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Dual Gateway Policy Review Act

Bill: 109-hr-1497
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2005-04-06 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Airlines
Airports
Aviation agreements
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic impact statements
Economic research
Economics and Public Finance
Europe
Governmental investigations
Infrastructure
Ireland
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: 
Dual Gateway Policy Review Act - Directs the Secretary of State to: (1) review the Irish Government's dual gateway policy (which requires certain air carriers serving Dublin Airport to undertake equal numbers of flights annually to Shannon and Dublin airports), and determine the effects such policy's discontinuation might have on the economies of the United States and Western Ireland before taking any diplomatic action that could end such policy; and (2) consider the effects such discontinuation might have on U.S. businesses operating in Western Ireland and Irish businesses operating in and around Shannon Airport.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Investment Tax Simplification Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1500
Sponsor: Rep. Dreier, David [R-CA-26]
Introduced: 2005-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Congress
Corporation taxes
Income tax
Minimum tax
Sunset legislation
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: 
Investment Tax Simplification Act of 2005 - Makes permanent the reduction in individual capital gains tax rates enacted by the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the maximum capital gains tax rates for individuals and corporations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E534-535)
Powder-Crack Cocaine Penalty Equalization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1501
Sponsor: Rep. Bartlett, Roscoe G. [R-MD-6]
Introduced: 2005-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Cocaine
Crack (Drug)
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Smuggling

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Powder-Crack Cocaine Penalty Equalization Act of 2005 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to eliminate the disparity in sentencing between crack and powder cocaine, with regard to trafficking, possession, importation, and exportation of such substances, by changing the applicable amounts for powder cocaine to those currently applicable to crack cocaine.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Utah Test and Training Range Protection Act

Bill: 109-hr-1503
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Rob [R-UT-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Air routes
Airspace (Law)
Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Grazing
Housing and Community Development
Indian economic development
Indian lands
Land transfers
Land use
Law
Maps
Military aviation
Military communications
Military readiness
Military research
Military training
Minorities
Mountains
Native Americans
Planning
Right-of-way
Science, Technology, Communications
State government-Indian relations
State laws
Transportation and Public Works
Utah
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: 
Utah Test and Training Range Protection Act - States that nothing in this Act or the Wilderness Act shall: (1) preclude low-level overflights and operations of military aircraft, missiles, or unmanned aerial vehicles over the Utah Test and Training Range, including the Dugway Proving Ground; (2) preclude the designation of new or expansion of existing units of special use airspace or the use or establishment of military training routes over such area; (3) prevent any required maintenance of existing communications, instrumentation, or electronic tracking systems in the area or the addition of communications, instrumentation, or equipment necessary for effective testing and training upon specified determinations by the Secretary of the Interior; or (4) preclude the continuation of a current memorandum of understanding between the Departments of the Interior and Air Force with respect to emergency access and response within the area.
 
Directs the Secretary to develop, maintain, and revise land use plans for Federal lands located in the area, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense. Limits the issuance of rights-of-way in the area.
 
Designates certain Federal lands in Tooele County, Utah, as the Cedar Mountain Wilderness Area. Withdraws such lands from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws, including mining and mineral and geothermal leasing. Releases the Browns Springs Cherrystem area from its status as a wilderness study area.
 
Directs the Secretary to place certain Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in trust for the Skull Valley Band of Goshutes for the purposes of economic development of such tribe. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Youth Exchange Support Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1504
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Rob [R-UT-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational exchanges
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Foreign students
Households
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Secondary education
Students
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Youth Exchange Support Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase, from $50 to $200 per month, the tax deduction for the expenses of certain students living in a taxpayer's household; and (2) provide an inflation adjustment, beginning in 2006, for such amount.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8221-8222)
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Jessica Lunsford Act

Bill: 109-hr-1505
Sponsor: Rep. Brown-Waite, Ginny [R-FL-5]
Introduced: 2005-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child sexual abuse
Correctional personnel
Criminal justice information
Economics and Public Finance
Ex-offenders
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Fines (Penalties)
Geographic information systems
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Parole
Postal service
Probation
Recidivists
Science, Technology, Communications
Sex offenders
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: 
Jessica Lunsford Act - Amends the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act to direct that State procedures include a process under which the State mails a nonforwardable verification form at least twice a year to the last known address of the person required to register as a sexually violent offender, to be returned within ten days after receipt, with failure to return the form within the period allowed punishable in the same manner as a failure to register.
 
Requires a State prison officer, the court, or another responsible officer or official, if a person required to register is released from prison or placed on parole, supervised release, or probation, to: (1) notify the agency responsible for supervising the person that such person is required to register; and (2) provide that agency with the registration information relating to that person.
 
 Provides that a person required to register who has two or more convictions for failing to register or failing to keep such registration current shall, upon release from imprisonment, be required to wear a location-transmitting device (such as an anklet) at all times for not less than five years (ten years if the person is a sexually violent predator). Requires the State to frequently monitor the information transmitted.
 
Sets forth provisions regarding compliance dates and loss of Federal funding for failure to implement this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
No Child Left Behind Reform Act

Bill: 109-hr-1506
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2005-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Computer software
Computers
Continuing education
Data banks
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Educational technology
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Identification devices
Labor and Employment
Licenses
Rating of teachers
Recruiting of employees
School administration
School choice
School districts
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Special education
Student enrollment
Student records
Teacher education
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: 
No Child Left Behind Reform Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to allow states to include measures of individual or cohort growth over time in determining whether students are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward state academic performance standards. Eliminates the consideration of student attendance rates.
 
Allows schools to be given credit for performing well on measures other than test scores when calculating student achievement.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive: (1) grants to state educational agencies to develop or increase the capacity of data systems for accountability purposes; and (2) subgrants to increase the capacity of local educational agencies to upgrade, create, or manage information databases for the purpose of measuring AYP.
 
 Allows schools to target school choice and supplemental services to the students who are members of specified types of groups that fail to make AYP. Requires placement and service in the least restrictive environment for students who receive services under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act who use an option to transfer under ESEA.
 
Revises the definition of highly qualified teacher to authorize states to: (1) use a generalist exam for middle school teachers; and (2) issue certificates that qualify teachers to teach a number of subjects in social studies or in science.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
401(k) Automatic Enrollment Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1508
Sponsor: Rep. Emanuel, Rahm [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2005-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Annuities
Bonds
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil service retirement
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Defined contribution plans
Department of the Treasury
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employee ownership
Employee rights
Executive compensation
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Investments
Law
Local employees
Mutual funds
Nondiscrimination provisions
Pension funds
Real estate investment
Risk
School personnel
State employees
State laws
Stocks
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: 
401(k) Automatic Enrollment Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to permit 401(k) pension plans to include an automatic enrollment arrangement.
 
Preempts State laws that would preclude automatic enrollments or automatic rollovers in tax-exempt pension plans.
 
Limits the duties and liabilities of fiduciaries with respect to automatic rollovers of 401(k) pension plan assets.
 
Requires notice applicable to alternative methods of meeting nondiscrimination requirements for matching contributions to 401(k) plans semiannually (currently, annually).
 
Directs the Secretaries of the Treasury and of Labor to report jointly to Congress on low-cost individual retirement plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6179-6180)
action_date: 2005-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Recreational Boaters Streamlined Inspection Act

Bill: 109-hr-1509
Sponsor: Rep. Foley, Mark [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2005-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Boats and boating
Boundaries
Customs administration
Electronic government information
Florida
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Science, Technology, Communications
Sports and Recreation
Transportation and Public Works
Video telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: 
Recreational Boaters Streamlined Inspection Act - Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish an inspection program that uses a videophone system at specified points of entry in Florida through which: (1) a master of a recreational vessel may report to an appropriate official of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for purposes of the Tariff Act of 1930; and (2) a master and the passengers of such a vessel may report to an appropriate DHS official to satisfy requirements for lawful entry into the United States under immigration laws.
 
Requires the program to be used only in a case in which the master of, and each passenger on, a recreational vessel is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident. 
 
 
Provides that the program shall not affect the Secretary's authority to require such individual to wait for a customs inspection or to report the arrival of the vessel to the nearest customs facility or such other place as the Secretary may prescribe by regulations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Realistic Roofing Tax Treatment Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1510
Sponsor: Rep. Foley, Mark [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2005-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Building construction
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: 
Realistic Roofing Tax Treatment Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to classify any roof system as 20-year property for depreciation purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 5-year extension of the credit for electricity produced from wind.

Bill: 109-hr-1511
Sponsor: Rep. Foley, Mark [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2005-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Electric power production
Energy
Income tax
Tax credits
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend until January 1, 2011, the tax credit for electricity produced from a qualified wind facility.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Taunton, Massachusetts Special Resources Study Act

Bill: 109-hr-1512
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2005-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Architecture
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural property
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Landscape protection
Massachusetts
National parks
Nature conservation
Outdoor recreation
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Taunton, Massachusetts Special Resources Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study regarding the suitability and feasibility of designating certain historic buildings and areas in Taunton, Massachusetts, as a unit of the National Park System.
action_date: 2005-06-27
text: 
Taunton, Massachusetts Special Resources Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study and report findings, conclusions, and recommendations to specified congressional committees regarding the suitability and feasibility of designating certain historic buildings and areas in Taunton, Massachusetts, as a unit of the National Park System (NPS). 
 
Requires recommendations in the report to include discussion and consideration of the concerns expressed by private landowners with respect to designating the structures referred to in this Act as a NPS unit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-28
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-06-27
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-06-27
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5206)
action_date: 2005-06-27
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H5206)
action_date: 2005-06-27
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1512.
action_date: 2005-06-27
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5206-5207)
action_date: 2005-06-27
text: Mr. Pearce moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
To exempt from the Freedom of Information Act certain photographic images of deceased persons that are taken by or for medical examiners.

Bill: 109-hr-1513
Sponsor: Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2005-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Autopsy
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Death
Freedom of information
Health
Photography
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Video tape recording

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Makes the Freedom of Information Act inapplicable to copies, reproductions, or facsimiles of any photograph, negative, or print, including instant photographs and videotapes, of the body, or any part of the body, of a deceased person, taken by or for a medical examiner at the scene of the person's death or in the course of a post mortem examination or autopsy of the person made by or caused to be made by a medical examiner.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Farmland Protection Program Challenge Grant Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1514
Sponsor: Rep. Gerlach, Jim [R-PA-6]
Introduced: 2005-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Conservation easements
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Farm lands
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Land transfers
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: 
Farmland Protection Program Challenge Grant Act of 2005 - Amends the Farm Security Act of 1985 to obligate at least 15 percent of farmland protection funds for cost-share grants (25 percent maximum Federal share) to support eligible State agencies, county, and one or more eligible entities to purchase conservation easements whose title shall be held by the entity rather than the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Introduced in House