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Medicaid Health Opportunity Account Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1833
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Coinsurance
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic funds transfers
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Hospital rates
Indexing (Economic policy)
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medical fees
Medical savings accounts
Preventive medicine
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
State laws
Welfare eligibility
Welfare waivers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Medicaid Health Opportunity Account Act of 2005 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a demonstration program under which states may provide alternative benefits, including health opportunity accounts, for eligible population groups in one or more geographic areas. 
 
Prohibits the Secretary from approving a state demonstration program unless it provides for transactions involving health opportunity accounts to be conducted electronically and without cash.
 
Limits contributions into a health opportunity account to those by: (1) the state under Medicaid; and (2) other persons and entities, such as charitable organizations.
 
Requires a state to specify the contribution amount that shall be deposited into a health opportunity account.
 
Allows a state to: (1) impose limitations on the maximum contributions that may be deposited into a health opportunity account in a year; and (2) limit contributions into such an account once the balance reaches a specified level. 
 
Prohibits a state from contributing annually to a health opportunity account, on behalf of an individual or family, more than $2,500 per adult and $1,000 per child.
 
Allows the use of amounts in a health opportunity account for payment of such health care expenditures as the state specifies. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Affordable Housing Preservation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1834
Sponsor: Sen. Jeffords, James M. [I-VT]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Affordable housing
Agricultural labor
Agriculture and Food
Apartment houses
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Federally-assisted loans
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Housing subsidies
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Low-income housing
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgages
Nonprofit organizations
Rent
Rental housing
Residential rehabilitation
Rural housing
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax-exempt securities

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Affordable Housing Preservation Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to make grants to states (40%) and localities (60%) for the preservation and promotion of low-income housing.
 
States that grants shall be: (1) used for housing project acquisition, rehabilitation, capital expenditures, and related development costs; or (2) to eligible entities for operational, working capital, and organizational expenses, and predevelopment activities to acquire housing that will remain affordable for low-income or very low-income families.
 
 Sets forth eligibility requirements for: (1) projects with HUD-insured mortgages; (2) projects with section 8 project based assistance; (3) projects purchased by residents; and (4) rural rental assistance projects. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 10/07/2005 S11226)
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the Secretary of Energy to purchase certain essential mineral rights and resolve natural resource damage liability claims.

Bill: 109-s-1835
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Armed Forces and National Security
Boundaries
Colorado
Commerce
Department of Energy
Department of the Interior
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Government Operations and Politics
Habitat conservation
Hazardous wastes
Land transfers
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Liability for nuclear damages
Mines and mineral resources
Mining claims
Nuclear weapons
Radioactive wastes
Restoration ecology
Sand and gravel industry
Trusts and trustees
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
States that specified funds authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Energy for the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site (Colorado) shall be available to the Secretary for the purchase of essential mineral rights at Rocky Flats.
 
Prescribes related conditions under which any natural resource damage liability claim shall be deemed to be satisfied.
 
Exempts mineral rights purchased under this Act from the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
 
Amends the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge Act of 2001 to repeal the mandate for a Memorandum of Understanding in connection with the transfer to the Secretary of the Interior of management responsibilities and jurisdiction over Rocky Flats. Repeals, also, the prohibiton against any reduction in funds available to the Secretary of Energy for cleanup and closure of Rocky Flats as a result of such transfer.
 
 
Revises the composition of the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge and excludes specified lands subject to certain essential mineral rights.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Rhode Island Fishermen's Fairness Act

Bill: 109-s-1837
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Atlantic Ocean
Fishery management
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Middle Atlantic States
Rhode Island

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
 Rhode Island Fishermen's Fairness Act - Amends the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to add Rhode Island (currently a member of the New England Fishery Management Council) to the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council. Excludes fisheries in the Atlantic Ocean seaward of Rhode Island from the Mid-Atlantic Council's authority. Increases the Council's number of voting members from 21 to 23, and from 13 to 14 the number appointed by the Secretary of Commerce.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11228)
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 10/07/2005 S11227-11228)
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize additional judgeships for the middle district and southern district of Florida.

