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African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum Act

Bill: 109-s-970
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Anthropology
Arts, Culture, Religion
Black history
Cemeteries and funerals
Commemorations
Department of the Interior
Executive reorganization
Exhibitions
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
Land transfers
Leases
Minorities
Museums
National parks
New York City
Slavery

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum Act - Establishes: (1) the African Burial Ground National Historic Site as a unit of the National Park System within the African Burial Ground National Historic Landmark in New, York, New York; and (2) a memorial museum and visitor's center to be known as the &quot;African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum&quot; (the Museum) at the Historic Site.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to: (1) acquire a site for the Historic Site; and (2) plan, design, and construct the Museum at such Site.
 
Provides for operation of the Museum by the Secretary.
 
Establishes within the Department of the Interior the African Burial Ground Advisory Council to: (1) make recommendations to the Secretary on the planning, design, and construction of the Museum; and (2) advise and assist the Secretary on all matters relating to the administration, operation, maintenance, and preservation of the Museum.
 
Requires: (1) the Secretary to appoint a Director for the Museum; and (2) the Director of the Museum to manage such Museum.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Clean Efficient Automobiles Resulting From Advanced Car Technologies (CLEAR ACT) Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-971
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Automobile engines
Automobiles
Commerce
Compressed natural gas
Electric vehicles
Energy
Environmental Protection
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Hydrogen
Income tax
Liquefied natural gas
Liquefied petroleum gas
Motor vehicle pollution control
Motor vehicle safety
Motor vehicles
Natural gas vehicles
Service stations
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax-exempt organizations
Transportation and Public Works
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
Clean Efficient Automobiles Resulting From Advanced Car Technologies (CLEAR ACT) Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for investment in alternative motor vehicles, including qualified fuel cell, hybrid, and alternative fuel vehicles. Bases the amount of such credit on criteria relating to vehicle weight and fuel efficiency. 
 
Modifies the tax credit for qualified electric vehicles to remove the ten percent limitation and base the credit amount on criteria relating to vehicle weight, mileage, and payload. Makes leased vehicles eligible for such credit. Extends such credit through 2010. 
 
Allows a tax credit for: (1) 50 percent of expenditures for the installation of qualified clean-fuel vehicle refueling property; and (2) retail sales of alternative fuels as motor vehicle fuels.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to undertake an ongoing analysis of: the effectiveness of the alternative motor vehicle and fuel incentives provided by this Act and to report to Congress on such study by December 31, 2006, and annually thereafter.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4585-4586)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Albuquerque Indian Health Center Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-972
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Access to health care
Ambulatory care
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Health
Hospitals
Indian medical care
Minorities
New Mexico

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
Albuquerque Indian Health Center Act of 2005 - Designates the Albuquerque Indian Health Center as a critical access facility.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide funds made available under this Act to the Center to carry out its operations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4589)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4586-4589)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 109-s-973
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Authors and authorship
Cemeteries and funerals
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Colleges
Commerce
Courthouses
Cultural property
Education
Environmental Protection
Exhibitions
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governors
Higher education
Historic sites
History
Illinois
Land use
Landowners
Law
Lincoln Administration
Monuments and memorials
Museums
Nature conservation
Office buildings
Planning
Poetry
Presidential debates
Presidential libraries
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public meetings
Recreation
Right of property
School buildings
Signs and signboards
Sports and Recreation
Supreme Court justices
Trails

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area in Illinois.
 
Designates the Looking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition as the management entity for the Area.
 
Allows the Coalition, using funds made available under this Act, to prepare a management plan for the Area and reports, studies, interpretive exhibits and programs, historic preservation projects, and other activities recommended in the plan.
 
Prohibits the Coalition from using Federal funds received under this Act to acquire real property.
 
Directs the Coalition to submit to the Secretary of the Interior a management plan reviewed by participating units of government within the Area's boundaries which shall, among other things: (1) contain a comprehensive program for conservation, interpretation, funding, management, and development and historical, cultural, and natural resources and recreational and educational opportunities of the Area; and (2) include a business plan detailing the functions of the local coordinating entity and of activities included in recommendations contained in the plan. Requires the Secretary to approve or disapprove the proposed plan not later than 90 days after receiving it. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical and financial assistance to the Coalition for the development and implementation of the management plan.
 
Requires the Coalition to provide assistance and encouragement to State and local governments, private organizations, and persons to protect and promote the Area's resources and values.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4589-4590)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
National Trails System Willing Seller Act

Bill: 109-s-974
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
District of Columbia
Historic sites
History
Idaho
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Land transfers
Landowners
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New York State
North Dakota
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Right of property
South Dakota
Sports and Recreation
Trails
Utah
Virginia
Washington State
Wisconsin
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 

 
National Trails System Willing Seller Act - Amends the National Trails System Act to: (1) prohibit the Government acquisition of lands outside the exterior boundaries of any federally administered area, except with the owner's consent, for the Oregon, Mormon Pioneer, Lewis and Clark, Iditarod, and Nez Perce National Historic Trails and the Continental Divide, North Country, Ice Age, and Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trails; and (2) provide that the Government's authority to acquire fee title shall be limited to an average of not more than one-quarter mile on either side of such national historic trails and the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments of 2005

Bill: 109-s-977
Sponsor: Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]
Introduced: 2005-05-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Cancer
Compensation (Law)
Government liability
Health
Health education
Leukemia
Montana
Nuclear weapons

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: 
Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments of 2005 - Amends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to include specified counties in Montana among affected areas for purposes of payments to individuals with certain medical conditions who were exposed to fallout emitted during the U.S. government's atmospheric nuclear tests.
 
Allows residents in other counties in Montana to apply for compensation and requires the National Cancer Institute to evaluate eligibility on a case-by-case basis for such applicants.
 
Allows eligible individuals to receive additional compensation for the costs of screening, complications of screening, follow-up referrals, work-up diagnosis, and treatment related to the specific disease contracted by the individual.
 
Requires the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to conduct a program of education and communication about the health risks posed by radiation exposure from fallout from U.S. nuclear weapons testing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13776-13777)
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4861-4862)
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4648)
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Healthcare Tax Relief for the Uninsured Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-978
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-05-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Coinsurance
Commerce
Cost of living adjustments
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Married people
Medical economics
Medical savings accounts
Medically uninsured
Small business
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax penalties
Tax refunds
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: 
Healthcare Tax Relief for the Uninsured Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) a tax deduction for high deductible health plan premiums; (2) small employers (100 or fewer employees) a refundable tax credit for contributions to a health savings account of an employee who is covered by a high deductible health plan; and (3) a refundable tax credit for certain health insurance costs of uninsured taxpayers and their spouses and dependents.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program for making advance payments of tax credit amounts for uninsured individuals to health insurance providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Safe Storage of Radiological Materials Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-979
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2005-05-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Government Operations and Politics
Nuclear security measures
Radioactive wastes
Waste disposal sites

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: 
Safe Storage of Radiological Materials Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to submit to Congress: (1) an official notification of the final designation of an entity within the Department of Energy to have the responsibility of completing activities needed to provide a facility for safely disposing of all greater-than-Class C low-level radioactive waste; (2) a cost-estimate and a proposed schedule to complete an environmental impact statement and record of decision for a permanent disposal for greater-than-Class C radioactive waste; and (3) a plan to ensure the continued recovery and storage of greater-than-Class C low-level radioactive sealed sources that pose a security threat until a permanent disposal facility is available.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4649)
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4648-4649)
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Sexual Predator Effective Monitoring Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-980
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2005-05-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Criminal investigation
Economics and Public Finance
Ex-offenders
Federal aid to law enforcement
Identification of criminals
Law enforcement officers
Navigation satellites
Probation
Sex offenders

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: 
Sexual Predator Effective Monitoring Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants and contracts to assist state and local governments in: (1) carrying out programs to outfit sexual offenders with electronic monitoring units; and (2) employing law enforcement officials necessary to carry out such programs. Defines a &quot;sexual offender&quot; as an offender 18 years of age or older who commits a sexual offense against a minor. 
 
Directs the Attorney General to ensure that each state with eligible programs receives a proportional share of funding based on the total number of eligible states and the population of sex offenders to be monitored with global positioning systems in those states.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4650)
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4649-4650)
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Reservists Pay Security Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-981
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-05-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Department of Transportation
Employee rights
Federal employees
Leave of absence
Military pay
Military personnel
National Guard
Salaries
Veterans' employment

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: 
Reservists Pay Security Act of 2005 - Entitles Federal employees who are absent from their positions while on active duty in the uniformed services or the National Guard to receive the amount of their basic pay which, when taken together with their military pay and allowances, is no less than the amount of pay that they would have earned if there had been no interruption in their civilian employment.
 
Expands the reemployment rights of Federal employees on active duty in the uniformed services.
 
Makes this Act retroactive to pay periods beginning on October 11, 2002, subject to the availability of appropriated funds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce,  and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Read the second time and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain rayon staple fibers.

Bill: 109-s-982
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2005-05-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Cellulose
Commerce
Synthetic fibers
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on certain rayon staple fibers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Truth in Employment Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-983
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2005-05-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee rights
Employee selection
Employers' liability
Industrial relations
Law
Unfair labor practices

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: 
Truth in Employment Act of 2005 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to provide that nothing in specified prohibitions against unfair labor practices by employers shall be construed as requiring an employer to employ any person who seeks or has sought employment with the employer in furtherance of other employment or agency status. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4651)
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4650-4651)
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Currency Practices Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-984
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2005-05-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Balance of payments
China
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
East Asia
Foreign exchange
Governmental investigations
International Affairs
Negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: 
Fair Currency Practices Act of 2005 - Amends the Exchange Rates and International Economic Policy Coordination Act of 1988 with respect to bilateral negotiations with countries considered to manipulate the rate of exchange between their currency and the U.S. dollar for purposes of preventing effective balance of payments adjustments or gaining unfair competitive advantage in international trade.
 
Modifies the preconditions for the initiation of negotiations by the Secretary of the Treasury to make them alternative rather than joint. (Requires the Secretary to consider that such manipulation is occurring with respect to countries that possess material global current account surpluses or (currently, and) significant bilateral trade surpluses with the United States.)
 
Declares that a country shall be considered to be manipulating the rate of exchange between its currency and the U.S. dollar if there is a protracted large-scale intervention in one direction in the exchange markets.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to find that a country is manipulating the rate of exchange based on any other factor or combination of factors.
 
Requires the Secretary to examine and report to Congress on the trade surplus of the People's Republic of China (PRC), particularly on: (1) why the trade surplus with the United States and other countries reported by the PRC differs from the trade surplus reported by the other countries; and (2) quantification of such differences.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4872)
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4871-4872)
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Introduced in Senate
Full-Service Community Schools Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-986
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Ben [D-NE]
Introduced: 2005-05-10 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Adult education
Agriculture and Food
Child development
Child nutrition
Commerce
Community and school
Community health services
Community schools
Compensatory education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Day care
Dental care
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational planning
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Higher education
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Literacy programs
Mental health services
Mentoring
Nonprofit organizations
Nutrition
Parent and child
Parent-school relationships
Performance measurement
Preschool education
Preventive medicine
Problem children
Public-private partnerships
School health programs
School personnel
Secondary education
Service learning
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Vocational guidance
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: 
Full-Service Community Schools Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants to: (1) eligible entities to assist public elementary or secondary schools to function as full-service community schools; and (2) state collaboratives to support development of full-service community school programs. 
 
Requires such schools to: (1) participate in community-based efforts to coordinate educational, developmental, family, health, and other comprehensive services through community-based organizations and public and private partnerships; and (2) provide access to such services to students, families, and the community.
 
Gives local grant priority to entities that: (1) will serve at least one school eligible for schoolwide programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and more than one full-service community school as part of a community or districtwide strategy; and (2) demonstrate a record of effectiveness in integrating at least three of various qualified services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Introduced in Senate