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Ambulatory Surgical Center Medicare Payment Modernization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4042
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Medical fees
Medicare
Social Welfare
Surgery

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Ambulatory Surgical Center Medicare Payment Modernization Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise the requirements and the formula for payments for services furnished to individuals in ambulatory surgical centers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-10-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Gasoline Assurance and Security Act

Bill: 109-hr-4043
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Armed Forces and National Security
Aviation fuels
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Diesel motor
Emergency Management
Energy shortages
Energy storage
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Law
Motor vehicle pollution control
Natural gas
Petroleum
Petroleum reserves
Petroleum storage
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Strategic materials
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Gasoline Assurance and Security Act - Instructs the Secretary of Energy to request the National Academy of Sciences to study and report to Congress on : (1) what federal action would be necessary to improve the reserve supply of gasoline in situations of severe gasoline supply interruption; (2) the configuration and feasibility of a federal strategic national reserve for gasoline, taking certain factors into account; and (3) the physical storage options available, on a scale appropriate for a national reserve for gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel, and natural gas, compared with the storage options for crude oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Rabbi Arthur Schneier Congressional Gold Medal Act

Bill: 109-hr-4045
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Clergy
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Human rights
International Affairs
Jews
Religion
Religious liberty

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Rabbi Arthur Schneier Congressional Gold Medal Act - Awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Rabbi Arthur Schneier in recognition of his pioneering role in promoting religious freedom and human rights throughout the world for close to half a century.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2071)
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide authority, in certain cases, for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide care for the newborn children of veterans who have been provided maternity care by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 109-hr-4046
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child health
Childbirth
Department of Veterans Affairs
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Hospital care
Infants
Law
Maternal health services
Medically uninsured
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Permits, for a veteran enrolled in the system of patient enrollment of the Department of Veterans Affairs who is receiving maternity care from the Department and gives birth to a child in a Department facility, or in a non-Department facility in a case in which the expenses of the care of the veteran are covered under a Department contract, furnishing care without charge to the newborn child.
 
Prohibits the maximum amount payable for such care and services from exceeding the amount payable for such care and services under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Rescind the Congressional Pay Raise Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4047
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Jeff [R-FL-1]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional leadership
Congressional salaries
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Government spending reductions
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Rescind the Congressional Pay Raise Act of 2005 - Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to eliminate automatic pay adjustments for Members of Congress. Requires the annual rate of pay for Members of Congress to be the rate payable as of December 31, 2004, until such rate is adjusted under the Federal Salary Act of 1967 or other law. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2164)
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Gulf Coast Hurricanes Student and School Relief Act

Bill: 109-hr-4048
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Adult education
Agriculture and Food
Alabama
Architecture and the disabled
Asbestos
Building construction
Child health
Commerce
Community and school
Compensatory education
Competitive bidding
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction industries
Construction workers
Cost accounting
Counseling
Curricula
Disabled
Disaster relief
Displaced persons
Economics and Public Finance
Educational statistics
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency Management
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Families
Federal aid to education
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Health
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Labor and Employment
Lead
Lead poisoning
Leases
Literacy programs
Louisiana
Maintenance and repair
Mental health services
Minimum wages
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Mississippi
Paints and varnishes
Paraprofessional school personnel
Parent-school relationships
Personnel records
Psychotherapy
Recruiting of employees
Refuse and refuse disposal
School buildings
School districts
School health programs
School lunch program
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Small business
Social Welfare
Special education
Student enrollment
Student records
Student transportation
Subcontractors
Teacher salaries
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers
Teaching materials
Texas
Transportation and Public Works
Wages
Water Resources Development
Women
Women in business
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Gulf Coast Hurricanes Student and School Relief Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to: (1) impacted local educational agencies (LEAs) serving major disaster areas because of Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita (Gulf hurricanes) for immediate aid to restart public school operations; (2) receiving LEAs serving students who have relocated as a result of one of the Gulf hurricanes, for education and pupil services for such students; (3) receiving LEAs for assistance to public schools to provide special education and related services to such relocated children with disabilities; (4) eligible entities under the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program in areas served by impacted or receiving LEAs, for activities at such centers; and (5) impacted and receiving LEAs for school facilities construction, modernization, or repair.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Early Pest Detection and Surveillance Improvement Act

Bill: 109-hr-4049
Sponsor: Rep. Pombo, Richard W. [R-CA-11]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Ecological surveys
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental monitoring
Exotic plants
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Non-native species
Pest control
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Risk
Weeds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Early Pest Detection and Surveillance Improvement Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into a cooperative agreement with any state department of agriculture for assisting early pest (plant pest) detection and surveillance efforts by such department through an array of methods, including survey, pest trapping, sampling or surveillance of domestic shipments, specimen collection, and modeling and mapping of pest populations.
 
Requires the Secretary, in determining whether to enter into such an agreement, to consider specified factors, including: (1) the potential economic risk to the state's people, plants, livestock, property, economy, and environment due to the introduction of a pest; and (2) the likelihood that the early pest detection and surveillance activity will prevent the introduction or facilitate the eradication of a pest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Cost Contract Extension and Refinement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4050
Sponsor: Rep. Ramstad, Jim [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Coinsurance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Managed care
Medical economics
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Medicare Cost Contract Extension and Refinement Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) extend the period reasonable cost reimbursement contracts under Medicare can remain in the market, and the period during which they can be modified to expand their service area; and (2) apply to extended or renewed reasonable cost contracts certain requirements under Medicare part C (Medicare Advantage).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To establish the policy of the United States on the size of the land-based intercontinental ballistic missile force.

Bill: 109-hr-4051
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Dennis R. [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congress
Congress and military policy
Intercontinental ballistic missiles
Military posture

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
States that it is the policy of the United States to maintain a land-based intercontinental ballistic missile force of 500 Minuteman III missiles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Pension Benefits Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4052
Sponsor: Rep. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Age discrimination
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Defined benefit pension plans
Department of the Treasury
Early retirement
Employee rights
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Law
Retirement age
Social Welfare
Tax administration
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Pension Benefits Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code with respect to pension benefits of employees in defined benefit plans.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to apply Code provisions regarding continued accrual of benefits beyond normal retirement age under a defined benefit plan, which prohibit certain discrimination based on age, without regard to the portion of the preamble to a specified Treasury Decision which relates to allocation of interest adjustments through normal retirement age under a cash balance plan.
 
Prohibits forced conversions of certain defined benefit plan participants to cash balance plans, and other such plans that are hybrids of defined benefit and defined contribution plans, by plan amendments which: (1) change the way the accrued benefits to participants or beneficiaries are expressed; and (2) reduce the rate of future benefit accrual of one or more participants. Requires employers, at the time such amendment takes effect, to provide employees who have attained 40 years of age or 10 years of service with certain notices and an election upon retirement to receive benefits as determined either under the plan in effect at time of retirement or under the plan in effect immediately before the plan amendment. 
Sets forth a formula to determine when a plan amendment adopted by a large (100 or more participants) defined benefit plan shall be treated as wearing away accrued benefits.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6110 East 51st Place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the "Dewey F. Bartlett Post Office".

Bill: 109-hr-4054
Sponsor: Rep. Sullivan, John [R-OK-1]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
Government Operations and Politics
Governors
Names
Oklahoma
Postal facilities
Senate

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6110 East 51st Place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the "Dewey F. Bartlett Post Office."
action_date: 2006-03-07
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 6110 East 51st Place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the "Dewey F. Bartlett Post Office." 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 413 - 1 (Roll no. 19). (text: CR H578)
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 413 - 1 (Roll no. 19).(text: CR H578)
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H598-599)
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4054.
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H578-579)
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Mr. Dent moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2006-02-01
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2006-02-01
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Fouad Yousef Hakim Mansour and Saheir Gamil Shaker Mansour.

Bill: 109-hr-4056
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan [R-CA-52]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Declares Fouad Yousef Hakim Mansour and Saheir Gamil Shaker Mansour each to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the construction contract exception to the percentage of completion method for determining income under long-term contracts.

Bill: 109-hr-4058
Sponsor: Rep. Weller, Jerry [R-IL-11]
Introduced: 2005-10-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Commerce
Construction industries
Contracts
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Tax administration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise requirements relating to the exemption for construction contracts from the percentage of completion method for determining income under long-term contracts. Extends the estimated completion time for such contracts from two to three years and increases the gross receipts eligibility limitation from $10 million to $25 million.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Introduced in House