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Universal National Service Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2723
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Armed forces reserves
Compulsory military service
Conscientious objectors
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Draft registration
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Executive Office of the President
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Law
Military discharges
Military education
Military training
National service
Physical examinations
Recruiting and enlistment
Religion
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Students
Women
Women soldiers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Universal National Service Act of 2005 - Declares that it is the obligation of every U.S. citizen, and every other person residing in the United States, between the ages of 18 and 26 to perform a 15-month period of national service, unless exempted, either as a member of an active or reserve component of the armed forces or in a civilian capacity that promotes national defense. Requires induction into national service by the President. Sets forth provisions governing: (1) induction deferments, postponements, and exemptions, including exemption of a conscientious objector from military service that includes combatant training; and (2) discharge following national service.
 
Amends the Military Selective Service Act to authorize the military registration of females. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Civilian Volunteer Service Reserve Act

Bill: 109-hr-2724
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Americans in foreign countries
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster relief
Electronic mail systems
Employee rights
Executive orders
Executive reorganization
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Government paperwork
Government travel
Health
Identification devices
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Postal service
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Telephone
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Volunteer workers
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Civilian Volunteer Service Reserve Act - Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish the Civilian Volunteer Service Reserve to respond to domestic or international emergencies or other circumstances determined by the President.
 
Permits a U.S. citizen or legal resident over the age of 18 to enroll for a five-year commitment in the Reserve during which he or she shall be expected to serve in a full-time active duty status for six months.
 
Authorizes the President to issue a voluntary call of action as an executive order to mobilize members of the Civilian Reserve to active duty status in times of emergency. Allows members of the Civilian Reserve to accept or decline a call to action except under extreme circumstances that require mandatory mobilization.
 
Prescribes benefits and reemployment protection for members serving in full-time active duty status.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Defense to make a grant to the National D-Day Museum Foundation for facilities and programs of America's National World War II Museum.

Bill: 109-hr-2725
Sponsor: Rep. Regula, Ralph [R-OH-16]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Building construction
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Exhibitions
Federal aid to the arts and humanities
Foundations
History
Louisiana
Military history
Museums
Names
Social Welfare
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to make a grant to the National D-Day Museum Foundation for facilities and programs of America's National World War II Museum in New Orleans, LA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Preserving Innovation in Telecom Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2726
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Cable television
Commerce
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Information services
Telecommunication industry

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Preserving Innovation in Telecom Act of 2005 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit any state or local government, or an entity affiliated with either government, from providing any telecommunications, information, or cable service in any geographic area within such government in which a corporation or other private entity not affiliated with such government is offering a substantially similar service.
 
Exempts from such prohibition any such service already being provided on the date of enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Quality of Life for Women Act

Bill: 109-hr-2727
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aging
Childbirth
Clinical trials
Commemorations
Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional tributes
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Directories
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Families
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Gynecology
Health education
Health information systems
Higher education
Internet
Medical education
Medical research
Medical technology
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Peer review organizations (Medicine)
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Surgery
Technological innovations
Tissue banks
Urology
Web sites
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Quality of Life for Women Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to educate health professionals and the public on bladder and bowel dysfunction (including incontinence), pelvic organ prolapse, and other pelvic floor disorders.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Director should establish a national registry for surgical treatment of such disorders.
 
Requires the Directors of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to: (1) expand and intensify the activities of such Institutes with respect to women's pelvic floor disorders, including developing proposals for research on such disorders; and (2) provide for the continuing operation of the Urinary Incontinence Treatment Network and the Clinical Trials Network for Female Pelvic Disorders. Commends such Institutes for their support of such Networks and such Networks for their research toward improving women's pelvic health.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress as to efforts that such Institutes should undertake, including increasing their research, recruiting established scientists, and developing a national data registry and tissue bank of people suffering from incontinence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Access and Availability Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2728
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Associations, institutions, etc.
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer discounts
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Insurance companies
Managed care
Preventive medicine
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Health Care Access and Availability Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide for health benefits coverage through individual membership associations (IMAs), which are organizations operated under the direction of an association that: (1) has been in existence for at least five years; (2) was formed for purposes other than obtaining insurance; and (3) does not condition membership on any health status-related factor.
 
Prohibits an IMA from offering health benefits coverage to any member unless the same coverage is offered to all members of the IMA.
 
Provides that the IMA shall provide health benefits coverage only through contracts with health insurance issuers and shall not assume insurance risk with respect to such coverage. Allows an IMA to provide administrative services for members, including accounting, billings, and enrollment information.
 
Requires an IMA to file with the Secretary of Health and Human Services information that demonstrates the IMA's compliance with the requirements of this Act.
 
Requires that health benefits coverage offered through an IMA be: (1) underwritten by a health insurance issuer that is licensed under state law and meets all state standards relating to consumer protection; and (2) approved or otherwise be permitted under state law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Access to Emergency Rooms Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2729
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Contractors
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Government liability
Group medical practice
Hospitals
Law
Liability (Law)
Medical malpractice
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Physicians
Public health personnel
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Ensuring Access to Emergency Rooms Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to deem hospitals, emergency rooms, physicians, and physicians groups that provide emergency care to uninsured individuals employees of the Public Health Service for purposes of any civil action that may arise due to items and services furnished and post-stabilization services provided to such individuals. 
 
Requires the Attorney General to make separate estimates as to the cost of claims expected to arise under this Act and to establish separate funds for such claims. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to limit the total amount of payments under this Act to the amounts appropriated in advance for such purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Care Liability Relief Act

Bill: 109-hr-2731
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Contractors
Damages
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Finance and Financial Sector
Group medical practice
Hospitals
Juries
Law
Legal fees
Liability (Law)
Liability insurance
Medical malpractice
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Physicians
Punitive damages
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Emergency Care Liability Relief Act - Limits noneconomic and punitive damages for injuries arising from the provision of uncompensated care by emergency care providers.
 
Authorizes the award of attorney's fees and costs in actions in which a party's liability or such damages are contested. Requires liability for such awards to be allocated to the nonprevailing party personally, the attorney or law firm representing such party if representation was on a contingent fee basis, or both, taking into account specified factors.
 
Requires the court, in actions in which liability or noneconomic or punitive damages described in this Act are contested, to instruct the jury that it must take into account the effect of the amount to be awarded in damages on the price and availability of health care liability insurance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Cost Integrity and Fairness Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2732
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Coinsurance
Cost of living adjustments
Costs
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Cost Integrity and Fairness Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a refundable tax credit for the health insurance costs of a taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, and dependents; and (2) direct the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program for making advance payments of credit amounts to health insurance providers. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the closure or adverse realignment of facilities of the reserve components that the Secretary of Homeland Security determines have a significant role in homeland defense.

Bill: 109-hr-2733
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Emergency Management
Governmental investigations
International Affairs
Military base closures
Military bases
National Guard
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) review the list of military installations recommended for closure or realignment by the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission in the report transmitted to Congress by the President; and (2) prepare a report to Congress specifying each armory, readiness center, and other facility used for the development, training, operation, or maintenance of the reserve components of the Armed Forces that, while identified for closure or adverse realignment on such list, has a significant role in homeland defense.
 

 
Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from closing or realigning any armory, readiness center, or other facility of the reserve components identified in such report as an armory, readiness center, or other facility of the reserve components that has a significant role in homeland defense.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to enhance the authority of the Department of Veterans Affairs to recover from third parties costs of medical care furnished to veterans and other persons by the Department.

Bill: 109-hr-2734
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Economics and Public Finance
Health
Medicare
Social Welfare
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Includes third-party insurance providers participating in the Medicare program and any department or agency of the United States other than the Department of Veterans Affairs among the entities from which the Department shall be authorized to recover payments for the costs of providing certain non-service-connected medical care to veterans.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Health Care Full Funding Act

Bill: 109-hr-2735
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Building construction
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal budgets
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law
Leases
Maintenance and repair
Medical economics
Nursing homes
Standards
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Veterans Health Care Full Funding Act - Requires each fiscal year budget submitted to Congress by the President to include requests for amounts for veterans health care programs. Requires amounts appropriated for such programs to be available for two consecutive fiscal years.
 
 Establishes the Veterans Health Care Funding Review Board within the Department of Veterans Affairs. Directs the Board, beginning with FY2008, to determine the level of funding needed for such programs for that fiscal year and the next and to publish such determination in the Federal Register. Outlines veterans' health care needs factors to be considered by the Board in arriving at such determination.
 
Repeals requirements for certain congressional notifications in connection with a funding request for a Department major medical facility project or lease.
 
Provides a 30-day standard for access to medical care for veterans seeking primary or specialized care, as measured from: (1) the time the veteran contacts the Department seeking an appointment until the date a visit is completed (primary care); and (2) the date on which the veteran is referred to a specialist until the date a visit is completed (specialty care). Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to develop a standard of waiting time during a visit and to periodically review the performance of Department facilities compared to that standard.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Clinical Social Work Medicare Equity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2736
Sponsor: Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medical fees
Medicare
Nursing homes
Social Welfare
Social work

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Clinical Social Work Medicare Equity Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to exclude clinical social worker services from coverage under the Medicare skilled nursing facility prospective payment system (thus permitting direct payment under the Medicare program for clinical social worker services provided to residents of skilled nursing facilities). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1111)
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Office of Correctional Public Health Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2737
Sponsor: Rep. Strickland, Ted [D-OH-6]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Correctional institutions
Correctional personnel
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Hepatitis
Medical screening
Medical tests
Prisoners
Public health
Vaccination

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Office of Correctional Public Health Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the Office of Correctional Public Health (OCPH) within the Office of Public Health and Science. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of OCPH, to carry out public health activities for individuals who are employees in federal, state, or local penal or correctional institutions or who are incarcerated in such institutions. Includes among such activities disease prevention, health promotion, service delivery, research, and health professions education activities.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to make matching grants to states to provide for correctional populations screenings, immunizations, and treatment for hepatitis A, B, and C. Requires a portion of each grant to be expended to carry out such activities at penal or correctional facilities that are not facilities in which individuals serve terms of imprisonment, including remand facilities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House