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Cytology Proficiency Improvement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6133
Sponsor: Rep. Price, Tom [R-GA-6]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Continuing education
Cytology
Department of Health and Human Services
Education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Gynecology
Higher education
Law
Medical education
Medical laboratories
Medical tests
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Student records
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Cytology Proficiency Improvement Act of 2006 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to revise national quality assurance standards to assure consistent performance by laboratories of valid and reliable cytology services, to include requirements that each clinical laboratory: (1) ensure that all individuals involved in screening and interpreting cytological preparations participate annually in an approved continuing medical education program in gynecologic cytology that provides each participant with gynecologic cytologic preparations designed to improve locator, recognition, and interpretive skills; and (2) maintain a record of program results.
 
Requires the Secretary to terminate individual proficiency testing that was in effect before enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Thomas J. Manton Prostate Cancer Early Detection and Treatment Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6135
Sponsor: Rep. Marshall, Jim [D-GA-3]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Grants-in-aid
Medicaid
Medical screening
Medical tests
Prostate cancer
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Thomas J. Manton Prostate Cancer Early Detection and Treatment Act of 2006 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to make grants to states to carry out: (1) prostate cancer prevention programs (including screening and referrals for treatment); and (2) demonstration projects to provide preventive health services with respect to prostate cancer (including blood pressure and cholesterol screenings). 
 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to allow states to provide medical assistance to individuals who have been screened for prostate cancer under this Act and who need treatment for prostate cancer. 
 
Applies provisions related to breast and cervical cancer programs to programs under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Margaret Thatcher Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 109-hr-6136
Sponsor: Rep. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL-10]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Economics and Public Finance
Europe
Foreign leaders
Free enterprise
Human rights
International Affairs
United Kingdom

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Margaret Thatcher Congressional Gold Medal Act - Provides for the presentation of a congressional gold medal to Margaret Thatcher in recognition of her dedication to the values of free markets and free minds. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1795)
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Tax Snooping Prevention Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6137
Sponsor: Rep. Reynolds, Thomas M. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Department of the Treasury
Dismissal of employees
Federal employees
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government ethics
Income tax
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Law
Misconduct in office
Right of privacy
Tax auditing
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Tax Snooping Prevention Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to double the dollar amount of civil damages available and the criminal fines for unauthorized inspection or disclosure of tax returns and return information.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 to require the firing of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees who violate IRS policy on unauthorized inspection of tax returns or return information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to impose requirements for the improvement of security camera and video surveillance systems at certain airports, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-6139
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Airports
Armed Forces and National Security
Aviation safety
Cameras
Crime and Law Enforcement
Electronic surveillance
Emergency Management
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Terrorism
Video tape recording

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) to require category X or category 1 airport operators to modify their airport security programs to provide for the installation of airport security camera and video surveillance systems. Requires airport operators to submit their modifications to the Secretary for approval. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Child Product Safety Notification Act

Bill: 109-hr-6141
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Business records
Child safety
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Consumer education
Defective products
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Independent regulatory commissions
Infants
Internet
Labeling
Law
Product safety
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Child Product Safety Notification Act - Instructs the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate a final consumer product safety standard that requires manufacturers of durable infant or toddler products to: (1) provide consumers with a postage-paid consumer registration form with each such product; (2) maintain a record of registered consumer contact information to improve the effectiveness of product recalls; (3) permanently place the manufacturer name and contact information, model name and number, and the date of manufacture on each durable infant or toddler product; and (4) implement specified recordkeeping and notification requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
International Disaster Risk Reduction Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6144
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Building laws
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of State
Economic assistance
Ecosystem management
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
International relief
Land use
Law
Nature conservation
Planning
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Risk

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
International Disaster Risk Reduction Act of 2006 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to include as part of assistance for disaster preparedness assistance to reduce human and property vulnerability to natural disasters through the use of disaster mitigation techniques.
 
Directs the Secretary of State to: (1) develop and implement an initiative to reduce human and property vulnerability to natural disasters in foreign countries by encouraging the use of disaster mitigation techniques in regions considered especially vulnerable to natural disasters; and (2) appoint an advisory committee of experts to help develop such initiative.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1807)
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
To revise the boundaries of John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Ponce Inlet Unit P08.

Bill: 109-hr-6146
Sponsor: Rep. Feeney, Tom [R-FL-24]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Barrier islands
Coastal zone
Florida
Government Operations and Politics
Maps
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Reefs

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Replaces the map subtitled &quot;P08&quot;, relating to the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System unit designated as Coastal Barrier Resources System Ponce Inlet Unit P08, that is included in the set of maps entitled &quot;John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System&quot;, and referred to in the Coastal Barrier Resources Act, with another map relating to the unit entitled &quot;John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Ponce Inlet Unit P08&quot; and dated XXXXX.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
GEDI Act

Bill: 109-hr-6147
Sponsor: Rep. Fossella, Vito [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Clinical trials
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Diabetes
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Health surveys
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Obesity
Pregnancy
Pregnant women
Preventive medicine
Science, Technology, Communications
Vital statistics
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Gestational Diabetes Act of 2006 or the GEDI Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to convene a Research Advisory Committee. Requires the Director of CDC, in consultation with such Committee, to develop a multisite research project to expand and enhance surveillance data and public health research on gestational diabetes.
 
Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of CDC, to award competitive grants to nonprofit organizations or state health agencies for demonstration projects that test specified hypotheses about interventions designed to reduce the incidence of gestational diabetes and obesity among young women and implement relevant activities.
 
Requires the Director of CDC and the Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, in collaboration with the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, to conduct and support basic, clinical, and public health research regarding gestational diabetes and obesity during pregnancy. 
 
Requires the Director of CDC to encourage screening for gestational diabetes within state-based diabetes prevention and control programs to reduce the incidence of gestational diabetes and its related complications.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
To designate Campbell County, Virginia, as a qualified nonmetropolitan county for purposes of the HUBZone programs of the Small Business Administration.

Bill: 109-hr-6148
Sponsor: Rep. Goode, Virgil H., Jr. [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: County politics and government
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government procurement
Small business
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Amends the Small Business Act to include Campbell County, Virginia, as a qualified nonmetropolitan county for purposes of the HUBZone (heavily underutilized business zone) programs under such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
National Minority Business Enterprise Incubator Program Act

Bill: 109-hr-6150
Sponsor: Rep. Hayworth, J. D. [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Accounting
Bank loans
Business education
Chambers of commerce
Colleges
Congressional reporting requirements
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Entrepreneurs
Families
Family services
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Law
Legal services
Loans
Marketing
Mentoring
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Office buildings
Office equipment and supplies
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Women
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: National Minority Business Enterprise Incubator Program Act - Authorizes the National Director of the Department of Commerce's Minority Business Development Agency to make grants to certain organizations (e.g., public charities, business leagues, small business development centers, colleges or universities) to establish and operate minority business enterprise incubator programs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Education for All Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6152
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Developing countries
Economic assistance
Economic growth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Educational innovations
Educational planning
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Executive reorganization
Extremist movements in politics
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
Human immunodeficiency viruses
International agencies
International cooperation
Literacy programs
Nongovernmental organizations
Performance measurement
Poverty
Preschool education
Preventive medicine
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Violence
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Education for All Act of 2006
 
- Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
 
to
 
state that it is U.S. policy to work with foreign countries and international organizations
 
to: (1) assist developing countries committed to serious reforms to provide all children with quality elementary and secondary education; and (2) provide incentives to encourage educational system reform and educational service improvement in countries lacking such commitment.
 
Requires the President to establish an Education for All Task Force to carry out such policy and to develop a unified strategy to promote universal basic education. 
 
Authorizes the President to provide funds or other assistance to eligible entities to assist a foreign country in developing and implementing a comprehensive national education plan that allows its citizens to access and complete basic education. Sets forth plan requirements.
 
Authorizes the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to establish an education fellowship program to increase the expertise of agency personnel in promoting universal basic education and to carry out this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Counter Terrorism Financing Coordination Act

Bill: 109-hr-6153
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alien property
Bank accounts
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Decision making
Department of State
Department of the Treasury
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Law
Money laundering
Performance measurement
Technical assistance
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Counter Terrorism Financing Coordination Act - Directs The Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury to negotiate and enter into a Memorandum of Agreement specifying each Department's role in providing foreign counterterrorism financing training and technical assistance. Requires such Agreement to include provisions respecting: (1) leadership and role designations; (2) dispute resolution methodology; (3) funding and resource coordination; (4) private contractor determinations; and (5) performance evaluation criteria.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to include in the annual congressional report on terrorist assets information on the nature and extent of activities to block the financial asset access of owners or account holders with terrorism connections. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Enhanced Options for Rural Health Care Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6154
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congregate housing
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Medicare
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Enhanced Options for Rural Health Care Act of 2006 - Amends part A (Hospital Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide that nothing in such title shall be construed as preventing a critical access hospital from using any of its designated number of beds to provide assisted living or from accepting private payments for related services.
 
Declares that such use shall not increase the total number of beds that the facility may have and maintain its designation as such a hospital.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1826-1827)
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
CLEAN Town Act

Bill: 109-hr-6155
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Computer software
Constitutions
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Directories
Driver licenses
Drug abuse
Drug dealers
Drug traffic
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Federal aid to law enforcement
Fines (Penalties)
Fingerprints
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Indian law enforcement
Informers
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Internet
Minorities
Native Americans
Recidivists
Science, Technology, Communications
State constitutions
State government-Indian relations
Transportation and Public Works
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Communities Leading Everyone Away From Narcotics Through Online Warning Notification Act or the CLEAN TOWN Act - Requires states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, the United States Virgin Islands, and federally recognized Indian tribes (jurisdictions) to establish and maintain jurisdiction-wide criminal drug dealer registries. Sets forth requirements for registration and types of information to be included. Requires jurisdictions to provide Internet access to information about each criminal drug dealer listed, with mandatory exemptions for certain confidential information.

Directs the Attorney General to establish and maintain: (1) a national database at the Federal Bureau of Investigation to be know as the National Criminal Drug Dealer Registry; (2) a National Criminal Drug Dealer Public Internet Site; and (3) Criminal Drug Dealer Management Assistance program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Lincoln National Forest Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6156
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boundaries
Easements
Government Operations and Politics
Land transfers
Maps
National forests
New Mexico

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Lincoln National Forest Act of 2006 - Authorizes exchanges of non-federal land of Ranchman's Camp and the C Bar X Ranch, New Mexico, for Lincoln National Forest land.
 
 Modifies the 1902 Proclamation Boundary of the Lincoln National Forest to exclude specified non-National Forest System lands. Provides that such adjusted boundaries shall be considered to be the boundaries of such Forest as of January 1, 1965, for purposes of Land and Water Conservation Fund allocations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2006-10-03
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House