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Tim Fagan's Law

Bill: 109-hr-2345
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Business records
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Consumer protection
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Deceptive advertising
Defective products
Department of Health and Human Services
Directories
Drug adulteration
Drug industry
Drugs
Fines (Penalties)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Health education
Identification devices
Informers
Intellectual property
Labeling
Law
Medical personnel
Packaging
Product counterfeiting
Science, Technology, Communications
Subpoena
Wholesale trade

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: 
Tim Fagan's Law or the Counterfeit Drug Enforcement Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish a criminal fine and/or imprisonment for a person who: (1) knowingly causes a prescription drug to be adulterated, misbranded, or misrepresented as an approved prescription drug and sells or trades the drug; or (2) purchases or trades for such drug knowing or having reason to know that the drug was knowingly adulterated, misbranded, or misrepresented. Requires a manufacturer of a drug to notify the Secretary of Health and Human Services within 48 hours after first receiving or becoming aware of information that reasonably suggests that such a violation may have occurred. 
 
Deems a drug to be misbranded if it is not manufactured in accordance with the use of technologies that the Secretary determines are technically feasible and will assist in preventing such violations.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish alternative requirements to the extent that such requirements provide greater certainty on the chain of custody and are technically feasible.
 
Increases funding for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspections, examinations, and investigations.
 
Requires the Secretary to educate the public and health care professionals on counterfeit drugs.
 
Directs the Secretary: (1) upon a finding of reasonable probability that a drug intended for human use would cause serious health consequences or death, to issue an order requiring the appropriate person (including the manufacturers, importers, distributors, or retailers of the drug) to cease distribution of the drug and to notify and instruct health professionals to cease administering or prescribing the drug; and (2) amend the order to include a recall if necessary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E950-951)
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Drug Dealer Liability Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2348
Sponsor: Rep. Latham, Tom [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2005-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Drug abuse
Drug addiction
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Informers
Liability (Law)

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: 
Drug Dealer Liability Act of 2005 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to provide that any person who manufactures or distributes a controlled substance in a felony violation of such Act shall be liable in a civil action to any party harmed, directly or indirectly, by the use of that substance. Prohibits an individual user of a controlled substance from bringing or maintaining such an action unless the individual personally discloses to narcotics enforcement authorities all of the information known to that individual regarding all of his or her sources of illegal controlled substances.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Creating Access to Rides Act

Bill: 109-hr-2349
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2005-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aid to dependent children
Automobile insurance
Automobile repair
Automobiles
Cash welfare block grants
Commerce
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Law
Nonprofit organizations
Public-private partnerships
Saving and investment
Transportation and Public Works
Trusts and trustees
Welfare work participation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: 
Creating Access to Rides Act - Amends title IV (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Serivces to award grants to States, counties, localities, Indian tribes or tribal organizations, and nonprofit entities to promote programs that provide assistance with ownership by low-income families of dependable, affordable automobiles to improve their employment opportunities and access to training.
 
Authorizes the use of funds in TANF individual development accounts for automobile ownership, maintenance, and insurance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2005-05-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E971-972)
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Rural Community Hospital Assistance Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2350
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2005-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Ambulances
Ambulatory care
Coinsurance
Debt
Disabled
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Finance and Financial Sector
Home care services
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Long-term care
Medical economics
Medical fees
Medicare
Mental health services
Nursing homes
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: 
Rural Community Hospital Assistance Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) provide for establishment of a rural community hospital (RCH) program; (2) remove certain barriers to establishment of distinct part units by RCH and Medicare critical access hospital (CAH) facilities; and (3) revise the CAH program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Consumers' Access to Health Information Act

Bill: 109-hr-2352
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2005-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer education
Dietary supplements
Drugs
Health
Health education
Labeling
Medicinal plants
Nutrition
Preventive medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: 
Consumers' Access to Health Information Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem a food to be misbranded if the label of the food characterizes the curative, mitigation, treatment, or prevention effect of any nutrient on any disease or health-related condition unless the claim is made in accordance with specified regulations. (Currently, a label that characterizes the relationship of any nutrient to a disease or health-related condition is deemed to be misbranded.)
 
Provides that a claim or a truthful and not misleading statement on the label or in the labeling of a food or dietary supplement shall not cause the food or dietary supplement to be a drug. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E968-969)
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Common Sense Indian Gambling Reform Act

Bill: 109-hr-2353
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike J. [R-MI-8]
Introduced: 2005-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Administrative fees
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economic research
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-Indian relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Gambling
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Identification of criminals
Independent regulatory commissions
Indian lands
Investors
Law
Minorities
National Indian Gaming Commission
Sports and Recreation
State government-Indian relations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: 
Common Sense Indian Gambling Reform Act - Amends the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act with respect to: (1) background investigations, approval of financial interests, and funding of the National Indian Gaming Commission; (2) Class II and Class III gaming on trust lands on which an Indian tribe has declared an intention to conduct gaming activities; (3) conditions required for exception to gaming restrictions on certain land; (4) approval of compacts by State; and (5) exceptions to certain restrictions on gaming.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
TV Consumer Choice Act

Bill: 109-hr-2354
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2005-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Equipment and supplies
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Standards
Television
Television broadcasting
Television relay systems

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: 
TV Consumer Choice Act - Prohibits specified provisions of the Communications Act of 1934 from being construed to authorize the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to require, or prescribe any schedule for the implementation of, digital television reception capability in television broadcast reception equipment. 
 
States that the requirements and schedule established by FCC regulation for the implementation of such capability in such equipment shall not be effective except as expressly hereafter provided by Act of Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Preserving Patient Access to Physicians Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2356
Sponsor: Rep. Shaw, E. Clay, Jr. [R-FL-22]
Introduced: 2005-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer price indexes
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Indexing (Economic policy)
Labor and Employment
Labor productivity
Medical fees
Medicare
Physicians
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: 
Preserving Patient Access to Physicians Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to payment for physicians' services to: (1) eliminate the sustainable growth rate payment update system; and (2) establish in its place an update to the single conversion factor for 2006 of at least 2.7 percent, and a formula for an update to the single conversion factor for years beginning with 2007.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in calculating the formula for the single conversion factor, to establish an input price index and estimate annually a productivity adjustment factor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Respirator Access Assurance Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2357
Sponsor: Rep. Shuster, Bill [R-PA-9]
Introduced: 2005-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Commerce
Environmental Protection
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Labeling
Labor and Employment
Licenses
Local laws
Occupational health and safety
Products liability
Respiratory diseases
Safety appliances
State laws
Warning labels

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: 
Respirator Access Assurance Act of 2005 - States that manufacturers or sellers of respirators shall not be subject to claims for defective design or warning, or any claims based on such allegations, if the respirator in question received National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) approval and was manufactured in compliance with NIOSH-approved design and labeling. 
 
Preempts all State and local laws with regard to such claims.
 
Makes this Act applicable to any civil action in Federal or State court for harm allegedly caused by a respirator, respirator manufacturer, or respirator seller.
 
Applies this Act to any action than has not proceeded to trial as of the date of enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8953)
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Aeronautics Research and Development Revitalization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2358
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aeronautics
Air pollution control
Air traffic
Aircraft industry
Aircraft pilots
Airline passenger traffic
Airlines
Authorization
Aviation fuels
Aviation safety
Carbon dioxide
Commerce
Commercial aircraft
Commercialization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Drone aircraft
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Energy
Energy conservation
Engineering
Environmental Protection
Environmental technology
Federal aid to air pollution control
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to transportation
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Graduate education
Higher education
Hydrogen
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Meteorological research
Meteorology
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Nitrogen oxides
Noise
Performance measurement
Planets
Planning
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research and development
Research and development facilities
Research centers
Research grants
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists
Security measures
Short takeoff aircraft
Sonic boom
Space activities
Spacecraft
Student employment
Summer employment
Supersonic aircraft
Technological innovations
Technology assessment
Technology transfer
Transportation workers
User charges
Weather forecasting

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: 
Aeronautics Research and Development Revitalization Act of 2005 - Directs the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator to establish, and provide Congress a plan for the implementation of, certain initiatives to develop technologies that would: (1) significantly reduce aircraft noise, fuel consumption, and harmful emissions; (2) enable overland flight of supersonic civil transport aircraft with certain performance characteristics; and (3) create significantly safer, quieter, and more environmentally compatible operation of rotorcraft and other runway independent air vehicles from a wider range of airports and under a wider range of weather conditions.
 

 

 
Directs the Administrator to arrange with the National Research Council to assess federal wake turbulence research and development programs.
 
Directs the Administrator to award grants to institutions of higher education to establish one or more Centers for Research on Aviation Training.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.
action_date: 2005-05-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E959-960)
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Digital Television Accountability and Governance Enhancement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2359
Sponsor: Rep. Watson, Diane E. [D-CA-33]
Introduced: 2005-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Broadband
Business records
Campaign debates
Civics education
Commerce
Education
Educational television
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Licenses
Public interest
Public relations
Standards
Television and children
Television broadcasting
Television in politics
Television news
Television programs
Television stations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: 
Digital Television Accountability and Governance Enhancement Act of 2005 or the DTV-AGE Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to reduce broadcast station initial license and renewal terms to three years.
 
Revises public interest standard provisions to require a station licensee using advanced television spectrum to broadcast multiple channels of programming in the digital television service to establish that program services on such spectrum are in the public interest by meeting specified broadcasting requirements for local civic affairs or qualifying local electoral affairs, independently or locally produced programming, and children's educational programming. Requires at least two public hearings annually to ascertain community needs and interests.
 
Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to issue specified final decisions and complete a specified rulemaking proceeding within nine months of enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Peace Officer Justice Act

Bill: 109-hr-2363
Sponsor: Rep. Dreier, David [R-CA-26]
Introduced: 2005-05-16 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Capital punishment
Federal law enforcement officers
Fugitives from justice
Government Operations and Politics
Law enforcement officers
Life imprisonment
Murder
Police
Sentences (Criminal procedure)

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-16
text: 
Peace Officer Justice Act - Amends the federal criminal code to establish as a federal crime intentionally killing a peace officer engaged in, or on account of the performance of, such officer's official duties and moving or traveling in foreign commerce to avoid prosecution or confinement after conviction of that crime.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8359-8360, CR E1954-1955)
action_date: 2005-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-05-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-05-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3266)
action_date: 2005-05-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-16
text: Introduced in House