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Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 109-s-2037
Sponsor: Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]
Introduced: 2005-11-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Arts, Culture, Religion
Auditing
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Colorado
Commemorations
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Exhibitions
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Hispanic Americans
Historic sites
History
Indian lands
Land use
Landowners
Landscape protection
Maps
Minorities
Mountains
National forests
National parks
Native Americans
Natural areas
Nonprofit organizations
Planning
Public meetings
Public-private partnerships
Recreation areas
Right of property
Signs and signboards
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
State parks
West (U.S.)
Wilderness areas
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: 
Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area in Colorado. Designates the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area Board of Directors as the management entity for the Heritage Area. Requires the Board to prepare and submit a management plan for the Heritage Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-663.
action_date: 2005-12-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13653)
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to restore the original deadline for mandatory country of origin.

Bill: 109-s-2038
Sponsor: Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]
Introduced: 2005-11-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agriculture in foreign trade
Animals
Aquaculture
Commerce
Fishes
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Imports
Labeling
Marketing of farm produce
Meat
Peanuts
Seafood
Sheep
Swine

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: 
Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to change the country of origin labeling implementation date to September 30, 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2039
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-11-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Education
Higher education
Legal education
Public defenders
Public prosecutors
Scholarships
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: 
Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act of 2005 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to direct the Attorney General to assume the obligation to repay student loans for borrowers who agree to remain employed, for at least three years, as: (1) state or local criminal prosecutors; or (2) state, local, or federal public defenders in criminal cases. Allows a borrower and the Attorney General to enter into an additional loan repayment agreement, after the required three-year period, for a successive period of service which may be less than three years. Limits the amount paid under such program on behalf of any borrower to $10,000 per calendar year and $60,000 total. 
 

action_date: 2006-05-25
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act of 2005 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to direct the Attorney General to establish a loan repayment program for student loan borrowers who agree in writing to remain employed as state or local criminal prosecutors or federal, state, or local public defenders for not less than three years.
 
 Requires borrowers who are involuntarily separated from employment due to misconduct or who voluntarily leave employment before the required three-year period to repay any benefits received under this Act. 
 
Limits the amount of loans which may be repaid to $10,000 for any borrower in any calendar year, or an aggregate total of $60,000 for any borrower.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to enter into an additional loan repayment agreement with a borrower to remain employed as a prosecutor or public defender for a period of less than three years. 
 
Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 451.
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Specter without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Specter without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13165-13166)
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13163-13165)
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Department of Homeland Security Qualified Leaders Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2040
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2005-11-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Congress
Department of Homeland Security
Emergency Management
Employee selection
Federal officials
Leadership
Management
Personnel management
Presidential appointments

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: 
Department of Homeland Security Qualified Leaders Act of 2005 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to specifiy additional general qualifications of certain senior officers of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to ensure that DHS is led by qualified, experienced personnel.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that individuals nominated by the President for the positions of Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security should possess significant management experience and expertise in a relevant field because of the significant level of responsibility entrusted to these individuals. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-27
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce,  and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13167)
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13166-13167)
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Introduced in Senate
POPs, LRTAP POPs, and PIC Implementation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2042
Sponsor: Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA]
Introduced: 2005-11-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Agriculture in foreign trade
Air pollution control
Bioaccumulation
Business records
Commerce
Cost effectiveness
Department of the Treasury
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental health
Environmental monitoring
Export controls
Exports
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health
Import restrictions
Imports
International Affairs
International agencies
International environmental cooperation
Labeling
Law
Pesticide pollution
Pesticide regulation
Pesticides
Pollution control
Polychlorinated biphenyls
Risk
Toxicology
Trade agreements
Transboundary pollution

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: 
POPS, LRTAP POPS, and PIC Implementation Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to provide for the implementation of three international environmental agreements: (1) the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (Pops Convention); (2) the Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP Pops Protocol); and (3) the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade (PIC Convention).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13168)
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Mass Evacuation Exercise Assistance Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2043
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-11-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Animals
Congregate housing
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Disabled
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency housing
Employee training
Evacuation of civilians
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Group homes
Health
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Labor and Employment
Nonprofit organizations
Nursing homes
Pets
Planning
Protection of animals
Self-help devices for the disabled
Social Welfare
Suburbs
Transportation and the aged
Transportation and the disabled
Urban affairs
Urban areas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: 
Mass Evacuation Exercise Assistance Act of 2005 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to provide for grants for mass evacuation exercises for urban and suburban areas and for the execution of emergency response plans. Requires each state or local government receiving such a grant to develop detailed and comprehensive mass evacuation plans for each area in its respective jurisdiction. Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to assist states and local governments in developing and maintaining such plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6)
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13172-13173)
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to resolve inequities in existing law by reducing the residency requirement for the naturalization of aliens with extraordinary ability so that such aliens may represent the United States at international events.

Bill: 109-s-2044
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2005-11-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative remedies
Conferences
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Immigrants
Law
Naturalization
Residence requirements
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to the naturalization of aliens with extraordinary ability so that such aliens may represent the United States at international events to provide for: (1) a reduced (three year) residency requirement; and (2) expedited adjudication (including an additional processing fee) of such application.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Care for Hybrids Act

Bill: 109-s-2045
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-11-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Accounting
Alternative energy sources
Automobile industry
Commerce
Commercialization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer discounts
Corporation taxes
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Transportation
Department of the Treasury
Diesel motor
Electric vehicles
Employee health benefits
Energy efficiency
Executive reorganization
Finance and Financial Sector
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Income tax
Interest
Labor and Employment
Loans
Natural gas vehicles
Profit
Research and development
Retiree health benefits
Science, Technology, Communications
Subsidies
Tax deductions
Tax evasion
Tax penalties
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: 
Health Care for Hybrids Act - Requires the Secretaries of Energy, Health and Human Services, Transportation, and the Treasury to establish a task force to create a program to provide financial assistance to certain domestic automobile manufacturers for the annual health care coverage costs of their retired employees. Limits the amount of such assistance to 10% of the manufacturer's annual retiree health care costs. Requires such manufacturers to invest at least 50% of their health care cost savings in petroleum fuel reduction technologies, including alternative or flexible fuel vehicles and hybrids, and in the retraining of workers and retooling of manufacturing plants. Terminates such program on December 31, 2015. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) define economic substance for purposes of evaluating tax shelter transactions; (2) impose penalties for understatements of tax liability resulting from transactions lacking in economic substance; and (3) deny a tax deduction for interest assessed on underpayments of tax resulting from transactions lacking in economic substance. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Introduced in Senate
National Methamphetamine Information Clearinghouse Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2046
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2005-11-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drug law enforcement
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health
Internet
Labor and Employment
Methamphetamine
Police training
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Telephone
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: 
National Methamphetamine Information Clearinghouse Act of 2005 - Establishes: (1) the National Methamphetamine Information Clearinghouse, under the supervision of the Attorney General, to promote sharing information regarding successful law enforcement, treatment, environmental, social services, and other programs related to the production, use, or effects of methamphetamine and grants available for such programs; and (2) the National Methamphetamine Advisory Council.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13174)
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13173-13174)
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Healthy Communities Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2047
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-11-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Chemicals
Chronically ill
Commerce
Community health services
Community organization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Demography
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Employee training
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Environmental justice
Environmental law enforcement
Environmental monitoring
Environmental research
Environmentally induced diseases
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Hazardous wastes
Health planning
Health surveys
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Medical education
Medical research
Medical statistics
Minorities
Minority health
Preventive medicine
Public health personnel
Public-private partnerships
Science, Technology, Communications
Soil pollution
Strategic planning

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: 
Healthy Communities Act of 2005 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the Advisory Committee on Environmental Health to review environmental health data and studies to: (1) assess the impact of federal laws, policies, and practices on environmental health and justice; and (2) identify and recommend ways to change or ensure compliance with federal laws, address gaps in federal environmental health research, and prevent or mitigate harm from federal policies, programs, and practices that may adversely affect environmental health or justice.
 
Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to prepare a biennial Environmental Health Report Card for the nation and for each state.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish the Health Action Zone Program to award grants to at-risk communities for comprehensive environmental health improvement activities; and (2) expand and intensify environmental health research.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director, to provide grants and technical assistance to enable states to develop or expand activities related to biomonitoring of exposure to environmental toxicants and pollutants. Requires the Secretary to: (1) promote translation and dissemination of findings; and (2) incorporate the data collected under this Act with existing data collection efforts.
 
Requires the Director to expand training and educational activities relating to environmental health and justice for health professionals and public health practitioners. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13174-13175, S13175)
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Lead Free Toys Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2048
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-11-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child safety
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Consumer protection
Electronics
Environmental Protection
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Lead
Product safety
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Toys

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: 
Lead Free Toys Act of 2005 - Directs the Consumer Product Safety Commission to prescribe regulations classifying any children's product containing lead to be a banned hazardous substance within the meaning of the Hazardous Substances Act.
 
Requires the Commission, if it determines that it is not feasible for certain electronic devices to comply with such regulations as of the effective date, to: (1) issue standards to reduce the exposure of and accessibility to lead in such electronic devices; and (2) establish a schedule by which such electronic devices must be in full compliance with the regulations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13175)
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Introduced in Senate
National Inland Waters Policy Commission Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2050
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2005-11-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Aquatic ecology
Aquifers
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Droughts
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental research
Estuaries
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Fishery management
Freshwater resources conservation
Government Operations and Politics
Great Lakes
Habitat conservation
Hydroelectric power
Infrastructure
Inland water transportation
Irrigation
Lakes
Legislation
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Potable water
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Rivers
Saline waters
Science, Technology, Communications
Transportation and Public Works
Waste water treatment
Water pollution control
Water supply
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: 
National Inland Waters Policy Commission Act of 2005 - Establishes the Commission on Inland Waters Policy to: (1) make recommendations for a coordinated national inland waters policy; and (2) study and report to specified congressional committees on all matters relating to inland waters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13181)
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend eligibility for certain Federal benefits to citizens of the Freely Associated States.

Bill: 109-s-2051
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2005-11-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Aid to dependent children
Aliens
Cash welfare block grants
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Food stamps
Health
Immigration
Marshall Islands
Medicaid
Micronesia
Palau Islands
Supplemental security income program
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: 
Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to extend to citizens of the Freely Associated States (Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau) who reside in the United States eligibility for non-emergency food stamps and benefits under titles XIX (Medicaid), XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) , and part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13182-13183)
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13181-13182)
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Agricultural Business Security Tax Credit Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2052
Sponsor: Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS]
Introduced: 2005-11-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural chemicals
Agriculture and Food
Chemical industries
Commerce
Computer security measures
Costs
Employee training
Environmental Protection
Fertilizers
Income tax
Industrial buildings
Labor and Employment
Lighting
Pesticides
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Tax credits
Video tape recording

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: 
Agricultural Business Security Tax Credit Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a retailer of agricultural products and chemicals or a manufacturer, formulator, or distributor of certain pesticides a business tax credit for 30 percent of costs for or related to the protection of such chemicals or pesticides, including employee security training and background checks, installation of security equipment, and computer network safeguards. Sets a $2 million annual limit on such credit and a per facility limitation of $100,000 (reduced by credits received for the five prior taxable years). Terminates such credit after 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Introduced in Senate