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Automatic IRA Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3952
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Department of Labor
Employee rights
Executive reorganization
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Investments
Law
Payroll deductions
Self-employed
Small business
State laws
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax penalties
Tax refunds
Taxation
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Automatic IRA Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain small employers who do not offer qualified retirement plans or arrangements to their employees to allow eligible employees to participate in a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRAs); (2) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing a payroll deposit IRA arrangement; and (3) treat automatic IRAs as individual retirement accounts (and as Roth IRAs) for income tax purposes. 

Establishes in the executive branch the TSP II Board to establish policies and procedures relating to payroll deposit IRA arrangements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10293-10302)
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Minority Entrepreneurship Development Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3953
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Black colleges
Business education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Distance education
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Entrepreneurs
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to education
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Graduate education
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Indian education
Management
Marketing
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Minority education
Ombudsman
Science, Technology, Communications
Small Business Administration
Small business
Technological innovations
Technology transfer

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Minority Entrepreneurship Development Act of 2006 - Amends the Small Business Act to establish within the Small Business Administration (SBA) an Office of Minority Small Business Development to, among other things, formulate, execute, and promote SBA policies and programs that provide assistance to small businesses owned and controlled by minorities.
 
Authorizes the SBA Administrator to make grants to eligible educational institutions: (1) to assist in establishing an entrepreneurship curriculum for undergraduate or graduate studies; and (2) for the placement of a small business development center on the campus of the institution.
 
Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to eligible associations and organizations to: (1) assist in establishing the technical capacity to provide online or distance learning for businesses seeking to contract with the federal government; (2) develop curriculum for seminars that will provide businesses with the technical expertise for such contracting; and (3) provide training and technical expertise through distance learning to participant business owners and other interested parties.
 
Amends the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 to extend through FY2009 the socially and economically disadvantaged business program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10302-10303)
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Honest Medicare Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3954
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Honest Medicare Act of 2006 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make available to the public every month, starting February 2007, information on: (1) the number of individuals enrolled in a prescription drug plan (PDP) or a MedicareAdvantage-Prescription Drug (MA-PD) plan who have reached the plan&#146;s initial coverage limit but who have not reached the annual out-of-pocket threshold (a gap in prescription drug coverage commonly known as the &#147;donut-hole&#148;); and (2) the amount such individuals are spending on covered part D drugs after they have reached such limit and before they have reached such threshold.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10303)
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10303)
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3955
Sponsor: Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Civil service retirement
Dental care
Domestic partners
Eye care
Families
Family leave
Federal employees
Government employees' health insurance
Government employees' life insurance
Health
Labor and Employment
Long-term care insurance
Survivors' benefits
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2006 - Entitles federal employees and their domestic partners to benefits available to federal married employees and their spouses. Specifies certifications required for benefit eligibility, filing requirements regarding partnership dissolution, and confidentiality requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Crime Victims with Disabilities Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3956
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Adult day care
Crime prevention
Criminal investigation
Criminal statistics
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Prosecution
Victims of crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Crime Victims with Disabilities Act of 2006 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to states, local governments, Indian tribes, or tribal organizations to plan and implement programs for collaboration among criminal justice agencies, adult protective services agencies, crime victim assistance organizations, and/or other agencies or organizations that provide services to individuals with disabilities to investigate and remediate abuse of or crimes against such individuals and to provide services to such individuals. Authorizes the Attorney General to establish a national center to evaluate such programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10303-10304)
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Religious Freedom Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3957
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Churches
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Legislation
Religion
Religion and politics
Religious liberty
Tax deductions
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Religious Freedom Act of 2006 - Prohibits denial of: (1) a federal tax exemption under the Internal Revenue Code to any church, synagogue, mosque, temple, or other house of worship or meditation (including any affiliated organization) because it engages in activity protected by the U.S. Constitution, including comment on public issues, election contests, and pending legislation made in a theological or philosophical context; or (2) the tax deductibility of donor contributions to such organizations.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10304-10305)
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10304)
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Service Academy Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3958
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Armed Forces and National Security
Collection of accounts
College administration
College costs
College teachers
Commerce
Congress
Crime and Law Enforcement
Curricula
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to education
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign students
Fund raising
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government internships
Graduate education
Health
Higher education
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
International Affairs
International education
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Leadership
Local employees
Members of Congress
Nonprofit organizations
Presidential appointments
Public service employment
Public-private partnerships
Scholarships
Service academies
Social Welfare
State employees
Student activities
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Public Service Academy Act of 2006 - Establishes, in the Department of Homeland Security, a United States Public Service Academy providing a fully subsidized liberal arts education to students selected from a pool of candidates nominated by Congress and the President. Reserves 100 first-year seats for international students, whose tuition and expenses are to be covered by their home countries.
 
Requires incoming students to sign an Honor Code and be at least 17 years old, unmarried, and without dependents.
 
Requires students to: (1) participate in daily public service programming and, during their final year, plan and implement a one-year public service project; (2) take foreign language and international relations courses in preparation for spending their junior year studying abroad and interning at a U.S. mission; (3) spend eight weeks each summer engaged in specified training and internship activities; and (4) by the completion of their fourth semester, choose a public service concentration in the economy, education, emergency management, the environment, foreign policy, health care, law enforcement, or the public infrastructure.
 
Directs the Academy to assign graduates to public service employment in their field of concentrated study, where they must serve for at least five years. Includes private nonprofit organizations and private entities deemed to meet critical national needs among acceptable public service employers. Requires foreign students to serve in their home countries. Authorizes the Academy to subsidize a student's graduate education in return for an extended public service commitment. 
 
