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Small Business Investment and Growth Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1923
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2005-10-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Interest
Securities
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: 
Small Business Investment and Growth Act of 2005 - Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to authorize the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to guarantee the: (1) payment of the redemption price and interest on a participating debenture issued by a small business investment company (SBIC), or a trust certificate issued with respect to such a debenture; and (2) repayment of funds advanced by an interim funding provider in the event of a default by an SBIC. Authorizes the SBA to charge a guarantee fee in each of the above cases. Prohibits the Administrator from guaranteeing such a debenture if the aggregate unpaid principal balance of the participating debentures would exceed 200% of the leverageable capital of the SBIC. Requires participating debentures to be redeemed within ten years after issuance. Outlines requirements of SBIC participants, including after default on debenture payment.
 
Allows an SBIC which has no unpaid interest and no past due principal outstanding on any issued participating debenture the right of special distribution to private investors without a corresponding distribution to the SBA, under specified conditions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11919-11921)
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Installation and Community Lease-Purchase Expansion Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1924
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-10-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Commerce
Defense contracts
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Leases
Military base closures
Military bases

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: 
Military Installation and Community Lease-Purchase Expansion Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to enter into agreements for the lease-purchase of various facilities owned by the military departments with any eligible entity, including a private person, corporation, firm, partnership, company, or state or local government. (Currently, only private contractors are eligible to enter into such agreements.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11921-11922)
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act

Bill: 109-s-1926
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2005-10-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Agricultural industries
Agriculture and Food
Animal breeding
Animals
Aquariums
Arts, Culture, Religion
Assault
Commerce
Compensation for victims of crime
Conspiracy
Destruction of property
Domestic partners
Exhibitions
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Fur trade
Horse racing
Laboratories
Laboratory animals
Livestock
Losses
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Married people
Pets
Protection of animals
Retail trade
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sports and Recreation
Terrorism
Vandalism
Zoos

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: 
Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act - Rewrites federal criminal code provisions regarding animal enterprise terrorism to prohibit anyone from traveling in, or using the mail or any facility of, interstate or foreign commerce for the purpose of damaging or disrupting an animal enterprise and, in connection with such purpose: (1) intentionally damaging, disrupting, or causing the loss of property used by or owned in connection with such enterprise; (2) intentionally placing a person in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury to that person or a family member through threats, vandalism, property damage, trespass, harassment, or intimidation; or (3) conspiring or attempting to do so. Prescribes escalating penalties. 
 
Authorizes restitution for: (1) the reasonable cost of repeating any experimentation that was interrupted or invalidated as a result of such offense; (2) the loss of food production or farm income reasonably attributable to such offense; and (3) any other economic damage, including any losses or costs caused by economic disruption, resulting from such offense.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Flat Tax Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1927
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2005-10-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business travel
Capital gains tax
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporation taxes
Depreciation and amortization
Dividends
Earned income tax credit
Energy
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Flat-rate tax
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Intergovernmental tax relations
Local taxation
Minimum tax
Nuclear facilities
Private aviation
Property tax
Sales tax
Social Welfare
State taxation
Subsidies
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax evasion
Tax exclusion
Tax preferences
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Tax simplification
Taxation of foreign income
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: 
Fair Flat Tax Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to individual taxpayers to: (1) reduce to three (15, 25, and 35%) the number of income tax brackets for married and single taxpayers; (2) repeal tax rate reductions for capital gains and dividend income; (3) increase the basic standard tax deduction; (4) allow a refundable tax credit for state and local income, sales, and real and personal property taxes; (5) revise the earned income and child tax credits for taxpayers with no children; (6) repeal the alternative minimum tax; and (7) repeal certain tax credits, deductions, and exclusions after 2005. 
 
Imposes a flat tax of 35 percent on corporate taxable income. Allows a limited tax deduction for use of a corporate aircraft. Terminates certain preferential tax provisions for corporations.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to report to Congress on: (1) the elimination of tax benefits that subsidize inefficiencies in the health care system; and (2) reform of business pass-through entities. 
 
Terminates this Act after 2010. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12146-12148)
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12010-12013)
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12009-12010)
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research Act

Bill: 109-s-1930
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2005-10-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Child health
Clinical trials
Colon cancer
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Demography
Digestive diseases
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Environmental Protection
Environmentally induced diseases
Epidemiology
Families
Federal aid to research
Genetic research
Genetics
Health education
Health planning
Health surveys
Higher education
Laboratory animals
Medical education
Medical research
Nutrition
Preventive medicine
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Ulcers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: 
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research Act - Requires the Director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to expand, intensify, and coordinate the Institute's research activities on inflammatory bowel disease, with an emphasis on: (1) genetic research on susceptibility for inflammatory bowel disease; (2) research targeted to increase knowledge about the causes and complications of inflammatory bowel disease in children; (3) animal model research; (4) clinical research; (5) expansion of the Institute's Inflammatory Bowel Disease Centers program with a focus on pediatric research; and (6) other research initiatives identified in specified documents.
 
Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to prepare a National Inflammatory Bowel Disease Action Plan to: (1) address the burden of inflammatory bowel disease in both adult and pediatric populations; (2) address strategies for determining the prevalence of the disease in the United States and the unique demographic characteristics of the patient community; (3) focus on strategies for increasing awareness about the disease within the general public and the health care community; and (4) address mechanisms designed to prevent the progression of the disease and the development of complications.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12013-12014)
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12013)
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to state the policy of the United States on the intercontinental ballistic missile force.

Bill: 109-s-1931
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2005-10-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Arms control agreements
Intercontinental ballistic missiles
International Affairs
Missile warheads
Russia

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: 
States that it is the policy of the United States to continue to transition to an intercontinental ballistic missile force with 500 missiles each equipped with a single nuclear warhead.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the inclusion of Department of Defense property on Santa Rosa and Okaloosa Island, Florida, in the Gulf Islands National Seashore if the property is ever excess to the needs of the Armed Forces.

Bill: 109-s-1933
Sponsor: Sen. Martinez, Mel [R-FL]
Introduced: 2005-10-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Florida
Islands
Land transfers
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Military bases
National seashores
Surplus government property

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: 
Amends federal law establishing the Gulf Islands National Seashore to provide that, if any of the federal land on Santa Rosa or Okaloosa Island, Florida, that is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense is ever excess to the needs of the Armed Forces, then the Secretary of Defense shall transfer such land to the Secretary of the Interior for inclusion in the Seashore.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in Senate
International Fund for Ireland Enhancement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1935
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-10-27 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Community development
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Depressed areas
Economic assistance
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Europe
Human rights
Infrastructure
Ireland
Law
Mediation
Military base closures
Northern Ireland
Peace
Police training
Police-community relations
Prisons
United Kingdom

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: 
International Fund for Ireland Enhancement Act of 2005 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) U.S. assistance for the International Fund for Ireland has contributed greatly to the economic development of Northern Ireland and that both objectives of the Anglo-Irish Agreement Support Act of 1986, economic development and reconciliation, remain critical to achieving peace in the region, especially in the economically-depressed areas; and (2) the Fund is encouraged to support programs that enhance relations between communities and enhance relations between the police and the communities they serve, promote human rights training for police, and enhance peaceful mediation in neighborhoods of continued conflict. 
 
Amends the Anglo-Irish Agreement Support Act of 1986 to encourage the Fund to support programs that: (1) enhance relations between communities, and between the police and the communities they serve; (2) promote human rights training for police; (3) enhance peaceful mediation in neighborhoods of continued conflict; (4) promote training programs to enhance the new district partnership police boards recommended by the Patten Commission; and (5) assist in the transition of former British military installations and prisons into sites for peaceful, community-supported activities, such as housing, retail, and commercial development. 
 
Authorizes FY2006-FY2007 appropriations for U.S. contributions to the Fund. Expresses the sense of Congress that at least 35% of such amount for each such fiscal year should be used to carry out programs to improve local community relations and relations between the police and the people they serve.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Flood Insurance Buy-In Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1936
Sponsor: Sen. Lott, Trent [R-MS]
Introduced: 2005-10-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Alabama
Claims
Disaster insurance
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Flood damage prevention
Floods
Florida
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Insurance premiums
Losses
Louisiana
Mississippi
Texas
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: 
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Flood Insurance Buy-In Act of 2005 - Establishes a temporary flood insurance buy-in program. Instructs the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to make flood insurance coverage available under such program for eligible structures (but not their contents) for flooding resulting from Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita. Limits eligibility to structures located in an area not subject to the mandatory purchase requirements of the national flood insurance program, and which were not covered by such insurance at the time of the hurricanes. Prescribes a formula for determination of premiums, which may be paid by deduction from the amount of any claims payable under coverage by the buy-in program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Haiti Economic Recovery Opportunity Act

Bill: 109-s-1937
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2005-10-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Access to health care
Administration of justice
American investments
Armed Forces and National Security
Bribery
Business records
Capital
Caribbean area
Child labor
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Clothing
Collective bargaining
Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Counterfeiting
Countervailing duties
Crime and Law Enforcement
Customs administration
Developing countries
Due process of law
Dumping
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee rights
Equality before the law
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Forced labor
Foreign investments
Fraud
Free enterprise
Free trade
Freedom of association
Government Operations and Politics
Government ownership
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Haiti
Health
Hours of labor
Human rights
Immigration
Import restrictions
Imports
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Intellectual property
International Affairs
International cooperation
Labor and Employment
Labor unions
Latin America
Law
Legislation
Loans
Minimum wages
Misconduct in office
Nontariff trade barriers
Occupational health and safety
Pluralism (Social sciences)
Poverty
President and foreign policy
Price regulation
Public corruption
Public health
Right of property
Small business
Social Welfare
State-sponsored terrorism
Subsidies
Tariff
Tariff preferences
Terrorism
Textile fabrics
Trade agreements
Treaties
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: 
Haiti Economic Recovery Opportunity Act - Amends the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act to provide, beginning on October 1, 2004, and for each of the seven succeeding one-year periods, duty-free treatment for apparel items wholly assembled or knit-to-shape in Haiti (without regard to the country of origin of the fabrics, components, or yarns) if the President certifies to Congress that Haiti: (1) has established or is progressing toward specified political, economic, and social reforms; (2) does not engage in activities that undermine U.S. security or foreign policy; (3) does not engage in gross violations of human rights or activities in support of international terrorism; and (4) is meeting specified enforcement conditions aimed at preventing tariff or quota avoidance, customs evasion, unlawful transshipment, or false information or false document use in order to obtain such preferential treatment.
 
Applies such provisions to goods entered or withdrawn from a warehouse for consumption on or after October 1, 2004, including a retroactive application to certain warehouse entries or withdrawals made between such date and the date of enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to redesignate the project for navigation, Saco River, Maine as an anchorage area.

Bill: 109-s-1938
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2005-10-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Boats and boating
Maine
Navigation
Rivers
Sports and Recreation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-28
text: 
Redesignates a portion of the project for navigation, Saco River, Maine, as an anchorage area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2005-10-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12055)
action_date: 2005-10-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the suspension of duty on hexanedioic acid, polymer with 1,3-benzenedimethanamine.

Bill: 109-s-1939
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, John [R-VA]
Introduced: 2005-10-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Polymers
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-28
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on hexanedioic acid, polymer with 1,3-benzenedimethanamine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-10-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12055)
action_date: 2005-10-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Childhelp National Registry Act

Bill: 109-s-1940
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2005-10-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Child abuse
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Electronic government information
Government Operations and Politics
Indian children
Minorities
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-31
text: 
Childhelp National Registry Act - Directs the Attorney General to create a national register of cases of child abuse or neglect (abuse), with the information in the register supplied to the Secretary of Health and Human Services by states (or local governments at state option) and Indian tribes. 
 
Requires: (1) such information to relate to substantiated reports of abuse and case-specific identification; and (2) each reporting entity to determine whether such information also relates to reports of suspected instances of abuse that were unsubstantiated or unfounded, except that reported information must be coextensive with any equivalent register of abuse cases maintained by such entity.
 
Directs the Attorney General to establish standards for the dissemination of information in the national register that preserve the confidentiality of records.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-10-31
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain real property in the Dixie National Forest in the State of Utah, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-1941
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2005-10-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
National forests
Utah

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-31
text: Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain land in the Dixie National Forest in Utah to Kirk R. Harrison. Requires proceeds from the conveyance to be used to acquire other real property or interests for inclusion in the Dixie National Forest.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-10-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12077)
action_date: 2005-10-31
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on 1-Methoxy-2-propanol in solvent.

Bill: 109-s-1942
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2005-11-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Commerce
Plastics
Rubber
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on 1-Methoxy-2-propanol in solvent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on 1,5-Naphthalenedisulfonic  acid, 2-[[8-[[4-[[3-[[[2-(ethenylsulfonyl)ethyl]amino]carbonyl]phenyl]amino]-6-fluoro-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl]amino]-1-hydroxy-3,6-disulfo-2-naphthalenyl]azo]-, tetrasodium salt.

Bill: 109-s-1943
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2005-11-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2009, of the duty on 1,5-Naphthalenedisulfonic acid, 2-[[8-[[4-[[3-[[[2-(ethenylsulfonyl)ethyl]amino]carbonyl]phenyl]amino]-6-fluoro-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl]amino]-1-hydroxy-3,6-disulfo-2-naphthalenyl]azo]-, tetrasodium salt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Introduced in Senate