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Allied Health Professions Reinvestment Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-215
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Ambulatory care
Billboards
Chronically ill
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Cost effectiveness
Cost of living adjustments
Curricula
Demography
Department of Health and Human Services
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational statistics
Educational technology
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Finance and Financial Sector
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Graduate education
Health surveys
Higher education
Home care services
Hospitals
Interest
Interest rates
Internet
Labor and Employment
Managed care
Medical education
Medical statistics
Mentoring
Newspapers
Nursing homes
Paramedical personnel
Part-time employment
Public service advertising
Quality of care
Radio broadcasting
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
School administration
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers
Television broadcasting
Vocational guidance

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Allied Health Professions Reinvestment Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue public service announcements that advertise and promote the allied health professions, highlight the advantages and rewards of those professions, and encourage individuals to enter those professions.
 
 Allows the Secretary to award grants to: (1) support similar State and local advertising campaigns; (2) improve the education, practice, and retention of allied health professionals through specified activities; and (3) develop and implement programs and initiatives to train and educate allied health professionals in providing geriatric care.
 
Permits the Secretary to provide scholarships for the cost of tuition in exchange for students agreeing to serve as allied health professionals at health care facilities with critical shortages of such persons for not less than one year for each year of scholarship received.
 
Allows the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to enter into an agreement with any higher education institution for the establishment and operation of a student loan fund to increase the number of qualified allied health professions faculty.
 
 Directs the Secretary to establish the Council on Health Profession Education in HRSA to monitor the status of the allied health professions workforce and make annual reports to Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E18)
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Informed Choice Act

Bill: 109-hr-216
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Adoption
Childbirth
Clinics
Community health services
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to health facilities
Finance and Financial Sector
Health education
Imaging systems in medicine
Liability insurance
Maternal health services
Medical malpractice
Medical supplies
Nonprofit organizations
Physical examinations
Physicians
Pregnant women
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Informed Choice Act - Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to nonprofit community based pregnancy help medical clinics for the purchase of ultrasound equipment. Requires each grantee to: (1) provide free ultrasound examinations to pregnant women; (2) show the visual image of the fetus from the ultrasound examination to each pregnant woman with a general anatomical and physiological description of the fetus; (3) give each pregnant woman the approximate age of the embryo or fetus; (4) provide information on abortion and alternatives to abortion, such as childbirth and adoption, and information concerning public and private agencies that will assist in those alternatives; and (5) obtain medical malpractice insurance. Limits each grant to the lesser of 50 percent of the purchase price of the ultrasound machine involved or $20,000. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 2 percent excise tax on the net investment income of tax-exempt foundations.

Bill: 109-hr-217
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Excise tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Foundations
Investments
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the two percent excise tax on the net investment income of tax-exempt foundations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E18)
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Tax Deduction Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-218
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Prescription pricing
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Health Care Tax Deduction Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals a tax deduction from gross income for health insurance premiums and unreimbursed prescription drug expenses paid for the benefit of the taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse and dependents.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E18)
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Preservation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-219
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Bank deposits
Budget surpluses
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Debt limit
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government securities
Government trust funds
Investment of public funds
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security finance

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Social Security Preservation Act of 2005 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to require the Managing Trustee of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund (Social Security trust funds) to ensure that the annual surplus of the Social Security Trust Funds is invested in: (1) marketable interest-bearing obligations of the United States or obligations guaranteed by the United States; or (2) certificates of deposit in insured depository institutions. Prescribes a formula for determining the annual surplus of the Trust Funds.
 
Prohibits disinvestment of Social Security Trust Fund amounts from public debt obligations, any refraining from making such investments, or any delay in making normal deposits in such Trust Funds for public debt limit-related purposes. Authorizes the sale of Social Security Trust Fund public debt obligations, despite the public debt limit, for the payment of cash benefits and administrative expenses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E5, E6)
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-220
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid programs
Federal mandates
Identification devices
Identity theft
Right of privacy
Right of property
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2005 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit using a Social Security account number except for specified Social Security and tax purposes. Prohibits the Social Security Administration from divulging the Social Security account number of an individual to any Federal, State, or local government agency or instrumentality, or to any other individual. 
Amends the Privacy Act of 1974 to prohibit any Federal, State, or local government agency or instrumentality from requesting an individual to disclose his Social Security account number on either a mandatory or a voluntary basis. 
Prohibits any two Federal agencies or instrumentalities from implementing the same identifying number with respect to any individual (except as authorized by the Social Security Act). 
Prohibits any Federal agency from: (1) establishing or mandating a uniform standard for identification of an individual that is required to be used by any other Federal or State agency, or by a private person, for any purpose other than that of conducting the authorized activities of the standard-establishing or -mandating Federal agency; or (2) conditioning receipt of any Federal grant, contract, or other Federal funding on the adoption, by a State or local government, or by a State agency, of such a uniform standard.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E3-4)
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-221
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aliens
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Interest
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income up to $400 (twice such amount on a joint return) of interest income annually. Provides for an inflation adjustment to such amount.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E18)
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Human Cloning Research Prohibition Act

Bill: 109-hr-222
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cloning
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
DNA
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to research
Genetic research
Genetics
Human embryology
International Affairs
International cooperation in science
Medical research
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Human Cloning Research Prohibition Act - Prohibits Federal funds from being obligated or expended to conduct or support any research that includes the use of human somatic cell nuclear transfer technology to produce an oocyte that is undergoing cell division toward development of a fetus. Defines &quot;somatic cell&quot; to mean a cell of an embryo, fetus, child, or adult which is not and will not become a sperm or egg cell.
 
Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to enter into an agreement with the National Research Council for a review of the implementation of this Act. 
States that nothing in this Act shall restrict other areas of scientific research not specifically prohibited by this Act, including work that involves: (1) the use of somatic cell nuclear transfer or other cloning technologies to clone molecules, DNA, cells other than human embryo cells, or tissues; or (2) the use of somatic cell nuclear transfer techniques to create animals other than humans. 
Expresses the sense of Congress that other countries should establish substantially equivalent prohibitions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E18)
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Deficit Accountability Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-223
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Budget deficits
Congressional salaries
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Federal budgets

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Deficit Accountability Act of 2005 - Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to provide that pay for Members of Congress may not be increased by any adjustment scheduled to take effect in a calendar year if the Office of Management and Budget determines there was a deficit in the preceding fiscal year.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Comprehensive Learning Assessment for Students and Schools (CLASS) Act

Bill: 109-hr-224
Sponsor: Rep. Strickland, Ted [D-OH-6]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Curricula
Disabled
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
School choice
Secondary education
Special education
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Comprehensive Learning Assessment for Students and Schools (CLASS) Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to revise certain requirements regarding student assessments and adequate yearly progress which were added by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Suzanne Lyall Campus Safety Act

Bill: 109-hr-225
Sponsor: Rep. Sweeney, John E. [R-NY-20]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Air piracy
Arson
Assault
Automobile theft
College administration
Colleges
Community and school
Conspiracy
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Economics and Public Finance
Extortion
Federal aid to education
Firearms
Higher education
Homicide
Kidnapping
Larceny
Missing persons
Murder
Planning
Police
Rape
School security
Sex crimes
Students
Transportation and Public Works
Violence
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Suzanne Lyall Campus Safety Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education to adopt and implement plans providing for prompt and coordinated investigations with local law enforcement agencies of: (1) serious violent felonies occurring at the institutions or on their grounds; and (2) reports of missing students.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Higher Education Science and Technology Competitiveness Act

Bill: 109-hr-226
Sponsor: Rep. Sweeney, John E. [R-NY-20]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: College administration
Colleges
Community colleges
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Engineering
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Higher education
Junior colleges
Labor and Employment
Mathematics
Public schools
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Teacher education
Technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Higher Education Science and Technology Competitiveness Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award grants for articulation agreements between institutions of higher education that specifies the acceptability of courses in transfer toward meeting specific degree requirements, especially in mathematics, science, engineering, and technology.
 
Allows the use of grant funds to establish articulation agreements: (1) statewide, among public two-year and four-year institutions of higher education, to provide a seamless transition for the transfer of students through a common core curricula that reflects the workforce needs of private industry; and (2) within community colleges, between occupational competency or certification programs and associate degree programs, to increase the proportion of students who enroll to complete their associate degree. 
 
Allows such grants also to be used to: (1) collect data on transfers from two-year to four-year institutions, for monitoring purposes; (2) develop a statewide articulation guide in consultation with public colleges and universities to provide students with descriptions of articulation requirements; and (3) develop a plan for professional development of two-year college faculty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Acid Rain Control Act

Bill: 109-hr-227
Sponsor: Rep. Sweeney, John E. [R-NY-20]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Acid rain
Administrative procedure
Air pollution control
Auctions
Chesapeake Bay
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Ecosystem management
Electric power production
Electric utilities
Emissions trading
Energy
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental health
Environmental monitoring
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Great Lakes
Health
Industrial pollution
Lakes
Law
Long Island Sound
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mercury
Mountains
New York State
Nitrogen oxides
Pollution measurement
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public health
Sulphur dioxide
Vermont
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Acid Rain Control Act - Amends the Clean Air Act to require further reductions in total annual emissions of sulfur dioxide by utility units and nitrogen oxides by facilities with one or more combustion units serving at least one electricity generator with a capacity of at least 25 megawatts. Permits emissions trading and allocation.
 
Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate regulations controlling electric utility and industrial source emissions of mercury. Prohibits mercury emission allowance transfers. 
 
States that regulations promulgated to carry out emissions reduction and control under this Act shall prevent localized adverse effects and ensure significant reductions in both the Eastern and Western Regions of the United States. 
Directs the Administrator to identify objectives for and report to Congress on scientifically credible environmental indicators sufficient to protect sensitive ecosystems of the Adirondack, mid-Appalachian, Rocky, and Southern Blue Ridge Mountains as well as the Great Lakes, Lake Champlain, Long Island Sound, and the Chesapeake Bay.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House