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Focus on Family Health Worldwide Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4188
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2005-11-01 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Abortion
Access to health care
Agriculture and Food
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Contraceptives
Cost effectiveness
Developing countries
Economic assistance
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Environmental Protection
Families
Family planning and birth control
Farm lands
Food supply
Forest conservation
Health
Health education
Health surveys
Higher education
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Infant mortality
Informed consent (Medical law)
Maternal health services
Medical education
Medical tests
Nature conservation
Orphans
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public health
Quality of care
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Women
Women's health
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: 
Focus on Family Health Worldwide Act of 2005 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to provide assistance for voluntary family planning programs in developing countries, including activities to: (1) improve public knowledge of voluntary family planning programs; (2) support public and private voluntary family planning programs, including networks for community-based and subsidized commercial distribution of contraceptives; (3) expand training for health care providers and educators; (4) provide improved coordination between voluntary family planning programs and programs that receive U.S. assistance for the prevention of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections; and (5) strengthen supply chain logistics for the procurement and distribution of safe contraceptives, including coordination with the supply chain for HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment. Gives priority to developing countries with acute family planning and maternal health needs.
 
Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the suitability and feasibility of designating the Virgin Islands Military and Veterans Memorial, to be located in Fredericksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, as a unit of the National Park System.

Bill: 109-hr-4189
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-11-01 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
Military personnel
Monuments and memorials
National parks
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to carry out a study to determine the suitability and feasibility of designating the U.S. Virgin Islands Military and Veterans Memorial, to be located on ten acres in Fredericksted, St.Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, as a unit of the National Park System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Introduced in House
Safe at Work Act

Bill: 109-hr-4190
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2005-11-01 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Child labor
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Health
Hours of labor
Minimum wages
Occupational health and safety

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: 
Safe at Work Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit the Secretary of Labor from agreeing to provide any person with notice prior to commencing investigations or inspections under the Act.

Directs the Comptroller General to study and report on child labor violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a deduction for charitable contributions of services by individuals.

Bill: 109-hr-4191
Sponsor: Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22]
Introduced: 2005-11-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Charities
Income tax
Social Welfare
Tax deductions
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals a tax deduction for charitable contributions of services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Introduced in House
401(k) Penalty Relief Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4193
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Tim [D-OH-17]
Introduced: 2005-11-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Defined contribution plans
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Layoffs
Plant shutdowns
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: 
401(k) Penalty Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to waive the penalty for premature distributions from a 401(k) retirement plan for employee hardship distributions due to the bankruptcy of an employer, the termination of a retirement plan, or the closure of a facility of the employer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Introduced in House
Internet Anti-Corruption and Free Speech Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4194
Sponsor: Rep. Shays, Christopher [R-CT-4]
Introduced: 2005-11-01 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Internet
Political advertising
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: 
Internet Anti-Corruption and Free Speech Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to exclude from coverage by the Act as a public communication any communication over the Internet, except one placed on another person's website for a fee, or made by: (1) any national bank, corporation (other than a web log operator), or labor organization; (2) a state, district, or local committee of a political party; or (3) any political committee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Introduced in House
To establish a National Foreign Language Coordination Council.

Bill: 109-hr-4196
Sponsor: Rep. Baird, Brian [D-WA-3]
Introduced: 2005-11-02 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Academic performance
Administrative procedure
Armed Forces and National Security
Business education
Career education
Commerce
Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Education
Educational research
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Engineering
Executive reorganization
Federal-state relations
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government publications
Government publicity
Health
Higher education
International competitiveness
International education
Internet
Journalism
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Law
Legal education
Legislation
Medical education
Presidential appointments
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Standards
Surveys
Teacher education
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: 
Establishes the National Foreign Language Coordination Council to develop and implement a national foreign language strategy. Includes heads of certain federal agencies as members of the Council. 

Establishes a National Language Director, to be appointed by the President, to: (1) chair the Council; (2) develop and oversee implementation of the strategy; (3) establish formal relationships among major stakeholders, including federal, state, and local government agencies, academia, industry, labor, and heritage communities; and (4) coordinate and lead a public information campaign.

Requires the Council to consult with states to provide for designation of state contact persons. Encourages formation of state interagency councils, or designation of state lead agencies, to coordinate with the Council and state and local agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
Safe Drinking Water for All Act

Bill: 109-hr-4198
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-11-02 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child health
Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental estrogens
Environmental health
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Infants
Medical research
Medical statistics
Potable water
Pregnant women
Science, Technology, Communications
Toxicology
Water Resources Development
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: 
Safe Drinking Water for All Act - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to: (1) revise requirements for drinking water studies relating to infants, children, women, and pregnant women to require an evaluation of the effect of contaminants on endocrine and other health functions; and (2) require such studies to be made available to the public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
Superfund Revenue Reinstatement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4199
Sponsor: Rep. Boehlert, Sherwood [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2005-11-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Environmental Protection
Hazardous wastes
Income tax

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: 
Superfund Revenue Reinstatement Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend until 2014 the environmental tax on corporate income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2258-2259)
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
Joseph E. Keane Federal Employees Freedom Act

Bill: 109-hr-4201
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2005-11-02 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Caregivers
Cost of living adjustments
Disabled
Federal employees
Labor and Employment
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: 
Joseph E. Keane Federal Employees Freedom Act - Increases the amount of additional compensation payable to an employee who is disabled and requires the services of an attendant. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
Windfall Profits Rebate Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4203
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2005-11-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Energy
Energy prices
Excess profits tax
Excise tax
Income tax
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Tax deductions
Tax rebates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: 
Windfall Profits Rebate Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) impose an excise tax on oil companies for a percentage of the windfall profit from all barrels of taxable crude oil; (2) allow a tax deduction for the payment of any windfall profit tax; and (3) allow an income tax rebate for all taxpayers based upon windfall tax revenues, as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury. Defines &quot;windfall profit&quot; as the excess of the removal (sales) price of a barrel of taxable crude oil over the adjusted base price ($40 per barrel adjusted for inflation) of such barrel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 1011 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to permit Puerto Rico to qualify for Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens.

Bill: 109-hr-4206
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Fortuno, Luis G. [R-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-11-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Caribbean area
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Federal aid to health facilities
Illegal aliens
Immigrant health
Immigration
Puerto Rico

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: 
Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to permit Puerto Rico to qualify for federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
Puerto Rico Hospitals Medicare DSH Equity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4207
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Fortuno, Luis G. [R-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-11-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Case mix (Medical care)
Hospital rates
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Puerto Rico
Social Welfare
Welfare recipients

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: 
Puerto Rico Hospitals Medicare DSH Equity Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prescribe a formula for the calculation of Medicare disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments for prospective payment system hospitals in Puerto Rico.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
Informatics Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4208
Sponsor: Rep. Gerlach, Jim [R-PA-6]
Introduced: 2005-11-02 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Information services
Information technology
Intellectual property
Patent infringement
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: 
Informatics Act of 2005 - Expands the definition of &quot;product&quot; for purposes of patent infringment provisions to include both physical goods and information in any fixed format.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
To temporarily deny Federal assistance to the City of Gretna Police Department, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, and the Crescent City Connection Division Police Department in the State of Louisiana for their maltreatment of individuals seeking aid during the Hurricane Katrina crisis, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-4209
Sponsor: Rep. McKinney, Cynthia A. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2005-11-02 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Bridges
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Displaced persons
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Equipment and supplies
Evacuation of civilians
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-local relations
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law
Law enforcement officers
Licenses
Louisiana
Police
Police brutality
Police-community relations
Right to travel
Surplus government property
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: 
Calls for condemnation of actions of the City of Gretna Police Department, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, and the Crescent City Connection Division Police Department in Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (preventing civilians fleeing New Orleans from entering Gretna).
 
Makes the Gretna law enforcement agencies ineligible to participate in any federal program for one year. Requires: (1) the suspension of any federal license issued to those agencies during that time; and (2) such agencies to immediately return all federally-owned equipment in their possession or use.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
Haiti Economic Recovery Opportunity Act

Bill: 109-hr-4211
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2005-11-02 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Access to health care
Administration of justice
American investments
Armed Forces and National Security
Bribery
Business records
Capital
Caribbean area
Child labor
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Clothing
Collective bargaining
Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Counterfeiting
Countervailing duties
Crime and Law Enforcement
Customs administration
Developing countries
Due process of law
Dumping
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee rights
Equality before the law
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Forced labor
Foreign investments
Fraud
Free enterprise
Free trade
Freedom of association
Government Operations and Politics
Government ownership
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Haiti
Health
Hours of labor
Human rights
Immigration
Import restrictions
Imports
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Intellectual property
International Affairs
International cooperation
Labor and Employment
Labor unions
Latin America
Law
Legislation
Loans
Minimum wages
Misconduct in office
Nontariff trade barriers
Occupational health and safety
Pluralism (Social sciences)
Poverty
President and foreign policy
Price regulation
Public corruption
Public health
Right of property
Small business
Social Welfare
State-sponsored terrorism
Subsidies
Tariff
Tariff preferences
Terrorism
Textile fabrics
Trade agreements
Treaties
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: 
Haiti Economic Recovery Opportunity Act - Amends the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act to provide, beginning on October 1, 2004, and for each of the seven succeeding one-year periods, duty-free treatment for apparel items wholly assembled or knit-to-shape in Haiti (without regard to the country of origin of the fabrics, components, or yarns) if the President certifies to Congress that Haiti: (1) has established or is progressing toward specified political, economic, and social reforms; (2) does not engage in activities that undermine U.S. security or foreign policy; (3) does not engage in gross violations of human rights or activities in support of international terrorism; and (4) is meeting specified enforcement conditions aimed at preventing tariff or quota avoidance, customs evasion, unlawful transshipment, or false information or false document use in order to obtain such preferential treatment.
 
Applies such provisions to goods entered or withdrawn from a warehouse for consumption on or after October 1, 2004, including a retroactive application to certain warehouse entries or withdrawals made between such date and the date of enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
Reforming Amtrak's Inefficient Lines Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4214
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2005-11-02 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Beverages
Commerce
Cost control
Economics and Public Finance
Food service
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Government spending reductions
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
Railroad abandonments
Railroad passenger traffic
Railroads
Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: 
Reforming Amtrak's Inefficient Lines Act of 2005 - Directs Amtrak, in order to cut costs, to: (1) discontinue service on the Southwest Chief, California Zephyr, Empire Builder, Coast Starlight, and Silver Star routes; (2) discontinue food and beverage service unless revenues from such service exceed service costs; and (3) eliminate sleeper cars, dining cars, lounge seating, checked baggage service, and onboard entertainment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
Wayne "Cotton" Morgan Bulletproof Vest Act

Bill: 109-hr-4215
Sponsor: Rep. Strickland, Ted [D-OH-6]
Introduced: 2005-11-02 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Correctional personnel
Economics and Public Finance
Equipment and supplies
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law enforcement officers
Police
Safety measures

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: 
Wayne &quot;Cotton&quot; Morgan Bulletproof Vest Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to make a matching requirement inapplicable to a grant for the purchase of an armor vest for any officer who works in a high security risk area or for a correctional officer who transports prisoners.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House