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HELPS Retirees Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2177
Sponsor: Rep. Chocola, Chris [R-IN-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil service retirement
Clergy
Crime and Law Enforcement
Emergency Management
Families
Federal law enforcement officers
Finance and Financial Sector
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Law enforcement officers
Long-term care insurance
Medical economics
Paramedical personnel
Police
Religion
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
Healthcare Enhancement for Local Public Safety Retirees Act of 2005 or the HELPS Retirees Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow retired public safety officers to elect an annual exclusion from gross income up to $5,000 for distributions from governmental retirement plans for the payment of accident or health insurance or long-term care insurance. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of duty on hexanedioic acid, polymer with 1,3-benzenedimethanamine.

Bill: 109-hr-2179
Sponsor: Rep. Forbes, J. Randy [R-VA-4]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Polymers
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on hexanedioic acid, polymer with 1,3-benzenedimethanamine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the proper tax treatment of variable contracts issued by life insurance companies subject to the laws of Puerto Rico.

Bill: 109-hr-2180
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Fortuno, Luis G. [R-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Annuities
Commerce
Contracts
Federal-territorial relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Insurance companies
Labor and Employment
Life insurance
Puerto Rico
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend provisions for the tax treatment of variable contracts to contracts issued by life insurance companies subject to the law or regulation of Puerto Rico. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Puerto Rico Inclusion Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2181
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Fortuno, Luis G. [R-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Manufacturing industries
Puerto Rico
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
Puerto Rico Inclusion Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers engaged in domestic production activities in Puerto Rico the tax deduction for income attributable to domestic production activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
National Enterprise Zone Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2182
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Fortuno, Luis G. [R-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Capital gains tax
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Depreciation and amortization
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Enterprise zones
Estates (Law)
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Inventories
Law
Local laws
Local taxation
Married people
Residence requirements
Saving and investment
Secondary education
State laws
State taxation
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax incentives
Tax rates
Trusts and trustees
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
National Enterprise Zone Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize: (1) the governor of a State or U.S. territory or the Mayor of the District of Columbia to nominate by written application one or more enterprise zones for consideration by the Secretary of the Treasury; and (2) any resident of an enterprise zone, including estates, trusts, and corporations (other than S corporations), to elect an alternative income tax based upon National Enterprise Zone taxable income.
 
 Sets forth: (1) procedures for applications and eligibility criteria for designating an enterprise zone, including population, poverty, and unemployment rate requirements; and (2) rules for determining National Enterprise Zone taxable income for individuals and corporations residing in such a Zone. Requires all jurisdictions seeking enterprise zone designations to be in substantial compliance with the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and certain tax laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Nursing School Capacity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2184
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
College entrance requirements
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Demography
Education
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Educational technology
Employee benefit plans
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Graduate education
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Medical residents
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing education
Recruiting of employees
Salaries
School administration
Science, Technology, Communications
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
Nursing School Capacity Act of 2005 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to request that the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) conduct a study to: (1) identify constraints encountered by schools of nursing in admitting and graduating the number of registered nurses necessary to ensure patient safety and meet the need for quality assurance in the provision of health care; and (2) develop recommendations to alleviate the constraints on a short-term and long-term basis. Directs the Secretary to provide that the study consider the perspectives of: (1) nurses and physicians in inpatient, outpatient, and residential facilities; (2) faculty and administrators of nursing schools; (3) providers of health plans or health insurance; and (4) consumers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Congestion Relief Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2185
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Bicycles
Bikeways
Car pools
Commuting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Employee training
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to air pollution control
Federal aid to transportation
Geographic information systems
Government Operations and Politics
Highway finance
Highway planning
Information services
Labor and Employment
Leases
Mass rapid transit
Metropolitan areas
Motor buses
Motor vehicle pollution control
Ozone
Parking facilities
Pedestrians
Police communication systems
Science, Technology, Communications
Smog
Storage
Telecommuting
Telephone
Traffic accidents and safety
Traffic congestion
Traffic engineering
Transportation planning
Transportation workers
Urban affairs
Urban planning
Urban transportation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
 Congestion Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) to provide that 80 percent of specified funds apportioned to a State (currently, 62.5 percent of the remaining 80 percent) shall be obligated in urbanized areas of the State with populations of over 200,000 and in other areas of the State, in proportion to their relative share of the State's population. 
 
Modifies: (1) the allocation formula under the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program; and (2) the Minimum Guarantee regarding programmatic distribution of funds.
 
Directs that the funds apportioned to a State for a fiscal year for the National Highway System (NHS) be allocated between urbanized areas with a population of over 200,000 in the State and other areas in the State as follows: (1) 75 percent in the ratio that the total lane miles on the NHS in such urbanized areas in the State bears to the total lane miles on the NHS in all areas in the State; and (2) 25 percent in the ratio that the total vehicle miles traveled on the NHS in such urbanized areas in the State bears to the total vehicle miles traveled on the NHS in all areas in the State.
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) establish a metropolitan congestion relief program; and (2) establish and implement an operational improvement program.
 
Increases the percentage set aside for metropolitan planning.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Prairie Island Land Conveyance Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2186
Sponsor: Rep. Kline, John [R-MN-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Cultural property
Dams
Easements
Indian lands
Land transfers
Law
Minnesota
Minorities
Mississippi River
Navigation
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
Prairie Island Land Conveyance Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey all U.S. right, title, and interest in and to described land to the Secretary of the Interior, to be held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Prairie Island Indian Community in Minnesota, and included in the Prairie Island Indian Community Reservation in Goodhue County, Minnesota. Prohibits the use of such land for: (1) human habitation; (2) construction of any structure without the written approval of the District Engineer; or (3) gaming.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Federal Employees Responsible Investment Act

Bill: 109-hr-2187
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Business and social problems
Civil service retirement
Commerce
Corporate accountability
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Investments
Labor and Employment
Mutual funds
Stocks

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
Federal Employees Responsible Investment Act - Provides for the establishment of a Corporate Responsibility Stock Index Fund as an investment option under the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). 
 
Directs the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board to select an index which is a commonly recognized, passively managed index comprised of domestic stocks based on criteria which may include corporate governance, environmental practices, workplace relations and benefits, product safety and impact, international operations and human rights, involvement with repressive regimes, and community relations. Requires that the index's financial track record be comparable to that of the other options available under TSP.
 
Directs that the Fund be invested in a portfolio which shall be designed such that the percentage of the Fund that is invested in each stock is the same as the percentage determined by dividing the aggregate market value of all shares of that stock by the aggregate market value of all shares of all stocks included in such index.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the placement in a national cemetery of memorial markers for the purpose of commemorating servicemembers or other persons whose remains are interred in an American Battle Monuments Commission cemetery.

Bill: 109-hr-2188
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces abroad
Cemeteries and funerals
Commemorations
Monuments and memorials
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish for placement a memorial headstone or marker in a national cemetery to commemorate veterans and their spouses whose remains are interred in an American Battle Monuments Commission cemetery.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E898)
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the two-year waiting period for divorced spouse's benefits following the divorce.

Bill: 109-hr-2189
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Divorce
Families
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the two-year waiting period following a divorce for a divorced spouse to become entitled to a spouse's OASDI benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for increases in widow's and widower's insurance benefits by reason of delayed retirement.

Bill: 109-hr-2190
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Earnings
Families
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Older workers
Retirement income
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to provide for: (1) increases in widow's and widower's insurance benefits by reason of delayed retirement; and (2) the treatment of delayed retirement in cases of simultaneous entitlement to OASDI benefits and widow's or widower's insurance benefits. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for full benefits for disabled widows and widowers without regard to age.

Bill: 109-hr-2191
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disabled
Families
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security beneficiaries
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to provide for full benefits for disabled widows and widowers without regard to age or any previous reduction in OASDI benefits.
 
Declares that there shall be no reduction in the widow's or widower's insurance benefit of an individual for any month in which such individual is under a disability. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the 7-year restriction on eligibility for widow's and widower's insurance benefits based on disability.

Bill: 109-hr-2192
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disabled
Families
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security eligibility
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to repeal the seven-year restriction on eligibility for widow's and widower's insurance benefits based on disability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
United States Cadet Nurse Corps Equity Act

Bill: 109-hr-2193
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health
History
Military discharges
Military medicine
Nurses
Veterans' benefits
Women
Women veterans
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: United States Cadet Nurse Corps Equity Act - Deems service of a person as a member of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps between July 1, 1943, and December 15, 1945 (qualified service), to be active military service for purposes of all laws administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. 
Requires: (1) the Secretary of Defense to issue an honorable discharge to each person whose qualified service warrants one; and (2) the discharge to be issued before the end of the one-year period beginning on the enactment of this Act.
Prohibits benefits from being paid to persons as a result of such enactment for any period before the enactment date.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity Discharged.
action_date: 2005-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2194
Sponsor: Rep. Lungren, Daniel E. [R-CA-3]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault
Capital punishment
Conspiracy
Correctional personnel
Families
Federal law enforcement officers
Fines (Penalties)
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
Homicide
Kidnapping
Law enforcement officers
Life imprisonment
Mandatory sentences
Murder
Police
Sentences (Criminal procedure)

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the federal criminal code to provide additional penalties for assaulting or killing (or attempting or conspiring to kill) a federal law enforcement officer or a federally funded state or local law enforcement officer. Modifies provisions regarding influencing, impeding, or retaliating against a federal official by threatening or injuring a family member to provide additional penalties where the victim of the offense is an immediate family member of a federal law enforcement officer or federally funded law enforcement officer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Act to Ban OxyContin

Bill: 109-hr-2195
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-9]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug abuse
Drug approvals
Drugs
Medication abuse
Pain

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
Act to Ban OxyContin - Deems the application to distribute controlled-release oxycodone hydrochloride, which is marketed as OxyContin, in interstate commerce that was approved under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to have been withdrawn.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House