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Military Surviving Spouses Equity Act

Bill: 109-hr-808
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2005-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Annuities
Collection of accounts
Families
Labor and Employment
Married people
Military pay
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Military Surviving Spouses Equity Act - Repeals, as of the later of October 1, 2005, or the date of enactment of this Act, certain provisions which require the offset of amounts paid in dependency and indemnity compensation from Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuities for the surviving spouses of former military personnel who are entitled to military pay or who would be entitled to retired pay except for being under 60 years of age. 
Provides for the recoupment of certain amounts previously paid to SBP recipients in the form of a retired pay refund.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
To make permanent the individual income tax rates for capital gains and dividends.

Bill: 109-hr-809
Sponsor: Rep. Cantor, Eric [R-VA-7]
Introduced: 2005-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Congress
Dividends
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Sunset legislation
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: 
Amends the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 to make the reductions in capital gains rates permanent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Soda Ash Royalty Reduction Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-811
Sponsor: Rep. Cubin, Barbara [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Feedstock
Governmental investigations
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Mining leases
Mining royalties

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: 
Soda Ash Royalty Reduction Act of 2005 - Sets, for a five-year period, the royalty rate on the quantity or gross value of the output of sodium compounds and related products at the point of shipment to market from Federal land at two percent.
 
 Directs the Secretary of the Interior to report to Congress, after four years, on the effects of such royalty reduction, including: (1) the amount of sodium compounds and related products at the point of shipment to market from Federal land during such four-year period; (2) the number of jobs that have been created or maintained during the royalty reduction period; (3) the total amount of royalty paid to the United States on the quantity or gross value of the output of sodium compounds and related products at the point of shipment to market produced during that four-year period, and the portion of such royalty paid to States; and (4) a recommendation of whether the reduced royalty rate should apply after the end of the five-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Dawson Family Community Protection Act

Bill: 109-hr-812
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2005-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Citizen participation
Crime prevention
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Informers
Law
Science, Technology, Communications
Telephone
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: 
Dawson Family Community Protection Act - Amends the Office of National Drug Control Policy Act Reauthorization Act of 1998 to require the Director of National Drug Control Policy to ensure that at least $5 million of amounts appropriated for a fiscal year for the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program is used in high intensity drug trafficking areas with severe neighborhood safety and illegal drug distribution problems to: (1) ensure the safety of neighborhoods and the protection of communities, including the prevention of intimidation of potential witnesses; and (2) combat illegal drug trafficking through methods the Director considers appropriate, such as establishing or operating a toll-free telephone hotline for the public to provide information about illegal drug-related activities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2005-02-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H604)
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the automatic acquisition of citizenship by certain individuals born in Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Kampuchea, or Thailand.

Bill: 109-hr-814
Sponsor: Rep. Evans, Lane [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2005-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Asian American ethnic groups
Cambodia
Citizenship
East Asia
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Immigrants
Laos
North Korea
Residence requirements
South Korea
Thailand
Vietnam

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to confer automatic citizenship on aliens residing in the United States in lawful permanent resident status pursuant to a classification petition approved under a provision that gives preferential treatment to persons born in Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Kampuchea, or Thailand after 1950 and before October 22, 1982, who were fathered by U.S. citizens.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Financial Customer Identification Verification Improvement Act

Bill: 109-hr-815
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2005-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts
Embassies
Financial institutions
Identification devices
Latin America
Mexico
Passports

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: 
Financial Customer Identification Verification Improvement Act - Amends Federal law governing monetary transactions to prohibit a financial institution from accepting any form of identification issued by a foreign government, other than a passport, for use in verifying the identity of a person in connection with the opening of an account, including a matricula consular issued in the United States by a duly authorized consular officer of the Government of Mexico.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-817
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Mark [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2005-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Advertising
Animals
Birds
Commerce
Dogs
Evidence (Law)
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Gambling
Government Operations and Politics
Interstate commerce
Law
Postal service
Protection of animals
Sports and Recreation
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: 
Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit: (1) sponsoring or exhibiting a bird in a fighting venture in a State where it would not otherwise be in violation of the law, only if the person knew that any bird in the venture was knowingly bought, sold, delivered, transported, or received in interstate or foreign commerce for such purpose; or (2) knowingly sponsoring or exhibiting in an animal fighting venture any other animal that was moved in interstate or foreign commerce.
 
Prohibits knowingly: (1) selling, buying, transporting, delivering, or receiving, for purposes of transportation in interstate or foreign commerce, any dog or other animal to participate in an animal fighting venture; (2) using interstate mail service for commercial speech promoting an animal fighting venture except as performed outside the limits of the States (with an exception for bird fights in States whose laws allow them); or (3) selling, buying, transporting, or delivering in interstate or foreign commerce a knife, gaff, or other sharp instrument to be attached to the leg of a bird for use in an animal fighting venture.
 
Increases the penalties to a fine and up to two years' imprisonment for violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Federal Acupuncture Coverage Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-818
Sponsor: Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22]
Introduced: 2005-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Acupuncture
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Medical fees
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: 
Federal Acupuncture Coverage Act of 2005 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act and Federal civil service law relating to the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program to cover qualified acupuncturist services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Government Reform, 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: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Government Reform, 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: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Government Reform, 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: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Government Reform, 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: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Retirement Security for Life Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-819
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Nancy L. [R-CT-5]
Introduced: 2005-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Labor and Employment
Life insurance
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: 
Retirement Security for Life Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an exclusion from gross income for 50 percent of the amount otherwise includible in gross income as guaranteed payments from certain annuity or life insurance contracts. Limits the amount of such exclusion to $20,000 in any taxable year. Provides for an inflation adjustment of the $20,000 limitation beginning in 2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reauthorize the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program.

Bill: 109-hr-820
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2005-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Boundaries
Canada
Compensation (Law)
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Illegal aliens
Imprisonment
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Latin America
Law
Mexico

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require the Secretary of Homeland Security, in carrying out the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP), to give priority to compensating States and political subdivisions of States: (1) located on the U.S. border with Canada or Mexico; or (2) having one of the fifth largest populations of unauthorized aliens.
 
Reauthorizes appropriations for the SCAAP through FY 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the requirement for reports from the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on the disposition of cases recommended to the Secretary for equitable relief due to administrative error.

Bill: 109-hr-821
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2005-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Claims
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Families
Labor and Employment
Law
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: 
Extends through 2009 (currently 2004) the requirement for reports from the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to Congress concerning the disposition of veterans' benefits cases recommended to the Secretary for equitable relief after such benefits were not provided by reason of administrative error on the part of the Federal Government. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E929)
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Keeping Families Together Act

Bill: 109-hr-823
Sponsor: Rep. Ramstad, Jim [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2005-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Academic performance
Case management
Child health
Child welfare
Community health services
Continuing education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal statistics
Custody of children
Data banks
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Family courts
Family services
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to child health services
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government statistics
Group homes
Health
Health insurance
Health planning
Home care services
Housing and Community Development
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Law
Medicaid
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Mental health services
Patient satisfaction
Performance measurement
Poor children
Preventive medicine
Problem children
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
State finance
State laws
Welfare waivers
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: 
Keeping Families Together Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to award competitive matching grants to States to establish systems of care to treat and provide services to all children who are in the custody of the State or at-risk of entering into the custody of the State for the purpose of receiving mental health services. 
 
Requires State to use grant funds for certain activities, including to: (1) expand public health insurance programs to cover community-based mental health and family support services for such children and their families that will be sustainable after the grant has expired; (2) provide outreach and public education concerning available programs and activities; and (3) provide training and professional development for personnel who work with such children.
 
Requires the Administrator to establish a task force to examine: (1) problems of mental health in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems; (2) issues with respect to access by children and youth to mental health services; and (3) the role of Federal agencies in promoting access by children and youth to mental health services. 
 
Amends Title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to permit the use of the Medicaid home and community-based services waiver to provide mental health services to children as an alternative to care in inpatient psychiatric hospitals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
To award a congressional gold medal to Ray Charles in recognition of his many contributions to the Nation.

Bill: 109-hr-824
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2005-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Entertainers
Music

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: 
Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, to the personal representative of Ray Charles, a gold medal in recognition of Ray Charles' many contributions to the Nation as one of America's greatest and most influential musical artists. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E733)
action_date: 2005-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Gold Restitution Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-825
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2005-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Development credit institutions
Foreign exchange
Gold
International monetary system
Oceania
Papua New Guinea
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: 
Gold Restitution Act of 2005 - Amends the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to prohibit any U.S. director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) voting for a proposal to sell or otherwise convert or liquidate gold unless certain conditions are met.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the appropriation of funds to be used to recruit, hire, and train 100,000 new classroom paraprofessionals in order to improve educational achievement for children.

Bill: 109-hr-826
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2005-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Bilingualism
Continuing education
Disabled
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Higher education
Immigration
Labor and Employment
Migrant education
Paraprofessional school personnel
Parent-school relationships
Recruiting of employees
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Education to allot funds to States for distribution to local educational agencies (LEAs) to recruit, hire, and train 100,000 new classroom paraprofessionals in order to improve educational achievement for children. 
 
Requires that 80 percent of a State's allotment be allocated to LEAs on the basis of relative numbers of children from families with incomes below the poverty line residing in LEAs' school districts, and that the remainder be allocated on the basis of relative enrollments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Introduced in House