Bill: 109-s-1839
Sponsor: Sen. Martinez, Mel [R-FL]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Congress
District courts
Florida
Government Operations and Politics
Judges
Judicial districts
Presidential appointments

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Directs the President to appoint five additional U.S. district judges for the middle district of Florida, including one temporary judge, and three additional U.S. district judges for the southern district of Florida.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Safety Net Inpatient Drug Affordability Act

Bill: 109-s-1840
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Drug industry
Drugs
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Medicaid
Prescription pricing
Public hospitals
Rebates
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Safety Net Inpatient Drug Affordability Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand the discount drug program to include any inpatient or outpatient drug purchased by qualified hospitals without a group purchasing arrangement. (Currently, such hospitals are only allowed to purchase discounted outpatient drugs.) Requires such hospitals to provide the state with a rebate on the estimated annual costs of single source, innovator multiple source, and noninnovator multiple source drugs provided to Medicaid recipients for inpatient use. Sets forth a method for calculating the amount of such rebate.
 
Allows critical access hospitals that do not obtain covered outpatient drugs through a group purchasing organization or other group purchasing arrangement to participate in the discount drug program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 10/07/2005 S11230-11231)
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Informed Choice Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1841
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drugs
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Labor and Employment
Managed care
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Retiree health benefits
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Medicare Informed Choice Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) provide for an extended period of open enrollment during all of 2006 without late enrollment penalty; (2) give Medicare beneficiaries the opportunity to make a one-time change in prescription drug plan enrollment at any point in 2006; and (3) provide protection from loss of employment-based retiree health coverage upon enrollment for Medicare prescription drug benefit, including a Medicare Advantage-Prescription Drug benefit, during 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR 10/7/2005 S11231)
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 10/07/2005 S11231)
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide assistance to rebuild communities, schools, and hospitals damaged by Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-1842
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Counseling
Disaster relief
Displaced persons
Economics and Public Finance
Educational facilities
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
English language
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Indian education
Louisiana
Mental health services
Minorities
Mississippi
Preschool education
Private schools
School administration
School buildings
School personnel
School-age child care
Social Welfare
Student activities
Student transportation
Teacher education
Teacher salaries
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants for the 2005-2006 school year to eligible entities that serve students displaced by Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita (a Gulf hurricane) who enroll in elementary or secondary, including charter, schools served by or in such entities. Makes eligible for such grants: (1) the Louisiana or Mississippi state educational agency; and (2) other states' local educational agencies, or schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, if they enroll displaced students.

Directs the Secretary to make one-time, emergency grants to state educational agencies to reimburse parents or guardians of displaced students who are attending private schools in such states for the 2005-2006 school year.

Authorizes the Secretary to make payments to state educational agencies or state agencies for higher education that serve a major disaster area related to a Gulf hurricane for: (1) restarting schools there; (2) assisting institutions of higher education there; and (3) assisting eligible private schools there.

Provides that, of the amounts made available to the Department of Homeland Security for disaster relief under Public Law 109-62, not less than $3.3 billion shall be available to the appropriate federal agency heads to carry out the programs and activities authorized by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Louisiana Katrina Recovery Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1843
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Accounting
Auditing
Commerce
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction industries
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Expedited congressional procedure
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
House rules and procedure
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Inspectors general
International Affairs
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Legislative resolutions
Louisiana
Middle East and North Africa
Presidential appointments
Senate rules and procedure
War relief
Waste in government spending

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Louisiana Katrina Recovery Act of 2005 - Establishes within the Executive Office of the President the Office of the Louisiana Katrina Recovery Administrator. 
 
Specifies the authorities and functions of the Louisiana Katrina Recovery Administrator, including to: (1) provide leadership in developing a plan for the recovery of areas in Louisiana adversely impacted by Hurricane Katrina and ensuring accountability and transparency of recovery efforts; (2) have management and oversight authority of all agencies in all federal activities and the use of federal resources relating to the recovery from Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana; (3) ensure such activities and resources are performed and used efficiently and effectively; and (4) coordinate the efforts of the federal government and the state and local governments of Louisiana in the recovery. 
 
Establishes the Louisiana Katrina Interagency Working Group. Designates the Administrator as the Chairperson of the Group. 
 
Establishes the Louisiana Katrina Advisory Board to provide advice and recommendations to the Administrator. 
 
