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Taxpayer Privacy Protection Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5084
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-15]
Introduced: 2006-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Income tax
Right of privacy
Tax preparers
Tax returns
Taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: 
Taxpayer Privacy Protection Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) prohibit tax return preparers from disclosing income tax return information to another tax return preparer or to a contractor of a tax return preparer; and (2) repeal the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into qualified tax collection contracts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Introduced in House
American Broadband for Communities Act

Bill: 109-hr-5085
Sponsor: Rep. Inslee, Jay [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2006-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Broadband
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Licenses
Planning
Television broadcasting
Television frequency allocation
Television stations
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: 
American Broadband for Communities Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize the use of any unused broadcast television spectrum in the band between 54 and 698 megaHertz, other than between 608 and 614 megaHertz, by unlicensed devices, including wireless broadband devices. 
 
Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to: (1) adopt minimal technical and device rules to develop the use of such spectrum by such unlicensed devices; and (2) establish specified rules and procedures, including to protect incumbent licensed services from harmful interference from such unlicensed devices, and to address complaints from licensed broadcast stations that an unlicensed device using such spectrum causes harmful interference.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2633 11th Street in Rock Island, Illinois, as the "Lane Evans Post Office Building".

Bill: 109-hr-5086
Sponsor: Rep. LaHood, Ray [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2006-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
House of Representatives
Illinois
Members of Congress
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2633 11th Street in Rock Island, Illinois, as the "Lane Evans Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-04
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2006-05-04
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 5, United States Code, to increase the maximum age up to which an individual may be afforded health coverage under chapter 89 of such title as a dependent child.

Bill: 109-hr-5087
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2006-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Age
Disabled
Families
Federal employees
Government employees' health insurance
Health

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: 
Increases, from 22 to 30, the maximum age up to which an individual may be afforded health coverage under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program as a dependent child.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Introduced in House
Healthy Places Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5088
Sponsor: Rep. Solis, Hilda L. [D-CA-32]
Introduced: 2006-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Citizen participation
Community health services
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental health
Environmental monitoring
Environmental research
Epidemiology
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Health planning
Health surveys
Housing and Community Development
Land use
Medical research
Minorities
Minority health
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Quality of life
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: 
Healthy Places Act of 2006 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an interagency working group to discuss environmental health concerns, particularly concerns disproportionately affecting disadvantaged populations.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to establish a program at the National Center of Environmental Health at CDC focused on advancing the field of health impact assessment.
 
Requires the Director to develop guidance for the assessment of potential health effects of land use, housing, and transportation policy and plans.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director, to: (1) establish a program to provide funding and technical assistance to state or local governments affected or potentially affected by an activity or proposed activity to prepare health impact assessments; and (2) establish and maintain a health impact assessment database.
 
Requires the Director to establish a grant program to award grants to state or local communities for environmental health improvement activities. Requires grantees to: (1) establish a planning and prioritizing council; and (2) conduct environmental health assessment.
 
Requires the Secretary to provide grants to public or private nonprofit institutions to conduct and coordinate research on the built environment and its influence on individual and population-based health.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Introduced in House
Great Lakes Migratory Bird Research and Management Act

Bill: 109-hr-5089
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2006-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Animals
Canada
Fisheries
Fishery management
Fishing
Great Lakes
International Affairs
International agencies
Law
Licenses
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Migratory bird conservation
Research
Science, Technology, Communications
Sports and Recreation
Treaties
Wildlife management

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: 
Great Lakes Migratory Bird Research and Management Act - Amends the Great Lakes Fishery Act of 1956 to authorize the Great Lakes Fishery Commission to carry out activities relating to the investigation of migratory bird depredation on commercial and sport fisheries in the Great Lakes. 
 
Amends the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to require the Secretary of the Interior to issue permits to cooperating state, Provincial, Tribal, First Nation, and U.S. and Canadian federal agencies with migratory bird management authority, and signatory to a Memorandum of Understanding with the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, to manage and take migratory birds, for the purpose of control of depredation by such birds on commercial and sport fisheries in the Great Lakes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-26
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans.
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Manuel Bartsch.

Bill: 109-hr-5090
Sponsor: Rep. Gillmor, Paul E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2006-04-04 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: 
Makes Manuel Bartsch eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of a lawful permanent resident of the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act, upon payment of the required visa fees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Introduced in House
Henry J. Hyde Scholarships for Haiti Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5091
Sponsor: Rep. Lantos, Tom [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2006-04-05 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Americans in foreign countries
Caribbean area
Developing countries
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Foreign students
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Haiti
Haitians
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Literacy programs
Peace Corps
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: 
Henry J. Hyde Scholarships for Haiti Act of 2006 - Directs the President, acting through the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, to provide undergraduate scholarships, in the form of student loans followed by loan forgiveness, to needy Haitian students who, upon completion of their studies in the United States, promptly return to Haiti for a period at least one year longer than the duration of such scholarships. Authorizes appropriations for FY2007-FY2009.
 
Reserves a specified minimum amount of certain authorized development assistance appropriations under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for literacy and basic education programs in Haiti.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President, acting through the Director of the Peace Corps, should make available again to the Government of Haiti qualified Peace Corps volunteers who would serve under hardship conditions to: (1) assist the people of Haiti to improve literacy rates and meet other basic needs so that they can become economically self-sufficient; and (2) promote mutual understanding between the peoples of the United States and of Haiti.
 
