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Unintended Pregnancy Reduction Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5795
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2006-07-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Family planning and birth control
Government Operations and Politics
Medicaid
Social Welfare
State laws
Welfare eligibility
Welfare waivers
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: 
Unintended Pregnancy Reduction Act of 2006 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to: (1) prohibit a state from providing for medical assistance through enrollment of an individual with benchmark coverage or benchmark-equivalent coverage unless it includes certain family planning services and supplies; (2 ) include women who are not pregnant but who meet certain income eligibility standards in a mandatory categorically needy group for family planning services purposes; and (3) allow a state Medicaid plan to provide for making medical assistance available to such individuals during a presumptive eligibility period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to exclude and defer from the pooled reimbursable costs of the Central Valley Project the reimbursable capital costs of the unused capacity of the Folsom South Canal, Auburn-Folsom South Unit, Central Valley Project, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-5796
Sponsor: Rep. Lungren, Daniel E. [R-CA-3]
Introduced: 2006-07-13 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
California
Canals
Central Valley Reclamation Project (California)
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Irrigation
Transportation and Public Works
Water rates

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) exclude and defer from the pooled reimbursable costs of the Central Valley Project the reimbursable capital costs of the unused capacity of the Folsom South Canal, Auburn-Folsom South Unit, of such Project; and (2) calculate the amount to be assigned to deferred use, which shall be reflected in future years' water rates. Sets forth a formula for calculating such excluded reimbursable cost.
 
Provides that as long as an entity that is allocated and that pays capital, interest, and operation and maintenance costs associated with an amount of Project water historically assigned to the Canal does not use the Canal for the conveyance of Project water, that entity shall be entitled to convey an equivalent amount of non-Project water through the Canal without additional cost.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1415)
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended, to prohibit a person from acting as an agent of certain terrorist entities.

Bill: 109-hr-5797
Sponsor: Rep. McCotter, Thaddeus G. [R-MI-11]
Introduced: 2006-07-13 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign agents
Foreign corporations
Government Operations and Politics
Political parties
State-sponsored terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: 
Amends the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to prohibit any person from acting as an agent of a foreign principal that is: (1) the government of a foreign country that the Secretary of State has determined to have repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism; (2) a foreign political party of such a government; or (3) a partnership, association, or other combination of persons organized under the laws of or having its principal place of business in a foreign country of such a government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Public Health Service Act to modify the program for the sanctuary system for surplus chimpanzees by terminating the authority for the removal of chimpanzees from the system for research purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-5798
Sponsor: Rep. McCrery, Jim [R-LA-4]
Introduced: 2006-07-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Animal behavior
Animals
Chimpanzees
Laboratory animals
Medical research
Protection of animals
Psychology
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to repeal provisions providing for the removal of surplus chimpanzees from a sanctuary facility. Prohibits use of such chimpanzees for research except for noninvasive behavioral studies.

action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to repeal provisions providing for the removal of surplus chimpanzees from a sanctuary facility. Prohibits use of such chimpanzees for research except for noninvasive behavioral studies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR 12/7/2006 H8778-8779)
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR 12/7/2006 H8778-8779)
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5798.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR 12/7/2006 H8778-8779)
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Mr. Deal (GA) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the Secretary of Agriculture to release the reversionary interest of the United States on certain land in the State of Florida if encroachments and trespassing have occurred on that land, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-5799
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Jeff [R-FL-1]
Introduced: 2006-07-13 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Florida
Forests, forestry, trees
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Land transfers
Maps
Surveying

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, if the State of Florida notifies the Secretary that encroachments by improvements or occupation have occurred before July 13, 2006, on one or more of the parcels of real property described in this Act, to release to Florida any reversionary interest of the United States in and to any identified parcel without further federal administrative review or analysis. 
 
Bars the United States from receiving any funds as consideration for the release of the reversionary interests specified above. 
 
Requires all net proceeds from the disposition of such real property to be used by the State for the acquisition of other lands adjacent to the exterior boundaries of Blackwater River State Forest and Withlacoochee State Forest. 
 
Requires: (1) any lands so acquired to become a part of the state forest; and (2) that the acquired lands be used for public purposes. 
 
Requires the State to agree to indemnify and hold the United States harmless with regard to any boundary disputes related to any parcel released under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
District of Columbia District Attorney Establishment Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5800
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2006-07-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
District of Columbia
Indictments
Law
Licenses
Prosecution
Public prosecutors
Residence requirements

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: 
District of Columbia District Attorney Establishment Act of 2006 - Amends the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to establish the Office of the District Attorney for the District of Columbia (DA).
 

 
Specifies the qualifications for the DA, including residence and domicile in the District. Prohibits the DA from engaging directly or indirectly in private practice.
 
Requires the DA to be elected to a four-year term on a partisan basis. Requires the Mayor to appoint the first DA, to serve until succeeded by an elected one.
 
States that nothing in this Act shall affect the authority of the Attorney General or the U.S. Attorney for the District to exercise jurisdiction concerning violations of federal laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1403)
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to correct and prevent variances in disability compensation payments made by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 109-hr-5801
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2006-07-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disabled
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government statistics
Governmental investigations
Law
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to take steps to reduce variances in the adjudication and awarding of veterans' disability compensation benefits, including developing and implementing a comprehensive and systematic method for collecting data on such variances.
 
Requires the Secretary to conduct an analysis of any available data concerning such variances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
Keeping Families Together Act

Bill: 109-hr-5803
Sponsor: Rep. Ramstad, Jim [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2006-07-13 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Academic performance
Case management
Child health
Child welfare
Community health services
Continuing education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal statistics
Custody of children
Data banks
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Family courts
Family services
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to child health services
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government statistics
Group homes
Health
Health insurance
Health planning
Home care services
Housing and Community Development
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Law
Medicaid
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Mental health services
Patient satisfaction
Performance measurement
Poor children
Preventive medicine
Problem children
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
State finance
State laws
Welfare waivers
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: 
Keeping Families Together Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to award competitive matching grants to states to establish systems of care to treat and provide services to all children who are in the custody of the state or at-risk of entering into the custody of the state for the purpose of receiving mental health services. 
 
Requires states to use grant funds for certain activities, including to: (1) expand public health insurance programs to cover community-based mental health and family support services for such children and their families that will be sustainable after the grant has expired; (2) provide outreach and public education concerning available programs and activities; and (3) provide training and professional development for personnel who work with such children.
 
Requires the Administrator to establish a task force to examine: (1) problems of mental health in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems; (2) issues with respect to access by children and youth to mental health services; and (3) the role of federal agencies in promoting access by children and youth to mental health services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians Restoration Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5804
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Dennis R. [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2006-07-13 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Indian lands
Land transfers
Minorities
Montana
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: 
Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians Restoration Act of 2006 - Extends federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana. Makes the Tribe and its members eligible for all services and benefits furnished to federally recognized Indian tribes without regard to the existence of a tribal reservation or the location of the residence of any member on or near any Indian Reservation.
 
Directs the Tribe to submit to the Secretary of the Interior a membership roll consisting of all individuals enrolled as members of the Tribe.

Directs the Secretary to acquire trust title to 200 acres of land within the Tribe's service area for the benefit of the Tribe for a tribal land base.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
North Korea Nonproliferation Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5805
Sponsor: Rep. Royce, Edward R. [R-CA-40]
Introduced: 2006-07-13 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Arms sales
Ballistic missiles
Biological warfare
Chemical warfare
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Cruise missiles
East Asia
Energy
Export controls
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Guided missiles
International cooperation
North Korea
Nuclear exports
Nuclear nonproliferation
President and foreign policy
Sanctions (International law)
Science, Technology, Communications
Technology transfer

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: 
North Korea Nonproliferation Act of 2006 - Amends the Iran and Syria Nonproliferation Act to extend the provisions of such Act to North Korea.
 
States that in view of North Korea's determination to proliferate missiles, nuclear weapons, and other weapons of mass destruction it should be U.S. policy to impose sanctions on persons who transfer such weapons and related goods and technology to and from North Korea in the same manner as persons who transfer such items to and from Iran and Syria currently are sanctioned under U.S. law.
 
Urges all governments concerned about the threat of North Korean proliferation to impose measures on persons involved in such proliferation that are similar to those imposed by the United States pursuant to the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act, as amended by this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-13
text: Committee Agreed to Seek Consideration Under Suspension of the Rules, (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2006-09-13
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee on Science, 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: 2006-07-13
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee on Science, 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: 2006-07-13
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee on Science, 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: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
Communities of Color Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5806
Sponsor: Rep. Solis, Hilda L. [D-CA-32]
Introduced: 2006-07-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Academic performance
Child health
Contraceptives
Counseling
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Ethics
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Family planning and birth control
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Health education
Health information systems
Immigrant health
Immigration
Medical research
Medical statistics
Minorities
Minority health
Nonprofit organizations
Parent and child
Public service advertising
School health programs
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Sex education
Sexual abstinence
Social Welfare
Teenage pregnancy
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: 
Communities of Color Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act of 2006 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants for projects to prevent teen pregnancies in racial, ethnic minority, or immigrant communities with a substantial incidence or prevalence of cases of teen pregnancy as compared to the average number of such cases in communities in the state involved.
 
Allows the Secretary to make grants to: (1) provide necessary social and cultural support services regarding teen pregnancy; (2) provide health and educational services related to the prevention of teen pregnancy; (3) promote better health and educational outcomes among pregnant teens; (4) provide training for individuals who plan to work in school-based support programs regarding the prevention of teen pregnancy; and (5) provide public education and increase awareness with respect to the issue of teen pregnancy and related social and emotional issues.
 
Requires the Secretary to make grants to establish and operate a National Clearinghouse for Teen Pregnancy Prevention.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to make grants to conduct, support, and coordinate research on the prevention of teen pregnancy in such communities.
 
Allows a grant to be made under this Act only if the applicant agrees that: (1) all information provided pursuant to the Act will be age-appropriate, factually and medically accurate and complete, and scientifically based; and (2) information, activities, and services under the grant will be provided in the language and cultural context that is most appropriate for individual groups.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5807
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2006-07-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Families
Income tax
Minimum tax
Tax credits
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: 
Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow individual taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes of less than $75,000 ($150,000 for joint returns) a tax credit for 10% of their income tax; (2) eliminate income taxes for individual taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes of less than $12,500 ($25,000 for joint returns); (3) double the child tax credit for individual taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes of less than $75,000 ($150,000 for joint returns); (4) eliminate the alternative minimum tax in 2007 for certain individual taxpayers; and (5) impose an income tax surtax on individual taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes of over $500,000 ($1 million for joint returns).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in House
Energy Efficient Buildings Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5809
Sponsor: Rep. Hart, Melissa A. [R-PA-4]
Introduced: 2006-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Building construction
Commerce
Construction costs
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Income tax
Office buildings
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: 
Energy Efficient Buildings Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the allowable amount of the tax deduction for energy efficient commercial building costs; and (2) extend such deduction through 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Introduced in House