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To suspend temporarily the duty on Cloquintocet Technical.

Bill: 109-hr-2609
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Pesticides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Cloquintocet Technical - Acetic acid, [5-chloro-8-quinolinyl]oxy]-, 1-methyhexyl ester.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Mefenoxam Technical.

Bill: 109-hr-2610
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Pesticides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Mefenoxam Technical - (R,S)-2-[(2,6-dimethylphenyl]-methoxyacetylamino]-propionic acid methyl ester.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Cyproconazole Technical.

Bill: 109-hr-2611
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Fungicides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Cyproconazole Technical - [Alpha-(4-Chlorophenyl)-alpha-(1-cyclopropylethyl)-1H-1-1,2,4-triazole-1-ethanol.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Pinoxaden Technical.

Bill: 109-hr-2612
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Herbicides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Pinoxaden Technical - Propanoic acid, 2,2-dimethyl-,8-(2,6-diethyl-4-methylphenyl)-1,2,4,5-tetrahydro-7-oxo-7H-pyrazolo[1,2-d][1,4,5]oxadiazepin-9-yl ester.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Formulations of Tralkoxydim.

Bill: 109-hr-2613
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Herbicides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Formulations of Tralkoxydim which include Tralkoxydim Technical 2-Cyclohexen-1-one,2-[1-(ethoxyimino)propyl]-3-hydroxy-5(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)-(9C1).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Propiconazole Technical - Bulk.

Bill: 109-hr-2614
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Fungicides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Propiconazole Technical - (Bulk) (220kg Drum) 1-[[2-(2,4-dichlorophenyl)-4-propyl-1,3-dioxolan-2-yl]methyl]-1H-1,2,4-triazole.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Permethrin Technical.

Bill: 109-hr-2615
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Permethrin Technical - (3-phenoxyphenyl) methyl(+/-)cis/trans-3-(2,2-dichloro vinyl)-2,2-dimethylcyclopropanecarboxylate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize grants for institutions of higher education serving Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

Bill: 109-hr-2616
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2005-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Asian American ethnic groups
Building construction
Community and school
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational counseling
Educational facilities
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Minorities
Minority education
Pacific Islanders
School buildings
School libraries
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 title III part A (Strengthening Institutions) to direct the Secretary of Education to provide grants and related assistance to certain institutions of higher education for activities to improve their capacity to serve students who are Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Gives priority to eligible institutions with a significant percentage of enrollment made up of such students who are low-income individuals. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in House
To bar certain additional restrictions on travel and remittances to Cuba.

Bill: 109-hr-2617
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Jim [D-FL-11]
Introduced: 2005-05-25 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Caribbean area
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Cuba
Department of the Treasury
Families
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Freight
Government Operations and Politics
Latin America
Law
Licenses
Money
Right to travel
Sanctions (International law)
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: 
Prohibits additional Cuban travel restrictions to be placed on per-diem allowances, family visits, accompanied baggage, and household remittances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Introduced in House
Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2618
Sponsor: Rep. Renzi, Rick [R-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2005-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Boundaries
Camping
Charities
Conservation easements
Construction costs
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Land transfers
Maps
Mines and mineral resources
Mining engineering
National forests
Outdoor recreation
Real estate appraisal
Roads and highways
Small towns
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Trails
Transportation and Public Works
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: 
Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) to convey to Resolution Copper Mining, LLC, all, right, title, and interest of the United States in and to specified federal land in Pinal county, Arizona, in exchange for Resolution Copper conveying to the United States title to: (1) the Secretary to specified non-federal land in Gila, Yavapai, Maricopa, and Pinal counties, Arizona, and (2) the Secretary of the Interior to specified non-federal land in Pinal and Santa Cruz counties, Arizona.
 
Directs the Secretary to convey specified land in Pinal county to the town of Superior, Arizona. 
 
Instructs Resolution Copper to deliver to the Secretary an executed document granting a permanent conservation easement to an entity that is: (1) a qualified unit of government; or (2) a land trust or other qualified organization. Requires Resolution Copper and the grantee, in consultation with the town and other interested parties, to determine whether the area covered by the easement should be used to establish additional public access routes, trails, and trailheads to Apache Leap. 
 
Directs the Secretary, in consultation with Resolution Copper, the town, and other interested parties, to: (1) construct in the Global Ranger District of the Tonto National Forest a replacement campground or campgrounds for the Oak Flat Campground; and (2) provide a replacement rock climbing area or areas on National Forest or public land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1093)
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Introduced in House
TRICARE Equity Act

Bill: 109-hr-2619
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Coinsurance
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Medical fees
Military dependents
Military medicine
Military personnel
Retired military personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: 
TRICARE Equity Act - Prohibits any member or former member (or dependent of such member) of the armed forces who is eligible for benefits under the TRICARE program (a Department of Defense managed health care program) and who has another insurance plan or program that provides primary coverage for health benefits from being required to pay any copayment or annual deductible under the TRICARE program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Introduced in House
No More Tulias: Drug Law Enforcement Evidentiary Standards Improvement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2620
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2005-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Criminal statistics
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Evidence (Law)
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Labor and Employment
Law
Law enforcement officers
Minorities
Police
Police corruption
Rating of employees
State laws
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: 
No More Tulias: Drug Law Enforcement Evidentiary Standards Improvement Act of 2005 - Prohibits a state from receiving for a fiscal year any drug control and system improvement (Byrne) grant funds under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, or any amount from any other law enforcement assistance program of the Department of Justice, unless the state does not fund any drug task forces for that fiscal year or the State has in effect laws that ensure that: (1) a person is not convicted of a drug offense unless the facts that a drug offense was committed and that the person committed that offense are supported by evidence other than the eyewitness testimony of a law enforcement officer (officer) or individuals acting on an officer's behalf; and (2) an officer does not participate in a drug task force unless that officer's honesty and integrity is evaluated and found to be at an appropriately high level. Provides for reallocation of sums not allocated by reason of this provision to states not so disqualified.
 
Requires state recipients of funds to collect data for the last year funds were allocated regarding: (1) the racial distribution of charges made during that year; (2) the nature of the criminal law specified in the charges; and (3) the city or law enforcement jurisdiction in which the charge was made.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4590)
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Introduced in House
Bounty Hunter Responsibility Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2621
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Bail
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights enforcement
Criminal justice information
Criminal liability
Detention of persons
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Employment tests
Ex-offenders
Federal-state relations
Fingerprints
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification of criminals
Labor and Employment
Law
Liability (Law)
Licenses
Private police
Standards
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: 
Bounty Hunter Responsibility Act of 2005 - Declares that a surety on a bail bond, an agent of such surety, or any bounty hunter seeking to obtain or exercise custody over a person admitted to bail under state law is acting under color of law for purposes of establishing civil or criminal liability for the deprivation of federally protected rights. Considers a bounty hunter as an agent of the surety if such bounty hunter is acting as an independent contractor or employee of the surety.
 
Requires each surety on a bail bond, agent of such surety, and bounty hunter to inform the local law enforcement agency of the presence of such agent, surety, and bounty hunter and of that individual's intention to seek to obtain or exercise custody over a person admitted to bail outside that state, before commencing activities in the state.
 
Directs the Attorney General to publish model guidelines for state control and regulation of persons employed or applying for employment as bounty hunters, which shall include recommendations as to whether a person seeking employment as a bounty hunter should be: (1) allowed to obtain such employment if that person has been convicted of a felony; (2) required to complete a basic certification course in the criminal justice system or a handgun training course; or (3) required to submit to a criminal background check.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Uninsured Children's Entitlement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2622
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Abandonment of family
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Orphans
Residence requirements
Social security eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: 
Social Security Uninsured Children's Entitlement Act of 2005 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to entitle certain uninsured children to new monthly benefits treated as monthly insurance benefits payable under the OASDI benefit program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Introduced in House
To require States to conduct DNA tests to ascertain the degree of genetic relatedness between two or more persons in accordance with a national standard.

Bill: 109-hr-2623
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Adoption
DNA
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Families
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Paternity
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: 
Amends the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to reduce by 10 percent the amount otherwise payable for a fiscal year to a state operating a program under an approved state plan for federal payments for foster care and adoption assistance upon finding that a state: (1) does not have in effect laws and procedures to ensure that every DNA test conducted pursuant to a court order to ascertain the degree of genetic relatedness between persons is conducted in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary (including accreditation and certification requirements); or (2) does have such laws and procedures in effect but has not complied in conducting such a test.
 
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Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain items and to reduce temporarily the duty on certain items.

Bill: 109-hr-2624
Sponsor: Rep. Boehner, John A. [R-OH-8]
Introduced: 2005-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Electronics
Electronics industry
Equipment and supplies
Glass and glass industry
Science, Technology, Communications
Tariff
Television
Video display terminals

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on certain: (1) front panels for cathode-ray television picture tubes; (2) 32V funnels for use with curved screen panels; (3) 32V funnels for use with Pure Flat (PF) panels; (4) certain funnels for cathode-ray television picture tubes; (5) pre-assembled glass envelopes; (6) aperture masks made from aluminum-killed, open-coil annealed steel for color picture tubes; (7) three-beam electron guns for cathode ray tubes; (8) one-beam electron guns for projection cathode-ray tubes; and (9) aperture masks.
 
Reduces, through such date, the duty on front panels for certain cathode-ray television picture tubes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Introduced in House
Abusive Tax Shelter Shutdown and Taxpayer Accountability Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2625
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-25]
Introduced: 2005-05-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Affiliated corporations
Commerce
Confidential communications
Corporate debt
Corporate finance
Corporate mergers
Corporation taxes
Department of the Treasury
Depreciation and amortization
Dividends
Evidence (Law)
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign corporations
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Interest
Law
Leases
Losses
Profit
Stockholders
Stocks
Subsidiary corporations
Tax administration
Tax consultants
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax evasion
Tax liens
Tax penalties
Tax preparers
Tax returns
Tax shelters
Taxation of foreign income
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: 
Abusive Tax Shelter Shutdown and Taxpayer Accountability Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise or add provisions relating to tax shelter activity, including provisions to: (1) define &quot;economic substance&quot; for purposes of evaluating tax shelter transactions; (2) increase penalties for large entities and high net-worth individuals for failure to disclose certain tax shelter transactions; (3) impose penalties for understatements of tax due to transactions lacking economic substance; (4) deny material tax advisors a claim of privilege as to the identity of a client; (5) revise standards for the penalty for understatement of tax liability by income tax return preparers and increase the penalties for such understatements; (6) revise and increase the penalties for frivolous tax submissions; (7) deny a tax deduction for interest on underpayments of tax due to nondisclosed reportable transactions and transactions lacking economic substance; (8) expand the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to disallow certain tax benefits arising from the acquisition of corporate stock; (9) modify certain passive loss rules for controlled foreign corporations; and (10) provide a rule for the reduction in basis of corporate stock for which certain extraordinary dividends are received.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Introduced in House