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Enhancing Drug Safety and Innovation Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3807
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Biomedical engineering
Clinical trials
Commerce
Conflict of interests
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Drug interactions
Drug utilization
Drugs
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Financial disclosure
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Labeling
Medical supplies
Medical technology
Pharmaceutical research
Product development
Product safety
Research centers
Risk
Science, Technology, Communications
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Enhancing Drug Safety and Innovation Act of 2006 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require an application for approval for a new drug or biological product to include a proposed risk evaluation and mitigation strategy, which must include: (1) labeling for the drug for use by health care providers; (2) submission of reports for the drug; and (3) a statement as to whether the analysis and surveillance are sufficient to assess the serious risks of the drug.
 
 Establishes within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the Reagan-Udall Institute for Applied Biomedical Research to advance the Critical Path Initiative to modernize medical product development, accelerate innovation, and enhance product safety. Requires the Institute to have a Board of Directors. Allows the Board to establish one or more Critical Path Institutes to conduct research, education, and outreach and to modernize the sciences of developing, manufacturing, and evaluating the safety and effectiveness of diagnostics, devices, biologics, and drugs.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to establish and administer a clinical trial registry database and a clinical trial results database. Requires a responsible part for a clinical trial to submit clinical trial information to the Director for inclusion in the databases.
 
Requires a member of a panel advising or recommending to the Secretary regarding FDA activities to disclose any financial involvements that the member may have. Directs the Secretary to recuse members with a high magnitude of financial involvement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 109-850.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8818-8819)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
action_date: 2006-02-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1531)
Joshua Omvig Veterans Suicide Prevention Act

Bill: 109-s-3808
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Afghanistan
Armed forces reserves
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Veterans Affairs
Employee training
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Health education
Housing and Community Development
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Law
Legislation
Medical research
Mental health services
Middle East and North Africa
Military dependents
Military operations
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Preventive medicine
Psychotherapy
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
South Asia
Suicide
Telephone
Veterans' medical care
Victims of crimes
Women
Women veterans

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Joshua Omvig Veterans Suicide Prevention Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to develop and implement a comprehensive program for reducing the incidence of suicide among veterans.
 
Requires the program to include: (1) a national mental health campaign to increase mental health awareness in the veteran community; (2) mandatory training on suicide and suicide prevention for appropriate Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employees and contractor personnel; (3) family education and peer support counseling; (4) veterans' health assessments, counseling, and access to mental health services; (5) suicide prevention counselors; (6) research on suicide prevention and on mental health of veterans who experienced sexual trauma; (7) 24-hour veterans' mental health care availability; and (8) a toll-free hotline.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) suicide among veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a serious problem; and (2) the Secretary should take into consideration the special needs of veterans suffering from PTSD in developing and implementing the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Jacqueline W. Coats.

Bill: 109-s-3809
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Provides for the relief of Jacqueline W. Coats.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S8820)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8819-8820)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
PACT Act

Bill: 109-s-3810
Sponsor: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Age
Business records
Cigarettes
Commerce
Criminal investigation
Customs administration
Drug abuse
Electronic commerce
Families
Federal preemption
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Identification devices
Imports
Injunctions
Inventories
Jurisdiction
Law
Local laws
Postal service
Science, Technology, Communications
Searches and seizures
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Smokeless tobacco
Smoking and youth
State laws
Tariff
Taxation
Tobacco industry
Tobacco tax
Undercover operations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act of 2006 or the PACT Act - Amends the Jenkins Act to: (1) include smokeless tobacco as a regulated substance; (2) impose shipping and recordkeeping requirements on delivery sellers (sellers using the telephone, mails, or the Internet) of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco; (3) require common carriers of cigarette products to obtain age and identity verification upon delivery of such products; (4) require the Attorney General to compile and publish a list of delivery sellers of cigarettes or smokeless tobacco who have not complied with the registration or other requirements of such Act; (5) increase criminal penalties and impose new civil penalties for violations of such Act; (6) grant jurisdiction to U.S. district courts to restrain violations of such Act and direct the Attorney General to administer and enforce such Act; and (7) treat cigarettes and smokeless tobacco as nonmailable and prohibit such items from being deposited in or carried through the U.S. mails.
 
Prohibits a tobacco product manufacturer or importer from selling or delivering in states cigarettes not in compliance with model or qualifying state statutes.
 
Provides funding for undercover criminal investigative operations of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
 
Authorizes ATF officers to enter the premises of certain cigarette shippers to inspect records and inventories.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S8821-8827)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8820-8821)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the payment of compensation to members of the Armed Forces and civilian employees of the United States who performed slave labor for Japanese industries during World War II, or the surviving spouses of such members, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-3811
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Class actions (Civil procedure)
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
East Asia
Evidence (Law)
Forced labor
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
History
Human rights
International Affairs
Japan
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal fees
Prisoners of war
Slavery
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' pensions
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to pay a specified amount of compensation to those members of the Armed Forces and U.S. civilian employees, or to the surviving spouses of such members and employees, who were captured by Japan and who were used as slave labor during World War II.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8827)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Tanning Accountability and Notification Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3812
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Barber and beauty shops
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Environmental Protection
Equipment and supplies
Eye diseases
Governmental investigations
Health
Product safety
Skin cancer
Skin diseases
Ultraviolet radiation
Warning labels

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Tanning Accountability and Notification Act of 2006 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to determine whether: (1) the labeling requirements for indoor tanning devices provide sufficient information to consumers regarding the risks that the use of such devices pose for the development of irreversible damage to the eyes and skin, including skin cancer; and (2) an additional warning would communicate such risks more effectively; or (3) there is no warning that would adequately communicate such risks. Requires the Secretary, in making such determinations, to: (1) conduct consumer testing using the best available methods for determining consumer understanding of label warnings; and (2) hold public hearings and solicit public comments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8827-8828)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Health Center Employee Health Coverage Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3813
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Community health services
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Labor and Employment
Medical personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Community Health Center Employee Health Coverage Act of 2006 - Expands the definition of "employee" for purposes of the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program to include an individual who is an employee of a federally qualified heath center, or a grantee providing technical or other assistance to such a center, that has elected to offer FEHB coverage. Requires such an employee to pay both the employee and agency contributions and administrative expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8828)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Home Oxygen Patient Protection Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3814
Sponsor: Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medical fees
Medical supplies
Medicare
Oxygen
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Home Oxygen Patient Protection Act of 2006 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to restore Medicare treatment of ownership of oxygen equipment that existed prior to the enactment of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005.

Repeals: (1) the limitation of Medicare payment to the supplier for such equipment (including portable oxygen equipment) to 36 months of continuous use; and (2) the requirement that the equipment supplier transfer title to the individual at the end of such period, with payments continuing at specified monthly rates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the shipment of tobacco products in the mail, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-3816
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Cigarettes
Fines (Penalties)
Law
Postal service
Smokeless tobacco
Taxation
Tobacco
Tobacco tax
United States Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Amends the Postal Reorganization Act to prohibit shipment in the mails of any tobacco product for purposes of sale. Applies that prohibition to the 48 contiguous states. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8829)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Match Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3817
Sponsor: Sen. Talent, Jim [R-MO]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Earned income tax credit
Income tax
Investment tax credit
Labor and Employment
Pension funds
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Match Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers and other individuals maintaining a retirement savings plan for certain low and moderate income individuals ($50,000 adjusted gross income limit for taxpayers filing joint returns) an investment tax credit for matching contributions of the first $2,000 in contributions to such plans. Sets forth rules relating to limits on matching contributions, eligibility of participating individuals, tax treatment of matching contributions, and penalties for matching contributions made on behalf of ineligible individuals. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Patent Reform Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3818
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Change of venue
Civil actions and liability
Damages
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Intellectual property
Inventions
Inventors
Law
Legal fees
Patent infringement
Patents
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Patent Reform Act of 2006 - Modifies conditions under which a patent may be obtained for an invention or discovery, including by: (1) defining &quot;inventor&quot; to include a joint inventor and coinventor; (2) making the effective filing date of a claimed invention the filing date of the patent or the patent application; and (3) revising procedures for patent interference disputes.

Renames the Board of Patent Appeals as the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Revises provisions relating to the Board's composition, duties, and authorities.

Revises requirements for an inventor's oath or declaration to allow substitute statements in specified circumstances (e.g., death, disability) and supplemental and corrected statements.

Allows a third party assignee (other than the inventor) or a person with a proprietary interest to file a patent application.

Modifies provisions relating to patent infringement litigation to: (1) allow increased damages for willful infringement; (2) grant attorney fees to a prevailing party in patent infringement litigation (unless the position of nonprevailing party is substantially justified); (3) specify permitted grounds for unenforceability of a patent; and (4) expand the prior user defense.

Allows a person who is not the patent owner to file a petition with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to cancel a patent as invalid (post-grant review). Sets forth procedures for the consideration of such petitions.

Allows third parties to submit documents relevant to the examination of a patent application.

Revises venue requirements for civil patent actions to allow actions to be brought in the judicial district where either party resides (currently, where the defendant resides). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8829-8832)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Strengthening the Safety Net Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3819
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Continuum of care
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Health planning
Hospitals
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medically uninsured
Performance measurement
Quality of care
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Strengthening the Safety Act of 2006 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide for the redistribution and extended availability of unexpended Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) allotments.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award demonstration grants to health access networks to improve access, quality, and continuity of care for uninsured individuals through better coordination of care.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S8832-8833)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8832)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Broadband for Rural America Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3820
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Broadband
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Agriculture
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Independent regulatory commissions
Internet
Law
Public-private partnerships
Radio spectrum allocation
Rural economic development
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Broadband for Rural America Act of 2006 - Establishes the Broadband Access Trust Fund. Establishes, in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Office of Broadband Access to coordinate the use of all Fund resources as those resources relate to the expansion of broadband technology into rural or unserved areas. Deposits into the Fund appropriations and one percent of the proceeds of frequency band auctions.
 
Amends provisions of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 relating to making or guaranteeing loans for broadband facilities and equipment in eligible rural communities to: (1) to extend the period for making or guaranteeing such loans; (2) modify the definition of &quot;eligible rural community;&quot; (3) remove provisions giving priority to communities in which residential broadband service is not available; and (4) modify loan eligibility criteria. Authorizes grants to provide broadband services.
 
Requires the FCC to issue a final order in the matter of 
Unlicensed Operation in TV Broadcast Bands.
 Sets forth requirements for the order, including that it allow certified unlicensed devices to use certain non-licensed television broadcast channels in rural areas.
 
Requires the FCC to initiate a proceeding to reconfigure its band plans: (1) for the upper 700 MHz band and the unauctioned portions of the lower 700 MHz band to designate up to 12 MHz of paired recovered analog spectrum; and (2) to include spectrum to be licensed for small geographic license areas.
 
Establishes the Rural Broadband Access Task Force to study broadband deployment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S8836-8839)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8833-8836)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Civil Rights Restoration Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3823
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Age discrimination
Civil actions and liability
Disabled
Discrimination against the disabled
Discrimination in employment
Equality before the law
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Labor and Employment
Law
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Civil Rights Restoration Act of 2006 - Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 and the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) to provide that a state's receipt or use of federal financial assistance for a program or activity shall constitute a waiver of sovereign immunity to a suit brought by a person aggrieved by that program or activity (or alleging a violation of ADA) for equitable, legal, or other relief authorized by or through such Acts. Abrogates a state's sovereign immunity for any suit brought by a person for such authorized relief for conduct that violates the 14th amendment and that also violates either such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S8842-8844)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8841-8842)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
National Park System Uniform Penalty Amendment Act

Bill: 109-s-3824
Sponsor: Sen. Talent, Jim [R-MO]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commemorations
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of the Interior
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Military parks
National monuments
National parks

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
National Park System Uniform Penalty Amendment Act - Provides for uniform penalties, enforced by the Secretary of the Interior, for violations of certain rules and regulations relating to the National Park System which may occur at a park, site, monument, memorial, or an area that is part of such System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate