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Streamlined Procedures Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1088
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2005-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Appellate courts
Appellate procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Evidence (Law)
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Habeas corpus
Judicial review
Law
Limitation of actions
Pardons
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
State courts
Victims of crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: 
Streamlined Procedures Act of 2005 - Amends the federal judicial code to revise the law and procedures for habeas corpus petitions.
 
Denies or restricts the jurisdiction of federal courts to hear habeas corpus petitions that: (1) have been procedurally barred in a state court; (2) are based upon errors in sentences or sentencing ruled as harmless error by a state court; (3) pertain to capital cases; or (4) challenge the exercise of a states's executive clemency or pardon power.
 
Revises deadlines for filing appeals to federal courts of state habeas corpus decisions.
 
Revises procedures for mixed habeas corpus petitions (petitions bringing claims exhausted and unexhausted in state court) to require petitioners to describe how they have exhausted each claim in state court. Requires unexhausted claims to be dismissed with prejudice. 
 
Limits the ability of habeas corpus petitioners to amend petitions or modify or add additional claims.
 
Requires any period in which a petitioner does not have a habeas corpus petition pending in a state court to be charged against the one year limitation period for filing a federal habeas corpus petition from a state court decision. 
 
Requires requests for financial support for petitioners in a habeas corpus proceeding to be decided by a judge other than the judge presiding over such proceeding. Requires any amount of financial support authorized by a judge to be publicly disclosed. 
 
Extends crime victims' rights to federal habeas corpus proceedings arising out of a state conviction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 109-366.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Committee consideration and Mark Up Session held.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Committee consideration and Mark Up Session held.
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Committee consideration and Mark Up Session held.
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5540-5543)
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
National Foreign Language Coordination Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1089
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2005-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Academic performance
Administrative procedure
Armed Forces and National Security
Business education
Career education
Commerce
Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Education
Educational research
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Executive reorganization
Federal-state relations
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government publications
Government publicity
Higher education
International competitiveness
International education
Internet
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Law
Legislation
Presidential appointments
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Teacher education
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: 
National Foreign Language Coordination Act of 2005 - Establishes the National Foreign Language Coordination Council to develop and implement a national foreign language strategy. Includes heads of certain federal agencies as members of the Council. 
 
Establishes a National Language Director, to be appointed by the President, to: (1) chair the Council; (2) develop and oversee implementation of the strategy; (3) establish formal relationships among major stakeholders, including federal, state, and local government agencies, academia, industry, labor, and heritage communities; and (4) coordinate and lead a public information campaign.
 
Requires the Council to consult with states to provide for designation of state contact persons. Encourages formation of state interagency councils, or designation of state lead agencies, to coordinate with the Council and state and local agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8207-8210)
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5544-5545)
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5543-5544)
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Liquefied Natural Gas Import Terminal Authorization Act

Bill: 109-s-1090
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Energy storage
Federal preemption
Federal-state relations
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Gas pipelines
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Imports
Liquefied natural gas
Marine terminals
Pipeline siting
Public meetings
State laws
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation safety

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: 
Liquefied Natural Gas Import Terminal Authorization Act - Amends the Natural Gas Act to prohibit siting, constructing, expanding, or operating a liquefied natural gas import terminal within a state unless: (1) an application to do so is submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and to the agency with siting authority in the state in which the liquefied natural gas import terminal is located; and (2) FERC and the state agency issue an order approving the application.
 
Sets forth terms and conditions for application approval.
 
Amends federal transportation law to permit a state to adopt additional or more stringent safety standards for liquefied natural gas pipeline facilities if those standards are compatible with the minimum standards prescribed under federal pipeline safety law.
 
Prohibits a state authority from adopting or continuing in force safety standards for interstate pipeline facilities or transportation, except in the case of liquefied natural gas pipeline facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
National Gasification Strategy Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1091
Sponsor: Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]
Introduced: 2005-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Air pollution control
Biomass energy
Carbon cycle
Coal
Construction costs
Department of Energy
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power production
Environmental Protection
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Forest products
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Law
Mercury
Natural gas
Nitrogen oxides
Petroleum
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Refuse as fuel
Smog
Sulphur dioxide
West (U.S.)
Wood

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: 
National Gasification Strategy Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a federal incentive program that provides loan guarantees and grants for either an integrated gasification combined cycle or an industrial gasification project that will: (1) gasify coal, biomass, or petroleum residues; (2) remove pollutants from the resulting gas; (3) use the resulting gas for industrial purposes or burn it in a turbine to generate electricity; and (4) remove pollutants from the resulting flue gas.
 

 

 
Directs the Secretary to provide financial assistance (including grants and loan guarantees) for a project to produce energy from coal mined in the western United States using appropriate advanced integrated gasification combined cycle technology, including repowering of existing facilities, that minimizes and offers the potential to sequester carbon dioxide emissions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Oil Shale Development Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1092
Sponsor: Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]
Introduced: 2005-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Citizen participation
Colorado
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Geology
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Oil shales
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Surety and fidelity
Technological innovations
Utah
West (U.S.)
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: 
Oil Shale Development Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) make available for leasing public land considered necessary to conduct research and development activities with respect to innovative technologies for the recovery of shale oil; (2) complete a programmatic environmental impact statement that analyzes potential leasing for commercial development of oil shale resources on public land; and (3) implement a national assessment of oil shale resources for the purposes of evaluating and mapping oil shale deposits, in specified geographic areas.
 
Declares that this Act does not preempt or affect any state water law or interstate compact relating to water.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Research and Development Investment Act

Bill: 109-s-1093
Sponsor: Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]
Introduced: 2005-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Appropriations
Authorization
Biomass energy
Commerce
Condominium (Housing)
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Cooperative housing
Department of Energy
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power production
Electric utilities
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Hydroelectric power
Income tax
Landfills
Methane
Minorities
Native Americans
Natural gas
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public utilities
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Solar energy
Subsidies
Sunset legislation
Tax credits
Taxation
Territories (U.S.)
Water Resources Development
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: 
Research and Development Investment Act - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to: (1) direct the Secretary of Energy, if there are insufficient appropriations in any given year, to assign 60 percent of appropriated funds under the renewable energy production incentive program to facilities that use solar, wind, geothermal, or closed-loop biomass to generate electricity; (2) redefine &quot;qualified renewable energy facility&quot;; (3) extend the eligibility period for payments under the program through FY2015; (4) include landfill gas as a renewable energy resource; and (5) extend the termination date and program funding through FY2025.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend the tax credit for production of electricity from certain renewable resources until 2011; (2) include incremental geothermal and hydropower facilities as qualified energy resources for purposes of such credit; (3) allow a tax credit for 10 percent of residential solar and geothermal energy property expenditures; and (4) delay the phaseout of the tax deduction for clean-fuel vehicles and the tax credit for qualified electric vehicles until 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Mineral Leasing Act Amendments of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1094
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2005-05-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Oil and gas leases

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: 
Mineral Leasing Act Amendments of 2005 - Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to revise the circumstances and reinstatement petition filing deadlines for reinstatement of an oil or gas lease that was cancelled: (1) during the period beginning on September 1, 2001, and ending on the date that is 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act; or (2) after the date that is 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
 
Declares that this Act shall not apply to a lessee that received a notice of lease termination from the Secretary within 13 months after termination of the lease.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Telecommuter Tax Fairness Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1097
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commuter tax
Double taxation
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Residence requirements
Science, Technology, Communications
State taxation
Tax exemption
Telecommuting
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Telecommuter Tax Fairness Act of 2005 - Restricts a State from imposing its income tax on the salary of a nonresident individual employed in such State to the period when such individual is physically present and working in such State. Prohibits a State from deeming such an individual to be present or working in such State on the grounds that such individual is present or working at home (in another State) for the individual's convenience.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5782)
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5781-5782)
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Student Loan Abuse Prevention Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1098
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Charities
Disabled
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Higher education
Interest rates
Mathematics
Nonprofit organizations
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Student loan funds
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Student Loan Abuse Prevention Act of 2005 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 as amended by the Taxpayer-Teacher Protection Act of 2004 (HEA) to reduce special allowance payments to holders of student loans by making permanent the ending of a 9.5% minimum guaranteed rate of return to such holders.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to give incentives, in the form of certain reductions in principal or interest rate, to borrowers to consolidate any current loans for which the holder is entitled to a special allowance that ensures such a 9.5 rate of return, provided such an incentive does not increase the cost of such loan to the federal government.
 
Increases to $23,000 the maximum amount of student loan forgiveness under the Federal Family Education Loan and the Federal Direct Student Loan programs for certain eligible teachers of: (1) mathematics or science in secondary schools; and (2) special education in elementary and secondary schools.
 
