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Hybrid HOV Access Act

Bill: 109-hr-325
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Bicycles
Biomass energy
Car pools
Coal
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Electric vehicles
Energy
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal aid to transportation
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Highway finance
Hydrogen
Interstate highway system
Labeling
Law
Licenses
Limited access highways
Liquefied petroleum gas
Local laws
Mass rapid transit
Methanol
Motor buses
Motor vehicle pollution control
Motorcycles
Natural gas vehicles
Performance measurement
State laws
Toll roads
Traffic accidents and safety
Traffic congestion
Traffic engineering
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Hybrid HOV Access Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Aid Highways program to require a State agency with jurisdiction over the operation of a HOV facility to establish the occupancy requirements of vehicles operating on it.
 
Requires such agency to permit motorcycles and bicycles to use the HOV facility. 
 
Permits a State agency to restrict use of the HOV facility by motorcycles or bicycles (or both) if it certifies to the Secretary of Transportation that such use would create a safety hazard. 
 
Prescribes guidelines under which a State agency may permit use of an HOV facility by: (1) public transportation vehicles and high occupancy toll vehicles; (2) inherently low-emission vehicles and low emission and energy-efficient vehicles; and (3) advanced lean burn technology vehicles.
 
Permits tolls on a HOV facility on the Interstate System.
 
Requires a State agency that allows low emission and energy-efficient vehicles to use a HOV facility to certify to the Secretary that it will establish: (1) a continuous monitoring, assessment, and reporting program regarding the impacts such vehicles may have on the operation of the facility and adjacent highways; and (2) an enforcement program that ensures the facility is operated in accordance with this Act.
 
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection to issue: (1) a final rule establishing certification requirements for low emission and energy-efficient vehicles and advanced lean burn technology vehicles; and (2) guidance on methods for determining whether a vehicle meets the fuel efficiency standards required to qualify as a hybrid vehicle.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
President Ronald Reagan $10 Bill Act

Bill: 109-hr-329
Sponsor: Rep. Hayworth, J. D. [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Ex-presidents
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
History
Money
Reagan Administration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
President Ronald Reagan $10 Bill Act - Amends the Federal Reserve Act to require the face of $10 Federal reserve notes printed after December 31, 2004, to bear the likeness of President Ronald Wilson Reagan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain sightseeing flights from taxes on air transportation.

Bill: 109-hr-330
Sponsor: Rep. Hayworth, J. D. [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aircraft
Commerce
Excise tax
Tax exemption
Tourism
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions exempting certain small aircraft on nonestablished lines from air transportation taxes to also exempt aircraft operated for the sole purpose of sightseeing.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
Governmental Pension Plan Equalization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-331
Sponsor: Rep. Hayworth, J. D. [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil service retirement
Crime and Law Enforcement
Defined benefit pension plans
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Executive compensation
Federal-Indian relations
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Minorities
Native Americans
Nondiscrimination provisions
Paramedical personnel
Pension funds
Police

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Governmental Pension Plan Equalization Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to specify that rules for governmental plans also apply to plans established for their employees by Indian tribal governments or their subdivisions, agencies, instrumentalities, or entities which they wholly-own or control.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 to require that, in order to determine that a democratically elected government in Cuba exists, the government extradite to the United States convicted felon William Morales and all other individuals who are living in Cuba in order to escape prosecution or confinement for criminal offenses committed in the United States.

Bill: 109-hr-332
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Caribbean area
Crime and Law Enforcement
Cuba
Democracy
Economic assistance
Extradition
Fugitives from justice
Government Operations and Politics
Latin America
Law
Rule of law
Sanctions (International law)

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Amends the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 to require, in order to determine that a democratically elected government exists in Cuba, the Cuban Government to prove its respect for the democratic rule of law by ceasing to provide a safe harbor to individuals who have been legally indicted or convicted of serious criminal offenses, including convicted felon William Morales and all other individuals who have fled from the United States to Cuba for the sole purpose of avoiding U.S. prosecution or confinement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
Military Educational Parity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-333
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-9]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
College administration
College costs
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Iraq compilation
Leave of absence
National Guard
Retired military personnel
Scholarships
Student aid
Students
Students' rights
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Military Educational Parity Act of 2005 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education, as a condition of their participation in the student aid program, to grant students who are called or ordered to active duty a military leave of absence while serving on active duty and for one year after conclusion of such service. 
 
