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Military Commissions Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3044
Sponsor: Rep. Sanchez, Loretta [D-CA-47]
Introduced: 2005-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Appellate courts
Appellate procedure
Capital punishment
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Court records
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal procedure
Department of Defense
Due process of law
Equality before the law
Espionage
Evidence (Law)
Exclusionary rule (Evidence)
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Homicide
International Affairs
Judges
Law
Minors
Officer personnel
Presidential appointments
Right to counsel
Self-incrimination
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Supreme Court
Terrorism
Torture
Trials
War crimes
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
Military Commissions Act of 2005 - Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to permit a military commission to try any person, not a citizen of the United States, for one or more offenses against the law of war or in furtherance of international terrorism. Permits only the President, or a person designated by the President, to appoint such a commission. Requires a commission to consist of not less than three members and not more than seven members.
 
States that trial and defense counsel shall be detailed for a military commission on the same basis as such counsel are detailed for a general court-martial.
 
Requires members of a military commission to deliberate and vote in closed conference.
 
Prohibits: (1) a military commission from finding a person guilty of an offense, and determining a sentence, except by the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at the time the vote is taken; and (2) from sentencing a person to suffer death except by the concurrence of all the members as to the findings and as to the sentence.
 
Sets forth other requirements relating to a commission, including requiring the accused in a military commission to be given specified minimum rights and protections.
 
Outlines procedures for, and courts of, appeal.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Geriatricians Loan Forgiveness Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-3046
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2005-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Geriatrics
Higher education
Medical education
Physicians
Psychiatrists
Public health personnel
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
Geriatricians Loan Forgiveness Act of 2006 [sic]- Amends the Public Health Service Act to include each year of fellowship training in geriatric medicine or geriatric psychiatry required in order to obtain a certificate of added qualification in those fields as a year of obligated service under the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program. Requires an individual to provide services in geriatric medicine or geriatric psychiatry during the period of obligated service upon completion of training.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-06-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1369)
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of the Treasury to retain indefinitely records (including images) of redeemed savings bonds.

Bill: 109-hr-3048
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2005-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Data banks
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Public records
Savings bonds
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax-exempt securities

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to retain the records of each redeemed savings bond, including its front and back image, indefinitely. Allows such information to be stored electronically.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Asian Carp Prevention and Control Act

Bill: 109-hr-3049
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Mark [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2005-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Animals
Fines (Penalties)
Fishes
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Import restrictions
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Non-native species
Pest control
Pests
Wild animal trade

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
Asian Carp Prevention and Control Act - Amends the Lacey Act to add specified species of black, bighead, and silver carp to the list of injurious species that are prohibited from being shipped or imported into the United States.

action_date: 2006-07-20
text: 

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

Asian Carp Prevention and Control Act - Amends the Lacey Act to add specified species of black, bighead, and silver carp to the list of injurious species that are prohibited from being shipped or imported into the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 336.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 109-585.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 109-585.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Covering Kids Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3050
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Nancy L. [R-CT-5]
Introduced: 2005-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Church and social problems
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health insurance
Housing and Community Development
Indian children
Indian medical care
Language and languages
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Minorities
Minority health
Performance measurement
Poor children
Religion
Rural health
School health programs
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
Covering Kids Act of 2005 - Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to eligible entities to: (1) conduct innovative outreach and enrollment efforts that are designed to increase the enrollment and participation of eligible children under SCHIP; and (2) promote understanding of the importance of health insurance coverage for prenatal care and children.
 
Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to grant a state the option to provide for simplified determinations of a child's financial eligibility for medical assistance under Medicaid or child health assistance under SCHIP.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Pima County Land Adjustment Act

Bill: 109-hr-3051
Sponsor: Rep. Kolbe, Jim [R-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2005-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Arizona
Boundaries
Civil actions and liability
Commemorations
Compensation (Law)
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Forest roads
Land transfers
Landfills
Law
National monuments
Natural areas
Real estate appraisal
Right-of-way
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Water rights

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
Pima County Land Adjustment Act - Requires the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary) to convey to Las Cienegas Conservation, LLC, the Sahuarita property, which consists of approximately 1,280 acres, in exchange for the Empirita-Simonson property, which consists of approximately 2,490 acres. Requires the Secretary to modify the boundaries of the Las Cienegas National Conservation to include the Empirita-Simonson property. Instructs the Secretary to provide to the Secretary of Agriculture a right of way for motorized public road access through the Empirita-Simonson property to the boundary of the Coronado National Forest.
 
Requires the Secretary to convey the Tumamoc Hill property, which consists of approximately 290 acres, to Pima County, Arizona upon the County paying the value of such property to the State of Arizona and the State Land Department.
 
Modifies the boundary of the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area to exclude the 40-acre tract presently leased by the Bureau of Land Management to the town of Elgin, Arizona, for a sanitary landfill. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Southern New Jersey Veterans Comprehensive Health Care Act

Bill: 109-hr-3052
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2005-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Building construction
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Hospital care
Long-term care
New Jersey
Public-private partnerships
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
Southern New Jersey Veterans Comprehensive Health Care Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to determine, and notify Congress, whether the needs of veterans in southern New Jersey (the counties of Ocean, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland, Atlantic, and Cape May) for full-service medical care shall be met through a project for: (1) a public-private venture to provide inpatient and outpatient services and long-term care to veterans at an existing facility in southern New Jersey; or (2) construction of a new full-service, 100-bed Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in southern New Jersey.
 
Directs the Secretary: (1) if the public-private venture option is chosen, to enter into an appropriate agreement for the provision of such care and services; or (2) if the new construction option is chosen, to carry out an appropriate major medical facility construction project for such purpose.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1340-1341)
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Eastern Santa Clara River Basin Protection Act

Bill: 109-hr-3053
Sponsor: Rep. McKeon, Howard P. "Buck" [R-CA-25]
Introduced: 2005-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: California
Chemicals
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water pollution control
Government Operations and Politics
Groundwater
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
Eastern Santa Clara River Basin Protection Act - Requires the Secretary of the Army to participate in studies and other investigative activities and in the construction, planning, and design of projects determined by the Secretary to offer a long-term solution to groundwater perchlorate contamination in the Eastern Santa Clara River Basin in Santa Clarita, California. Requires investigative activities and projects to include sites that are sources of perchlorate and located in Santa Clarita.
 
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to authorize the Secretary to provide environmental infrastructure and construction assistance for such projects. Directs the Secretary to allow credit for in-kind services provided by a non-Federal sponsor before initiation of a project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 to require appropriations to cover the estimated subsidy costs of monetary resources provided by the United States Government to the International Monetary Fund, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-3054
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2005-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Developing countries
Development credit institutions
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign loans
Government lending
Interest rates
International Affairs
International monetary system
Subsidies

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
Amends the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 to declare that, beginning with FY 2007, no appropriation may be made for an increase in the quota of the United States in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) unless it includes new budget authority sufficient to cover the estimated costs to the United States of providing direct loans, loan guarantees, other financing mechanisms (and their modifications) made by or through the IMF to IMF borrowing nations at interest rates below the cost to the Government after appropriate adjustments for maturity and credit risk.
 
Requires the expenditures in the President's budget to reflect the costs to the Government of providing credit to IMF borrowing nations at such interest rates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2005-06-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2005-06-23
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Small Employer Health Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3056
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Electronic government information
Employee health benefits
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Government publicity
Health insurance
Insurance premiums
Internet
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Part-time employment
Partnerships
Public service advertising
Science, Technology, Communications
Self-employed
Small business
Subsidies

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: 
Small Employer Health Benefits Program Act of 2005 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to direct the Secretary of Labor to establish the Small Employer Health Benefits Program under which: (1) qualifying small employers are provided access to qualifying health insurance coverage for their employees; and (2) such employees may elect alternative forms of coverage offered by various health insurance issuers.

Limits such program to small employers that elect to: (1) offer health insurance coverage to each individual employed for three months or longer; and (2) pay at least half the total premium for qualifying health insurance coverage for such individual. Provides for coverage of part-time employees.

Requires the Secretary to enter into contracts with health insurance issuers for the offering of such insurance coverage.

Reduces by five percent the total premium otherwise payable by such employer if an average of fewer than 25 employees were employed during the preceding calendar year.

Requires the Secretary to provide premium subsidies (calculated according to specified formulae) to: (1) employers for coverage of employees whose individual income is at or below 200 percent of the poverty line; as well as (2) such employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Alternative Fuel Utilization and Infrastructure Development Incentives Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3059
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Julia [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2005-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Energy
Income tax
Service stations
Tax credits
Tax-exempt organizations
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: 
 Alternative Fuel Utilization and Infrastructure Development Incentives Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax credits for: (1) 50 percent of the cost of any residential or commercial alternative fuel vehicle refueling property to store or dispense E-85 fuel (alternative vehicle fuel consisting of at least 85 percent ethanol) that is placed in service; and (2) the retail sale of E-85 fuel for use in an alternative fuel motor vehicle.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Terrorist Death Penalty Enhancement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3060
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, John R. [R-TX-31]
Introduced: 2005-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Air piracy
Antiaircraft missiles
Armed Forces and National Security
Biological warfare
Capital punishment
Chemical warfare
Conspiracy
Criminal procedure
Economics and Public Finance
Evidence (Law)
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Grants-in-aid
Homicide
International Affairs
Juries
Law
Licenses
Life imprisonment
Nuclear terrorism
Obstruction of justice
Organized crime
Planning
Pretrial procedure
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Social Welfare
Terrorism
Torture
Transportation and Public Works
Violence
Virus diseases
Weapons of mass destruction

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: 
Terrorist Death Penalty Enhancement Act of 2005 - Amends the federal criminal code to apply the death penalty or life imprisonment for a terrorist offense that results in the death of a person. Makes an individual or corporation convicted of a terrorist offense ineligible for federal benefits for any term of years or for life.
 
Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to make the death penalty available in certain air piracy cases occurring before enactment of the Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994 but after enactment of the Antihijacking Act of 1974. Narrows the language of &quot;especially heinous, cruel, or depraved&quot; by requiring that the act involved torture or serious physical abuse to the victim.
 
Includes among aggravating factors for espionage, treason, and terrorism for which the death penalty may be imposed that the defendant committed the offense after substantial planning. Authorizes imposition of the death penalty for specified terrorism-related offenses, including an offense involving the use of a radiological dispersal device or the variola virus.
 
Modifies death penalty procedures, including by adding as an aggravating factor for homicide for which the death penalty may be imposed that the defendant engaged in any conduct resulting in the death of another person in order to obstruct the investigation or prosecution of any offense. Authorizes impaneling a new jury when a unanimous recommendation cannot be reached. Permits four additional peremptory challenges when seven, eight, or nine alternates are impaneled.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the dollar limitation on contributions to funeral trusts.

Bill: 109-hr-3061
Sponsor: Rep. Chocola, Chris [R-IN-2]
Introduced: 2005-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Commerce
Funeral industry
Income tax
Law
Tax deductions
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the $7,000 limitation on contributions to funeral trusts.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Money Follows the Person Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3063
Sponsor: Rep. Kildee, Dale E. [D-MI-5]
Introduced: 2005-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuum of care
Cost effectiveness
Economics and Public Finance
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Home care services
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Long-term care
Medicaid
Medical economics
Nursing homes
Patients' rights
Quality of care
Social Welfare
Welfare waivers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: 
Money Follows the Person Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to states for demonstration projects (MFP demonstration projects) designed to: (1) increase the use of home and community-based, rather than institutional, long-term care services (rebalancing) under state Medicaid programs; (2) eliminate barriers or mechanisms that prevent or restrict the flexible use of Medicaid funds to enable Medicaid-eligible individuals to receive support for appropriate and necessary long-term care services in the settings of their choice; (3) increase the ability of state Medicaid programs to assure continued provision of home and community-based long term care services to eligible individuals who choose to transition from an institutional to a community setting; and (4) ensure that procedures are in place to provide quality assurance for eligible individuals receiving Medicaid home and community-based long-term care services and to provide for continuous quality improvement in such services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Introduced in House