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Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1440
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular diseases
Exercise
Health counseling
Health education
Lung diseases
Medicare
Physicians
Respiratory diseases
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of items and services furnished under a cardiac rehabilitation or a pulmonary rehabilitation program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include wireless telecommunications equipment in the definition of qualified technological equipment for purposes of determining the depreciation treatment of such equipment.

Bill: 109-s-1441
Sponsor: Sen. Thomas, Craig [R-WY]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Antennas
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Electronics
Equipment and supplies
Income tax
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax deductions
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include wireless telecommunications equipment in the definition of qualified technological equipment for depreciation purposes. Defines &quot;wireless telecommunications equipment&quot; as equipment used in the transmission, reception, coordination, or switching of wireless telecommunications service, other than cell towers, buildings, T-1 lines or other cabling connecting cell sites to mobile switching centers. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8667)
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8667)
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to permit athletes to receive nonimmigrant alien status under certain conditions, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-1443
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Aliens
Associations, institutions, etc.
Athletes
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Labor and Employment
Law
Skilled labor
Sports and Recreation
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to enlarge the scope of P-1 (athletes and entertainers) nonimmigrant visas to include: (1) a professional athlete; (2) a person who performs as an athlete, coach, or part of a team that is located in the United States and is a member of certain amateur foreign leagues or associations from which a significant number of individuals are drafted by major sports leagues or their minor league affiliates; and (2) a professional or amateur athlete who performs individually or as part of a group in a theatrical ice skating production coming to the United States in a specific ice skating production or tour. (Currently such provision is limited to athletes performing at an &quot;internationally recognized level of performance.&quot;)
 
Eliminates consultation requirements applicable to the Secretary of Homeland Security's approval of such visas.
 
Requires the Secretary to permit a petition to seek P-1 classification for multiple alien athletes. Prohibits additional fees for such petitions.
 
Requires the Secretary to allow athletes or their employers to seek admission for such athletes under other than P-1 provisions of the Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8668-8669)
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Trade Adjustment Assistance for Industries Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1444
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Agriculture and Food
Agriculture in foreign trade
Commerce
Countervailing duties
Dumping
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Import relief
Labor and Employment
Law
Produce trade
Textile industry
Trade adjustment assistance
U.S. International Trade Commission

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
Trade Adjustment Assistance for Industries Act of 2005 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the Secretary of Labor, upon the request of the President, the U.S. Trade Representative, or of a congressional resolution, to initiate an investigation promptly to determine a petition for eligibility for trade adjustment assistance (TAA) by: (1) a group of workers (which may include workers from more than one facility or employer); or (2) all workers in an occupation.
 
Prescribes duties of the governor of such state in which the workers' firm or subdivision is located, and of the Secretary with respect to the petition and its investigation.
 
Repeals the requirement that the Secretary study a domestic industry whenever the International Trade Commission (ITC) begins investigations with respect to such industry.
 
Requires, before certain actions are taken, notification to appropriate individuals by: (1) the ITC regarding certain investigations, determinations, and bilateral safeguards; (2) the Commissioner of Customs regarding agricultural safeguards; (3) the President regarding textile safeguards; and (4) the ITC regarding antidumping and countervailing duties.
 
Requires the Secretary, upon receiving a request or a resolution on behalf of workers in a domestic industry or occupation, or upon receiving three or more of such TAA petitions within six months on behalf of such workers, to make an industry-wide determination with respect to the domestic industry or occupation in which the workers are or were employed. Requires the Secretary also, if TAA eligibility is not certified under such a determination, to make a determination of TAA eligibility regarding each group of workers in that domestic industry or occupation from which a petition was received.
 
Requires industry-wide certification, as appropriate, including industry-wide certification for agricultural commodity producers, to be based on specified global safeguards, bilateral safeguard provisions, or antidumping or countervailing duty orders.
 
Increases from $220 million to $440 million the total amount of fiscal year payments that may be made for training of adversely affected workers under the Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12404)
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8670-8672)
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8669-8670)
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1447
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Administrative procedure
Adoption
Agricultural cooperatives
Agriculture and Food
Alaska
Alternative energy sources
Aviation fuels
Bank holding companies
Boats and boating
Capital gains tax
Charitable contributions
Child support
Citizenship
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Department of the Treasury
Depreciation and amortization
Dividends
Energy
Engines
Estates (Law)
Excise tax
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Foreign tax credit
Gas pipelines
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Immigration
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Local taxation
Losses
Lumber trade
Minimum tax
Natural gas
Partnerships
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Railroads
Reforestation
Sales tax
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Sports and Recreation
State taxation
Stockholders
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax penalties
Tax rates
Tax returns
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Taxation of foreign income
Television programs
Transportation and Public Works
Trusts and trustees
Unrelated business income tax
Valuation
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2005 - Makes technical and clerical corrections to the Internal Revenue Code, including corrections to provisions enacted by: (1) the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004; (2) the Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2004; (3) the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003; (4) the Victims of Terrorism Tax Relief Act of 2001; (5) the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century; and (6) the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8672-8678)
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8672)
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment Improvement Act

Bill: 109-s-1448
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Families
Health
Iraq compilation
Mental health services
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Psychotherapy
Social Welfare
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment Improvement Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) establish a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) clinical team at every medical center of the Department of Veterans Affairs; (2) provide a certified family therapist for each Vet Center of the Department; and (3) appoint a PTSD coordinator within each Veterans Integrated Service Network and each Readjustment Counseling Service Region. Outlines duties of PTSD coordinators. Allows the Secretary to waive any requirement of this Act after congressional notification.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8680)
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8678-8680)
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in Senate
American Veterans Homeownership Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1449
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alaska
Armed Forces and National Security
California
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Mortgages
Oregon
Tax-exempt securities
Texas
Veterans' loans
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
American Veterans Homeownership Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) revise the definition of qualified veteran for purposes of the veterans' mortgage bond program to include all veterans who served on active duty regardless of date of service; (2) allow veterans to apply for financing under such bond program up to 25 years after the end of their active duty; and (3) revise volume limitations applicable to the issuance of such bonds in certain states.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Aspirin.

Bill: 109-s-1450
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Aspirin
Health
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on O-acetylsalicylic acid (Aspirin).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Desmodur IL.

Bill: 109-s-1451
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Commerce
Plastics
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on a specific toluene diisocyanate homopolymer dissolved in organic solvents (Desmodur E 14).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Desmodur E 14.

Bill: 109-s-1452
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Polymers
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on a specific linear aromatic polyurethane prepolymer based on toluene diisocyanate (Desmodur E 14).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Desmodur VP LS 2253.

Bill: 109-s-1453
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Commerce
Plastics
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on 3,5-Dimethylpyrazole-blocked hexamethylene diisocyante based adduct in organic solvent (Desmodur VP LS 2253).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Walocel MW 3000 PFV.

Bill: 109-s-1454
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Cellulose
Chemicals
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Methyl Hydroxyethyl Cellulose with a 30% or greater content of 2-hydroxyethyl methyl ether cellulose reaction products with glyoxal (Walocel MW 3000 PFV).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on XAMA 2.

Bill: 109-s-1455
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on 2,2-Bishydroxybutyl tris[3-1-aziridinyl)propionate) (XAMA 2).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on XAMA 7.

Bill: 109-s-1456
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Polyfunctional aziridin (XAMA 7).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the suspension of duty on Baytron C-R.

Bill: 109-s-1457
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Catalysis
Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2009, of the duty on certain aqueous catalytic preparations (Baytron C-R).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to temporarily suspend the duty on Baytron and Baytron P.

Bill: 109-s-1458
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Plastics
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to modify the article description of certain aqueous dispersions (Baytron and Baytron P) and to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on them.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on TSME.

Bill: 109-s-1459
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Ortho/Para Toluenesulfonic Acid Methyl Ester (TSME).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the suspension of duty on D-Mannose.

Bill: 109-s-1460
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Chemicals
Sugar
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2009, of the duty on D-Mannose.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Consumer Identity Protection and Security Act

Bill: 109-s-1461
Sponsor: Sen. Shelby, Richard C. [R-AL]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Commerce
Consumer complaints
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Federal Trade Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Identification devices
Identity theft
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Medical records

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
Consumer Identity Protection and Security Act - Requires a consumer reporting agency to place a security freeze on a private information file upon consumer request, subject to waiver by such consumer with respect to limited or temporary access to such file to a particular third party.
 
Identifies federal, state, and local agencies permitted access to such frozen information files. 
 
Grants the Federal Trade Commission and specified federal agencies enforcement powers for violations of this Act.
 
Empowers the consumer to file a civil action in any court if a consumer reporting agency violates the requirements of this Act.
 
Prohibits a consumer reporting agency from imposing service fees or charges for implementing the consumer security freeze requests authorized under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8680-8681)
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Drought Relief Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1463
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Disaster loans
Droughts
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Great Lakes
Law
Small Business Administration
Small business
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Small Business Drought Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Small Business Act to include within the definition of "disaster," for purposes of disaster loans provided to small businesses through the Small Business Administration (SBA), droughts and below average water levels in the Great Lakes or any other U.S. body of water that supports commerce by small businesses. Authorizes such loan assistance for farm- and nonfarm-related small businesses affected by droughts. Limits the amount that may be used during each of FY2005-FY2008 to provide drought disaster loans to non-farm related concerns. 
Requires the SBA to respond in writing to a State Governor regarding its determination concerning the provision of disaster loan assistance within 30 days after receiving such Governor's certification that small businesses in that State have suffered economic injury as a result of a disaster.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12941-12942)
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8682-8683)
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8682)
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in Senate
David Berger Memorial Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1464
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2005-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Athletes
Commemorations
Crime and Law Enforcement
Germany
International Affairs
Israel
Monuments and memorials
Ohio
Olympic games
Sports and Recreation
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: 
David Berger Memorial Act of 2005 - Amends the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978 to revise the legislative language designating the David Berger national memorial to state that the memorial is located in northeastern Ohio. (Current legislative language states that it is located at the Jewish Community Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio).


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

Bill: 109-s-1466
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, 2008, the duty on polyisocyante cross linking agent products containing triphenylmethane triisocyante (Desmodur R-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
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Walocel VP-M 20660.

Bill: 109-s-1467
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Cellulose
Chemicals
Public Lands and Natural Resources
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 Methyl Hydroxyethyl Cellulose with a 77% or greater content of 2-hydroxyethyl methyl ether cellulose (Walocel VP-M 20660).


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