Entitles students receiving such leave, upon release from active duty, to be restored to prior educational status attained without loss of academic credits earned, scholarships or grants awarded, or tuition or fees paid, unless those have been refunded. Requires institutions to give such students certain refunds of tuition or fees paid prior to active duty. 
 
Includes as active duty, in the case of National Guard members, active State duty. Excludes training or attendance at a service school from treatment as active duty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
Angolan Temporary Protected Status Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-334
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-9]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Aliens
Angola
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil War
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
International Affairs
Refugees
Residence requirements
Right to travel

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Angolan Temporary Protected Status Act of 2005 - Expresses the sense of Congress that Angola qualifies for designation under the Immigration and Nationality Act as a nation with an ongoing conflict pursuant to which Angolan nationals would be eligible for temporary protected status (TPS) in the United States.
 
Amends the Act to so designate Angola for an initial one-year period. Sets forth TPS eligibility requirements for Angolan nationals, including: (1) continuous physical presence in the United States since the date of enactment of this Act; (2) admissibility as an immigrant (with certain exceptions) and eligibility for TPS; and (3) registration for TPS in a manner established by the Secretary of Homeland Security.
 
Requires the Secretary to give prior consent to such aliens for brief, temporary trips abroad in emergency and extenuating circumstances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
Seniors Offering Quality Child Care Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-335
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-9]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Block grants
Caregivers
Child care workers
Continuing education
Day care
Earnings
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Income
Labor and Employment
Literacy programs
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Older workers
Preschool education
Quality of care
Recruiting of employees
Social Welfare
Social security eligibility
Wages
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Seniors Offering Quality Child Care Act of 2005 - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (CCDBGA) to: (1) increase the portion of funds States must use for activities to improve the quality of child care services; (2) include among such activities examining methods to increase recruitment, retention, and compensation of child care workers age 55 and older; and (3) exempt allowances, earnings, and payments to such older individuals under CCDBGA from consideration as income in determining eligibility for and amount of income transfer and in-kind aid under any Federal or federally assisted program based on need.
 
Amends the Social Security Act to exempt compensation for child caregiving services of employees of eligible child care providers from consideration under the Social Security earnings test.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 13, United States Code, to provide that the term of office of the Director of the Census shall be 5 years, to provide that the Director of the Census report directly to the Secretary of Commerce, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-337
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Census
Department of Commerce
Federal officials
Law
Term limits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Amends provisions relating to the Director of the Bureau of the Census to: (1) require the Director to report directly to the Secretary of Commerce; and (2) provide that the term of office of the Director shall be five years.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E72)
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
Voters' Right to Know Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-338
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Campaign funds
Congress
Congressional elections
Election forecasting
Fund raising
Government paperwork
Political advertising
Presidential elections
Science, Technology, Communications
Social surveys
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Voters' Right to Know Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require any person conducting a Federal election phone bank (except through non-political general media facilities) to report to the Federal Election Commission specified information about phone bank costs, funding sources, household contacts, and questions asked or information provided to respondents. Limits such requirement to projects contacting at least 1,500 households during the 25 days before a Federal election. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E68)
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
Individual Investment Account Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-339
Sponsor: Rep. McCrery, Jim [R-LA-4]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts
Capital gains tax
Economics and Public Finance
Estate tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Law
Tax deductions
Tax deferral
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Individual Investment Account Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual taxpayer a tax deduction from gross income (whether or not the taxpayer itemizes deductions) for cash contributions to an individual investment account. Permits tax free distributions up to $15,000 from such accounts for the purchase of a principal residence by a first-time homebuyer. Allows an annual inflation adjustment to the $15,000 limit beginning in 2006. 
 
