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Meskwaki Code Talkers Recognition Act

Bill: 109-hr-3466
Sponsor: Rep. Boswell, Leonard L. [D-IA-3]
Introduced: 2005-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Cryptography
Government Operations and Politics
History
Language and languages
Military history
Minorities
Native Americans
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: 
Meskwaki Code Talkers Recognition Act - Requires the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to make appropriate arrangements for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of gold medals of appropriate design to each of the named eight Meskwaki Code Talkers who served during World War II.
 
Provides for additional medals to other individuals not named in this Act who also served in such capacity.
 
Allows the medals to be awarded posthumously to a surviving family member of such individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the adjusted gross income limitation on participation in conservation programs administered by the Department of Agriculture to exempt producers operating in the State of Hawaii.

Bill: 109-hr-3467
Sponsor: Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2005-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agricultural subsidies
Environmental Protection
Hawaii
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Soil conservation
Water Resources Development
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: 
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985, as amended by the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, to permit farming, ranching, or forestry operators in Hawaii to receive erosion and wetland and specified conservation payments without regard to gross income (and farm-related income) limitations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2005-08-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development, and Research.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1641-1642)
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Accountability in Foster Care Act

Bill: 109-hr-3470
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2005-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Adoption
Child abuse
Child welfare
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government statistics
Law
Performance measurement
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: 
Accountability in Foster Care Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an Advisory Panel on the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) to revise and monitor the data collection, analysis, and reporting system designed to be used to assess and improve state performance in operating child protection and child welfare programs (pursuant to parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act).

Directs the Secretary to publish notice of proposed regulations, based on Advisory Panel recommendations, and final regulations to revise AFCARS. Requires such regulations to: (1) permit longitudinal analysis of child-specific outcomes, including analysis of entry and exit cohort data for children in and emancipated from foster care; (2) permit AFCARS to be integrated with the planned National Youth in Transition Database; and (3) contain any other rules necessary to ensure that the revised AFCARS can perform specified functions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Strengthening the Chafee Foster Care Independence Program Act

Bill: 109-hr-3471
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2005-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Adoption
Case management
Child health
Compensatory education
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Federal aid to education
Financial planning
Financial services
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Law
Mental health
Performance measurement
Personal budgets
Preventive medicine
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Vocational and technical education
Vocational guidance
Welfare eligibility
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: 
Strengthening the Chafee Foster Care Independence Program Act - Amends the Social Security Act to revise requirements for the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program (Program).
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to distribute to states and localities information on access to federal programs (other than the Program) to help foster youth in transition to self-sufficiency. Requires states to certify that, before or when a child leaves foster care, they will inform the child of the full range of available financial, housing, counseling, employment, and education services, and other appropriate support and services for which the child is eligible.

Directs the Secretary to develop a standard reporting format for states implementing the Program and a uniform process regional offices can use in assessing state progress in meeting needs of youth in foster care and those recently emancipated from such care. 

Requires case plans, where appropriate, to describe programs and services that will help the child's transition from foster care to independent living. Revises program evaluation requirements.

Makes eligible for educational and training vouchers youths in or exiting from foster care after attaining 14 years of age.

Directs the Secretary, after issuing a related notice and rule, to implement the plan for the national youth in transition database.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Military Personnel Financial Services Education Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3472
Sponsor: Rep. Emanuel, Rahm [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2005-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Casualty insurance
Commerce
Consumer education
Counseling
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial services
Government life insurance
Insurance
Investments
Life insurance
Marketing
Military dependents
Military education
Military pay
Military personnel
Military promotions
Military training
Payroll deductions
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: 
Military Personnel Financial Services Education Act of 2005 - Provides financial services and life insurance consumer education for members of the Armed Forces and their spouses, which shall be provided as a component of initial entry and recurring training. (Such training shall include information on financial services marketing practices that are particularly prevalent at a military installation and vicinity.)
 
Provides financial services counseling for members of the Armed Forces, and upon request, for their spouses. Requires a full-time trained counselor at installations with at least 750 assigned personnel, and other counseling at smaller installations.
 
Requires counselors to provide members or spouses with information on Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance when providing information on private sector life insurance. Prohibits junior enlisted members (members of the Armed Forces in pay grades E-1 through E-4) from paying for private sector insurance through pay allotments without a written certification of counseling.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to apply to Federal and State government employers.

Bill: 109-hr-3473
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2005-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Federal employees
Health
Labor and Employment
Local employees
Occupational health and safety
State employees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: 
Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to include federal, state, and local governments and interstate governmental agencies among the entities subject to the Act's requirements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to repeal the provision of law requiring termination of the Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans as of December 31, 2009.

Bill: 109-hr-3474
Sponsor: Rep. Gutierrez, Luis V. [D-IL-4]
Introduced: 2005-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Minorities
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: 
Repeals a Federal provision requiring the termination of the Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans as of December 31, 2009.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1634)
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To require the prompt review by the Secretary of the Interior of Petition No. 120 for Federal recognition of the Amah Mutsun of Mission San Juan Bautista as an Indian tribe, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-3475
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2005-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Administrative remedies
California
Civil actions and liability
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Judicial review
Law
Minorities

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, within six months after enactment of this Act, to publish a proposed finding with respect to Petition No. 120 for federal recognition of the Amah Mutsun of Mission San Juan Bautista (Tribe) as an Indian Tribe. Requires the Secretary to publish a final determination within one year after enactment of this Act. 
 

 
States that the number of persons listed on the membership roll for Petition No. 120 shall not be taken into account in considering it. Allows the Secretary, however, to review the eligibility of individual members or groups listed in the petition.
 
Authorizes the Tribe to seek in the appropriate U.S.district court a determination of whether the Tribe should be recognized as an Indian tribe, if the Secretary fails to meet either of the deadlines established by this Act.
 
Authorizes the Tribe to seek in the appropriate U.S. district court review of any final determination refusing to recognize the Tribe, notwithstanding the availability of other administrative remedies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To grant a Federal charter to Korean War Veterans Association, Incorporated.

Bill: 109-hr-3476
Sponsor: Rep. Hoyer, Steny H. [D-MD-5]
Introduced: 2005-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Federal incorporation
History
Korean War, 1950-1953
Veterans' organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: 
Grants a federal charter to the Korean War Veterans Association, Incorporated (a nonprofit corporation incorporated under the laws of New York). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a plan for establishing consolidated and co-located regional offices for the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-3477
Sponsor: Rep. Jindal, Bobby [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2005-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost control
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster relief
Executive reorganization
Federal office buildings
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Planning
Productivity in government
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop and submit to Congress a plan for establishing consolidated and co-located regional offices for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that will: (1) enable a rapid, robust, and coordinated federal response to threats and incidents; (2) enhance all-hazards preparedness across the United States with respect to terrorism, natural disasters, other emergencies; (3) provide integrated capabilities among DHS, other federal agencies, and state and local governments; and (4) maximize cost savings and efficiencies through establishment of regional offices at current DHS agency regional structures with contiguous multi-state operations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Management, Integration, and Oversight.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit military death gratuities to be contributed to certain tax-favored accounts.

Bill: 109-hr-3478
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2005-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Education
Education savings accounts
Families
Health
Higher education
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Medical savings accounts
Military dependents
Survivors' benefits
Tax exclusion
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax free rollovers of military death gratuities to Roth individual retirement accounts, health savings and Archer medical savings accounts, and Coverdell education savings accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H9539)
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Fair Trade for All Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3480
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2005-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Caribbean area
Central America
Costa Rica
Customs unions
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Free trade
Guatemala
Honduras
International Affairs
Latin America
Nicaragua
Trade agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: 
Fair Trade for All Act of 2005 - Directs the President to withdraw the United States from the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement entered into on August 5, 2004, with the governments of Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the energy employees occupational illness compensation program.

Bill: 109-hr-3481
Sponsor: Rep. Reynolds, Thomas M. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2005-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Armed Forces and National Security
Business records
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Energy
Environmental Protection
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government liability
Health
Ionizing radiation
Iron and steel industry
Law
Medical records
New York State
Nuclear weapons
Occupational health and safety
Radiation
Radiation victims

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: 
Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the energy employees occupational illness compensation program. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) modify regulations and procedures to conform to amendments under this Act; and (2) initiate a petition to include workers employed at the Bethlehem Steel site in Lackawanna, New York, as a class to be included in the Special Exposure Cohort. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2005-08-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain footwear.

Bill: 109-hr-3483
Sponsor: Rep. Ryun, Jim [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2005-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Shoe industry
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on certain footwear.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain athletic footwear.

Bill: 109-hr-3484
Sponsor: Rep. Ryun, Jim [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2005-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Shoe industry
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on certain athletic footwear.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain work footwear.

Bill: 109-hr-3485
Sponsor: Rep. Ryun, Jim [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2005-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Shoe industry
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on certain work footwear. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain footwear for men.

Bill: 109-hr-3486
Sponsor: Rep. Ryun, Jim [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2005-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Shoe industry
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on certain footwear for men.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain rubber or plastic footwear.

Bill: 109-hr-3487
Sponsor: Rep. Ryun, Jim [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2005-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Shoe industry
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on certain rubber or plastic footwear.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Introduced in House