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To amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to clarify the tariff rate for certain mechanics' gloves.

Bill: 109-hr-1115
Sponsor: Rep. McKeon, Howard P. "Buck" [R-CA-25]
Introduced: 2005-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Automobile drivers
Automobile repair
Clothing
Sports and Recreation
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to redefine certain non-knit gloves designed for use in sports to include mechanics' gloves.
 
Defines &quot;mechanics' gloves&quot; as gloves especially designed for use by professional autoracing teams and general automotive mechanics that consist of synthetic leather palms and fingers, fourchettes of either synthetic leather, nylon, or elastomeric yarn, backs consisting of one layer of knitted elastomeric fabric or three layers with the outer layer of such fabric, the center layer of foam, and the inner layer of tricot, whether or not including a thermoplastic rubber logo or pad on the back, and elastic wrist straps with molded thermoplastic rubber hook-and-loop enclosures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 49, United States Code, relating to the assurance required of owners and operators of airports with respect to long-term leases for construction of hangars.

Bill: 109-hr-1117
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2005-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Airlines
Airports
Building construction
Buildings
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Infrastructure
Law
Leases
Relocation
Transportation engineering

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: 
Amends Federal aviation law with respect to the written assurances required for approval of an airport development project grant application. Revises the requirement that an airport owner or operator, who has come to an agreement with a person who owns an aircraft that a hangar is to be constructed at the airport for the aircraft at the aircraft owner's expense, will grant to the aircraft owner a long-term lease for the hangar. Adds a requirement that such a lease be for a term of not less than 75 years (currently, there is no minimum). Requires further that the airport owner or operator will compensate the lessee for the costs of, and associated loss of income from, relocation, replacement, or removal of the hangar (in whole or in part) during the lease term whenever such relocation, replacement, or removal is the result of a change in the airport development plan or at the airport owner's or operator's reqeust.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
Permanent Emergency Agricultural Assistance Act

Bill: 109-hr-1118
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2005-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices
Agricultural subsidies
Crop insurance
Disaster relief
Droughts
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Losses
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Storms
Water Resources Development
Weather

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: 
Permanent Emergency Agricultural Assistance Act - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture, as of the 2005 crop year, to make emergency financial assistance to farm producers in a county located in a disaster-designated area who incur qualifying crop losses for an insurable crop due to damaging weather or related condition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-16
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2005-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
Essential Air Service Preservation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1119
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, John E. [R-PA-5]
Introduced: 2005-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Access to airports
Airline passenger traffic
Airlines
Airports
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Small towns
Subsidies
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: 
Essential Air Service Preservation Act of 2005 - Amends Federal transportation law to repeal the mandate for the Essential Air Service local participation program (a pilot program under which up to ten designated essential air service communities located near hub airports shall assume ten percent of their essential air service subsidy costs for a four-year period).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
Artists' Contribution to American Heritage Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1120
Sponsor: Rep. Ramstad, Jim [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2005-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Art
Artists
Arts, Culture, Religion
Authors and authorship
Charitable contributions
Copyright
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Intellectual property
Literature
Music
Tax deductions
Tax returns
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: 
 
 Artists' Contribution to American Heritage Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers who create literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly compositions or similar property a fair market value (determined at the time of contribution) tax deduction for contributions of such properties, the copyrights thereon, or both, to certain tax-exempt organizations, if such properties are properly appraised and are donated no sooner than 18 months after their creation. Limits the amount of such deduction based upon the donor's artistic adjusted gross income, as defined by this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
To repeal section 754 of the Tariff Act of 1930.

Bill: 109-hr-1121
Sponsor: Rep. Ramstad, Jim [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2005-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Countervailing duties
Dumping

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: 
Repeals the continued dumping and subsidy offset under the Tariff Act of 1930.
 
Requires all amounts remaining, upon the enactment of this Act, in any special account established under such Act (as in effect on the day before the enactment of this Act) to be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
Safe Intersections Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1122
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike J. [R-MI-8]
Introduced: 2005-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Electronics
Fines (Penalties)
Science, Technology, Communications
Traffic accidents and safety
Traffic signs and signals
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: 
Safe Intersections Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit the sale to, or use by, unauthorized users of traffic signal preemption transmitters (devices or mechanisms that can change a traffic signal's phase time or sequence). Sets forth both civil and criminal penalties for violations of such requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
Preserving Social Security Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1123
Sponsor: Rep. Sabo, Martin Olav [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2005-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government securities
Government trust funds
Indexing (Economic policy)
Interest rates
Investment of public funds
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security finance

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: 
Preserving Social Security Act of 2005 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act with regard to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund to revise requirements for the issuance of obligations for purchase by the Funds. Establishes an effective annual rate of interest at 4.7 percent for such obligations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Mental Health Copayment Equity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1125
Sponsor: Rep. Strickland, Ted [D-OH-6]
Introduced: 2005-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Coinsurance
Finance and Financial Sector
Medical economics
Medicare
Mental health services
Psychotherapy
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: 
Medicare Mental Health Copayment Equity Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide, by a gradual increase in the percentage of expenses considered incurred expenses, for a gradual reduction (from 50% to the standard 20%) by 2011 of copayment rates for outpatient psychiatric services under the Medicare program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-03-03
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: 2005-03-03
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: 2005-03-03
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: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
Save Our Waters From Sewage Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1126
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2005-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Data banks
Electronic government information
Environmental Protection Agency
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Internet
Law
Licenses
Science, Technology, Communications
Sewage disposal
Sewage treatment
Waste disposal in rivers, lakes, etc.
Waste water treatment
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: 
Save Our Waters From Sewage Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to prohibit publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) from intentionally diverting waste streams to bypass any portion of the treatment facility unless: (1) the bypass is unavoidable to prevent loss of life, personal injury, or severe property damage; (2) there is no feasible alternative; and (3) the treatment works provides notice of the bypass in accordance with this Act; or (4) the bypass does not cause effluent limitations to be exceeded and is for essential maintenance.
 
Requires POTWs to provide the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (or the State if the State has an approved permit program) with: (1) prior notice of an anticipated bypass; and (2) notice of an unanticipated bypass within 24 hours of becoming aware of such bypass as well as follow-up notice.
 
Directs the Administrator to establish procedures to ensure that permits issued to POTWs under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System include requirements to implement this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
Renewable Energy Production Incentive Reform and Reauthorization Act

Bill: 109-hr-1127
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2005-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Alternative energy sources
Animals
Authorization
Biomass energy
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Department of Energy
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power production
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal advisory bodies
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Landfills
Livestock
Methane
Science, Technology, Communications
Solar energy
Subsidies
Sunset legislation
Technological innovations
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: 
Renewable Energy Production Incentive Reform and Reauthorization Act - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to revise requirements for the program of renewable energy production incentive payments. Requires payment to the owner or operator of qualified renewable energy facilities by: (1) the Secretary of Energy for electric energy generated and sold from solar, wind, or geothermal energy; (2) the Secretary of Agriculture for electric energy generated and sold from biomass (unless the electric energy is generated from heat derived from landfill gases); and (3) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for electric energy generated and sold from heat derived from landfill gases.
 
Prohibits such officials from establishing criteria or procedures that have the effect of assigning to an eligible, qualified renewable energy facility a higher or lower priority for eligibility or allocation of payments on the basis of the energy source used at such facility.
 
Identifies the eligibility window for such payments as occurring before October 1, 2016.
 
Increases the per kilowatt hour incentive payment.
 
Extends the program through September 30, 2026.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit for carbon dioxide captured from anthropogenic industrial sources and used as a tertiary injectant in enhanced oil and natural gas recovery.

Bill: 109-hr-1128
Sponsor: Rep. Thornberry, Mac [R-TX-13]
Introduced: 2005-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air pollution control
Carbon dioxide
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Commerce
Compressed natural gas
Energy
Environmental Protection
Gas pipelines
Income tax
Industrial pollution
Secondary recovery of gas
Secondary recovery of oil
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business tax credit for amounts of qualified carbon dioxide captured in the United States from anthropogenic industrial sources (e.g., an ethanol plant, fertilizer plant, or chemical plant) and used as a tertiary injectant in enhanced oil and natural gas recovery. Sets the credit amount at 75 cents (adjusted for inflation) per 1,000 standard cubic feet of the carbon dioxide captured.
 
Defines &quot;qualified carbon dioxide&quot; as carbon dioxide captured from an anthropogenic source that: (1) would otherwise be released into the atmosphere as industrial emission of greenhouse gas; (2) is measurable at the source of capture; (3) is compressed, treated, and transported by pipeline; (4) is sold as a tertiary injectant in qualified enhanced oil and natural gas recovery; and (5) is permanently sequestered in geological formations as a result of the oil and natural gas recovery process. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1131
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Curt [R-PA-7]
Introduced: 2005-03-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Emergency Management
Equipment and supplies
Fire prevention
Income tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to classify automatic fire sprinkler systems as five-year depreciable property. 
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Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Introduced in House
AMS Act

Bill: 109-hr-1135
Sponsor: Rep. Sherwood, Don [R-PA-10]
Introduced: 2005-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Biotechnology
Florida
Marketing of farm produce
Marketing orders
Science, Technology, Communications
Tomatoes

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: 
Agriculture Marketing Success Act of 2005 or the AMS Act - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to exempt certain tomato varieties produced in Florida under an identity preservation and biotechnology verification program from agricultural marketing order requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Introduced in House
PLEA Act

Bill: 109-hr-1136
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2005-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Ammunition
Department of Justice
Equipment and supplies
Fines (Penalties)
Firearms
Firearms control
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Law enforcement officers
Police
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: 
Protect Law Enforcement Armor Act or PLEA Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to expand the definition of &quot;armor piercing ammunition&quot; to include a projectile that: (1) may be used in a handgun; and (2) the Attorney General determines to be capable of penetrating body armor. 
 
Directs the Attorney General to promulgate standards for the uniform testing of projectiles against Body Armor Exemplar (i.e., body armor that the Attorney General determines meets minimum standards for the protection of law enforcement officers), taking into account variations in performance related to the type of handgun used, the length of the barrel, the amount and kind of powder used to propel the projectile, and the projectile's design.
 
Prohibits the manufacture, sale, possession, or transfer of the Fabrique Nationale Herstall Five-SeveN Pistol, 5.7 x 28mm SS190 and SS192 cartridges, or any other handgun that uses armor piercing ammunition, except: (1) where manufactured and sold exclusively to U.S. military, law enforcement, or intelligence agencies; and (2) by a licensed manufacturer or contractor for the purpose of examining and testing to determine whether such prohibition applies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Introduced in House
Responding Equitably, Swiftly, Proportionally, and On-time to Natural Disasters Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1137
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2005-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Auditing
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster relief
Disasters
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Environmental Protection
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federal aid to Indians
Federal officials
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Law
Local officials
Minorities
Municipal services
Native Americans
Public-private partnerships
Quality of life
Refuse and refuse disposal
State officials

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: 
Responding Equitably, Swiftly, Proportionally, and On-time to Natural Disasters Act of 2005 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to include among those methods by which Congress intends to provide Federal disaster assistance: (1) ensuring that assistance is adequate and allows individuals to maintain their pre-disaster quality of life; and (2) ensuring that minority and low-income individuals and households and those in underserved communities receive equitable assistance.
 
Makes State and local governments eligible for Federal disaster assistance for debris removal on private lands, retroactive to August 11, 2004, if: (1) such governments provide specified services to such lands; or (2) failure to remove the debris places the lives, health, and safety of those living in the community at immediate risk.
 
Makes individuals and households eligible to apply for Federal disaster assistance for a period of 18 months beginning on the date of declaration of a major disaster. Increases the amount of individual and household assistance.
 
Directs the Federal Coordinating Officer appointed by the President in response to a major disaster to designate a local coordinating officer for each affected county.
 
Requires: (1) Federal financial assistance for disaster relief and emergency assistance to be allocated, distributed, or approved only by employees of the Department of Homeland Security or other appropriate Federal agencies; and (2) preparation of a report (for submission to specified congressional committees) on the role and effectiveness of using private entities to deliver disaster assistance.
 
Establishes a disaster expert grant program, to be fully funded by the Federal Government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Introduced in House