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Climate Change Investment Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6417
Sponsor: Rep. Meehan, Martin T. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air pollution control
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Capital investments
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Diesel motor
Energy
Energy development
Environmental Protection
Environmental technology
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Gas industry
Geology
Geophysical prediction
Geothermal resources
Income tax
Motor vehicle pollution control
Natural gas
Oil shales
Oil well drilling
Petroleum
Petroleum engineering
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary recovery of oil
Sulphur
Synthetic fuel
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Technology transfer
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: 
Climate Change Investment Act of 2006 - Repeals provisions of the Internal Revenue Code allowing: (1) an election to expense the cost of certain liquid fuel processing refineries; (2) accelerated amortization of geological and geophysical expenditures; (3) a tax credit for enhanced oil recovery costs; (4) a tax credit for the production of low sulfur diesel fuel; (5) a tax credit for producing fuel from a nonconventional source; (6) a tax deduction for capital costs incurred in complying with certain sulfur regulations; (7) a tax deduction for intangible drilling and development costs for oil and gas wells and geothermal wells; and (8) tax deductions for certain oil and gas well expenditures.

Allows a business-related tax credit for investment in a greenhouse gas intensity reduction project approved by the Secretary of Energy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House
Nursing Relief Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6418
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Aliens
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Labor
Employee rights
Employers' liability
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grievance procedures
Health
Labor and Employment
Law
Nurses
Visas
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: 
Nursing Relief Act of 2006 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a nonimmigrant visa category (W-visa) for an alien coming to the United States to work as a professional nurse.
 
Sets forth employer petition provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House
Nuclear Terrorism Prevention Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6419
Sponsor: Rep. Tauscher, Ellen O. [D-CA-10]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Arms control agreements
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Energy
Executive Office of the President
Fissionable materials
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
International control of nuclear power
Larceny
Legislation
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear security measures
Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear weapons
Presidential appointments
Smuggling
Standards
Terrorism
Uranium enrichment

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: 
Nuclear Terrorism Prevention Act of 2006 - Expresses the sense of Congress with respect to recognition of the threat to the United States of nuclear terrorism, as well as appropriate steps to be taken to prevent such terrorism.
 
Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to establish a Senior Advisor to the President for the Prevention of Nuclear Terrorism.
 
Requires an annual report from the President to Congress on the security of formula quantities of strategic special nuclear material.
 
States as the policy of the United States that all possible steps be taken as rapidly as possible to ensure that all nuclear weapons and formula quantities of strategic special nuclear materials are secure and accounted for. Directs the President to seek an international agreement on a global standard that implements such policy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House
Tax Exempt Hospitals Responsibility Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6420
Sponsor: Rep. Thomas, William M. [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2006-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Access to health care
Charitable contributions
Charities
Commerce
Consumer education
Excise tax
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Income tax
Medical fees
Medically uninsured
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Tax penalties
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: 
Tax Exempt Hospitals Responsibility Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) deny a tax exemption to medical care providers (i.e., tax-exempt charitable or teaching hospitals) that fail to adopt and carry out policies for providing medically necessary care to low-income individuals without health insurance; (2) deny a tax deduction for contributions to such providers; and (3) impose excise tax penalties on such medical care providers for failing to provide medically necessary care to low-income uninsured individuals, for overcharging for such care, and for failing to make certain disclosures to patients and the public relating to medical care and pricing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C> 206(a)(1) to reflect the actual costs of living in various regions of the country and to bring the minimum to a fair wage that can support federal workers and contractors and their families.

Bill: 109-hr-6422
Sponsor: Rep. McKinney, Cynthia A. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2006-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Buy American
Commerce
Congress
Congressional salaries
Cost of living adjustments
Federal employees
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fringe benefits
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Labeling
Minimum wages
Northern Mariana Islands
Pay equity

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: 
Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to revise minimum wage provisions to require: (1) payment of an hourly wage (or salary equivalent) sufficient to enable a full-time worker to cover housing, food, childcare, transportation, and healthcare expenses for a family of four based on regional or municipal cost-of-living standards; (2) an additional amount to enable such worker to obtain any fringe benefits not provided by the worker's employer; (3) annual cost-of-living adjustments to such wage levels; and (4) wage increases for federal and contract workers proportionately equal to congressional pay raises. Makes these requirements applicable to wages paid in the Northern Mariana Islands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To reauthorize the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 and to offset the cost of payments to States and counties under such Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-6423
Sponsor: Rep. Walden, Greg [R-OR-2]
Introduced: 2006-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Commerce
Community service (Punishment)
Conservation easements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Easements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Fire prevention
Forest conservation
Forest ecology
Forest fires
Forest management
Government Operations and Politics
Habitat conservation
Housing and Community Development
National forests
Rescue work
Revenue sharing
Road construction
Rural education
Small business
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: 
Amends the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-determination Act of 2000 to extend the Act through FY2007. 
 
Amends the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 to temporarily accelerate the effective date (makes withholding effective for 2007) for the imposition of certain withholding on payments made by federal, state, and local governments for property or services. Excludes during such period payments to: (1) businesses that employed fewer than 50 employees during the preceding taxable year; and (2) state and local governments. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2006-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Save Affordable Housing and Health Care Facilities Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6424
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Gary G. [R-CA-42]
Introduced: 2006-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Home equity conversion
Housing and Community Development
Housing for the aged
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: 
Save Affordable Housing and Health Care Facilities Act of 2006 - Declares that the maximum dollar amount limitation on commitments to guarantee loans for special risk insurance fund and general insurance fund purposes under the National Housing Act shall be continued for FY2007 at a rate for operations not exceeding $45 billion.
 
Amends the National Housing Act to increase from 275,000 to 300,000 the aggregate number of insured home equity conversion mortgages for elderly homeowners authorized under the Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Safe Babies Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6425
Sponsor: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-18]
Introduced: 2006-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Case management
Child abuse
Child development
Child sexual abuse
Child welfare
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Family services
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Health
Infants
Judges
Labor and Employment
Law
Mental health services
Nonprofit organizations
Parent and child
Psychotherapy
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: 
Safe Babies Act of 2006 - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to require the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to award a grant to a national early childhood development organization to establish a National Court Teams Resource Center to: (1) promote the well-being of maltreated infants and toddlers and their families; (2) help prevent the recurrence of abuse and neglect of children; (3) promote timely reunification of families or other successful permanency outcomes for maltreated infants and toddlers in foster care; and (4) select, and provide assistance to, local Court Teams created to achieve those goals.
 
Sets forth organization selection criteria and application requirements, including assurance that at least one qualified judge will serve as Judicial Leader of each Court Team receiving assistance.
 
Requires the Center to: (1) develop materials to guide judges in the decision-making process regarding, and to train Court Teams in the appropriate care for, maltreated infants and toddlers; (2) develop a database to track the progress of and to evaluate such Teams; and (3) provide information to communities and courts seeking to adopt the Court Teams approach.
 
Requires Center assistance to each Team to include: (1) direction, coordination, oversight, training, and technical assistance; and (2) providing a Local Community Coordinator to serve as a resource of child development expertise.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to provide for a sequestration on December 31, 2009, to eliminate the actual budget deficit for fiscal year 2009, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-6426
Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]
Introduced: 2006-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits
Congressional reporting requirements
Executive impoundment of appropriated funds
Federal budgets
Government Operations and Politics
Government spending reductions

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: 
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to require a sequestration on December 31, 2009, of an amount equivalent to the actual amount of the deficit (if any) for FY2009, as determined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
 
Prescribes a general formula for mandatory permanent reduction of each account of the United States, with specified exceptions, under such a sequestration.
 
Exempts from such a sequestration specified accounts, including: (1) Social Security benefits under title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA); (2) tier I railroad retirement benefits; (3) Medicare benefits under SSA title XVIII; (4) certain federal retirement and disability benefits; (5) certain federal administrative expenses; (6) certain veterans' life and disability insurance programs and the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans Education Account; and (7) certain automatic spending increases under the National Wool Act and the special milk program.
 
Prescribes formulae for partial reductions for: (1) foster care and adoption assistance programs under part E of SSA title IV; (2) veterans' medical care; (3) specified federal retirement programs; (4) specified veterans' programs, including pension and education benefits; (5) military health and retirement funds; (6) federal civilian and military pay; and (7) certain Commodity Credit Corporation cash payments.
 
Requires reductions under any sequestration order in the federal matching rate for state administrative costs under the child support enforcement program of SSA title 
 
Authorizes a state, when a sequestration is in effect, to reduce each weekly benefit payment made under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To increase the amount in certain funding agreements relating to patents and nonprofit organizations to be used for scientific research, development, and education, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-6427
Sponsor: Rep. Latham, Tom [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2006-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Higher education
Intellectual property
Inventions
Nonprofit organizations
Patents
Research and development
Research and development facilities
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: 
Increases to 15% (currently 5%) of a government-owned contractor-operated facility's annual budget, for facilities with annual budgets of less than $40 million, the amount of money from royalties or income earned during any fiscal year from a patent for a subject invention under a funding agreement that a nonprofit organization can keep for scientific research, development, and education consistent with the research and development mission and objectives of the facility.

action_date: 2006-12-09
text: 

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

 
Increases to 15% (currently 5%) of a government-owned contractor-operated facility's annual budget, for facilities with annual budgets of less than $40 million, the amount of money from royalties or income earned during any fiscal year from a patent for a subject invention under a funding agreement that a nonprofit organization can keep for scientific research, development, and education consistent with the research and development mission and objectives of the facility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-09
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2006-12-09
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2006-12-09
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR 12/8/2006 H9199-9200)
action_date: 2006-12-09
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR 12/8/2006 H9199-9200)
action_date: 2006-12-09
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6427.
action_date: 2006-12-09
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR 12/8/2006 H9199-9200)
action_date: 2006-12-09
text: Mr. Cannon moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Northern Border Travel Facilitation Act

Bill: 109-hr-6430
Sponsor: Rep. Manzullo, Donald A. [R-IL-16]
Introduced: 2006-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Canada
Citizenship
Driver licenses
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: 
Northern Border Travel Facilitation Act - Amends the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to direct the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security to establish a State Driver's License and Identification Card Enrollment Program to permit a U.S. or Canadian citizen who produces a U.S. or Canadian driver's license or identification card meeting requirements of this Act to enter the United States from Canada without providing any other documentation or evidence of citizenship. Requires Program implementation by December 31, 2009. Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, prior to such implementation, to permit a U.S. or Canadian citizen to enter the United States from Canada if the individual can demonstrate U.S. or Canadian citizenship.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to approve the Change In Scope Request submitted by Family HealthCare Network to the Bureau of Primary Health Care on December 8, 2005.

Bill: 109-hr-6431
Sponsor: Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-21]
Introduced: 2006-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
California
Department of Health and Human Services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Law
Surgery

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to approve the Change in Scope Request submitted to the Bureau of Primary Health Care on December 8, 2005, by Family HealthCare Network (requesting a change in the scope of a specific grant by adding surgical services for the Counties of Tulare and Kings, California).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in House