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Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Transplant Patients Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-173
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2005-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Coinsurance
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Hospital care
Immunosuppressive drugs
Insurance premiums
Kidney diseases
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Medicare
Social Welfare
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: 
Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Transplant Patients Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to remove time limitations on the coverage of immunosuppressive drugs for individuals who have received organ transplants. (Current law provides coverage for such drugs only for certain time periods after the transplant procedure.)
 
Amends SSA title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) to: (1) continue entitlement to prescription drugs used in immunosuppressive therapy furnished to an individual who receives a kidney or other organ transplant for which payment is made under Medicare; and (2) extend Medicare secondary payer requirements for end stage renal disease beneficiaries.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code to set forth requirements for group health plans to provide coverage of immunosuppressive drugs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S580-581)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Children's Compassionate Care Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-174
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2005-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Ambulatory care
Caregivers
Case management
Child health
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Continuum of care
Cost accounting
Cost effectiveness
Counseling
Critically ill
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Family services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health counseling
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Higher education
Home care services
Hospital care
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Insurance companies
Managed care
Medical education
Medical fees
Medical personnel
Medical records
Medical research
Medical residents
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Nurses
Nursing education
Pain
Pharmaceutical research
Physicians
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Research grants
Respite care
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Social work
Teaching materials
Teleconferencing
Telemedicine
Terminal care
Terminal care facilities
Terminally ill
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: 
Children's Compassionate Care Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to provide training in pediatric palliative care and related services. 
 
Allows the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to award grants to implement or expand pediatric palliative care programs for children with life-threatening conditions. 
 
Authorizes the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand the number of physicians, nurses, mental health professionals, and appropriate allied health professionals and specialists with pediatric palliative clinical training and research experience. 
 
Allows the Secretary to award grants to enhance pediatric palliative care and care for children with life-threatening conditions in general pediatric or family practice residency training programs through the development of model programs. 
 
Requires the Director to provide translational research grants to fund research in pediatric pain and symptom management that will utilize existing NIH facilities.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish Medicare and private sector pediatric palliative care demonstration projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S583-586)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S581-583)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Bleeding Kansas National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 109-s-175
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2005-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Auditing
Citizen participation
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Commerce
Cultural property
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Exhibitions
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Intergovernmental relations
Kansas
Land transfers
Land use
Landowners
Landscape protection
Nature conservation
Nonprofit organizations
Outdoor recreation
Planning
Public meetings
Public-private partnerships
Right of property
Signs and signboards
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: 
Bleeding Kansas National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Bleeding Kansas and the Enduring Struggle for Freedom National Heritage Area in Kansas.
 
Designates the Territorial Kansas Heritage Alliance as the management entity for the Area.
 
Prohibits the Alliance from using Federal funds received under this Act to acquire real property or an interest in real property.
 
Requires the Alliance to prepare and submit a management plan for the Area, which shall contain a comprehensive program for the conservation, interpretation, funding, management, and development of such Area.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide technical and financial assistance for the development and implementation of the management plan.
 
Requires the Alliance to: (1) provide assistance and encouragement to State and local governments, private organizations, and persons to protect and promote the resources and values of the Area; and (2) be an advocate for land management practices consistent with the purposes of such Area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-28.
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S587-588)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Sierra National Forest Land Exchange Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-179
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boy Scouts
California
Easements
Energy
Families
Hydroelectric power
Land transfers
Law
National forests
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: 
Sierra National Forest Land Exchange Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey specified land in Mt. Diablo Meridian, California, in exchange for certain non-Federal land and a payment of $50,000, if the owner of such land: (1) offers to make such exchange during the year following enactment of this Act; and (2) agrees to convey the Federal land to the Sequoia Council of the Boy Scouts of America within four months of receiving it. Assigns values to the lands to be conveyed. 
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) manage the non-Federal land received in accordance with the Weeks Act and other laws and regulations pertaining to National Forest System lands; and (2) deposit the cash payment received into the fund established by the Sisk Act, to be expended for the acquisition of lands and interests in lands for the National Forest System in California. 
Makes the owner of the non-Federal land responsible for all direct costs associated with processing the land exchange. 
Grants an easement to the owner of a specified hydroelectric project located on Federal land authorized for exchange under this Act. Requires that the easement owner be given the right of first offer for any subsequent conveyance of the Federal land by the Sequoia Council as a condition of the initial conveyance to the Council.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-19.
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S590-591)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S590)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Ilko Vasilev Ivanov, Anelia Marinova Peneva, Marina Ilkova Ivanova, and Julia Ilkova Ivanova

Bill: 109-s-180
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2005-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: 
Declares Ilko Vasilev Ivanov, Anelia Marinova Peneva, Marina Ilkova Ivanova, and Julia Ilkova Ivanova to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act upon payment of the required visa fees. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Fuel Tax Equalization Credit for Substantial Power Takeoff Vehicles Act

Bill: 109-s-181
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2005-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Building materials
Commerce
Diesel motor
Energy
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Income tax
Natural gas vehicles
Recycling of waste products
Refuse and refuse disposal
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Fuel Tax Equalization Credit for Substantial Power Takeoff Vehicles Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a $250 business tax credit for each qualified commercial power takeoff vehicle (certain highway vehicles designed to deliver ready mixed concrete or collect refuse or recyclables) owned by a taxpayer at the end of the year. Stipulates that such credit shall not be available for a vehicle used during the year by a governmental entity or a tax-exempt organization.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S591-592)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Dylan Lee James Act

Bill: 109-s-183
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2005-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Child health
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Families
Family services
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health education
Health information systems
Health insurance
Home care services
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Mental health services
Social Welfare
Supplemental security income program
Welfare eligibility
Welfare waivers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: 
Family Opportunity Act of 2005 or Dylan Lee James Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to give States the option of allowing families of disabled children to purchase Medicaid coverage for such children.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct demonstration projects under which up to ten States are awarded grants, on a competitive basis, to test the effectiveness in improving or maintaining a child's functional level and cost-effectiveness of providing coverage of home and community-based alternatives to psychiatric resident treatment for children enrolled in the Medicaid program.
 
Amends SSA title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) to make appropriations to the Secretary for special projects of regional and national significance for development and support of family-to-family health information centers.
 
Amends SSA title XIX to provide for the restoration of Medicaid eligibility to certain SSI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSA title XVI) beneficiaries under age 21. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S592-593)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Retiree Survivor Benefit Equity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-185
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2005-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Annuities
Families
Labor and Employment
Military dependents
Military pensions
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: 
Military Retiree Survivor Benefit Equity Act of 2005 - Repeals the requirement that military Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuities be reduced by the amount of survivors' dependency and indemnity compensation being received by such individuals. Prohibits the: (1) payment of retroactive benefits; and (2) recoupment of military retired pay amounts previously refunded to SBP participants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S594)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S593-594)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the use of Department of Defense funds for any study related to the transportation of chemical munitions across State lines.

Bill: 109-s-186
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2005-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Chemical warfare
Defense budgets
Department of Defense
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Military transportation
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: 
Prohibits the expenditure of Department of Defense funds for any study of interstate transportation of chemical munitions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S594-595)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Ensuring College Access for all Americans Act

Bill: 109-s-187
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Higher education
Income
State taxation
Student aid
Student loan funds
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: 
Ensuring College Access for All Americans Act - Prohibits the application of the annual updates (published in the Federal Register on December 23, 2004) to the allowance for State and other taxes in the tables used in the Federal Needs Analysis Methodology to determine a student's expected family contribution for the award year 2005-2006 under the Higher Education Act of 1965, to the extent such updates will reduce the amount of Federal student assistance for which the student is eligible.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S597)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S596-597)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
State Criminal Alien Assistance Program Reauthorization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-188
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Authorization
Compensation (Law)
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Illegal aliens
Imprisonment
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: 
State Criminal Alien Assistance Program Reauthorization Act of 2005 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize specified appropriations through FY 2011 for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program.

action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 

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

 
State Criminal Alien Assistance Program Reauthorization Act of 2005 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize specified appropriations through FY 2011 for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program.

action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
State Criminal Alien Assistance Program Reauthorization Act of 2005 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize specified appropriations through FY2011 for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP).
 
Permits SCAAP funds distributed to States or political subdivisions to be used only for correctional purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S5743)
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S5743)
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S5743)
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 56.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Specter without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Specter without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S599)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S598-599)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Head Start Act to require parental consent for nonemergency intrusive physical examinations.

Bill: 109-s-189
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2005-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Health
Informed consent (Medical law)
Law
Parent and child
Parent-school relationships
Physical examinations
Preschool education
School health programs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: 
Amends the Head Start Act to require Head Start agencies to obtain written parental consent before administration of any nonemergency intrusive physical examination of a child in connection with participation in a Head Start program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S599)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-190
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2005-01-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Affordable housing
Auditing
Bank capital
Bank employees
Bank examination
Bank fraud
Bank loans
Brokers
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporation directors
Crime and Law Enforcement
Debt
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal Housing Finance Board
Federal advisory bodies
Federal employees
Federal home loan banks
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Golden parachutes
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government securities
Governmental investigations
Housing finance
Indemnity
Injunctions
Interest rates
Jurisdiction
Law
Presidential appointments
Secondary mortgage market
Securities regulation
Transfer of employees
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: 
Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 to establish: (1) in lieu of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), an independent Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Agency which shall have authority over the Federal Home Loan Bank Finance Corporation, the Federal Home Loan Banks, the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac); and (2) the Federal Housing Enterprise Board.
 
Sets forth operating, administrative, and regulatory provisions of the Agency, including provisions respecting: (1) assessment authority; (2) authority to limit nonmission-related assets; (3) minimum and critical capital levels; (4) risk-based capital test; (5) capital classifications and undercapitalized enterprises; (6) enforcement actions and penalties; (7) golden parachutes; and (8) reporting. 
 
Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to establish the Federal Home Loan Bank Finance Corporation. Transfers the functions of the Office of Finance of the Federal Home Loan Banks to such Corporation.
 
Excludes the Federal Home Loan Banks from certain securities reporting requirements.
 
Abolishes the Federal Housing Finance Board.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S599-600)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in Senate