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Ethanol Stimulus Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3840
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-09-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Commerce
Energy
Fuel consumption
Gasoline
Income tax
Small business
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-05
text: 
Ethanol Stimulus Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for an increased small ethanol producer tax credit for ethanol production in states which have a gasoline consumption rate of more than 2% of aggregate nationwide consumption and which produce less than 2% of the aggregate nationwide amount of ethanol (two-two states).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-09-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program Act

Bill: 109-s-3841
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2006-09-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Animals
Arizona
California
Civil actions and liability
Colorado River development
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Habitat conservation
Law
Legal fees
Nevada
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reservoirs
Restoration ecology
Riparian ecology
Water use
Watersheds
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-05
text: 
Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to manage and implement the Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program, and to enter into an agreement with Arizona, California, and Nevada providing for the use of water from the Lower Colorado River for habitat creation and maintenance, in accordance with the Habitat Conservation Plan, Biological Assessment and Biological and Conference Opinion, Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report, Funding and Management Agreement, Implementing Agreement.
 
Permits any party to an agreement entered into with the United States pursuant to the Program to commence a civil action in U.S. district court to enforce the agreement or to declare the rights and obligations of the parties under the program documents. Grants the district court jurisdiction over any such action.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8974-8975)
action_date: 2006-09-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on synthetic quartz or fused silica photomask blank substrates.

Bill: 109-s-3842
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-09-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-05
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on synthetic quartz or fused silica photomask blank substrates.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-09-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Biofuels Investment Trust Fund Act

Bill: 109-s-3844
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Ben [D-NE]
Introduced: 2006-09-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Biomass energy
Cellulose
Economics and Public Finance
Energy research
Federal aid to research
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government trust funds
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-05
text: 
Biofuels Investment Trust Fund Act - Establishes a Biofuels Investment Trust Fund consisting of transferred amounts received in the U.S. Treasury from duties collected on imports of ethyl alcohol or any mixture containing ethyl alcohol that is to be used as a fuel or in producing a mixture of gasoline and alcohol, a mixture of a special fuel and alcohol, or any other mixture to be used as a fuel (including motor fuel). Directs the Secretary of Energy to use amounts in the Trust Fund to: (1) provide assistance to farmers, producers, biorefiners, researchers, universities, and other persons or entities involved in the research, development, and deployment, or production of biofuels, especially for cellulosic ethanol production; or (2) advance research, development, and deployment of biofuels, especially cellulosic ethanol produced from biomass feedstocks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 301 Commerce Street in Commerce, Oklahoma, as the "Mickey Mantle Post Office Building".

Bill: 109-s-3845
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2006-09-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Athletes
Baseball
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Names
Oklahoma
Postal facilities
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 301 Commerce Street in Commerce, Oklahoma, as the "Mickey Mantle Post Office Building."
action_date: 2006-09-30
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 301 Commerce Street in Commerce, Oklahoma, as the "Mickey Mantle Post Office Building." 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2006-11-09
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2006-11-09
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2006-09-30
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2006-09-30
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2006-09-30
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR 9/29/2006 S10804)
action_date: 2006-09-30
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR 9/29/2006 S10804)
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9043)
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Employees Electronic Personal Health Records Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3846
Sponsor: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2006-09-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Federal employees
Government employees' health insurance
Government paperwork
Health
Internet
Medical records
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: 
Federal Employees Electronic Personal Health Records Act of 2006 - Amends federal civil service law to require each contract between the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and a qualified carrier offering a health benefit plan for federal employees to provide for establishment and maintenance of electronic personal health records for each individual and family member enrolled in the plan.
 
Requires such records to be: (1) in a standard electronic format, available for electronic access through the Internet; and (2) based on the federal messaging and health vocabulary standards developed by the Consolidated Health Informatics Initiative, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, the American Health Information Community, or the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
 
Directs OPM to ensure that each individual and family member is given an opportunity to elect at any time to opt out of participation in the record program or terminate an established record.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9043-9045)
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 110 Cooper Street in Babylon, New York, as the "Jacob Samuel Fletcher Post Office Building".

Bill: 109-s-3847
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-09-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Army
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Military personnel
Names
New York State
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 110 Cooper Street in Babylon, New York, as the "Jacob Samuel Fletcher Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9045)
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Terrorism Prevention Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3848
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2006-09-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Americans in foreign countries
Antiaircraft missiles
Appellate procedure
Armed Forces and National Security
Assault
Capital punishment
Classified defense information
Conspiracy
Criminal investigation
Depositions
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic surveillance
Evidence (Law)
Extortion
Families
Foreign agents
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Grants-in-aid
International Affairs
Kidnapping
Law
Licenses
Military training
Murder
Nuclear terrorism
Obstruction of justice
Postal service
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Terrorism
Virus diseases
Warrants (Law)
Weapons of mass destruction
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: 
Terrorism Prevention Act of 2006 - Amends the federal criminal code to impose criminal penalties for providing material support or resources to a perpetrator of international terrorism, or to a family member of or other person associated with such perpetrator, with the intent to facilitate, reward, or encourage international terrorism.
 
Increases criminal penalties for providing material support or resources to terrorists and foreign terrorist organizations and for receiving military-type training from a foreign terrorist organization.
 
Denies federal benefits to individuals convicted of a federal crime of terrorism.
 
Classified Information Procedures Reform Act of 2006 - Amends the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) to: (1) allow interlocutory appeals from any order for access to classified information (currently, appeals lie only from orders entered under CIPA); (2) require courts to grant certain ex parte government requests for CIPA protective orders; and (3) restrict access to classified information obtained from nondocumentary sources.
 
Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) prohibit hoaxes relating to terrorist offenses; (2) increase penalties for hoaxes about the death, injury, or capture of a member of the Armed Forces (U.S.); (3) include threats against a corporation or governmental entity in the crime of mailing threatening communications; (4) modify provisions relating to terrorist murders, kidnappings, and assaults; (5) impose criminal penalties for terrorist offenses resulting in death; (6) authorize the death penalty for certain terrorist crimes; and (7) increase penalties for false statements or obstruction of justice involving international or domestic terrorism.
 
Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to make certain notification requirements under such Act inapplicable to individuals seeking immigration benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9045-9046)
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Air Travel Delay Awareness Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3849
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-09-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Airline passenger traffic
Airlines
Commerce
Consumer education
Department of Transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: 
Air Travel Delay Awareness Act of 2006 - Amends federal transportation law to require air carriers, foreign air carriers, or intrastate air carriers that provide air transportation or intrastate air transportation to passengers to provide flight delay information to the public not later than 10 minutes after such information is available.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the extension of preliminary permit periods by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for certain hydroelectric projects in the State of Alaska.

Bill: 109-s-3851
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2006-09-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alaska
Hydroelectric power
Law
Licenses
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: 
Authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), upon request from the preliminary permit holder of a Thomas Bay (Alaska) project, to extend the preliminary permit period for up to two consecutive three-year periods following expiration of the initial preliminary project permit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-781.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9046-9047)
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 39-25 61st Street in Woodside, New York, as the "Thomas J. Manton Post Office Building".

Bill: 109-s-3853
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-09-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
Government Operations and Politics
Names
New York City
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 39-25 61st Street in Woodside, New York, as the "Thomas J. Manton Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize Congress to award a gold medal to Jerry Lewis, in recognition of his outstanding service to the Nation.

Bill: 109-s-3856
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2006-09-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Charities
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Entertainers
Health
Muscular diseases
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: 
Authorizes the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to make appropriate arrangements for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal of appropriate design to comedian Jerry Lewis in recognition of his outstanding service to the Nation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9057)
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Bringing Opportunities to Our Small Business Taxpayers Act

Bill: 109-s-3857
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2006-09-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Depreciation and amortization
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Investments
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Pension funds
Self-employed
Small business
Stockholders
Tax credits
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: 
Bringing Opportunities to Our Small Business Taxpayers Act or BOOST Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the $100,000 expensing allowance for small business assets; (2) expand eligibility of small businesses for cash accounting; (3) revise S corporation rules relating to built-in gains, passive income, and shareholder eligibility; (4) allow certain small businesses a tax credit for contributions to employee retirement plans; and (5) allow a deduction from self-employment income for retirement plan contributions and for health insurance costs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9057-9060)
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9057)
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Voluntary and Equitable Grazing Conflict Resolution Act

Bill: 109-s-3858
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2006-09-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Grazing
Land transfers
Law
Leases
National monuments
Natural monuments
Oregon
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: 
Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Voluntary and Equitable Grazing Conflict Resolution Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to offer compensation, equal to $300 per authorized animal unit month, to a lessee in exchange for the lessee's waiver of a lease to use a grazing allotment to graze domestic livestock for commercial purposes in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, Oregon.

Requires the Secretary to terminate any grazing lease waived and permanently retire the associated grazing allotment (or allotment portion) from livestock grazing use.

Allows a landowner to donate a grazing lease to the Secretary without receiving compensation. 

Prohibits the Secretary from issuing a grazing license on specified allotments in and near the Monument, and requires the Secretary to retire such allotments permanently.

Authorizes the Secretary to offer to convey to the Box R Ranch, and to convey if the offer is accepted, certain Bureau of Land Management land in exchange for the Rowlett parcel.

Designates approximately 23,000 acres of Monument land as the Soda Mountain Wilderness in the National Wilderness Preservation System. Grandfathers existing grazing leases on such land, but prohibits grazing in the applicable Wilderness portion upon retirement of any such lease.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Help Our Patriots Employment (HOPE) Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3859
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2006-09-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Department of Labor
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Employment of the disabled
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Tax credits
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' employment
Wages
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: 
Help Our Patriots Employment (HOPE) Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) include veterans entitled to compensation for a service-connected disability as targeted group members for purposes of the work opportunity tax credit; and (2) increase from $6,000 to $12,000 the amount of first-year wages eligible for the work opportunity tax credit in the case of a veteran with a service-connected disability. 

Authorizes additional appropriations for FY2008 and FY2009 to operate the National Veterans' Employment and Training Services Institute.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Emergency Wildfire and Farm Relief Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3860
Sponsor: Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]
Introduced: 2006-09-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural conservation
Agricultural credit
Agricultural extension work
Agricultural subsidies
Animal diseases
Animals
Anthrax
Cattle
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Dairy industry
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Droughts
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Farm lands
Farm produce
Finance and Financial Sector
Flood damage
Food relief
Forest fires
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Grazing
Health
Hurricanes
Indemnity
Land use
Law
Livestock
Montana
Nutrition
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Sheep
Soil conservation
Soil erosion
Sugar
Texas
Tuberculosis
Water Resources Development
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: 
Emergency Wildfire and Farm Relief Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use specified additional funds for emergency measures under: (1) the emergency conservation program, with a set-aside for wildfire control in Montana; (2) the environmental quality incentives program, with a set-aside for wildfire control in Montana; and (3) the livestock assistance grant program, with eligibility for counties adversely impacted by wildfires.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide financial assistance for: (1) crop disaster assistance for qualifying quantity or quality losses for the 2005 or 2006 crop due to weather or related conditions (including disease, insects, and delayed harvest; (2) livestock assistance for 2005 and 2006 disaster-caused losses; (3) livestock indemnity payments for 2005 and 2006 disaster-caused losses (including wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and anthrax); (4) ewe lamb replacement and retention; (5) sugar beet disaster assistance for crop year 2005; and (6) bovine tuberculosis indemnification.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide financial assistance for: (1) state grants to promote agriculture; and (2) grants for value of production. Requires a recipient state to give priority for livestock and specialty crops.
 
Directs the Secretary to make supplemental economic loss payments to: (1) producers on a farm who received a crop year 2005 direct payment; and (2) dairy producers eligible to receive a 2005 national dairy market loss payment.
 
Directs the Secretary to use specified funds to: (1) carry out emergency measures under the emergency watershed protection program; and (2) hire additional state and county Farm Service Agency personnel to expedite the delivery of agricultural disaster and economic assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in Senate