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Extended Access to Medicare Benefits Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6400
Sponsor: Rep. Jefferson, William J. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Family planning and birth control
Finance and Financial Sector
Government trust funds
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Maternal health services
Medical economics
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Extended Access to Medicare Benefits Act of 2006 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to add a new part E providing certain individuals between ages 21 and 65 with access to Medicare benefits, with the addition of prenatal care and family planning services.
 
Creates in the Treasury the Medicare for the Uninsured Trust Fund.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a tax credit equal to 85% of part E premiums paid for the taxpayer and the taxpayer's spouse and dependents; and (2) direct the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program to make premium payments on behalf of individuals enrolled under part E to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and 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: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and 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: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and 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: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and 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: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
To promote the fair production of oil and gas on the Outer Continental Shelf.

Bill: 109-hr-6401
Sponsor: Rep. Melancon, Charlie [D-LA-3]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Budget deficits
Buy American
Coastal zone
Commerce
Conservation of natural resources
Continental shelf
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Energy development
Energy prices
Federal budgets
Fees
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Gas in submerged lands
Gas industry
Government Operations and Politics
Gulf of Mexico
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Petroleum in submerged lands
Petroleum industry
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Revenue sharing
Science, Technology, Communications
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to instruct the Secretary of the Interior to agree to any lessee request to amend any lease issued as a result of a Central or Western Gulf of Mexico lease sale held between January 1, 1998, and December 31, 1999, to incorporate price thresholds applicable to certain royalty suspension provisions in the amount of $34.73 per barrel (2005 dollars) for oil and of $4.34 per million Btu (2005 dollars) for natural gas, adjusted for changes in the implicit price deflator.
 

 
Directs the Secretary to establish a conservation of resources fee for producing leases at $9 per barrel for oil and $1.25 per million Btu for gas (2006 dollars). Applies such fee only to leases issued with deep water royalty relief for which royalties are not being paid when prices exceed specified amounts per barrel.
 
Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to deposit the royalty revenues in the Treasury, to be available to the Secretary of the Interior, without further appropriation, for FY2007-FY2016, for disbursement to Gulf producing states and coastal political subdivisions.
 

 
Expresses the intent of Congress: (1) that this Act result in a healthy and growing American industrial, manufacturing, transportation, and service sector employing America's workforce in the development of affordable energy from the OCS; and (2) to OCS monitor deployment of personnel and material to encourage development of American technology and manufacturing, as well as the establishment of important industrial facilities to support expanded access to American resources.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
Satellite Consumer Protection Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6402
Sponsor: Rep. Mollohan, Alan B. [D-WV-1]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Copyright
Damages
Direct broadcast satellites
Intellectual property
Judicial review
Law
Licenses
Subscription television
Television programs
Television relay systems
Television stations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Satellite Consumer Protection Act of 2006 - Grants a satellite carrier under an injunction for certain secondary transmission violations a statutory license to provide distant network stations in specified local markets under prescribed conditions. Requires a satellite carrier as a condition of license use to deposit escrow funds with the Copyright Office. Imposes monetary penalties for license violations.
 
Terminates such license authority after February 17, 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
Bridges of Hope for Transitional Health Insurance Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6403
Sponsor: Rep. Schwarz, John J.H. "Joe" [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Coinsurance
Dislocated workers
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Health insurance
Health insurance continuation
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Public service advertising
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Bridges of Hope for Transitional Health Insurance Act of 2006 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program to provide funds to eligible public health authorities for the provision of temporary assistance to individual workers who have suffered from permanent changes in a major segment of industrial production employment in a sector of the economy in an area through irreversible structural changes. 
 
Sets forth funding eligibility requirements, including that there is an economic dislocation in the area that results in the creation of an employment shortage for individuals in a particular segment of the industrial economy that is attributable to national treaties, statutes, policies, and objectives.
 
Requires a program to: (1) provide assistance in paying for health care premiums for employees and former employees (and their family members) in the area served by the authority; and (2) provide such assistance on a sliding scale that does not take into account the value of an individual's homestead or other non-liquid assets.
 
Allows an eligible public health authority to aggregate and assign individuals to various insurers and to negotiate on behalf of the authority and the federal government for health insurance opportunities that improve the range of coverage and plans or that result in a more reasonable premium or a greater mix of coverage and covered services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
House Staff Privacy Act

Bill: 109-hr-6404
Sponsor: Rep. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS-1]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congressional employees
Congressional publicity
Congressional salaries
Government Operations and Politics
House of Representatives
Right of privacy
Salaries

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
House Staff Privacy Act - Amends the House of Representatives Administrative Reform Technical Corrections Act to: (1) exclude from the public reports on disbursements of the House of Representatives any information on salaries paid to individual employees of the House or on payments for services rendered by any individual who received a salary for rendering them; but (2) include in such reports the aggregate amount of payments made for salaries of individuals employed by each office of a Member of the House.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
Central Idaho Economic Development and Recreation Act

Bill: 109-hr-6409
Sponsor: Rep. Simpson, Michael K. [R-ID-2]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Air routes
Airports
Airspace (Law)
All terrain vehicles
Animals
Architecture and the disabled
Bears
Bicycles
Bikeways
Camping
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Congressional reporting requirements
Conservation easements
Construction costs
Deer
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Elk
Emergency Management
Eminent domain
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal-Indian relations
Fire prevention
Fishing
Forest conservation
Forest fires
Forest health
Forest management
Forest roads
Goats
Government Operations and Politics
Government aircraft
Grants-in-aid
Grazing
Habitat conservation
Horses
Hunting
Idaho
Infrastructure
Insect control
Land transfers
Land use
Law
Licenses
Logging
Lumber trade
Maintenance and repair
Maps
Military aviation
Mining claims
Minorities
Motor vehicles
Motorcycles
National forests
National recreation areas
Native Americans
Nature conservation
Outdoor recreation
Parking facilities
Pedestrians
Planning
Plant protection
Recreation areas
Relocation
Restoration ecology
Right-of-way
Risk
Road construction
Science, Technology, Communications
Sheep
Snowmobiles
Sports and Recreation
State laws
State parks
Sustainable development
Tourism
Trails
Transportation and Public Works
Trapping
Tree diseases
User charges
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Water rights
Wilderness areas
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife management
Wolves

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: 
Central Idaho Economic Development and Recreation Act - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, and the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to convey specified parcels of federal land to certain counties and cities in central Idaho. 
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to convey, to the state of Idaho a specified parcel or parcels of BLM land, including roads thereon, for a motorized recreation park. 
 
Designates specified parcels of federal land in central Idaho as wilderness areas to be managed as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS). 
 
 Repeals existing law requiring review of portions of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area (SNRA) for possible inclusion in the NWPS. 
 
Establishes the Boulder-White Cloud Management Area on federal lands in the Challis National Forest, the Sawtooth National Forest, SNRA, and Challis District of the BLM that are not designated as wilderness areas under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House
Profit Honesty in Offering Number Emancipation Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6410
Sponsor: Rep. Ackerman, Gary L. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Consumer protection
Federal Communications Commission
Fees
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Telecommunication industry
Telephone
Telephone rates
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: 
Profit Honesty in Offering Number Emancipation Act of 2006 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit a provider of telephone exchange service, exchange access, or commercial mobile service from imposing a customer charge for providing for number portability. 
 
Authorizes a provider to impose a one-time separate charge in connection with porting a number to or from another provider. Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to set the maximum amount of such charge.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House
Jeremy Bell Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6411
Sponsor: Rep. Fitzpatrick, Michael G. [R-PA-8]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child sexual abuse
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employers' liability
Families
Federal aid to education
Fines (Penalties)
Fingerprints
Government Operations and Politics
Identification of criminals
Labor and Employment
Law
Private schools
School districts
School personnel
School security
Science, Technology, Communications
Sex offenders
Teachers
Transfer of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: 
Jeremy Bell Act of 2006 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit an employer from transferring an employee to another state if the employer knows that such employee engaged in sexual conduct with a minor. Imposes a fine and/or prison term of up to five years for violations. 
 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require private or public schools and educational agencies to adopt policies to ensure that all school or agency employees undergo a fingerprint-based check of the national crime information databases and, where possible, a fingerprint-based check of state criminal history databases.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House
Suzanne Gonzales Suicide Promotion Punishment and Prevention Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6412
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Information services
Suicide

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: 
Suzanne Gonzales Suicide Promotion Punishment and Prevention Act of 2006 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit the use of any facility of interstate or foreign commerce to teach a person how to commit suicide, or to provide such person with material support or resources in committing suicide, knowing such person is likely to use such assistance to commit suicide. Imposes a fine and/or prison term of not more than five years for violations. Increases the prison term to any number of years or life if a violation results in a death.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2161)
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House
Sacramento River National Recreation Area Establishment Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6413
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Citizen participation
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
National recreation areas
Rivers
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: 
Sacramento River National Recreation Area Act of 2006 - Establishes the Sacramento River National Recreation Area in California, consisting of specified public land in Tehama and Shasta Counties. Requires the development of a a management plan for such Area to: (1) enhance managed recreational opportunities, including hiking, camping, mountain biking, picnicking, wildlife viewing hunting, fishing, swimming, and boating; and (2) promote local economic development through recreation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2168)
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House
Vote Tabulation Audit Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6414
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Absentee voting
Ballots
Congress
Congressional elections
Economics and Public Finance
Election administration
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Labor and Employment
Presidential elections
Standards
Voting machines

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: 
Vote Tabulation Audit Act of 2006 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to establish requirements for state tabulation of votes and aggregation of vote counts in any election for federal office, including requirements for: (1) the treatment of ballots cast at early voting sites as well as absentee and provisional ballots; (2) the sealing and securing of ballots in the event of system failure during tabulation; and (3) mandatory hand recount in case of unresolved discrepancy. 

Provides for: (1) payments to states to cover costs of tabulations of votes cast on optical scan voting systems; and (2) adoption of a model format by the Election Assistance Commission for posting the tabulation of votes and aggregate vote counts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House
Polonium Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6415
Sponsor: Rep. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL-10]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Biological warfare
Chemical warfare
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Crime and Law Enforcement
Diplomats
Environmental Protection
Fissionable materials
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Nuclear terrorism
President and foreign policy
Treaties
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: 
Polonium Act of 2006 - States that accreditation of a representative of a foreign government to the United States under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and accreditation of a representative of a foreign government to the United Nations under the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations shall be deemed to be an express waiver of immunity from criminal jurisdiction (for the representative) with respect to an act of disbursing radioactive or other substances posing a lasting, clear and present danger to public health. Authorizes the President to waive such provision if in the U.S. national interest.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should propose amendments to such Conventions to ensure that persons who enjoy immunity from criminal jurisdiction (under such Conventions) do not receive such immunity with respect to acts of disbursing radioactive or other substances posing a lasting, clear and present danger to public health.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House
Financial Institutions Compliance Simplification Act

Bill: 109-hr-6416
Sponsor: Rep. McHenry, Patrick T. [R-NC-10]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank management
Bank records
Financial statements
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Savings and loan associations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: 
Financial Institutions Compliance Simplification Act - Amends the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to exempt certain insured depository institutions from its requirement that the annual management report contain an assessment of internal controls.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in House