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To establish the position of Northern Border Coordinator in the Department of Homeland Security.

Bill: 109-hr-1805
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Border patrols
Boundaries
Canada
Department of Homeland Security
Executive reorganization
Federal officials
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Immigration
International Affairs
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish within the Directorate of Border and Transportation Security the position of Northern Border Coordinator, who shall be responsible for: (1) increasing U.S.-Canadian border security; (2) improving agency coordination; (3) serving as primary liaison with State and local governments and law enforcement agencies; and (4) serving as liaison with the Canadian government.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Management, Integration, and Oversight.
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E781)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Private Prison Information Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1806
Sponsor: Rep. Strickland, Ted [D-OH-6]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Correctional institutions
Freedom of information
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Law
Prison administration
Prisoners' rights
Prisons

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Private Prison Information Act of 2005 - Provides that each nongovernmental entity contracting with the Federal Government to provide a prison or other correctional facility shall have the same duty to release information about its operation as a Government owned and run facility has under the Freedom of Information Act. Authorizes any party aggrieved by a violation of that duty to obtain relief in a civil action.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Community Environmental Equity Act

Bill: 109-hr-1807
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Carcinogens
Chemicals
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights enforcement
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Depressed areas
Discrimination
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Environmental justice
Federal aid programs
Government Operations and Politics
Hazardous wastes
Landfills
Law
Minorities
Pesticides
Potable water
Public health
Racial discrimination
Refuse and refuse disposal
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Community Environmental Equity Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit any entity that handles, manages, treats, releases, discharges, disposes, stores, transports, removes, moves, or delivers any covered substance from disproportionately exposing any person or community to such substance on the ground of race, color, national origin, or economic status. 
 
Defines &quot;covered substance&quot; to include: (1) any contaminant identified under the Safe Drinking Water Act; (2) any pesticide chemical under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; (3) any chemical listed as a known or probably human carcinogen under the National Toxicology Program of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); (4) any chemical substance or mixture regulated under the Toxic Substance Control Act; (5) any hazardous waste identified under the Solid Waste Disposal Act; (6) any pesticide registered under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act; (7) any air pollutant regulated under the Clean Air Act; and (8) such other contaminants, chemicals, materials, wastes, and substances as appropriate.
 
Requires such an entity to: (1) work in partnership with State and local government officials and the Federal Government to comply with this Act; and (2) address actual or potential disproportionate exposure of covered substances prior to pursuing authorization or approval to work with such substances.
 
Authorizes enforcement: (1) by denial or termination of authorization to work with covered substances; (2) by any other means authorized by law; and (3) for an entity receiving Federal financial assistance, through specified compliance provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Seniors' Retirement Recovery Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1809
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Dave [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Appropriations
Civil service retirement
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Health
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Law
Medicare
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Pension funds
Railroad retirement plans
Social Welfare
Social security beneficiaries
Survivors' benefits
Tax exclusion
Tax rates
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Seniors' Retirement Recovery Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the 85 percent maximum tax rate on Social Security and Railroad Retirement benefits enacted by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993. Appropriates, from the general fund, to the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund amounts equal to the reduction in revenues resulting from the repeal of the 85 percent rate.
 
Increases from 70 1/2 to 80 the age at which pension plan and individual retirement account beneficiaries must begin taking distributions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Alaska Federal Lands Management Demonstration Project Act

Bill: 109-hr-1810
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Animals
Auditing
Biological research
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Federal employees
Federal-Indian relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Fishing
Government Operations and Politics
Government service contracts
Hunting
Labor and Employment
Land use
Licenses
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Minority employment
National forests
National monuments
National parks
Native Americans
Planning
Science, Technology, Communications
Sports and Recreation
Tourism
Trails
Transfer of employees
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Wild rivers
Wilderness areas
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Alaska Federal Lands Management Demonstration Project Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct an Alaska Federal Lands Management Demonstration Project.
 
Requires the Secretary to select no fewer than six eligible, geographically representative tribes or tribal organizations per year (up to a maximum of 12) to perform administrative and management functions, construction, maintenance, data collection, biological research, and harvest monitoring on conservation system units in Alaska. Requires selected tribes to complete a planning phase before negotiating and contracting with the Secretary.
 
Excludes revenue-producing visitor services unless agreed to by the Alaska Native corporations most directly affected. Excludes the Denali National Park.
 
Provides for planning grants.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a demonstration project with the Koyukuk River Basin Moose Co-Management Team, Inc., for the provision of services at the Koyukuk and Kanuti National Wildlife Refuges.
 
Authorizes the use of intergovernmental personnel actions to assign Federal employees to the contractor while retaining their Federal employment status. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act

Bill: 109-hr-1811
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alaska
Armed Forces and National Security
Department of the Interior
Estates (Law)
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Indian claims
Indian lands
Indigenous peoples
Land transfers
Law
Minorities
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
Vietnam veterans

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act - Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) with respect to the open season during which certain Alaska Native Vietnam veterans are eligible to file for allotments of up to two parcels of Federal land totaling up to160 acres each. Ends such open season three years after final regulations are issued under this Act.
 
Revises the requirement that allotments may be selected only from lands that were vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved on the date when the person eligible for the allotment first used and occupied them. Allows allotments to be selected from vacant Federal lands or lands that have been selected or conveyed to the State of Alaska or a Native Corporation, if the State or Corporation voluntarily relinquishes or conveys to the United States for allotment.
 
