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SAFE Act

Bill: 109-s-2792
Sponsor: Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH]
Introduced: 2006-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Agriculture in foreign trade
Animal diseases
Animals
Biological warfare
Communicable diseases
Communication in medicine
Continuing education
Curricula
Disaster relief
Drug resistance in microorganisms
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to health facilities
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health facilities
Health information systems
Health surveys
Higher education
Identification devices
Imports
Interstate relations
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical laboratories
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Medicare
Performance measurement
Poisons
Public health administration
Public health personnel
Social Welfare
Syndromes

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: 
Emergency Preparedness and Response Security, Accountability, and Flexibility Enhancement Act or the SAFE ACT - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise provisions relating to bioterrorism and other public health emergencies preparedness grants, including to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop measurable critical benchmarks and performance standards.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to develop a real-time surveillance program for collecting and reporting information on notifiable diseases and conditions (infectious diseases, environmental exposures or poisons, and other conditions, the real-time surveillance and control of which in the United States constitute a critical public health need). Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to establish a national electronic surveillance program for such diseases. Provides for a health alert in the case of a public health emergency or other circumstance requiring active surveillance. 
 
Requires the Secretary to award grants to enable states to conduct surveillance and report with respect to notifiable diseases. Makes ineligible for certain funding states or health care providers that do not report notifiable diseases.
 
Allows grantees to use grant funds to develop benchmarks for meeting critical capacity for food or water borne disease detection and response.
 
 Requires the Director to provide for the evaluation of the progress made by state and local governments in meeting the benchmarks established under this Act.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish procedures for the inspection, screening, and quarantine of live animals entering the United States for commercial purposes.
 
Requires the federal agency partners of the National Disaster Medical System to conduct a review of the National Disaster Medical System infrastructure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4476)
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Pharmaceutical Technology and Education Enhancement Act

Bill: 109-s-2793
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2006-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Drug industry
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Medical technology
Pharmaceutical research
Quality of products
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: 
Pharmaceutical Technology and Education Enhancement Act - Requires the Commissioner of Food and Drugs to expand and intensify certain research and education programs regarding pharmaceutical science and engineering through the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology and Education (NIPTE) and its member institutions. Requires such programs to focus on medical therapy development and manufacturing, analytical technologies, modeling, and informatics.
 
Requires the Commissioner to establish a Coordinating Committee to: (1) assist with and coordinate research and develop strategies for the rapid design, enhanced manufacturing process, and improved quality of new medical technology; and (2) develop a plan for supporting, through NIPTE and federal agency participants, research and education relating to medical technology development and manufacturing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4476-4477)
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Department of Energy Contractor Employee Equitable Treatment Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2794
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2006-05-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Defense industries
Defined benefit pension plans
Department of Energy
Employee health benefits
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Health
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: 
Department of Energy Contractor Employee Equitable Treatment Act of 2006 - Prohibits any funds from being expended to implement, administer, or enforce the guidance of the Department of Energy (DOE) relating to contractor employee pension and medical benefits policy. (DOE will no longer reimburse contractors for new employees' pension and medical costs under defined benefit plans, but will now reimburse only such costs under defined contribution, market-based plans that vary from the average cost of such market-based plans by no more than 5%.) Requires the Secretary of Energy to: (1) withdraw such guidance not later than one day after enactment of this Act; and (2) reinstate eligibility or reimbursement for benefits or reinstate reimbursement for benefits if the Secretary has acted on such guidance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4477)
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in Senate
H-Prize Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2796
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-05-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advertising
Awards, medals, prizes
Commemorations
Commercialization
Energy development
Energy research
Energy storage
Environmental Protection
Fuel cells
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Hydrogen
Intellectual property
Motor vehicle pollution control
Natural gas vehicles
Nonprofit organizations
Patents
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Technological innovations
Technology transfer
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-12
text: 
H-Prize Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to award competitive cash prizes biennially to advance the research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of hydrogen energy technologies.
 
Instructs the Secretary to encourage broad participation, including by individuals, universities (including minority-serving institutions), and large and small businesses (including those owned or controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged persons).
 
Directs the Secretary enter into an agreement with a private, nonprofit entity to administer the prize competitions.
 
States that funding sources for such cash prizes shall consist of federal appropriated funds and funds provided by the administering entity.
 
Designates prize-eligible categories, including: (1) advancements in certain hydrogen components or systems; (2) prototypes of hydrogen-powered vehicles or other hydrogen-based products that meet or exceed certain performance criteria; and (3) transformational changes in technologies for hydrogen distribution or production that meet or exceed far-reaching criteria.
 

 
Declares that the federal government shall not, by virtue of offering or awarding a prize under this Act, be entitled to any intellectual property rights derived as a consequence of, or direct relation to, the participation by a registered participant in a competition authorized by this Act.
 

 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4524-4525)
action_date: 2006-05-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Thomas P. O'Hara Public Land Career Opportunity Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2797
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2006-05-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Employee rights
Employee selection
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Promotions
Transfer of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-12
text: 
Thomas P. O'Hara Public Land Career Opportunity Act of 2006 - Amends the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act to provide competitive status to certain permanent federal employees in Alaska after: (1) if the appointment is full-time, the completion of two years of competitive and satisfactory full time service; or (2) if the appointment is less than full time, the period that is equivalent to two years of competitive and satisfactory full time service. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4525-4526)
action_date: 2006-05-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4525)
action_date: 2006-05-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on 4-Methoxy-2-methyldiphenylamine.

Bill: 109-s-2799
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2006-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-15
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on 4-Methoxy-2-methyldiphenylamine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the "Ernest Childers Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic".

Bill: 109-s-2800
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2006-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Armed Forces and National Security
Clinics
Congress
Congressional tributes
Health
History
Minorities
Names
Native Americans
Oklahoma
Veterans' hospitals
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-15
text: 
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Outpatient Clinic in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the &quot;Ernest Childers Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-05-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4555)
action_date: 2006-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend chapters 83 and 84 of title 5, United States Code, to authorize payments to certain trusts under the Social Security Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-2801
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2006-05-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Civil service retirement
Economics and Public Finance
Federal employees
Health
Labor and Employment
Law
Medicaid
Social Welfare
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-15
text: 
Amends Federal law concerning the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees Retirement System to allow a payment due a minor or an individual mentally incompetent or under other legal disability to be made to the person who is a trustee under a trust under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act that contains the assets of an individual who is disabled. Provides for the assignability of payments under such Systems to such a trust. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce,  and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2006-05-26
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce,  and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2006-05-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-05-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the duty suspension on polysiloxane.

Bill: 109-s-2804
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-05-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the duty suspension on polysiloxane.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on 2,6-Di-tert-butylphenol.

Bill: 109-s-2805
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-05-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on 2,6-Di-tert-butylphenol.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on sodium hypophosphite.

Bill: 109-s-2806
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-05-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on sodium hypophosphite.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Cyanuric chloride.

Bill: 109-s-2807
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-05-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on Cyanuric chloride.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on textured rolled glass sheets.

Bill: 109-s-2808
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-05-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on textured rolled glass sheets.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on 4,4'-Diaminostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid.

Bill: 109-s-2809
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-05-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on 4,4'-Diaminostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Late Enrollment Assistance Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2810
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2006-05-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer education
Counseling
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Grants-in-aid
Health insurance
Housing and Community Development
Managed care
Medicare
Old age assistance
Prescription pricing
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: 
Medicare Late Enrollment Assistance Act of 2006 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to eliminate months in 2006 from the calculation of any late enrollment penalty under Medicare part D.
 
Makes appropriations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for FY2007 to: (1) make grants to states for state health insurance counseling programs receiving assistance under the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1990; and (2) enable the Assistant Secretary on Aging to provide grants to states for area agencies on aging to provide eligible Medicare beneficiaries with Medicare benefits information.
 
Amends SSA title XVIII to set additional limitations on the total amount of expenditures from the Medicare Advantage Regional Plan Stabilization Fund for periods prior to October 1, 2007, and between October 1, 2007, and September 30, 2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-17
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 434.
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4621)
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Enrollment Fairness Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2811
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2006-05-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Commerce
Consumer education
Counseling
Department of Health and Human Services
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Health insurance
Managed care
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: 
Medicare Enrollment Fairness Act of 2006 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend the annual, coordinated election period, without any late enrollment penalty, for an additional seven months until the end of calendar 2006 for enrollments in Medicare Advantage plans and in the Medicare prescription drug benefit.
 
Permits a one-time change of plan enrollment for the Medicare prescription drug benefit during all of 2006 (currently, only during the first six months of 2006).
 
Makes appropriations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award health insurance information, counseling, and assistance grants to states under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Renewable Fuels Promotion Act

Bill: 109-s-2812
Sponsor: Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN]
Introduced: 2006-05-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Contracts
Energy efficiency
Franchises (Retail trade)
Fuel consumption
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government vehicles
Marketing
Petroleum industry
Restrictive trade practices
Service stations
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: 
 Renewable Fuels Promotion Act - Amends the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act to prohibit a franchisor from restricting a franchisee from installing a renewable fuel pump on the franchisee marketing premises.
 
Deems such restriction to be null and void and unenforceable under the Act.
 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to set a deadline for mandatory installation of at least one renewable fuel pump at every federal fleet fueling center in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6776)
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Claudia Marquez Rico.

Bill: 109-s-2813
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2006-05-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: 
Makes Claudia Marquez Rico eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of a lawful permanent resident of the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act, upon payment of the required visa fees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4622)
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4621-4622)
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for support of funeral ceremonies for veterans provided by details that consist solely of members of veterans organizations and other organizations, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-2814
Sponsor: Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]
Introduced: 2006-05-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Veterans' organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned, in the case of funeral honors for a veteran that are provided by a detail consisting solely of members of veterans organizations or other related organizations, to support the provision of such funeral honors through a daily stipend to each detail participant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Commission on Economic Indicators Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2815
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2006-05-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Balance of payments
Capital movements
Commerce
Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional investigations
Congressional reorganization
Congressional reporting requirements
Debt
Economic statistics
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government statistics
Gross national product
Income
Industrial production
Inflation
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Saving and investment
Unemployment
Wages
Wealth

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: 
Commission on Economic Indicators Act of 2006 - Establishes the Commission on Economic Indicators to study and report to Congress on: (1) economic statistics collected and reported by U.S. government agencies, including national income, employment and unemployment, wages, personal income, wealth, savings, debt, productivity, inflation, and international trade and capital flows; and (2) ways to improve the related statistical measurements so that they provide a more accurate and complete depiction of economic conditions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4623-4624)
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4622-4623)
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Introduced in Senate