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Stop Tuberculosis (TB) Now Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2465
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2006-03-28 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Chemotherapy
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Drug resistance in microorganisms
Drugs
Economic assistance
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Human immunodeficiency viruses
International agencies
Medical records
Medical research
Medical tests
Pharmaceutical research
President and foreign policy
Public health
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Tuberculosis
Vaccines
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: 
Stop Tuberculosis (TB) Now Act of 2006 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require (currently, authorizes) the President to furnish assistance for tuberculosis (TB) prevention, treatment, and elimination.
 
Gives priority to activities described in the Stop TB Strategy (as defined by this Act). Revises related fund use provisions.
 
Authorizes the President, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to provide increased resources to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Stop Tuberculosis Partnership to improve the capacity of countries with high TB rates and other affected countries to implement the Stop TB Strategy.
 
Authorizes appropriations for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) TB activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2472)
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2466
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2006-03-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Boundaries
Camping
Charities
Conservation easements
Construction costs
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Land transfers
Land use
Maps
Mines and mineral resources
Mining engineering
National forests
Outdoor recreation
Real estate appraisal
Road construction
Roads and highways
Small towns
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
State parks
Trails
Transportation and Public Works
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: 
Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) to convey to Resolution Copper Mining, LLC, all, right, title, and interest of the United States in and to specified federal land in Pinal county, Arizona, in exchange for Resolution Copper conveying to the United States title to: (1) the Secretary to specified non-federal land in Gila, Yavapai, Maricopa, Pinal, and Coconino counties, Arizona, and (2) the Secretary of the Interior to specified non-federal land in Pinal, Santa Cruz, and Gila counties, Arizona. 
 
Directs the Secretary to convey specified land in Pinal county to the town of Superior, Arizona. 
 
Instructs Resolution Copper to deliver to the Secretary an executed document granting a permanent conservation easement to an entity that is: (1) a qualified unit of government; or (2) a land trust or other qualified organization. Requires Resolution Copper and the grantee, in consultation with the town and other interested parties, to determine whether the area covered by the easement should be used to establish additional public access routes, trails, and trailheads to Apache Leap. 
 
Directs: (1) the Secretary, in consultation with Resolution Copper, the town, and other interested parties, to construct in the Global Ranger District of the Tonto National Forest one or more replacement campgrounds for the Oak Flat Campground; and (2) the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the Arizona State Parks Board approximately 2,000 acres of land under such Secretary's jurisdiction within the exterior boundary of the proposed Tom O'Shanter Area State Park for the establishment of such Park. 
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to construct or improve, or oversee construction or improvement of, and grant the Board a right-of-way over, the Tom O' Shanter Access Road in order to provide public access to the proposed State Park. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-24
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-582.
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2472-2473)
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide standing for civil actions for declaratory and injunctive relief to persons who refrain from electronic communications through fear of being subject to warrantless electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-2468
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Afghanistan
Armed Forces and National Security
Civil actions and liability
Crime and Law Enforcement
Electronic surveillance
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign banks and banking
Government Operations and Politics
Injunctions
International Affairs
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Judicial review
Middle East and North Africa
Pakistan
Parties to actions
Reporters and reporting
Science, Technology, Communications
South Asia
State-sponsored terrorism
Supreme Court
Terrorism
Warrants (Law)

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: 
Provides standing for civil actions for declatory and injunctive relief to persons who refrain from electronic communications through fear of being subject to warrantless electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-13
text: Committee on the Judiciary. failed to approve for reporting.
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Committee consideration and Mark Up Session held.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2535-2536)
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Alice Paul Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 109-s-2469
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2006-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Government Operations and Politics
Voting rights
Women
Women's rights
Women's voting

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: 
Alice Paul Congressional Gold Medal Act - Provides for the posthumous presentation of a congressional gold medal to Alice Paul in recognition of her role in the women's suffrage movement and in advancing equal rights for women.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Southern Idaho Bureau of Reclamation Repayment Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2470
Sponsor: Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2006-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Collection of accounts
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Idaho
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Irrigation districts
Landowners

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: 
Southern Idaho Bureau of Reclamation Repayment Act of 2006 - Authorizes any owner of land within the A&B Irrigation District in Idaho to repay at any time the construction costs of District project facilities that are allocated to such land. Provides that, upon full payment of such costs, the parcels shall not be subject to specified ownership and full-cost pricing limitations under federal reclamation law, for which the Secretary shall, upon request, provide the landowner a certificate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-677.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2536)
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Basic Red 1 Dye.

Bill: 109-s-2471
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2006-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on Basic Red 1 Dye.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Read the second time and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Basic Red 1:1 Dye.

Bill: 109-s-2472
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2006-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on Basic Red 1:1 Dye.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Basic Violet 11 Dye.

Bill: 109-s-2473
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2006-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on Basic Violet 11 Dye.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Basic Violet 11:1 Dye.

Bill: 109-s-2474
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2006-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on Basic Violet 11:1 Dye.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of the American Latino Community Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2475
Sponsor: Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]
Introduced: 2006-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
District of Columbia
Federal advisory bodies
Fund raising
Government Operations and Politics
Hispanic Americans
Legislation
Minorities
Museums
Planning
Smithsonian Institution

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: 
Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of the American Latino Community Act of 2006 - Establishes the Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of the American Latino Community to develop a plan of action for the establishment and maintenance of a National Museum of the American Latino Community in Washington, D.C. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2536-2537)
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on N-Cyclohexylthiophthalimide.

Bill: 109-s-2476
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2006-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on N-Cyclohexylthiophthalimide.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on 4,4'-Dithiodimorpholine.

Bill: 109-s-2477
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2006-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on 4,4'-Dithiodimorpholine.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Tetraethylthiuram Disulfide.

Bill: 109-s-2478
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2006-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on Tetraethylthiuram Disulfide.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain Tetramethylthiuram Disulfide.

Bill: 109-s-2479
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2006-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on Tetramethylthiuram Disulfide.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Contact Lens Consumer Protection Act

Bill: 109-s-2480
Sponsor: Sen. Bennett, Robert F. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2006-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Consumer protection
Contact lenses
Electronic commerce
Federal Trade Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Independent regulatory commissions
Internet
Law
Mail-order business
Pharmacies
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: 
Contact Lens Consumer Protection Act - Amends the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act to require contact lens manufacturers to make the lenses available in a commercially reasonable and nondiscriminatory manner to: (1) prescribers and associated entities; and (2) alternative channels of distribution. (Excludes specified types of lenses, including lenses that are custom designed and manufactured for an individual patient and are not mass produced or marketed.)
 

 
Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to prescribe rules to carry out this Act. Treats violations of this Act as unfair or deceptive acts or practices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to hire additional full-time non-supervisory import specialists of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-2481
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-03-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Customs administration
Department of Homeland Security
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Imports

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-30
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to hire additional full-time non-supervisory import specialists of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection so that the number of such specialists during FY2007 and each subsequent fiscal year is at least 1,080. Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Secretary to certify to specified congressional committees, annually, that this requirement has been met.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-03-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Gulf Coast Open for Business Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2482
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2006-03-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Agricultural cooperatives
Agriculture and Food
Alabama
Arkansas
Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cooperative societies
Depressed areas
Disaster loans
Disaster relief
Displaced persons
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Finance and Financial Sector
Florida
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign trade promotion
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government procurement
Grants-in-aid
Horticulture
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Labor and Employment
Louisiana
Mississippi
Nonprofit organizations
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Refuse and refuse disposal
Small business
Social Welfare
Surety and fidelity
Texas
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-30
text: 
Gulf Coast Open for Business Act of 2006 - Authorizes appropriations for grants to appropriate state agencies in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and Florida for state bridge loan programs in response to economic disruption caused by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, or Wilma (hurricanes) in 2005.
 
Requires the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to hire a full-time international finance specialist for the SBA's Office of International Trade to help carry out export promotion efforts in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas.
 
Amends the Small Business Act to waive grant limits in the case of grants made to small business development centers for assisting small businesses affected by the hurricanes. Authorizes the SBA to: (1) allow qualified lenders to process disaster loans and to verify loan losses; (2) make loans to nonprofit organizations that were negatively impacted by the hurricanes or are providing services to persons negatively impacted; and (3) make loans to any small business in the United States negatively impacted by the hurricanes. Provides for the deferred payment of disaster loans. Requires the Administrator to provide daily updates to Congress on the operation of SBA disaster loans in presidentially declared disaster areas.
 
Requires the Administrator and the head of each federal agency making procurements related to relief, recovery, and reconstruction in areas affected by the hurricanes to set a goal for small business subcontracts with respect to such procurements. Requires the use of local firms and individuals in the use of federal funds for debris clearance, distribution of supplies, reconstruction, and other emergency assistance activities in hurricane-affected areas. Directs the Administrator to submit to the congressional small business committees a 2006 Atlantic hurricane season disaster response plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2006-03-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2604-2605)
action_date: 2006-03-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Law Enforcement Assistance Force Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2483
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2006-03-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Civil service retirement
Crime and Law Enforcement
Disaster relief
Emergency medicine
Firearms
Health
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Law enforcement officers
Police
Social Welfare
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-30
text: 
Law Enforcement Assistance Force Act of 2005 or LEAF Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a Law Enforcement Assistance Force (Force) to facilitate the contributions of retired law enforcement officers and agents during major disasters. Outlines Force eligibility requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to request eligible participants to assist efforts of federal, state, or local government law enforcement agencies in responding to such disasters.
 
Requires a participant to remain in an assignment for the lesser of: (1) the period during which the law enforcement agency needs such services; or (2) 30 days.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-03-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2606)
action_date: 2006-03-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Taxpayer Privacy Act

Bill: 109-s-2484
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2006-03-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Affiliated corporations
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Department of the Treasury
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Right of privacy
Tax administration
Tax preparers
Tax returns
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-30
text: 
Protecting Taxpayer Privacy Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require Treasury regulations to prohibit tax return preparers from disclosing tax return information to third parties without taxpayer consent and unless such third parties are corporate affiliates of the tax return preparer or a corporate fiduciary with respect to the taxpayer. Authorizes the issuance of additional regulations permitting other limited disclosures of tax return information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-03-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Secure Rural Schools and Communities Funding Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2485
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2006-03-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Payments in lieu of taxes
Road construction
Rural education
Transportation and Public Works
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-30
text: 
Secure Rural Schools and Communities Funding Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish in the Treasury the Rural Schools and Communities Trust Fund to make payments to eligible states and counties under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000; and (2) require the withholding of three percent of any federal payment for goods and services and the transfer of an estimated amount of such withheld funds to the Trust Fund. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-03-30
text: Introduced in Senate