Limits the prohibition against the conveyance of certain allotments to: (1) lands within the right-of-way granted for the TransAlaska Pipeline; or (2) the inner or outer corridor of that right-of-way withdrawal. Repeals the prohibition against conveying allotments containing wilderness lands, National Forest Lands, lands within a recorded mining claim, home sites, trade and manufacturing sites, reindeer sites, and cemetery sites, among others.
 
 
Limits the eligibilty for allotments to veterans who served between August 5, 1964, and May 7, 1975. Allows an heir to apply for and receive the allotment.
 
Allows a Native Corporation to select an equal amount of acres of appropriate Federal land within Alaska to replace lands voluntarily relinquished or conveyed to the United States for allotment.
 

 
Prescribes requirements for approval of allotment applications.
 
Permits any person who made an allotment selection under ANCSA before the enactment of this Act to withdraw it and reselect lands if those originally selected were not conveyed to that person before the enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E759)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in House
To require the payment of interest on amounts owed by the United States pursuant to the reliquidation of certain entries under the Tariff Suspension and Trade Act of 2000 and the Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 2004.

Bill: 109-hr-1813
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Bearings
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Finance and Financial Sector
Interest
Law
Tariff
Tomatoes

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Amends the Tariff Suspension and Trade Act of 2000 and the Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 2004 to require interest to be paid on the amounts owed by the United States pursuant to the liquidation or reliquidation of certain entries of antifriction bearings and tomato sauce preparation.
 
Requires the Commissioner of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection of the Department of Homeland Security to: (1) reliquidate each of such entries; and (2) provide payment of interest owed by the United States pursuant to the amendments made by this Act for the period beginning on the date of deposit of estimated duties and ending on the date of reliquidation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Export Freedom to Cuba Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1814
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Aliens
Caribbean area
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Cuba
Immigration
Latin America
Right to travel
Travel

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Export Freedom to Cuba Act of 2005 - Prohibits the President from regulating or prohibiting, directly or indirectly, travel to or from Cuba by U.S. citizens or legal residents, or any of specified transactions incident to such travel. 
Declares that: (1) this prohibition does not authorize the importation into the United States of any goods for personal consumption acquired in Cuba; and (2) the restrictions on authority contained in this Act do not apply in a case in which the United States is at war with Cuba, armed hostilities between the two countries are in progress, or there is imminent danger to the public health or the physical safety of U.S. travelers.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Truth in Employment Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1816
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-5]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee rights
Employee selection
Employers' liability
Industrial relations
Law
Unfair labor practices

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Truth in Employment Act of 2005 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to provide that nothing in specified prohibitions against unfair labor practices by employers shall be construed as requiring an employer to employ any person who seeks or has sought employment with the employer in furtherance of other employment or agency status. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Airport Screener Technology Improvement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1818
Sponsor: Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Air cargo
Airline passenger traffic
Airports
Aviation safety
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Explosives
Federal aid to transportation
Fees
Government trust funds
Infrastructure
Security measures
Terrorism
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Airport Screener Technology Improvement Act of 2005 - Amends Federal transportation law to increase for FY 2006 and 2007 the amount of security service fees (passenger fees) that are collected from passengers of air carriers and foreign air carriers in air transportation and intrastate air transportation and deposited into the Aviation Security Capital Fund. Increases amounts made available from such Fund for FY 2006 and 2007 for discretionary grants (with priority given to fulfill obligations under letters of intent to airport sponsors for airport security improvement projects).
 
Establishes the Checkpoint Screening Security Fund in the Department of Homeland Security. Makes a specified amount from the Aviation Security Capital Fund available for deposit into the Checkpoint Screening Security Fund. Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to impose a passenger fee and deposit amounts collected into such Fund.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity.
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2005-04-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E768-769)
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Payment Adjustment To Community Health Centers (PATCH) Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1819
Sponsor: Rep. Weller, Jerry [R-IL-11]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Ambulatory care
Clinics
Hospital rates
Medicare
Preventive medicine
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Medicare Payment Adjustment To Community Health Centers (PATCH) Act of 2005 - Amends part E (Miscellaneous) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise the definition of Federally qualified health center (FQHC) services to include certain services furnished by an FQHC for which payment may otherwise be made under Medicare if they were furnished by a health care provider or health care professional other than an FQHC. 
 
Repeals the limitation of such services to outpatients of an FQHC, extending them to all patients of an FQHC. Repeals the declaration that any reference to a rural health clinic is deemed a reference to an FQHC.
 
Ensures FQHC reimbursement for patients of hospitals and critical access hospitals under the hospital prospective payment system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-04-26
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: 2005-04-26
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: 2005-04-26
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: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor Act Amendments of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1820
Sponsor: Rep. Weller, Jerry [R-IL-11]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Architecture
Arts, Culture, Religion
Associations, institutions, etc.
Auditing
Boundaries
Canals
Citizen participation
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Exhibitions
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Illinois
Landowners
Landscape protection
Law
Maps
Michigan
Natural areas
Outdoor recreation
Public meetings
Regional economic development
Regional planning
Right of property
Sports and Recreation
Sunset legislation
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Tourism
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor Act Amendments of 2005 - Amends the Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor Act of 1984 to designate, upon the termination of the Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor Commission, the Canal Corridor Association to be the management entity for the Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor.
 
Requires the Association to develop and submit a proposed management plan for the Corridor to the Secretary of the Interior for approval.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical and financial assistance to the Association for the development and implementation of the management plan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-03
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2005-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in House