Excludes individual investment accounts from the calculation of the gross estate for estate tax purposes. 
 
Excludes from gross income gain from the sale of a principal residence if such gain is reinvested in an individual investment account.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit stationary sources located in ozone nonattainment areas from purchasing nitrogen oxide emission credits under the Environmental Protection Agency's nitrogen oxide trading program without the consent of the State in which such source is located, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-340
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air pollution control
Emissions trading
Government Operations and Politics
Interstate relations
Nitrogen oxides
Ozone

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Amends interstate pollution abatement provisions of the Clean Air Act to prohibit a stationary source of oxides of nitrogen located in an ozone nonattainment area from purchasing nitrogen oxide (NOX) emission credits under any emissions trading program established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or use any other authority provided by EPA rules that would permit emissions from the source in excess of emission limits for that pollutant otherwise applicable under the State implementation plan and the Act's NOX emission reduction program provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E76-77)
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
Improving the Community Services Block Grant Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-341
Sponsor: Rep. Osborne, Tom [R-NE-3]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Authorization
Block grants
Child nutrition
Church and social problems
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Community development
Community organization
Compensatory education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Environmental Protection
Families
Food relief
Government paperwork
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Mentoring
Nonprofit organizations
Performance measurement
Poverty
Religion
Religious liberty
Rural economic development
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Sewerage
Social Welfare
Standards
Urban affairs
Waste water treatment
Water Resources Development
Water treatment plants
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Improving the Community Services Block Grant Act of 2005 - Amends the Community Services Block Grant Act (CSBGA) to reauthorize appropriations and to revise the program.
 
Requires eligible entities to develop and meet locally determined goals as well as State goals, standards, and performance requirements.
 
Includes initiatives to improve economic conditions and mobilize new resources in rural areas to eliminate obstacles to the self-sufficiency of families and individuals in rural communities among the activities for which State plans must assure use of CSBGA grant funds. 
 
Requires State plans to include assurances that the State will: (1) take swift action to improve performance, or when appropriate, terminate the funding of low-performing eligible entities that do not meet locally determined goals or State goals, standards and performance requirements; and (2) provide a justification to the Secretary if they continue to fund persistently low-performing eligible entities. 
 
Requires States to: (1) measure performance of local entities with regard to locally determined goals; and (2) provide information on the timeliness of the distribution of block grant funds to eligible entities, and on their availability as timely advance payments for activities approved in local plans. 
 
Requires eligible entities to: (1) develop locally determined goals; and (2) demonstrate to the State that they have met such local goals to continue their eligibility for funding.
 
Sets forth local grantee accountability and reporting requirements.
 
Includes water and wastewater facility needs among those to be addressed by rural community development assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E76)
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
To provide for adjustment of immigration status for certain aliens granted temporary protected status in the United States because of conditions in Montserrat.

Bill: 109-hr-342
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, Major R. [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2005-01-25 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alien labor
Aliens
Caribbean area
Department of Justice
Deportation
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Illegal aliens
Immigrants
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Law
Married people
Montserrat
Parents
Refugees
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) to grant lawful permanent resident status to certain nationals of Montserrat previously granted temporary protected status in the United States (and specified family members).
 
Authorizes aliens previously ordered excluded, deported, or removed, or ordered to depart voluntarily, to apply for adjustment of status under this Act.
 
Requires the Secretary to provide work authorization and related documentation to principal aliens seeking the benefits of this Act.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide specified administrative review procedures for such aliens and their qualifying family members.
 
States that the granting of adjustment of status for principal aliens under this Act shall not reduce the number of available immigrant visas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Introduced in House