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A bill to establish the position of Northern Border Coordinator in the Department of Homeland Security.

Bill: 109-s-816
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2005-04-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Border patrols
Boundaries
Canada
Department of Homeland Security
Executive reorganization
Federal officials
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Immigration
International Affairs
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish within the Directorate of Border and Transportation Security the position of Northern Border Coordinator, who shall be responsible for: (1) increasing U.S.-Canadian border security; (2) improving agency coordination; (3) serving as primary liaison with State and local governments and law enforcement agencies; and (4) serving as liaison with the Canadian government.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3748)
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Trade Act of 1974 to create a Special Trade Prosecutor to ensure compliance with trade agreements, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-817
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2005-04-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Executive reorganization
Federal officials
Free trade
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
International Affairs
Manufacturing industries
Nontariff trade barriers
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
Service industries
Trade agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: 
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to establish a position of Special Trade Prosecutor in the Office of the United States Trade Representative to ensure compliance with trade agreements relating to U.S. manufactured goods and services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3749)
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3748-3749)
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, to make it unlawful for a packer to own, feed, or control livestock intended for slaughter.

Bill: 109-s-818
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2005-04-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural cooperatives
Animals
Commerce
Farm management
Livestock
Meat packing industry
Subsidiary corporations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 to prohibit livestock packers from owning, controlling, or feeding livestock to such an extent that the producer no longer materially participates in the management of the operation, with exceptions for: (1) animals held for not more than seven days before slaughter; (2) certain cooperatives that own, control or feed livestock and provide such livestock for slaughter; (3) packers that are not required to report price and quantity information on each reporting day; or (4) packers that own one livestock processing plant.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Promoting Health Care Purchasing Cooperatives Act

Bill: 109-s-820
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2005-04-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agricultural cooperatives
Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Consumer education
Cooperative societies
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Farmers
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Health education
Health insurance
Insurance companies
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Nonprofit organizations
Quality of care
Self-care
Self-insurance
Small business
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: 
Promoting Health Care Purchasing Cooperatives Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), to award grants for the development of health care purchasing cooperatives by two or more self-insured employers. 
 
 
 
Sets forth requirements for cooperatives, including that they: (1) are nonprofit, wholly owned, and democratically governed by its member-employers; (2) exist solely to serve the membership base; (3) assist members in pooling their health care insurance purchasing power; (4) provide data to improve the ability of the members to make data-based decisions regarding their health plans; and (5) conduct activities to enhance quality improvement in the health care community. 
Requires the Secretary to carry out an identical grant program for eligible groups of two or more employers that have 99 employees or less and purchase health insurance for their employees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3750-3751)
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3749-3750)
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: Introduced in Senate
National Park Anniversaries-Great American Spaces Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 109-s-821
Sponsor: Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]
Introduced: 2005-04-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Alaska
Anniversaries
Arizona
California
Civil War
Coins and coinage
Colorado
Copper
Department of the Interior
District of Columbia
Ex-presidents
Finance and Financial Sector
Foundations
Government Operations and Politics
History
Lincoln Administration
Maine
Military parks
Montana
Monuments and memorials
National monuments
National parks
Pennsylvania
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Silver
Social Welfare
Utah
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: 
National Parks Anniversaries-Great American Spaces Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue silver coins emblematic of certain National Parks that are observing historic anniversaries of their founding.
 
Directs the Secretary to take action to ensure that minting and issuing coins under this Act will not result in any net cost to the United States Government.
 
Prohibits coin issuance unless the Secretary has received: (1) full payment for the coin; (2) security satisfactory to the Secretary to indemnify the United States for full payment; or (3) a guarantee of full payment satisfactory to the Secretary from a depository institution whose deposits are insured by either the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or the National Credit Union Administration Board.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prevent the retroactive application of changes to Trans-Alaska Pipeline Quality Bank valuation methodologies.

Bill: 109-s-822
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2005-04-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alaska
Department of Energy
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Petroleum pipelines
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation rates
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: 
Prohibits the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from approving any retroactive application of TAPS quality bank valuation methodologies when it reviews Trans-Alaska Pipeline carrier tariffs.
 
Defines such methodologies as valuation methodologies applied for the purpose of establishing monetary adjustments paid by or to shippers of oil on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline through the operation of a quality bank to compensate for differentials in the value of shippers' oil commingled in the pipeline.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3751-3752)
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the establishment of summer health career introductory programs for middle and high school students.

Bill: 109-s-823
Sponsor: Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]
Introduced: 2005-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Career education
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Health
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Medical education
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Bureau of Health Professions of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to award up to five grants to higher education institutions to establish summer health career introductory programs for middle and high school students. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Care Access Improvement Act

Bill: 109-s-824
Sponsor: Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]
Introduced: 2005-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Access to health care
Families
Family medicine
Health
Income tax
Mental health services
Nurse practitioners
Physicians
Physicians' assistants
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: 
Health Care Access Improvement Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow primary health services providers (physicians, physician assistants, or nurse practitioners) a nonrefundable tax credit of $1,000 for each month such providers provide primary health services in health professional shortage areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-825
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: American Revolution
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commerce
Cultural property
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Environmental Protection
Exhibitions
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Land use
National parks
Nature conservation
New Jersey
Nonprofit organizations
Outdoor recreation
Planning
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public-private partnerships
Signs and signboards
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area Act of 2005 - Establishes the Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area in New Jersey. 
Designates the Crossroads of the American Revolution Association, Inc. as the Area's management entity. Directs the Association to submit, and to assist local governments, regional planing organizations, and nonprofit entities in implementing, an area management plan which includes strategies for conservation, funding, management, and development of the Area.
Bars the Association from using Federal funds received under this Act to acquire real property, but allows it to use any other source of funding, including other Federal funding, intended for the acquisition of real property.
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide assistance to: (1) the Area to develop and implement the management plan; and (2) State or local government or nonprofit organizations for treatment of historical objects or structures eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Authorizes the Superintendent of Morristown National Historical Park to provide operational assistance supporting implementation of the management plan to public and private organizations within the Area, including the Association.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3820-3821)
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3819)
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide that the conveyance of the former radar bomb scoring site to the city of Conrad, Montana, is not subject to reversion.

Bill: 109-s-826
Sponsor: Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]
Introduced: 2005-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Land transfers
Land use
Military base closures
Montana
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Radar

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: 
Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 to repeal the provision that the conveyance of the former radar bomb scoring site to the city of Conrad, Montana, is subject to reversion to the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3821-3822)
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Quality Cheese Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-827
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2005-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Dairy industry
Dairy products
Department of Health and Human Services
Farmers
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government Operations and Politics
Labeling
Law
Milk
Proteins

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Quality Cheese Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from using Federal funds to amend specified regulations to include dry ultra-filtered milk or casein in the definition of "milk" or "nonfat milk" as specified in the domestic natural standards for cheese and cheese products.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3822)
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3822)
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to insert a new definition relating to oil and gas exploration and production.

Bill: 109-s-830
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2005-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Energy
Equipment and supplies
Gas pipelines
Natural gas
Oil well drilling
Petroleum engineering
Prospecting
Transportation and Public Works
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: 
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to define &quot;oil and gas exploration, production, processing, treatment operation, or transmission&quot; as all field activities or operations associated with oil or gas exploration, production, or processing, or oil or gas treatment operations or transmission facilities. Includes in such definition activities necessary to prepare sites for oil or gas drilling and for the movement and placement of drilling equipment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3899)
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Workforce Advisory Commission Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-831
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2005-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Veterans Affairs
Education
Federal advisory bodies
Federal employees
Foreign students
Foreign-trained physicians
Government Operations and Politics
Health services administration
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical personnel
Medical research
Medicare
Minorities
Minorities in medicine
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Personnel management
Public health administration
Public meetings
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: 
Health Workforce Advisory Commission Act of 2005 - Directs the Comptroller General to establish the Health Workforce Advisory Commission to analyze health workforce policy issues, including by: (1) reviewing Federal health workforce policies; (2) analyzing and making recommendations to improve the methods used to measure and monitor the health workforce; (3) reviewing the impact of such policies on the ability of the health care system to provide optimal medical and health care services; (4) analyzing and making recommendations pertaining to Federal incentives and programs that promote the education of health professionals; (5) analyzing the role and global implications of internationally trained health professionals and personnel in the U.S. workforce; and (6) making recommendations to Congress concerning health workforce policy issues. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3824-3825)
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3823-3824)
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Taxpayer Protection and Assistance Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-832
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2005-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Alaska
Bank accounts
Charities
Commerce
Community development banking
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Continuing education
Debit cards
Department of the Treasury
Earned income tax credit
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic funds transfers
Employment tests
English language
Federal aid to Indians
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Hawaiians
Higher education
Identification devices
Income tax
Indigenous peoples
Interest rates
Labor and Employment
Labor unions
Law
Legal fees
Loans
Minorities
Poverty
Public service advertising
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Tax administration
Tax courts
Tax penalties
Tax preparers
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxpayers
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: 
Taxpayer Protection and Assistance Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) make grants to establish tax return preparation clinics for low-income taxpayers; (2) regulate the conduct of enrolled agents before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS); (3) regulate and test paid income tax preparers; (4) contract for the development or administration of examinations for paid income tax preparers; (5) require the registration of refund anticipation loan facilitators; and (6) award demonstration project grants to assist low-income taxpayers without bank accounts to obtain such accounts with federally insured depository institutions.
 
Establishes in the IRS the Office of Professional Responsibility to administer the regulation of paid income tax preparers.
 
Requires refund anticipation loan facilitators to make specified disclosures to taxpayers about refund loan transactions.
 
Requires a set aside of a portion of Tax Court practitioner fees for assistance to
 pro se
 taxpayers in the Tax Court. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Committee on Finance. Measure incorporated into measure S.1321 ordered to be reported.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4102-4104)
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3826-3828)
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3825-3826)
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
WING Act

Bill: 109-s-833
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2005-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Labor
Dislocated workers
Education
Employee training
Employment tests
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government publicity
High technology
Higher education
Law
Licenses
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Technical education
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: 
Workforce Investment for Next-Generation Technologies Act - WING Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to direct the Secretary of Labor to carry out up to twenty pilot projects to establish a system of industry-validated national certifications of skills in: (1) up to sixteen high-technology industries; and (2) up to four cross-disciplinary national certifications of skills in homeland security technology. 
 
Includes among the high-technology industries: biotechnology, telecommunications, highly automated manufacturing (including semiconductors), advanced materials technology, nanotechnology, and energy technology (including technology relating to next-generation lighting).
 
Directs the Secretary to make three-to-four year grants for such projects to eligible entities with one or more of the following as a primary participant: (1) an institution of higher education; (2) an advanced technology education center; (3) a local workforce investment board; (4) a representative of a business in a target industry for the certification involved; or (5) a representative of an industry association, labor organization, or community development organization.
 
Requires each certification program to be: (1) offered at the completion of, and in addition to, a training and education program related to the industry competencies involved and offered in a flexible manner that meets the needs of those seeking certification; and (2) consistent with the requirements for a two-year associate degree.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3829-3830)
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate