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Housing Affordability for Teachers and Public Officers Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3556
Sponsor: Rep. Harris, Katherine [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal statistics
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federal employees
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Home ownership
Insurance premiums
Law enforcement officers
Local employees
Medical personnel
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgages
Paramedical personnel
Police
Preschool education
School personnel
Secondary education
Settlement costs
State employees
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Housing Affordability for Teachers and Public Safety Officers Act of 2005 - Amends the National Housing Act to provide for one percent downpayments (and deferral and reduction of up-front payments) for Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage loans for qualified elementary and secondary school teachers, teacher assistants, and administrators and public safety officers (as defined by the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968) to purchase homes within the jurisdictions of their employing agencies. Authorizes program suspension for fraud or program integrity issues. Limits aggregate mortgages insured under such program to 50,000. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to carry out a mortgage assistance pilot program to assist federal, state, and local public safety officers purchase primary residences in locally-designated at-risk areas. Authorizes program suspension for fraud or program integrity issues. Prohibits application approvals after the expiration of the three-year period beginning on the date that the Secretary first makes program assistance available.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Equitable Compensation Amendments Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3558
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Compensation (Law)
Dams
Economics and Public Finance
Eminent domain
Energy
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Hydroelectric power
Indian claims
Indian lands
Infrastructure
Interest
Landowners
Law
Minorities
Missouri River development
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public records
Reservoirs
Revenue sharing
South Dakota
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Equitable Compensation Amendments Act of 2005 - Amends the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Equitable Compensation Act to make member landowners eligible for the additional financial compensation provided to the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe for the acquisition by the federal government of 104,492 acres of land of the Tribe and member landowners for the Oahe Dam and Reservoir project. Defines member landowner as a member of the Tribe (or an heir of such a member) that owned land on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation that was acquired by the United States for the Oahe Dam and Reservoir Project.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to deposit into the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Recovery Trust Fund an amount equal to 25% of the amount deposited into the Treasury from the power program during the preceding fiscal year for the period between October 1, 2004, and the last date of the fiscal year during which the total amount deposited into the Treasury from the power program equals a specified amount.
 
Authorizes the plan prepared for the use of payments to the Tribe to provide for payment of additional compensation to member landowners.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to assist the Tribe in claims processing by providing any record requested to identify the heirs of member landowners within 60 days after receiving a request.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-12
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1685)
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Food Choking Prevention Act

Bill: 109-hr-3560
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Accident prevention
Agriculture and Food
Child health
Child safety
Commemorations
Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Food safety
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Health
Health education
Medical statistics
Preventive medicine
Special weeks

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Food Choking Prevention Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to carry out a program to provide education to the public on food choking hazards to children, including education on prevention and lifesaving procedures.
 
Requires the Commissioner to: (1) give priority to providing education to parents of children 14 years of age or younger and to such children directly; and (2) designate a particular week for intensification of the dissemination to the public of information. Authorizes the Commissioner to make awards of grants or contracts for the purpose of holding classes for the public during such week on preventing food choking hazards and performing lifesaving procedures.
 
Requires the Commissioner to request the National Academy of Sciences to enter into an agreement to conduct a comprehensive study to: (1) assess current data and data collection efforts; (2) document food choking-related deaths and injuries; (3) consider the nature and causes of childhood food choking incidents; (4) establish criteria for determining whether a food poses a significant choking hazard to children; and (5) assess the opportunities and key impediments to initiatives to reduce the number of child deaths and injuries due to food choking.
 
Directs the Commissioner to report to Congress on the reliability and utility of current systems for the collection of data on food choking-related deaths.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Act

Bill: 109-hr-3563
Sponsor: Rep. Inslee, Jay [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Agriculture
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Forest conservation
Forest roads
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Maps
National forests
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Act - Identifies roadless areas within the National Forest System set forth in specified maps as National Forest Inventoried Roadless Areas, and directs the Secretary of Agriculture to manage such Areas to maintain their roadless character. Authorizes the Forest Service to modify such maps for the sole purpose of improving their accuracy or inclusiveness. Requires any substantial modification of those maps to be made through the national forest management planning process and documented in an environmental impact statement. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
David Berger Memorial Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3564
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Stephanie Tubbs [D-OH-11]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Athletes
Commemorations
Crime and Law Enforcement
Germany
International Affairs
Israel
Monuments and memorials
Ohio
Olympic games
Sports and Recreation
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
David Berger Memorial Act of 2005 - Amends the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978 to revise the legislative language designating the David Berger national memorial to state that the memorial is located in northeastern Ohio. (Current legislative language states that it is located at the Jewish Community Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Northeast Corridor Rail Tunnel Safety Act

Bill: 109-hr-3567
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Authorization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Transportation
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Infrastructure
Inspectors general
Maryland
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
New York City
Planning-programming-budgeting
Railroad engineering
Railroad passenger traffic
Railroad safety
Tunnels

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
 Northeast Corridor Rail Tunnel Safety Act - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Transportation for Amtrak use, after the Secretary has received and approved a project engineering and financial plan, to complete New York tunnel life safety projects and to rehabilitate tunnels in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2114)
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Nurse Education, Expansion, and Development Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3569
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Building construction
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational facilities
Educational planning
Educational statistics
Educational technology
Educational tests
Federal aid to education
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Graduate education
Higher education
Information technology
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Maintenance and repair
Medical education
Medical residents
Minorities
Minority education
Nurses
Nursing education
Recruiting of employees
Salaries
School buildings
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Student enrollment
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Nurse Education, Expansion, and Development Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to award a grant to each eligible school of nursing to increase the number of nursing faculty and students.
 
Requires such schools to formulate and implement a plan to accomplish at least two of specified goals, which include: (1) establishing or significantly expanding an accelerated baccalaureate degree nursing program designed to graduate new nurses in 12 to 18 months; (2) establishing cooperative interdisciplinary training between schools of nursing and other specified health related fields; (3) increasing admissions, enrollment, and retention of qualified individuals who are financially disadvantaged; (4) increasing enrollment of minority and diverse student populations; (5) increasing enrollment of new graduate baccalaureate nursing students in graduate programs that educate nurse faculty members; (6) developing post-baccalaureate residency programs to prepare nurses for practice in specialty areas where nursing shortages are more severe; and (7) increasing integration of geriatric content into the core curriculum.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to study ways to increase participation in the nurse faculty profession and to submit a report to Congress that includes: (1) a discussion of the master's degree and doctoral degree programs that are successful in placing graduates as faculty in schools of nursing; and (2) an examination of compensation disparities throughout the nursing profession and between higher education instructional faculty generally and higher education instructional nursing faculty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Food Freshness Disclosure Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3570
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Commerce
Food safety
Labeling

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Food Freshness Disclosure Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide that a food shall be deemed to be misbranded unless its label bears information on freshness. Requires the label to state a date upon which the food will no longer be fresh (i.e., contain the quantity of nutrients specified on the label and otherwise be not adulterated and of acceptable quality). Requires such date to be preceded by "best if used by," and requires such label to be conspicuously located, easy to read, and in a type size no smaller than eight point. Directs that the freshness date be on the containers of any food sent to the seller of such food to consumers. Makes this Act inapplicable to any food that is exempt from nutrition labeling requirements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Food Ingredient Right to Know Act

Bill: 109-hr-3571
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Animals
Commerce
Food additives
Insects
Labeling
Meat
Poultry
Spices

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Food Ingredient Right to Know Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide that a food shall be deemed to be misbranded if it contains any spice, flavoring, or coloring derived from meat, poultry, any other animal product (including insects) unless its labeling bears a statement with appropriate prominence on the information panel providing that fact and the name of the meat, poultry, other animal product. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Homeland Security Overtime Reimbursement Act

Bill: 109-hr-3572
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Hours of labor
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Law enforcement officers
Police
Police training
Puerto Rico
Terrorism
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Homeland Security Overtime Reimbursement Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize a recipient of a grant under a homeland security overtime program (i.e., a program for which a grant is made to fund overtime expenditures to law enforcement agencies for training and increased patrols related to homeland security concerns) to use grant funds to pay for homeland security overtime expenditures incurred during the fiscal year before the grant is made. Directs that: (1) the Attorney General waive the requirement of a nonfederal contribution for any portion of a grant used to pay for such expenditures; and (2) Puerto Rico be considered both a unit of local government and a state for purposes of such a program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Zero Tolerance School Terror Act

Bill: 109-hr-3573
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Arson
Assault
Bombings
Bombs
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Explosives
Extortion
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
School security
Secondary education
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Zero Tolerance School Terror Act - Amends the federal criminal code to provide for a maximum penalty of 20 years' imprisonment for threatening to kill, injure, or intimidate an individual, or to cause property damage, by means of fire or an explosive on school property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Lifetime Prosperity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3574
Sponsor: Rep. Mack, Connie [R-FL-14]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Saving and investment
Tax credits
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Lifetime Prosperity Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the tax credit for retirement savings contributions; (2) revise the applicable percentage and dollar limitations for such credit; (3) provide for an inflation adjustment to adjusted gross income limitations applicable to such credit; and (4) allow a tax credit for contributions to Roth IRAs for children (under age 25).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
September 11 Family Humanitarian Relief and Patriotism Act

Bill: 109-hr-3575
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Alien labor
Aliens
Crime and Law Enforcement
Death
Department of Homeland Security
Deportation
Evidence (Law)
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Illegal aliens
Immigrants
Injunctions
International Affairs
Law
Limitation of actions
Married people
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
September 11 Family Humanitarian Relief and Patriotism Act - Provides permanent resident status adjustment for a requesting alien who was on September 10, 2001, the wife, child, or dependent son or daughter of a lawful nonimmigrant alien who died as a result of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States.
 
Authorizes an alien who has been ordered excluded, deported, removed, or ordered to depart voluntarily from the United States to apply for such status adjustment.
 
Provides for cancellation of removal and permanent resident status adjustment for a requesting alien who was: (1) on September 10, 2001, the spouse, child, or dependent son or daughter of an alien who died as a result of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States; and (2) deemed to be a beneficiary of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001.
 
Makes the provisions of this Act inapplicable to an alien who is: (1) inadmissible or deportable under criminal or security grounds, including September 11, 2001, terrorist activity; or (2) a family member of such an alien.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1676)
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House