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Rural Housing Tax Credit Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-883
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Artur [D-AL-7]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Rural housing
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Rural Housing Tax Credit Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a nonrefundable tax credit (the lesser of ten percent of the purchase price or $5,000) for the purchase of a principal residence in a rural area by a first-time homebuyer. Limits the amount of such credit based on taxpayer modified adjusted gross income. 
 
Requires the recapture of credit amounts if a taxpayer fails to use a residence for which a tax credit is allowed as a principal residence or sells such residence within five years of purchase.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of Ukraine.

Bill: 109-hr-885
Sponsor: Rep. Hyde, Henry J. [R-IL-6]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Emigration
Europe
Human rights
Immigration
International Affairs
Most favored nation principle
Normal trade relations
Ukraine

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Authorizes the President to extend nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of the Ukraine. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Supply Our Soldiers Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-887
Sponsor: Rep. Ford, Harold E., Jr. [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Armed forces abroad
Charities
Department of Defense
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Law
Military dependents
Military pay
Postage stamps
Postal service
Social Welfare
United States Postal Service
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Supply Our Soldiers Act of 2005 - Directs the United States Postal Service (USPS) and the Secretary of Defense to provide a program under which postal benefits are made available for personal correspondence and other mail matter sent from within the United States by designated representatives (next-of-kin) to members of the Armed Forces who are: (1) serving on active duty abroad in support of military operations or against an enemy of the United States or other hostile force; or (2) hospitalized in a U.S. military facility as a result of disease or injury incurred during service overseas. Limits postal benefits to $150 per calendar quarter, and limits the size and weight of allowable parcels. Allows charitable organizations to apply for such benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to extend the authorization for certain national heritage areas, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-888
Sponsor: Rep. Regula, Ralph [R-OH-16]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
American Revolution
Authorization
Canals
Civil War
Coal
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Federal advisory bodies
Georgia
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
Industrialization
Iowa
Iron and steel industry
Massachusetts
Military history
New York State
Ohio
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Sunset legislation
Tennessee
Textile industry
Water Resources Development
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Amends the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to: (1) extend to September 30, 2027, the authorization for making grants or providing assistance with respect to the National Coal Heritage Area, Tennessee Civil War Heritage Area, Augusta Canal National Heritage Area, Steel Industry Heritage Project (the Steel Industry American Heritage Area), Essex National Heritage Area, South Carolina National Heritage Corridor, America's Agricultural Heritage Partnership, Ohio & Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor (redesignated by this Act as the Ohio & Erie National Heritage Canalway), and Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area; and (2) increase the total amount that may be appropriated for such areas (with the exception of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area); and (3) increase the amount authorized to be appropriated for such Area.
 
Requires all vacancies in the Ohio & Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor Committee to be filled by the Ohio & Erie Canal Association.
 
Adds Lincoln County, West Virginia, and Paint Creek and Cabin Creek in Kanawha County, West Virginia to the National Coal Heritage Area. Provides for the Secretary to enter into a contractual agreement with the National Coal Heritage Area Authority pursuant to which the Secretary shall assist the Authority in certain activities. Makes resources within Lincoln County and Paint Creek and Cabin Creek also eligible for assistance. Provides for the Authority to submit a Coal Heritage Management Plan. 
 
Adds Berkeley County, South Carolina, to the South Carolina National Heritage Corridor.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the award of a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Tiger Woods, in recognition of his service to the Nation in promoting excellence and good sportsmanship, and in breaking barriers with grace and dignity by showing that golf is a sport for all people.

Bill: 109-hr-891
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Athletes
Blacks
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Golf
Minorities
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Provides for the presentation of a congressional gold medal to Tiger Woods in recognition of his service to the Nation in promoting excellence and good sportsmanship and in breaking barriers with grace and dignity by showing that golf is a sport for all people.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the award of a gold medal on behalf of Congress to Arnold Palmer in recognition of his service to the Nation in promoting excellence and good sportsmanship in golf.

Bill: 109-hr-892
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Athletes
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Golf
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Provides for the award, on behalf of Congress, of a congressional gold medal to Arnold Palmer in recognition of his service to the Nation in promoting excellence and good sportsmanship.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Wartime Parity and Justice Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-893
Sponsor: Rep. Becerra, Xavier [D-CA-31]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Aliens
Central America
Civil rights enforcement
Claims
Compensation (Law)
Concentration camps
Department of Justice
Deportation
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Freedom of information
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government publicity
Government trust funds
History
Immigration
Japanese Americans
Judicial review
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Law
Minorities
Public records
Racial discrimination
Relocation
Survivors' benefits
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Wartime Parity and Justice Act of 2005 - Allows certain individuals of Japanese ancestry who were brought forcibly to the United States from countries in Latin America and interned during World War II or who lost other specified rights or privileges due to their ancestry to be provided restitution under the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.
 
Urges the President to transmit a letter of apology to each such individual. 
Makes the Attorney General responsible for identifying and locating individuals eligible for restitution. Authorizes judicial review of a denial of compensation. Permits an individual covered by this Act who has accepted payment on a related claim before this Act's enactment to receive an appropriately reduced payment. 
States that certain individuals covered by this Act shall not be considered to have been unlawfully present in the United States during the evacuation, relocation, or internment period. Directs: (1) each U.S. agency to correct any records indicating otherwise; (2) agencies to disclose all information relating to the removal and internment of such individuals; and (3) the President to share such information with other countries and encourage those countries to make that information available. 
Reestablishes in the Treasury the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund, establishes a board of directors for the Fund, and sets forth permissible uses for Fund disbursements, including sponsorship of research and public education activities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-02-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E280-281)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Calling for 2-1-1 Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-896
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Michael [R-FL-9]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Access to health care
Church and social problems
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family services
Foundations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Health
Information services
Internet
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Nonprofit organizations
Religion
Social Welfare
Telephone
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Calling for 2-1-1 Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award a grant to each State to carry out a program for making available throughout that State the 2-1-1 telephone service for information and referral on health and human services, including volunteer services. Requires a participating State to ensure that at least 50 percent of the resources of the program funded by the grant will be derived from other sources. Requires a State seeking a grant to carry out its activities through a lead entity to be known as a 2-1-1 Collaborative.
 
Requires grant amounts to be used solely to make available to a State 2-1-1 telephone service for community information and referral on human services to all citizens of that State with phone access, including telephone connections between families and individuals seeking services and the service providers.
 
Requires grant recipients to: (1) abide by the Key Standards for 2-1-1 Centers; and (2) collaborate with human service organizations to provide an exhaustive database of services with which to provide information or referral to individuals utilizing the 2-1-1 service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
To restore and make permanent the exclusion from gross income for amounts received under qualified group legal services plans and to increase the maximum amount of the exclusion.

Bill: 109-hr-897
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefit plans
Group insurance
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal services
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to restore, make permanent, and eliminate the dollar limitation for the tax exclusion for amounts received under a qualified group legal services plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Stroke Treatment and Ongoing Prevention Act

Bill: 109-hr-898
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Clinics
Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Data banks
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Health education
Higher education
Hospital care
Housing and Community Development
Medical centers
Medical education
Medical residents
Performance measurement
Preventive medicine
Public service advertising
Quality of care
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
Stroke
Telemedicine
Trauma care
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Stroke Treatment and Ongoing Prevention Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out a national education campaign to promote stroke prevention and increase the number of stroke patients who seek immediate treatment. 
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), to maintain the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry and Clearinghouse by collecting specific data points and benchmarks for stroke care analysis and by compiling and disseminating information on State, local, and private care system achievements and problems.
 
Defines &quot;stroke&quot; as an attack in which blood flow to the brain is interrupted or in which a blood vessel or aneurysm in the brain breaks or ruptures.
 
Includes stroke and traumatic injury prevention, diagnosis, and treatment within the grant program for emergency medicine residency training.
 
Authorizes the Secretary, through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to make grants to qualified entities for education programs for health care professionals in the use of diagnostic approaches, technologies, and therapies for stroke and traumatic injury prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation. Gives preference to qualified entities that will train professionals that serve areas with a significant incidence of stroke or traumatic injuries.
 
Authorizes the Secretary, through the Director of the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, to make up to seven grants to States and to consortia of public and private entities in any non-grantee State to conduct a five-year pilot project to improve stroke patient outcomes by coordinating health care through telehealth networks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2646)
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
SSI Extension for Elderly and Disabled Refugees Act

Bill: 109-hr-899
Sponsor: Rep. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD-3]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aliens
Cubans
Haitians
Immigrants
Immigration
Refugees
Right of asylum
Supplemental security income program
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
SSI Extension for Elderly and Disabled Refugees Act - Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to provide a two-year extension of supplemental security income (SSI) from FY 2006 through 2008 for qualified aliens (including asylees and certain Cuban and Haitian entrants). 
 
Provides that any qualified alien rendered ineligible for SSI during fiscal years before FY 2006, soley by reason of the termination of a certain seven-year period, shall be eligible for such program for an additional two-year period, if the alien meets all other SSI eligibility factors. Requires benefits to be paid prospectively over the duration of the qualified alien's renewed eligibility. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Compassionate Visitor Visa Act

Bill: 109-hr-900
Sponsor: Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Admission of nonimmigrants
Aliens
Death
Department of Homeland Security
Diseases
Evidence (Law)
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Grandparents
Health
Law
Married people
Parents
Siblings
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Compassionate Visitor Visa Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to create a presumption that certain aliens seeking temporary entry into the United States in connection with the serious illness or death of a specified U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident family member (or other emergency or compelling circumstances involving such family members as the Secretary of Homeland Security may establish) are entitled to nonimmigrant status unless a consular or immigration officer determines that the applicant: (1) is inadmissible; or (2) does not intend to depart the United States following the period of authorized admission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to give priority in the issuance of immigrant visas to the sons and daughters of Filipino World War II veterans who are or were naturalized citizens of the United States, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-901
Sponsor: Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Asian American ethnic groups
East Asia
Families
Guerrilla warfare
History
Immigrants
Military dependents
Philippines
Visas
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to give family- or employment-based immigrant visa priority to the otherwise eligible children, sons, or daughters of Filipino World War II veterans who were naturalized as U.S. citizens under the Immigration Act of 1990.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-02-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E275-276)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E271)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the disposition of United States Government uranium inventories.

Bill: 109-hr-904
Sponsor: Rep. Cubin, Barbara [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control agreements
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Inventories
Nuclear fuels
Nuclear industry
Nuclear nonproliferation
Prices
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Russia
Surplus government property
Uranium
Uranium enrichment

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Amends the USEC Privatization Act to repeal Federal guidelines governing inventory sales of natural and low-enriched uranium and Federal transfers of enriched uranium.
Establishes rising limits of aggregate annual deliveries of uranium in any form (including natural uranium concentrates, natural uranium hexafluoride, enriched uranium, and depleted uranium) that are sold or transferred by the U.S. Government from three million pounds U308 equivalent per year through calendar 2009 to ten million pounds U308 equivalent per year through calendar 2013 and thereafter. Exempts specified kinds of sales or transfers from these limits.
States that any uranium sales or transfers by the U.S. Government (excluding the Tennessee Valley Authority) shall be limited to long-term contracts with end users of no less than three years duration.
Requires the Secretary of Energy to review annually the available excess Government uranium inventories and determine the level of inventory to be sold or transferred to end users.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House