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A bill to liquidate or reliquidate certain entries of frozen fish fillets.

Bill: 109-s-3752
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2006-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: 
Directs the Bureau of Customs and Border Portection to liquidate or reliquidate certain entries of frozen fish.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Agriculture Fire Assistance Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3753
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2006-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural conservation
Agricultural subsidies
Animals
Cattle
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Feeds
Fires
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Livestock

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: 
Agriculture Fire Assistance Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide assistance: (1) to agricultural producers who incurred fire-caused losses in 2006 for livestock indemnity payments and feed assistance; (2) for the emergency conservation and watershed protection programs, with priority given to producers who incurred fire-caused losses in 2006; and (3) for environmental quality incentive payments to producers who incurred fire-caused losses in 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Tax Equity and Affordability Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3754
Sponsor: Sen. Martinez, Mel [R-FL]
Introduced: 2006-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax refunds
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: 
Tax Equity and Affordability Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow individual taxpayers a refundable tax credit for health insurance costs paid for the benefit of the taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, and dependents; (2) require business taxpayers who receive payments for certain employee health insurance coverage to file informational returns; (3) direct the Secretary of the Treasury to make advance payments of health insurance tax credit amounts to health insurance providers; and (4) limit the tax exclusion for employer-provided health care coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Niagara Falls National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 109-s-3755
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Cultural property
Department of the Interior
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
New York State
Outdoor recreation
Rivers
Sports and Recreation
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: 
Niagara Falls National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Niagara Fall National Heritage Area in New York. 
 
Designates as the local coordinating entity for the Area: (1) the Niagara Falls National Heritage Area Commission (established by this Act) for a five-year period beginning on the enactment of this Act; and (2) a private nonprofit or governmental organization designated by the Commission on the expiration of such period. 
 
Requires the Commission to submit a management plan for the Area. Prohibits the Commission from using federal funds made available to the Commission under this Act to acquire any real property or interest in real property. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide technical and financial assistance to the Area for the development and implementation of the management plan. 
 
Requires the Secretary to submit a report that includes: (1) an evaluation of the accomplishments and sustainability of the Area; and (2) any recommendations of the Secretary with respect to the future management of the Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Healthy School Bus Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3756
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2006-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air pollution control
Child health
Child safety
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental health
Environmental research
Families
Federal aid to air pollution control
Health
Indoor air pollution
Motor vehicle pollution control
School buses
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: 
Healthy School Bus Act of 2006 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to study air quality inside school buses and develop strategies for improving such air quality.
 
Authorizes appropriations for activities to improve air quality inside school buses, including expansion of the Clean School Bus USA program. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that schools should assign school buses that pollute less to the longest routes and adopt and implement policies to decrease school bus idling.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 950 Missouri Avenue in East St. Louis, Illinois, as the "Katherine Dunham Post Office Building".

Bill: 109-s-3757
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2006-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Congressional tributes
Entertainers
Government Operations and Politics
Illinois
Names
Performing arts
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 950 Missouri Avenue in East St. Louis, Illinois, as the "Katherine Dunham Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8379-8380)
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to establish certain requirements relating to the continuation of the Survey of Income and Program Participation.

Bill: 109-s-3758
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2006-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Federal advisory bodies
Government paperwork
Income
Public assistance programs
Social Welfare
Surveys

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of Commerce from: (1) discontinuing the Survey of Income and Program Participation; (2) making any change in the design or content of such Survey; or (3) allowing any of the foregoing unless the discontinuation or change involved has first been approved in accordance with this Act.
 
Provides that whenever, in the judgment of the Secretary, it becomes necessary to discontinue the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), or to make any change in its design or content, the Secretary shall prepare a written proposal.
 
Establishes the Commission on the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP Commission) to consider and act on any proposal relating to the SIPP in accordance with this Act.
 
Requires the SIPP Commission to consider promptly any proposal received under this Act and, after appropriate deliberation, transmit its decision of approval or disapproval to the Secretary in a timely fashion.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8381)
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8380-8381)
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Royalty Relief Suspension Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3760
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2006-07-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Continental shelf
Energy prices
Gas in submerged lands
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Petroleum in submerged lands
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Submarine oil well drilling

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: 
Royalty Relief Suspension Act of 2006 - Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to place limitations based upon the market price on the royalty relief granted under any lease for production of oil or natural gas on federal land entered into by the Secretary on or after the date of enactment of this Act.
 
States that Congress reaffirms certain statutory authority of the Secretary to vary, based upon the price of production from a lease, the suspension of royalties under any lease subject to the Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Senior Nutrition Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3761
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Dairy products
Food relief
Food stamps
Milk
Nutrition
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Senior Nutrition Act of 2006 - Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to make a person who is at least 60 years old eligible for the commodity supplemental food program if such person: (1) is eligible for the food stamp program; or (2) has a household income that is not more than 185 percent of federal poverty income guidelines. Authorizes appropriations to carry out such program and prohibits using such funds to reimburse the Commodity Credit Corporation for commodities donated to such program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8412-8413)
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Fossil Creek Wild and Scenic River Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-3762
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Electric utilities
Energy
Hydroelectric power
Water Resources Development
Wild rivers

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Fossil Creek Wild and Scenic River Act of 2005 - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate specified segments of Fossil Creek, a tributary to the Verde River in Arizona, as components of the national wild and scenic rivers system. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to submit a river management plan for the designated segments. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8413-8414)
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to modify bargaining requirements for proposed changes to the personnel management system of the Federal Aviation Administration.

Bill: 109-s-3763
Sponsor: Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2006-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Air traffic
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Transportation
Employee-management relations in government
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Personnel management
Transportation workers

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-31
text: 
Amends federal transportation law to repeal, as of April 1, 2006, provisions prohibiting the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from implementing any proposed change to the FAA personnel management system, in cases where the services of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service do not lead to an agreement between the Administrator and FAA employees, until 60 days after the Administrator has transmitted the proposed change (along with the objections of the exclusive bargaining representatives to the change, including the reasons for such objections) to Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2006-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Part D Coverage Gap Elimination Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3764
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2006-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drugs
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-31
text: 
Medicare Part D Coverage Gap Elimination Act of 2006 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the coverage gap under the Medicare part D prescription drug program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Lebanese Temporary Protected Status Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3765
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2006-07-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Aliens
Arab-Israeli conflict
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Displaced persons
Lebanon
Middle East and North Africa
Refugees
Right to travel

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-31
text: 
Lebanese Temporary Protected Status Act of 2006 - Provides one-year temporary protected status to certain Lebanese nationals who have been present in the United States since enactment of this Act. (Treats Lebanon as a designated country for such purpose under the Immigration and Nationality Act.)
 
Provides such aliens with prior consent for temporary emergency travel abroad.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8775-8776)
action_date: 2006-07-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8454)
action_date: 2006-07-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8453-8454)
action_date: 2006-07-31
text: Introduced in Senate
America's Communities Leveraging Assets for Students and Schools (America's CLASS) Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3766
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2006-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charities
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Income tax
Nonprofit organizations
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: 
America's Communities Leveraging Assets for Students and Schools (America's CLASS) Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow corporations (other than S corporations) a tax credit for 50% of cash contributions of $5,000 or more made to a non-profit scholarship organization or an educational improvement organization. Limits the annual amount of such credit to $75,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Payment Accuracy Improvement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3767
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2006-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Governmental investigations
Hospital personnel
Hospital rates
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Medicare
Social Welfare
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: 
Payment Accuracy Improvement Act of 2006 - Declares that, for payments to hospitals under under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for discharges occurring during FY2006-FY2007, the Secretary of Health and Human Services may not apply an occupational mix adjustment to more than 10% of the Medicare hospital area wage index.
 
Requires the Secretary, when applying such an occupational mix adjustment, to use only the data that was to be used to make the adjustment to such wage index under the proposed rule published by the Secretary in the Federal Register on April 25, 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8538-8540)
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Victim-Activated Landmine Abolition Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3768
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2006-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Defense procurement
Government Operations and Politics
Land mines

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: 
Victim-Activated Landmine Abolition Act of 2006 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the government should continue to set an example for other countries by banning procurement of victim-activated landmines and other weapons designed to be victim-activated.
 
Prohibits the federal government from procuring such landmines or weapons in any circumstance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8540, S8541)
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Cuba Transition Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3769
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2006-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Agricultural cooperatives
Agriculture and Food
Arts, Culture, Religion
Caribbean area
Charities
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Cuba
Cubans
Democracy
Diplomacy
Dissenters
Employee rights
Environmental Protection
Environmental protection groups
Families
Foreign leaders
Freedom of speech
Freedom of the press
Government Operations and Politics
Human rights
International cooperation
Internet
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Libraries
Nongovernmental organizations
Political persecution
Political prisoners
Regionalism (International organization)
Reporters and reporting
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Western Hemisphere
Youth

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: 
Cuba Transition Act of 2006 - Authorizes the Secretary of State to designate specified funds to be provided to the Organization of American States (OAS) for: (1) Inter-American Commission on Human Rights activities relating to the situation of human rights in Cuba; and (2) the funding of an OAS emergency fund for the deployment of human rights observers, election support, and election observation in Cuba. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should begin consultation with: (1) governments of other Western Hemisphere countries regarding a transition in Cuba; and (2) international partners and governments regarding a multilateral diplomatic and financial support program for response to a transition in Cuba.
 
Authorizes the President to furnish assistance and provide other support for individuals and independent nongovernmental organizations to support specified democracy-building efforts for Cuba.
 
Authorizes appropriations to the President to establish a fund to provide assistance to a transition government in Cuba.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8541)
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require a pilot program on the facilitation of the transition of members of the Armed Forces to receipt of veterans health care benefits upon completion of military service, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-3770
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2006-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Armed forces reserves
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuum of care
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Health
Housing and Community Development
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Mental health services
Mentally disabled
Middle East and North Africa
Military hospitals
Military medicine
Military operations
National Guard
Rural health
South Asia
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' rehabilitation
War casualties
Women
Women soldiers

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a five-year pilot program to assess the feasibility and advisability of awarding grants to eligible entities to assist members of the Armed Forces, particularly those with serious wounds, injuries, or mental disorders, women members, and members of the National Guard and reserves, in applying for and receiving health care benefits and services from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and otherwise after completion of military service, in order to ensure that such members receive a continuity of care and assistance in and after the transition from military service to civilian life.
 
Requires at least one location of the pilot program to be in the vicinity of: (1) a military medical facility that treats members who are seriously wounded or injured in Afghanistan or Iraq; (2) a VA medical center located in a rural area; and (3) a VA medical center located in an urban area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8541-8543)
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Centers Renewal Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3771
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2006-08-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Authorization
Clinics
Community health services
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: 
Health Centers Renewal Act of 2006 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for FY2007-FY2011 for health centers to meet the health care needs of medically underserved populations.

action_date: 2006-09-25
text: 
Health Centers Renewal Act of 2006 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for FY2007-FY2008 for health centers to meet the health care needs of medically underserved populations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 638.
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Enzi with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Enzi with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8543-8544)
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Introduced in Senate