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Family Telephone Connection Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4466
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2005-12-07 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Competition
Correctional institutions
Correctional personnel
Crime and Law Enforcement
Debit cards
Federal Communications Commission
Federal preemption
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Prisoners
Prisoners' rights
State laws
Telecommunication industry
Telephone
Telephone rates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: 
Family Telephone Connection Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to consider the following types of regulation of inmate telephone service: (1) prescribing a maximum uniform per-minute rate (paid to telephone service providers); (2) prescribing a maximum uniform service connection or other per-call rate; (3) prescribing variable maximum rates depending on factors such as carrier costs or the size of the correctional facility; (4) requiring providers of inmate telephone service to offer both collect calling and debit account services; (5) prohibiting the payment of commissions by such providers to administrators of correctional facilities; and (6) requiring such administrators to allow more than one service provider at a facility so that prisoners have a choice.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Introduced in House
To authorize salary adjustments for Justices and judges of the United States for fiscal year 2006.

Bill: 109-hr-4467
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2005-12-07 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Judicial compensation
Labor and Employment

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: 
Authorizes cost of living salary adjustments for Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal judges for FY2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Introduced in House
Community Health Workers Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4469
Sponsor: Rep. Solis, Hilda L. [D-CA-32]
Introduced: 2005-12-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Agriculture and Food
Alcoholism
Arizona
Boundaries
California
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug abuse
Economics and Public Finance
Exercise
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health education
Health insurance
Hispanic Americans
Indian medical care
Indian women
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Medicaid
Medical personnel
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Mental health
Mental health services
Mexico
Minorities
Minority health
Native Americans
New Mexico
Nutrition
Obesity
Performance measurement
Poor children
Preventive medicine
Sexually transmitted diseases
Smoking
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Texas
Translating and interpreting
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Violence
Welfare eligibility
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: 
Community Health Workers Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to promote positive health behaviors for women in target populations, especially racial and ethnic minority women in medically underserved communities.
 
Permits such funds to be used to support community health workers to: (1) educate, guide, and provide outreach regarding health problems among women and especially among racial and ethnic minority women; (2) educate, guide, and provide experiential learning opportunities that target behavioral risk factors, including poor nutrition and tobacco use; (3) educate and guide regarding effective strategies to promote positive health behaviors within the family; (4) educate and provide outreach regarding enrollment in health insurance; (5) promote community wellness and awareness; and (6) educate and refer target populations to appropriate health care agencies and community based programs and organizations.
 
Requires the Secretary to give priority to experienced applicants who propose to target geographic areas: (1) with a high percentage of uninsured or underinsured residents who are eligible for health insurance; (2) with a high percentage of families for whom English is not their primary language; and (3) that encompass the United States-Mexico border region.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) encourage community health worker programs to collaborate with academic institutions; and (2) establish guidelines for assuring the quality of the training and supervision of community health workers under programs funded under this Act and for assuring the cost-effectiveness of such programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Introduced in House
Educators in Military Service Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4470
Sponsor: Rep. Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6]
Introduced: 2005-12-07 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Continuing education
Disabled
Educational accountability
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Military personnel
National Guard
Paraprofessional school personnel
Rating of teachers
Secondary education
Special education
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: 
Educators in Military Service Act of 2005 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to extend the deadlines by which state and local educational agencies are required to ensure that teachers or paraprofessional educators are highly qualified in order to account for their applicable periods of military service.
 
Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Act to extend similar deadlines with respect to new special education teachers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Introduced in House
Minority-Owned Venture Empowerment Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4474
Sponsor: Rep. Barrow, John [D-GA-12]
Introduced: 2005-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business education
Competitive bidding
Crime and Law Enforcement
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government procurement
Law
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: 
Minority-Owned Venture Empowerment Act of 2005 - Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish a program, to be known as the Pre-8(a) Program, to provide technical assistance to small businesses with respect to the receipt and performance of federal procurement contracts. Prohibits a participating small business from being awarded a contract under the Program which is awarded using procedures other than competitive procedures under section 8(a) of the Small Business Act (wherein the SBA provides for the performance of federal procurement contracts by small, disadvantaged, and minority-owned businesses). Limits to $750,000 the maximum net worth of a small business Program participant.
 
Modifies the 8(a) program under the Small Business Act to require small businesses to complete the Pre-8(a) Program before participating in the 8(a) program. Limits to $100 million the aggregate value of contracts an 8(a) participant may enter into. Requires the Administrator, for the 8(a) program, to establish for each industry classification a maximum level of net worth for an economically disadvantaged individual, but prohibits establishing a net worth of less than $750,000. Makes some small businesses eligible for 8(a) participation in a contract using other than competitive procedures (restricted competition), under certain circumstances.
 
Allows a contracting officer, under specified conditions, to utilize restricted competition in the award of federal procurement contracts for small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Architect of the Capitol to enter into a contract to revise the statue commemorating women's suffrage located in the rotunda of the United States Capitol to include a likeness of Sojourner Truth.

Bill: 109-hr-4475
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2005-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Blacks
Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights workers
Congress
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Minorities
Monuments and memorials
Sculpture
Slavery
Voting rights
Women
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: 
Requires the Architect of the Capitol to enter into a contract to revise the statue commemorating women's suffrage located in the rotunda of the United States Capitol (known as the Portrait Monument) to include a likeness of Sojourner Truth. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To authorize Federal judges to carry firearms.

Bill: 109-hr-4477
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2005-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Appellate courts
Bankruptcy courts
District courts
Finance and Financial Sector
Firearms
Judges
Law
Magistrates
Supreme Court justices

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: 
Authorizes federal judges to carry firearms, whether concealed or not, subject to certain restrictions imposed by state law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Rape Prevention and Education Grant Program Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4478
Sponsor: Rep. Fitzpatrick, Michael G. [R-PA-8]
Introduced: 2005-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Authorization
Crime prevention
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Victims of crimes
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: 
Rape Prevention and Education Grant Program Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for FY2007-FY2011 for grants to states for rape prevention and education programs conducted by rape crisis centers, state sexual assault coalitions, and other public and private nonprofit entities. Earmarks a portion of such funds for the provision of resource information, policy, training, and technical assistance to federal, state, local, and Indian tribal agencies, state sexual assault coalitions, local sexual assault programs, and other professionals and interested parties on issues relating to sexual assault, including maintenance of a central resource library to collect, prepare, analyze, and disseminate information, statistics, and analyses relating to the incidence and prevention of sexual assault.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
America's Brownfield Cleanup Act

Bill: 109-hr-4480
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-3]
Introduced: 2005-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Brownfields
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Environmental Protection
Hazardous wastes
Income tax
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Tax credits
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: 
America's Brownfield Cleanup Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business tax credit for 50% of expenditures for the abatement or control of any hazardous substance, the demolition of any structure, the removal and disposal of property, and the reconstruction of utilities at certain contaminated sites.
 
Allows a tax exclusion for certain contributions made for the remediation of contaminated sites. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain manufacturing equipment.

Bill: 109-hr-4482
Sponsor: Rep. Inglis, Bob [R-SC-4]
Introduced: 2005-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Machinery
Tariff
Tire industry
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on certain manufacturing equipment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain manufacturing equipment.

Bill: 109-hr-4483
Sponsor: Rep. Inglis, Bob [R-SC-4]
Introduced: 2005-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Machinery
Tariff
Tire industry
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on certain manufacturing equipment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain manufacturing equipment.

Bill: 109-hr-4484
Sponsor: Rep. Inglis, Bob [R-SC-4]
Introduced: 2005-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Machinery
Tariff
Tire industry
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on certain manufacturing equipment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain manufacturing equipment.

Bill: 109-hr-4485
Sponsor: Rep. Inglis, Bob [R-SC-4]
Introduced: 2005-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Machinery
Tariff
Tire industry
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on certain manufacturing equipment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain integrated machines for manufacturing pneumatic tires.

Bill: 109-hr-4486
Sponsor: Rep. Inglis, Bob [R-SC-4]
Introduced: 2005-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Machinery
Tariff
Tire industry
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on certain integrated machines for molding or forming pneumatic tires, and containing in a single housing components for processing rubber, as well as components for positioning and assembling other tire components (including but not limited to belts, cords and other reinforcing materials) and of curing materials, to produce finished pneumatic tires.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain manufacturing equipment.

Bill: 109-hr-4487
Sponsor: Rep. Inglis, Bob [R-SC-4]
Introduced: 2005-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Machinery
Tariff
Tire industry
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on certain manufacturing equipment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain rolled glass in sheets.

Bill: 109-hr-4488
Sponsor: Rep. Inglis, Bob [R-SC-4]
Introduced: 2005-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Glass and glass industry
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on certain rolled glass in sheets.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain manufacturing equipment.

Bill: 109-hr-4489
Sponsor: Rep. Inglis, Bob [R-SC-4]
Introduced: 2005-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Machinery
Tariff
Tire industry
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on certain manufacturing equipment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
To provide higher education relief to individuals and institutions affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-4490
Sponsor: Rep. Jindal, Bobby [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2005-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Alabama
Collection of accounts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Higher education
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Interest
Louisiana
Mississippi
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teachers
Texas
Welfare recipients

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to waive or modify requirements under the Higher Education Act of 1965 for student financial assistance programs, or other student or institutional eligibility provisions, as necessary to reflect changes in the financial condition of affected students and their families resulting from Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita (a Gulf hurricane disaster).

Cancels: (1) certain institutional repayments by institutions of higher education affected by a Gulf hurricane disaster; and (2) student loans for affected students during certain cancelled enrollment periods. Provides for: (1) temporary deferment of student loan repayment by affected individuals; and (2) waiver of consecutive service requirements for affected individuals under a program of student loan forgiveness for school teachers.

Directs the Secretary to make special efforts to notify affected students who qualify for a means-tested federal benefit program of their potential eligibility for a maximum Pell Grant and to disseminate informational materials regarding such eligibility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Nursing Home Fire Safety Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4491
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2005-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Equipment and supplies
Federal aid to health facilities
Fire prevention
Government lending
Medicaid
Medicare
Nursing homes
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: 
Nursing Home Fire Safety Act of 2005 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish programs of direct loans and grants for retrofitting nursing facilities with automatic fire sprinkler systems. Gives priority to grant applications that demonstrate a need or hardship.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2501)
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
Mortgage and Rental Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4492
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2005-12-08 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief
Eviction
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreclosure
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Leases
Liens
Mortgages
Rental housing

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: 
Mortgage and Rental Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2005 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President to provide temporary assistance in the form of mortgage or rental payments for individuals and families who, because of financial hardship caused by a major disaster occurring on or after August 24, 2005, certify that they face dispossession or eviction from a residence by reason of a foreclosure of any mortgage or lien, cancellation of any contract of sale, or termination of any lease, entered into prior to such disaster.
 
Limits assistance to not more than 18 months. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2490)
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Introduced in House