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A bill to require the Commandant of the Coast Guard to convey the Coast Guard Cutter MACKINAW, upon its scheduled decommissioning, to the City and County of Cheboygan, Michigan, to use for purposes of a museum.

Bill: 109-s-1212
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Asbestos
Claims
Coast guard
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Michigan
Museums
Patrol ships
Polychlorinated biphenyls
Surplus government property

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Directs the Commandant of the Coast Guard, upon the decommissioning of the Coast Guard Cutter MACKINAW, to convey all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to such vessel to the City and County of Cheboygan, Michigan (recipient), if the recipient meets specified conditions, including that it: (1) use the vessel for purposes of a museum; and (2) hold the government harmless for claims arising from exposure to asbestos and other hazardous materials after the conveyance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6314)
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6314)
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate
First-Time Homebuyers' Tax Credit Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1213
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Income tax
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: First-Time Homebuyers' Tax Credit Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow an income-based, one-time tax credit for first-time homebuyers of ten percent of a principal residence's purchase price ($3,000 maximum credit, $6,000 maximum credit for joint filers); (2) allow transfer of such credit (within 30 days of transfer application) as payment towards related downpayment and closing costs; and (3) apply the credit to purchases made on or after January 1, 2005, and before January 1, 2010, and to binding contracts made between such dates, and in which the residence is occupied before July 1, 2011.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6315-6316)
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6314-6315)
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1214
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Coinsurance
Commerce
Contraceptives
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Labor and Employment
Physicians
Rebates
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Equity in Prescription Insurance and Contraceptive Coverage Act of 2005 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Public Health Service Act to prohibit a group health plan, and a health insurance issuer providing group coverage, from: (1) excluding or restricting benefits for prescription contraceptive drugs, devices, and outpatient services if the plan provides benefits for other outpatient prescription drugs, devices, or outpatient services; (2) denying eligibility based on use or potential use of such items or services; (3) providing monetary payments or rebates to a covered individual to encourage acceptance of less than the minimum protections available; (4) penalizing, reducing, or limiting a professional's reimbursement because the professional prescribed such drugs or devices or provided such services; or (5) providing incentives to a professional to induce the professional to withhold such drugs, devices, or services. Applies such prohibitions to coverage offered in the individual market. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6316-6317)
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Financial Privacy Breach Notification Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1216
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Bank records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Credit cards
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Debit cards
Driver licenses
Federal Trade Commission
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Identity theft
Independent regulatory commissions
Injunctions
Law
Right of privacy
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Financial Privacy Breach Notification Act of 2005 - Amends the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to require a financial institution to promptly notify the following entities whenever a breach of personal information has occurred at such institution: (1) each customer affected by such breach; (2) certain consumer reporting agencies; and (3) appropriate law enforcement agencies. 
 
Requires any person that maintains personal information for or on behalf of a financial institution to promptly notify the institution of any case in which such customer information has been breached. Prescribes notification procedures.
 
Authorizes a customer injured by a violation of this Act to institute a civil action to recover damages.
 
Authorizes the Federal Trade Commission to enforce compliance with this Act, including the assessment of fines for violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6319-6320)
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6318-6319)
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Ending the Medicare Disability Waiting Period Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1217
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Critically ill
Disabled
Hospital care
Labor and Employment
Medical research
Medicare
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Railroad retirement plans
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Ending the Medicare Disability Waiting Period Act of 2005 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) phase out the waiting period for disabled individuals to become eligible for Medicare benefits under SSA title XVIII (Medicare); and (2) eliminate the waiting period for individuals with life-threatening conditions to become eligible for such benefits. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to request the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to study the range of disability conditions that can be delayed or prevented if individuals receive access to health care services and coverage before a condition reaches disability levels.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6322)
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6320-6321)
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Teacher Excellence for All Children Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1218
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Authorization
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Income tax
Language and languages
Mathematics
Reading
Scholarships
School administration
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Student loan funds
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Taxation
Teacher education
Teacher salaries
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers
Teaching
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Teacher Excellence for All Children Act of 2005 - Revises and establishes programs relating to recruitment, preparation, distribution, and retention of public elementary and secondary school teachers and principals.
 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to establish: (1) teacher education assistance for college and higher education (TEACH ) grants for undergraduate and graduate students who agree to serve as teachers in high-need schools or fields; and (2) grants to recruit teachers with mathematics, science, or language majors. 
 
Extends the authorization of appropriations for HEA teacher quality enhancement grants for states and partnerships.
 
Revises HEA student loan forgiveness requirements to: (1) extend permanently additional amounts for teachers in mathematics, science, or special education provided by the Taxpayer-Teacher Protection Act of 2004; (2) increase other amounts, making reading specialists eligible for such forgiveness; and (3) apply forgiveness in annual increments rather than in a lump sum at end of service.
 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, to establish grant programs to improve teaching at high-need schools.
 
Requires states to provide assurances of their reasonable progress toward equitable access to teacher quality as a condition of assistance under ESEA.
 
Amends the Education Sciences Reform Act to direct the Statistics Commissioner to publish results of certain schools and staffing surveys.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exclude from gross income up to $15,000 for compensation of teachers and principals in certain high-need schools or teaching certain high-need subjects; and (2) increase to a maximum of $500 and make permanent the above-the-line deduction for certain expenses of elementary and secondary schoolteachers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6323-6331)
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6322-6323)
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Prevention and Recovery of Missing Children Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1220
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Arrest
Criminal justice information
DNA
Data banks
Driver licenses
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Ex-offenders
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Law
Limitation of actions
Missing children
Motor vehicle registration
Photography
Prisoners
Science, Technology, Communications
Sex offenders
State laws
Student records
Transportation and Public Works
Warrants (Law)

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Prevention and Recovery of Missing Children Act of 2005 - Amends the Crime Control Act of 1990 to require each State reporting on missing children to: (1) ensure that no law enforcement agency within the State establishes or maintains any policy that requires the removal of an entry from its State law enforcement system or the National Crime Information Center computer network based solely on the person's age; and (2) provide that any relevant information shall be entered within two hours of receipt (currently, immediately). 
Revises the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act to require the responsible official to obtain from a sex offender who is required to register: (1) information regarding the offender's anticipated future residence, employer's name and address, license plate number and vehicle, and student enrollment; and (2) fingerprints and a DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) sample, unless they were obtained within the previous three months. 
Sets forth requirements regarding State: (1) procedures involving offenders intending to move to another State; (2) timetables for the verification of registry information and the taking of photographs; and (3) procedures requiring offenders to obtain a driver's license or identification card from the State department of motor vehicles at the time of registration.
Requires States to: (1) designate a failure to comply with the registration and verification requirements as a felony and permit such failure to be grounds for the immediate issuance of an arrest warrant; and (2) consider a failure to comply as an ongoing offense and a failure to register each item of changed registry information as a separate offense.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6331-6332)
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Firefighters Fairness Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1221
Sponsor: Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Animals
Blood diseases
Brain diseases
Breast cancer
Cancer
Cardiovascular diseases
Colon cancer
Communicable diseases
Digestive diseases
Diphtheria
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Environmental Protection
Evidence (Law)
Families
Federal employees
Fire fighters
Health
Hepatitis
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Kidney diseases
Labor and Employment
Law
Leukemia
Liver diseases
Lung cancer
Lung diseases
Medical personnel
Paramedical personnel
Prostate cancer
Rabies
Rescue work
Skin cancer
Survivors' benefits
Tuberculosis
Women
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Federal Firefighters Fairness Act of 2005 - Provides that, with regard to an individual federally employed in fire protection activities: (1) heart disease, lung disease, and specified cancers and infectious diseases shall be presumed to be proximately caused by the individual's employment; (2) such individual's disability or death due to such a disease shall be presumed to result from personal injury sustained while in the performance of duty; and (3) such presumptions may be rebutted by a preponderance of the evidence.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-27
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce,  and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund Maintenance Act

Bill: 109-s-1222
Sponsor: Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Government trust funds
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Oil pollution
Petroleum
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund Maintenance Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the reinstatement of the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund financing rate (5-cents per barrel of oil). Suspends such financing rate in any calendar quarter if the Secretary of the Treasury estimates that the unobligated balance in the Trust Fund exceeded $3 billion in the preceding calendar quarter.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6332-6333)
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Contractor Extraterritorial Jurisdiction for Human Trafficking Offenses Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1226
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2005-06-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Americans in foreign countries
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Extraterritoriality
Families
Forced labor
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Labor and Employment
Law
Prosecution
Prostitution
Sex-oriented businesses
Slavery
Smuggling
Victims of crimes
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: 
Federal Contractor Extraterritorial Jurisdiction for Human Trafficking Offenses Act of 2005 - Amends the federal criminal code to require a federal contractor who engages, outside the United States, in conduct that would constitute a peonage, slavery, or human trafficking offense punishable by imprisonment for more than one year if it occurred in U.S. jurisdiction to be punished as provided for that offense.
 
Prohibits the commencement of a prosecution against any such contractor if a foreign government has prosecuted or is prosecuting such person for the offense, except upon specified approval. Permits an individual who is a victim of such a violation by a federal contractor to bring a civil action if a civil action would have been authorized had the conduct been engaged in within U.S. jurisdiction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6410)
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6409)
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Information Technology Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1227
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2005-06-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Budget deficits
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost control
Depreciation and amortization
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to health facilities
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Health information systems
Health insurance
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Information technology
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medical records
Medical statistics
Medical technology
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Mental care facilities
Nursing homes
Physicians
Poor children
Quality of care
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Tax deductions
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: 
Health Information Technology Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program to award grants to eligible health care entities to offset costs related to clinical health care informatics systems and services designed to improve quality in health care and patient safety, including costs for the purchase, lease, or installation of computer software and hardware.
 
Requires the Secretary to conduct studies to: (1) evaluate the use of clinical health care informatics systems and services to measure and report quality data; and (2) assess the impact of such systems and services on improving patient care, reducing costs, and increasing efficiencies.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a methodology for making adjustments in Medicare payment amounts for providers of services and suppliers who use health information technology and technology services with patient-specific applications that improve the quality and accuracy of clinical decision-making, compliance, health care delivery, and efficiency.
 
Requires the Secretary to provide for the development and adoption of national data and communication health information technology standards that promote the efficient exchange of data between varieties of provider health information technology systems.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an eligible entity to elect to expense qualified health care informatics system expenditures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6414-6417)
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6410-6413)
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Pell Grant Eligibility Clarification Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1228
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2005-06-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Fraud
Higher education
Income
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Scholarships
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: 
Federal Pell Grant Eligibility Clarification Act of 2005 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise eligibility requirements for certain Pell Grant awards by modifying the formula for determining total income to include consideration of current year circumstances for students residing in states in which an extended benefit period under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 is in effect, or would be effect if a specified circumstance applied.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Renewable Energy Incentives Act

Bill: 109-s-1229
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2005-06-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Alaska
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Cogeneration of electric power and heat
Electric power production
Energy
Environmental Protection
Farm manure
Geothermal resources
Grain
Hydroelectric power
Incineration
Income tax
Indian lands
Indigenous peoples
Irrigation
Landfills
Legumes
Methane
Minimum tax
Minorities
Municipal solid waste
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Refuse as fuel
Solar energy
Sugar
Tax credits
Trees
Water Resources Development
Wind power
Wood

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: 
Renewable Energy Incentives Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the tax credit for the production of electricity from renewable resources; (2) increase the rate of such credit; (3) extend the 10 year credit period to all qualified energy facilities eligible for the credit; (4) include incremental geothermal energy production and incremental hydropower production as qualified energy resources for purposes of the credit; (5) increase the credit rate for co-production facilities and qualified facilities located within certain Indian and Alaskan Native Indian lands; (6) permit the transfer of tax credit amounts earned by certain tax-exempt entities to taxable entities; and (7) allow the credit to offset alternative minimum taxable income.
 
Denies the tax credit for facilities which are not in compliance with applicable state and federal pollution prevention, control and permit requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6417-6419)
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 10/07/2005 S11222)
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6417)
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Introduced in Senate