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CORE Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1067
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2005-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to health facilities
Finance and Financial Sector
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Medicaid
Medicare
Nonprofit organizations
Patient satisfaction
Performance measurement
Quality of care
Rural health
Social Welfare
Welfare waivers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: 
Community Options for Rural Elders Act of 2005 or the CORE Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for the Administrator of Health Resources and Services to work with the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to establish Programs for All-Inclusive Care for Elderly (PACE) providers in rural areas. 
 
Directs the Secretary to permit a rural PACE provider applicant to adapt its PACE program to the unique requirements of eligible participants residing in rural areas and the challenges of providing services to them.
 

 
Requires the Secretary to waive certain requirements of titles XI, XVIII (Medicare), and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act as necessary to support the delivery of PACE services in rural areas.
 
Directs the Secretary to award site development grants to rural PACE providers.
 
Directs the Secretary, through the Office of Rural Health Policy, to make awards to tax-exempt organizations for the purpose of establishing a technical assistance outreach and education program.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a fund to reimburse rural PACE providers awarded a site development grant for outlier costs with respect to eligible enrollees in rural areas.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory group.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Higher Education Affordability, Access, and Opportunity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1068
Sponsor: Sen. Dole, Elizabeth [R-NC]
Introduced: 2005-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Accreditation (Education)
Charities
College administration
College costs
Commerce
Community development banking
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dislocated workers
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Educational technology
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Industry-university relations
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Public-private partnerships
Recruiting of employees
Rural education
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Social Welfare
Standards
Student aid
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: 
Higher Education Affordability, Access, and Opportunity Act of 2005 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to carry out a student loan program for workforce development for high-growth occupations or industries.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for: (1) job skill training in high-growth occupations or industries, to partnerships of community colleges and workforce investment boards; and (2) training and job skills for small business owners or operators, to partnerships of institutions of higher education (IHEs) and entities that help small business development.
 
Prohibits, under the student loan program, IHEs and accrediting agencies and associations from restricting transfer of credits in specified ways.
 
Requires studies and dissemination of comparative data on college costs and related matters. 
 
Revises teacher quality enhancement grants with respect to high-need local educational agencies and eligible partnerships.
 
Allows states to submit applications, under the leveraging educational assistance partnership program, with philanthropic organizations and public or private IHEs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain cases or containers for toys.

Bill: 109-s-1069
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Families
Packaging
Plastics
Tariff
Textile fabrics
Toys

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on certain cases or containers for toys.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain cases for toys.

Bill: 109-s-1070
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Families
Packaging
Tariff
Textile fabrics
Toys

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on certain cases for toys.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain bags for toys.

Bill: 109-s-1071
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Families
Packaging
Plastics
Tariff
Textile fabrics
Toys

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on certain bags for toys. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on cases for certain children's products.

Bill: 109-s-1072
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Families
Optical instruments
Packaging
Tariff
Toys

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on cases for certain children's products.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain children's products.

Bill: 109-s-1073
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Families
Optical instruments
Tariff
Toys

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on certain children's products.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to postpone the 2005 round of defense base closure and realignment.

Bill: 109-s-1075
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2005-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces abroad
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Marine safety
Middle East and North Africa
Military base closures
Military bases
Military civic action
Military operations
Naval operations
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: 
Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to postpone the 2005 round of defense base closures and realignments, as currently required under such Act, until the last of the following occurs: (1) the complete analysis, consideration, and implementation by the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) of the recommendations of the Commission on Review of Overseas Military Facility Structure of the United States; (2) the return from deployment in Iraq of substantially all major U.S. combat units and assets; (3) the receipt by the congressional defense committees of the report on the quadrennial defense review to be submitted by the Secretary in 2006; (4) the complete development and implementation by the Secretary and the Secretary of Homeland Security of the National Maritime Security Strategy; (5) the complete development and implementation by the Secretary of the Homeland Defense and Civil Support directive; and (6) the receipt by the defense committees of a report from the Secretary assessing military installation needs.
 
