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A bill to reduce temporarily the duty on Crelan VP LS 2147 (self-blocked cycloaliphatic polyuretdione).

Bill: 109-s-1468
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Polymers
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce, through December 31, 2009, the duty on Crelan VP LS 2147 (self-blocked cycloaliphatic polyuretdione).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Desmodur BL XP 2468.

Bill: 109-s-1469
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Polymers
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on copolymer of methyl ethyl ketoxime and toluenediisocyanate (Desmodur BL XP 2468).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Desmodur HL.

Bill: 109-s-1470
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Commerce
Plastics
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Desmodur HL (aromatic polyisocyanate based on toluene diisocyanate (TDI) and hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) dissolved in n-butyl acetate).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Desmodur RF-E.

Bill: 109-s-1471
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on mixtures of tris(4-isocyanatophenyl) thiophosphate, ethyl acetate, and monochlorobenzene (Desmodur RF-E).
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Commercial Fishermen Safety Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1473
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2005-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Equipment and supplies
Fishing boats
Health
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine safety
Occupational health and safety
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: 
Commercial Fishermen Safety Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow commercial fishermen a business tax credit for up to 75 percent of the cost of certain fishing safety equipment. Limits the annual amount of such credit to $1,500.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8752)
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 to clarify the Permanent University Fund arbitrage exception and to increase from 20 percent to 30 percent the amount of securities and obligations benefitting from the exception.

Bill: 109-s-1474
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2005-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Dividends
Earnings
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Securities regulation
State laws
Tax-exempt securities

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: 
Amends the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 to modify the special arbitrage rule pertaining to specified securities or obligations held in a fund which cannot be used under state law restrictions continuously in effect since October 9, 1969, to pay debt service on the bond issue or to finance the facilities that are to be financed with the proceeds of the bonds. Changes the effective date of such state law restrictions from October 9, 1969, to March 1, 1985, and requires that they be continuously in effect only through the bond issue's date of issue.
 
Extends such rule, as an alternative, to specified securities or obligations held in a fund whose annual distributions cannot exceed 7% of the average fair market value of the assets held in the fund, except to the extent distributions are necessary to pay debt service on the bond issue.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on cyclopentanone.

Bill: 109-s-1475
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2005-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on cyclopentanone.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on glyoxylic acid.

Bill: 109-s-1476
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2005-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on glyoxylic acid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Caribbean National Forest Preservation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1477
Sponsor: Sen. Martinez, Mel [R-FL]
Introduced: 2005-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boundaries
Caribbean area
Economics and Public Finance
Land transfers
National forests
Puerto Rico
Tropical forests
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: 
Caribbean National Forest Preservation Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire, by donation or purchase, from willing sellers tracts of land intended to assist in the consolidation of lands within or adjacent to the boundaries of the Caribbean National Forest in Puerto Rico. Requires the Secretary to adjust the boundaries of the Caribbean National Forest to include acquired lands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Educational Opportunities for All Act

Bill: 109-s-1478
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2005-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
English language
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Housing and Community Development
Indian education
Minorities
Minority education
Rural education
Social Welfare
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: 
Improving Educational Opportunities for All Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to include as high need local educational agencies (LEAs), for purposes of teacher quality enhancement grants, LEAs that serve an elementary school or secondary school located in an area in which there is a rural population or a high percentage of minority students, students with limited English proficiency, or Native American students.

Revises an HEA program for Hispanic-serving institutions to eliminate: (1) a requirement that such institutions provide assurances that at least 50% of their Hispanic students are low-income individuals; and (2) a two-year wait-out period between grants (thus permitting such an institution to apply for a subsequent five-year grant award immediately after the expiration of its most recent five-year award). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8829)
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8828-8829)
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Lyme and Tick-borne Disease Prevention, Education, and Research Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1479
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2005-07-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Bacterial diseases
Communication in medicine
Communication in science
Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Education
Epidemiology
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health education
Health surveys
Higher education
Lyme disease
Medical education
Medical laboratories
Medical research
Medical tests
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: 
Lyme and Tick-borne Disease Prevention, Education, and Research Act of 2005 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the Tick-Borne Diseases Advisory Committee. Requires the Committee to advise the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Health regarding how officials can: (1) ensure interagency coordination and communication and minimize overlap regarding efforts to address tick-borne diseases; (2) identify opportunities to coordinate efforts with other federal agencies and private organizations addressing such diseases; (3) ensure interagency coordination and communication with constituency groups; (4) ensure that a broad spectrum of scientific viewpoints is represented in public heath policy decisions and that information disseminated to the public and physicians is balanced; and (5) advise relevant federal agencies on priorities related to Lyme and tick-borne diseases.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the appropriate federal officials, to provide for the coordination of all federal programs and activities related to Lyme and other tick-borne diseases, including: (1) developing sensitive and accurate diagnostic tools and tests, (2) improving the efficient utilization of diagnostic testing currently available; (3) accurately determining the prevalence of such diseases; (4) evaluating the feasibility of creating a national uniform reporting system; (5) providing and promoting access to a clearinghouse of information on such diseases; (6) increasing public education related to such diseases; (7) creating a physician education program; (8) establishing epidemiological research objectives to determine the long term course of illness for Lyme disease; and (9) determining the effectiveness of different treatment modalities by establishing treatment outcome objectives.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8829-8831)
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to establish the treatment of actual rental proceeds from leases of land acquired under an Act providing for loans to Indian tribes and tribal corporations.

Bill: 109-s-1480
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Agricultural credit
Agriculture and Food
Finance and Financial Sector
Indian lands
Leases
Minorities
Real estate appraisal
Rent

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Provides that any actual rental proceeds certified by the Secretary of the Interior from the lease of land acquired with a Farmers Home Administration Direct Loan by an Indian tribe or tribal corporation shall be deemed to: (1) constitute the rental value of that land; and (2) satisfy the requirement for appraisal of that land.

action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Provides that any actual rental proceeds certified by the Secretary of the Interior from the lease of land acquired with a Farmers Home Administration Direct Loan by an Indian tribe or tribal corporation shall be deemed to: (1) constitute the rental value of that land; and (2) satisfy the requirement for appraisal of that land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9053-9055; text as passed Senate: CR S5903)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S9053-9055; text as passed Senate: CR S5903)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Act of August 9, 1955, to provide for binding arbitration for Gila River Indian Community Reservation Contracts.

Bill: 109-s-1482
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Arizona
Commerce
Commercial arbitration
Contracts
Indian lands
Law
Leases
Minorities

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Amends federal Indian law to provide for binding arbitration for Gila River Indian Community Reservation contracts (including leases, as currently covered by such law).

action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Amends federal Indian law to provide for binding arbitration for Gila River Indian Community Reservation contracts (including leases, as currently covered by such law).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9053-9055; text as passed Senate: S9054)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S9053-9055; text as passed Senate: S9054)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998 to modify the definition of "Indian student count".

Bill: 109-s-1483
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Continuing education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Indian education
Labor and Employment
Minorities
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Amends the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998 with respect to grants to tribally controlled postsecondary vocational and technical institutions that are not receiving federal support under the Tribally Controlled College or University Assistance Act of 1978 or the Navajo Community College Act to provide basic support for the education and training of Indian students.
 
Revises the definition of &quot;Indian student count&quot; (essential to the formula for the determination of grant amounts).

action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Amends the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998 with respect to grants to tribally controlled postsecondary vocational and technical institutions that are not receiving federal support under the Tribally Controlled College or University Assistance Act of 1978 or the Navajo Community College Act to provide basic support for the education and training of Indian students.
 
Revises the definition of &quot;Indian student count&quot; (essential to the formula for the determination of grant amounts).
 
 Requires the Indian student count to be determined according to a specified formula, for each academic year, on the basis of the enrollments of Indian students as in effect at the conclusion of the third week of the fall term and the third week of the spring term. Allows the counting of students without secondary school degrees under certain circumstances. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9053-9055; text as passed Senate: S9054)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S9053-9055; text as passed Senate: S9054)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Act of August 9, 1955, to extend the authorization of certain leases.

Bill: 109-s-1485
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: California
Indian lands
Kansas
Leases
Minorities
Nevada
Oregon
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Amends federal Indian law to authorize 99-year leases of land: (1) in the reservation of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation; (2) in the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation and held in trust for the Muckleshoot Indian tribe; and (3) held in trust for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, for the Fallon Paiute Shoshone tribes, for the Yurok tribe, and for the Hopland Band of Pomo Indians of the Hopland Rancheria.

action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Amends federal Indian law to authorize 99-year leases of land: (1) in the reservation of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation; (2) in the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation and held in trust for the Muckleshoot Indian tribe; and (3) held in trust for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, for the Fallon Paiute Shoshone tribes, for the Yurok tribe, and for the Hopland Band of Pomo Indians of the Hopland Rancheria.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9053-9055; text as passed Senate: S9055)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S9053-9055; text as passed Senate: S9055)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the suspension of duty on Baytron M.

Bill: 109-s-1486
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2009, of the duty on 3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene (Baytron M).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Sorafenib.

Bill: 109-s-1487
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Drugs
Health
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on Sorafenib tosylate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Second Amendment Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1488
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Ammunition
Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Arms sales
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Firearms
Firearms control
Foreign Trade and International Finance
International agencies
Taxation
United Nations
United Nations finances

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Second Amendment Protection Act of 2005 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should not provide financial support to international entities that abridge the constitutionally protected rights of law-abiding U.S. citizens to keep and bear arms. 
 
Prohibits U.S. funding to the United Nations for a fiscal year unless the President certifies to Congress that the United Nations has not taken action to restrict or otherwise adversely infringe upon the rights of U.S. individuals to possess a firearm or ammunition, including the imposition of a tax that will interfere with the right to own a firearm or ammunition. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9150)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate