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Human Cloning Ban and Stem Cell Research Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-876
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appellate procedure
Cloning
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Cytology
Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Federal-state relations
Fines (Penalties)
Forfeiture
Genetics
Government Operations and Politics
Human embryology
Human experimentation in medicine
In vitro fertilization
Informed consent (Medical law)
International Affairs
International cooperation
Law
Medical ethics
Medical laboratories
Medical research
Research ethics
Science, Technology, Communications
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Human Cloning Ban and Stem Cell Research Protection Act of 2005 - Prohibits: (1) conducting or attempting to conduct human cloning; (2) shipping the product of nuclear transplantation in interstate or foreign commerce for the purpose of human cloning in the United States or elsewhere; or (3) exporting to a foreign country an unfertilized blastocyst if such country does not prohibit human cloning. Sets forth criminal and civil penalties for violations.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to report to the relevant congressional committees on: (1) actions taken to enforce such prohibitions; (2) actions of State attorneys general to enforce similar State laws; (3) coordination of Federal, State, and local enforcement; and (4) international laws relating to human cloning. 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require research involving nuclear transplantation to be conducted in accordance with applicable Federal regulations regarding the protection of human subjects and Institutional Review Boards. Prohibits: (1) a somatic cell nucleus from being transplanted into a human oocyte (egg) that has undergone or will undergo fertilization; (2) an unfertilized blastocyst from being maintained after more than 14 days from its first cell division, not counting storage times at temperatures less than zero degrees centigrade; (3) an oocyte from being used in nuclear transplantation research unless donated voluntarily with the donor's informed consent; (4) a human oocyte or unfertilized blastocyst from being acquired, received, or transferred for valuable consideration in interstate commerce; and (5) nuclear transplantation in a laboratory in which human oocytes are subject to assisted reproductive technology treatments or procedures. Sets forth civil penalties for violations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4121-4122)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4120-4121)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act

Bill: 109-s-877
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Authorization
Biennial budgets
Budget reconciliation
Budget resolutions
Congress
Congressional budget
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal budget process
Fiscal year
Governmental investigations
House rules and procedure
Legislation
Planning-programming-budgeting
Senate rules and procedure
Strategic planning

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act- Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require: (1) biennial (currently, annual) budget resolutions; (2) biennial appropriations Acts; and (3) biennial Government strategic and performance plans.
 
Defines the budget biennium as the two consecutive fiscal years beginning on October 1 of any odd-numbered year.
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to: (1) determine the impact and feasibility of changing the definition of a fiscal year and the budget process based on that definition to a two-year fiscal period with a biennial budget process based on such period; and (2) report the findings to the House and Senate Budget Committees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4124-4127)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4123-4124)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Clean Ocean and Safe Tourism Anti-Drilling Act

Bill: 109-s-878
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Atlantic Ocean
Continental shelf
Gas in submerged lands
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mining leases
Ocean mining
Oil and gas leases
Petroleum in submerged lands
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Submarine oil well drilling

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Clean Ocean and Safe Tourism Anti-Drilling Act, or the COAST Anti-Drilling Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing a lease for the exploration, development, or production of oil, natural gas, or any other mineral in either the Mid-Atlantic or the North Atlantic planning areas.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4128)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4127-4128)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Arctic Research and Policy Amendments Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-879
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Arctic and polar regions
Awards, medals, prizes
Commemorations
Energy
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Environmental research
Federal advisory bodies
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oceanographic research
Presidential commissions
Research
Salaries

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Arctic Research and Policy Amendments Act of 2005 - Amends the Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984 to authorize the Arctic Research Commission to make a cash award to any person in recognition of excellence in, or for outstanding support of, Arctic research. Makes individuals who have been Commission members ineligible to receive such awards. 

action_date: 2006-05-16
text: 
Arctic Research and Policy Amendments Act of 2005 - Amends the Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984 to increase the number of days per year the chairperson of the Arctic Research Commission shall be compensated for serving as a member of the Commission. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2006-05-17
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2006-05-17
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text as passed Senate: CR S4646)
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text as passed Senate: CR S4646)
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S4645-4646)
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2006-05-16
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4128)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4128)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries Boundary Modification and Protection Act

Bill: 109-s-880
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Animals
Aquaculture
Boundaries
California
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Department of Commerce
Ecological research
Ecosystem management
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Environmental monitoring
Fines (Penalties)
Fisheries
Fishing boats
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Islands
Land transfers
Law
Maps
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine parks and reserves
Marine pollution
Marine resources conservation
Marine safety
Mining engineering
Mining leases
Non-native species
Oil and gas leases
Pests
Petroleum engineering
Pipeline siting
Planning
Saline waters
Science, Technology, Communications
Shellfish
Ships
Transportation and Public Works
Waste disposal in the ocean
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water use

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries Boundary Modification and Protection Act - Declares it is U.S. policy to protect and preserve living and other resources of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (Farallones NMS) and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary (Cordell Bank NMS) marine environments.
 
Makes certain adjustments to expand the boundaries of the Farallones NMS and the Cordell NMS. 
 
Prohibits within the Farallones NMS and the Cordell Bank NMS: (1) the leasing, exploration, development, production, or transporting by pipeline of minerals or hydrocarbons; (2) the conduct of aquaculture (with exceptions); and (3) the discharge of materials and substances or a change in the salinity. Prohibits the conduct of aquaculture within Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
 
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to complete an interim supplemental management plan for each sanctuary that focuses on protective resource management in the areas added by this Act.
 
Requires the Secretary to review the operations of the Farallones NMS to determine whether area added to it by this Act shall be designated as a new and separate NMS.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1958)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4128-4129)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-882
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Arid regions
Commemorations
Energy
Environmental Protection
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Grazing
Islands
Land transfers
Landforms
Maps
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mineral reserves
Mines and mineral resources
Mining leases
Mountains
National monuments
Natural monuments
Nature conservation
Roads and highways
Transportation and Public Works
Utah
Water Resources Development
Water rights
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2005 - Designates specified lands in the following areas of Utah as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System: (1) Great Basin; (2) Zion and Mojave Desert; (3) the Grand Staircase and the Escalante Canyons; (4) Moab-LaSal Canyons; (5) Henry Mountains; (6) Glen Canyon; (7) San Juan-Anasazi; (8) Canyonlands Basin; (9) San Rafael Swell; and (10) Book Cliffs and Uinta Basin. 
Sets forth administrative provisions regarding: (1) filing by the Secretary of the Interior of a map and a legal description of each designated wilderness area with appropriate congressional committees; (2) the exchange of State-owned lands within such areas; (3) Federal reservation of water rights; (4) measurement of setbacks for roads with wilderness; (5) authorized livestock grazing; and (6) withdrawal of such lands from disposition under certain public land laws.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4129-4130)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Climate Change Technology Deployment in Developing Countries Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-883
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Air pollution control
Alternative energy sources
Carbon cycle
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Cogeneration of electric power and heat
Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Democracy
Developing countries
Development credit institutions
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Employee rights
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental technology
Equality before the law
Exchange of persons programs
Executive reorganization
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign investments
Foreign loans
Foreign trade promotion
Free enterprise
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Human rights
International environmental cooperation
Labor and Employment
Law
Performance measurement
Pluralism (Social sciences)
Public corruption
Right of property
Rule of law
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Strategic planning
Sustainable development
Technology assessment
Technology transfer

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Climate Change Technology Deployment in Developing Countries Act of 2005 - Amends the Global Environmental Protection Assistance Act of 1989 to consider the Department of State as the lead agency for integrating into U.S. foreign policy the goal of reducing greenhouse gas intensity in developing countries. 
 
Directs the Secretary of State to: (1) provide assistance to developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas intensity; (2) inventory greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies and identify appropriate technologies for developing countries; (3) develop a technology strategic plan and carry out demonstration projects in at least ten countries; and (4) carry out fellowship and exchange programs for officials from developing countries to acquire U.S. expertise in greenhouse gas intensity reduction practices.
 
Directs the U.S. Trade Representative to seek to eliminate foreign trade barriers to the export of U.S. greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies and practices. 
 
Establishes an interagency working group to carry out a greenhouse gas intensity reducing technology export initiative.
 
 Terminates programs under this Act as of December 31, 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Methamphetamine and Identity Theft Study Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-884
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Conspiracy
Criminal justice information
Criminal statistics
Data banks
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Identity theft
Legislation
Methamphetamine
Postal service
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Methamphetamine and Identity Theft Study Act of 2005 - Directs the Attorney General to conduct a study evaluating whether there is a connection between the commission of crimes involving methamphetamine and the commission of identity theft crimes. Requires such study to include a statistical analysis of any correlation and to evaluate: (1) imposing a sentencing enhancement if a person commits both; (2) establishing a password-protected electronic clearinghouse within the Department of Justice for Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies to share information on crimes involving both; and (3) whether individuals who use methamphetamine are more likely to commit certain kinds of identity theft crimes, such as through the use of mail, than are others who commit identity theft crimes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize funding for the American Prosecutors Research Institute's National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse and the American Prosecutors Research Institute's National Child Protection Training Center at Winona State University.

Bill: 109-s-885
Sponsor: Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child abuse
Child safety
Child welfare
Colleges
Education
Employee training
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Legal education
Minnesota
Prosecution
Public prosecutors
Research centers
Social Welfare
Social work

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Authorizes appropriations for grants under the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 for technical assistance and training programs for FY 2006 through 2010 to the American Prosecutors Research Institute's National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse and the Institute's National Child Protection Training Center at Winona State University.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
National Park Centennial Act

Bill: 109-s-886
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Anniversaries
Appropriations
Archaeology
Archives
Arts, Culture, Religion
Checkoff
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural property
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Environmental monitoring
Ethnology
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Habitat conservation
Historic sites
History
Income tax
Landscape protection
Maintenance and repair
Minorities
National parks
Nature conservation
Non-native species
Overhead costs
Park rangers
Pest control
Planning-programming-budgeting
Pollution measurement
Public-private partnerships
Restoration ecology
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Scientists
Secondary education
Sunset legislation
Taxation
Tourism
Water quality
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
National Park Centennial Act - Establishes the National Park Centennial Fund in the Treasury.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers to designate overpayments and contributions for the benefit of the National Park System. Allocates such amounts to the Fund (along with necessary amounts from the General Fund to the extent that such amounts are inadequate in any fiscal year) for expenditure by the Secretary of the Interior.
 
Authorizes appropriations for a public awareness campaign about the Fund and the ability of taxpayers to make tax-related contributions.
 
Requires a specified percentage of Fund deposits to be used: (1) for the elimination of the backlog of unmet needs in the national parks as identified in the Facility Condition Index of the National Park Service (NPS); (2) to protect natural resources within the parks; and (3) to protect cultural resources within the parks. Requires a majority of such percentages to be distributed to those national parks that have completed comprehensive business plans under the Business Plan Initiative of the NPS.
 
Directs the Government Accountability Office annually to submit a report on the National Park System to specified congressional committees.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to provide grants to elementary and secondary schools for cooperative agreements with the NPS providing distance learning and onsite education programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4131)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Climate Change Technology Deployment and Infrastructure Credit Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-887
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air pollution control
Alternative energy sources
Carbon cycle
Carbon dioxide
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Cogeneration of electric power and heat
Commerce
Commercialization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Department of Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power transmission
Electric utility rates
Emissions trading
Energy
Energy efficiency
Environmental research
Environmental technology
Executive reorganization
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Fluorocarbons
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Intellectual property
Laboratories
Methane
Motor vehicle pollution control
Nitrogen oxides
Nuclear power plants
Pollution measurement
Public-private partnerships
Research and development
Research and development facilities
Science, Technology, Communications
Sulphur
Technological innovations
Technology assessment
Technology transfer
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Climate Change Technology Deployment and Infrastructure Credit Act of 2005 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to direct the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to develop a national strategy to promote greenhouse gas intensity reducing technologies and practices developed through research and development programs conducted by National Laboratories, other Federal research facilities, universities, and the private sector.
 
Directs the Secretary of Energy (Secretary) to establish: (1) an Interagency Coordinating Committee on Climate Change Technology (Committee) to coordinate Federal climate change activities and programs; (2) the Climate Change Technology Program; and (3) Climate Change Technology Working Group.
 
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish within the Department of Commerce the Climate Change Science Program.
 
Directs the Committee to develop and propose standards and best practices for calculating, monitoring, and analyzing greenhouse gas intensity.
 
Directs the Secretary to make financial assistance available to eligible project developers and project owners to supplement private sector financing for eligible projects.
 
Instructs the Secretary to establish a Energy Climate Credit Board to implement the greenhouse gas intensity reducing technology deployment program.
 
Sets forth parameters regarding Board assistance, determination of eligibility and project selection.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate