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To repeal Public Law No: 109-366, the Military Commissions Act of 2006, signed into law October 17, 2006.

Bill: 109-hr-6381
Sponsor: Rep. McKinney, Cynthia A. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aliens
Capital punishment
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Criminal procedure
Executive orders
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Habeas corpus
Health
Human experimentation in medicine
International Affairs
Jurisdiction
Kidnapping
Law
Legal fees
Legal services
Legislation
Military personnel
Murder
Presidential powers
Prisoners of war
Prisoners' rights
Prosecution
Rape
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sex crimes
Terrorism
Torture
Treaties
War and emergency powers
War crimes
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Repeals the Military Commissions Act of 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and 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: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and 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: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and 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: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and 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: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
Law Enforcement Abuse Transparency and Accountability Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6382
Sponsor: Rep. McKinney, Cynthia A. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation
Economics and Public Finance
Equipment and supplies
Federal aid to law enforcement
Homicide
Law
Licenses
Police
Police brutality
Standards
Torture

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Law Enforcement Abuse Transparency and Accountability Act of 2006 - Expresses the sense of Congress that incidences of law enforcement abuse of citizens should be independently investigated, recorded, and condemned. 

Renders state or local law enforcement agencies receiving assistance from the federal government ineligible for further assistance, licenses, or federally-owned equipment until such agencies establish procedures for independent oversight and review and hold police officers accountable for excessive use of force, torture, or manslaughter.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
Nevada Cancer Institute Expansion Act

Bill: 109-hr-6383
Sponsor: Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Cancer
Emergency Management
Flood control
Health
Health facilities
Infrastructure
Land transfers
Nevada
Parks
Real estate development
Water Resources Development
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Nevada Cancer Institute Expansion Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to convey to the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, all interest of the United States in and to the Alta-Hualapai Site for use by the City for the development of: (1) a nonprofit cancer treatment facility; (2) ancillary commercial projects; (3) an adjacent park; (4) a flood control project; and (5) a water pumping facility. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 17, United States Code, with respect to settlement agreements reached with respect to litigation involving certain secondary transmissions of superstations and network stations.

Bill: 109-hr-6384
Sponsor: Rep. Boucher, Rick [D-VA-9]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Copyright
Direct broadcast satellites
Injunctions
Intellectual property
Law
Subscription television
Television programs
Television relay systems
Television stations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Allows the court to: (1) approve a settlement agreement executed after December 1, 2006, by plaintiffs or defendants in connection with litigation that resulted in the entry of an injunction against a satellite carrier for a willful or repeated pattern or practice of delivering a primary transmission made by a network station and embodying a performance or display of a work to subscribers who are not eligible to receive the transmission; and (2) modify the injunction accordingly.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2117)
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the rate of the excise tax on certain wooden arrows.

Bill: 109-hr-6385
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Equipment and supplies
Excise tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Sports and Recreation
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue to impose a separate excise tax on wooden shafts used in the manufacture of arrows of specified dimensions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
To establish the Congressional-Executive Commission on the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Bill: 109-hr-6386
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Appellate procedure
Arrest
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional hearings
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional-executive relations
Crime and Law Enforcement
Democracy
Deportation
Directories
East Asia
Employee rights
Equality before the law
Ethnic relations
Exchange of persons programs
Family planning and birth control
Federal advisory bodies
Freedom of speech
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
House rules and procedure
Human rights
Immigration
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal aid
Minorities
Nongovernmental organizations
Political prisoners
Prisoners' rights
Punishment
Religion
Religious liberty
Right of assembly
Right to counsel
Right to travel
Rule of law
Speedy trial
Torture
Treaties
Vietnam

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Establishes a Congressional-Executive Commission on the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, which shall: (1) monitor the acts of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, with particular emphasis on the Montagnard peoples and the Central and Northwest Highlands, which reflect compliance with or violation of human rights; (2) maintain lists of persons believed to be imprisoned, detained, tortured, or otherwise persecuted by the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam due to their pursuit of the rights described in this Act; (3) monitor the development of the rule of law in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, with particular emphasis on the Montagnard peoples and the Central and Northwest Highlands; and (4) monitor and encourage the development of programs and activities of the U.S. government and private organizations with a view toward increasing the U.S.-Vietnam interchange. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for support of funeral ceremonies for veterans provided by details that consist solely of members of veterans organizations and other organizations, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-6387
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Veterans' organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned, in the case of funeral honors for a veteran that are provided by a detail consisting solely of members of veterans organizations or other related organizations, to support the provision of such funeral honors through a daily stipend to each detail participant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Defense to conduct a study on the feasibility of using military identification numbers instead of social security numbers to identify members of the Armed Forces.

Bill: 109-hr-6388
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
Identification devices
Military personnel
Social Welfare
Social security numbers

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to study and report to Congress on the feasibility of using a distinct military identification number, instead of a Social Security number, to identify each member of the armed forces.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers to designate income tax overpayments as contributions to the Federal Government on their income tax returns.

Bill: 109-hr-6389
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Checkoff
Economics and Public Finance
Federal budgets
Gifts
Income tax
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers to designate on their income tax returns a specified portion (not less than $1) of any income tax overpayment as a contribution to the general fund of the Treasury.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
Parents' Empowerment Act

Bill: 109-hr-6390
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan [R-CA-52]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Damages
Families
Legal fees
Pornography
Punitive damages
Sex-oriented businesses

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Parents' Empowerment Act - Authorizes a minor, through a person acting on his or her behalf under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, to bring a civil action in U.S. district court for compensatory and punitive damages for the knowing sale or distribution in interstate or foreign commerce of an entertainment product containing material harmful to minors, if: (1) a reasonable person would expect a substantial number of minors to be exposed to the material; and (2) the minor as a result of such exposure is likely to suffer personal or emotional injury or injury to mental or moral welfare.

Makes it an affirmative defense to such an action that: (1) a parent or guardian of the minor owned or possessed the entertainment product containing the material to which the minor was exposed; and (2) an act of that parent or guardian was the proximate cause of the minor&#146;s exposure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Child Care for the Gulf Coast Region Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6391
Sponsor: Rep. Jefferson, William J. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Alabama
Child care workers
Day care
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Employee benefit plans
Employee training
Federal aid to education
Fees
Floods
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Labor and Employment
Louisiana
Mississippi
Nonprofit organizations
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Texas
User charges
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Emergency Child Care for the Gulf Coast Region Act of 2006 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish grant programs for: (1) businesses and consortia in the Gulf Coast Region to pay start-up costs and to provide additional child care services for employees; (2) nonprofit business organizations in the Region to provide technical assistance to such businesses for child care services; (3) entities to develop distance learning child care training technology infrastructures and model technology-based training courses for child care providers and workers in the Region; and (4) child care providers in the Region to improve the qualifications and promote the retention of such providers. Defines &quot;Gulf Coast Region&quot; to mean the area declared by the President to be a major disaster as a consequence of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make scholarship grants to child care providers to improve their educational qualifications to provide services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Gulf Coast Child Care Construction and Rebuilding Act

Bill: 109-hr-6392
Sponsor: Rep. Jefferson, William J. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Alabama
Block grants
Building construction
Commerce
Community development
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Construction industries
Construction workers
Curricula
Day care
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency Management
Equipment and supplies
Families
Fire prevention
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government lending
Governmental investigations
Housing and Community Development
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Louisiana
Maintenance and repair
Minimum wages
Mississippi
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Nonprofit organizations
Revolving funds
Secondary mortgage market
Social Welfare
Teaching materials
Texas
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Emergency Gulf Coast Child Care Construction and Rebuilding Act - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize the use of community development block grants to construct and renovate child care facilities located in any major disaster area resulting from Hurricane Katrina or Rita of 2005. 
Amends the National Housing Act to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to insure: (1) mortgages for new or substantially rehabilitated child care and development facilities; (2) loans to such facilities for fire safety equipment; and (2) mortgages executed in connection with the purchase or refinancing of existing child care facilities. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to study and report to Congress on the availability of secondary markets for such mortgages. 
Authorizes HUD grants to eligible nonprofit organizations for technical and financial assistance to assist eligible child care providers in acquiring or improving facilities or equipment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Child Care Lending for the Gulf Coast Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6393
Sponsor: Rep. Jefferson, William J. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alabama
Charities
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Law
Loans
Louisiana
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Mississippi
Nonprofit organizations
Poor children
Small Business Administration
Small business
Social Welfare
Surety and fidelity
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Texas
Women
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Emergency Child Care Lending for the Gulf Coast Act of 2006 - Authorizes the proceeds of a loan for plant acquisition, construction, conversion, or expansion under the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to be used by the certified development company to provide loans to small, nonprofit child care businesses that have a track record of providing such services in the presidentially declared disaster areas in the Gulf Coast region.
 
Limits to 3% the amount of the total number of such loans guaranteed in FY2007-FY2008 that may be awarded for the program under this Act. Terminates such program after December 30, 2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Coverage During an Incident of National Significance Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6398
Sponsor: Rep. Jefferson, William J. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Disaster insurance
Disasters
Emergency Management
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance companies
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Emergency Coverage During an Incident of National Significance Act of 2006 - Directs the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to administer a health insurance program for certain individuals affected by an incident of national significance. 
 
Requires OPM to contract with three or more carriers to make available five or more federal health benefits plans (subject to the provisions of this Act) to eligible individuals. 
 
Allows an income-related tax credit for amounts paid by eligible individuals for coverage under the health insurance plan established by this Act. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program for making payments on behalf of certain individuals to such plan. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security, other federal officers, and the Director of OPM to submit a plan that: (1) provides for the orderly implementation of the amendments made by this Act; and (2) includes a schedule of actions to be taken to provide for that implementation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House