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Gestational Diabetes Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3914
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-09-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Clinical trials
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Diabetes
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Health surveys
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Obesity
Pregnancy
Pregnant women
Preventive medicine
Science, Technology, Communications
Vital statistics
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: 
Gestational Diabetes Act of 2006 or the GEDI Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to convene a Research Advisory Committee. Requires the Director of CDC, in consultation with such Committee, to develop a multisite research project to expand and enhance surveillance data and public health research on gestational diabetes.
 
Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of CDC, to award competitive grants to nonprofit organizations or state health agencies for demonstration projects that test specified hypotheses about interventions designed to reduce the incidence of gestational diabetes and obesity among young women and implement relevant activities.
 
Requires the Director of CDC and the Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, in collaboration with the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, to conduct and support basic, clinical, and public health research regarding gestational diabetes and obesity during pregnancy. 
 
Requires the Director of CDC to encourage screening for gestational diabetes within state-based diabetes prevention and control programs to reduce the incidence of gestational diabetes and its related complications.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9788-9791)
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Smoke Free Mothers and Babies Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3915
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2006-09-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug abuse prevention
Drug therapy
Government Operations and Politics
Health counseling
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Pregnant women
Smoking
Social Welfare
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: 
Smoke Free Mothers and Babies Act of 2006 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require coverage, without cost-sharing, of counseling and pharmacotherapy for cessation of tobacco use by pregnant women. Provides for an increased federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for tobacco cessation counseling services and medications. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge Expansion Act

Bill: 109-s-3916
Sponsor: Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alabama
Animals
Boundaries
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Land transfers
Maps
Rivers
Water Resources Development
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge Expansion Act - Expands the boundaries of the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge in Bibb County, Alabama. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make acquisitions (including conservation easements) within the boundaries of the Refuge as expanded.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in Senate
9/11 Heroes Health Improvement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3918
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Health insurance
Health surveys
Medical screening
Medically uninsured
Mental health services
Physical examinations
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
9/11 Heroes Health Improvement Act of 2006 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award grants to eligible entities to provide medical and mental health monitoring, tracking, and treatment to individuals whose health has been directly impacted as a result of the attacks on New York City and at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Includes as eligible individuals firefighters, police officers, paramedics, workers, volunteers, residents, and any other individual who worked at Ground Zero, Fresh Kills (recovery site on Staten Island), or the Pentagon or lived or worked in the vicinity of such areas, whose health has deteriorated as a result of the attacks, and who has been evaluated by a physician or mental health professional for 9/11-related health conditions and needs treatment for such conditions. Sets the order of priority for individuals covered under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Assistance Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3919
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Auditing
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporate accountability
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Securities regulation
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Small Business Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Assistance Act of 2006 - Authorizes the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to make grants to qualified small public companies and small business concerns for the costs of compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
 
Directs the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the SBA to establish a task force (including officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] and appropriate bank regulatory agencies) to report to Congress biennially regarding how to assist small public companies in complying with that Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9898-9899)
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to modify the calculation of back pay for persons who were approved for promotion as members of the Navy and Marine Corps while interned as prisoners of war during World War II to take into account changes in the Consumer Price Index.

Bill: 109-s-3921
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Ex-prisoners of war
Families
History
Labor and Employment
Marines
Military dependents
Military pay
Military personnel
Military promotions
Navy
Survivors' benefits
Wage restitution
Widowers
Widows
Women
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Amends the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 to increase the amount of back pay received by members of the Navy and Marine Corps selected for promotion while interned as prisoners of war during World War II to reflect increases in the cost of living since basic pay was paid to or for that person.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9900)
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in Senate
YWCA Retirement Plan Preservation Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3922
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Age discrimination
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Defined benefit pension plans
Law
Social Welfare
Women
Women's organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
YWCA Retirement Plan Preservation Act of 2006 - Treats a specified pension plan maintained by the Young Women's Christian Association Retirement Fund as a defined contribution plan for purposes of prohibitions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 against employee pension benefit plans requiring or permitting the cessation or reduction of allocations to an employee's account because of age.
 
Applies this Act to any civil action brought on or after September 21, 2006, alleging an age discrimination violation occurring before June 29, 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9901)
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9900-9901)
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to establish a pilot program in certain United States district courts to encourage enhancement of expertise in patent cases among district judges.

Bill: 109-s-3923
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
District courts
Education
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Intellectual property
Judges
Judicial officers
Legal education
Patents
Plant breeding
Pretrial procedure
Seeds

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Establishes a pilot program in certain U.S. district courts under which: (1) those district judges who request to hear cases involving patent or plant variety protection issues are designated by the chief judge to hear them; (2) such cases are randomly assigned to the district court judges, regardless of whether they are designated; (3) a judge not designated to whom such a case is assigned may decline to accept the case; and (4) a case so declined is randomly reassigned to one of those judges so designated. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9901)
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to allow qualifying States to use all or any portion of their allotments under the State Children's Health Insurance Program for certain Medicaid expenditures.

Bill: 109-s-3924
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health insurance
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to allow qualifying states to use all or any portion (currently, up to 20%) of their allotments under SCHIP for certain Medicaid (SSA title XIX) expenditures.
 
Requires qualifying states to meet at least three of certain policies and procedures, including: (1) a simplified application process; (2) elimination of any asset test; (3) twelve-month continuous eligibility; and (4) easy access to enrollment staff.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9902-9903)
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9901-9902)
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Foreign Affairs Management Authorities Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3925
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Afghanistan
Africa
Americans in foreign countries
Armed Forces and National Security
Broadcasting Board of Governors
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Cost of living adjustments
Department of State
Diplomats
Eastern Europe
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Embassies
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Foreign service
Former Soviet states
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government service contracts
Government travel
Higher education
Human rights
Identification of criminals
Immigration
Inspectors general
International agencies
International broadcasting
International education
International employees
International military forces
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military occupation
Military operations
NATO countries
Palestinians
Peacekeeping forces
Performance measurement
Privileges and immunities
Promotions
Rating of employees
Recruiting of employees
Regionalism (International organization)
Salaries
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
South Asia
Sovereignty
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
United Nations delegations
Vatican
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Department of State Authorities Act of 2006 - Provides certain authorities for the Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors. 
 
Amends provisions respecting: (1) fraud prevention; (2) protective functions; (3) education allowances; (4) property disposition; (5) protection of North Korean refugees; (6) discrimination; (7) passport fees; (8) personal services contracting; (9) contracting prohibition; (10) Foreign Service compensation; (11) maternal and prenatal care for persons in Belarus and Ukraine affected by Chernobyl; and (12) the dual gateway policy of Ireland.
 
Authorizes the President to extend privileges and immunities to the African Union (AU), the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations, and the Bank for International Settlements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 632.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9903-9904)
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the placement of blast-resistant cargo containers on all commercial passenger aircraft.

Bill: 109-s-3927
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Air cargo
Air piracy
Airline passenger traffic
Airlines
Aviation safety
Bombs
Commerce
Commercial aircraft
Crime and Law Enforcement
Explosives
Security measures
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Amends federal transportation law to require that all commercial passenger aircraft be equipped with not less than one hardened, blast-resistant cargo container. Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to distribute sufficient blast-resistant cargo containers to air carriers within 90 days after the completion of the Hardened Container Pilot Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9906)
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the Office of Domestic Preparedness of the Department of Homeland Security to provide grants to local governments for public awareness education relating to preparedness for natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and influenza pandemic.

Bill: 109-s-3928
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Epidemics
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health
Influenza
Preventive medicine
Public service advertising
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Office of Domestic Preparedness to provide grants to local governments for the promotion of public awareness, through media campaigns and educational materials, relating to preparedness for natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and influenza pandemic.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9906)
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Terrorist Surveillance Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3931
Sponsor: Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY]
Introduced: 2006-09-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appellate courts
Biological warfare
Chemical warfare
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Constitutional law
Courts of special jurisdiction
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Electronic surveillance
Evidence (Law)
Foreign agents
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Judicial review
Jurisdiction
Law
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear terrorism
President and foreign policy
State-sponsored terrorism
Terrorism
Warrants (Law)
Weapons of mass destruction

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-22
text: 
Terrorist Surveillance Act of 2006 - Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to establish a new title relating to electronic surveillance programs (programs). Gives the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (established under FISA) jurisdiction to review programs that seek to obtain foreign intelligence information or to protect against international terrorism. Allows the Court to issue an order that authorizes a program for up to 90 days, while allowing the Attorney General (AG) an unlimited number of times to seek reauthorization of an order with respect to a specific target.
 
Outlines AG application requirements for approval of programs, including an explanation of how the program will ensure that communications acquired are of or with: (1) a foreign power, or agent of a foreign power, engaged in international terrorism; (2) a person believed to have communicated with or be associated with a foreign power or agent that engages in such activities; or (3) a foreign power or agent that poses an imminent threat of attack likely to cause death, serious bodily injury, or substantial economic damage to the United States.
 
Provides for congressional oversight of approved programs through regular AG reports to the congressional intelligence committees.
 
Directs the AG and the Director of National Intelligence to conduct a feasibility study to develop and implement a document management system that permits the prompt preparation, modification, and review of applications for orders approving programs by appropriate personnel of the Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA), and other applicable elements of the intelligence community.
 
Includes as an &quot;agent of a foreign power&quot; under FISA a person other than a U.S. person who engages in the development or proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, or activities in preparation therefor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 635.
action_date: 2006-09-22
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. pursuant to the order of September 21, 2006, as modified on September 22, 2006. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10044-10050)
action_date: 2006-09-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to limit the amount of funds available to the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration during fiscal year 2007 and fiscal years thereafter.

Bill: 109-s-3932
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2006-09-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aeronautics
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Science, Technology, Communications
Transportation research

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: 
Limits to $724 million the aggregate funds available to the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during FY2007 and following fiscal years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10073-10074)
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the generalized system of preferences.

Bill: 109-s-3933
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2006-09-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Developing countries
International Affairs
International cooperation
Tariff preferences
Trade negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: 
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to extend the generalized system of preferences program (duty free treatment of goods from a beneficiary developing country) until December 31, 2009.
 
Authorizes the President, in designating a country as a beneficiary developing country under the generalized system of preferences program, to take into account the country's position and level of cooperation with the United States in multilateral trade negotiations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10074)
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to terminate authorization for the project for navigation, Rockport Harbor, Maine.

Bill: 109-s-3934
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2006-09-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Harbors
Maine
Navigation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: 
 Terminates authorization for a portion of the project for navigation, Rockport Harbor, Maine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10074)
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Introduced in Senate