural guidelines for transfers of interest earned by the Fund to: (1) the United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund; (2) the United Mine Workers of America 1992 Benefit Plan; and (3) a specified multiemployer health benefit plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Comprehensive Transform America Transaction Fee Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1601
Sponsor: Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative fees
Air cargo
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Aviation safety
Border patrols
Collection of accounts
Community development
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumption
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of the Treasury
Depressed areas
Detention of persons
Earned income tax credit
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Excise tax
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal employees
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Fire fighters
Fiscal policy
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Health
Health insurance
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Immigration
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Infrastructure
Interest
International Affairs
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Law
Law enforcement officers
Marine safety
Marine terminals
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Military pay
Minimum tax
Misconduct in office
Mortgages
National Guard
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Paramedical personnel
Pay equity
Police
Progressive taxation
Public debt
Public schools
Revenue sharing
Rural economic development
Sales tax
Saving and investment
Secondary education
Security measures
Social Welfare
Social security finance
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Tax expenditures
Tax incentives
Tax penalties
Tax rates
Tax rebates
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Turnover tax
Urban affairs
Urban economic development
Waste in government spending

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: 
Comprehensive Transform America Transaction Fee Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to conduct an in-depth study on the implementation of a transaction fee in the United States to replace all existing Federal taxes. Sets forth guidelines for such study, including: (1) an identification of the transactions to which such fee would apply; (2) exclusions from such fee; (3) the rate of such fee; (4) potential uses for revenue from such fee; (5) progressivity standards; and (6) general matters, including point of liability for such fee and responsibility for collection. 
 
Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the results of such study within one year after the enactment of this Act with a comprehensive analysis of various aspects of the transaction fee, including revenue generation, impact on the national economy, and implementation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Grants for DNA Backlog Prosecutions Act

Bill: 109-hr-1602
Sponsor: Rep. Gallegly, Elton [R-CA-24]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: DNA
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Identification of criminals
Labor and Employment
Prosecution
Public prosecutors
Recruiting of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: 
Grants for DNA Backlog Prosecutions Act - Amends the Justice for All Act of 2004 to direct the Attorney General to make grants to train and employ personnel to help prosecute cases cleared through the use of funds provided for DNA backlog elimination. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Fairness in Firearm Testing Act

Bill: 109-hr-1603
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Ammunition
Criminal investigation
Discovery (Law)
Evidence (Law)
Firearms
Firearms control
Law
Science, Technology, Communications
Video tape recording

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: 
Fairness in Firearm Testing Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to make a video recording of the entire process of its examination and testing of an item for the purpose of determining whether the item is a firearm (and if so, the type of firearm) or ammunition. Bars the Bureau from editing or erasing any such recording.
 
Directs the Bureau to make available a digital video disc that contains a copy of the recording: (1) at the request of a person who claims an ownership interest in such item; and (2) to a defendant in a criminal proceeding involving such item. Provides that an item which the Bureau has determined is a firearm or ammunition shall not be admissible as evidence unless: (1) the Bureau has complied with such requirement; or (2) such compliance has been waived in writing by the person against whom the item is offered as evidence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the inclusion of hazardous duty pay and diving pay in the computation of military retired pay for members of the Armed Forces with extensive hazardous duty experience, to require a Comptroller General study on the need for a tax credit for businesses that employ members of the National Guard and Reserve, and to require a report by the Secretary of Defense on the expansion of the Junior ROTC and similar military programs for young people.

Bill: 109-hr-1604
Sponsor: Rep. Granger, Kay [R-TX-12]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aircraft pilots
Armed forces reserves
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Divers
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Flight crews
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Income tax
Interest rates
Labor and Employment
Military aviation
Military education
Military pay
Military pensions
Military training
National Guard
Officer personnel
Scholarships
Secondary education
Small business
Students
Tax credits
Tax incentives
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Includes hazardous duty pay and diving duty special pay received for at least 60 months as qualifying pay in the computation of military retired pay. 
Directs the Comptroller General to study the possibility of tax credits or small business loan incentives for businesses that employ National Guard and reserve personnel. 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress on an assessment of the feasibility and desirability of expanding the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program of each of the military departments, the Civil Air Patrol, the Naval Sea Cadet Corps, and the Young Marines of the Marine Corps League.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to exclude communications over the Internet from the definition of public communication.

