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DNA Fingerprinting Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2796
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Mark [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Arrest
Child sexual abuse
Criminal justice information
DNA
Data banks
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Limitation of actions
Prosecution
Rape
Science, Technology, Communications
Searches and seizures
Sex crimes
Sex offenders
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
DNA Fingerprinting Act of 2005 - Amends the DNA Identification Act of 1994 to expand the scope of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) samples to be included in the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). Repeals exclusions from CODIS of: (1) DNA profiles from arrestees who have not been charged in an indictment or information with a crime; and (2) DNA samples that are voluntarily submitted solely for elimination purposes. Repeals provisions regarding: (1) requirements for expungement of DNA analysis from CODIS in cases where the convictions are overturned; and (2) authority for any person who is authorized to access CODIS for purposes of including DNA information to access it to carry out a one-time keyboard search.
 
Amends the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 to authorize the Attorney General to: (1) collect DNA samples from individuals who are arrested or detained under U.S. authority; (2) delegate this function within the Department of Justice; and (3) authorize and direct any other U.S. agency that arrests or detains individuals or supervises individuals facing charges to carry out any function and exercise any power of the Attorney General.
 
Repeals the exception of sexual abuse cases from provisions providing for the tolling of the statute of limitations in cases in which DNA testing implicates an identified person in the commission of a felony.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Aime Zyla Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2797
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Mark [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child sexual abuse
Criminal justice information
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Juvenile delinquency
Rape
Sex crimes
Sex offenders
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Aime Zyla Act of 2005 - Amends the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act to extend registration requirements to any person adjudicated a juvenile delinquent for conduct that would be an offense requiring registration if committed by an adult.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the disinterment from the American Ardennes Cemetery at Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium of the remains of Sergeant Roaul R. Prieto, who died in combat in April 1945, and to authorize the transfer of his remains to his next of kin.

Bill: 109-hr-2798
Sponsor: Rep. Bono, Mary [R-CA-45]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Army
Belgium
Cemeteries and funerals
Europe
Families
History
Military personnel
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Army and the American Battle Monuments Commission to authorize the next of kin of Sergeant Roaul R. Prieto, U.S. Army, to disinter his remains from the American Ardennes Cemetery, Belgium, and to take custody of such remains. Prohibits the use of Federal funds for such disinterment and transfer of custody.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Rachel Granger Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2799
Sponsor: Rep. Bradley, Jeb [R-NH-1]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Families
Health
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security eligibility
Terminally ill
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Rachel Granger Act of 2005 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to authorize waivers by the Commissioner of Social Security of the five-month waiting period for entitlement to benefits based on disability in cases in which the Commissioner determines that such waiting period would cause undue hardship to terminally ill beneficiaries. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
To designate the State Route 1 Bridge in the State of Delaware as the "Senator William V. Roth, Jr. Bridge".

Bill: 109-hr-2800
Sponsor: Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Bridges
Canals
Congress
Congressional tributes
Delaware
Ex-Members of Congress
Names
Senate
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Designates the State Route 1 Bridge over the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in Delaware as the &quot;Senator William V. Roth, Jr. Bridge.&quot;
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Up-Skilling Tax Credit Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2801
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Jim [D-FL-11]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Costs
Employee training
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax credits
Technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Up-Skilling Tax Credit Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a general business tax credit for up to 20 percent of the cost of technical training for employees performing services in a trade or business of the taxpayer. Limits the amount of the credit to $1,000 for each employee, reduced by credit amounts for all prior taxable years. Terminates the credit after 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Drug Testing Integrity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2802
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Commerce
Drug abuse
Drug testing
Fraud
Restrictive trade practices

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Drug Testing Integrity Act of 2005 - Declares it is unlawful to: (1) knowingly manufacture, market, sell, ship, or otherwise provide to another individual any product with the intent to assist the use of such product to defraud a drug test (that is, to submit a substance that purports to be from an individual other than its actual source, or purports to have been excreted or collected other than when it was actually excreted or collected); or (2) engage in any other conduct with the intent to produce a false or misleading outcome of a test for the presence of a controlled substance.
 
Grants the Federal Trade Commission enforcement powers as a violation of an unfair or deceptive act or practice.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
FHA Manufactured Housing Loan Modernization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2803
Sponsor: Rep. Feeney, Tom [R-FL-24]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Economics and Public Finance
Evidence (Law)
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Law
Mobile homes
Mortgage banks
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgages
Prefabricated buildings
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
FHA Manufactured Housing Loan Modernization Act of 2005 - Amends the National Housing Act with respect to Federal Housing Administration (FHA) housing loan insurance for manufactured homes (or lots for such homes) to: (1) exempt such loans from certain financial institution portfolio limits; (2) establish loan-to-value ratio and downpayment requirements; (3) provide that any such contract shall be conclusive evidence of an institution's insurance eligibility; (4) increase loan limits; (5) set forth borrower premium charges; and (6) direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish underwriting criteria that will ensure the manufactured housing program's financial soundness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
ADA Notification Act

Bill: 109-hr-2804
Sponsor: Rep. Foley, Mark [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Architecture and the disabled
Civil actions and liability
Civil rights enforcement
Disabled
Discrimination against the disabled
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Injunctions
Jurisdiction
Law
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation and the disabled

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
ADA Notification Act - Amends the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 to deny jurisdiction to a court in a civil action for remedies for disability discrimination unless: (1) the plaintiff notified the defendant in writing of the alleged violations prior to filing the complaint; (2) the notice identified the specific facts that constitute the alleged violation; (3) 90 or more days has elapsed after the date on which the notice was provided; (4) the notice informed the defendant that the civil action could not be commenced for 90 days; and (5) the complaint states that the defendant has not corrected the alleged violation.
 
Excludes civil actions seeking preliminary injunctive relief or temporary restraining orders from such notification requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Labor to revise regulations concerning the recording and reporting of occupational injuries and illnesses under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.

Bill: 109-hr-2805
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Business records
Commerce
Contractors
Department of Labor
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Law
Medical records
Occupational health and safety
Temporary employment

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to revise certain regulations under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 so as to require site-controlling employers to keep a site log for all recordable injuries and illnesses occurring among all employees on the particular site, whether such employees are employed directly by the site-controlling employer or are employed by contractors or temporary help or employee leasing services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
To reduce temporarily the duty on Paraquat Dichloride.

Bill: 109-hr-2806
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Herbicides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce, through December 31, 2006, the duty on Paraquat Dichloride (1,1'dimethyl-4,4'-bipyridinium dichloride).
 
Provides for an increase in such duty on January 1, 2007, through December 31, 2007, and another increase on January 1, 2008, through December 31, 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Telehealth Enhancement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2807
Sponsor: Rep. Hulshof, Kenny C. [R-MO-9]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Arts, Culture, Religion
Authorization
Chronically ill
Clinics
Colleges
Commerce
Community health services
Computer networks
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Equipment and supplies
Federal aid to health facilities
Foundations
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Governmental investigations
Health education
Higher education
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Libraries
Medical education
Medical records
Medicare
Mental care facilities
Nonprofit organizations
Nursing
Nursing homes
Quality of care
Rural economic development
Rural health
School health programs
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Statistics
Technology assessment
Telemedicine

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Medicare Telehealth Enhancement Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act regarding telehealth services (services furnished via a telecommunication system by a physician to an enrolled individual) to: (1) remove current geographic restrictions on the provision of such services; (2) add to the facilities authorized to participate in the telehealth program; and (3) direct the Secretary to encourage and facilitate multistate practitioner licensure across state lines to facilitate the program.
 
Directs the Secretary to make grants for expanding access to health care services for individuals in rural areas, frontier areas, and urban medically underserved areas through the use of telehealth.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize telehealth network and telehealth resource centers grant programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-06-08
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: 2005-06-08
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: 2005-06-08
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: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
To temporarily suspend the duty on Carfentrazone.

Bill: 109-hr-2809
Sponsor: Rep. LaHood, Ray [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Pesticides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on Carfentrazone. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on 3-(Ethylsulfonly)-2-pyridinesulfonamide.

Bill: 109-hr-2810
Sponsor: Rep. LaHood, Ray [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2009, of the duty on 3-(Ethylsulfonly)-2-pyridinesulfonamide.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Repairing Young Women's Lives Around the World Act

Bill: 109-hr-2811
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Health
Maternal health services
Obstetrics
Preventive medicine
Surgery
United Nations
United Nations finances
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Repairing Young Women's Lives Around the World Act - Authorizes appropriations to be used only for U.S. voluntary contributions to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for prevention and repair of obstetric fistula.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1176)
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 39, United States Code, to make cigarettes and certain other tobacco products nonmailable.

Bill: 109-hr-2813
Sponsor: Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Cigarettes
Commerce
Drug abuse
Fines (Penalties)
Law
Mail-order business
Postal service
Smokeless tobacco
Tobacco
United States Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Amends federal postal law to make all types of tobacco products nonmailable. Includes as tobacco products cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, pipe tobacco, and roll-your-own tobacco.
 
Requires tobacco products attempted to be mailed to be disposed of as the Postal Service directs.
 
Provides a civil penalty for each mailing violation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
College Access and Affordability Act

Bill: 109-hr-2815
Sponsor: Rep. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ-13]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Bilingualism
Child welfare
College costs
Cost of living adjustments
Crime and Law Enforcement
Depressed areas
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Federal aid to education
Fire fighters
Government lending
Health
Higher education
Indexing (Economic policy)
Law enforcement officers
Mathematics
Nurses
Nursing education
Paramedical personnel
Police
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Social work
Special education
Student loan funds
Tax credits
Teacher education
Teachers
Tuition tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
College Access and Affordability Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase to $4,000 the maximum amount of qualified tuition and related expenses eligible for the Hope Scholarship Credit and adjust such amount for inflation beginning in 2006; (2) increase to $58,000 the modified adjusted gross income threshold for determining reductions in the allowable amount of the Hope Scholarship Credit; and (3) increase from two to four the number of years a Hope Scholarship Credit may be claimed. 
 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for student loan forgiveness up to $20,000 for individuals in qualified public service positions who are not in default of their loan obligations. Defines &quot;qualified public service positions&quot; to include: (1) highly qualified teachers of mathematics, science, and bilingual and special education in low-income communities; (2) firefighters, police officers, or emergency medical technicians serving low-income communities; (3) nurses serving low-income communities; and (4) public or private child welfare workers. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-06-08
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: 2005-06-08
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: 2005-06-08
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: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House