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Domestic Natural Gas Supply Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4638
Sponsor: Rep. Hall, Ralph M. [R-TX-4]
Introduced: 2005-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Commercialization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Energy development
Energy research
Energy supplies
Gas in submerged lands
Government trust funds
Natural gas
Oil and gas royalties
Prospecting
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-18
text: 
Domestic Natural Gas Supply Act of 2006 - Instructs the Secretary of Energy to incorporate into the annual plan for the ultra-deepwater and unconventional onshore natural gas and other petroleum research and development program the goal of achieving a cumulative increase of 8.5 trillion cubic feet in domestic production of natural gas by 2015.
 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require that all excess federal royalties derived from federal onshore and offshore oil and gas leases up to $200 million be deposited into the Ultra-Deepwater and Unconventional Natural Gas and Other Petroleum Research Fund.
 
Defines excess federal royalties as the amount calculated on the basis of the difference between the prevailing market prices upon which the royalty payment was made and 110 % of the assumed market prices contained in specified economic assumptions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2006-01-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2005-12-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2616)
action_date: 2005-12-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2005-12-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2005-12-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2005-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-18
text: Introduced in House
Group Home Community Notification Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4639
Sponsor: Rep. Fossella, Vito [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2005-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Disabled
Discrimination against the disabled
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Group homes
Housing for the disabled
Law
Liability (Law)
Local laws
Nonprofit organizations
Public meetings
Social Welfare
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-18
text: 
Group Home Community Notification Act of 2005 - Makes it unlawful for any federally assisted non-profit intending to place a group home in a locality to refuse or fail to comply with all state and local laws for such a group home's placement in that locality, including laws requiring public notification, reporting requirements, and hearings. 
 
States that any individual who participates in such a hearing shall be immune from suit based on a claim of discrimination against the disabled for any communication made in the course of such participation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-18
text: Introduced in House
Assisting Doctors to Obtain Proficient and Transmissible Health Information Technology (ADOPT HIT) Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4641
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2005-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Electronic data interchange
Health
Health information systems
Income tax
Medical personnel
Medical records
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Telecommunication rates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-18
text: 
Assisting Doctors to Obtain Proficient and Transmissible Health Information Technology (ADOPT HIT) Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow medical care providers: (1) to expense up to $250,000 of the cost of health care information technology for the exchange of medical information; and (2) a business tax credit for 50% of their telecommunication charges (defined as expenses of installing or maintaining a communications network that supports interoperability of electronic medical records systems), up to $10,000. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3146)
action_date: 2006-02-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H164)
action_date: 2005-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-18
text: Introduced in House
Davis-Bacon Repeal Act

Bill: 109-hr-4643
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-5]
Introduced: 2005-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Commerce
Construction industries
Construction workers
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Labor and Employment
Minimum wages
Subcontractors
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-18
text: 
Davis-Bacon Repeal Act - Repeals the Davis-Bacon Act (which requires that the locally prevailing wage rate be paid to various classes of laborers and mechanics working under federally-financed or federally-assisted contracts for construction, alteration, and repair of public buildings or public works). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2005-12-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-18
text: Introduced in House
To authorize grants to carry out projects to provide education on preventing teen pregnancies, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-4644
Sponsor: Rep. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ-13]
Introduced: 2005-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Authorization
College costs
Compensatory education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Family planning and birth control
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Parent and child
Physical education and training
Scholarships
Secondary education
Sex education
Sexual abstinence
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Teenage pregnancy
Women
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-18
text: 
Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Responsibility, and Opportunity Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to: (1) local educational agencies, state and local public health agencies, and nonprofit private entities for projects to provide education on preventing teen pregnancies; and (2) public or nonprofit private entities for demonstrating innovative approaches to prevent teen pregnancies.

Reauthorizes appropriations for: (1) 21st Century Community Learning Centers and the Carol M. White physical education program, under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; and (2) TRIO programs and GEARUP, under the Higher Education Act of 1965.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2006-01-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-12-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-12-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-12-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-18
text: Introduced in House
Preventing Medicare Seniors from being Confused due to Abusive Marketing (Prevent Medicare SCAMs) Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4645
Sponsor: Rep. Schwartz, Allyson Y. [D-PA-13]
Introduced: 2005-12-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health care fraud
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Law
Managed care
Marketing
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Telemarketing

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-18
text: 
Preventing Medicare Seniors from being Confused due to Abusive Marketing (Prevent Medicare SCAMs) Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for: (1) enhanced penalties for Medicare Advantage-Prescription Drug (MA-PD) plans and Medicare prescription drug plans that violate marketing requirements; and (2) public notification about plans that habitually receive intermediate sanctions.
 
Permits Medicare beneficiaries enrolled under prescription drug plans suspended under this Act to enroll under other plans during the period of suspension.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on each anti-fraud and abuse provision (including related intermediate sanctions) applicable to an MA-PD plan or a Medicare prescription drug plan, and assess its effectiveness and the overall compliance of such plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-12-18
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: 2005-12-18
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: 2005-12-18
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: 2005-12-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-18
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit assistance to Lebanon unless the Government of Lebanon extradites Mohammed Ali Hammadi to the United States.

Bill: 109-hr-4648
Sponsor: Rep. Fossella, Vito [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2005-12-22 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Air piracy
Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Debt relief
Divers
Economic assistance
Export finance
Export subsidies
Extradition
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign loans
Government Operations and Politics
Lebanon
Middle East and North Africa
Military assistance
Military personnel
Murder
Navy
President and foreign policy
Sanctions (International law)
Tariff preferences
Terrorism
Torture
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-22
text: 
Prohibits assistance to Lebanon unless the President certifies to Congress that the government of Lebanon has extradited Mohammed Ali Hammadi to the United States.
 
Exempts international disaster assistance and assistance for food or medicine from such prohibition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-22
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2005-12-22
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2005-12-22
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2005-12-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-22
text: Introduced in House
Hope for Homeless Kids Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4649
Sponsor: Rep. Biggert, Judy [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2005-12-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Alabama
Child health
Displaced persons
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency Management
Families
Federal aid to education
Floods
Florida
Health
Homeless
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Louisiana
Mental health services
Mississippi
School health programs
Secondary education
Student enrollment
Student transportation
Texas
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-22
text: 
Hope for Homeless Kids Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Education to provide assistance to local educational agencies serving homeless children and youths displaced by Hurricane Katrina, Rita, or Wilma.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-12-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-12-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-22
text: Introduced in House
Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4651
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2005-12-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Coinsurance
Commerce
Consumer education
Contraceptives
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Drugs
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health insurance
Insurance companies
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Physical examinations
Rebates
Standards
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-22
text: 
Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2005 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Public Health Service Act to prohibit a group health plan, and a health insurance issuer providing group coverage, from: (1) excluding or restricting benefits for prescription contraceptive drugs, devices, and outpatient services if the plan provides benefits for other outpatient prescription drugs, devices, or outpatient services; (2) denying eligibility based on use or potential use of such items or services; (3) providing monetary payments or rebates to a covered individual to encourage acceptance of less than the minimum protections available; (4) penalizing, reducing, or limiting a professional's reimbursement because the professional prescribed such drugs or devices or provided such services; or (5) providing incentives to a professional to induce the professional to withhold such drugs, devices, or services. Applies such prohibitions to coverage offered in the individual market. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2006-01-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-12-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-12-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-12-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-12-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-22
text: Introduced in House
To provide Medicare beneficiaries with access to prescription drugs at Federal Supply Schedule prices.

Bill: 109-hr-4652
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2005-12-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Drug industry
Drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-22
text: 
Provides that any individual entitled to benefits under part A (Hospital Insurance), or enrolled under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance), of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) shall be eligible to obtain prescription drugs at the prices specified in the Federal Supply Schedule.
 
Amends SSA title XVIII to repeal provisions prohibiting the Secretary of Health and Human Services from: (1) interfering with the negotiations between drug manufacturers and pharmacies and prescription drug plan sponsors; or (2) requiring a particular formulary to institute a price structure for the reimbursement of covered Medicare part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) drugs.
 
Grants the Secretary, instead, authority similar to that of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, the Secretary of Defense, and the heads of other federal agencies and departments that purchase prescription drugs in bulk to negotiate contracts with manufacturers of covered Medicare part D drugs, consistent with the requirements and in furtherance of the goals of providing quality care and containing costs.States that the purpose of this grant of authority is to ensure that beneficiaries enrolled under prescription drug plans and Medicare Advantage prescription drug (MA-PD) plans pay the lowest possible price.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-12-22
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: 2005-12-22
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: 2005-12-22
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: 2005-12-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-22
text: Introduced in House
Leadership PAC Disclosure Act

Bill: 109-hr-4655
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2006-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Campaign funds
Congress
Congressional elections
Election candidates
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Political action committees
Political advertising
Presidential elections

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-31
text: 
Leadership PAC Disclosure Act - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require political committees which are associated but not affiliated with a federal candidate or officeholder to include in the statements of organization and the reports they file with the Federal Election Commission the identification of each candidate or officeholder with which the committee is associated.
 
Requires the Commission to display and organize the designations, statements, reports, and notifications made accessible to the public on the Internet in a manner that maximizes the public's ability to determine all of the receipts and disabursements made to and by all persons associated with a particular candidate, officeholder, or political committee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2006-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-01-31
text: Introduced in House
National Flood Insurance Program Enhanced Borrowing Authority Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4656
Sponsor: Rep. Jindal, Bobby [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2006-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Department of Homeland Security
Disaster insurance
Economics and Public Finance
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Finance and Financial Sector
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government securities

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-31
text: 
National Flood Insurance Program Enhanced Borrowing Authority Act of 2006 - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to increase from $18.5 billion to $24.1 billion, through FY2008, the total amount which the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) may borrow from the Secretary of the Treasury with the President's approval to carry out the flood insurance program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2006-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2006-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-01-31
text: Introduced in House
Secure Telephone Operations Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4657
Sponsor: Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3]
Introduced: 2006-01-31 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Business records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Consumer protection
Restrictive trade practices
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2006-01-31
text: 
Secure Telephone Operations Act of 2006 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit the sale of telephone customer proprietary network information. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2006-01-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-01-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-01-31
text: Introduced in House