Hurricane Katrina Recovery, Reclamation, Restoration, Reconstruction and Reunion Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4197
Sponsor: Rep. Watt, Melvin L. [D-NC-12]
Introduced: 2005-11-02 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Absentee voting
Affordable housing
Afghanistan
Aid to dependent children
Alabama
Apprenticeship
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Automobile insurance
Automobiles
Bank capital
Bankruptcy
Block grants
Building construction
Business education
Cash welfare block grants
Checks
Child support
College costs
Colleges
Commerce
Community development
Community development banking
Construction industries
Construction workers
Counseling
Credit unions
Crime and Law Enforcement
Day care
Debtor and creditor
Deposit insurance
Disabled
Disaster insurance
Disaster loans
Disaster relief
Displaced persons
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic funds transfers
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Entrepreneurs
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal budgets
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government lending
Government procurement
Hazardous wastes
Health
Health insurance continuation
Higher education
Home ownership
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Housing discrimination
Housing finance
Housing subsidies
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Income tax
Indemnity
Infrastructure
Insurance premiums
Investments
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Loan defaults
Louisiana
Low-income housing
Medicaid
Middle East and North Africa
Military dependents
Military housing
Military occupation
Military personnel
Minimum wages
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Minority education
Mississippi
Mortgages
Occupational health and safety
Off-budget expenditures
Paraprofessional school personnel
Poverty
Preschool education
Public health
Public housing
Recruiting of employees
Refuse and refuse disposal
Rental housing
Scholarships
School buildings
Secondary education
Small business
Social Welfare
South Asia
Special education
Student aid
Student employment
Student loan funds
Tax credits
Tax-exempt securities
Taxation
Teacher supply and demand
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Unemployment insurance
Urban affairs
User charges
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' employment
Voter registration
Voting rights
Wages
Welfare eligibility
Women
Women in business
Youth employment

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: 
Hurricane Katrina Recovery, Reclamation. Restoration, Reconstruction and Reunion Act of 2005 - Hurricane Katrina Victim Restoration Fund of 2005 - Provides for the determination of eligibility for compensation for any individual (or relatives of a deceased individual) who sustained economic or noneconomic losses as a result of Hurricane Katrina so that the individual (or relatives) are restored as nearly as possible to their condition before Hurricane Katrina.
 
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to develop a Comprehensive Environmental Sampling and Toxicity Assessment Plan. 
 
Provides for federal and state government to notify hurricane survivors of health risks they may face upon returning to their domiciles.
 
Provides for the offer of alternative land and/or housing as compensation to residents whose homes or businesses have been destroyed or terminally compromised.
 
Revises the TANF Emergency Response and Recovery Act of 2005 to provide for reimbursement of states for Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) benefits provided under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act to families from other states affected by Hurricane Katrina.
 

 
Sets forth requirements relating to emergency extended unemployment compensation.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program of emergency health coverage continuation relief.
 

 
Sets forth housing and education requirements.
 

 
Displaced Citizens Voter Protection Provisions of 2005 - Prescribes requirements for the protection of voting rights of Katrina evacuees.
 
Prescribes requirements for: (1) regulatory relief for financial services; and (2) disaster loans and small business relief. 
 

 

 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for: (1) a tax credit for an eligible homebuyer who purchases a principal residence in the Hurricane Katrina disaster area; (2) an increase in the housing credit dollar amount; and (3) tax-exempt bonds for qualified Gulf Coast recovery projects.
 
Hurricane Katrina Bankruptcy Relief and Community Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the federal bankruptcy code to exempt victims of natural disasters, including small businesses, from certain requirements for debtors seeking relief.
 
Directs the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish a temporary flood insurance buy-in program.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should present, within six months, a plan to eradicate poverty in the United States by 2015.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2006-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2006-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2006-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2005-11-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and the Workforce, Small Business, Government Reform, and the Budget, 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: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and the Workforce, Small Business, Government Reform, and the Budget, 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: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and the Workforce, Small Business, Government Reform, and the Budget, 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: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and the Workforce, Small Business, Government Reform, and the Budget, 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: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and the Workforce, Small Business, Government Reform, and the Budget, 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: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and the Workforce, Small Business, Government Reform, and the Budget, 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: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and the Workforce, Small Business, Government Reform, and the Budget, 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: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and the Workforce, Small Business, Government Reform, and the Budget, 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: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and the Workforce, Small Business, Government Reform, and the Budget, 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: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Financial Services, Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and the Workforce, Small Business, Government Reform, and the Budget, 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: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House