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To amend Public Law 107-153 to further encourage the negotiated settlement of tribal claims.

Bill: 109-hr-4292
Sponsor: Rep. Pombo, Richard W. [R-CA-11]
Introduced: 2005-11-10 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Indian claims
Law
Limitation of actions
Minorities

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: 
Amends specified federal law with respect to the negotiated settlement of tribal claims.
 
Extends from December 31, 1999, to December 31, 2005, the earliest date on which an Indian tribe shall be deemed to have received a certain reconciliation report for purposes of calculating the statute of limitations on claims against the United States for the mismanagement of tribal trust assets.
 
(The reconciliation report, required by the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994 (AITFMRA), is a report by the Secretary of the Interior to specified congressional committees identifying for each tribal trust fund account for which the Secretary is responsible a balance reconciled as of September 30, 1995. The stated intent of AITFMRA is to provide recipients of reconciliation reports with the opportunity to postpone the filing of claims, or to facilitate the voluntary dismissal of claims, to encourage settlement negotiations with the United States.)
 


action_date: 2005-12-06
text: 

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

 
Amends specified federal law with respect to the negotiated settlement of tribal claims.
 
Extends from December 31, 1999, to December 31, 2005, the earliest date on which an Indian tribe shall be deemed to have received a certain reconciliation report for purposes of calculating the statute of limitations on claims against the United States for the mismanagement of tribal trust assets.
 
(The reconciliation report, required by the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994 (AITFMRA), is a report by the Secretary of the Interior to specified congressional committees identifying for each tribal trust fund account for which the Secretary is responsible a balance reconciled as of September 30, 1995. The stated intent of AITFMRA is to provide recipients of reconciliation reports with the opportunity to postpone the filing of claims, or to facilitate the voluntary dismissal of claims, to encourage settlement negotiations with the United States.)
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-06
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 178.
action_date: 2005-12-06
text: Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 109-324.
action_date: 2005-12-06
text: Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 109-324.
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
Nursing Home Staffing Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4293
Sponsor: Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2005-11-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accreditation (Medical care)
Administrative procedure
Auditing
Business records
Commerce
Consumer education
Department of Health and Human Services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Hospital rates
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law
Medicaid
Medicare
Nurses
Nursing homes
Social Welfare
Surveys

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: 
Nursing Home Staffing Act of 2005 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate standards for minimum nurse staffing levels in nursing facilities receiving Medicare or Medicaid payments.
 
Reinstitutes (Boren amendment) payment methodology, providing for payment of Medicaid services through the use of rates determined pursuant to the criteria under state Medicaid plan requirements as in effect on August 1, 1997. Establishes safe harbor rates.
 
Provides a permanent 1.5% increase of the Medicaid federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for a state beginning with FY 2006.
 
Authorizes inclusion of: (1) financial accountability requirements in the survey and certification process with respect to facilities receiving Medicare or Medicaid payments; and (2) professionals trained in financial accounting and auditing in the multidisciplinary survey teams of professionals under Medicare and Medicaid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-11-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-11-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
Innocent Supplier Fairness Act

Bill: 109-hr-4296
Sponsor: Rep. Sodrel, Michael E. [R-IN-9]
Introduced: 2005-11-10 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy courts
Civil actions and liability
Collection of accounts
Debtor and creditor
District courts
Evidence (Law)
Law
Residence requirements

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: 
Innocent Supplier Fairness Act - Amends federal bankruptcy law to detail the elements of a special relationship that the trustee in bankruptcy must prove in order to rebut the presumption that the creditor or party in interest against whom recovery or avoidance is sought has carried the burden of proving the nonavoidability of a transfer.
 
Specifies such elements as: (1) the insider character of the creditor or the party in interest; (2) common ownership of the debtor and such creditor or such party; (3) common management of the debtor and creditor or party consisting of overlapping senior management or directors; (4) explicit notice from the debtor to such creditor or party that a petition filling is contemplated or imminent before the date of the transfer; or (5) the use by such creditor or party of judicial process, during the 90 days before the petition filing, against the debtor to collect a debt with respect to which a transfer may have been made.
 
 Amends the federal judicial code to require the trustee in bankruptcy to commence a proceeding to avoid preferences only in the district court for the district in which the defendant resides.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
To clarify the effective date of the modification of treatment for retirement annuity purposes of part-time service before April 7, 1986, of certain Department of Veterans Affairs health-care professionals.

Bill: 109-hr-4298
Sponsor: Rep. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2005-11-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Annuities
Civil service retirement
Dental care
Department of Veterans Affairs
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Labor and Employment
Nurses
Paramedical personnel
Part-time employment
Physicians' assistants
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Makes January 23, 2002, the effective date of the modification of treatment for retirement annuity purposes of part-time service performed before April 7, 1986, by certain health-care professionals of the Veterans Health Administration pursuant to the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Programs Enhancement Act of 2001.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
Choctaw Code Talkers Recognition Act

Bill: 109-hr-4299
Sponsor: Rep. Boren, Dan [D-OK-2]
Introduced: 2005-11-10 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Government Operations and Politics
History
Military communications
Minorities
Native Americans
World War I

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: 
Choctaw Code Talkers Recognition Act - Authorizes the President to present on behalf of Congress (where appropriate, posthumously) congressional gold medals honoring the Choctaw Code Talkers who distinguished themselves in performing a unique, highly successful communications operation that greatly assisted in saving countless lives and in hastening the end of World War I. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
Clean and Green Solar Tax Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4300
Sponsor: Rep. Ferguson, Mike [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2005-11-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Fuel cells
Income tax
Solar energy
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: 
Clean and Green Solar Tax Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2011: (1) the tax credit for residential energy efficient property; and (2) the investment tax credit for certain solar energy property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
BRAC Data Disclosure Act

Bill: 109-hr-4302
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Stephanie Tubbs [D-OH-11]
Introduced: 2005-11-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Military base closures

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: 
BRAC Data Disclosure Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense, in the event of any future round of military base realignments and closures, to make available to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission appointed in that round, and to the public in unclassified form, all of the military value data used by the Secretary to prepare recommendations for such realignments and closures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
Securing Equity for the Economic Development of Low Income Areas Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4303
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2005-11-10 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Authorization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Law
Manufacturing industries
Small Business Administration
Small business
Subsidies
Venture capital

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: 
Securing Equity for the Economic Development of Low Income Areas Act of 2005 - Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), in selecting companies to participate in the New Markets Venture Capital Program (Program), to select at least one company from each geographic region of the SBA. Requires (currently, authorizes) the Administrator to make grants to such companies to be used for loans to new-market small businesses, and to guarantee debentures issued by such companies.
 
Establishes the Office of New Markets Venture Capital, headed by a Director, to administer the Program.
 
Revises the definition of &quot;low income geographic area&quot; for Program eligibility purposes.
 
Requires a study by the SBA's Chief Counsel for Advocacy on the availability of equity capital in low-income urban and rural areas.
 
Authorizes operational assistance grants to conditionally approved companies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2334-2335)
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
To designate the Republic of Korea as a program country under the visa waiver program established under section 217 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Bill: 109-hr-4304
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2005-11-10 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Aliens
Passports
South Asia
South Korea
Tourism
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: 
Designates the Republic of Korea as a program country for purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act's visa waiver program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2324)
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide increased expensing for section 179 property in the Gulf Opportunity Zone.

Bill: 109-hr-4305
Sponsor: Rep. Musgrave, Marilyn N. [R-CO-4]
Introduced: 2005-11-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alabama
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Emergency Management
Floods
Florida
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Income tax
Louisiana
Mississippi
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue to increase the expensing allowance (i.e., a tax deduction in the current taxable year) for the cost of Gulf Opportunity Zone property placed in service in the Hurricane Katrina disaster area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
Foreign Operations Grant Sunshine Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4306
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2005-11-10 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Crime and Law Enforcement
Electronic government information
Forced labor
Freedom of information
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Human rights
Labor and Employment
Nongovernmental organizations
Prostitution
Science, Technology, Communications
Slavery
Web sites
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: 
Foreign Operations Grant Sunshine Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of State to make publicly available information related to certain funding provided to nongovernmental organizations by the Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
Illegal Border Crossers Reporting Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4307
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike D. [R-AL-3]
Introduced: 2005-11-10 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Criminal statistics
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Illegal aliens
Immigrant health
Imprisonment
Latin America
Medical statistics
Mexicans
Mexico
Prisoners

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: 
The Illegal Border Crossers Reporting Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to annually compile data on the following categories of information: (1) the number of unauthorized aliens who require medical care taken into custody by Border Patrol officials; (2) the number of unauthorized aliens with serious injuries or medical conditions Border Patrol officials refer to local hospitals or other health facilities; (3) the number of unauthorized aliens with serious injuries or medical conditions who arrive at U.S. ports of entry and subsequently are admitted into the United States for emergency medical care; (4) the number of unauthorized aliens described in clauses (2) and (3) who subsequently are taken into Department of Homeland Security (DHS) custody; and (5) a breakdown of the number of Mexicans and Other Than Mexicans described in clauses (1) through (3).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
Rural Veterans Services Outreach and Training Act

Bill: 109-hr-4309
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2005-11-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Counseling
County politics and government
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Labor and Employment
Local employees
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: 
Rural Veterans Services Outreach and Training Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a program to make competitive grants to provide financial assistance to state departments of veterans affairs for the training of rural county veteran service officers in order to improve outreach and assistance to veterans, as well as their spouses, children, and parents, who may be eligible to receive veterans' or veterans-related benefits and who are residing in rural counties. Limits each grant to $1 million. Requires grants to be made on an annual basis.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-11-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
To authorize and request the President to award the Medal of Honor to Richard Gresko, of Newtown, Pennsylvania, for acts of valor in the Republic of Vietnam on March 11-12, 1970, while serving as a lance corporal in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War.

Bill: 109-hr-4310
Sponsor: Rep. Fitzpatrick, Michael G. [R-PA-8]
Introduced: 2005-11-10 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Military medals, decorations, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: 
Authorizes and requests the President to award the Medal of Honor to Richard Gresko of Newtown, Pennsylvania, for acts of valor in the Republic of Vietnam on March 11-12, 1970, while serving as a lance corporal in the Marines during the Vietnam War.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Acts popularly known as the Duck Stamp Act and the Wetland Loan Act to reauthorize appropriations to promote the conservation of migratory waterfowl and to offset or prevent the serious loss of important wetlands and other waterfowl habitat essential to the preservation of such waterfowl, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-4315
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Mark R. [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2005-11-14 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Appropriations
Authorization
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Habitat conservation
Hunting
Land use
Landowners
Law
Licenses
Migratory bird conservation
Postage stamps
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Sports and Recreation
Water Resources Development
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: 
Amends the Wetland Loan Act to extend funding for conservation of migratory waterfowl and habitat.
 
Amends the Duck Stamp Act (the Act) to increase the price of federal migratory-bird hunting and conservation stamps, and to revise procedures for disposing of unsold stamps.
 
Provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to require a person to affix a stamp sold under such Act to any other license as a condition of engaging in hunting under the authority of the stamp.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the funds provided pursuant to this Act should be used for preserving and increasing waterfowl populations in accordance with the goals and objectives of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan, and to that end, should be used to supplement and not replace current conservation funding, including funding for other federal and state habitat conservation programs.
 
States the sense of Congress that this Act should be implemented in a manner that helps private landowners achieve their long-term land use objectives in ways that enhance the conservation of wetlands and wildlife habitat.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-11-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans.
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-14
text: Introduced in House