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National Farm Animal Identification and Records Act

Bill: 109-hr-1254
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2005-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural subsidies
Animal diseases
Animals
Commerce
Confidential communications
Data banks
Electronic government information
Federal advisory bodies
Federal preemption
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Identification devices
International Affairs
International cooperation
Law
Livestock
Performance measurement
Public health
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists
State laws
Trade secrets
Veterinary medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: 
National Farm Animal Identification and Records Act - Amends the Animal Health Protection Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish an electronic nationwide livestock identification system to enhance the Department of Agriculture's response to outbreaks of livestock disease. Requires that such system: (1) be capable of tracing, within 48 hours, livestock from birth to slaughter; (2) provide for access by States and inclusion of State information; and (3) apply to all livestock born or imported into the United Sates, and to interstate and intrastate commerce.
 
Exempts, with specified exceptions, system information from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act or other release into the public domain.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide producer participation assistance; and (2) appoint an international panel of scientific experts to review the Department's response to an outbreak of livestock disease.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2005-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the tax incentives for biodiesel.

Bill: 109-hr-1255
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2005-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Commerce
Diesel motor
Energy
Income tax
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend until December 31, 2010, the tax credit for biodiesel used as fuel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Animal Health Protection Act to exempt certain animal identification information from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.

Bill: 109-hr-1256
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2005-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Animals
Cattle
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Confidential communications
Federal preemption
Freedom of information
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Law
Livestock
State laws
Trade secrets

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: 
Amends the Animal Health Protection Act to exempt certain animal identification information from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.
 
Sets forth discretionary and mandatory limited disclosure provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2005-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Clean Air Act to authorize critical use exemption amounts for methy bromide as identified by the United States State Department for the years 2006 and 2007, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-1257
Sponsor: Rep. Radanovich, George [R-CA-19]
Introduced: 2005-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Air pollution control
Environmental Protection Agency
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
International environmental cooperation
Law
Methyl bromide
Ozone layer depletion
Pesticide regulation
Treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: 
Amends the Clean Air Act to establish critical use exemptions for methyl bromide for 2006 and 2007, incorporating critical use exemptions approved by the Parties to the Montreal Protocol and submitted by the U.S. State Department at the first Extraordinary Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Time for Recovery and Equal Access to Treatment in America (TREAT America) Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1258
Sponsor: Rep. Ramstad, Jim [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2005-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alcoholism
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Coinsurance
Commerce
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Labor and Employment
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: 
Time for Recovery and Equal Access to Treatment in America (TREAT America) Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit a group health plan or group health coverage that provides both medical and surgical benefits and substance abuse benefits from imposing treatment limitations or financial requirements on the substance abuse treatment benefits unless similar limitations or requirements are imposed for medical and surgical benefits. Excludes such requirements for plans and coverage for small employers and for cases in which the application of such requirements results in an increase in the cost under the plan of at least one percent. 
 
Applies such requirements to health insurance coverage offered in the individual market.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8218)
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2005-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and 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: 2005-03-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and 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: 2005-03-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and 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: 2005-03-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and 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: 2005-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend contracts for national dairy market loss payments through fiscal year 2007, to increase the payment quantity authorized under such contracts, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-1260
Sponsor: Rep. Reynolds, Thomas M. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2005-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural subsidies
Commerce
Dairy industry
Government Operations and Politics
Milk

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: 
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 with respect to national dairy market loss payments to: (1) extend, by two years, program sign-up and contract periods; (2) double single dairy operation payment quantities; (3) increase payment amounts; and (4) terminate such increases as of September 30, 2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend the National Trails System Act to improve the efficiency and fairness of acquiring railroad rights-of-way for interim use as public trails by applying the procedures applicable to other Federal real estate acquisitions.

Bill: 109-hr-1261
Sponsor: Rep. Ryun, Jim [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2005-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Eminent domain
Land transfers
Landowners
Leases
Railroad abandonments
Right of property
Right-of-way
Sports and Recreation
Trails
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: 
Amends the National Trails System Act to provide that, in the case of any donation, transfer, lease, sale, or other conveyance of a railroad right-of-way for interim use, such use of the right-of-way shall not begin until the payment or deposit of compensation to each of the owners of the land underlying the right-of-way has been made: (1) in accordance with specified law, including the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970; or (2) pursuant to the order of a court of competent jurisdiction in a condemnation proceeding consistent with such law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Direct Support Professionals Fairness and Security Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1264
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2005-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Auditing
Caregivers
Community health services
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost of living adjustments
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Home care services
Labor and Employment
Medicaid
Paramedical personnel
Performance measurement
Planning
Recruiting of employees
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Respite care
Social Welfare
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: 
Direct Support Professionals Fairness and Security Act of 2005 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide funds to States to enable them to increase the wages paid to targeted direct support professionals in providing services to individuals with disabilities under the Medicaid program. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services, to audit a sample from among the States in order to assess the effectiveness of progress made in reducing or eliminating the wage gap between targeted and reference direct support professionals through funds under this Act.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the wage equalization and recruitment and retention of direct support professionals who are providing services and supports to individuals with disabilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Abandoned Hardrock Mines Reclamation Funding Act

Bill: 109-hr-1265
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2005-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to water pollution control
Fees
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Land subsidence
Mine wastes
Mines and mineral resources
Mining engineering
Mining royalties
Reclamation of land
Refuse and refuse disposal
Restoration ecology
Revegetation
Sediment control
Soil erosion
Strip mining
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: 
Abandoned Hardrock Mines Reclamation Funding Act - Requires any person producing hardrock minerals from a mine within an unpatented mining claim or a mine on land that was patented under the general mining laws to pay a reclamation fee to the Secretary of the Interior.
 
 Requires the fee amount to be equal to a percentage of the net proceeds derived from the mine, with the percentage based upon the ratio of the net proceeds to the gross proceeds related to mineral production in accordance with a specified table. Exempts gross proceeds of less than $500,000 from minerals produced in any calendar year from the fee for that year if such proceeds are from mines located in a single patented claim or on two or more contiguous patented claims. 
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) deposit amounts received into the Abandoned Minerals Mine Reclamation Fund (established by this Act); and (2) reduce a fee required by this Act by an amount equal to a royalty paid pursuant to an Act of Congress that provides for crediting to the Fund royalties paid to the Secretary regarding hardrock mineral production.
 
Lists permissible uses of the Fund, including: (1) the reclamation and restoration of abandoned surface mined areas; (2) the planting of land adversely affected by past mining to prevent erosion and sedimentation; (3) the prevention, abatement, treatment, and control of water pollution created by abandoned mine drainage; and (4) the control of surface subsidence due to abandoned deep mines.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E430-432)
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Introduced in House
Abandoned Hardrock Mines Reclamation Facilitation Act

Bill: 109-hr-1266
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2005-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Contracts
Delegation of powers
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental monitoring
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Hazardous wastes
Indian lands
Landowners
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Licenses
Mine wastes
Mines and mineral resources
Minorities
Native Americans
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Water pollution control
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: 
Abandoned Hardrock Mines Reclamation Facilitation Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, with the concurrence of the State in which an abandoned or inactive mine remediation project is proposed, or the Indian tribe which owns or has jurisdiction over the land on which a remediation project is proposed, to issue an abandoned or inactive mined land waste remediation permit to a remediating party for discharges associated with remediation activity.
 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E430-432)
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Fatuka Kaikumba Flake.

Bill: 109-hr-1267
Sponsor: Rep. Pence, Mike [R-IN-6]
Introduced: 2005-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: 
Declares Fatuka Kaikumba Flake to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Introduced in House
To repeal a provision relating to privacy officers in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005.

Bill: 109-hr-1271
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Tom [R-VA-11]
Introduced: 2005-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Computer security measures
Data banks
Electronic government information
Executive reorganization
Federal officials
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Inspectors general
Law
Regulatory impact statements
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: 
Amends the Transportation, Treasury, Independent Agencies, and General Government Appropriations Act, 2005 to repeal provisions requiring each Federal agency to have a Chief Privacy Officer to assume primary responsibility for privacy and data protection policy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Encouraging Work Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1272
Sponsor: Rep. Weller, Jerry [R-IL-11]
Introduced: 2005-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Age
Agricultural labor
Agriculture and Food
Aid to dependent children
Cash welfare block grants
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Enterprise zones
Ex-offenders
Families
Food stamps
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Railroad employees
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Urban affairs
Vocational rehabilitation
Wages
Welfare recipients

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: 
Encouraging Work Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to consolidate and modify provisions of the work opportunity tax credit and the welfare-to-work tax credit and make the consolidated tax credit permanent. Expands eligibility for the consolidated tax credit by: (1) determining eligibility of ex-felons without regard to family income; and (2) raising the age ceiling for food stamp recipients from 25 to 40. Includes a &quot;designated community resident&quot; (in lieu of &quot;high risk youth&quot;) and &quot;long-term family assistance recipient&quot; as members of the targeted group eligible for the consolidated tax credit. Provides for an increased tax credit for employment of long-term family assistance recipients.
 
Repeals the separate welfare-to-work tax credit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
To require any amounts remaining in a Member's Representational Allowance at the end of a fiscal year to be deposited in the Treasury and used for deficit reduction or to reduce the Federal debt.

Bill: 109-hr-1273
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2005-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Budget deficits
Congressional allowances
Economics and Public Finance
Federal budgets
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
Public debt

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Requires any amounts appropriated for a Representational Allowance for a Member of the House of Representatives which remain after all payments are made under such Allowance to be deposited in the Treasury and used for deficit reduction or, in fiscal years for which there is no Federal budget deficit, to reduce the Federal debt.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on amyl-anthraquinone.

Bill: 109-hr-1274
Sponsor: Rep. Baird, Brian [D-WA-3]
Introduced: 2005-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2006, the duty on amyl-anthraquinone. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Working Parents Child Care Relief Act

Bill: 109-hr-1275
Sponsor: Rep. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2005-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adult day care
Caregivers
Cost of living adjustments
Day care
Disabled
Families
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Social Welfare
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: 
Working Parents Child Care Relief Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase to $6,000 the exclusion from the gross income of an employee for employer-paid dependent care assistance. Provides for an inflation adjustment to the exclusion amount for taxable years beginning in a calendar year after 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House