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Date Certain Tax Code Replacement Act

Bill: 109-s-2122
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2005-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital
Capital investments
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Internal revenue law
Labor and Employment
Legislation
Progressive taxation
Saving and investment
Tax administration
Tax incidence
Tax rates
Tax simplification
Taxpayer compliance

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: 
Date Certain Tax Code Replacement Act - Terminates the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 for taxable years beginning after 2008, except provisions of such Code relating to social security taxation (i.e., taxes on wage, self-employment, and railroad retirement income).
 
Establishes within the legislative branch a National Commission on Tax Reform and Simplification. Directs the Commission to: (1) review the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and its impact on the economy, families, and the workforce: (2) determine whether the current income tax system can be replaced by more a more efficient and fair system of taxation; and (3) submit a report to Congress on the results of its review with recommendations for fundamental reform and simplification of the Code.
 
Requires congressional approval of a new federal tax system no later than July 4, 2008, or a vote of Congress to reauthorize the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
FHA Manufactured Housing Loan Modernization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2123
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2005-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Economics and Public Finance
Evidence (Law)
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Law
Mobile homes
Mortgage banks
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgages
Prefabricated buildings
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: 
FHA Manufactured Housing Loan Modernization Act of 2005 - Amends the National Housing Act with respect to Federal Housing Administration (FHA) housing loan insurance for manufactured homes (or lots for such homes) to: (1) exempt such loans from certain financial institution portfolio limits; (2) establish loan-to-value ratio and downpayment requirements; (3) provide that any such contract shall be conclusive evidence of an institution's insurance eligibility; (4) increase loan limits; (5) set forth borrower premium charges; and (6) direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish underwriting criteria that will ensure the manufactured housing program's financial soundness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation and Community Development. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-994.
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Emergency Preparedness and Response for Individuals With Disabilities Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2124
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2005-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Access Board
Administrative procedure
Animals
Blind
Building laws
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Deaf
Department of Homeland Security
Disabled
Disaster loans
Disaster relief
Displaced persons
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency housing
Employee training
Evacuation of civilians
Executive reorganization
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Health
Housing and Community Development
Housing for the disabled
Housing subsidies
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Labor and Employment
Law
Local laws
Medical supplies
Relocation
Rescue work
Science, Technology, Communications
Self-help devices for the disabled
Small business
Standards
State laws
Telephone
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation and the disabled

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: 
Emergency Preparedness and Response for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2005 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to appoint a Disability Coordinator to ensure that the needs of individuals with disabilities are properly addressed in emergency preparedness and disaster relief efforts in the event of a major disaster.
 
Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act with respect to: (1) temporary housing for use by individuals with disabilities; and (2) the right of individuals with disabilities to live independently.
 
Provides for increased accessibility for such individuals of replacement housing built with federal funds following major disasters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Family Entertainment Protection Act

Bill: 109-s-2126
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2005-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Age
Auditing
Child safety
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer complaints
Consumer education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Deceptive advertising
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Governmental investigations
Labeling
Law
Pornography
Restrictive trade practices
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Video games
Violence in mass media

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: 
Family Entertainment Protection Act - Prohibits a business from selling, renting, or permitting the sale or rental of any video game with a Mature, Adults-Only, or Ratings Pending rating from the Entertainment Software Ratings Board to any individual who has not attained the age of 17 years.
 
Subjects violators of this Act to a civil penalty.
 
Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to contract with an expert, independent organization to determine annually whether Board ratings remain consistent and reliable.
 
Authorizes the FTC to conduct: (1) and publicize the results of an annual secret audit of businesses to determine how frequently minors who attempt to purchase video games with a Mature, Adults-Only, or Rating Pending rating are able to do so successfully; and (2) an investigation into embedded content in video games that can be accessed through a keystroke combination, pass-code, or other technological means to estimate certain data about video games with embedded content.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that whenever the FTC determines that the content of a video game is inconsistent with the rating given to such game, it shall take appropriate action under its authority to regulate unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce.
 
Requires the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection to ensure that consumers can file complaints alleging misleading or deceptive content-descriptions or labels on a video game using the same procedure (including an easily accessible online filing system) by which complaints are now accepted concerning other forms of unfair, deceptive, or fraudulent advertising.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1888)
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13789-13791)
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to redesignate the Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge in the State of Virginia as the "Elizabeth Hartwell Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge".

Bill: 109-s-2127
Sponsor: Sen. Allen, George [R-VA]
Introduced: 2005-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional tributes
Names
Virginia
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: 
Redesignates the Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia as the Elizabeth Hartwell Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge.

action_date: 2006-05-25
text: 

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

 
Redesignates the Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia as the Elizabeth Hartwell Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 450.
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Inhofe without amendment. With written report No. 109-258.
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Inhofe without amendment. With written report No. 109-258.
action_date: 2006-05-23
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
American Falls Reservoir District Number 2 Conveyance Act

Bill: 109-s-2129
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2005-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Concentration camps
Economics and Public Finance
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Idaho
Infrastructure
Japanese Americans
Land transfers
National monuments
Reservoirs
Water Resources Development
Water districts
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: 
American Falls Reservoir District Number 2 Conveyance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to convey all right, title, and interest in specified land to the: (1) American Falls Reservoir District No. 2 (District) located in Jerome, Lincoln, and Gooding Counties, Idaho; (2) city of Gooding; and (3) Idaho Department of Fish and Game. Requires the District to pay fair market value for the land. 
 
Relieves the United States of liability for damages of any kind relating to the land, unless they result from injury caused by negligence of the United States.
 
Requires the Director of the National Park Service to manage specified land as part of the Minidoka Internment National Monument.
 
Revokes the Department of Interior's previous orders that withdrew specified land from the Gooding Division of the Minidoka project and requires the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to manage the land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-677.
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13794)
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13793-13794)
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to clarify the legal standard needed to use cellular telephones as tracking devices.

Bill: 109-s-2130
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2005-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Criminal investigation
Electronic surveillance
Science, Technology, Communications
Searches and seizures
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: 
Amends federal criminal code provisions regarding: (1) the interception of wire, electronic, and oral communications to include within the definition of &quot;contents&quot; of any such communication contemporaneous, real-time, or prospective information regarding the physical location of a cellular telephone; and (2) search and seizure provisions pertaining to the use of mobile tracking devices to include within the definition of &quot;tracking device&quot; a cellular telephone for which the government seeks contemporaneous, real-time, or prospective information regarding its location.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Contracts for Growers Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2131
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2005-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Commerce
Commercial arbitration
Contracts
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Livestock
Poultry

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Fair Contracts for Growers Act of 2005 - Allows the use of arbitration to resolve a controversy as provided for under a livestock or poultry contract only if, after the controversy arises, both parties consent. Directs the arbitrator to provide to the parties to the contract a written explanation of the factual and legal basis for an award.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13797)
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13794-13797)
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to include Idaho and Montana as affected areas for purposes of making claims under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (42 U.S.C. 2210 note) based on exposure to atmospheric nuclear testing.

Bill: 109-s-2132
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2005-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Cancer
Claims
Compensation (Law)
Government liability
Health
Idaho
Leukemia
Montana
Nuclear weapons

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: 
Amends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to include the states of Idaho and Montana among affected areas for purposes of payments to individuals with certain medical conditions who were exposed to fallout emitted during the U.S. government's atmospheric nuclear tests


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13798)
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13797)
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Disaster Relief Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2133
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2005-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Congressional oversight
Disaster relief and insurance
Emergency planning and evacuation
Government trust funds
Military civil functions
Natural disasters

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: 
Disaster Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to include a foreseeable catastrophic event as a major disaster for which the President may provide federal assistance.
 
Revises requirements with respect to or provides for: (1) extension of the predisaster hazard mitigation program; (2) coordinating officers; (3) recovery of federal assistance from persons liable, through gross negligence, for causing a condition for such such assistance is provided; (4) utilization of Department of Defense resources; (5) hazard mitigation; (6) congressional notification; (7) federal assistance to individuals and households; (8) emergency public transportation, including cases of emergency evacuation; and (9) evacuees.
 
Establishes in the Treasury a Disaster Relief Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13798-13800)
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13798)
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Manufacturing Technology Competitiveness Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2134
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2005-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Antitrust law
Auditing
Authorization
Black colleges
Building materials
Chemical engineering
Computers
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Economic research
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electrical engineering
Electronics
Emergency Management
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Finance and Financial Sector
Fires
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Graduate education
High technology
Higher education
Industrial engineering
Industrial production
Industrial research
Intellectual property
International competitiveness
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Manufacturing industries
Materials
Mathematics
Minorities
Minority education
Nanotechnology
Nuclear research
Physics
Public-private partnerships
Research grants
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Small business
Standards
Technical education
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: 
Manufacturing Technology Competitiveness Act of 2005 - Amends the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to establish a manufacturing research pilot grants program to make awards to partnerships consisting of at least one industry and one nonindustry partner to foster cost-shared collaborations among firms, educational and research institutions, state agencies, and nonprofit organizations in the development of innovative, multidisciplinary manufacturing technologies.
 
Requires the Director to establish: (1) a manufacturing fellowship program for studies and research activities relating to manufacturing sciences; and (2) a program of competitive grants to manufacturing centers to develop projects to solve new or emerging manufacturing problems.
 
Authorizes appropriations for: (1) manufacturing support programs; (2) the collaborative manufacturing research pilot grants program; (3) technical workforce education and development; (4) scientific and technical research and services; (5) the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Program; and (6) the advanced technology program.
 
Requires the Director to carry out a Standards Education program to award grants to institutions of higher education to develop curricula on the role of standards in the fields of engineering, business, science, and economics.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13800-13802)
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13800)
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to direct the Secretary of Transportation to report to Congress concerning proposed changes to long-standing policies that prohibit foreign interests from exercising actual control over the economic, competitive, safety, and security decisions of United States airlines, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-2135
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2005-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Access to airports
Administrative procedure
Air routes
Aircraft construction
Airline employees
Airlines
American investments
Armed Forces and National Security
Aviation agreements
Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Transportation
Employee rights
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Foreign investments
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
International Affairs
International competitiveness
Labor and Employment
Law
Reciprocity
Regulatory impact statements
Stockholders
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of Transportation from issuing any final rule that would change the Department of Transportation's (DOT) interpretation of what constitutes &quot;actual control&quot; of an airline with respect to requirements prohibiting foreign interests from exercising actual control over all airline operations. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on the impact of DOT's proposed change of allowing foreign interests to control economic and competitive decisions while requiring U.S. citizens to control decisions concerning commitments to the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, transportation security, safety, and organizational documents. (Under current law, only an airline that qualifies as &quot;a citizen of the United States&quot; may provide service between U.S. cities or on international routes obtained by the United States through international agreements. Defines &quot;a citizen of the United States&quot; as an individual who is a citizen of the United States, a partnership each of whose partners is an individual who is a citizen of the United States, or a corporation or association in which at least 75% of the voting interest is owned or controlled by persons that are citizens of the United States).
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
William H. Rehnquist Center Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2136
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2005-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Administration of justice
Arizona
Commemorations
Constitutional law
Democracy
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Legal education
Names
Research centers
Separation of powers
Supreme Court justices

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: 
William H. Rehnquist Center Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants for the establishment of the William H. Rehnquist Center on Constitutional Structures and Judicial Independence at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
All Kids Health Insurance Coverage Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2137
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Coinsurance
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare
State laws
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Taxation
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: 
All Kids Health Insurance Coverage Act of 2005 - Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to make all uninsured children eligible for SCHIP, regardless of their access to high-cost coverage. 
 
Provides for an increase in federal financial participation under SCHIP and Medicaid (SSA title XIX) for states with simplified enrollment and renewal procedures for children.
 
Places a limitation on payments to states that have an enrollment cap but have not exhausted their available state allotments. 
 
Provides for an additional enhancement to the Federal Medical Asssistance Percentage (FMAP) to promote expansion of coverage to all uninsured children under Medicaid and SCHIP. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the scheduled phaseout of the personal exemption and itemized deductions for taxpayers whose adjusted gross income exceeds a certain threshold.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13802-13804)
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate