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A bill to amend section 691 of title 10, United States Code, to increase the end strengths of the Army and the Marine Corps for fiscal years after fiscal year 2005, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-530
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2005-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Army
Defense budgets
Economics and Public Finance
Iraq compilation
Marines
Military personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-04
text: 
Increases the authorized end strengths for the Army and Marine Corps for fiscal years after 2005.
 
Amends the Ronald R. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 to repeal the authority for additional increases in such end strengths for FY 2005 through 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
AMS Act

Bill: 109-s-531
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Biotechnology
Florida
Marketing of farm produce
Marketing orders
Science, Technology, Communications
Tomatoes

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-04
text: 
Agricultural Marketing Success Act of 2005 or the AMS Act - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to exempt certain tomato varieties produced in Florida under an identity preservation and biotechnology verification program from agricultural marketing order requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to reduce temporarily the duty on palm fatty acid distillate.

Bill: 109-s-532
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2005-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Oils and fats
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-04
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce, through December 31, 2007, the duty on palm fatty acid distillate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2085)
action_date: 2005-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that a NADBank guarantee is not considered a Federal guarantee for purposes of determining the tax-exempt status of bonds.

Bill: 109-s-533
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2005-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Development credit institutions
Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Income tax
Interest
North America
Tax exclusion
Tax-exempt securities

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-04
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that a loan guarantee by the North American Development Bank (NADBank) shall not be treated as a Federal guarantee for purposes of the tax exclusion for interest on State and local bonds. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-03-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2085)
action_date: 2005-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Elimination of Double Subsidies for the Hardrock Mining Industry Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-534
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2005-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Depletion allowances
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Environmental Protection
Government trust funds
Income tax
Land subsidence
Mine wastes
Mines and mineral resources
Mining claims
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reclamation of land
Revegetation
Sedimentation
Soil erosion
Strip mining
Tax deductions
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: 
Elimination of Double Subsidies for the Hardrock Mining Industry Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to disallow the percentage depletion allowance for hardrock mines located on land currently subject to the general mining laws, or on land patented under such laws.
 
 Establishes in the Treasury the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Trust Fund. Appropriates to such Fund amounts equal to 25 percent of the additional revenues received due to the disallowance of the depletion allowance for hardrock mines proposed by this Act. Prescribes guidelines under which such Fund shall be available to the Secretary of the Interior for reclamation and restoration of lands and water resources adversely affected by mineral and mineral material mining (excluding coal and fluid minerals). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2150)
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2149-2150)
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Native American Connectivity Act

Bill: 109-s-535
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2005-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Auditing
Block grants
Civil actions and liability
Colleges
Commemorations
Computer literacy
Computers
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Employee training
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to education
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government statistics
Health
Higher education
Historic sites
History
Indian education
Indian lands
Information technology
Internet
Labor and Employment
Land transfers
Law
Leases
Minorities
Minority education
Performance measurement
Planning
Science, Technology, Communications
Student employment
Technical education
Telecommunication systems
Telemedicine
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: 
Native American Connectivity Act - Establishes within the National Telecommunications and Information Administration a Native American telecommunications block grant program to provide grants on a competitive basis to an Indian tribe or organization, tribal college or university, or institution of higher education acting jointly with an Indian tribe to carry out activities for the development of telecommunications capacities in Indian country.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to provide training and technical assistance grants to: (1) facilitate local use and maintenance of new telecommunications technologies; (2) develop and implement telecommunications and information technology (TCIT) work study programs and related education, development, planning, and management programs; (3) develop a training program for telecommunications employees; or (4) provide assistance to students who participate in TCIT programs.
 
Provides for: (1) fiscal year block grant set-asides for the training and technical assistance grants; (2) Comptroller General audits of grant fund uses; (3) environmental compliance in the development of telecommunications facilities; and (4) remedies for noncompliance with block grant requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2151-2152)
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2150-2151)
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Child Health Care Crisis Relief Act

Bill: 109-s-537
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2005-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child development
Child health
Child psychology
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Demography
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Family services
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Hospital rates
Marriage counseling
Medical education
Medical residents
Medical statistics
Medicare
Mental health services
Psychiatric personnel
Psychiatrists
Psychiatry
Psychologists
Psychology
Scholarships
School health programs
Social Welfare
Social work
Student loan funds
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: 
Child Health Care Crisis Relief Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to establish programs related to mental health services for children and adolescents to include: (1) entering into contracts with qualified individuals to pay educational loans in exchange for providing mental health services to children and adolescents; (2) awarding scholarships to students who agree to work as child and adolescent mental health service professionals after graduation or completion of residency; (3) entering into contracts with higher education institutions to establish or expand internship or other field placement programs for students receiving specialized training or clinical experience in child and adolescent mental health; (4) awarding grants to State-licensed mental heath organizations to pay for programs for preservice or in-service training of paraprofessional child and adolescent mental health workers; and (5) awarding grants to higher education institutions to establish or expand graduate child and adolescent mental health programs.
 
 
 
Amends Title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to adjust the graduate medical education program to: (1) exclude a reasonable number of residents or fellows in child and adolescent psychiatry when calculating the maximum number of residents in the field of allopathic or osteopathic medicine for which the hospital may be paid; and (2) extend the period of board eligibility for residents and fellows in child and adolescent psychiatry. 
Directs the Administrator to study and report to Congress on the distribution of, and need for, child mental health service professionals.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2159-2161)
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2159)
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Professionals Substance Abuse Education Act

Bill: 109-s-538
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2005-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alcoholism
Community health services
Counseling
Curricula
Dentists
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug abuse treatment
Drug addiction
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Marriage counseling
Medical education
Medical research
Medication abuse
Nongovernmental organizations
Paramedical personnel
Parents
Pharmacists
Physicians' assistants
Psychologists
Research centers
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Social work
Teacher education
Technology transfer

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: 
Health Professionals Substance Abuse Education Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide support and continue grants to specified organizations to train health professionals to: (1) recognize substance abuse in their patients or patients' family members; (2) intervene, treat, or refer for treatment those individuals who are affected by substance abuse; (3) identify and assist children of substance abusing parents; (4) serve as advocates and resources for community-based substance abuse prevention programs; and (5) address the non-therapeutic use of prescription medications.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) encourage community colleges and other academic institutes to offer academic credit for classes offered by the Addiction Technology Transfer Centers; (2) conduct a process and outcome evaluation of the programs and activities carried out under this Act; and (3) establish and administer a substance abuse faculty fellowship program.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish centers of excellence at U.S. medical centers or universities to: (1) initiate, promote, and implement training, research, and clinical activities related to targeted issues or special areas of focus; and (2) provide opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration in curriculum development, course development, clinical practice, research and translation of research into practice, and policy analysis and formulation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2162-2164)
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2162)
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Incapacitated Persons Legal Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-539
Sponsor: Sen. Martinez, Mel [R-FL]
Introduced: 2005-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Due process of law
Equality before the law
Government Operations and Politics
Habeas corpus
Health
Living wills
Right to die
State courts

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: 
Incapacitated Persons Legal Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal judicial code to extend habeas corpus protections to persons who are subject to a court order authorizing or directing the withholding or withdrawal of food, fluids, or medical treatment necessary to sustain the person's life.
 
Deems persons having custody in such cases to encompass parties so authorized or directed. States that there shall be no requirement to produce the body of the incapacitated person at the hearing.
 
Exempts from this Act those cases in which the incapacitated person indisputably executed a written advance directive while having capacity that clearly authorized the withholding or withdrawal of food, fluids, or necessary medical treatment.
 
Defines &quot;incapacitated person&quot; to mean an individual presently incapable of making relevant decisions concerning the provision, withholding, or withdrawal of food, fluids, or medical treatment under applicable State law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 34.
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to clarify the rate of duty for certain gloves.

Bill: 109-s-541
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Clothing
Commerce
Sports and Recreation
Synthetic fabrics
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to redefine certain non-knit gloves designed for use in sports to include mechanics' gloves.
 
Defines &quot;mechanics' gloves&quot; as gloves especially designed for use by professional autoracing teams and general automotive mechanics that consist of synthetic leather palms and fingers, fourchettes of either synthetic leather, nylon, or elastomeric yarn, backs consisting of one layer of knitted elastomeric fabric or three layers with the outer layer of such fabric, the center layer of foam, and the inner layer of tricot, whether or not including a thermoplastic rubber logo or pad on the back, and elastic wrist straps with molded thermoplastic rubber hook-and-loop enclosures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to extend for 5 years the credit for electricity produced from certain renewable resources, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-542
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2005-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Coal
Cooperative societies
Electric power production
Electric utilities
Energy
Environmental Protection
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Incineration
Income tax
Irrigation
Landfills
Methane
Minorities
Municipal solid waste
Native Americans
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public utilities
Refuse as fuel
Solar energy
Tax credits
Tax-exempt organizations
Water Resources Development
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2010 the tax credit for electricity produced from certain renewable resources (e.g., wind, biomass, poultry waste); (2) allow certain organizations, including tax-exempt organizations, State and local governments, and Indian tribal governments, to sell unused amounts of such tax credit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2170)
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the availability of the cash method of accounting for small businesses, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-543
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2005-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Inventories
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt certain small business taxpayers from the requirements of using the accrual method of accounting and of using inventories. Allows such taxpayers to use a cash method of accounting if they meet the gross receipts test and are not engaged in farming as a corporation. Increases the amount of the gross receipts test to $10 million (currently, $5 million) and permits an annual inflation adjustment of that amount. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2170-2171)
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Lifetime Savings Account Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-545
Sponsor: Sen. Thomas, Craig [R-WY]
Introduced: 2005-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Bank accounts
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education savings accounts
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Law
Saving and investment
Tax exclusion
Tax exemption
Tax penalties
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: 
Lifetime Savings Account Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to create a tax-exempt trust to be known as a &quot;Lifetime Savings Account&quot; for the benefit of an individual taxpayer or his beneficiaries. Allows an individual taxpayer to make cash contributions up to $5,000 each year to such trusts. Prohibits: (1) investment of trust assets in life insurance contracts; and (2) commingling of trust assets with any other property except in a common trust or investment fund. Provides for an annual cost-of-living adjustment to the contribution amount after 2006.
 
Excludes from gross income distributions from a Lifetime Savings Account. Allows tax-free rollovers to a trust from: (1) another account of the trust beneficiary if the rollover from such other account is completed within 60 days of the date of distribution; (2) from a Lifetime Savings Account of the spouse of the trust beneficiary if the rollover from the spouse's account is completed within 60 days of the date of distribution; (3) from a qualified state tuition plan or a Coverdell education savings account before January 1, 2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2246-2247)
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2246)
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Retirement Savings Account Act

Bill: 109-s-546
Sponsor: Sen. Thomas, Craig [R-WY]
Introduced: 2005-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Excise tax
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Individual retirement accounts
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Married people
Pension funds
Social Welfare
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: 
Retirement Savings Account Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to replace Roth Individual Retirement Account provisions with Retirement Savings Account (RSA) provisions. Allows cash only contributions to RSAs up to the lesser of $5,000 (adjusted for inflation) or the taxpayer's compensation includible in gross income for a taxable year.
 
Allows tax free distributions from RSAs after the account beneficiary attains age 58, dies, or becomes disabled.. Allows conversions of individual retirement accounts (IRAs) into RSAs and provides special rules for the tax treatment of amounts converted into an RSA prior to 2007. Requires a five-year holding period for amounts converted to an RSA from an IRA or an Employer Retirement Savings Account.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2247-2250)
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2246)
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for employer retirement savings accounts, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-547
Sponsor: Sen. Thomas, Craig [R-WY]
Introduced: 2005-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Civil service retirement
Commerce
Defined contribution plans
Employee rights
Executive compensation
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Saving and investment
Small business
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a tax-exempt employee benefit contribution plan to include an employer retirement savings account arrangement. Sets forth requirements for such an arrangement, including rules relating to: (1) employer contributions; (2) restrictions on distributions and length of service; (3) nonforfeitability; (4) nondiscrimination standards; (5) matching contributions; (6) notice requirements; (7) withdrawal and vesting restrictions; (8) excess contributions; (9) distributions upon termination of a plan; and (10) small employers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2250-2252)
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2246)
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate