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Small Business Trade Dispute Protection Act

Bill: 109-hr-3362
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Economic warfare
Import restrictions
International Affairs
Small business
Tariff
Trade agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: 
Small Business Trade Dispute Protection Act - Exempts small businesses from increased tariffs and other retaliatory actions taken by the United States during certain trade disputes if: (1) the importer had fewer than 100 full-time employees (or their equivalents) during the preceding two calendar quarters; but (2) only for that quantity of the imported goods which does not exceed 125% of the quantity of the same goods that are products of another country or countries in a trade dispute with the United States, and were imported by that importer in the preceding calendar year.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 relating to drawback.

Bill: 109-hr-3363
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2005-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Agriculture in foreign trade
Canada
Chile
Claims
Compensation (Law)
Customs administration
Customs unions
Destruction of property
Exports
Free trade
Imports
International Affairs
Latin America
Law
Liability (Law)
Limitation of actions
Mexico
North America
Puerto Rico
Shipbuilding
Tariff
Trade agreements
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: 
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to repeal drawback and refund of duty requirements relating to: (1) certain articles made from imported merchandise; (2) substitution for drawback purposes; (3) merchandise not conforming to sample or specifications; (4) imported salt for curing fish; (5) exportation of meats cured with imported salt; (6) materials for construction and equipment of vessels built for foreigners; (7) jet aircraft engines; (8) an unused merchandise drawback; (9) use of domestic merchandise acquired in exchange for imported merchandise of same kind and quality; (10) vessels built for account of resident of North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) country; (11) substitution of finished petroleum derivatives; (12) packaging material; (13) designation of merchandise by successor; (14) drawback certificates; (15) eligibility of entered or withdrawn merchandise; (16) multiple drawback claims; (17) drawbacks for recovered material; and (18) articles shipped to the U.S. insular possessions.
 
Revises and/or prescribes procedures regarding: (1) drawback for exported merchandise; (2) drawback claimants; (3) a time limitation for filing drawback claims; (4) the drawback amount; (5) refunds, waivers, or reductions under certain free trade agreements; (6) merchandise for use in certain vessels; (7) agricultural merchandise; (8) destruction of merchandise; (9) a limitation on exportation requirement; (10) claiming exportation or destruction; and (11) drawback regulations.
 
Defines &quot;drawback&quot; to mean a refund of 99% of applicable duties, taxes, and fees paid pursuant to federal law upon importation of merchandise, and not refunded under any other law, in a case in which: (1) the imported merchandise or its substitute, or drawback merchandise or its substitute, is exported; or (2) the imported merchandise is destroyed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in House
Central American Security Act

Bill: 109-hr-3364
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Tom [R-VA-11]
Introduced: 2005-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Administrative fees
Administrative remedies
Aliens
Communicable diseases
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Cuba
Cubans
Department of Homeland Security
Deportation
Economics and Public Finance
El Salvador
Families
Fingerprints
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Guatemala
Health
Honduras
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Identification of criminals
Illegal aliens
Injunctions
Latin America
Law
Married people
Nicaragua
Residence requirements
Stepfamilies
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Central American Security Act - Amends the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act to: (1) extend permanent resident status adjustment provisions to qualifying Salvadoran, Guatemalan, and Honduran nationals; and (2) revise the application filing deadline.
Permits certain pending applications filed by Salvadoran or Guatemalan nationals to be converted to an application for status adjustment under the Act. 
Amends the Act to: (1) authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to waive certain grounds of inadmissibility; and (2) provide for issuance of immigrant visas to certain spouses and children. 
States that applicants for relief: (1) shall not be granted a waiver from any security or criminal background investigation required by the Act; and (2) shall submit fingerprints to the appropriate government agencies. 
Provides for the limited reopening of certain orders of deportation, exclusion, or removal by certain Cuban or Nicaraguan nationals.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in House
Caribbean National Forest Preservation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3365
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Fortuno, Luis G. [R-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boundaries
Caribbean area
Economics and Public Finance
Land transfers
National forests
Puerto Rico
Tropical forests
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: 
Caribbean National Forest Preservation Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire, by donation or purchase, from willing sellers tracts of land intended to assist in the consolidation of lands within or adjacent to the boundaries of the Caribbean National Forest in Puerto Rico. Requires the Secretary to adjust the boundaries of the Caribbean National Forest to include acquired lands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in House
Western New York Redevelopment Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3366
Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Brian [D-NY-27]
Introduced: 2005-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Auditing
Boundaries
Bridges
Brownfields
Capital investments
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power distribution
Electric power production
Electric utilities
Electric utility rates
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Equipment and supplies
Finance and Financial Sector
Fire departments
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Greenways
Harbors
Health
Housing and Community Development
Hydroelectric power
Infrastructure
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Land transfers
Law
Law enforcement officers
Licenses
New York State
Paramedical personnel
Police
Power marketing administrations
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Regional economic development
Restoration ecology
Revenue sharing
Security measures
Sports and Recreation
Subsidies
Terrorism
Trails
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation engineering
Water Resources Development
Waterfronts

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: 
Western New York Redevelopment Act of 2005 - Modifies the statutory licensing conditions governing operation of a power project by the New York Power Authority regarding utilization of the federal share of the water of the Niagara River whose use is permitted by international agreement.
 
Directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to include among additional conditions imposed on any license issued subsequent to the original license: (1) specified mandatory annual payments from the gross proceeds of the Authority to the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation; (2) the payment of one percent of gross proceeds, to be split evenly by the Industrial Development Agencies for the counties of Niagara, Erie, Chautauqua, and Cattaraugus, New York; and (3) a requirement that the licensee acquire property or interests sufficient to provide an effective zone of separation between all project control, switching or generating facilities, and any privately owned real property not used for the generation, transmission, or control of electric energy. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Energy to conduct: (1) an audit of Niagara Power Project finances and operations since project inception; and (2) subsequent annual audits to verify payments to host communities. 
 
Requires the New York Power Authority to provide to First Responders serving the local jurisdictions in which the Niagara Power Project facilities are located adequate resources and assistance to acquire, operate, maintain, and replace the assets needed to protect human life and property from harm should any feature or facility of the Niagara Power Project be subject to damage of any type because of an act of terror or other criminal behavior.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include wireless telecommunications equipment in the definition of qualified technological equipment for purposes of determining the depreciation treatment of such equipment.

Bill: 109-hr-3367
Sponsor: Rep. Hulshof, Kenny C. [R-MO-9]
Introduced: 2005-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Antennas
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Electronics
Equipment and supplies
Income tax
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax deductions
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include wireless telecommunications equipment in the definition of qualified technological equipment for depreciation purposes. Defines &quot;wireless telecommunications equipment&quot; as equipment used in the transmission, reception, coordination, or switching of wireless telecommunications service, other than cell towers, buildings, T-1 lines or other cabling connecting cell sites to mobile switching centers. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in House
Arab Bank Accountability Act

Bill: 109-hr-3370
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2005-07-20 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Alien property
Arab countries
Bank examination
Branch banking
Claims
Compensation for victims of crime
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Expropriation
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign banks and banking
Fund raising
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
International banking
Law
Licenses
Middle East and North Africa
Public records
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: 
Arab Bank Accountability Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to release certain documents and information relating to the Arab Bank (other than those which would impede any federal criminal or civil investigation of the Bank).
 
Directs the President to block certain Bank assets within the United States which shall be made available for payment of any terrorism-related judgment against the Bank. States that after any such judgment becomes final the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve System and the Comptroller of the Currency shall act to terminate any Bank branch or agency in the United States and to prohibit the Bank from maintaining any interest in any commercial lending company within the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2005-07-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2005-07-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain entries.

Bill: 109-hr-3371
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-9]
Introduced: 2005-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: 
Directs the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection of the Department of Homeland Security to liquidate or reliquidate, upon request, certain drawback claims and refund any amounts owed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in House
United States Trademark Defense Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3372
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Caribbean area
Civil actions and liability
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cuba
Expropriation
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Intellectual property
International Affairs
Jurisdiction
Latin America
Law
Nontariff trade barriers
Trademark agreements
Trademarks

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
United States Trademark Defense Act of 2005 - Amends the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 to repeal the prohibition against U.S. courts recognizing, enforcing, or otherwise validating any assertion of rights by a designated Cuban national of a mark, trade name, or commercial name that was used in connection with a business or assets that were confiscated by the Cuban government.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to issue regulations as necessary to repeal such provisions, including removing any applicable prohibition on transactions or payments.
 
Authorizes U.S. courts to recognize, enforce, or otherwise validate an assertion of rights in any mark or trade name based on common law rights or registration or under any applicable provision of law or any applicable treaty to which the United States is a party.
 
Requires the United States Trade Representative to examine policies and practices of Cuba with respect to protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-07-21
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-07-21
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Notification and Financial Data Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3374
Sponsor: Rep. LaTourette, Steven C. [R-OH-14]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Bank records
Commerce
Computer crimes
Computer security measures
Confidential communications
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Contractors
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Department of the Treasury
Electronic data interchange
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
Federal Trade Commission
Federal preemption
Financial institutions
Financial services
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Identity theft
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Liability (Law)
Local laws
National Credit Union Administration
Science, Technology, Communications
Securities and Exchange Commission
Security measures
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
State laws
Telephone
Victims of crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
 Consumer Notification and Financial Data Protection Act of 2005 - Declares that each financial institution has an obligation to maintain reasonable policies and procedures to protect the security and confidentiality of a consumer's sensitive financial personal information against any unauthorized use that is reasonably likely to result in harm or substantial inconvenience to such consumer.
 
Prescribes procedural guidelines, including: (1) investigation and notice procedures to alert regulators, law enforcement officials, and consumers in case of data security breaches; (2) mitigation procedures that offer free nationwide file monitoring for affected consumers; and (3) a safe harbor from liability for a financial institution in compliance with this Act.
 
Directs the Federal Trade Commission to promulgate regulations requiring a financial institution which maintains or possesses sensitive financial personal information for a business purpose to dispose of it so that it cannot practicably be read or reconstructed.
 
Preempts comparable state law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in House
Financial Data Security Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3375
Sponsor: Rep. Pryce, Deborah [R-OH-15]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Bank accounts
Bank records
Commerce
Computer crimes
Computer security measures
Confidential communications
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Contractors
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Department of the Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
Federal Trade Commission
Federal preemption
Financial institutions
Financial services
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Identity theft
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Liability (Law)
National Credit Union Administration
Science, Technology, Communications
Securities and Exchange Commission
Security measures
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
State laws
Victims of crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
Financial Data Security Act of 2005 - Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to declare that each consumer reporting agency, reporting broker, or reporting collector (consumer reporter) has an obligation to maintain reasonable policies and procedures to protect the security and confidentiality of a consumer's sensitive financial account and identity information against any unauthorized use that is reasonably likely to result in substantial inconvenience or substantial harm to such consumer.
 
Prescribes data security safeguards that include: (1) investigations to protect against identity theft and fraudulent transactions; (2) notification alerts to law enforcement agencies, functional regulatory agencies, and affected consumers; (3) investigation and notice requirements for third party agreements; and (4) financial fraud mitigation procedures that offer free file monitoring service for affected consumers.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury (Secretary), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board), and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) jointly to prescribe regulations that shield a consumer reporter from liability under state common law for loss or harm to the consumer subsequent to such reporter's offer of the free file monitoring service.
 
Cites conditions under which persons in compliance with the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act governing disclosure of nonpublic personal financial information shall be deemed to be in compliance with this Act.
 
Prescribes guidelines for joint promulgation of uniform security regulations by the Secretary, the Board, and the FTC.
 
Preempts state law with respect to the data security safeguards and financial fraud mitigation prescribed by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in House