States that, effective May 13, 2005, the list of recommendations for 2005 base closures and realignments submitted by the Secretary pursuant to such Act shall have no further force and effect.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5448)
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5447-5448)
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the excise tax and income tax credits for the production of biodiesel.

Bill: 109-s-1076
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2005-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Biomass energy
Diesel motor
Energy
Energy crops
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Income tax
Oils and fats
Refuse as fuel
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through December 31, 2010, the income tax credit for biodiesel used as fuel and the excise credits for biodiesel mixtures and biodiesel used to produce biodiesel mixtures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a renewable liquid fuels tax credit, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-1077
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2005-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Alternative energy sources
Aquaculture
Automobiles
Commerce
Energy
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Food industry
Income tax
Municipal solid waste
Refuse as fuel
Salvage
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) a tax credit against the gasoline excise tax for renewable liquid fuels; and (2) a business tax credit for renewable liquid used as fuel. Defines &quot;renewable liquid&quot; as liquid hydrocarbons derived from certain waste and byproduct streams. Terminates such credits after 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Landfill Gas-to-Energy Tax Credit Act

Bill: 109-s-1078
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2005-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Biodegradation
Electric power production
Energy
Environmental Protection
Income tax
Landfills
Methane
Municipal solid waste
Refuse as fuel
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: 
Landfill Gas-to-Energy Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend until January 1, 2009, the eligibility of landfill gas facilities for the tax credit for the production of electricity from the biodegration of municipal solid waste; (2) modify the adjustment to the tax credit rate for landfill gas facilities; (3) allow an extension of the termination date applicable to the tax credit for landfill gas facilities for facilities placed in service before July 1, 2009, pursuant to a binding written contract in effect before January 1, 2009; and (4) allow a tax credit for the production of fuel from landfill gas facilities placed in service before such date. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Waste-to-Energy Tax Credit Act

Bill: 109-s-1079
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2005-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Electric power production
Energy
Environmental Protection
Incineration
Income tax
Municipal solid waste
Refuse as fuel
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: 
Waste-to-Energy Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend until January 1, 2009, the eligibility of trash combustion facilities for the tax credit for the production of electricity from municipal solid waste; (2) modify the adjustment to the tax credit rate for trash combustion facilities; and (3) allow an extension of the termination date applicable to the tax credit for trash combustion facilities for facilities placed in service before July 1, 2009, pursuant to a binding written contract in effect before January 1, 2009. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Hydraulic Fracturing Safety Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1080
Sponsor: Sen. Jeffords, James M. [I-VT]
Introduced: 2005-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Diesel motor
Energy
Environmental Protection Agency
Hydraulic engineering
Hydrology
Law
Natural gas
Oil well drilling
Potable water
Prospecting
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: 
Hydraulic Fracturing Safety Act of 2005 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to: (1) include hydraulic fracturing within the definition of underground injection for purposes of such Act; (2) define hydraulic fracturing as the process of creating a fracture in a reservoir rock, through the injection of fluids and propping agents, for the purpose of reservoir stimulation during oil and gas production activities; (3) prohibit, during the hydraulic fracturing process, the use of diesel fuel or any other material that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has listed as a priority pollutant under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; and (4) require the Administrator to regulate hydraulic fracturing and ensure that state programs under the Safe Drinking Water Act regulate hydraulic fracturing in accordance with this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5537)
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5533-5537)
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Preserving Patient Access to Physicians Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1081
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2005-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer price indexes
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Indexing (Economic policy)
Labor and Employment
Labor productivity
Medical fees
Medicare
Physicians
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: 
Preserving Patient Access to Physicians Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to payment for physicians' services to establish an update to the single conversion factor for 2006 of at least 2.7 %, and a formula for an update to the single conversion factor for 2007.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in calculating the formula for the single conversion factor, to establish an input price index and estimate a productivity adjustment factor for 2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5537-5538)
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Express Carrier Employee Protection Act

Bill: 109-s-1083
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2005-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Air cargo
Airline employees
Collective bargaining
Employee rights
Express service
Industrial relations
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: 
Express Carrier Employee Protection Act - Amends the Railway Labor Act (RLA) to provide for RLA coverage of express carrier employees only if they are licensed airmen, licensed aircraft maintenance technicians, or licensed aircraft dispatchers, and only if they perform duties pursuant to the privileges of an appropriate license. 
 
Declares that all other express carrier employees shall be covered by the National Labor Relations Act.
 
Defines express carriers as companies (including affiliates under common control or ownership) that have an integrated network of air and surface transportation for express shipment of packages. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
End Child Poverty Act

Bill: 109-s-1084
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Congress
Congressional-executive relations
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Income tax
Legislation
Minimum tax
Planning
Poor children
Poverty
Tax rates
Taxation
Wealth tax

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: 
End Child Poverty Act - Establishes the Child Poverty Elimination Board to develop a plan for: (1) cutting child poverty in half within a decade; and (2) eliminating child poverty entirely as soon as possible. Requires the plan to include recommendations for allocations from a Child Poverty Elimination Trust Fund. Directs the President to review the Board's plan, issue a plan which is the same as the Board's except where there is good cause for a modification that would be more effective, ensure plan implementation, and work with Congress to insure funding of plan implementation.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish the Child Poverty Elimination Trust Fund. Transfers to such Fund an amount equal to revenue from a surtax which increases by one percent the tax imposed on that portion of adjusted gross income that exceeds the threshold amount of: (1) $1 million in the case of a joint return; or (2) $500,000 in the case of any other individual income tax return.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 110.
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5539)
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Healthy Families Act

Bill: 109-s-1085
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Business records
Caregivers
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Collective bargaining
Commerce
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional employees
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Department of Labor
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Dismissal of employees
Employee rights
Employers' liability
Families
Family leave
Family violence
Federal employees
Fines (Penalties)
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Grievance procedures
Health
Informers
Injunctions
Labor contracts
Labor productivity
Labor statistics
Law
Leave of absence
Legal fees
Library of Congress
Limitation of actions
Married people
Medical records
Medical tests
Parents
Part-time employment
Personnel records
Preventive medicine
Right of privacy
Sick leave
Signs and signboards
Social Welfare
State employees
Wage restitution
Whistle blowing

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: 
Healthy Families Act - Requires certain employers, who employ 15 or more employees for each working day during 20 or more workweeks a year, to provide a minimum paid sick leave of: (1) seven days annually for those who work at least 30 hours per week; and (2) a prorated annual amount for those who work less than 30 but at least 20 hours a week, or less than 1,500 but at least 1,000 hours per year. 
 
Allows employees to use such leave to meet their own medical needs or to care for the medical needs of certain family members.
 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to exercise certain investigative and enforcement authority with respect to this Act's provisions regarding employees covered by title I of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 or the Government Employee Rights Act of 1991. Provides that, for employees under their jurisdiction, such authority shall be exercised by the Librarian of Congress, the Comptroller General, the Board of Directors of the congressional Office of Compliance, or the Merit Systems Protection Board.
 
Declares that the requirements under this Act are minimum requirements, and are not to be construed to discourage employers from adopting or retaining more generous leave policies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 111.
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend section 337 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to prescribe the oath or affirmation of renunciation and allegiance required to be naturalized as a citizen of the United States.

Bill: 109-s-1087
Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN]
Introduced: 2005-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Allegiance
Armed Forces and National Security
Citizenship
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Conscientious objectors
Government Operations and Politics
Naturalization
Oaths
Religion
Religious liberty

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prescribe the oath or affirmation of renunciation and allegiance required to be naturalized as a U.S. citizen. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2588-2589)
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5539-5540)
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate