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City Youth Violence Recovery Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6215
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Child health
Child psychology
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Health
Mental health services
Mentoring
Nonprofit organizations
School health programs
Social Welfare
State-local relations
Urban affairs
Urban crime
Youth services
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
City Youth Violence Recovery Act of 2006 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to partnerships between a state mental health authority and one or more local public or private entities to prevent or alleviate the effects of youth violence in urban communities with a high or increasing incidence of such violence by providing violence-prevention education, mentoring, counseling, and mental health services to children and adolescents.
 
Gives priority to grant applicants that agree to use the grant in communities that lack the resources to address youth violence. Requires grant applicants to agree to use no more than 15% of a grant for violence-prevention education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1853)
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Daniel Webster Congressional Fellowship Act

Bill: 109-hr-6216
Sponsor: Rep. Lungren, Daniel E. [R-CA-3]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional employees
Congressional fellows
Education
Higher education
Law
Lawyers
Legal education

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Daniel Webster Congressional Fellowship Act - Establishes the Daniel Webster Congressional Fellowship Program, under which up to 40 eligible law school graduates shall be selected by specified congressional leaders as Daniel Webster Congressional Fellows for each Congress.
 

 
Requires a Fellow to serve as an employee in a participating office of the House or Senate during the Congress for which the individual is selected.
 
Specifies eligibility criteria for a Fellow, including a juris doctor degree.
 

 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
ABC Act

Bill: 109-hr-6217
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Arts, Culture, Religion
Books
Social Welfare
WIC program

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Access to Books for Children Act, or the ABC Act - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to local agencies to provide vouchers to women participating in the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children (WIC) for the purchase of educational books for their infants and children. 
Limits to one $5 voucher the maximum amount any one woman may receive, regardless of the number of her infants or children. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Bay Area Regional Water Recycling Program Projects Authorization Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6218
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
California
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Water conservation
Water districts
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Bay Area Regional Water Recycling Program Projects Authorization Act of 2006 - Deems the Bay Area Regional Water Recycling Program projects authorized by this Act to be feasible and eligible for financial assistance under the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act. Confirms such projects as technically and financially viable.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and construction of recycled water distribution systems or recycled water system facilities in cooperation with: (1) Palo Alto, California; (2) Pittsburg, California, and the Delta Diablo Sanitation District; (3) Antioch, California, and the Delta Diablo Sanitation District; (4) Pacifica, California, and the North Coast County Water District; (5) Redwood City, California; and (6) Gilroy, California, and the Santa Clara Valley Water District. Limits the federal share to 25% of each project's cost. Terminates the Secretary's authority to carry out this Act 10 years after its enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2006-10-04
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1870-1871)
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Toxic Right-to-Know Protection Act

Bill: 109-hr-6219
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Chemicals
Commerce
Environmental Protection Agency
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Industrial pollution
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Toxic Right-to-Know Protection Act - Amends the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 to repeal provisions authorizing the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to modify the frequency of submitting toxic chemical release forms.
 
Requires the Administrator to establish the eligibility threshold regarding the use of a form A certification statement under the toxic release inventory program at not greater than 500 pounds for nonpersistent bioaccumulative and toxic chemicals. Prohibits the use of such form with respect to any chemical of special concern identified by the Administrator. Prohibits the Administrator from implementing the proposed rule dated October 4, 2005, to revise requirements under such program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
To require payment of three times the amount of just compensation whenever private property is taken for private economic development use.

Bill: 109-hr-6220
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Compensation (Law)
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Eminent domain
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Requires the particular governmental entity to pay treble compensation to a property owner if: (1) the federal government or any federal authority, or a state or local government during a fiscal year in which it receives federal economic development funds, exercises its power of eminent domain, or allows its exercise by any delegated person or entity; and (2) the property over which that power is exercised is planned, or subsequently used, for economic development.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Lead Poisoning Reduction Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6222
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child health
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Contractors
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employee training
Environmental Protection Agency
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Governmental investigations
Health
Labor and Employment
Law
Lead poisoning
Licenses
Maintenance and repair
Paints and varnishes
Preschool education
School buildings
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Lead Poisoning Reduction Act of 2006 - Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to establish a Select Group on Lead Exposure. Requires the Group to: (1) conduct a study of state, tribal, and local programs to protect children from exposure to lead at child-occupied facilities constructed before January 1, 1978; (2) develop baseline standards such programs must meet to receive a grant under this Act; and (3) develop a model program to protect children from exposure to lead at such facilities that can be adopted by state, local, and tribal governments.
 
Requires the model program to meet or exceed standards that require facilities to be notified as soon as practicable after a child is diagnosed with lead poisoning and to be tested for the presence of lead upon receiving such notification.
 
Directs the Administrator to: (1) establish a program to provide grants to assist such facilitites in carrying out activities to protect children from lead exposure; (2) promulgate regulations requiring such facilities to test applicable exposure pathways for lead, prohibiting states and Indian tribes from issuing a license to such facilities until the testing is complete and the exposure to lead is eliminated, and requiring all child-occupied facilities to eliminate the risk of exposure to lead through applicable exposure pathways; and (3) apply regulations governing lead-based paint activities to contractors and workers engaged in the renovation, remodeling, or painting of such facilitates and to establish a program to provide information and training about those activities to them.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1864-1865)
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Underage Drinking Prevention Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6224
Sponsor: Rep. Whitfield, Ed [R-KY-1]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alcohol and youth
Alcoholism
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Identification devices
Labor and Employment
Parent and child
Performance measurement
Recidivists
Retail trade
Social Welfare
State laws
Surveys

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Underage Drinking Prevention Act of 2006 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to evaluate federal programs intended to prevent and reduce the consumption of beverage alcohol by minors. Directs that a program not receiving a score that demonstrates effectiveness must be modified to be eligible for future funding.
 
Allows the Secretary to make grants to states for activities to prevent and reduce underage drinking by reallocating funds from ineffective grants and programs. Sets forth eligibility requirements, including that the state has: (1) demonstrated coordination among agencies to prevent and reduce underage drinking and abuse; (2) implemented a comprehensive plan to improve enforcement and adjudication of existing underage drinking laws; and (3) penalties for specified underage drinking offenses that escalate with repeat offenses. Allows the Secretary to terminate ineffective programs and transfer the federal amounts involved for use for: (1) programs determined to be effective; (2) evidence-based programs; and (3) incentive grants for state measures.
 
Requires the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking to require that federally funded surveys collect and report data in a consistent manner that allows users to compare survey results. Sets forth age categories to be used in such surveys. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Securing Aircraft Cockpits Against Lasers Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6226
Sponsor: Rep. Keller, Ric [R-FL-8]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aircraft
Aviation safety
Fines (Penalties)
Lasers
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Securing Aircraft Cockpits Against Lasers Act of 2006 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit the aiming of the beam of a laser pointer at an aircraft or in its flight path. Imposes a fine and/or prison term of up to five years.

Exempts from such prohibition: (1) individuals conducting research and development or flight test operations for an aircraft manufacturer or the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); (2) Department of Defense or Department of Homeland Security personnel conducting research, development, operations, testing or training; or (3) an individual using a laser emergency signaling device to send a distress signal.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Kids Vision Care Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6227
Sponsor: Rep. Fossella, Vito [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Eye care
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Health education
Medical tests
Optometry
Physical examinations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Kids Vision Care Act of 2006 - Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award grants to states to: (1) provide comprehensive eye examinations by a licensed optometrist or ophthalmologist for children identified by a licensed health care provider or vision screener, with priority to children under age nine; (2) provide treatment or services to correct vision problems of such children; and (3) develop and disseminate educational materials on recognizing signs of visual impairment in children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Wright Amendment Reform Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6228
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Airline passenger traffic
Airlines
Airports
Alabama
Arkansas
Aviation safety
Charter airlines
Kansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Wright Amendment Reform Act of 2006 - Amends the International Air Transportation Competition Act of 1979, regarding air transportation to or from Love Field, Texas, (the Wright Amendment), to authorize domestic and foreign air carriers to offer for sale and to provide air transportation to or from Love Field, Texas, and any U.S. or foreign destination through any point within specified states (effectively expanding domestic and foreign air service at Love Field, Texas). 
 
Repeals the Wright Amendment eight years after enactment of this Act.
 
Prohibits: (1) a person from providing nonstop air passenger service between Love Field, Texas, and any point or points outside the 50 states or the District of Columbia; and (2) a federal official or employee from designating Love Field, Texas, as an initial point of entry into the United States or a last point of departure from the United States. 
 
Limits charter flights at Love Field, Texas.
 
Requires the city of Dallas, Texas, to reduce the number of gates available for air service at Love Field.
 
Prohibits federal funds or passenger facility charges from being used to remove gates at the Lemmon Avenue facility, Love Field, to reduce the number of gates, but permits the use of such funds for other airport facilities.
 
Prohibits anything in this Act from affecting general aviation service at Love Field, Texas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to reauthorize the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-6229
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Authorization
Child nutrition
Department of Agriculture
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Families
Food relief
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
 Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to authorize appropriations through FY2012 for the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program.
 
Specifies Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) fund amounts to be used for the Program in each of FY2008-FY2012.
 
Makes the Secretary of Agriculture responsible for specified program administration provisions currently delegated to the President.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1910-1911)
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Desalination Energy Consumption Reduction Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6230
Sponsor: Rep. Hall, Ralph M. [R-TX-4]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Armed Forces and National Security
Cost of living adjustments
Crime and Law Enforcement
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power
Emergency Management
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy demand
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to water resources development
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine resources conservation
Potable water
Saline waters
Science, Technology, Communications
Subsidies
Technological innovations
Terrorism
Waste water treatment
Water purification
Water quality
Water rates
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Desalination Energy Consumption Reduction Act of 2006 - Requires the Secretary of Energy to make specified incentive payments to the owners of qualified desalination facilities for up to ten years to encourage the utilization of the best available technology to reduce the consumption of electrical energy in the desalination process. Limits to 60% the amount of available funds to be provided to facilities that obtain source water directly from the sea, an estuary, or from in-bank extraction wells that are of seawater origin.
 
Directs the Secretary, in awarding incentive payments, to give priority to projects that: (1) use innovative technologies to reduce its energy demand; (2) use renewable energy supplies; (3) provide regional water supply benefits; (4) provide a secure source of new water supplies for national defense activities; (5) reduce the threat of a water supply disruption as a result of a natural disaster or acts of terrorism; (6) use technologies that minimize the damage to marine life; or (7) provide significant water quality benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-04
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOE.
action_date: 2006-10-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House