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Summer of Service Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-4053
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2006-11-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Community and school
Congressional reporting requirements
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Ethics
Federal aid to education
Fees
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Indian education
Labor and Employment
Leadership
Minorities
National service
Native Americans
Performance measurement
Scholarships
Service learning
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-11-15
text: 
Summer of Service Act of 2006 - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to create Summer of Service programs providing at least 100 hours of summer community service learning opportunities to youth who will subsequently enroll in grades six through nine. 
 
Requires the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service to provide competitive three-year grants to: (1) states under a State Grant program; and (2) public or private organizations under a National Direct Grant program, when a state does not apply for funding or the community service program includes multiple states. 
 
Requires states and organizations, in making project subgrants, to favor entities with established track records that: (1) have leadership positions in the communities from which participating youth will be drawn; (2) focus on youth service during the transition year before high school; (3) encourage or enable youth to continue providing community service throughout the school year; (4) involve youth in the design and operation of the community service project; and (5) include youth of diverse backgrounds, at least 50% of which are from low-income families. Permits such entities to charge the parents of participants an income-based fee to contribute to the nonfederal share of project costs.
 
Makes each youth serving at least 100 hours in a service-learning project eligible for an educational award of up to $500.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10966-10971)
action_date: 2006-11-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10966)
action_date: 2006-11-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the number of individuals qualifying for retroactive benefits from traumatic injury protection coverage under Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance.

Bill: 109-s-4054
Sponsor: Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2006-11-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Disabled
Finance and Financial Sector
Government life insurance
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military operations
South Asia
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2006-11-15
text: 
Amends the Veterans' Housing Opportunity and Benefits Improvement Act of 2006 to remove the requirement that, in order to qualify for retroactive benefits from traumatic injury protection coverage under the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance program during the period beginning on October 7, 2001, and ending on November 30, 2005, the Secretary of the military department concerned must determine that the loss was a direct result of a traumatic injury incurred in the theater of operations for Operations Enduring Freedom or Iraqi Freedom (thus including traumatic injury incurred while performing other types of military service during such period under such coverage).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10971)
action_date: 2006-11-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10971)
action_date: 2006-11-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Cytology Proficiency Improvement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-4056
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2006-11-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Continuing education
Cytology
Department of Health and Human Services
Education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Gynecology
Higher education
Law
Medical education
Medical laboratories
Medical tests
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Student records
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2006-11-15
text: 
Cytology Proficiency Improvement Act of 2006 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to revise national quality assurance standards to assure consistent performance by laboratories of valid and reliable cytology services, to include requirements that each clinical laboratory: (1) ensure that all individuals involved in screening and interpreting cytological preparations participate annually in an approved continuing medical education program in gynecologic cytology that provides each participant with gynecologic cytologic preparations designed to improve locator, recognition, and interpretive skills; and (2) maintain a record of program results.
 
Requires the Secretary to terminate individual proficiency testing that was in effect before enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-11-15
text: Introduced in Senate
National Park Second Amendment Restoration and Personal Protection Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-4057
Sponsor: Sen. Allen, George [R-VA]
Introduced: 2006-11-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Constitutional amendments
Crime and Law Enforcement
Firearms
Firearms control
Government Operations and Politics
Law
National parks

Summary:
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: 
National Park Second Amendment Restoration and Personal Protection Act of 2006 - Permits the possession or carrying of firearms in units of the National Park System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries Boundary Modification and Protection Act

Bill: 109-s-4058
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2006-11-16 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: 2006-11-16
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: 2006-11-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Guarantee of Medical Accuracy in Sex Education Act

Bill: 109-s-4059
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2006-11-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Ethics
Federal aid to education
Health
Health education
Medical education
Sex education
Sexual abstinence

Summary:
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: 
Guarantee of Medical Accuracy in Sex Education Act - Prohibits a federal agency from providing funds or assistance to an entity for the development of course material or the provision of instruction on human development and sexuality if such material or instruction will include medically inaccurate information. Directs such an agency to require a sufficient assurance that such material or instruction will not include medically inaccurate information.
 
Defines &quot;medically inaccurate information&quot; as information related to medical, psychiatric, psychological, empirical, or statistical statements that is unsupported or contradicted by peer-reviewed research by leading medical, psychological, psychiatric, and public health organizations and agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11059)
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11058-11059)
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Effective Terrorists Prosecution Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-4060
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2006-11-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appellate procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Confession (Law)
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional oversight
Crime and Law Enforcement
Detention of persons
Due process of law
Evidence (Law)
Habeas corpus
Human rights
International Affairs
Judicial opinions
Judicial review
Law
Military law
Prosecution
Supreme Court
Terrorism
Treaties
Trials
War crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: 
Effective Terrorists Prosecution Act of 2006 - Amends federal armed forces provisions enacted by the Military Commissions Act of 2006 to, among other things: (1) exclude from military commission (commission) trials statements obtained by coercion; (2) allow a commission military judge to exclude hearsay evidence determined to be unreliable or lacking in probative value; (3) provide for review of commission decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces rather than the Court of Military Commission Review; (4) revise generally provisions concerning the implementation of treaty obligations with respect to the U.S. prosecution of enemy combatants; (5) restore habeas corpus rights for individuals detained by the United States; and (6) provide for expedited judicial review of provisions of the Military Commissions Act of 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11060-11061)
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11059-11060)
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Introduced in Senate
SPEAK Act

Bill: 109-s-4061
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2006-11-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Armed Forces and National Security
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Curricula
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational research
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Higher education
Indian education
Law
Licenses
Mathematics
Military dependents
Minorities
Native Americans
Performance measurement
Rating of teachers
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Standards
State laws
Teacher education
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: 
Standards to Provide Educational Access for Kids Act or the SPEAK Act - Amends the National Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization Act (the Act) to require the Commissioner for Educational Statistics to add science to the mandatory biennial national and state academic achievement assessments of students in grades four, eight, and twelve in reading and mathematics. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require states receiving school improvement funds to participate in such science assessments of students in grades four and eight, beginning with the 2007-2008 school year.
 
Amends the Act to task the National Assessment Governing Board with creating voluntary American education content standards in mathematics and science for kindergarten through grade 12 which reflect the knowledge students need to enter college or the workforce and compete in the global economy.
 
Requires the Secretary of Education to establish the American Standards Incentive fund to award competitive four-year grants to states which agree to: (1) adopt such voluntary mathematics and science standards as the core of their own academic content standards in such subjects; and (2) align their teacher certification and professional development requirements to such standards. Provides additional funds to successful grantees for the enhancement of their student performance data systems.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to extend by up to four years for such grantees the 12-year period at the end of which students must meet or exceed state academic performance standards established under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11062-11064)
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11061-11062)
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-4062
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2006-11-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Congress
Congressional budget
Congressional voting
Federal budget process
Government spending reductions
House rules and procedure
Legislation
Legislative amendments
Legislative resolutions
Senate rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: 
Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2006 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make it out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill or resolution (or related amendment, motion, or conference report) that would cause spending for non-defense, non-trust-fund, discretionary spending for the budget year to exceed the amount of spending for such activities in FY2007.
 
Permits waiver or suspension of such provisions only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Senate. Requires an affirmative vote of three-fifths also for appeals in the Senate of rulings of the Chair.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11065)
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11064-11065)
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Affordable Housing Expansion and Public Safety Act

Bill: 109-s-4063
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2006-11-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Affordable housing
Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Commerce
Commercialization
Crime prevention
Defense budgets
Defense procurement
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy research
Federal aid to housing
Fighter aircraft
Fossil fuels
Government spending reductions
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
High technology
Housing subsidies
Joint ventures
Low-income housing
Manufacturing industries
Rent
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: 
Affordable Housing Expansion and Public Safety Act - Instructs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Secretary) to provide an additional 100,000 incremental vouchers for tenant-based rental housing assistance under the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program in FY2007. 
 
Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to direct: (1) each participating jurisdiction to use Home Investments Partnership (HOME) grant funds to provide affordable housing to individuals or families whose income is 30% or lower than the area median income (extremely low-income); and (2) direct the Secretary to allocate HOME funds to such jurisdictions on a specified pro-rata basis.
 
Amends the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 to: (1) extend to FY2011 the authorization of appropriations for the Public and Assisted Housing Crime and Drug Elimination Program (PHDEP); (2) set aside specified amounts for the Office of Policy Development and Research; (3) identify activities eligible for grant funds; and (4) require the Office to review research to assess strategies likely to be effective in preventing and reducing violent and drug-related crimes in public and federally assisted low-income housing.
 
Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress shall create a national affordable housing trust fund to supply 1.5 million additional affordable housing units over the next 10 years, especially for extremely low-income and very low-income families.
 
Repeals multiyear procurement authority for the F-22A Raptor Fighter Aircraft.
 
Prohibits the Secretary of Energy from implementing the advanced research program for fossil fuels.
 
Prohibits the Secretary of Commerce from awarding new Advanced Technology Program grants under the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11067-11069)
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11065-11067)
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Introduced in Senate
No Child Left Behind Improvement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-4064
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2006-11-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Administrative procedure
Compensatory education
Department of Education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Illiteracy
Law
School choice
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: 
No Child Left Behind Improvements Act of 2006 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to alter requirements for adequate yearly progress (AYP) assessments of student groups by: (1) lowering, from 95% to 90%, the minimum percentage of students in each group in a school that must take such assessments; (2) allowing the fractional counting of students who are in more than one group, for each such group; (3) allowing states to treat as proficient or advanced specified scores on alternate assessments for disabled students and those not proficient in English; and (4) allowing states to use alternative methods of defining AYP.
 
Revises criteria for local educational agency identification of schools needing improvement. Declares that only those meet such criteria that fail AYP standards, for two consecutive school years (as under current law), in the same subject for the same group of students. 
 
Revises eligibility criteria for school transfers after a school is identified as needing improvement. Declares that only failing students in the failing group, instead of all students in such a school, may transfer. Allows such schools to provide students with supplemental services rather than transfers during that school year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11069)
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Affordable Housing Expansion and Public Safety Act

Bill: 109-s-4065
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-11-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Criminal statistics
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
School security
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: 
Accurate Crime Trends for Schools Act or the ACT for Schools Act - Directs the Attorney General to study and report to the appropriate congressional committees on the feasibility of expanding the National Incident-Based Reporting System to include information on the occurrence of school-related crime in elementary and secondary schools.
 
Requires the study to identify and evaluate methods for collecting and reporting such information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11070)
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11069-11070)
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the designation of Brazil under title V of the Trade Act of 1974.

Bill: 109-s-4066
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-11-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Brazil
Developing countries
Latin America
Tariff preferences

Summary:
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: 
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to make Brazil ineligible for the generalized system of preferences (GSP). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Satellite Consumer Protection Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-4067
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2006-11-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Copyright
Damages
Direct broadcast satellites
Intellectual property
Judicial review
Law
Licenses
Subscription television
Television programs
Television relay systems
Television stations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: 
Satellite Consumer Protection Act of 2006 - Grants a satellite carrier under an injunction for certain secondary transmission violations a statutory license to provide distant network stations in specified local markets under prescribed conditions. Requires a satellite carrier as a condition of license use to deposit escrow funds with the Copyright Office. Imposes monetary penalties for license violations.
 
Terminates such license authority after February 17, 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11070-11071)
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11070)
action_date: 2006-11-16
text: Introduced in Senate