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Central Asia Education Enhancement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-343
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Central Asia
Cultural relations
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational exchanges
English language
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government internships
Graduate education
Higher education
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Scholarships
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Central Asia Education Enhancement Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of State to establish a pilot program of scholarships for public policy internships in the United States for students from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
Afghanistan Education Enhancement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-344
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Afghanistan
Arts, Culture, Religion
Cultural relations
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational exchanges
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government internships
Graduate education
Higher education
Policy sciences
Scholarships
South Asia

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Afghanistan Education Enhancement Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of State to establish a pilot program of scholarships for public policy internships in the United States for students from Afghanistan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2159)
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to suspend the running of periods of limitation for credit or refund of overpayment of Federal income tax by veterans while their service-connected compensation determinations are pending with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 109-hr-345
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Income tax
Limitation of actions
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to suspend the limitation period for filing refund claims for overpayments of tax for any veteran whose overpayment relates to a determination by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs that such veteran was entitled to service-connected disability compensation. Provides that the suspension period begins on the date a veteran submits a claim for compensation and ends on the date the Secretary makes a determination. Permits a veteran to file a refund claim for overpayment of tax (relating to benefit determinations made by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs after 1995) even if the claim is barred by law, if the claim is filed before the end of one year after enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
Volunteer Firefighter Tax Relief Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-346
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Clothing
Emergency Management
Fire fighters
Income tax
Social Welfare
Tax deductions
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Volunteer Firefighter Tax Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow volunteer firefighters a tax deduction from gross income for personal safety clothing (including helmets and boots) used in performing fire fighting services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the credit for adoption expenses shall be permanent and to repeal the 5-year limitation on carryforwards of unused credit.

Bill: 109-hr-347
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adoption
Congress
Costs
Employee benefit plans
Families
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Sunset legislation
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Makes provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 expanding the tax credit for adoption expenses permanent. Repeals the five-year limitation on carryforwards of unused adoption credit amounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
Heritage Homes Tax Incentive Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-348
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commemorations
Finance and Financial Sector
Historic sites
History
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Interest
Mortgages
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Heritage Homes Tax Incentive Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to grant a tax deduction (whether or not the taxpayer itemizes deductions) for 125 percent of residence interest paid or accrued on acquisition indebtedness for heritage homes. Defines a &quot;heritage home&quot; as a taxpayer's principal residence that is at least 50 years old and a certified historic structure in a registered historic district.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a full deduction for meals and lodging in connection with medical care.

Bill: 109-hr-349
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health
Hotels, motels, etc.
Income tax
Medical economics
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code concerning the medical care tax deduction to: (1) include meals away from home within the deduction; and (2) eliminate the $50 per individual per night ceiling for medically-related meals and lodging. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain individuals who have attained age 50 and who are unemployed to receive distributions from qualified retirement plans without incurring a 10 percent additional tax.

Bill: 109-hr-350
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Age and employment
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Pension funds
Social Welfare
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the ten percent additional tax on early distributions from qualified retirement plans inapplicable to individuals who have attained the age of 50 and who have been receiving unemployment compensation for 12 consecutive weeks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the sunset on the increased assistance pursuant to the dependent care tax credit provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 and to make the credit refundable.

Bill: 109-hr-351
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adult day care
Caregivers
Congress
Costs
Day care
Disabled
Families
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Married people
Social Welfare
Sunset legislation
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Amends the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to make permanent the increases in assistance pursuant to the dependent care tax credit. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make such credit refundable.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the standard mileage rate for charitable purposes to the standard mileage rate established by the Secretary of the Treasury for business purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-352
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Automobiles
Charitable contributions
Income tax
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the standard mileage rate deduction for the charitable use of passenger automobiles from 14 cents per mile to the standard mileage rate prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury for business purposes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
State and Local Law Enforcement Discipline, Accountability, and Due Process Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-354
Sponsor: Rep. Ramstad, Jim [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Criminal investigation
Disciplining of employees
Dismissal of employees
Due process of law
Election candidates
Employee rights
Evidence (Law)
Federal preemption
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government employee unions
Government employees' political activities
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grievance procedures
Injunctions
Judicial opinions
Labor and Employment
Law
Law enforcement officers
Leave of absence
Local employees
Local laws
Personnel records
Police
Police brutality
Police corruption
Police questioning
Police-community relations
Polygraphs
Right of privacy
Right to counsel
Self-incrimination
Sound recording and reproducing
State employees
State laws
Subpoena
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: State and Local Law Enforcement Discipline, Accountability, and Due Process Act of 2005 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to set forth the due process rights, including procedures, that shall be afforded a law enforcement officer (officer) who is the subject of an investigation or disciplinary hearing. 
Declares that an officer shall not be: (1) prohibited from engaging in political activity or be denied the right to refrain from engaging in such activity, except when on duty or acting in an official capacity; and (2) prohibited from being a candidate for an elective office or from serving in such elective office solely because of the officer's status as an officer, with exceptions.
Requires that: (1) each agency adopt and thereafter comply with a written complaint procedure that meets specified requirements; and (2) an investigation based on a complaint from outside the agency commence not later than 15 days after receipt of the complaint by the agency employing the officer against whom the complaint has been made, or any other agency charged with investigating such complaint.
Directs that any officer who is the subject of an investigation be notified of the investigation 24 hours before the commencement of questioning. Establishes rights of officers before and during questioning, including the right to counsel. Requires questioning to be conducted at reasonable hours. Prohibits an officer from being compelled to submit to the use of a lie detector.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
Rim of the Valley Corridor Study Act

Bill: 109-hr-355
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
California
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Endangered species
Governmental investigations
Habitat conservation
Historic sites
History
Landowners
Landscape protection
Mountains
National recreation areas
Outdoor recreation
Sports and Recreation
Trails
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Rim of the Valley Corridor Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a resource study of and submit a report on the Rim of the Valley Corridor in California to evaluate a range of alternatives for protecting the Corridor's resources, including the alternative of establishing all or part of the Corridor as a unit of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. 
 
Lists the objectives the Secretary shall seek to achieve in conducting the study.
 
Directs the Secretary to analyze the potential impact that establishment of all or part of the Rim of the Valley Corridor as a unit of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area is likely to have on land within or bordering the area that is privately owned at the time such study is conducted. Requires the report to discuss the concerns of private landowners within the existing boundaries of the Recreation Area.
 
Instructs the Secretary, as part of evaluating each alternative considered under such study, to estimate the impact of implementing the alternative on staffing and other potential costs to Federal, State, and local agencies and other organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E73)
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-356
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Anesthetics
Civil actions and liability
Communication in medicine
Damages
Electronic government information
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Federal preemption
Fetus
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Health education
Informed consent (Medical law)
Internet
Law
Licenses
Medicaid
Medical associations
Medical records
Pain
Physicians
Pregnant women
Punitive damages
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
State laws
Web sites
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require an abortion provider, before beginning any abortion of a pain-capable unborn child (defined as an unborn child who has reached a probable stage of development of 20 weeks after fertilization), to: (1) make a specified statement to the pregnant woman that Congress has determined that there is substantial evidence that the process will cause the unborn child pain, and that the mother has the option of having pain-reducing drugs administered directly to the child; (2) provide to the woman an Unborn Child Pain Awareness Brochure (unless she waives receipt) or information on accessing such brochure on the Internet; (3) provide to the woman an Unborn Child Pain Awareness Decision Form; and (4) obtain on the form the woman's signature and her explicit request for or refusal of the administration of drugs to the child. 
 
Creates an exception for certified medical emergencies. 
 
Establishes penalties for willfully failing to comply with this Act, including civil penalties, medical license suspension, or both. Authorizes: (1) specified officials to bring suit in Federal court; and (2) private rights of action by a parent or guardian of a woman who is an unemancipated minor. 
 
Requires each State and State medical licensing authority to promulgate procedures for the revocation or suspension of a provider's license upon a court finding that the provider has violated this Act. Subjects a State that fails to implement such procedures to loss of Medicaid funding.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
Liquefied Natural Gas Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-359
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Energy
Energy facilities
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Federal preemption
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Gas pipelines
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Imports
Independent regulatory commissions
Judicial review
Law
Liquefied natural gas
Marine terminals
Pipeline siting
Public records
State laws
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Liquefied Natural Gas Act of 2005 - Amends the Natural Gas Act to transfer from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to the Secretary of Energy oversight functions regarding the exportation or importation of natural gas, including free trade agreements and liquefied natural gas.
 
Declares that no person shall site, construct, expand, or operate a liquefied natural gas import terminal without first having secured a FERC authorization.
 
Prohibits any State or local government from requiring any form of authorization with respect to the siting, construction, expansion, or operation of a liquefied natural gas import terminal except as otherwise provided by Federal law.
 
Prescribes guidelines for FERC oversight authority pertaining to scheduling and administrative proceedings.
 
Defines liquefied natural gas import terminal as including all facilities located onshore or in State waters that are used to receive, unload, store, transport, gasify, or process liquefied natural gas imported to the United States from a foreign country, but does excluding the tankers used to deliver liquefied natural gas to such facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the preservation of the historic confinement sites where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-360
Sponsor: Rep. Thomas, William M. [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Citizen participation
Commemorations
Concentration camps
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Japanese Americans
Land transfers
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Directs the Secretary of the Interior to make grants and create a program within the National Park Service to support and work in partnership with citizens, governmental and tribal organizations, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations for the purpose of identifying, protecting, and acquiring historic confinement sites where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II in order to gain inspiration from these sites and to demonstrate the Nation's commitment to equal justice. 
Establishes the Advisory Committee to Preserve World War II Historic Confinement Sites to provide related guidance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
Redwood National Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-361
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boundaries
California
Government Operations and Politics
Land transfers
Maps
National parks

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Redwood National Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2005 - Revises the boundaries of the Redwood National Park in California. Increases to 133,000 acres the maximum acreage of the Park.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
Keep Our Promise to America's Children and Teachers Act

Bill: 109-hr-363
Sponsor: Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Appropriations
Authorization
Department of Education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Secondary education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Keep Our Promise to America's Children and Teachers Act - Keep Our PACT Act - Makes appropriations in order to provide for the full funding of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (ESEA-NCLBA), and for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
 
Makes such appropriations for ESEA-NCLBA programs in amounts for each of FY 2006 through 2011 which equal the difference between other appropriations and specified amounts for each of those fiscal years.
 
Amends IDEA to authorize and make appropriations for: (1) each of FY 2006 through 2011 in specified amounts; and (2) for FY 2012 and each subsequent fiscal year, in the amount that is the total for all States of the maximum amounts necessary to fully fund 40 percent of the average per pupil expenditure for IDEA part B programs of assistance for education of all children with disabilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House