Directs the Secretary to use funds available from reduced expenditures resulting from this Act's reduction of special allowances to loan holders, as follows: (1) first, for the student loan cancellation and forgiveness programs for teachers under HEA as amended by this Act; and (2) then, the remainder for payments to nonprofit lenders meeting certain criteria and using such payments to confer grant or scholarship benefits on students eligible for Federal Pell Grants. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 113.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Tax Simplification Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1099
Sponsor: Sen. Shelby, Richard C. [R-AL]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil service retirement
Commerce
Congress
Congressional voting
Corporation taxes
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Estate tax
Excise tax
Executive compensation
Families
Flat-rate tax
Gift tax
Government Operations and Politics
House rules and procedure
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Legislation
Legislative amendments
Legislative resolutions
Local employees
Minimum tax
Pension funds
Retirement income
Self-employed
Senate rules and procedure
Social Welfare
State employees
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax expenditures
Tax penalties
Tax rates
Tax simplification
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Tax-exempt organizations
Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Tax Simplification Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to replace the marginal income tax rates with a single rate of 19 percent (17 percent after December 31, 2007) on individual taxable income. 
Redefines "taxable income" to mean the amount by which wages, retirement distributions, and unemployment compensation exceed the standard deduction. Increases the basic standard deduction and includes an additional standard deduction for dependents. Includes in taxable income the taxable income of each dependent child under the age of 14. 
Replaces the current tax on corporations with a tax on every person engaged in a business activity equal to 19 percent (17 percent after December 31, 2007) of the business taxable income of such person. Makes the person engaged in the business activity liable for the tax, whether or not such person is an individual, a partnership, or a corporation. 
Imposes a tax of 19 percent (17 percent after December 31, 2007) on the value of excludable compensation provided during the year by an employer for the benefit of employees. Makes the employer liable for the tax. 
Repeals pension plan rules relating to : (1) non-discrimination; (2) contribution limits; and (3) restrictions on distributions. Revises rules relating to transfers of excess pension assets. 
 
Repeals: (1) the alternative minimum tax; (2) all income tax credits; (3) estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes; and (4) income tax provisions, except certain provisions relating to retirement distributions and tax-exempt organizations. 
 
 Declares it not in order in the House of Representatives or the Senate, unless waived or suspended by a three-fifths vote, to consider any legislation that increases or adds an income tax rate, reduces the standard deduction, or provides any exclusion, deduction, credit, or other benefit that reduces federal revenues.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5782-5784)
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5782)
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Songwriters Capital Gains Tax Equity Act

Bill: 109-s-1100
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Capital gains tax
Charitable contributions
Copyright
Income tax
Intellectual property
Music
Tax deductions
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Songwriters Capital Gains Tax Equity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to define certain self-created musical works or copyrights in musical works as capital assets eligible for capital gains tax treatment.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Head Start Access for Homeless and Foster Children Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1101
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child abuse
Child health
Child welfare
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational research
Elementary and secondary education
Employee training
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Family violence
Federal aid to education
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Grandparents
Health
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Infants
Law
Mental health services
Poor children
Preschool education
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Improving Head Start Access for Homeless and Foster Children Act of 2005 - Amends the Head Start Act to include consideration of the needs of homeless children, children in foster care, and children referred by child welfare agencies under specified requirements for Head Start and Early Head Start programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5785-5786)
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5784-5785)
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the aviation war risk insurance program for 3 years.

Bill: 109-s-1102
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Airlines
Aviation insurance
Crime and Law Enforcement
Finance and Financial Sector
International Affairs
Terrorism
War risk insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Amends federal transportation law to extend through December 31, 2008, the Secretary of Transportation's authority to: (1) issue war risk insurance policies to air carriers; and (2) certify that an air carrier is a victim of an act of terrorism and not liable for losses suffered by third parties that exceed $100 million, as well as immunity from punitive damages (with the federal government responsible for any liability above $100 million). 

action_date: 2006-03-27
text: 

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

 
Amends federal transportation law to extend through December 31, 2008, the Secretary of Transportation's authority to: (1) issue war risk insurance policies to air carriers; and (2) certify that an air carrier is a victim of an act of terrorism and not liable for losses suffered by third parties that exceed $100 million, as well as immunity from punitive damages (with the federal government responsible for any liability above $100 million). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-27
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 377.
action_date: 2006-03-27
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Stevens without amendment. With written report No. 109-223.
action_date: 2006-03-27
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Stevens without amendment. With written report No. 109-223.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5787)
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5787)
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate