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Stop the Theft of Our Social Security Numbers Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2518
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Department of Health and Human Services
Federal employees
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Identity theft
Medicare
Postal service
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Tax returns
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Stop the Theft of Our Social Security Numbers Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit disclosure of an individual's Social Security number by the Department of Health and Human Services on Medicare-related mailings. Restricts the inclusion of such number in tax-related mailings to those where the number is in a sealed envelope or wrapper, and cannot be viewed without opening the envelope or wrapper.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-05-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1060)
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
Healthcare Student Financial Assistance Act

Bill: 109-hr-2519
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Collection of accounts
Dental care
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Health
Higher education
Law
Medical education
Medical residents
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Healthcare Student Financial Assistance Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to make certain revisions to specified regulations for student loan repayment deferment, under the Federal Family Education Loan, Federal Direct Student Loan, and Perkins Loan programs, with respect to borrowers who are in postgraduate medical and dental residency and fellowship programs.
 
Amends the the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide that a specified limitation on students in medical residency programs does not apply to students in dental residency programs under certain student loan deferment provisions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
Child PACT Act

Bill: 109-hr-2521
Sponsor: Rep. Ferguson, Mike [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Computer software
Computers
Education
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Enterprise zones
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Higher education
Nonprofit organizations
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Surplus government property
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Profiting from Access to Computer Technology (PACT) Act or the Child PACT Act - Directs each Federal agency to: (1) safeguard and identify potential educationally useful Federal equipment that it no longer needs or that has been declared surplus; and (2) transfer such equipment, either directly or through the General Services Administration (GSA), to educational recipients or nonprofit refurbishers.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of duty on filter blue green photo dye.

Bill: 109-hr-2522
Sponsor: Rep. Ferguson, Mike [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on filter blue green photo dye.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of duty on ammonium bifluoride.

Bill: 109-hr-2523
Sponsor: Rep. Ferguson, Mike [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend, through December 31, 2010, the suspension of the duty on ammonium bifluoride.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of duty on Bis(4-fluorophenyl) methanone.

Bill: 109-hr-2524
Sponsor: Rep. Ferguson, Mike [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2010, of the duty on Bis(4-fluorophenyl) methanone.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
Rural Access to Emergency Services Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2525
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Mark R. [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulances
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Emergency medicine
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Health information systems
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Labor and Employment
Medical education
Medical fees
Medicare
Paramedical personnel
Peer review organizations (Medicine)
Quality of care
Recruiting of employees
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
State officials
Telecommunication rates
Telemedicine
Transportation and Public Works
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Rural Access to Emergency Services Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to: (1) cost-based critical access hospital ambulance services; (2) appropriate coverage of rural ground ambulance services; and (3) payments to retain emergency and other capacity for ambulances in rural areas.
 
Amends SSA title XI to provide for expanding the work of Medicare quality improvement organizations to include ambulance providers.
 
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 with respect to including ambulance providers in the definition of health care provider for purposes of the Universal Service Fund. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to States to encourage them to make improvements to their emergency medical services systems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-23
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: 2005-05-23
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: 2005-05-23
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: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
Tick-Borne Disorders Advisory Committee Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2526
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Sue W. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Bacterial diseases
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health education
Health planning
Health surveys
Higher education
Lyme disease
Medical education
Medical research
Medical tests
Physicians
Preventive medicine
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Virus diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Tick Borne-Disorders Advisory Committee Act of 2005 - Establishes the Tick-Borne Disorders Advisory Committee in the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Directs the Committee to advise the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Health regarding how to: (1) assure interagency coordination and communication in efforts to address tick-borne disorders; (2) identify opportunities to coordinate efforts with other federal agencies and private organizations; and (3) develop informed responses to constituency groups regarding HHS efforts and progress.
 
Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2007 to fund the Committee in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act. 
 Authorizes appropriations for FY2006-FY2010 for: (1) research and educational activities concerning Lyme disease and other tick-borne disorders; and (2) efforts to prevent such illnesses. 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should consider carrying out a five-year plan to: (1) develop a diagnostic test for Lyme disease and other tick-borne disorders for use in clinical testing; (2) determine the prevalence of such illnesses in the United States; and (3) develop the capabilities at HHS to design and implement improved strategies for the prevention and control of such illnesses.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
Residents and Public Interest Attorneys Deferrment Act

Bill: 109-hr-2527
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Crime and Law Enforcement
Dental care
Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Health
Higher education
Medical residents
National service
Public defenders
Public prosecutors
Social Welfare
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Residents and Public Interest Attorneys Deferment Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide, under the Federal Family Education Loan, Federal Direct Student Loan, and Perkins Loan programs, student loan repayment deferment for borrowers: (1) during a period of medical or dental internship or residency; (2) up to two years of serving in a public service fellowship with any public entity, such as service under certain provisions of the National and Community Service Act of 1990; or (3) up to two years of full-time employment as a public defender or prosecutor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to exclude cooperative employing units from multiple employer welfare arrangements.

Bill: 109-hr-2529
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Commerce
Cooperative societies
Flexible benefit plans

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to exclude cooperative employing units from multiple employer welfare arrangements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
To ensure that State and local law enforcement agencies execute warrants for the arrest of nonviolent offenders only when children are not present, unless overriding circumstances exist.

Bill: 109-hr-2530
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Arrest
Child safety
Counseling
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Local laws
Social Welfare
State laws
Warrants (Law)

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Requires a state or local law enforcement agency, upon accepting federal funds, to issue guidelines under which: (1) each warrant for the arrest of a nonviolent offender is executed by that agency only during a time when, and at a location where, the agency reasonably believes no children are present or in other circumstances if a court first determines that overriding reasons, in furtherance of the interests of children, exist (such as the interest in apprehending individuals who engage in drug offenses with children or on school grounds); and (2) relevant counseling is made available to each child who witnesses the execution of an arrest warrant under such circumstances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend titles 10 and 14, United States Code, to provide for the use of gold in the metal content of the Medal of Honor.

Bill: 109-hr-2531
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Commemorations
Congress
Congressional Medal of Honor
Gold
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Requires the metal content of the Medal of Honor, awarded by the President to members of the armed forces and Coast Guard, to be 90 percent gold and ten percent alloy.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on urea, polymer with formaldehyde (Pergopak).

Bill: 109-hr-2532
Sponsor: Rep. Cantor, Eric [R-VA-7]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Polymers
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Urea, polymer with formaldehyde (Pergopak). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934 to provide that funds received as universal service contributions and the universal service support programs established pursuant to that section are not subject to certain provisions of title 31, United States Code, commonly known as the Antideficiency Act.

Bill: 109-hr-2533
Sponsor: Rep. Cubin, Barbara [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Appropriations
Arts, Culture, Religion
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational facilities
Elementary and secondary education
Finance and Financial Sector
Internet
Libraries
Telecommunication rates
Telephone rates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to make federal provisions which prohibit the obligation or expenditure of funds either in excess of appropriated amounts or in violation of sequestration orders under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1986 inapplicable to: (1) any amount collected or received as federal universal service contributions; or (2) the expenditure or obligation of amounts attributable to such contributions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1063)
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
Personal Philanthropy Account Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2534
Sponsor: Rep. Deal, Nathan [R-GA-10]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Charities
Employee benefit plans
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Self-employed
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax returns
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Personal Philanthropy Account Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction (whether or not the taxpayer itemizes deductions) for cash contributions to a personal philanthropy account. Defines &quot;personal philanthropy account&quot; as a tax-exempt trust created to make distributions for charitable purposes. Sets forth rules providing for default charitable distributions in the event of an account holder's death and minimum annual distribution requirements.
 
Allows an exclusion from the gross income of an employee for contributions made by an employer to the employee's personal philanthropy account. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of duty on polymethine photo-sensitizing dyes.

Bill: 109-hr-2535
Sponsor: Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2010, of the duty on polymethine photo-sensitizing dyes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of duty on 4-Hexylresorcinol.

Bill: 109-hr-2536
Sponsor: Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2010, of the duty on 4-Hexylresorcinol.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of duty on certain organic pigments and dyes.

Bill: 109-hr-2537
Sponsor: Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2010, of the duty on certain organic pigments and dyes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on a certain ultraviolet dye.

Bill: 109-hr-2538
Sponsor: Rep. Hayworth, J. D. [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2010, of the duty on a certain ultraviolet dye.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain cathode-ray tubes.

Bill: 109-hr-2539
Sponsor: Rep. Hayworth, J. D. [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Equipment and supplies
Science, Technology, Communications
Tariff
Video display terminals

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2010, of the duty on certain cathode-ray tubes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in House