Amends the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense and for the Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004 to re-designate the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction as the &quot;Office of the Special Inspector General for Relief and Reconstruction&quot; and includes as duties auditing and investigating Hurricane Katrina recovery activities and expenses. Requires reports.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita Fairness in Contracting Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1844
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Alabama
Competitive bidding
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Disaster relief
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Government publicity
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Louisiana
Mississippi

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita Fairness in Contracting Act of 2005 - Requires agencies, in entering into a contract to procure property or services in connection with Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita reconstruction efforts, to use specified competitive procedures.
 
Allows agencies to enter into a contract to procure property or services in connection with such reconstruction efforts using other than full and open competition only upon the written approval of the President or the President's designee. Requires congressional notification when procedures other than full and open competitive procedures are to be used.
 
Instructs agencies that enter into a contract for the procurement of property or services in connection with such reconstruction efforts through the use of other than full and open competitive procedures to publish in the Federal Register or Federal Business Opportunities and otherwise make available to the public specified information concerning the contract.
 
Permits the use of noncompetitive procedures by agencies when: (1) a contract will be performed within a six-month period; and (2) the need for the property or services is of such an unusual and compelling urgency that the government would otherwise be seriously injured.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Circuit Court of Appeals Restructuring and Modernization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1845
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Alaska
Appellate courts
Arizona
California
Congress
Government Operations and Politics
Guam
Hawaii
Idaho
Judges
Judicial reform
Judicial tenure
Montana
Nevada
Northern Mariana Islands
Oregon
Presidential appointments
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
 Circuit Court of Appeals Restructuring and Modernization Act of 2005 - Amends the federal judicial code to divide the Ninth Judicial Circuit into the Ninth Circuit (to be composed of California, Guam, Hawaii, and the Northern Mariana Islands) and the Twelfth Circuit (to be composed of Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington).
 
Requires the President to appoint five additional circuit judges for the new Ninth Circuit and two temporary judges for the former Ninth Circuit, to be stationed in California.
 
Specifies the locations where new circuits are to hold regular sessions. Locates the offices of the new Twelfth Circuit in Phoenix, Arizona.
 
Assigns active circuit judges of the former Ninth Circuit to the new circuits. Allows senior circuit judges of the former Ninth Circuit to elect assignment.
 
 Sets forth provisions governing the disposition of cases pending in the former Ninth Circuit before the effective date of this Act.
 
Authorizes the temporary assignment of circuit and district judges of the former Ninth Circuit among the new circuits. 
 
 Provides that the former Ninth Circuit shall cease to exist for administrative purposes two years after enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 109-1035.
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-190.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR 10/7/2005 S11231-11232)
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide assistance to rebuild communities, schools, and hospitals damaged by Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-1846
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster loans
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Local finance
Local taxation
Louisiana
State employees
Supplemental appropriations
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Declares that no limitation on the amount or percentage of assistance that may be provided in the form of a community disaster loan under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act shall apply to any community disaster loan to assist any local government with jurisdiction over a major disaster area relating to Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita.
 
Declares that no prohibition or limitation on reimbursement of salaries shall apply with respect to reimburswement of straight- and regular-time salaries of public personnel that provide, on or after August 29, 2005, essential public services in Louisiana on behalf of that state.
 
Authorizes FY2006 appropriations.
 
Provides that, of the amounts made available to the Department of Homeland Security for disaster relief under Public Law 109-62, not less than $1.5 billion shall be available to the appropriate federal agency heads to carry out the programs and activities authorized by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide assistance to rebuild hospitals damaged by Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-1847
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Floods
Health
Hospitals
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Louisiana
Medical centers
Supplemental appropriations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award emergency grants to Louisiana hospitals to assist in the recovery from Hurricane Katrina. Provides that certain amounts made available to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for emergency preparedness and response under the Second Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act to Meet Immediate Needs Arising From the Consequences of Hurricane Katrina, 2005 shall be available for such emergency grants and earmarks specified amounts for the Oshner Clinical Foundation in Louisiana, the East Jefferson General Hospital, and the West Jefferson Medical Center.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Gisele Goldberg Schexnider.

Bill: 109-s-1849
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Deems Gisele Goldberg Schexnider to have complied with the requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act to become a naturalized citizen of the United States, including the residency requirement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate