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Homeland Security Information Guidance and Training Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-888
Sponsor: Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Freedom of information
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Labor and Employment
Local employees
State employees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Homeland Security Information Guidance and Training Act of 2005 - Requires the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection to establish best practices for State and local governments in making determinations regarding the public disclosure and sharing among emergency management personnel of sensitive non-Federal homeland security information.
 
Requires the Director of the Office for Domestic Preparedness to: (1) establish a training curriculum based on such best practices; and (2) provide training to State and local governments.
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to publish detailed guidance for State and local governments on the management of information relating to homeland security grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4132)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4131-4132)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Automobile Fuel Economy Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-889
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Automobiles
Energy
Energy efficiency
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Government vehicles
Standards
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Automobile Fuel Economy Act of 2005 - Specifies increased average fuel economy standards for certain light trucks, automobiles (up to 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight), and certain classes of vehicles in the Federal fleet that are manufactured or purchased after specified dates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4133-4134)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4132-4133)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
TRIP Act

Bill: 109-s-890
Sponsor: Sen. Sarbanes, Paul S. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2005-04-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Animals
Arts, Culture, Religion
Bicycles
Boats and boating
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Conservation of natural resources
Cultural property
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to transportation
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government securities
Historic sites
History
Housing and Community Development
Interest
Interstate relations
Law
Leases
Light rail transit
Marine transportation
Mass rapid transit
Motor buses
Motor vehicle pollution control
National parks
National recreation areas
Nature conservation
Noise
Pedestrians
Regional planning
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Sports and Recreation
State finance
Technological innovations
Tourism
Traffic congestion
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation planning
Transportation research
Urban affairs
Urban transportation
User charges
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: 
Transit in Parks Act (or the TRIP Act) - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to develop cooperative relationships with the Secretary of the Interior providing for: (1) technical assistance in alternative transportation; (2) interagency and multidisciplinary teams to develop Federal land management agency (the National Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, or the Bureau of Land Management) alternative transportation policy, procedures, and coordination; and (3) the development of procedures and criteria relating to the planning, selection, and funding of qualified planning or capital projects (carried out in or in the vicinity of any federally owned or managed park, refuge, or recreational area open to the general public), as well as implementation and oversight of the projects program.
 
Sets forth requirements with respect to departmental cost sharing, financing, and selection of qualified projects.
 
Requires projects of more than $25 million to be carried out through a full funding agreement.
 
Requires the qualified participants of such projects to prepare a project management plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4153-4155)
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4151-4153)
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the water service contract for the Ainsworth Unit, Sandhills Division, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, Nebraska.

Bill: 109-s-891
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2005-04-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Missouri River development
Nebraska
Rivers
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to extend the water service contract for the Ainsworth Unit, Sandhills Division, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, Nebraska, for four years.

action_date: 2005-10-27
text: 

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

 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to extend the water service contract for the Ainsworth Unit, Sandhills Division, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, Nebraska, for four years.

action_date: 2005-11-16
text: 

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

 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to extend the water service contract for the Ainsworth Unit, Sandhills Division, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, Nebraska, for four years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S13061; text as passed Senate: CR S13061)
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S13061; text as passed Senate: CR S13061)
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 270.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici without amendment. With written report No. 109-169.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici without amendment. With written report No. 109-169.
action_date: 2005-07-12
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-138.
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 321 Montgomery Road in Altamonte Springs, Florida, as the "Arthur Stacey Mastrapa Post Office Building".

Bill: 109-s-892
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2005-04-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Army
Congress
Congressional tributes
Florida
Government Operations and Politics
Names
Officer personnel
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 321 Montgomery Road in Altamonte Springs, Florida, as the "Arthur Stacey Mastrapa Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Ordered placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 146.
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to make technical corrections in the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004.

Bill: 109-s-893
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2005-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug law enforcement
Health
Steroids

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-25
text: 
Makes technical corrections to amendments made by the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004 regarding names of substances included in the definition of &quot;anabolic steroid&quot; under the Controlled Substances Act.

action_date: 2005-04-25
text: 

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

 
Makes technical corrections to amendments made by the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004 regarding names of substances included in the definition of &quot;anabolic steroid&quot; under the Controlled Substances Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-04-26
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2005-04-25
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4162; text as passed Senate: CR S4162)
action_date: 2005-04-25
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S4162; text as passed Senate: CR S4162)
action_date: 2005-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-894
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2005-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Aliens
Caribbean area
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Cuba
Immigration
Latin America
Right to travel
Travel

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-25
text: 
Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act of 2005 - Prohibits the President from regulating or prohibiting travel to or from Cuba by U.S. citizens or legal residents, or any of the transactions ordinarily incident to such travel relating to: (1) accompanied personal baggage; (2) payment of living expenses and the acquisition of personal-use goods or services; (3) travel arrangements; (4) nonscheduled air, sea, or land voyage transactions (such provision does not permit the carriage of articles other than accompanied baggage into Cuba or the United States); and (5) normal banking transactions. 
 
States that such provision does not: (1) restrict presidential authority in time of war or armed hostilities between the United States and Cuba, or of imminent danger to the public health or the physical safety of U.S. travelers; and (2) authorize U.S. importation of personal consumption goods acquired in Cuba.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4391-4392)
action_date: 2005-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2005-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Farmer Tax Fairness Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-896
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2005-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Earnings
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Self-employed
Social Welfare
Social security taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-25
text: 
Farmer Tax Fairness Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to revise the optional method of computing the net earnings of self-employed individuals for purposes of determining social security benefit eligibility. Replaces the numerical formula for determining benefit eligibility with an indexed calculation based on a lower limit (the amount required under the Social Security Act for a quarter of coverage) and an upper limit (150 percent of the lower limit).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4190)
action_date: 2005-04-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4189-4190)
action_date: 2005-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the calculation of the reserve allowance for medical benefits of plans sponsored by bona fide associations.

Bill: 109-s-897
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2005-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Associations, institutions, etc.
Employee health benefits
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a bona fide association (an association which has been actively in existence for at least five years and has been formed and maintained in good faith for purposes other than obtaining insurance) to maintain an additional reserve fund for medical benefits plans not to exceed 35 percent of the sum of certain direct costs and changes in claims incurred.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4191)
action_date: 2005-04-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4190-4191)
action_date: 2005-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Montana Cemetery Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-899
Sponsor: Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]
Introduced: 2005-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Land transfers
Montana
National forests

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-25
text: 
Montana Cemetery Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, to convey certain National Forest System land in Montana known as the Elkhorn Cemetery and the Noxon Cemetery to Jefferson County and Sanders County, Montana, respectively.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4192-4193)
action_date: 2005-04-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4192)
action_date: 2005-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
TIVI Act

Bill: 109-s-900
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Appellate courts
Blind
Disabled
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Judicial opinions
Law
Television broadcasting
Television news
Television programs
Television stations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Television Information-Enhancement for the Visually Impaired Act or the TIVI Act- Considers authorized and ratified by law the video description rules of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) contained in the year 2000 FCC report and order identified as Implementation of Video Description of Video Programming, notwithstanding the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., et al., v. Federal Communications Commission, et al.
 
Directs the FCC to: (1) reinstate such rules; and (2) initiate a proceeding to consider whether it is economically and technically feasible and consistent with the public interest to include &quot;accessible information&quot; in such rules. Authorizes the FCC to amend, repeal, or otherwise modify such rules.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4259)
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Flexibility for Champion Schools Act

Bill: 109-s-901
Sponsor: Sen. Allen, George [R-VA]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Civics education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
History
Illiteracy
Mathematics
Reading
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Special education
Standards
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Flexibility for Champion Schools Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (ESEA), to direct the Secretary of Education to grant to any State a waiver of all ESEA provisions related to adequate yearly progress (AYP) if that State: (1) establishes academic content standards and tests in specified subjects at specified grades; (2) makes available to the public all such testing results, in the aggregate and disaggregated by certain groups of students, for each local educational agency (LEA) and school; (3) sets pass-rate goals for each LEA and school; (4) determines conditions under which students with disabilities and limited-English-proficient students take State tests or alternative assessments, provided this complies with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA); (5) holds LEAs and schools accountable for meeting pass-rate goals, including determining consequences for schools and LEAs that fail to meet such goals, and addresses achievement gaps on State tests affecting certain groups of students; and (6) determines goals for secondary school graduation rates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Recreational Marine Employment Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-902
Sponsor: Sen. Martinez, Mel [R-FL]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Boats and boating
Building construction
Construction workers
Infrastructure
Longshoremen
Maintenance and repair
Marine safety
Marine terminals
Shipbuilding
Sports and Recreation
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation workers
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Recreational Marine Employment Act of 2005 - Amends the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act to revise the exemption from coverage of the Act for recreational vessel support employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the correction of a certain John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System map.

Bill: 109-s-903
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Barrier islands
Coastal zone
Government Operations and Politics
Maps
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Reefs
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to make any corrections to the map subtitled &quot;Four Mile Hill Unit TX-16P, North Padre Island Unit T10/T10P&quot; (one in a set of maps of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System) that are necessary to ensure that it is consistent with the map entitled &quot;Corrections to Coastal Barrier Resources System Map Unit T-10&quot;, dated June_____, 2004.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Heilit Martinez.

Bill: 109-s-905
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2005-04-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: 
Declares Heilit Martinez to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4260)
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Introduced in Senate