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Medicaid for American Indians and States Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1572
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Indian medical care
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Medicaid
Minorities
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Medicaid for American Indians and States Act of 2005 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to revise the application of the 100% Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) with respect to amounts expended as medical assistance for services received through an Indian Health Service (IHS) facility. Specifies that such services must be provided under a state plan and received at or by written medical referral from an IHS facility (whether operated by the IHS or by an Indian tribe or tribal organization).
 
Provides that such amendment shall apply to items and services furnished on or after January 1, 1997, and to previously disallowed payments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9494)
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Retiree Health Benefits Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1573
Sponsor: Sen. Dole, Elizabeth [R-NC]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Collective bargaining
Employee health benefits
Health
Pension funds
Retiree health benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Retiree Health Benefits Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the tax free transfer of excess pension assets to a health benefits account established to pay collectively bargained retiree health liabilities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Affordable Access to Medicare Providers Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1574
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer price indexes
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Labor productivity
Medical fees
Medicare
Physicians
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Preserving Patient Access to Physicians Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to payment for physicians' services to establish an update to the single conversion factor for 2006 of at least 2.7 %, and a formula for an update to the single conversion factor for 2007.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in calculating the formula for the single conversion factor, to establish an input price index and estimate a productivity adjustment factor for 2007.

Excludes certain costs relating to such updates from the determination of the Medicare part B monthly premium.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9495-9496)
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9494-9495)
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Nurse Faculty Education Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1575
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: College teachers
Congress
Congressional investigations
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Mentoring
Minorities
Minorities in medicine
Minority education
Nurses
Nursing education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Nurse Faculty Education Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Health Resources and Services Administration, to establish a Nurse Faculty Education Program to ensure an adequate supply of nurse faculty through the awarding of grants to eligible entities to: (1) provide support for hiring new faculty, retaining existing faculty, and purchasing educational resources; (2) provide for increasing enrollment and graduation rates for students from doctoral programs; and (3) assist graduates in serving as nurse faculty in nursing schools.
 
Sets forth provisions regarding eligibility requirements and permissible uses of grant funds. Directs the Secretary to give priority to entities from states and territories that have a lower number of employed nurses per 100,000 population. Directs the Secretary to award specified numbers and amounts of grants for FY2006-FY2010, subject to specified limitations.
 
Directs: (1) the Secretary to evaluate and report to Congress on the results of activities carried out under such grants; and (2) the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress concerning activities to increase participation in the nurse educator program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9496-9497)
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9496)
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize early repayment of obligations to the Bureau of Reclamation within the Rogue River Valley Irrigation District or within the Medford Irrigation District, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-1576
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 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
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Irrigation districts
Landowners
Oregon

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Authorizes any landholder in Oregon within the Rogue River Valley Irrigation District or the Medford Irrigation District to repay, at any time, the construction costs of the project facilities allocated to a landholding within such district. Provides that, upon discharge of the repayment obligation, the lands at issue shall not be subject to ownership and full-cost pricing limitations under reclamation and irrigation provisions. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, upon request, to provide certification of the landholder's freedom from such limitations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to facilitate the transfer of Spearfish Hydroelectric Plant Number 1 to the city of Spearfish, South Dakota, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-1577
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Fish culture
Governmental investigations
Hydroelectric power
Hydrology
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Land transfers
Parks
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
South Dakota
Stream conservation
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Exempts the Spearfish Hydroelectric Plant Number 1 located in Lawrence County, South Dakota, from the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
 
Instructs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the United States Geological Survey, to study the hydrology of Spearfish Creek, South Dakota.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the city of Spearfish, South Dakota, in order to provide for the restoration and improvement of Spearfish Creek, should: (1) uphold the Memorandum Agreement of the city of Spearfish and the Spearfish Canyon Landowners Association, dated September 14, 2004; and (2) take action to release additional water flow of approximately five to 10 cubic feet per second between the Maurice Intake Dam and the Spearfish Diversion.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-30
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-460.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Pesticide Harmonization and Joint Labeling Act

Bill: 109-s-1579
Sponsor: Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Affiliated corporations
Agriculture and Food
Agriculture in foreign trade
Commerce
Environmental Protection Agency
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
International environmental cooperation
Labeling
Law
Licenses
Pesticide regulation
Trade secrets

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Pesticide Harmonization and Joint Labeling Act - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to establish procedures for the joint labeling of registered pesticides by the United States and any country which has a harmonized pesticide registration regulatory process (harmonized country). Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in consultation with a harmonized country, to review and approve joint labels.
 
Authorizes the Administrator to: (1) require joint labeling of new pesticides or uses; and (2) enter into a memorandum of understanding with any harmonized country to address joint registration and labeling procedures. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9497-9498)
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Science Park Administration Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1581
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative fees
Auditing
Bankruptcy
Bonds
Capital investments
Collection of accounts
Colleges
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Corporate finance
Depreciation and amortization
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government securities
Governmental investigations
High technology
Higher education
Income tax
Industrial parks
Industry-university relations
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Loans
Losses
Real estate development
Research and development tax credit
Research centers
Revolving funds
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Subsidies
Surety and fidelity
Tax deductions
Taxation
Technological innovations
Technology transfer
Trade associations
Transportation and Public Works
Trusts and trustees
Venture capital

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Science Park Administration Act of 2005 - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to direct the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) award grants for the development of feasibility studies and plans for the construction of new or expansion of existing science parks; (2) make grants to six regional centers for the development of existing science park infrastructure; (3) guarantee up to 80% of the loan amount for loans exceeding $10 million projects for the construction of such infrastructure; and (4) enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to tri-annually evaluate such development.
 
Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 (SBIA) to establish a Science Park Venture Capital Program. Sets forth eligibility requirements for science park venture capital companies to participate in the Program. Authorizes: (1) guaranteeing payment of principal and interest on the debentures of such companies; (2) the issuance of trust certificates and the guarantee of such certificates; and (3) grants to provide operational assistance. Requires reports.
 
Permits banks to invest in any: (1) science park venture capital company; or (2) entity established to invest solely in such companies.
 
Applies the SBIA provisions relating to New Market Venture Capital companies to science park venture capital companies.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) permit the expensing of certain investments in science parks; and (2) allow the credit for increasing research activities with respect to such parks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9500-9505)
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9500)
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to reauthorize the United States Grain Standards Act, to facilitate the official inspection at export port locations of grain required or authorized to be inspected under such Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-1582
Sponsor: Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Agricultural estimating and reporting
Agriculture in foreign trade
Authorization
Boundaries
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Agriculture
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Exports
Federal advisory bodies
Food safety
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Governmental investigations
Grain
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Marine terminals
Privatization
Recruiting of employees
Standards
Supervision of employees
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Amends the United States Grain Standards Act to extend: (1) authority for inspection, weighing, and supervisory fees, supervisory and administrative cost limitations, and the advisory committee; and (2) authorization of appropriations.
 
Authorizes with respect to export port locations of grain: (1) private entity performance of official inspection and weighing activities; and (2) use of more than one designated person or entity to perform such activities. (Makes certain geographic boundary provisions inapplicable to designated agencies at export port locations.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9505)
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Universal Service for the 21st Century Act

Bill: 109-s-1583
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Broadband
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Independent regulatory commissions
Internet
Law
Telecommunication industry
Telecommunication rates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Universal Service for the 21st Century Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require all telecommunications carriers (currently, only those providing interstate telecommunications services) to contribute to the universal service fund (a fund whose goal is to provide advanced telecommunications services to all areas of the country). Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish a permanent mechanism to support universal service that will preserve and enhance its long-term financial stability. Gives the FCC exclusive jurisdiction to establish rates for inter-carrier compensation payments, including compensation for the origination and termination of intrastate telecommunications traffic.
 
Establishes within the universal service fund the Broadband for Unserved Areas Account, to provide financial assistance for the deployment of broadband (high-speed) communications services to unserved areas throughout the United States. Allows assistance to be provided only to: (1) facilities-based providers of broadband communications service; and (2) one facility-based provider in any unserved area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9506-9507)
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9505-9506)
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Child Protection and Home Safety Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1584
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child safety
Commerce
Costs
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Department of the Treasury
Evidence (Law)
Families
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Law
Liability (Law)
Quality of products
Safety measures
Standards
Storage
Tax credits
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Child Protection and Home Safety Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a nonrefundable tax credit for up to 25 percent of the cost of a qualified residential gun safe. Defines &quot;qualified residential gun safe&quot; as a container not intended for the display of firearms which is specifically designed to store or safeguard firearms from unauthorized access and which meets established performance standards. Limits the amount of such credit to $250.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicaid Health Plan Rebate Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1585
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Commerce
Consumer discounts
Drug industry
Drugs
Health maintenance organizations
Managed care
Medicaid
Prescription pricing
Rebates
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Medicaid Health Plan Rebate Act of 2005 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to reduce the costs of prescription drugs for enrollees of Medicaid managed care organizations by extending the discounts offered under fee-for-service Medicaid to such organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9508)
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9507-9508)
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Interest on Business Checking Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1586
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Bank accounts
Bank deposits
Checks
Commerce
Dividends
Electronic funds transfers
Federal Reserve System
Housing and Community Development
Interest
Interest rates
Law
NOW accounts
Science, Technology, Communications
Settlement costs
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Interest on Business Checking Act of 2005 - Amends Federal law to authorize interest-bearing transaction accounts for all businesses, permitting up to 24 transfers per month to another account of the owner in the same institution (or any greater number the Federal Reserve Board may determine).
 
Amends the Federal Reserve Act, the Home Owners' Loan Act, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to repeal the prohibition against the payment of interest on demand deposits. 
 
Requires a joint rulemaking by the federal banking agencies authorizing the payment of interest and dividends on transaction accounts at depository institutions under their respective jurisdictions.
 
Amends the Federal Reserve Act to authorize the payment of interest at least quarterly by a federal reserve bank on reserves maintained there on behalf of a depository institution.
 
Revises the ratio of reserves a depository institution must maintain against its transaction accounts, permitting a ratio of zero.
 
States that, where escrow accounts are maintained at a depository institution for completion of a real estate settlement transaction, specified expense-taking or fee-waiving activities shall not be treated as the payment or receipt of interest for purposes relating to the payment of interest on accounts or deposits maintained at depository institutions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Children's Health Equity Technical Amendment Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1587
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Families
Federal aid to child health services
Health insurance
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Children's Health Equity Technical Amendment Act of 2005 - Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to permit qualifying states to use up to 20% of their SCHIP allotment for any fiscal year (currently, only for FY1998-FY2001) for certain Medicaid expenditures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9509)
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9509)
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to clarify that the value of certain funeral and burial arrangements are not to be considered available resources under the supplemental security program.

Bill: 109-s-1588
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Commerce
Contracts
Law
Supplemental security income program
Trusts and trustees
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act to provide that the value of certain funeral and burial arrangements involving an irrevocable trust whose named beneficiary is the funeral provider are not to be considered, under the SSI program, as resources available to the individual. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Affordability in Medicare Premiums Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1589
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Budget deficits
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government trust funds
Health maintenance organizations
Insurance premiums
Managed care
Medicare
Risk
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Affordability in Medicare Premiums Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, for each year beginning with 2006, to reduce the monthly Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) premium rate for each month in the year for individuals not enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan so that the aggregate amount of such reductions in the year equals an amount computed according to a specified formula involving reduced payments to Medicare Advantage organizations.

Requires the Secretary, in applying risk adjustment factors to payments to Medicare Advantage organizations, to ensure that such payments are adjusted to reflect the enrollee's health status, including adjusting for the difference between the health status of the enrollee and individuals enrolled under the original Medicare fee-for-service program under Medicare parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B. Requires payments to such organizations, in the aggregate, to reflect such differences.

Eliminates the MA Regional Plan Stabilization Fund (Slush Fund).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9510)
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate