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Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 109-s-429
Sponsor: Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Arts, Culture, Religion
Auditing
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Connecticut
Cultural property
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Exhibitions
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Land use
Landscape protection
Law
Massachusetts
Nature conservation
Outdoor recreation
Planning
Public meetings
Public-private partnerships
Signs and signboards
Social life and customs
Sports and Recreation
Sunset legislation
Water Resources Development
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area in Connecticut and Massachusetts. 
Designates the Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area, Inc., as the Areas' management entity, which shall: (1) submit to the Secretary of the Interior for approval a management plan which includes policies, strategies, and recommendations for conservation, funding, management, development, and interpretation of the Area; and (2) assist local governments, regional planning organizations, and nonprofit organizations in implementing the plan. Prohibits the entity from using Federal funds received under this Act to acquire real property. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical and financial assistance to the Area and enter into cooperative agreements with the management entity to develop and implement the plan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-28.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1647-1649)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1647)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Arrest Methamphetamine Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-430
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Arrest
Canada
Child welfare
Community policing
Criminal justice information
Criminal statistics
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug abuse treatment
Drug courts
Drug law enforcement
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Families
Family courts
Family services
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-state relations
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Hazardous wastes
Imports
Indian law enforcement
Interstate relations
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Law
Methamphetamine
Minorities
Negotiations
Performance measurement
Police
Police training
Prosecution
Public health administration
Searches and seizures
Social Welfare
State-local relations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Arrest Methamphetamine Act of 2005 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General, through the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), to make grants to States to address the manufacture, sale, and use of methamphetamine to enhance public safety, including for activities to: (1) arrest individuals violating methamphetamine related laws; (2) undertake methamphetamine clandestine lab seizures and environmental cleanup; (3) provide for community based education, awareness, and prevention; (4) provide child support and family services to assist methamphetamine users and their families; and (5) procure equipment, technology, or support systems, or pay for resources, where expenditures would result in reduction in methamphetamine use, sale, and manufacture. Sets forth application requirements. 
 
Authorizes the Attorney General, through BJA, to make grants to States, Indian tribal governments, and multijurisdictional or regional consortia to develop a comprehensive, cooperative strategy to address the use, sale, and manufacture of methamphetamine. Allocates funding for enforcement.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to: (1) collect systematic data on the effectiveness of programs assisted under this Act; (2) establish a national clearinghouse of information on effective programs for dissemination to State and local agencies; (3) establish a program within the Department of Justice to facilitate the sharing of best practices among States; and (4) provide technical assistance to State and local agencies.
 
Urges the President to seek commitments from the Canadian Government to take effective measures to stem the availability of pseudoephedrine in Canada and its illegal importation into the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1650-1651)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1649)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Presidential Sites Improvement Act

Bill: 109-s-431
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Architecture and the disabled
Building construction
Commemorations
Construction costs
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Maintenance and repair
Presidential residences
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Presidential Sites Improvement Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to award grants to owners or operators of Presidential sites for major maintenance and improvement projects. Defines &quot;Presidential site&quot; as a site related to a President of the United States that has national significance, is open to the public, and is owned or operated by a State or private institution, organization, or person. 
 
Establishes the Presidential Site Grant Commission to review applications for grants and to make recommendations for the awarding of grants under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-355.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1651-1652)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1651)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Reopen Reagan National to General Aviation Act

Bill: 109-s-433
Sponsor: Sen. Allen, George [R-VA]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Access to airports
Administrative procedure
Air cargo
Aircraft
Airline employees
Airline passenger traffic
Airports
Aviation safety
Charter airlines
Department of Homeland Security
Flight crews
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Law
Private aviation
Security measures
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Reopen Reagan National to General Aviation Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to implement regulations permitting the resumption of non-scheduled, commercial air carrier (air charter) and general aviation operations at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Allows such regulations to provide reasonable requirements to ensure the security of airport operations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1653)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Wolf House Study Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-434
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arkansas
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Courthouses
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Law
National parks

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Wolf House Study Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to: (1) study and report to specified congressional committees on the suitability and feasibility of designating the Wolf House located on Highway 5 in Norfolk, Arkansas, as a unit of the National Park System; and (2) consider management alternatives for the Wolf House.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Secretary of Energy to assess the economic implications of the dependence of the State of Hawaii on oil as the principal source of energy for the State.

Bill: 109-s-436
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power production
Energy prices
Energy supplies
Energy transportation
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Fuel
Government Operations and Politics
Hawaii
Hydrogen
Liquefied natural gas
Marine terminals
Offshore structures
Petroleum
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Directs the Secretary of Energy to assess the economic implications of the dependence of the State of Hawaii on oil as its principal source of energy, including: (1) the short- and long-term prospects for crude oil supply disruption and price volatility and potential impacts on the economy of Hawaii; (2) the economic relationship between oil-fired generation of electricity from residual fuel and refined petroleum products consumed for ground, marine, and air transportation; (3) the technical and economic feasibility of increasing the contribution of renewable energy resources for generation of electricity, on an island-by-island basis; (4) the technical and economic feasibility of using liquefied natural gas to displace residual fuel oil for electric generation; and (5) the technical and economic feasibility of using renewable energy sources (including hydrogen) for ground, marine, and air transportation energy applications to displace the use of refined petroleum products. 
Instructs the Secretary to report to Congress, detailing the findings, conclusions, and recommendations resulting from such assessment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1654)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1653-1654)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians of Michigan Referral Act

Bill: 109-s-437
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal-Indian relations
Governmental investigations
Indian claims
Indian lands
Michigan
Minorities

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians of Michigan Referral Act - Provides for an expedited review of the petition of the Grand River Band of the Ottawa Indians of Michigan for recognition as a Federal Indian tribe.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 109-576.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1654)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-438
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Medical fees
Medicare
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal the outpatient therapy cap.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3010)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1654-1655)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to provide for secondary containment to prevent methyl tertiary butyl ether and petroleum contamination.

Bill: 109-s-439
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Energy
Environmental monitoring
Fines (Penalties)
Groundwater
Law
Oil pollution
Oxygenates
Petroleum pipelines
Petroleum storage
Pollution measurement
Potable water
Reformulated gasoline
Standards
Transportation and Public Works
Underground storage
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Wells

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require: (1) secondary containment of any new or replaced underground storage tank system; and (2) the monitoring for leaks of the space between the primary and secondary containment if the new or replaced tank or piping are within 1,000 feet of a community water system, potable drinking water well, or other sensitive area. 
 
Establishes civil penalties for a violation of these requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1655)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to include podiatrists as physicians for purposes of covering physicians services under the medicaid program.

Bill: 109-s-440
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicaid
Medical fees
Physicians
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to include podiatrists as physicians in order to cover their services under the Medicaid program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1655)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Motorsports Fairness and Permanency Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-441
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Income tax
Motor vehicles
Sports and Recreation
Sports facilities
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Motorsports Fairness and Permanency Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the classification, for depreciation purposes, of any motorsports entertainment complex as seven year property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1656)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the Secretary of Homeland Security to be included in the line of Presidential succession.

Bill: 109-s-442
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Cabinet officers
Department of Homeland Security
Presidential succession

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Includes the Secretary of Homeland Security in the line of presidential succession after the Attorney General.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 

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

Includes the Secretary of Homeland Security in the line of presidential succession after the Attorney General.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S9057)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S9057)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Senate Committee on Rules and Administration discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9057)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Senate Committee on Rules and Administration discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S9057)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Antitrust Criminal Investigative Improvements Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-443
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Antitrust law
Commerce
Electronic surveillance
Law
Monopolies
Restrictive trade practices
Warrants (Law)

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Antitrust Criminal Investigative Improvements Act of 2005 - Amends the federal criminal code to make prohibitions against illegal restraints of trade or commerce, illegal monopolizing of trade or commerce, and illegal restraints of trade or commerce in the territories or the District of Columbia under the Sherman Act predicate offenses for an order authorizing the interception of wire or oral communications. 

action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 

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

 
Antitrust Criminal Investigative Improvements Act of 2005 - Amends the federal criminal code to make prohibitions against illegal restraints of trade or commerce, illegal monopolizing of trade or commerce, and illegal restraints of trade or commerce in the territories or the District of Columbia under the Sherman Act predicate offenses for an order authorizing the interception of wire or oral communications. 

action_date: 2005-10-25
text: 

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

 
Antitrust Criminal Investigative Improvements Act of 2005 - Amends the federal criminal code to make prohibitions against illegal restraints of trade or commerce, illegal monopolizing of trade or commerce, and illegal restraints of trade or commerce in the territories or the District of Columbia under the Sherman Act predicate offenses for an order authorizing the interception of wire or oral communications. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S11850; text as passed Senate: CR S11850)
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S11850; text as passed Senate: CR S11850)
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 250.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Specter without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Specter without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1656-1657)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Community-Based Health Care Retraining Act

Bill: 109-s-444
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Commerce
Community health services
Dislocated workers
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Employee training
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Health
Higher education
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Layoffs
Manufacturing industries
Medical education
Medical personnel
Occupational retraining
Paramedical personnel
Plant shutdowns
Social Welfare
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Community-Based Health Care Retraining Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require the Secretary of Labor to establish and carry out a health professions training demonstration project that awards grants to eligible entities to train certain unemployed workers from the manufacturing or service sector for employment as health care professionals in communities with manufacturing and service sector job loss, health professional shortages, or health services shortages, or those designated as a medically underserved community.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1657-1658)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Prescription Drug Price Reduction Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-445
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Cost control
Drug industry
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Medical economics
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Quality of care
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Medicare Prescription Drug Price Reduction Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal provisions prohibiting the Secretary of Health and Human Services from: (1) interfering with the negotiations between drug manufacturers and pharmacies and prescription drug plan sponsors; and (2) requiring a particular formulary to institute a price structure for the reimbursement of covered Medicare part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) drugs.
 
Grants the Secretary instead, in order to ensure that each part D eligible individual who is enrolled under a prescription drug plan or a Medicare Advantage prescription drug plan pays the lowest possible price, authority similar to that of other Federal entities that purchase prescription drugs in bulk to negotiate contracts with manufacturers of covered Medicare part D drugs, consistent with the requirements and in furtherance of the goals of providing quality care and containing costs under such part.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1659)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1658)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate