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No Child Left Behind Improvement and Flexibility Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4216
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2005-11-02 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Administrative remedies
Compensatory education
Department of Education
Disabled
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Illiteracy
Language arts
Law
Licenses
Mathematics
Rating of teachers
Reading
Rural education
School administration
School choice
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Teacher education
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: 
No Child Left Behind Improvement and Flexibility Act of 2005 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise certain requirements which were added by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, including ones relating to: (1) academic assessments and adequate yearly progress; (2) teacher qualifications; (3) special education students; and (4) rural schools.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in House
American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act

Bill: 109-hr-4217
Sponsor: Rep. Knollenberg, Joe [R-MI-9]
Introduced: 2005-11-03 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Commerce
Corporate finance
Cost effectiveness
Countervailing duties
Dumping
Economics and Public Finance
Evidence (Law)
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Imports
Independent regulatory commissions
International competitiveness
Inventories
Labor and Employment
Law
Manufacturing industries
Parties to actions
Prices
Profit
Trade associations
U.S. International Trade Commission
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: 
American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to allow U.S. manufacturers that use products subject to countervailing or antidumping duty proceedings or use domestic like products (industrial users) to participate in such proceedings.
 
Requires the U.S. International Trade Commission, when deciding whether an antidumping or countervailing duty should be imposed or continued, to weigh harm to industrial users from such imposition or continuation, as well as (under current law) the potential benefits to the industry in the United States materially injured or threatened with material injury by a foreign countervailing subsidy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2261-2262)
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
Affordable Health Care for Americans Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4218
Sponsor: Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2005-11-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: 
 Affordable Health Care for Americans Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction from gross income for the health insurance costs of an individual taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, and dependents (available whether or not a taxpayer itemizes deductions).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
Health Insurance Tax Relief Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4219
Sponsor: Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2005-11-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Medical savings accounts
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: 
 Health Insurance Tax Relief Act of 2005 - 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; and (3) direct the Secretary of the Treasury to make advance payments of health insurance tax credit amounts to health insurance providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
Long-Term Care Tax Reduction Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4220
Sponsor: Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2005-11-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Long-term care insurance
Medical economics
Pension funds
Tax exclusion
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: 
Long-Term Care Tax Reduction Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income distributions from an individual retirement account and other tax-exempt retirement plans used to pay long-term care insurance premiums.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
Farmers Tax Deferral Act

Bill: 109-hr-4221
Sponsor: Rep. Aderholt, Robert B. [R-AL-4]
Introduced: 2005-11-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Agriculture and Food
Capital gains tax
Commerce
Consumer credit
Farms
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Land transfers
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Real property
Tax administration
Tax deferral
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: 
Farmers Tax Deferral Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) treat the exchange of qualified agricultural property as a like-kind exchange for purposes of allowing the nonrecognition or deferral of gain from such exchange; and (2) allow installment sales treatment of such property. Defines &quot;qualified agricultural property&quot; as any single purpose agricultural or horticultural property and any equipment or fixtures related to such property. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
Child Health Investment for Long-term Development (CHILD and Newborn) Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4222
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2005-11-03 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Air pollution control
Child health
Church and social problems
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Drugs
Economic assistance
Education
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Environmental technology
Executive reorganization
Families
Family planning and birth control
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health counseling
Health education
Higher education
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Infant mortality
Infants
International agencies
International cooperation
Labor and Employment
Malaria
Maternal health services
Medical education
Medical personnel
Medical statistics
Medical supplies
Midwives
Mortality
Nonprofit organizations
Nursing education
Performance measurement
Potable water
Refuse and refuse disposal
Religion
Respiratory diseases
Sanitation workers
Science, Technology, Communications
Smoke
Social Welfare
Tuberculosis
Vaccines
Water Resources Development
Water supply
Women
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: 
Child Health Investment for Long-term Development (CHILD and Newborn) Act of 2005 - Amends the the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to furnish assistance to improve the health of newborns, children, and mothers in developing countries, including activities relating to: (1) health systems and medical and health personnel training; (2) health access; (3) pharmaceutical supplies; (4) health education; (5) HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis counseling and treatment; and (6) safe water and sanitation access.
 
Directs the President to develop a comprehensive strategy to improve the health of newborns, children, and mothers, including reducing newborn, child, and maternal mortality, in developing countries. 
 
Establishes the Interagency Task Force on Child Survival and Maternal Health in Developing Countries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Preservation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4223
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2005-11-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Clinics
Coinsurance
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-state relations
Federal-territorial relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government spending reductions
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Housing and Community Development
Insurance premiums
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Long-term care
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medical fees
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Parents
Poor children
Pregnant women
Quality of care
Rural health
Welfare eligibility
Welfare recipients
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: 
Medicaid Preservation Act of 2005 - Prohibits reductions in authorized federal funding under the Medicaid program under title XIX of the Social Security Act until full consideration has been given to the recommendations of the Bipartisan Commission on Medicaid.
 
Establishes the Bipartisan Commission to review and make recommendations about: (1) each of Medicaid's major functional responsibilities; (2) issues that either threaten or could improve the long-term financial condition of Medicaid; (3) the way Medicare payment policies impact Medicaid, and ways to address specific payment problems that such policies may create in service delivery to populations typically not covered by Medicare, such as children and pregnant women; and (5) payments to safety net providers.
 
Requires each recommendation to include an analysis of its effect under Medicaid and, if applicable, Medicare and other federal health programs, on: (1) federal and state expenditures; (2) provider payment rates; (3) beneficiary out-of-pocket expenditures; (4) beneficiary access to covered items and services; and (5) coverage of items and services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
Proportionate Final Benefit Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4224
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Lincoln [D-TN-4]
Introduced: 2005-11-03 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Death
Families
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security beneficiaries
Social security eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: 
Proportionate Final Benefit Act of 2005 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to provide that: (1) an individual's entitlement to any OASDI benefit shall continue through the month of his or her death (without affecting any other person's entitlement to benefits for that month); and (2) the benefit shall be payable for such month only to the extent proportionate to the number of days in the month preceding the date of death. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
Victims of Violence Confidentiality Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4225
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2005-11-03 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Authorization
Confidential communications
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Directories
Economics and Public Finance
Election Assistance Commission
Election administration
Families
Family violence
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Identification devices
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Rape
Science, Technology, Communications
Stalking
Victims of crimes
Voter registration
Wife abuse
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: 
Victims of Violence Confidentality Act of 2005 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require states to keep confidential the addresses of victims of domestic violence otherwise included in the state's computerized statewide voter registration list.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the conduct of small projects for the rehabilitation or removal of dams.

Bill: 109-hr-4226
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2005-11-03 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Construction costs
Dams
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Infrastructure

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to carry out a small dam removal or rehabilitation project, including one relating to a privately-owned dam that does not generate hydropower, upon determining that the project will enhance public safety or improve the quality of the environment, or is in the public interest.
 
Directs a non-federal interest to provide 35% of removal or remediation costs. Permits construction to be commenced only after a non-federal interest has entered into a binding agreement with the Secretary to pay: (1) the non-federal share of construction costs; and (2) 100% of any operation and maintenance costs. Limits to $5 million in federal funds the amount that may be allotted for a project at any single location.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to clarify that the value of certain funeral and burial arrangements are not to be considered available resources under the supplemental security income program.

Bill: 109-hr-4227
Sponsor: Rep. Hayworth, J. D. [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2005-11-03 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Commerce
Contracts
Law
Supplemental security income program
Trusts and trustees
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: 
Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act to provide that the value of certain funeral and burial arrangements involving an irrevocable trust whose named beneficiary is the funeral provider are not to be considered, under the SSI program, as resources available to the individual. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
Northern Border Prosecution Initiative Reimbursement Act

Bill: 109-hr-4228
Sponsor: Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2]
Introduced: 2005-11-03 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Alaska
Boundaries
Criminal investigation
Detention of persons
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Idaho
Law
Legal aid
Legal fees
Maine
Michigan
Minnesota
Montana
New Hampshire
New York State
North Dakota
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Prosecution
Social Welfare
Vermont
Washington State
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: 
Northern Border Prosecution Initiative Reimbursement Act - Directs the Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance of the Office of Justice Programs, to carry out the Northern Border Prosecution Initiative to provide funds to reimburse eligible northern border states (or local governments thereof) for costs incurred for handling dispositions of criminal cases that are federally initiated but federally declined-referred (i.e., where a decision has been made in a criminal case by a U.S. Attorney or a federal law enforcement agency during a federal investigation to no longer pursue federal criminal charges against a defendant and to refer the investigation to a state or local jurisdiction for possible prosecution). Requires that such program be modeled after the Southwestern Border Prosecution Initiative and serve as a partner program to that initiative to reimburse local jurisdictions for processing federal cases. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
Plan B for Plan B Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4229
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2005-11-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Contraceptives
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug approvals
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government Operations and Politics
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: 
Plan B for Plan B Act of 2005 - Requires the Commissioner of Food and Drugs to approve or disapprove within 30 days the supplemental new drug application submitted by Women's Capital Corporation for Plan B (defined as .75 mg levonorgestrel tablets [commonly referred to as the morning-after pill]), as amended by a formal response to the Food and Drug Administration's non-approvable determination, that would switch the drug from prescription-only to nonprescription status for women 16 years or older. Deems the Commissioner as having approved the application if the deadline is not met and continues such approval unless the Commissioner publishes in the Federal Register a determination to approve or disapprove the application.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Alejandro E. Gonzales.

Bill: 109-hr-4230
Sponsor: Rep. Pastor, Ed [D-AZ-4]
Introduced: 2005-11-03 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: 
Prohibits Alejandro E. Gonzales from being removed from, or denied admission to, the United States by reason of any act of his which is grounds for such removal or denial that is reflected in the records of the Department of Homeland Security or the Visa Office of the Department of State.
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to rescind any outstanding order of removal or deportation or any finding of deportability that has been entered against Alejandro E. Gonzales by reason of any such act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in House
To ensure that any affordable housing assistance program of Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac allows participation by nonprofit organizations that engage in voter registration activities required under State law.

Bill: 109-hr-4231
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Mark R. [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2005-11-04 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Affordable housing
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Housing finance
Housing subsidies
Nonprofit organizations
Secondary mortgage market
Social Welfare
State laws
Voter registration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: 
Makes an exception to certain eligibility requirements of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) under any law or regulation with respect to a grant or other financial assistance program for nonprofit organizations to carry out affordable housing or public infrastructure development activities.
 
Makes inapplicable to such a nonprofit organization any law, regulation, or restriction making it ineligible for such grants or assistance, or limiting its eligibility, based on the organization's engaging in voter registration activities, to the extent that the organization is required under state law to engage in such activity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Introduced in House