Requires the Academy to raise 20% of its annual budget from private sources.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10305)
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Employee Combat Zone Tax Parity Act

Bill: 109-s-3959
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, John [R-VA]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Americans in foreign countries
Armed Forces and National Security
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Iraq compilation
Salaries
Tax exclusion
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Federal Employee Combat Zone Tax Parity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of civilian federal employees compensation for active service in a combat zone or for periods of hospitalization for wounds, diseases, or injuries incurred while serving in a combat zone.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10305-10306)
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the competitive status for certain Internal Revenue Service employees.

Bill: 109-s-3960
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Department of the Treasury
Estate tax
Federal employees
Gift tax
Government Operations and Politics
Government attorneys
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Law
Layoffs

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Grants competitive status to certain Internal Revenue Service employees in Estate and Gift Tax Attorney positions (GS-905) subject to a reduction in force in FY2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Nuclear Fuel Management and Disposal Act

Bill: 109-s-3962
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air force
Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Land transfers
Law
Licenses
Military bases
Military training
Mining leases
Mountains
Nevada
Nuclear facilities
Nuclear fuels
Nuclear weapons
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Radioactive wastes
Railroad engineering
Right-of-way
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances
Waste disposal sites

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Nuclear Fuel Management and Disposal Act - Withdraws specified lands in Nye County, Nevada, permanently from any form of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws, including: (1) the mineral leasing laws; (2) the geothermal leasing laws; (3) materials sales laws; and (4) the mining laws.
 
Transfers jurisdiction over such lands to the Secretary of Energy (Secretary).
 
Reserves use of such lands for certain activities associated with the disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982.
 
Requires the Secretary to manage the lands so withdrawn, and submit to Congress and the state of Nevada a management plan for their use.
 
Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to direct the Secretary to apply to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a license to construct and operate facilities to receive and store spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste at the Yucca Mountain site.
 

 
Authorizes the Secretary to begin construction of connected infrastructure facilities after completion of a final environmental impact statement evaluating the activities involved. 
 
Requires the Secretary to acquire rights-of-way for construction and operation of railroad facilities to transport spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste from existing rail systems to the site of surface facilities within the geologic repository operations area for the receipt, handling, packaging, and storage of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste prior to emplacement.
 
Revises requirements for new plant contracts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10306-10307, S10307)
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Access to Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Services Improvement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3963
Sponsor: Sen. Thomas, Craig [R-WY]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Athletes
Clinics
Housing and Community Development
Medicare
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Rural health
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Access to Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Services Improvement Act of 2006 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for: (1) access to outpatient occupational and physical therapy services provided incident to a physician's professional services if furnished by an educated or credentialed therapist who does not have a license; and (2) coverage of certified athletic trainer services and lymphedema therapist services under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of Medicare, including those provided in rural health clinics and federally qualified health centers. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10460-10461)
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10459-10460)
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor of Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce.

Bill: 109-s-3964
Sponsor: Sen. Lott, Trent [R-MS]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Black history
Ex-Members of Congress
Government Operations and Politics
History
Minorities
Mississippi
Postage stamps
Senate

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Requires the Postmaster General to issue a commemorative postage stamp in honor of Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10461)
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Latina Health Access Act

Bill: 109-s-3965
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Asthma
Cancer
Cardiovascular diseases
Community health services
Diabetes
Economics and Public Finance
Family planning and birth control
Federal aid to health facilities
Hispanic Americans
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Maternal health services
Medical research
Medical statistics
Medically uninsured
Mental health services
Preventive medicine
Science, Technology, Communications
Sexually transmitted diseases
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Latina Health Access Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants for programs and activities that provide health care services to uninsured and low-income individuals in medically underserved areas. Directs that grant funds be used to care for a full spectrum of preventable and treatable health care problems in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner, including through: (1) family planning services and information; (2) prenatal and postnatal care; and (3) assistance and services with respect to asthma, cancer, HIV disease and AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, mental health, diabetes, and heart disease.
 
Requires the Secretary to reserve a portion of grants and assistance awarded under the PHSA for entities that represent medically underserved areas or populations with a large number of uninsured low-income individuals.
 
Directs the Secretary to award grants to research institutions to: (1) conduct research on the health status of populations for which there is an absence of health data, such as the Latina population; and (2) work with organizations that focus on such populations on developing participatory community-based research methods.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) provide outreach, education, and delivery of comprehensive health services to uninsured and low-income individuals in a culturally competent manner; and (2) carry out a health education program targeted specifically to such individuals through community centered informational forums, public service announcements, and media campaigns.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10462)
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10461)
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
HOPE Youth Pregnancy Prevention Act

Bill: 109-s-3966
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health education
Minorities
Minority health
Premarital sex
Sex education
Teenage pregnancy

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
HOPE Youth Pregnancy Prevention Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to state or local governments or private nonprofit entities for: (1) teenage pregnancy prevention activities targeted at areas with large ethnic minorities and other at-risk youth; and (2) related outreach and public awareness programs, with priority given to programs aimed at such youth.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10463)
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10462-10463)
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Trade Agreement Assessment Act

Bill: 109-s-3967
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: American investments
Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Customs administration
Economic growth
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic commerce
Exports
Free trade
Gross national product
Imports
Intellectual property
International Affairs
International competitiveness
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Nontariff trade barriers
Public corruption
Science, Technology, Communications
Service industries
Standard of living
Trade agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Trade Agreement Assessment Act - Directs the International Trade Commission (ITC) to report periodically to Congress on each free trade agreement in force with respect to the United States, including: (1) its effect on the U.S. economy and on specific U.S. industry sectors; (2) a summary of how each country that is party to such agreement has changed its labor and environmental laws; and (3) whether the agreement is making progress in achieving the objectives of the Bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority Act of 2002.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10463)
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10463)
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate