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A bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend and improve national dairy market loss payments.

Bill: 109-s-273
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2005-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural subsidies
Commerce
Dairy industry
Government Operations and Politics
Milk

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: 
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 with respect to national dairy market loss payments to: (1) extend, by two years, program sign-up and contract periods; and (2) double single dairy operation payment quantities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S981)
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S980-981)
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Social Security Right to Know Act

Bill: 109-s-274
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2005-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Accounting
Budget deficits
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security beneficiaries
Social security finance
Social security taxes
Tax rates
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: 
Social Security Right To Know Act - Amends the Social Security Act to require Social Security account statements to contain additional information, such as: (1) a statement of the current Social Security tax rates applicable to wages and self-employment income, including an indication of the combined total of such rates of employee and employer taxes with respect to wages; and (2) a comparison of total annual Social Security tax inflows with the total annual benefits paid. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S981-982)
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S981)
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers Act

Bill: 109-s-275
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2005-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer price indexes
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Old age, survivors and disability insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: 
Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers Act - Directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor to prepare and publish a monthly Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers (CPI) that indicates changes over time in expenditures for consumption which are typical for individuals aged 62 years of age or older. 
 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) to provide for the use of such new CPI in the computation of cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Medicare benefits under such programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Hearing Health Accessibility Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-277
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2005-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Hearing disorders
Medical fees
Medicare
Physicians
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: 
Hearing Health Accessibility Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for direct access to qualified audiologists for Medicare beneficiaries and the coverage of audiology services as a Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) medical service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8294-8295)
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S982)
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Summer Operations and Seasonal Equity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-278
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2005-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Seasonal labor
Temporary employment
Visas
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: 
Summer Operations and Seasonal Equity Act of 2005 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require that no less than 12,000 of the total H-2B visas (temporary nonagricultural workers) available for any fiscal year (currently, up to 66,000) must be made available in each quarter of such year. States that an alien counted toward the numerical limitations applicable to such visas within the three years prior to the approval of a petition for an H-2B temporary worker shall not be counted again toward such limitations. Makes this provision effective as if enacted on October 1, 2004. Provides for its expiration on October 1, 2007.
 
Amends the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit to the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Senate information regarding: (1) the numbers of aliens granted H-2B status or terminated from H-2B status, on a quarterly basis; and (2) the countries of origin, occupations of, and compensation paid to aliens granted H-2B status, the number of aliens terminated from such status, and the number of aliens provided such status during both the fiscal year reported and the preceding fiscal year, on an annual basis. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S982-983)
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the amortization of delay rental payments and geological and geophysical expenditures.

Bill: 109-s-280
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2005-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Continental shelf
Depreciation and amortization
Energy
Gas in submerged lands
Gas industry
Geology
Geophysical prediction
Income tax
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil well drilling
Petroleum in submerged lands
Petroleum industry
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Rent
Submarine oil well drilling
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the amortization, over a 24-month period, of: (1) delay rental payments for the development of oil or gas wells in the United States; and (2) geological and geophysical expenses incurred in the exploration for, or development of, oil or gas in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S984)
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S984)
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Vichai Sae Tung (also known as Chai Chaowasaree).

Bill: 109-s-281
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2005-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: 
Declares Vichai Sae Tung (also known as Chai Chaowasaree) to be considered to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act

Bill: 109-s-282
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2005-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Adoption
Caregivers
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Crime and Law Enforcement
Disability insurance
Disabled
Diseases
Economics and Public Finance
Employment subsidies
Evidence (Law)
Families
Family leave
Family violence
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Foster home care
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Health
Law
Leave of absence
Sick leave
Social Welfare
Unemployment insurance
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: 
Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act - Family Income to Respond to Significant Transitions Insurance Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to make five-year grants to a State or local government to pay for the Federal share of the cost of carrying out projects that assist families by providing wage replacement for eligible individuals responding to caregiving needs resulting from the birth or adoption of a son or daughter or other family caregiving needs.
 
Family and Medical Leave Fairness Act of 2005 - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) to extend coverage to employees at worksites where the employer employs at least 25 (currently 50) employees at the worksite and within 75 miles of that worksite. 
Amends FMLA and Federal civil service law to entitle to leave those employees who must address the effects of domestic violence. 
Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2005 - Permits the Office of Personnel Management to contract with one or more employing agencies to conduct a demonstration project that provides paid leave for eligible individuals who are responding to caregiving needs resulting from the birth or adoption of a son or daughter or other family caregiving needs. Requires the leave to last for at least six weeks during a 12-month period. 
Time for Schools Act of 2005 - Amends FMLA to allow employees covered by such Act to take up to 24 hours, during any 12-month period, of school involvement leave to participate in: (1) an academic activity of their child's school, such as a parent-teacher conference or an interview for a school; or (2) literacy training under a family literacy program. Amends Federal civil service law to provide the same school involvement leave allowance for Federal employees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S984-985)
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Hunger Relief Trucking Tax Credit Act

Bill: 109-s-283
Sponsor: Sen. Dole, Elizabeth [R-NC]
Introduced: 2005-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Charitable contributions
Commerce
Food relief
Income tax
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works
Trucking
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: 
Hunger Relief Trucking Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for the cost of transporting food to assist hunger relief efforts of certain charitable organizations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Universal Services Equity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-284
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2005-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Telephone
Telephone rates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: 
Rural Universal Service Equity Act of 2005 - Requires the Comptroller General to report to Congress on the need to reform the high cost support mechanism (with respect to universal telephone service) for rural, insular, and high cost areas.
 
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in calculating Federal universal service support for eligible telecommunications carriers that serve such areas, to revise its support mechanism for high cost areas to provide support to each wire center in which the incumbent local exchange carrier's average cost per line exceeds the national average by such amount as the FCC determines appropriate for the purpose of ensuring the equitable distribution of universal service support throughout the United States. Requires: (1) the FCC to ensure that no State receives less Federal support than it would have received, up to ten percent of the total support distributed, under the FCC's previous support mechanism; and (2) the total amount of support for all States to be equal to the total support calculated under the support mechanism in existence before enactment of this Act.
 
States that nothing in this Act shall affect the support provided to rural telephone companies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S986)
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S985-986)
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend section 401 (b)(2) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 regarding the Federal Pell Grant maximum amount.

Bill: 109-s-286
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2005-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: College costs
Colleges
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Scholarships
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 with respect to maximum individual amounts of Federal Pell Grant for academic years 2005-06 through 2009-10. Increases such amount to $7,600 for 2005-06, and by increments in each of specified subsequent academic years, up to $11,600 for 2009-10.
 
Requires a further increase in any such maximum Federal Pell Grant amount, by an amount sufficient to achieve a five percent increase in students' purchasing power relative to the cost of attendance at an institution of higher education, if the Secretary of Education determines that the amount authorized does not increase such purchasing power by at least five percent from one academic year to the next.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S987)
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S986-987)
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation to use dynamic economic modeling in the preparation of budgetary estimates of proposed changes in Federal revenue law.

Bill: 109-s-287
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2005-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional Budget Office
Congressional agencies
Congressional joint committees
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic forecasting
Economic impact statements
Economic research
Economic statistics
Federal budgets
Fiscal policy
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Joint Taxation
Legislation
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Expresses the sense of the Congress that it is necessary to ensure that the Congress is presented with reliable information from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation as to the dynamic macroeconomic feedback effects to changes in Federal law and the probable behavioral responses of taxpayers, businesses, and other parties to such changes. 
Requires the Joint Committee and CBO to prepare fiscal estimates of each proposed change in Federal revenue law on the basis of assumptions that estimate the probable behavioral responses of personal and business taxpayers and other relevant entities to such change and its dynamic macroeconomic feedback effects. Applies such requirement only to proposed changes that, pursuant to static fiscal estimates, have a fiscal impact exceeding $250 million in any fiscal year.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget. (text of measure as introduced: CR S988)
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S987-988)
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize an annual appropriation of $10,000,000 for mental health courts through fiscal year 2011.

Bill: 109-s-289
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2005-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administration of justice
Authorization
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal education
Mental health services
Mental illness
Mentally disabled
Police training
State courts

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: 
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize appropriations for mental health courts from FY 2006 through 2011.

action_date: 2005-04-18
text: 

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

 
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize appropriations for mental health courts from FY 2006 through 2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S3862)
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S3862)
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S3862)
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S3862)
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S989)
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S988-989)
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income certain hazard mitigation assistance.

Bill: 109-s-290
Sponsor: Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO]
Introduced: 2005-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Flood damage prevention
Income tax
Tax exclusion
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income hazard mitigation payments received under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act or the National Flood Insurance Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S990)
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S989-990)
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
United Nations Oil-for-Food Accountability Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-291
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2005-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Appropriations
Compensation (Law)
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional investigations
Congressional oversight
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Evidence (Law)
Finance and Financial Sector
Food relief
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Interest
International relief
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Law
Middle East and North Africa
Misconduct in office
Petroleum
President and foreign policy
Privileges and immunities
Public corruption
Sanctions (International law)
United Nations
United Nations finances
United Nations officials

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: 
United Nations Oil-for-Food Accountability Act of 2005 - Requires the withholding of certain FY 2006 and 2007 U.S. contributions to the United Nations (UN) until the President certifies that the UN is cooperating in the investigation of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Social Security Lock-Box Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-292
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2005-02-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget resolutions
Congress
Congressional budget
Federal budget process
Government trust funds
House rules and procedure
Legislation
Legislative amendments
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Senate rules and procedure
Social Welfare
Social security finance
Tax rates
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: 
Social Security Lock-Box Act of 2005 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide a point of order against consideration of any: (1) budget resolution that sets forth totals for any fiscal year with respect to the Social Security Trust Funds that are less than the totals of the Social Security Trust Funds for that fiscal year as calculated in accordance with a current services baseline; or (2) spending or tax legislation that would cause any totals to be less than the Funds totals for the covered fiscal year.
 
Makes the point of order described in (2) above inapplicable to Social Security reform legislation. 
 
Requires any Federal budget submitted by the President that recommends totals for any fiscal year with respect to the Funds that are less than the totals of the Funds for that fiscal year to include a detailed proposal for Social Security reform legislation. Makes this Act inapplicable upon the enactment of such legislation. Defines &quot;Social Security reform legislation&quot; as a bill or joint resolution to save Social Security that specifies that it constitutes reform legislation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Introduced in Senate