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A bill to establish a congressional commission to examine the Federal, State, and local response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Region of the United States especially in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and other areas impacted in the aftermath and make immediate corrective measures to improve such responses in the future.

Bill: 109-s-1622
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2005-09-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Alabama
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional oversight
Congressional reorganization
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency communication systems
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federal budgets
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Louisiana
Mississippi
Planning
Science, Technology, Communications
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: 
Establishes in the legislative branch a bipartisan Katrina Commission to: (1) examine and report upon the federal, state, and local response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Region of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and other affected areas; (2) evaluate and report on the information developed by all relevant governmental agencies related to Hurricane Katrina before it struck the United States and in the days and weeks following; (3) make a complete accounting of the circumstances surrounding the approach of Hurricane Katrina to the Gulf states, and the extent of the Government's preparedness for and response to it; (4) examine planning necessary for future cataclysmic events that will require a significant marshaling of federal resources, mitigation, response, and recovery to avoid significant loss of life; (5) analyze whether any decisions differed with respect to response and recovery for different communities and what problems occurred as a result of a lack of a common plan, communication structure, and centralized command structure; and (6) investigate and report to the President and Congress on immediate corrective measures that can be taken to prevent problems with federal response to future cataclysmic events.
 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Lewatit.

Bill: 109-s-1623
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-09-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Polymers
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Ion-exchange resins (cationic H form), consisting of copolymers of acrylic acid and diethylene glycol divinyl ether (Lewatit).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain chemicals.

Bill: 109-s-1624
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-09-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on: (1) mixtures of zinc dialkyldithiophosphate with an elastomer binder of ethylene-propylene-diene monomer and ethyl vinyl acetate, dispersing agents and silica; (2) mixtures of dithiocarbamate, thiazole, thiuram and thiourea with an elastomer binder of ethylene-propylene-diene monomer and ethyl vinyl acetate, and dispersing agents; (3) mixtures of caprolactam disulfide with an elastomer binder of ethylene-propylene-diene monomer and ethyl vinyl acetate, and dispersing agents; (4) mixtures of N-(3,4-dichloro-phenyl)-N,N-dimethylurea; (5) mixtures of zinc dicyanato diammine with an elastomer binder of ethylene-propylene-diene monomer and ethyl vinyl acetate, and dispersing agents; (6) 4,8-Dicyclohexyl -6-2,10-dimethyl -12H-dibenzo [d,g][1,3,2]dioxaphosphocin; (7) mixtures of Benzenesulfonic acid, dodecyl-, with 2-aminoethanol and Poly (oxy-1,2-ethanediyl), a-[(9Z)-1-oxo-9- octadecenyl]-w-hydroxy-; and (8) 1,3-Dihydro-3,3-bis (4-hydroxy-m-tolyl)-2H-indol-2-one.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain ion-exchange resins.

Bill: 109-s-1625
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-09-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Polymers
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on certain ion-exchange resins.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymers.

Bill: 109-s-1626
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-09-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Environmental Protection
Polymers
Tariff
Vinyl chloride

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on certain vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Pell Grant Hurricane and Disaster Relief Act

Bill: 109-s-1628
Sponsor: Sen. Martinez, Mel [R-FL]
Introduced: 2005-09-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Disaster relief
Displaced persons
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Scholarships
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: 
Federal Pell Grant Hurricane and Disaster Relief Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to waive certain requirements for repayment of federal Pell Grants by students if: (1) they were residing in, employed in, or attending an institution of higher education located in a major disaster area; (2) their attendance was interrupted because of the disaster's impact on them or the institution; and (3) their withdrawal ended within the academic year during which the major disaster designation occurred or during the next succeeding academic year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Hurricane Katrina Emergency Temporary Energy Price Freeze Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1629
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2005-09-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Emergency Management
Energy
Energy prices
Energy supplies
Fines (Penalties)
Floods
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Injunctions
Law
Petroleum
Presidential powers
Price regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: 
Hurricane Katrina Emergency Temporary Energy Price Freeze Act of 2005 - Authorizes the President to: (1) issue orders and regulations to freeze temporarily wholesale and retail prices of gasoline and other petroleum products at or below the levels prevailing on August 27, 2005; and (2) delegate the performance of any function under this Act to federal officers, departments, and agencies as he deems appropriate.
 
Declares that anyone who willfully violates any such order or regulation shall be fined an amount up to three times the amount of the gain from such violation.
 
Authorizes the President, or any delegatee, to seek a temporary or permanent injunction to prevent or halt violations of orders or regulations issued under this Act.
 
Terminates the authority under this Act upon a finding by the President that the domestic supply of petroleum products meets or exceeds the level of domestic supply as of August 27, 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure introduced: CR S9736-9737)
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9736)
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Introduced in Senate
National Emergency Family Locator Act

Bill: 109-s-1630
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-09-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Disaster relief
Displaced persons
Families
Family services
Government Operations and Politics
Missing persons
Science, Technology, Communications
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: 
National Emergency Family Locator Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish within the Department of Homeland Security the National Family Locator System to enable: (1) individuals displaced by an emergency to provide to the Department their names and locations and any other relevant information using the telephone, the Internet, and other appropriate means; and (2) the Department to compile such information and provide it to the family members of such individuals and law enforcement officials.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9737)
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9737)
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Windfall Profits Rebate Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1631
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2005-09-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Energy
Energy prices
Excess profits tax
Excise tax
Income tax
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Tax deductions
Tax rebates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: 
Windfall Profits Rebate Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) impose an excise tax on oil companies for a percentage of the windfall profit from all barrels of taxable crude oil; (2) allow a tax deduction for the payment of any windfall profit tax; and (3) allow an income tax rebate for all taxpayers based upon windfall tax revenues, as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury. Defines &quot;windfall profit&quot; as the excess of the removal (sales) price of a barrel of taxable crude oil over the adjusted base price ($40 per barrel adjusted for inflation) of such barrel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1346)
action_date: 2005-09-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10419-10420)
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9999)
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9821)
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a special depreciation allowance for certain property acquired during the 3-year period beginning August 29, 2005.

Bill: 109-s-1632
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2005-09-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Automobiles
Commerce
Computer software
Depreciation and amortization
Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Income tax
Infrastructure
Leases
Minimum tax
Motor vehicles
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an additional depreciation deduction for certain business property, including water utility property and computer software, acquired after August 28, 2005, and before December 31, 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Online Predators Act

Bill: 109-s-1633
Sponsor: Sen. Talent, Jim [R-MO]
Introduced: 2005-09-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child pornography
Child sexual abuse
Criminal investigation
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Internet
Postal service
Prostitution
Science, Technology, Communications
Undercover operations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: 
Stop Online Predators Act - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit using the mail or any facility or means of interstate or foreign commerce, or acting within the special maritime or territorial jurisdiction of the United States, to knowingly coerce an individual to engage in prostitution or sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense, if such individual has not yet attained age 18 (current law) or has been represented to the person as being under age 18.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Bottom Trawl and Deep Sea Coral Habitat Act

Bill: 109-s-1635
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-09-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Animals
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Coral reefs
Cost effectiveness
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Commerce
Ecological research
Ecological surveys
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Environmental Protection
Equipment and supplies
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Fines (Penalties)
Fisheries
Fishery management
Fishing boats
Forfeiture
Geographic information systems
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Habitat conservation
International Affairs
International agencies
International environmental cooperation
Law
Maps
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine resources conservation
Natural areas
Ocean floor
Oceanographic research
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Territorial waters

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: 
Bottom Trawl and Deep Sea Coral Habitat Act - Requires the Secretary of Commerce to direct the Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere to explore, identify, research, and map the locations of deep sea corals and deep sea sponges.
 
Directs the Secretary to develop a cooperative research program to identify: (1) the ideal areas for the use of bottom trawls; and (2) the locations of deep sea corals and deep sea sponges.
 
Requires each Regional Fishery Management Council to submit to the Secretary a list of areas that were fished using bottom trawls during the seven-year period ending on December 31, 2004, including recommendations of which areas should be designated as Bottom Trawl Zones. Requires the Secretary to designate each area that does not contain a deep sea coral and sponge ecosystem as a Bottom Trawl Zone. Prohibits the use of bottom trawls in an area not designated as a Bottom Trawl Zone.
 
Directs the Secretary to designate as a Coral Habitat Conservation Zone each area that a Council has designated as an area in which the use of bottom trawls is prohibited for the protection of seafloor habitat, or for which a map and best available data has detected the presence of deep sea corals or deep sea sponges.
 
Sets forth both civil and criminal penalties for persons who violate the requirements under this Act.
 
Authorizes the President to permit the Secretary to work with appropriate international organizations and foreign nations to develop data to identify areas in international waters that contain deep sea corals or deep sea sponges and to protect such deep sea corals or deep sea sponges.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9835-9838)
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9835)
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide agricultural disaster assistance to producers on a farm that incurred qualifying crop or quality losses for the 2005 crop due to damaging weather or related condition, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-1636
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-09-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural subsidies
Animals
Aquaculture
Compensation (Law)
Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Livestock
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Trees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: 
Amends the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Hurricane Disasters Assistance Act, 2005 to provide emergency crop disaster assistance to agricultural producers who incurred qualifying 2005 losses due to damaging weather or related conditions. (Eliminates the provision limiting 2005 crop assistance to only producers who suffered losses in 2004 from hurricanes or tropical storms in disaster-designated counties.)
 
Provides emergency tree assistance to commercial orchardists and timber producers who incurred qualifying natural disaster-caused losses in 2005.
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) funds to carry out the 2002 livestock compensation program for eligible: (1) livestock producers who are in a disaster county; and (2) catfish producers. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Hurricane Katrina Emergency Health Workforce Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1638
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-09-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Communication in medicine
Data banks
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Employee training
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal employees
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Health information systems
Higher education
Hospitals
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Labor and Employment
Law
Liability (Law)
Licenses
Medical education
Medical malpractice
Medical personnel
Medical residents
Public health personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
State laws
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: 
Hurricane Katrina Emergency Health Workforce Act of 2005 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the National Emergency Health Professionals Volunteer Corps to provide for an adequate supply of health professionals in the event of an emergency.
 
Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to establish a national database of health professionals to increase health preparedness for federal emergencies.
 
Includes service by physicians and other health professionals who are providing treatment or services related to a declared major disaster as &quot;service in the uniformed services&quot; for purposes of employment and reemployment benefits.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act and title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require hospitals that receive federal payments for graduate medical education costs to provide disaster preparedness training as part of any approved graduate medical residency training program provided by the hospital.
 
Deems volunteer health professionals providing a qualifying health service related to a declared major disaster to be employees of the Public Health Service for purposes of liability protection.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to suspend state health professional licensing and certification requirements for health professionals that are operating in such state during a declared major disaster.
 
Authorizes the Secretary and the Secretary of Homeland Security to waive any federal requirements applicable to health professions that would limit the ability of health professionals to provide volunteer medical services related to a declared major disaster.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9844-9845)
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Introduced in Senate
National Park Anniversaries-Great American Spaces Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 109-s-1639
Sponsor: Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]
Introduced: 2005-09-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Alaska
Anniversaries
Arizona
California
Civil War
Coins and coinage
Colorado
Copper
Department of the Interior
District of Columbia
Ex-presidents
Finance and Financial Sector
Foundations
Government Operations and Politics
History
Lincoln Administration
Maine
Military parks
Montana
Monuments and memorials
National monuments
National parks
Pennsylvania
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Silver
Social Welfare
Utah
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: 
National Parks Anniversaries-Great American Spaces Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue silver coins emblematic of certain National Parks that are observing historic anniversaries of their founding.
 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Protection From Price Gouging Against Disaster Victims Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1640
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2005-09-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer complaints
Consumer goods
Consumer protection
Crime and Law Enforcement
Disaster relief
Disasters
Emergency Management
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Injunctions
Law
Legal fees
Prices
Profit
Restrictive trade practices
Science, Technology, Communications
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: 
Protection From Price Gouging Against Disaster Victims Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Trade Commission Act to direct the Federal Trade Commission to: (1) consult with certain senior law enforcement officials following declaration of a major disaster by the President in order to determine whether unconscionably excessive prices for any consumer good or service are being charged in the affected area; (2) establish a toll-free hotline to receive consumer reports of price gouging in the affected area; and (3) establish a program to develop and distribute public informational materials in English and Spanish to assist residents of the affected area in detecting and avoiding price gouging.
 
Prohibits unconscionably excessive prices for any consumer good or service in an affected area during the 180-day period after the date on which a major disaster is declared by the President.
 
Subjects violations of this Act to specified civil and criminal penalties.
 
Authorizes victims and state Attorneys General to bring a civil action against violators of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9845-9846)
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Introduced in Senate