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10,000 Trained by 2011 Act

Bill: 109-hr-6195
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2006-09-26 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Commerce
Community colleges
Computer security measures
Curricula
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Engineering
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government internships
Graduate education
Higher education
Industry-university relations
Information technology
Infrastructure
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Research grants
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: 
10,000 Trained by 2011 Act - Requires the National Science Foundation (NSF) to award competitive grants for basic research on innovative approaches to improve information systems, as well as for scientific and engineering activities to improve education in information fields.
 
Requires the award of NSF grants also to institutions of higher education to: (1) establish multidisciplinary Centers for Informatics Research for conducting cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research to generate innovative approaches in information; and (2) establish or improve undergraduate and master's degree information programs, attract students to such programs, and provide them with experience in government or industry related to their studies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research.
action_date: 2006-10-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Introduced in House
Fighting for American Jobs Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6196
Sponsor: Rep. Visclosky, Peter J. [D-IN-1]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Business records
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Employee benefit plans
Federally-guaranteed loans
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
International corporations
Labor statistics
Layoffs
Subsidies
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Fighting for American Jobs Act of 2006 - Directs each federal agency that provides grants, loans, or loan guarantees to businesses to require, as a condition of such assistance, that such businesses provide annually information on: (1) the number of employees employed in the United States and its territories and the number employed outside the United States, as well as wage information on U.S. employees; and (2) the percentage of the workforce that has been laid off or forced to resign during the preceding year. Prohibits, until the situation is corrected, subsequent federal assistance to businesses that lays off a greater percentage of workers in the United States or its territories than in other countries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Paper Ballot Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6200
Sponsor: Rep. Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Ballots
Commemorations
Election Day
Election administration
Holidays
Presidential elections
Washington Administration

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Paper Ballot Act of 2006 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require a state, for a regularly scheduled general election for President and Vice President, to: (1) conduct the election using only paper ballots; and (2) ensure that the number of ballots cast at a precinct or equivalent location which are placed inside a single box or similar container does not exceed 500.
 
Requires the ballots cast at a precinct or equivalent location to be counted by hand by election officials at the precinct. Allows a representative of each political party with a candidate on the ballot, as well as any interested member of the public, to observe the officials as they count the ballots.
 
Amends federal law to move observation of Washington's Birthday to Election Day during presidential election years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
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: 2006-09-27
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: 2006-09-27
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: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Ka'u Coast Preservation Act

Bill: 109-hr-6202
Sponsor: Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Coastal zone
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
Hawaii
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
National parks

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Ka'u Coast Preservation Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to study and report to specified congressional committees on the suitability and feasibility of designating the Ka'u Coast from Kapaoo Point to Kahuku Point, Hawaii, as a unit of the National Park System.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1864)
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Information Security Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6204
Sponsor: Rep. Akin, W. Todd [R-MO-2]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Computer security measures
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Information technology
Internet
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Small Business Information Security Act of 2006 - Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish the Small Business Information Security Task Force to address the information technology security needs of small businesses. Requires the Task Force, among other duties, to make recommendations to the Administrator on the establishment of an Internet portal to be used by the SBA to receive and dispense information and resources with respect to such needs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Public Safety Ex-Offender Self-Sufficiency Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6205
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alcoholism
Business education
Commerce
Compensatory education
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug abuse
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Entrepreneurs
Ex-offenders
Families
Family services
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Group homes
Health
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Low-income housing
Marriage counseling
Mental health services
Personal budgets
Probation
Rent
Rental housing
Residence requirements
Residential rehabilitation
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Vocational guidance

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Public Safety Ex-Offender Self-Sufficiency Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business related tax credit for investment in residential housing units for certain low-income individuals who were convicted of a crime punishable under state or federal law by a prison term of six months or longer (ex-offenders) and who participate in a program of support services, including job and entrepreneurial training, designed to make such ex-offenders self sufficient. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat income earned by mutual funds from exchange-traded funds holding precious metal bullion as qualifying income.

Bill: 109-hr-6207
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Gold
Income tax
Mutual funds
Platinum
Precious metals
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Securities
Silver
Tax administration

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat income earned by mutual funds from interests holding certain gold, silver, platinum, or palladium bullion that are regularly traded on an established U.S. securities market as qualifying income (i.e., passed through and taxed at individual income tax rates).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
American Competitiveness and Adjustment Act

Bill: 109-hr-6208
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Agricultural prices
Agricultural subsidies
Agriculture and Food
Agriculture in foreign trade
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Countervailing duties
Department of Commerce
Department of Labor
Dislocated workers
Dumping
Executive reorganization
Exports
Farmers
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Fisheries
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Health
Health insurance
Imports
Income tax
Insurance premiums
International Affairs
International competitiveness
Judicial review
Labor and Employment
Law
Manufacturing industries
Occupational retraining
Performance measurement
Relocation
Science, Technology, Communications
Service industries
Small business
Tax credits
Taxation
Technology transfer
Textile fabrics
Trade adjustment assistance
Trade agreements
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
American Competitiveness and Adjustment Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 with respect to: (1) trade adjustment assistance; (2) data collection; (3) industry-wide certifications; (4) trade assistance for farmers; (5) trade adjustment assistance for firms; and (6) trade adjustment assistance for service workers and firms and industries.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise and increase the health care tax credit. 
 
Establishes in the International Trade Administration of the Department of Commerce an Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Religious Freedom for Providers of Adoption, Foster Care, and Child Welfare Services Act

Bill: 109-hr-6209
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adoption
Economics and Public Finance
Foster home care
Grants-in-aid
Married people
Religion
Religious liberty

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Religious Freedom for Providers of Adoption, Foster Care, and Child Welfare Services Act - Amends the Social Security Act to prohibit federal payments for foster care and adoption assistance to a state or local government that discriminates against any entity that provides adoption or foster care services to only those couples who are united in marriage (defined as a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife) and to only those individuals whose conduct is in accordance with such entity's religious principles and practices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Automatic IRA Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6210
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Department of Labor
Employee rights
Executive reorganization
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Investments
Law
Payroll deductions
Self-employed
Small business
State laws
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax penalties
Tax refunds
Taxation
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Automatic IRA Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain small employers who do not offer qualified retirement plans or arrangements to their employees to allow eligible employees to participate in a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRAs); (2) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing a payroll deposit IRA arrangement; and (3) treat automatic IRAs as individual retirement accounts (and as Roth IRAs) for income tax purposes. 

Establishes in the executive branch the TSP II Board to establish policies and procedures relating to payroll deposit IRA arrangements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1865-1866)
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Comprehensive Long-Term Care Support Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6211
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Authorization
Caregivers
Counseling
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Finance and Financial Sector
Flexible benefit plans
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Health
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Long-term care
Long-term care insurance
Medical economics
Minorities
Native Americans
Respite care
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Comprehensive Long-Term Care Support Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction from gross income (available for taxpayers who do not itemize deductions) for the cost of long-term care premiums for the taxpayer and certain family members, including the taxpayer's spouse, ancestors, or lineal descendants. Phases in the deduction by allowing the deduction of 50 percent of the cost of premiums in 2007, 75 percent in 2008, and 100 percent in 2009 or thereafter. Allows long-term care insurance as a benefit under tax-qualified cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements.

Allows a tax credit for caregivers of individuals with long-term health care needs. Phases in a $3,000 credit amount for 2011 or thereafter, beginning with $1,000 in 2007, $1,500 in 2008, $2,000 in 2009, and $2,500 in 2010. Reduces the amount of the credit for taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes over $75,000 ($150,000 for joint returns), adjusted for inflation after 2007. 

Increases funding for the the National Family Caregiver Support Program and the Native American Caregiver Support Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Ethanol Stimulus Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6212
Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Brian [D-NY-27]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Commerce
Energy
Fuel consumption
Gasoline
Income tax
Small business
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Ethanol Stimulus Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for an increased small ethanol producer tax credit for ethanol production in states which have a gasoline consumption rate of more than 2% of aggregate nationwide consumption and which produce less than 2% of the aggregate nationwide amount of ethanol (two-two states).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the conveyance of a portion of the campus of the Illiana Health Care System of the Department of Veterans Affairs to Danville Area Community College of Vermilion County, Illinois.

Bill: 109-hr-6213
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Timothy V. [R-IL-15]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Community colleges
Education
Health
Higher education
Illinois
Land transfers
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Veterans' hospitals

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to convey to the Danville Area Community College of Vermilion County, Illinois, specified real property of the Illiana Health Care System of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Prevention, Awareness, and Research of Autoimmune Disease Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6214
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2006-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Arthritis
Autoimmune diseases
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Grants-in-aid
Health education
Higher education
Medical education
Medical research
Mental depression
Mental illness
Minorities
Minority health
Multiple sclerosis
Physicians
Quality of life
Rheumatism
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Student loan funds
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: 
Prevention, Awareness, and Research of Autoimmune Disease Act of 2006 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award grants to eligible entities to conduct public and professional awareness activities regarding autoimmune diseases, such as lupus, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and fibromyalgia. Defines an &quot;eligible entity&quot; as a nonprofit organization, a consumer group, an institution of higher education, a federal, state, or local government agency, or a media organization. Allows such an entity to use grant funds to: (1) promote increased awareness of early intervention and treatment to significantly improve the quality of life for people with autoimmune diseases; (2) target minority communities that may be underserved or disproportionately affected by such diseases; and (3) target women to help reduce the amount of time taken for correct diagnosis of such diseases.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to: (1) award grants to eligible entities for the education of health care providers on potential links between autoimmune diseases and cognitive and mood disorders, such as depression; and (2) establish an educational loan repayment program for physicians agreeing to conduct research on autoimmune diseases.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Introduced in House