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Mathematics and Science Teaching Corps Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5871
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2006-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: College costs
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Engineering
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Graduate education
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Mathematics
Mentoring
Overhead costs
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Teacher salaries
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers
Teaching
Technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: 
Mathematics and Science Teaching Corps Act of 2006 - Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to create a Math and Science Teaching Corps to significantly improve mathematics and science achievement among secondary school students. 
 
Requires the Director of the Corps to carry out a program that awards: (1) Math and Science Teaching Corps Fellowships for Prospective Teachers (MSTC Fellowships) to teachers possessing comprehensive subject area knowledge; (2) grants to partner institutions to pay the tuition, fees, and overhead costs of the fellows; and (3) grants to participating local educational agencies to pay the expenses associated with facilitating the induction and professional development services for the fellows.
 
Requires MSTC Fellowship recipients to: (1) receive specified pedagogical training; (2) teach mathematics or science, for a specified stipend, in a public secondary school for four years, and participate in induction and professional development programs; (3) participate in additional weekend or summer professional development activities in their first two years of teaching; and (4) receive mentoring training in their third year of teaching, and provide mentoring in their fourth year.
 
Requires the Director to carry out a program that awards Math and Science Teaching Corps Fellowships for Experienced Teachers (MSTC Master Fellowships). Requires an MSTC Master Fellowship recipient to: (1) continue to teach mathematics or science, for a specified stipend, in a secondary school of a participating agency for at least five of the seven years after receiving such fellowship; (2) serve as a leader and mentor within the individual's department and school; and (3) attend subject or pedagogy workshops offered by the participating local educational agency.
 
Requires that at least 30% of the recipients in each category of fellowship teach at hard-to-staff schools. Provides bonus stipends to such recipients.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to remove the reimbursement requirement for evacuation as a result of war, civil unrest, or natural disaster.

Bill: 109-hr-5873
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2006-07-24 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Americans in foreign countries
Armed Forces and National Security
Collection of accounts
Disasters
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Evacuation of civilians
Immigration
Repatriation
Riots
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
War

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: 
Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to remove the reimbursement requirement for evacuation as a result of war, civil unrest, or natural disaster. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Iraq War Powers Repeal Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5875
Sponsor: Rep. Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6]
Introduced: 2006-07-25 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Government Operations and Politics
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military occupation
Military operations
President and foreign policy
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
United Nations
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: 
Iraq War Powers Repeal Act of 2006 - Declares that it is U.S. policy to end the occupation of Iraq. 
 
Repeals the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6899-6900)
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6622-6623, H6627)
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6009)
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5822)
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 49, United States Code, relating to nonallowable airport development project costs.

Bill: 109-hr-5876
Sponsor: Rep. Mica, John L. [R-FL-7]
Introduced: 2006-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Airline passenger traffic
Airports
Commercial aircraft
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Infrastructure

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: 
Amends federal transportation law to include as a nonallowable airport development project cost and not eligible for federal airport development funds any project cost for the construction, alteration, or repair of a runway, taxiway, or any part of an airport building that would result in such facility being able to accommodate an aircraft that has a maximum passenger capacity of at least 800 seats or a maximum take-off weight of one million pounds or greater and is used to provide air transportation or intrastate air transportation to passengers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Minority Entrepreneurship and Innovation Pilot Program of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5878
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2006-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Black colleges
Business education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Entrepreneurs
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to education
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign trade promotion
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Indian education
Management
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Minority education
Science, Technology, Communications
Service industries
Small business
Social Welfare
Strategic planning
Technology transfer

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: 
Minority Entrepreneurship and Innovation Pilot Program of 2006 - Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to make grants to historically Black colleges and universities, Tribal Colleges, and Hispanic serving institutions, or to any entity formed by a combination of such institutions: (1) to assist in establishing an entrepreneurship curriculum for undergraduate or graduate studies; and (2) for the placement of small business development centers on the physical campus of the institution.

Requires an institution of higher education receiving a grant to: (1) develop a curriculum that includes training in various skill sets needed by successful entrepreneurs; and (2) open a small business development center. 
 
Limits this pilot program to two fiscal years, and a grant to $1 million per fiscal year for any one institution of higher education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2006-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2006-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2006-07-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1529)
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
To terminate the limitations on imports of ammonium nitrate from the Russian Federation.

Bill: 109-hr-5879
Sponsor: Rep. Berry, Marion [D-AR-1]
Introduced: 2006-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Ammonia
Countervailing duties
Dumping
Fertilizers
Import restrictions
Imports
International Affairs
Nitrates
Nitrogen compounds
Russia
Trade agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: 
Declares that no limitations contained in the Agreement Suspending the Antidumping Investigation on Solid Fertilizer Grade Ammonium Nitrate shall be imposed with respect to entry of any solid fertilizer grade ammonium nitrate imported from the Russian Federation.
 
States that no antidumping duty deposit shall be required upon entry of such a product, nor shall any antidumping duty be assessed on it.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
To suspend the antidumping duty orders on imports of solid urea from Russia and Ukraine.

Bill: 109-hr-5880
Sponsor: Rep. Berry, Marion [D-AR-1]
Introduced: 2006-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Countervailing duties
Dumping
Europe
Fertilizers
Imports
Russia
Ukraine

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: 
Suspends the antidumping duty orders on imports of solid urea from Russia and Ukraine. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Disabled Veterans Tax Termination Act

Bill: 109-hr-5881
Sponsor: Rep. Marshall, Jim [D-GA-3]
Introduced: 2006-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Labor and Employment
Military pensions
Retired military personnel
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: 
Disabled Veterans Tax Termination Act - Amends federal military retired pay provisions to: (1) permit veterans with a service-connected disability of less than 50% to claim both retired pay and disability compensation; (2) eliminate provisions requiring a phase in between January 1, 2004, and December 31, 2013, of concurrent receipt of retired pay and disability compensation; (3) eliminate the four-year phase in of concurrent receipt of retired pay and disability compensation for disabled veterans determined to be individually unemployable; (4) permit certain veterans with combat-related disabilities (Chapter 61 retirees) to claim both retired pay and disability compensation; and (5) extend combat-related special compensation to certain veterans with less than 20 years of service who have a combat-related disability (TERA retirees).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2006-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2006-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to increase the minimum Federal medical assistance percentage under the Medicaid Program for States to 53 percent.

Bill: 109-hr-5882
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2006-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Medicaid
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Secuirty Act to increase the minimum federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) under the Medicaid program for states from 50% to 53%.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Drake Well Sesquicentennial Commemoration Act

Bill: 109-hr-5883
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, John E. [R-PA-5]
Introduced: 2006-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Anniversaries
Auditing
Coins and coinage
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Emblems
Energy
Energy development
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
History
International Affairs
International cooperation
Law
Licenses
Oil well drilling
Pennsylvania
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Postage stamps
Signs and symbols

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: 
 Drake Well Sesquicentennial Commemoration Act - Establishes the Drake Well Sesquicentennial Commission to: (1) represent the United States and take a leadership role with other nations in recognizing the importance of petroleum industry history and the Drake Well discovery; and (2) perform specified related activities.
 

 
Establishes a Drake Well Sesquicentennial Federal Advisory Board.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to extend the date for making a gift tax qualified terminable interest property election.

Bill: 109-hr-5884
Sponsor: Rep. Ramstad, Jim [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2006-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of the Treasury
Estates (Law)
Families
Gift tax
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Married people
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to issue regulations for granting extensions to taxpayers for making a gift tax qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Eightmile Wild and Scenic River Act

Bill: 109-hr-5885
Sponsor: Rep. Simmons, Rob [R-CT-2]
Introduced: 2006-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Connecticut
Water Resources Development
Watersheds
Wild rivers

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: 
Eightmile Wild and Scenic River Act - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate as a component of the national wild and scenic rivers system certain segments of the main stem and specified tributaries of the Eightmile River, Connecticut.
 
Declares that: (1) such segments shall be managed in accordance with the Eightmile River Watershed Management Plan; (2) the Eightmile River shall neither be administered as part of the National Park System, nor be subject to related regulations; (3) provisions of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act that prohibit federal acquisition of lands by condemnation shall apply to the Eightmile River; and (4) specified tributaries of the Eightmile River watershed are recognized as integral to its protection and enhancement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-31
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans.
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Vaccine Safety and Public Confidence Assurance Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5887
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Dave [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2006-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Clinical trials
Communication in medicine
Communication in science
Conflict of interests
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health information systems
Health surveys
Medical records
Peer review organizations (Medicine)
Pharmaceutical research
Research and development
Research grants
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Toxicology
Vaccination
Vaccines

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: 
Vaccine Safety and Public Confidence Assurance Act of 2006 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the Agency for Vaccine Safety Evaluation in the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Requires the Director for Vaccine Safety Evaluation to: (1) conduct or support safety research and monitor licensed vaccines; (2) develop a vaccine safety research agenda; (3) evaluate means to promote compliance with federal adverse reaction reporting requirements; (4) provide a clearinghouse for vaccine studies; (5) ensure that functions relating to vaccine monitoring or research on adverse reactions are not carried out by anyone with a conflict of interest; (6) oversee the Vaccine Safety Datalink Project; and (7) resolve U.S. conflicts of interest related to international agreements, partnerships, and activities.
 
Allows the Director to establish a program of awarding fellowships for research on vaccine safety.
 
Requires the Commissioner of Food and Drugs to provide the Director, upon request, with complete access to all vaccine-related information submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by vaccine manufacturers.
 
Requires the Director to require vaccine manufacturers to: (1) provide for postmarketing surveillance and clinical testing for any acute or chronic adverse reactions associated with the vaccine; and (2) register in a qualified public registry each clinical trial conducted or supported by the manufacturer with respect to the vaccine.
 
Transfers to the Agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responsibilities for the Vaccine Safety Datalink Project, the Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment Centers, or any other post-licensure vaccine safety monitoring activities.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish an advisory council in the Agency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Helping Families Adopt Orphans Act

Bill: 109-hr-5888
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Heather [R-NM-1]
Introduced: 2006-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative remedies
Adoption
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Immigrants
Law
Orphans

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: 
Helping Families Adopt Orphans Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to ensure that any &quot;covered individual&quot; (an individual whose Application for Advanced Processing of Orphan Petition was approved on or after January 1, 2005) may file a Petition to Classify Orphan as an Immediate Relative for at least two years after the approval of the individual's application.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from requiring: (1) a covered individual who files a timely petition to pay any fees or complete any requirements already paid or completed in conjunction with the application or contingent on the amount of time that elapses between the application's approval and the petition's filing; and (2) any person who was a covered individual on this Act's enactment date from paying any fee for the timely filing of a petition unless that fee was required at the time the application was approved.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Great Lakes Short Sea Shipping Enhancement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5889
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Stephanie Tubbs [D-OH-11]
Introduced: 2006-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Excise tax
Freight
Great Lakes
Harbors
Marine terminals
St. Lawrence Seaway
Transportation and Public Works
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-26
text: 
Great Lakes Short Sea Shipping Enhancement Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the harbor maintenance tax commercial cargo (other than bulk cargo) loaded or unloaded at U.S. ports in the Great Lakes Saint Lawrence Seaway System. Defines the &quot;Great Lakes Saint Lawrence Seaway System&quot; as the waterway between Duluth, Minnesota and Sept. Iles, Quebec, Canada, encompassing the five Great Lakes, their connecting channels, and the Saint Lawrence River. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-26
text: Introduced in House