Bill: 109-hr-1605
Sponsor: Rep. Hensarling, Jeb [R-TX-5]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Internet
Political advertising
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: 
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to exclude communications over the Internet from the meaning of public communication subject to the Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Online Freedom of Speech Act

Bill: 109-hr-1606
Sponsor: Rep. Hensarling, Jeb [R-TX-5]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Internet
Political advertising
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: 
Online Freedom of Speech Act - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to exclude communications over the Internet from the meaning of public communication subject to the Act.

action_date: 2006-03-13
text: 

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

Online Freedom of Speech Act - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to exclude communications over the Internet from the meaning of public communication subject to the Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-13
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 211.
action_date: 2006-03-13
text: Reported by the Committee on House Administration. H. Rept. 109-389.
action_date: 2006-03-13
text: Reported by the Committee on House Administration. H. Rept. 109-389.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 225 - 182 (Roll no. 559). (text: CR H9478)
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Failed of passage/not agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 225 - 182 (Roll no. 559).(text: CR H9478)
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H9497)
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1606.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H9478-9484)
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Mrs. Miller (MI) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Public Good IRA Rollover Act

Bill: 109-hr-1607
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Charitable contributions
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Law
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: 
Public Good IRA Rollover Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income distributions from individual retirement accounts for certain charitable purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E644)
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
Fuels Security Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1608
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Business records
Cellulose
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Diesel motor
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy crops
Energy efficiency
Energy prices
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental health
Environmental law enforcement
Environmental research
Executive orders
Farm manure
Fibers
Fuel consumption
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government vehicles
Governmental investigations
Grain
Health
Housing and Community Development
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Landfills
Law
Local laws
Medical research
Methane
Motor vehicle pollution control
Municipal solid waste
Oil pollution
Oils and fats
Oilseeds
Oxygen
Oxygenates
Ozone
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Plants
Poultry
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Recycling of waste products
Reformulated gasoline
Refuse as fuel
Rural economic development
Science, Technology, Communications
Sewage treatment
Small business
Standards
State laws
Surveys
Transportation and Public Works
Trees
Water pollution control
Water quality
Wood

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: 
Fuels Security Act of 2005 - Amends the Clean Air Act to require that motor vehicle fuel contain a specified volume of renewable fuel. 
Establishes a system of: (1) tradeable credits for motor vehicle fuel containing more renewable fuel than required; and (2) waivers for States and small refineries. 
 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to require Federal agency heads to ensure that ethanol-blended gasoline and biodiesel-blended diesel fuel is purchased for agency vehicles in areas where such fuel is available at competitive prices. 
 
Amends the Clean Air Act to eliminate the oxygen content requirement for reformulated gasoline. 
 
Requires the Administrator to: (1) establish standards for toxic air pollutants from the use of reformulated gasoline; and (2) within 30 days of enactment of this Act, determine the adequacy of any petition from a State Governor to exempt gasoline sold in the State from certain requirements for reformulated gasoline. 
 
 Permits States additional opt-in areas under the reformulated gasoline program. 
 
Requires Federal enforcement of State fuels requirements. 
 
 Sets forth various data collection and reporting requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
To reduce until December 31, 2008, the duty on potassium sorbate.

Bill: 109-hr-1609
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Chemicals
Food additives
Food preservation
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
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: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
To reduce until December 31, 2008, the duty on sorbic acid.

Bill: 109-hr-1610
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Chemicals
Food additives
Food preservation
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce, through December 31, 2008, the duty on sorbic acid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
To modify the calculation of back pay for persons who were approved for promotion as members of the Navy and Marine Corps while interned as prisoners of war during World War II to take into account changes in the Consumer Price Index.

Bill: 109-hr-1611
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Ex-prisoners of war
Families
History
Labor and Employment
Marines
Military dependents
Military pay
Military personnel
Military promotions
Navy
Survivors' benefits
Wage restitution
Widowers
Widows
Women
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Amends the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 to increase the amount of back pay received by members of the Navy and Marine Corps selected for promotion while interned as prisoners of war during World War II to reflect increases in the cost of living since basic pay was paid to or for that person.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-05-06
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
To establish ethanol and biodiesel fuel requirements for the Federal fleet.

Bill: 109-hr-1612
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2005-04-13 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Diesel motor
Energy prices
Environmental Protection
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Government vehicles
Oils and fats
Refuse as fuel
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to require the head of each federal agency to ensure that it purchases: (1) ethanol-blended gasoline containing at least 10 percent ethanol rather than nonethanol-blended gasoline, for its vehicles that use gasoline in areas in which ethanol-blended gasoline is reasonably available at a generally competitive price; and (2) biodiesel-blended diesel fuel that contains, by certain starting dates over ten years, specified increasing percentages of biodiesel, rather than nonbiodiesel-blended diesel fuel, in locations where fleet vehicles are centrally fueled.
 
Exempts specified vehicles from this requirement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Introduced in House