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Lyme and Tick-borne Disease Prevention, Education, and Research Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3427
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Bacterial diseases
Communication in medicine
Communication in science
Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Education
Epidemiology
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health education
Health surveys
Higher education
Lyme disease
Medical education
Medical laboratories
Medical research
Medical tests
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Lyme and Tick-borne Disease Prevention, Education, and Research Act of 2005 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the Tick-Borne Diseases Advisory Committee. Requires the Committee to advise the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Health regarding how officials can: (1) ensure interagency coordination and communication and minimize overlap regarding efforts to address tick-borne diseases; (2) identify opportunities to coordinate efforts with other federal agencies and private organizations addressing such diseases; (3) ensure interagency coordination and communication with constituency groups; (4) ensure that a broad spectrum of scientific viewpoints is represented in public heath policy decisions and that information disseminated to the public and physicians is balanced; and (5) advise relevant federal agencies on priorities related to Lyme and tick-borne diseases.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the appropriate federal officials, to provide for the coordination of all federal programs and activities related to Lyme and other tick-borne diseases, including: (1) developing sensitive and accurate diagnostic tools and tests, (2) improving the efficient utilization of diagnostic testing currently available; (3) accurately determining the prevalence of such diseases; (4) evaluating the feasibility of creating a national uniform reporting system; (5) providing and promoting access to a clearinghouse of information on such diseases; (6) increasing public education related to such diseases; (7) creating a physician education program; (8) establishing epidemiological research objectives to determine the long term course of illness for Lyme disease; and (9) determining the effectiveness of different treatment modalities by establishing treatment outcome objectives


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
OTC Medicine Tax Fairness Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3428
Sponsor: Rep. Hart, Melissa A. [R-PA-4]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Costs
Drugs
Health
Income tax
Medical economics
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
The OTC Medicine Tax Fairness Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the provision limiting the tax deduction for medicine and drugs to prescribed drugs and insulin (thus allowing a tax deduction for over-the-counter medications).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to establish a participating debenture program.

Bill: 109-hr-3429
Sponsor: Rep. Manzullo, Donald A. [R-IL-16]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Bonds
Collection of accounts
Corporate debt
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Interest
Interest rates
Investments
Loan defaults
Profit
Securities
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to authorize the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to guarantee the payment of the redemption price and interest on a participating debenture issued by a small business investment company (SBIC). Prohibits the Administrator from guaranteeing such a debenture if the aggregate unpaid principal balance of the participating debentures would exceed 200% of the leverageable capital of the SBIC. Requires participating debentures to be redeemed within ten years after issuance. Outlines requirements of SBIC participants, including after default on debenture payment.
 
Allows an SBIC which has no unpaid interest and no past due principal outstanding on any issued participating debenture the right of special distributions to private investors without a corresponding distribution to the SBA, under specified conditions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
To ensure by law the ability of the military service academies to include the offering of a voluntary, nondenominational prayer as an element of their activities.

Bill: 109-hr-3430
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Education
Higher education
Military education
Religion
Religion in the public schools
Service academies

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Authorizes the superintendent of a military service academy to have in effect a policy of offering a voluntary, nondenominational prayer at an authorized academy activity, subject to such limitations as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to limit casino expansion.

Bill: 109-hr-3431
Sponsor: Rep. Dent, Charles W. [R-PA-15]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Gambling
Government Operations and Politics
Indian lands
Minorities
Sports and Recreation
State government-Indian relations
State legislatures

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Limitation of Tribal Gambling to Existing Tribal Lands Act of 2005 - Amends the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to limit the Indian land eligible for gaming.
 
Revises the prohibition against gaming on lands acquired by the Secretary of the Interior in trust for the benefit of an Indian tribe after October 17, 1988, by repealing the exception to such prohibition for lands taken into trust as part of: (1) a settlement of a land claim; (2) the initial reservation of an Indian tribe acknowledged by the Secretary under the Federal acknowledgment process; or (3) the restoration of lands for an Indian tribe that is restored to Federal recognition.
 
Requires joint approval by the legislature of a state as well as by its Governor of gaming on other lands otherwise excepted from the prohibition when the Secretary determines that a gaming establishment on newly acquired lands would be in the best interest of the Indian tribe and its members, and would not be detrimental to the surrounding community.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Domestic Consumer Safety Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3432
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Consumer protection
Crime and Law Enforcement
Employee selection
Federal Trade Commission
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Identification of criminals
Independent regulatory commissions
Labor and Employment
Law
Sales personnel
Service industries

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Domestic Consumer Safety Act of 2005 - Directs the Federal Trade Commission to promulgate rules to assure that businesses in commerce that send employees into people's homes perform adequate and appropriate background checks on those employees.
 
Subjects violators of such rule to a maximum civil penalty of $1 million.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Parent-Child Privilege Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3433
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Confidential communications
Evidence (Law)
Families
Guardian and ward
Minors
Parent and child
Privileges and immunities
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Parent-Child Privilege Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Rules of Evidence to provide that, in a civil or criminal proceeding, a parent shall not be compelled to testify against his or her child, and a child shall not be compelled to testify against his or her parent, unless the parent or child who is the witness voluntarily and knowingly waives the privilege to refrain from giving such adverse testimony.
 
Provides that a parent shall not be compelled to divulge any confidential communication with his or her child during the course of their parent-child relationship, and a child shall not be compelled to divulge any confidential communication with his or her parent during the course of such relationship, unless both the child and the parent or parents who are privy to the confidential communication voluntarily and knowingly waive the privilege against the disclosure of the communication.
Sets forth exceptions to the privilege, such as in civil actions by the child against the parent, or by the parent against the child, or in any action in which the custody, abuse, or neglect of the child, or the termination of parental rights with respect to the child, is at issue.
Authorizes the court to appoint a guardian, attorney, or other legal representative to represent the child's interests with respect to the privilege when a child who appears to be the subject of the privilege is below the age of majority at the time of the proceeding.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish a presumption of service-connection for certain veterans with Hepatitis C, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-3434
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Blood
Blood transfusions
Disabled
Health
Hepatitis
Kidney diseases
Liver diseases
Medical personnel
Medical supplies
Medical tests
Military medicine
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Presumes to be service-connected, and therefore compensable through veterans' disability compensation, hepatitis C becoming manifest to a degree of ten percent or more after active-duty military service with respect to veterans who, during a period of such service: (1) received a transfusion of blood or blood products before December 31, 1992; (2) were exposed to blood on or through the skin or a mucous membrane; (3) underwent hemodyalisis; (4) experienced a needle-stick accident or medical event involving a needle, not due to the veteran's willful misconduct; (5) were diagnosed with or experienced unexplained liver disease or dysfunction; or (6) served in a health-care position or specialty under circumstances to be prescribed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Savings for Seniors Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3435
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Annuities
Budget surpluses
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Investment of public funds
Investments
Labor and Employment
Legislation
Mutual funds
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security finance

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Savings for Seniors Act of 2005 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to establish in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund a Social Security Surplus Protection Account to hold the Social Security surplus.
 
Denies the availability of the balance in the Account for investment by the Managing Trustee.
 
Establishes in the executive branch of Government a Social Security Investment Commission to study and report to the President and Congress on the most effective vehicles for investment of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, other than investment in the form of U.S. obligations resulting in the transfer of Trust Fund assets to the general fund of the Treasury.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Second Amendment Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3436
Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-7]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Ammunition
Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Arms sales
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Firearms
Firearms control
Foreign Trade and International Finance
International agencies
Taxation
United Nations
United Nations finances

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Second Amendment Protection Act of 2005 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should not provide financial support to international entities that abridge the constitutionally protected rights of law-abiding U.S. citizens to keep and bear arms. 
 
Prohibits U.S. funding to the United Nations for a fiscal year unless the President certifies to Congress that the United Nations has not taken action to restrict or otherwise adversely infringe upon the rights of U.S. individuals to possess a firearm or ammunition, including the imposition of a tax that will interfere with the right to own a firearm or ammunition. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Teacher Training Expansion Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3438
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee training
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Nonprofit organizations
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Teacher Training Expansion Act of 2005 - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to authorize the Secretary of Education to give preference to certain entities in selecting recipients for specified IDEA grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements for technical assistance, model demonstration projects, information dissemination, and implementing activities supported by scientifically based research. 

Allows such preference to be given to institutions of higher education (IHEs) that are: (1) educating regular education personnel to meet the needs of children with disabilities in integrated settings; (2) educating special education personnel to work in collaboration with regular educators in integrated settings; or (3) successfully recruiting and preparing individuals with disabilities and individuals from groups that are underrepresented in the profession for which the IHE is preparing individuals.

Allows such preference also to be given to local educational agencies, other public agencies, and private nonprofit organizations that provide training to regular education personnel to: (1) meet the needs of children with disabilities in integrated settings; or (2) work in collaboration with special education personnel in integrated settings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1621)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Expecting Parents Relief Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3441
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Families
Fetus
Income tax
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Expecting Parents Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the child tax credit for a child born within nine months after the close of the taxable year and to a child who is stillborn or who dies in the mother's womb
 
during the taxable year, whose death was not the result of a medical procedure, the ingestion of a drug, or other action intended by the child's mother to result in the abortion of the child.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Cures Can Be Found Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3444
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Blood banks
Commerce
Cytology
Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Genetic research
Health
Income tax
Medical research
Research and development tax credit
Science, Technology, Communications
Storage
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Cures Can Be Found Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax credits for donations: (1) to stem cell research or storage facilities; (2) of umbilical cord blood. Allows credits only for donations to facilities that do not engage in research on stem cells derived from human embryos.
 
Allows a business tax credit for stem cell research and storage expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1458-1459)
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1617)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
Schools Safely Acquiring Faculty Excellence Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3445
Sponsor: Rep. Porter, Jon C. [R-NV-3]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Confidential communications
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee selection
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Identification of criminals
Labor and Employment
Law
Local officials
Misconduct in office
School personnel
School security
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
State officials
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Schools Safely Acquiring Faculty Excellence Act of 2005 - Directs the Attorney General, upon request of the chief executive officer of a state, to ensure that appropriate officers of state and local educational agencies have the authority for &quot;read only&quot; online access to the national crime information databases to carry out criminal history records checks. Permits: (1) an officer to use such authority only in furtherance of the purposes of the agency and only for an individual under consideration for employment in a position in which the individual would work with or around children; and (2) an individual having information derived as a result of such a check to release that information only to an appropriate officer of such an agency or to another person authorized by law to receive that information.
 
Sets criminal penalties for exceeding the authority in, or releasing information in violation of, this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
National Historic Preservation Act Amendments Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3446
Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Accounting
Authorization
Commemorations
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial services
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Government trust funds
Governors
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Personnel management

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
National Historic Preservation Act Amendments of 2005 - Amends the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) to: (1) continue providing for the coverage of funds into the Historic Preservation Fund through FY2011 pursuant to such Act; (2) modify membership and quorum requirements for the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; (2) allow agencies or private entities, other than the Department of the Interior, to provide financial and administrative services to the Council by agreement; (3) authorize the Council to enter into cooperative agreements with any Federal agency that administers an NHPA grant or assistance program to improve program administration; and (4) authorize the Council to evaluate the effectiveness of such programs and make recommendations for improvement to agency heads, the President, and Congress. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1613)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House