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Systemic Passenger Infrastructure and Network Overhaul through Financial Freedom Act

Bill: 109-hr-3851
Sponsor: Rep. Mica, John L. [R-FL-7]
Introduced: 2005-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Capital investments
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Concessions
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Connecticut
Delaware
Department of Transportation
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Employee rights
Executive reorganization
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government corporations
Government paperwork
Interstate compacts
Labor and Employment
Land transfers
Law
Maryland
Massachusetts
Mortgages
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
New Jersey
New York City
Northeastern States
Pennsylvania
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Railroad finance
Railroad passenger traffic
Railroads
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Rhode Island

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: 
Systemic Passenger Infrastructure and Network Overhaul through Financial Freedom Act - Transfers from the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) to the Secretary of Transportation title to all Amtrak property necessary for the operation of the main line of the Northeast Corridor between the District of Columbia and Boston, Massachusetts. Directs the Secretary to complete a competitive selection of an entity to maintain and dispatch service on the main line of the Northeast Corridor until the disposition and orderly transition of such operations.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to report to the Secretary on the capital requirements needed to ensure that the Northeast Corridor can be operated in a financially viable manner.
 
Requires the Secretary to choose the following option most appropriate for the disposition of Amtrak operations along the Northeast Corridor: (1) transfer of such operations to an interstate compact of Northeast Corridor states; (2) transfer of the operations to a new quasi-governmental corporation or to a private sector corporation; or (3) retention of ownership by the Secretary, with competitive franchising, by one or more entities, of the management and dispatching of service.
 
Requires the Secretary to retain, and Amtrak to transfer to the Secretary, all amounts appropriated by the federal government for Amtrak for FY2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Credit Card Minimum Payment Warning Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3852
Sponsor: Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
Introduced: 2005-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Consumer education
Counseling
Credit cards
Debt
Debtor and creditor
Federal Reserve System
Federal Trade Commission
Financial services
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Interest
Interest rates
Law
Nonprofit organizations
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: 
Credit Card Minimum Payment Warning Act of 2005 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to include among the mandatory disclosures at each billing cycle of open end consumer credit plans: (1) the words &quot;Minimum Payment Warning: Making only the minimum payment will increase the amount of interest that you pay and the time it will take to repay your outstanding balance;&quot; (2) the number of years and months it would take the consumer to pay the entire amount of the balance if the consumer pays only the required minimum monthly payments; (3) the total cost to the consumer, as well as a breakdown in principal and interest payments, of paying that balance in full if the consumer pays only the required minimum monthly payments, and if no further advances are made; (4) the monthly payment amount that would be required to eliminate the outstanding balance in 36 months if no further advances are made; and (5) a toll-free telephone number for information about accessing credit counseling and debt management services.
 
Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Trade Commission to issue jointly guidelines for creditors to establish and maintain a toll-free telephone number for such disclosures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Elvira Arellano, Maria Isabel Benitez, Adrian Briseno Esparza, Francisco Javier Castro, Araceli Contreras Del Toro, Jaime Cruz, Disifredo Adan Del Valle, Oralia Espindola, Angel Espinoza Martinez, Laura Flores, Juan Antonio Guzman, Francisca Lino, Maria Natividad Loza, Maria Antonia Martin Gonzalez, Blanca Estela Nolte, Mario Pacheco, Domenico Papaianni, Romina Perea, Ruben Ramirez, Martha Elena Davalos, Hermion Davalos Renteria, Juan Jose Rangel, Jorge Santos, Martin Guerrero Barrios, Antonino Cerami, Juan Carlos Arreguin Lara, Sylvia Soler, Dayron Rios, Jose Pelayo, Juan Jose Mesa, Tomas Martinez, Aurelia Martinez, Veronica Lopez, Alma Delia Jimenez de Sosa, and Rosalva Gutierrez.

Bill: 109-hr-3856
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2005-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: 
Makes Elvira Arellano, Maria Isabel Benitez, Adrian Briseno Esparza, Francisco Javier Castro, Araceli Contreras Del Toro, Jaime Cruz, Disifredo Adan Del Valle, Oralia Espindola, Angel Espinoza Martinez, Laura Flores, Juan Antonio Guzman, Francisca Lino, Maria Natividad Loza, Maria Antonia Martin Gonzalez, Blanca Estela Nolte, Mario Pacheco, Domenico Papaianni, Romina Perea, Ruben Ramirez, Martha Elena Davalos, Hermion Davalos Renteria, Juan Jose Rangel, Jorge Santos, Martin Guerrero Barrios, Antonino Cerami, Juan Carlos Arreguin Lara, Sylvia Soler, Dayron Rios, Jose Pelayo, Juan Jose Mesa, Tomas Martinez, Aurelia Martinez, Veronica Lopez, Alma Delia Jimenez de Sosa, and Rosalva Gutierrez each eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of a lawful permanent resident of the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act, upon payment of the required visa fees. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Meeting the Housing and Service Needs of Seniors Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3859
Sponsor: Rep. Gerlach, Jim [R-PA-6]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Access to health care
Affordable housing
Continuum of care
Executive reorganization
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Housing for the aged
Internet
Land use
Nursing
Old age assistance
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Residential rehabilitation
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Technological innovations
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation and the aged
Urban affairs
Web sites
Zoning and zoning law

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 
Meeting the Housing and Service Needs of Seniors Act of 2005 - Establishes in the executive branch the independent Interagency Council on Meeting the Housing and Service Needs of Seniors, which shall identify and promote coordination of senior citizen housing, health care, and service needs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Informed Choice Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3861
Sponsor: Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
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: 2005-09-22
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: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-09-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1932)
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Pension Flexibility for Displaced Workers Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3862
Sponsor: Rep. Boehner, John A. [R-OH-8]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alabama
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Labor
Disaster relief
Disasters
Displaced persons
Employee benefit plans
Finance and Financial Sector
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Individual retirement accounts
Law
Liability (Law)
Loans
Louisiana
Mississippi
Pension funds
Terrorism
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 
 Pension Flexibility for Displaced Workers Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor, for a one-year period, to provide appropriate waivers, suspensions, or exemptions from title I provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) with respect to individual account plans affected by Hurricane Katrina.
 
Exempts any person from liability for any violation of such title based upon acts or omissions covered by such waivers, suspensions, or exemptions and in compliance with their terms.
 
Amends ERISA to extend the Secretary's current authority to postpone certain deadlines for up to one year in cases of pension or employee benefit plans, or any sponsor or other persons with respect to such plans, that are affected by presidentially-declared disasters or terrorist or military actions. Applies such postponement authority to actions required under any regulation issued or any plan provision (as well as, currently, to any action required or permitted to be completed under ERISA).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Delaware National Coastal Special Resources Study Act

Bill: 109-hr-3866
Sponsor: Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Black history
Boats and boating
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights movements
Coastal zone
Colonial affairs
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Delaware
Europe
Fishing
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Industrialization
International Affairs
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine transportation
Military history
Minorities
National parks
Native Americans
Outdoor recreation
Slavery
Sports and Recreation
Swimming
Transportation and Public Works
United Kingdom

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 
Delaware National Coastal Special Resources Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resources study of the national significance, suitability, and feasibility of including sites in the coastal region of Delaware in the National Park System (NPS). Requires such study to include an analysis and any recommendations concerning the suitability and feasibility of designating one or more sites along the Delaware coast, including Fort Christina, as a unit of the NPS.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
To reauthorize the Congressional Award Act.

Bill: 109-hr-3867
Sponsor: Rep. Cubin, Barbara [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Accounting
Auditing
Awards, medals, prizes
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional tributes
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Higher education
Physical fitness
Scholarships
Service learning
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Volunteer workers
Youth
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 
Amends the Congressional Award Act to extend through calendar 2009 the requirement that the Comptroller General determine, and report to Congress on, whether the Director of the Congressional Award Board is complying with requirements for financial operations of the Congressional Award Program.
 
Extends the authorization of the Board from October 1, 2004, to October 1, 2009.
 
Provides for, during the period of October 1, 2004, through this Act's enactment date, all actions and functions of the Board under the Congressional Award Act to have same effect as though no lapse or termination of the Board ever occurred.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Gulf Region Economic Assistance Tax Relief Act

Bill: 109-hr-3868
Sponsor: Rep. Doolittle, John T. [R-CA-4]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Income tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 

 
Gulf Region Economic Assistance Tax Relief Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase to $10 million the limit on the expensing of business property that is defined as qualified hurricane recovery property (business property placed in service in 2005 and before January 1, 2007, in a federally-declared hurricane recovery area).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Freedom and Flexibility to Rebuild Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3869
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Alabama
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal aid to transportation
Federal-state relations
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Highway finance
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Louisiana
Mass rapid transit
Mississippi
Road construction
Transportation engineering
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 
Freedom and Flexibility to Rebuild Act of 2005 - Amends the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users to revise the allocation of specified surface transportation projects for the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama to allow such states to designate other eligible transportation projects for such projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to delay for 2 years implementation of the Medicare prescription drug benefit for individuals who are not lowest-income subsidy eligible individuals.

Bill: 109-hr-3870
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drugs
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 
Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to delay until after 2007 implementation of the Medicare prescription drug benefit for all individuals but the lowest-income subsidy-eligible individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of Interior to convey to The Missouri River Basin Lewis and Clark Interpretive Trail and Visitor Center Foundation, Inc. certain Federal land associated with the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail in Nebraska, to be used as an historical interpretive site along the trail.

Bill: 109-hr-3871
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Foundations
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
Nebraska
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Tourism
Trails
West (U.S.)

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the Missouri River Basin Lewis and Clark Interpretive Trail and Visitor Center Foundation, Inc., specified federal land associated with the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail in Nebraska, to be used as an historic site and interpretive center for the Trail.

action_date: 2006-09-25
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the Missouri River Basin Lewis and Clark Interpretive Trail and Visitor Center Foundation, Inc., specified federal land associated with the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail in Nebraska, to be used as an historic site and interpretive center for the Trail.
 
Provides for re-conveyance of such lands back to the Secretary if the Foundation determines to discontinue use of those lands as an historic site and interpretive center for the Trail. 
 
Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6948)
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H6948)
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3871.
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6948-6949)
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Mr. Pearce moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2006-05-28
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow loans from individual retirement plans for qualified small business capital assets.

Bill: 109-hr-3872
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital investments
Commerce
Excise tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Loans
Partnerships
Small business
Stocks
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the penalty tax for prohibited transactions loans from an individual retirement plan to acquire certain small business capital assets. Requires such loans to be repaid within five years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House