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To require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue safety standards for lead-containing dishware.

Bill: 109-hr-4154
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Tom [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2005-10-26 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Environmental Protection
Food safety
Food service
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Labeling
Law
Lead
Product safety
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: 
Directs the Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue consumer product safety standards for glassware, dishware, and any other cooking utensil, drinking utensil, or eating utensil containing lead.
 
Requires such standard to determine the amount of lead that shall be considered hazardous. Allows such standard to require product labeling, or declare products containing an unacceptable amount of lead to be banned hazardous products.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2184)
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: Introduced in House
School Energy Crisis Relief Act

Bill: 109-hr-4158
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2005-10-27 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Energy
Energy prices
Federal aid to education
Gasoline
Heating
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student transportation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: 
School Energy Crisis Relief Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a grants program for eligible local educational agencies that have experienced the highest percentage increase (or expenditure increase) in transportation and heating fuel costs among all local educational agencies (LEA's) in a state for a specific time period during the 2005-2006 school year, in comparison to the same time period during the 2004-2005 school year.
 

 
Authorizes the use of funds for: (1) the cost of transportation or heating fuel purchased by eligible LEA's; or (2) transportation fuel purchased by entities under contract to provide transportation services to such LEA's.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-10-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2213-2214)
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in House
Department of Veterans Affairs Prosthetics Employees Standards Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4159
Sponsor: Rep. Brown-Waite, Ginny [R-FL-5]
Introduced: 2005-10-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Accreditation (Medical care)
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Health
Law
Licenses
Medical personnel
Prosthesis
Quality of care
State laws
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: 
Department of Veterans Affairs Prosthetics Employees Standards Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to require that an individual may perform orthotics, pedorthics, or prosthetics services for patients of the Department as an employee of the Department, or as an employee of a contractor of the Department, at a work site in which there is a state licensure requirement applicable to the performance of such services in private practice only if the individual is licensed in accordance with such state requirements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in House
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Recreation Authorization Act

Bill: 109-hr-4160
Sponsor: Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-10-27 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Canals
Delaware
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Intracoastal waterways
Maryland
Outdoor recreation
Sports and Recreation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: 
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Recreation Authorization Act - Directs the Secretary of the Army, with the consent of appropriate local and state entities, to enter into arrangements, contracts, and leases with public, private, and nonprofit entities to: (1) evaluate, construct, operate, and maintain capital improvements for recreational use of the Intracoastal Waterway, Delaware River to Chesapeake Bay, Delaware and Maryland (Chesapeake and Delaware Canal) and its related facilities; and (2) provide security for the canal and such facilities. Sets the federal share of the cost of capital improvements at 50% and of operation and maintenance costs at 100%. Directs the Secretary to credit toward the non-federal share of project costs design and construction work carried out by the non-federal interest before the date of an agreement if such work is integral to the project. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in House
To reiterate the responsibilities of FEMA with regard to the creation of an appeals process and the establishment of minimum training and education requirements under the Bunning-Bereuter-Blumenauer Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004.

Bill: 109-hr-4161
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Jo Ann [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2005-10-27 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster insurance
Emergency Management
Employee training
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Insurance agents
Labor and Employment
Law
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: 
Requires the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as directed by the Bunning-Bereuter-Blumenauer Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004 (BBBFIRA), within 90 days after enactment of this Act, to establish an appeals process through which holders of a flood insurance policy may appeal decisions with respect to claims, proofs of loss, and loss estimates relating to such policy.
 
Requires the FEMA Director also, as directed by BBBFIRA, within 90 days after enactment of this Act, to establish minimum training and education requirements for all insurance agents who sell flood insurance policies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in House
Debris Removal Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4163
Sponsor: Rep. Jindal, Bobby [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2005-10-27 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Claims
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency medicine
Energy
Environmental Protection
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Highway maintenance
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Landowners
Law
Law enforcement officers
Paramedical personnel
Police
Public utilities
Refuse and refuse disposal
Standards
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: 
Debris Removal Act of 2005 - Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to pay an eligible disaster relief applicant 50% of the federal share of assistance for which the applicant is eligible under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, within 60 days after the applicant files a claim for such assistance.
 
Authorizes reimbursement for clearing and removing debris to include reimbursement for clearing, removing, and disposing of debris from any emergency access road.

Authorizes federal assistance for removing debris and wreckage resulting from a major disaster from owner-occupied private residential residential property, utilities, and residential infrastructure (such as a private access route) as necessary for a safe and sanitary living or functioning condition.

Provides that, for at least 180 days after the declaration of an emergency or major disaster between August 25, 2005, and December 31, 2005, the federal share of assistance provided to eligible applicants for debris removal shall be 100%. Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide clear, concise, and uniform guidelines for the reimbursement to any county or government entity affected by a hurricane of the cost of hurricane debris removal. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in House
Helping America Hear Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4164
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-9]
Introduced: 2005-10-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee health benefits
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Health insurance
Hearing aids
Labor and Employment

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: 
Helping America Hear Act of 2005 - Requires each federal employee health benefits plan to provide coverage for at least two hearing aids every three years, except that such plan need not cover more than $2,500 for hearing aids for any individual in any three-year period. 
 
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require a group health plan that provides hospital and surgical benefits to also provide such hearing aid coverage.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require health insurance offered in the individual market to provide such coverage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in House
To clarify the boundaries of Coastal Barrier Resources System Clam Pass Unit FL-64P.

Bill: 109-hr-4165
Sponsor: Rep. Mack, Connie [R-FL-14]
Introduced: 2005-10-27 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Barrier islands
Coastal zone
Florida
Government Operations and Politics
Maps
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Reefs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: 
Replaces the map subtitled &quot;FL-64P,&quot; relating to the Coastal Barrier Resources System unit designated as Coastal Barrier Resources System Clam Pass Unit FL-64P, that is included in the set of maps entitled &quot;Coastal Barrier Resources System&quot; and referred to in the Coastal Barrier Resources Act, with another map relating to that unit entitled &quot;Coastal Barrier Resources System Clam Pass Unit, FL-64P&quot;, and dated July 21, 2005.

action_date: 2006-07-20
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Replaces the map subtitled &quot;FL-64P,&quot; relating to the Coastal Barrier Resources System unit designated as Coastal Barrier Resources System Clam Pass Unit FL-64P, that is included in the set of maps entitled &quot;Coastal Barrier Resources System&quot; and referred to in the Coastal Barrier Resources Act, with another map relating to that unit entitled &quot;Coastal Barrier Resources System Clam Pass Unit, FL-64P&quot;, and dated July 21, 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 333.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 109-581.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 109-581.
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans Discharged.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in House
Family Asthma Act

Bill: 109-hr-4166
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2005-10-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Allergies
Asthma
Child health
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Diesel motor
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health education
Health surveys
Higher education
Medical education
Medical records
Medical research
Medical statistics
Mortality
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ozone
Preventive medicine
Public-private partnerships
Research centers
Research grants
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Smog
Telemedicine

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: 
Family Asthma Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to award grants to eligible entities to conduct pilot projects to prevent and control asthma symptoms and to reduce asthma attacks in families. Requires the Secretary to give: (1) priority to entities that serve a medically underserved population; and (2) consideration to an adequate rural-urban distribution, so as to gain better information about asthma at the national level.
 
Authorizes additional appropriations to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to develop a National Asthma Action Plan and to fund a report to Congress by the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to: (1) collaborate with state and local health departments to conduct activities to inform and educate the public regarding asthma; (2) conduct asthma surveillance activities to collect data on the prevalence and severity of asthma, the effectiveness of public heath asthma intervention, and the quality of asthma management; and (3) compile and annually publish asthma data.
 
Requires the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to establish Dr. Irving J. Selikoff individual and institutional training grants for education and training of health care providers on the role of environmental factors in the development and prevention of asthma and recurrent asthma attacks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in House
Fugitive Apprehension Assistance Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4170
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2005-10-27 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Bank records
Business records
Commerce
Consumer education
Criminal investigation
Department of Justice
Finance and Financial Sector
Fugitives from justice
Government Operations and Politics
Injunctions
Law
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Subpoena
Telecommunication industry
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: 
Fugitive Apprehension Assistance Act of 2005 - Amends the federal criminal code to authorize the Attorney General, in any investigation with respect to the apprehension of a fugitive, to subpoena witnesses for the production of records that are relevant to discerning the fugitive's whereabouts. Authorizes requiring the attendance of witnesses and the production of records from any place subject to U.S. jurisdiction, except that a witness shall not be required to appear more than 500 miles from the person's residence or the place where the witness was served.
 
Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) service of process to natural persons and corporations; (2) subpoena enforcement; and (3) the rights of subpoena recipients. 
 
Directs the Attorney General to issue guidelines governing the issuance of administrative subpoenas.
 
Authorizes: (1) the Attorney General, where a subpoena is issued to a provider of electronic communication service or remote computing service or to a financial institution for financial records, to delay notice to the subscriber or customer to whom the records pertain if the court determines that there is reason to believe that notification of the subpoena's existence may have an adverse result; and (2) the court to require the party to whom the subpoena is directed to refrain from notifying any other party of the subpoena's existence for 30 days (with extensions under specified circumstances). Grants immunity from civil liability for good faith compliance with the terms of a court order for the production of records or for nondisclosure to the customer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the consideration of a petition for Federal Recognition of the Lumbee Indians of Robeson and adjoining counties, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-4171
Sponsor: Rep. Taylor, Charles H. [R-NC-11]
Introduced: 2005-10-27 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Indian lands
Indian law enforcement
Judicial review
Jurisdiction
Law
Minorities
North Carolina
Public Lands and Natural Resources
State government-Indian relations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: 
Provides for the consideration of a petition for federal recognition as an Indian tribe by the Lumbee Indians of Robeson and adjoining counties of North Carolina.
 
Expresses the sense of the Congress that review of such petition should not unnecessarily delay review of petitions awaiting active consideration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Introduced in House
Keep Americans Safe Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4172
Sponsor: Rep. Ney, Robert W. [R-OH-18]
Introduced: 2005-10-28 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Arrest
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Deportation
Detention of persons
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Illegal aliens
Imprisonment
Law enforcement officers
Mandatory sentences
Police
Prisons
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-28
text: 
Keep Americans Safe Act of 2005 - Affirms state and local authority to investigate, apprehend, arrest, detain, or transfer to federal custody aliens in the United States in the course of carrying out routine duties in order to assist in the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws.
 
Directs the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide the National Crime Information Center with information on aliens: (1) against whom a final order of removal has been issued; (2) who have signed a voluntary departure agreement; and (3) whose visas have been revoked.
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to direct, upon state or appropriate local request, the Secretary of DHS to: (1) take an illegal alien into federal custody, or request that the relevant state or local law enforcement agency temporarily incarcerate or transport the alien for transfer to federal custody; and (2) designate at least one federal, state, or local prison, or a private contracted prison or detention facility within each state as the central facility for that state to transfer custody of aliens to DHS.
 
Provides for DHS reimbursement of state and local costs incurred in the incarceration and transportation of illegal aliens.
 
Amends federal criminal law to provide that: (1) an illegal alien who commits a felony shall be fined and sentenced to not less than five years in prison; (2) if the defendant was previously ordered removed under INA on the grounds of having committed a crime, he or she shall be sentenced to not less than 15 years in prison; and (3) a sentence of imprisonment imposed under this section shall run consecutively to any other sentence of imprisonment imposed for any other crime.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-10-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-10-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-28
text: Introduced in House