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Nuclear Family Priority Act

Bill: 109-hr-6283
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Families
Immigrants
Married people
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Nuclear Family Priority Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to replace existing family-sponsored immigrant categories with a single preference allocation for spouses and children of permanent resident aliens.
 
Reduces the number of, and revises the calculation for, fiscal year family-sponsored immigrant entrants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a loss for development costs of certain creative property.

Bill: 109-hr-6284
Sponsor: Rep. Becerra, Xavier [D-CA-31]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Commerce
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Losses
Motion pictures
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax deductions
Television programs

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat certain development costs related to cinematic properties as current year loss deductions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 49, United States Code, to expand passenger facility fee eligibility for noise compatibility projects.

Bill: 109-hr-6285
Sponsor: Rep. Harman, Jane [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Airline passenger traffic
Airports
Building construction
California
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection
Higher education
Noise
School buildings
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Amends federal transportation law to allow a passenger facility fee imposed at a large hub airport (that is subject to an amended judgment and final order in condemnation filed on January 7, 1980, by the Superior Court of the State of California for the county of Los Angeles) to be used as an eligible project cost to carry out noise mitigation for certain school buildings in the noise impacted area surrounding the airport if: (1) the buildings are adversely affected by airport noise; and (2) certain other requirements are met.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Department of Homeland Security Stabilization and Security Enhancement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6286
Sponsor: Rep. Harris, Katherine [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Homeland Security
District of Columbia
Federal office buildings
Government Operations and Politics
Planning

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Department of Homeland Security Stabilization and Security Enhancement Act of 2006 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Administrator of General Services to jointly complete and submit to Congress a comprehensive master plan for the establishment of a 21st century permanent headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Management, Integration, and Oversight.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
National Heritage Areas Partnership Act

Bill: 109-hr-6287
Sponsor: Rep. Hefley, Joel [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Arts, Culture, Religion
Auditing
Citizen participation
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural property
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Indian lands
Land use
Landowners
Landscape protection
Law
Maps
Minorities
National parks
Native Americans
Natural areas
Nature conservation
Nonprofit organizations
Outdoor recreation
Planning
Public meetings
Public-private partnerships
Recreation areas
Right of property
Social Welfare
Social life and customs
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
National Heritage Areas Partnership Act - Establishes a National Heritage Areas System through which the Secretary of the Interior shall provide technical and financial assistance to local coordinating entities to support the establishment, development, and continuity of National Heritage Areas. 
 
Directs the Secretary to assess and report on the feasibility of designating proposed Areas and on the future of Areas already designated. Specifies feasibility criteria, including that an Area has an assemblage of natural, historic, or cultural resources that tell a nationally important story. States that designation of an Area shall be: (1) by Act of Congress; and (2) contingent on the prior completion of a feasibility study and an affirmative determination by the Secretary that the area meets such criteria.
 
Sets forth requirements for Area management plans. Instructs local coordinating entities to submit plans to the Secretary for approval. Specifies approval criteria, including that resource protection and interpretation strategies would adequately protect, enhance, and interpret the natural, historic, scenic, and cultural resources of the Area. 
 
 Requires local coordinating entities to submit annual reports on performance goals, accomplishments, finances, and expenditures. Sets forth such entities' authority for using federal funds. Authorizes appropriations for such Areas. Terminates the Secretary's authority to provide financial assistance (to be matched by such entities) 15 years after enactment of the law designating an Area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
International Tax Simplification Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6288
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Affiliated corporations
Commerce
Earnings
Energy
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Foreign tax credit
Gas industry
Holding companies
Income tax
Insurance companies
Interest
Petroleum industry
Profit
Tax exclusion
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
International Tax Simplification Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise rules relating to foreign income and income earned by controlled foreign corporations (Subpart F income), including to: (1) make permanent the active financing exemption for qualified insurance income and the look-thru treatment applicable to related foreign corporations; (2) eliminate foreign base company sales and services income and oil related income from foreign base company income; (3) repeal certain rules for the application of the foreign tax credit to foreign oil and gas income; (4) extend from 10 to 20 years the carryforward period for excess foreign taxes; (5) accelerate from 2008 to 2006 the election to allocate interest earned by an affiliated group of corporations on a worldwide basis; and (6) increase to $5 million the tax exclusion for foreign base company or gross insurance income (de minimis rule).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1932-1933)
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Management Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6290
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Allergies
Commerce
Data banks
Drug therapy
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Employee training
Families
Federal aid to education
Food safety
Health education
Medical records
Medical statistics
Medical supplies
Parent-school relationships
School health programs
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Student activities
Student records
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Management Act of 2006 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and make available to local educational agencies a voluntary policy to manage the risk of food allergy and anaphylaxis in schools. Directs that such policy address: (1) a parental obligation to provide the school with information regarding a student's food allergy and anaphylaxis; (2) creation of an individual health care plan tailored to each student with a documented risk for anaphylaxis; (3) communication strategies between schools and emergency medical services; (4) strategies to reduce the risk of exposure in classrooms and common areas; (5) food allergy management training of school personnel; and (6) authorization and training of school personnel to administer epinephrine when the school nurse is not immediately available.
 
Allows the Secretary to award grants to assist local educational agencies in implementing food allergy management guidelines contained in the policy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Stimulus Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6291
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Automobiles
Bonds
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Diesel motor
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power production
Electric vehicles
Energy assistance for the poor
Energy conservation
Energy crops
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Finance and Financial Sector
Fuel cells
Geothermal resources
Grants-in-aid
Heating
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Investment tax credit
Landfills
Methane
Natural gas
Natural gas vehicles
Oils and fats
Refuse as fuel
Service stations
Small business
Social Welfare
Solar energy
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Stimulus Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the time limits applicable to tax credits for: (1) electricity produced from certain renewable resources; (2) clean renewable energy bonds; (3) new energy efficient homes; (4) residential energy efficient property; (5) business solar investment; and (6) biodiesel and alternative fuels.
 
Extends the time limit for the deduction for energy efficient commercial buildings.
 
Declares inapplicable to certain qualified electric vehicles and alternative motor vehicles the depreciation limitation pertaining to luxury automobiles.
 
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to provide assistance to states for consultations with respect to weatherization and energy efficiency of residences and small businesses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman .
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To provide for competitive status for certain employees of the Internal Revenue Service.

Bill: 109-hr-6292
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-9]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Department of the Treasury
Estate tax
Federal employees
Gift tax
Government Operations and Politics
Government attorneys
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Law
Layoffs

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Grants competitive status to certain Internal Revenue Service employees in Estate and Gift Tax Attorney positions (GS-905) subject to a reduction in force in FY2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
End Birth Citizenship to Illegal Aliens Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6294
Sponsor: Rep. Marchant, Kenny [R-TX-24]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Citizenship
Families
Illegal aliens
Mothers
Parent and child

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
End Birth Citizenship to Illegal Aliens Act of 2006 - States that a child born in the United States shall have the same citizenship and immigration status at birth as the citizenship and immigration status of the child's mother.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to add clementines to the list of fruits and vegetables subject to minimum quality import requirements issued by the Secretary of Agriculture.

Bill: 109-hr-6295
Sponsor: Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-21]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agriculture in foreign trade
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fruit
Import restrictions
Marketing of farm produce
Marketing orders

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to subject imported clementines to applicable domestic grade, size, quality, or maturity requirements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture .
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to restore State authority to waive the application of the 35-mile rule to permit the designation of a critical access hospital in Cass County, Minnesota.

Bill: 109-hr-6296
Sponsor: Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Medicare
Minnesota
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to permit the designation of a critical access hospital in Cass County, Minnesota, by exempting it from the requirement that it be certified by the state before January 1, 2006, as being a necessary provider of health care services to residents in the area. (Thus restores to Minnesota state authority to waive the application of the 35-mile rule.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Freedom to Bank Act

Bill: 109-hr-6297
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank accounts
Bank deposits
Commerce
Consumer protection
Credit unions
Debtor and creditor
Electronic data interchange
Financial statements
Fines (Penalties)
Law
Saving and investment
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Freedom to Bank Act - Terminates any provision of federal law (other than the Internal Revenue Code) that subjects a consumer to a penalty for withdrawing or transferring funds from any transaction account or any savings or time deposit.
 
Declares that no creditor, depository institution, or credit union shall be required to provide periodic statements of account to a customer unless the customer has notified it of an election to receive such statements.
 
Requires such entities to establish a procedure for notifying customers of their right to elect to receive statements of account and the method for implementing such election.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1918)
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
R.S. 2477 Rights-Of-Way Recognition Act

Bill: 109-hr-6298
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Highway maintenance
Land transfers
Right-of-way
Rivers
Road construction
Roads and highways
Sports and Recreation
Trails
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
R.S. 2477 Rights-Of-Way Recognition Act - Expresses congressional intent with respect to the nature of authorized rights-of-way granted and accepted for the construction of highways (routes over which the public has a right of passage, including routes used for travel, such as roads for motorized vehicles, carriage ways, navigable rivers, trails, and footpaths) over public lands not reserved for public uses under former section 2477 of the Revised Statutes. 
 
Describes the protocols that shall apply with respect to maintenance, repairs, and improvements of R.S. 2477 highways. 
 
Acknowledges and recognizes public rights-of-way over federal land (or any federal-land portion of a public right-of-way over both federal and non-federal land) for highways shown in certain official governmental maps and aerial photographs as having validly vested under R.S. 2477 and disclaims all right, title, and interest with respect thereto. 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2006-10-16
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Our Children from Age-Restricted Internet Products and Services Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6299
Sponsor: Rep. Pickering, Charles W. "Chip" [R-MS-3]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alcohol and youth
Bank accounts
Checks
Child welfare
Cigarettes
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Consumer credit
Credit cards
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of the Treasury
Drug abuse
Drugs
Drugs and youth
Electronic commerce
Electronic funds transfers
Evidence (Law)
Executive reorganization
Families
Financial institutions
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Identification devices
Injunctions
Internet
Law
Liability (Law)
Licenses
Pornography
Science, Technology, Communications
Smokeless tobacco

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Protecting Our Children from Age-Restricted Internet Products and Services Act of 2006 - Requires Internet payment processing businesses used by sellers of age-restricted products or services harmful to minors (under age 17) to include: (1) an interactive age verification process; (2) a network of authorized money receiving businesses; (3) a designated Internet payment account for each customer; and (4) procedures for ensuring that the customer's identity and age are independently verified. 

Establishes in the Department of the Treasury the Office of Electronic Funding Oversight to coordinate federal efforts to prevent minors from purchasing age-restricted products or services on the Internet. 

Prohibits noncompliant Internet payment processing businesses from processing financial transactions for the purchase of age-restricted products or services harmful to minors.

Authorizes the Attorney General or any state Attorney General to apply for an injunction or temporary restraining order to prevent or restrain a violation of this Act. 

Imposes a fine and/or prison term of up to five years for violations of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in House