 
Urges the President to: (1) design a program to match scholarship contributions from private and public sectors in either country; (2) seek to engage domestic and international businesses in Haiti to maximize the opportunities of returning scholarship recipients for the development of Haiti; and (3) provide the scholarships through existing scholarship programs, such as the Cooperative Association of States for Scholarships program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Introduced in House
Impact Aid Update Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5093
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Sue W. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2006-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Adult education
Armed Forces and National Security
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Impact aid
Labor and Employment
New York State
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
School districts
Secondary education
Service academies
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: 
Impact Aid Update Act of 2006 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to update the limitation on Impact Aid program special payments made to local educational agencies (LEAs) which serve school districts in which at least 60% of the real property is federally owned and there is a U.S. military academy.
 
Requires the Secretary of Education to make available a specified amount of FY2005 appropriations for vocational and adult education to increase the Impact Aid special payment to the LEA of Highland Falls, New York.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit deceptive altering or disguising of caller identification on outbound telephone calls.

Bill: 109-hr-5095
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2006-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Federal Trade Commission
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Restrictive trade practices
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: 
Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to promulgate a rule to prohibit, as an unfair or deceptive act or practice, making any outbound telephone call that alters, masks, or disguises, or employs any technology to alter, mask, or disguise, the automatic number identification of the caller, with the intent to deceive the person to whom the call is made.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Introduced in House
PDQ Act

Bill: 109-hr-5096
Sponsor: Rep. Berman, Howard L. [D-CA-28]
Introduced: 2006-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative remedies
Civil actions and liability
Damages
Department of Commerce
Discovery (Law)
District courts
Economics and Public Finance
Evidence (Law)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Injunctions
Intellectual property
Inventions
Judicial districts
Judicial review
Law
Liability (Law)
Parties to actions
Patent infringement
Patents
Punitive damages
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: 
Patents Depend on Quality Act of 2006 or PDQ Act - Allows a person to request that the grant or reissue of a patent be reconsidered by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) by filing an opposition seeking to invalidate one or more claims in the patent.
 
Requires the Director of USPTO to issue and publish a certificate, in accordance with the final decision by the panel of three administrative patent judges, canceling any claim of the patent determined to be unpatentable and incorporating into the patent any new or amended claims determined to be patentable.
 
Allows a third party to submit for consideration, and for inclusion in the record, prior art to determine whether the invention was known, used, in public use, or on sale or would have been obvious.
 
Provides that a third party requester whose request for a reexamination results in an order is not estopped from asserting a claim which the third party requester could have raised during such reexamination proceedings.
 
Allows treble damages only upon a finding of willful infringement of a patent. (Current law allows treble damages for any patent infringement.) Sets forth the grounds for a finding of willful infringement. 
 
Permits transfers of venue. Requires a court to stay an injunction pending appeal upon an affirmative showing that: (1) the stay would not result in irreparable harm to the owner of the patent; and (2) the balance of hardships from the stay does not favor the owner of the patent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E524-525)
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Introduced in House
To facilitate and expedite direct refunds to coal producers and exporters of the excise tax unconstitutionally imposed on coal exported from the United States.

Bill: 109-hr-5097
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Geoff [R-KY-4]
Introduced: 2006-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Coal
Energy
Excise tax
Exports
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Interest
Sales tax
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to refund a portion of the excise tax paid by certain coal producers on coal exported to a foreign country or shipped to a U.S. possession after October 1, 1990.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Introduced in House
College Debt Alleviation Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5098
Sponsor: Rep. Meehan, Martin T. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2006-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: College costs
Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Higher education
Income tax
Interest rates
Student loan funds
Tax deductions
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: 
College Debt Alleviation Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to: (1) extend the tuition and related expenses tax deduction through 2010; (2) increase the maximum eligible adjusted gross income (AGI) threshold from $65,000 to $80,000 (from $130,000 to $160,000 for a joint return); and (3) increase the deduction from $3,000 to $8,000. Revises the formula for determining the AGI for the purposes of this deduction.
 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to reduce student loan interest rates on federal PLUS loans and consolidation loans under the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) and Direct Loan programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2006-04-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2006-04-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2006-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Introduced in House
To authorize a major medical facility project for the Department of Veterans Affairs at Denver, Colorado.

Bill: 109-hr-5101
Sponsor: Rep. Beauprez, Bob [R-CO-7]
Introduced: 2006-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Building construction
Colorado
Construction costs
Health
Land transfers
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Veterans' hospitals

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a major medical facility project for a replacement facility for the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Denver, Colorado.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Drug Formulary Protection Act

Bill: 109-hr-5102
Sponsor: Rep. Becerra, Xavier [D-CA-31]
Introduced: 2006-04-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer education
Drugs
Generic drugs
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: 
Medicare Drug Formulary Protection Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit removal of covered part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) drugs from a prescription drug plan formulary, or imposition of a restriction or limitation on the coverage of such a drug, during the plan year: (1) except at the beginning; or (2) for an individual enrollee, from the date of enrollment until December 31 of the immediately succeeding plan year. Specifies exceptions to such prohibition. Requires an annual notice to enrollees of changes in formulary and other restrictions or limitations on coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-04-05
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: 2006-04-05
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: 2006-04-05
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: 2006-04-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Introduced in House