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Government Pension Offset Reform Act

Bill: 109-s-1799
Sponsor: Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2005-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Civil service retirement
Cost of living adjustments
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Local employees
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security beneficiaries
State employees
Survivors' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Government Pension Offset Reform Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to modify the formula for determining the amount of reduced monthly OASDI benefits payable to a spouse, surviving spouse, or parent receiving monthly payments from a federal or state pension plan. Declares that such benefit reductions shall be equal to the amount by which two-thirds of the total amount of the combined monthly benefit (before reduction) and monthly pension exceeds $1,200, adjusted for inflation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10748)
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10748)
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate
New Markets Tax Credit Reauthorization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1800
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2005-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Community development
Cost of living adjustments
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Infrastructure
Investments
Tax credits
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: 
New Markets Tax Credit Reauthorization Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the new markets tax credit limitation amount of $3.5 million through calendar year 2012 and to adjust such amount for inflation for taxable years beginning after 2008. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10749)
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10748-10749)
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Partnership to End Homelessness Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1801
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2005-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to housing
Government Operations and Politics
Homeless
Housing for the disabled
Interagency Council on Homelessness
Performance measurement
Residential rehabilitation
Social Welfare
Strategic planning

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: 
Community Partnership to End Homelessness Act of 2005 - Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (the Act) to state as the mission of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness to develop and coordinate the implementation of a national strategy to prevent and end homelessness while maximizing federal government contributions toward such end. Adds to the membership of such Council the Commissioner of Social Security, the U.S. Attorney General, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Directs the Council to develop and submit to the President and Congress a national strategic plan to end homelessness.
 
Requires a collaborative applicant (a representative community homeless assistance planning body) to be established for a geographic area to lead a collaborative planning process to design and evaluate programs, policies, and practices to prevent and end homelessness. Requires: (1) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make technical assistance available to collaborative applicants and other homelessness prevention project sponsors; (2) an annual performance report from collaborative applicants to the Secretary; and (3) secretarial monitoring of collaborative applicants.
 
Directs the Secretary to make grants to: (1) state and local governments for assistance in providing specified homelessness services and activities; and (2) collaborative applicants to carry out homeless assistance and prevention projects. Includes within the latter grants incentives to promote the creation of new permanent housing through either construction or acquisition and rehabilitation.
 
Directs the Secretary to promote: (1) permanent housing development activities for homeless individuals with disabilities, homeless families that include a disabled individual, and non-disabled homeless families; and (2) certain homelessness prevention activities.
 
Earmarks funds under the Act for renewing expiring contracts for permanent housing within the Homeless Assistance Grants Account.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-30
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation and Community Development. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-872.
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10749-10758)
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10749)
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Pension Flexibility in Natural Disasters Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1802
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2005-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alabama
Business records
Commerce
Department of Labor
Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Law
Liability (Law)
Loans
Louisiana
Mississippi
Pension funds
Texas
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: 
Pension Flexibility in Natural Disasters Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to issue waivers, suspensions, or exemptions from requirements under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) in the case of individual account pension plans, or persons or service providers involved with or dealing with such plans, that are affected by Hurricane Katrina or Rita. 

Directs the Secretaries of Labor and of the Treasury and the Executive Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to exercise authority under ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code to postpone certain deadlines, by reason of the presidentially declared disaster areas in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and elsewhere, due to the effect of Hurricane Katrina or Rita. 
 
Amends ERISA to extend to regulations issued under ERISA and plan provisions the Secretary's current authority to prescribe a one-year extension of ERISA deadlines, under such regulations or plan provisions, in the event of presidentially declared disasters or terrorist or military actions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-30
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 233.
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10759)
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10759)
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Agricultural Assistance Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1804
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2005-09-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Agricultural credit
Agricultural subsidies
Agricultural surpluses
Animals
Aquaculture
Cotton
Crop insurance
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Disasters
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Farm produce
Farm production quotas
Finance and Financial Sector
Fisheries
Fruit
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Law
Livestock
Losses
Marketing of farm produce
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Seeds
Sugar
Trees
Vegetables

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-30
text: 
Agricultural Assistance Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make payments to producers on a farm eligible for 2005 direct payments for a covered commodity if: (1) the farm is located in a disaster county; or (2) the producers on the farm have incurred qualifying 2005 crop losses due to damaging weather or related conditions.
 
Requires as a condition for such assistance that producers of: (1) a covered commodity and other insurable commodities for each of the next two crop years obtain at least federal crop catastrophic risk protection, and in the event of contract violation repay any assistance received; and (2) eligible noninsurable commodities for each of the next two crop or calendar years file the required paperwork, and pay the administrative fee by the state filing deadline, and in the event of contract violation repay any assistance received.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) make emergency financial assistance to producers (crop, timber, fisheries, and livestock producers) who have incurred losses in a disaster-designated county; (2) use Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) funds to carry out the 2002 Livestock Compensation Program for livestock producers in a disaster county, and for catfish producers; (3) transfer CCC funds for emergency surplus removal of agricultural commodities; (4) use CCC funds for assistance to fruit and vegetable producers, and for producers and first handlers of the 2005 cottonseed crop; and (5) make CCC commodity or payment assistance to certain loan-eligible first processors in a disaster-designated state to partially compensate producers and first processors for crop and other losses related to such natural disaster.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-09-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to repeal the increase in micropurchase authority for property and services for support of Hurricane Katrina relief and rescue operations.

Bill: 109-s-1805
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2005-09-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Alabama
Competitive bidding
Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Floods
Government procurement
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Louisiana
Mississippi

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-30
text: 
Amends the Second Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act to Meet Immediate Needs Arising From The Consequences of Hurricane Katrina, 2005 with respect to the authority of federal agencies (including the U.S. armed forces) to make purchases below the micropurchase threshold without securing competitive quotations.
 
Repeals the increase from $2,500 to $250,000 in the micropurchase threshold for property and services for support of Hurricane Katrina relief and rescue operations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-09-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10797-10798, S10798, S10799)
action_date: 2005-09-30
text: Introduced in Senate
West Valley Remediation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1806
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2005-09-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Energy
Environmental assessment
Federal-state relations
Freedom of information
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government paperwork
Hazardous wastes
Impact aid
Independent regulatory commissions
Land transfers
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Licenses
New York State
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nuclear facilities
Payments in lieu of taxes
Planning
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public meetings
Radioactive wastes
Science, Technology, Communications
Storage
Taxation
Technological innovations
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-30
text: 
West Valley Remediation Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to remediate the Western New York Nuclear Service Center in West Valley, New York. 
 
Requires the Secretary to decontaminate and decommission: (1) Center facilities in which certain solidified high level radioactive waste was stored; (2) facilities used in waste solidification; and (3) material and hardware used in connection with the West Valley Demonstration Project.
 
Makes the Secretary responsible for all remediation costs.
 
Instructs the Secretary to: (1) transport high level radioactive waste at the Center to a federal repository for permanent disposal; (2) safeguard and ensure safe storage of such waste; and (3) dispose of low level radioactive waste and transuranic waste located at the Center, including future radioactive waste generated as a result of remediation.
 
Directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to regulate the remediation of radioactive waste and nuclear materials at the Center.
 
Requires the Secretary to develop and submit a specified decommissioning plan for NRC approval.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) enter into a consultation agreement with New York State regarding remediation of the Center; (2) prepare an environmental impact statement for decommissioning or long-term stewardship of the Center; and (3) assume exclusive use and possession of the Center after execution of a Cooperative Agreement with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.
 
Requires the Secretary to take title to any land or facilities at the Center that have not been approved by the NRC for release for unrestricted use, and title to all radioactive and nonradioactive wastes and materials located at the Center.
 
Repeals the West Valley Demonstration Project Act upon assumption of exclusive use and possession of the Center by the Secretary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2005-09-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Recapture Excess Profits and Invest in Relief (REPAIR) Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1809
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2005-10-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alabama
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Energy
Excess profits tax
Excise tax
Floods
Government trust funds
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Income tax
Louisiana
Mississippi
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Supplemental appropriations
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-03
text: 
Recapture Excess Profits and Invest in Relief (REPAIR) Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) impose on certain oil companies, for taxable years beginning in 2005 or 2006, an excise tax on 50 percent of their windfall profit from the sale of crude oil; (2) allow a tax deduction for the payment of such windfall profit tax; and (3) establish in the Treasury the Hurricane Relief Trust Fund to which windfall tax revenues will be paid to offset the cost of supplemental spending legislation enacted to aid Hurricane Katrina and Rita victims.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-10-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Outer Continental Shelf Revenue Sharing Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1810
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, John [R-VA]
Introduced: 2005-10-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Boundaries
Coastal zone
Continental shelf
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Gas in submerged lands
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine parks and reserves
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Petroleum in submerged lands
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Revenue sharing
Submarine oil well drilling
Territorial waters

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-03
text: 
Outer Continental Shelf Revenue Sharing Act of 2005 - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) regarding the coastal impact assistance program to: (1) repeal references to leasing moratoria; (2) redefine a &quot;producing state&quot; as one that begins production on a leased tract on or after the date of enactment of this Act, regardless of whether the leased tract was on any date subject to a leasing moratorium; (3) repeal the exclusion of certain revenues from &quot;qualified Outer Continental Shelf revenues;&quot; and (4) repeal the exclusion of certain leased tracts from the statutory formula for payments to coastal political subdivisions.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to delineate the lateral boundaries between coastal states in areas of the Outer Continental Shelf under exclusive federal jurisdiction.
 
Prescribes guidelines for petitions to lease within the seaward lateral boundaries of coastal states.
 
Includes guidelines under which a state shall share in qualified Outer Continental Shelf revenues as of the date production begins under this Act.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to issue implementing regulations, including procedures for entering into gas-only leases. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10825-10826)
action_date: 2005-10-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10824-10825)
action_date: 2005-10-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Arthur V. Watkins Dam Enlargement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1811
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2005-10-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Construction costs
Dams
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Governmental investigations
Infrastructure
Utah
Water storage
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-03
text: 
Arthur V. Watkins Dam Enlargement Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to conduct a feasibility study (including an environmental evaluation and a cost allocation) on raising the height of the Arthur V. Watkins Dam for the development of additional storage to meet water supply needs within the Weber Basin Project area and the Wasatch Front, Utah.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-781.
action_date: 2005-10-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-10-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10826)
action_date: 2005-10-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Juab County Surface and Ground Water Study and Development Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1812
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2005-10-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Central Valley Reclamation Project (California)
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Groundwater
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Utah
Water use

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-03
text: 
Juab County Surface and Ground Water Study and Development Act of 2005 - Amends the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992 to include Juab County among those Utah counties for which Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project funds may be provided for a Utah Division of Water Resources feasibility study and development of systems to allow ground water recharge, management, and the conjunctive use of surface water resources with ground water resources. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-677.
action_date: 2005-10-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-10-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10826)
action_date: 2005-10-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend titles 10 and 38 of the United States Code, to modify the circumstances under which a person who has committed a capital offense is denied certain burial-related benefits and funeral honors.

Bill: 109-s-1813
Sponsor: Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2005-10-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Capital punishment
Cemeteries and funerals
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Defense
Department of Veterans Affairs
Ex-offenders
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Life imprisonment
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-03
text: 
Prohibits the interment or memorialization in a national cemetery of, or the performance of military funeral honors for, any person convicted of a federal or state capital crime for which a life sentence or the death penalty may be imposed. (Currently, such prohibition extends only to those so convicted who have been sentenced to death or life imprisonment without parole.)
 
Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs to prescribe regulations to ensure that a person is not interred in a national cemetery or provided funeral honors unless a good faith effort has been made to determine whether such person is ineligible for such interment or honors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10827)
action_date: 2005-10-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10826-10827)
action_date: 2005-10-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Servicemembers Home Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1814
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2005-10-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Damages
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Foreclosure
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Law
Legal fees
Liability (Law)
Military dependents
Military personnel
Mortgages
Punitive damages
Restrictive trade practices

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-03
text: 
Servicemembers Home Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (affording certain financial rights and protections to servicemembers and their families while the servicemembers are serving in the Armed Forces) to make any person or entity who fails to comply with any requirement of such Act liable to such servicemember or dependent for actual, punitive, consequential, and other damages caused by such noncompliance. Provides for administrative enforcement of such Act through the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) or other regulatory agencies, and allows a private cause of action by the aggrieved servicemember or dependent.
 
Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to provide to each member under their jurisdiction pertinent information on the rights and protections available to servicemembers and their dependents under such Act. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to provide such information to affected adult dependents.
 
Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 to require the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide a servicemember homeowner with an explanation of servicemember and dependent mortgage and foreclosure rights under such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-10-03
text: Introduced in Senate