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Eating Disorders Awareness, Prevention, and Education Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-49
Sponsor: Rep. Biggert, Judy [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Agriculture and Food
Child development
Child health
Child nutrition
Communication in medicine
Eating disorders
Economics and Public Finance
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Health education
Higher education
Medical research
Medical statistics
Preventive medicine
Public service advertising
School health programs
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Vital statistics

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Eating Disorders Awareness, Prevention, and Education Act of 2005 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the use of innovative assistance funds for programs to: (1) improve identification of students with eating disorders; (2) increase awareness of such disorders among parents and students; and (3) train educators with respect to effective eating disorder prevention and assistance methods. 
Directs the Secretary of Education to carry out a program to broadcast public service announcements to improve public awareness, and to promote the identification and prevention, of eating disorders.
Requires the National Center for Education Statistics and the National Center for Health Statistics to: (1) study the impact eating disorders have on educational advancement and achievement; (2) report on current State and local programs to educate youth on the dangers of eating disorders; and (3) recommend Federal, State, and local measures that could be undertaken.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the dollar limitation on employer-provided group term life insurance that can be excluded from the gross income of the employee.

Bill: 109-hr-51
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Employee benefit plans
Finance and Financial Sector
Group insurance
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Life insurance
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $50,000 to $300,000 the amount of employer-provided group term life insurance that an employee can exclude from gross income. Indexes the $300,000 amount for inflation for taxable years beginning after 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Railroad Carriers and Mass Transportation Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-52
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Arson
Biological warfare
Bombings
Bridges
Capital punishment
Chemical warfare
Conspiracy
Criminal negligence
Energy
Environmental Protection
Explosives
Fraud
Labor and Employment
Mass rapid transit
Nuclear fuels
Nuclear terrorism
Radioactive wastes
Railroad employees
Railroad equipment
Railroad passenger traffic
Railroad safety
Railroad terminals
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Terrorism
Traffic accidents and safety
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances
Transportation safety
Tunnels

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Railroad Carriers and Mass Transportation Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal criminal code to rewrite provisions prohibiting acts of destruction and violence against trains, railroad equipment and structures, and the mass transportation system to: (1) correspond with current prohibitions against acts of violence against the mass transportation system; (2) apply such provisions to acts committed knowingly (currently, willfully); and (3) add as an aggravated offense the commission of such prohibited act under circumstances in which the railroad on-track equipment or mass transportation vehicle was carrying high-level radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel, or specified hazardous material. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on chloroneb.

Bill: 109-hr-53
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Chemicals
Environmental Protection
Fungicides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on chloroneb.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To make the Federal employees health benefits program available to individuals age 55 to 65 who would not otherwise have health insurance.

Bill: 109-hr-55
Sponsor: Rep. Dreier, David [R-CA-26]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Government trust funds
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Medically uninsured
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Permits any individual who is at least 55 but less than 65 years of age and who has not been covered under any health insurance policy for at least the preceding 30 days to enroll in an approved Federal employees' health insurance plan, for self only, so long as such individual pays the total subscription charges (equal to the employee and agency contributions that would be required) into the Employees Health Benefits Fund.
 
Prohibits an individual from: (1) enrolling or remaining enrolled in such a plan under this Act after attaining age 65; and (2) re-enrolling whether termination was voluntary or involuntary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Health Empowerment Zone Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-56
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Commerce
Community development
Community health services
Community organization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Health planning
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Minorities
Minority health
Public-private partnerships
Territories (U.S.)
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Health Empowerment Zone Act of 2005 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Director of the Office of Minority Health, to: (1) designate health empowerment zones and make grants in accordance with this Act; and (2) establish a health empowerment zone coordinating committee for each zone.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to designate a community as a health empowerment zone if a participating community partnership requests such designation and demonstrates that the community is a community of color experiencing disproportionate disparities in health status and health care.
 
Directs the Secretary to make grants to community partnerships to establish health empowerment zone programs to improve the health or environment of minority individuals and eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health status and health care. Requires at least one such grant to be made to a health empowerment zone in a U.S. territory or possession. Gives preference in awarding grants to indigenous community entities with expertise in providing culturally appropriate and linguistically responsive services to communities of color.
 
Directs the Secretary, the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Education, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to: (1) provide assistance for such programs; (2) identify programs that may be used to further the purposes of such zones; and (3) give priority in administering identified programs to a designated community if doing so would further the purposes of the empowerment program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend titles XI and XIX of the Social Security Act to remove the cap on Medicaid payments for Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa and to adjust the Medicaid statutory matching rate for those territories.

Bill: 109-hr-57
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: American Samoa
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
Guam
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Medicaid
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Social Welfare
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Amends titles XI and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) remove the cap on Medicaid payments for Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa; and (2) adjust the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for those territories. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish at least one Border Patrol unit for the Virgin Islands of the United States.

Bill: 109-hr-58
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Border patrols
Department of Homeland Security
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Immigration
International Affairs
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish at least one Border Patrol unit for the U.S. Virgin Islands. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Security, infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security (Select).
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To repeal certain sections of the Act of May 26, 1936, pertaining to the Virgin Islands.

Bill: 109-hr-59
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Local taxation
Property tax
Tax rates
Taxation
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Amends Federal law to repeal specified provisions pertaining to real property taxation in the U.S. Virgin Islands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Tsunamis Temporary Protected Status Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-60
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Aliens
Bangladesh
Burma
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Earthquakes
East Asia
Emergency Management
India
Indonesia
Kenya
Malaysia
Maldives
Refugees
Residence requirements
Right to travel
Seychelles
Somalia
South Asia
Sri Lanka
Tanzania
Thailand
Tsunamis

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Tsunamis Temporary Protected Status Act of 2005 - Requires Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Somalia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Maldives, Tanzania, Seychelles, Bangladesh, and Kenya to be treated as if such countries had been designated for purposes of the temporary protected status (TPS) provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
 
Establishes a one-year period of initial TPS designation.
 
Makes aliens who are nationals of such nations eligible for TPS if they: (1) have been continuously physically present since the date of enactment of this Act; (2) are admissible as immigrants or eligible for certain waivers of inadmissibility and are not ineligible for TPS; and (3) register for TPS in the manner established by the Secretary of Homeland Security.
 
Directs the Secretary to give prior consent to travel abroad to an alien granted TPS pursuant to this Act if the alien establishes that emergency and extenuating circumstances beyond the control of the alien require the alien to depart for a brief, temporary trip abroad.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
St. Croix National Heritage Area Study Act

Bill: 109-hr-61
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural property
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
Islands
Land use
Landscape protection
Maps
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Nature conservation
Nonprofit organizations
Outdoor recreation
Planning
Public-private partnerships
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Territories (U.S.)
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: St. Croix National Heritage Area Study Act - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to report on the feasibility of designating the island of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, as the St. Croix National Heritage Area.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Democracy Day Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-63
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Commemorations
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Election Day
Federal employees
Holidays
Labor and Employment
Leave of absence
Voting

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Democracy Day Act of 2005 - Requires the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November in 2008 and in each even-number year thereafter (Election Day) to be treated in the same manner as November 11 (Veterans Day) for purposes of any laws relating to Federal employment. Urges private employers to give their employees that day off to enable them to vote. 
Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of the impact of such requirement on voter participation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E23-24)
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Family Heritage Preservation Act

Bill: 109-hr-64
Sponsor: Rep. Cox, Christopher [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Estate tax
Gift tax
Inheritance tax

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Family Heritage Preservation Act - Repeals the Federal tax on estates, gifts, and generation-skipping transfers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the age restrictions for pilots.

Bill: 109-hr-65
Sponsor: Rep. Gibbons, Jim [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Age and employment
Age discrimination
Aircraft pilots
Airline employees
Airlines
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Department of Transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Retirement age
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Amends Federal aviation law to prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, solely by reason of a person's age if the person has not attained his or her Social Security retirement age, from: (1) denying, deferring as to, or failing to renew for any such person an airman or medical certificate for the operation of a commercial aircraft; (2) imposing restrictions or limitations on an airman or medical certificate following initial or periodic competency or medical testing which has the same age discriminatory effect on the person; or (3) requiring an air carrier to terminate the employment of, or not to employ, or to take any other action having the same age discriminatory effect on, such person as a pilot of an aircraft. Declares that such requirements shall not provide the basis for a claim of seniority made under any labor bargaining agreement in effect between the pilots and an air carrier by any pilot seeking re-employment by an air carrier following the pilot's previous termination or cessation of employment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Freedom of Choice Act

Bill: 109-hr-66
Sponsor: Rep. Cox, Christopher [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Coinsurance
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Health Care Freedom of Choice Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the tax deduction for medical expenses without the gross income percentage limitation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
National Commission on the Modernization of the United Nations Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-67
Sponsor: Rep. Crenshaw, Ander [R-FL-4]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
International agencies
Peacekeeping forces
Proportional representation
Sanctions (International law)
Treaties
United Nations
United Nations finances
United Nations membership
United Nations structure

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
National Commission on the Modernization of the United Nations Act of 2005 - Establishes the National Commission on the Modernization of the United Nations to study: (1) the extent of modernization of the organizational structure and practices of the United Nations (UN) that can be effectuated with and without changes to its Charter; (2) the principles to which member states should adhere and the consequences of a state espousing and enforcing values counter to the Charter; (3) the feasibility of mandating each member state to agree to adhere to the principles of UN membership, and to review the principles of the UN to determine whether the state should withdraw if the UN is not adhering to the Charter; (4) whether all states should have one vote in the General Assembly and whether the UN should be structured in a bicameral fashion; (5) whether auxiliary commissions and organizations of the UN should be funded by member dues, whether such entities drain resources away from the primary function of the UN, or whether member states can create and fund caucuses to deal with matters of common interest; (6) whether the UN should have a separate peacekeeping force, while identifying successes of past peacekeeping and humanitarian efforts; and (7) the credibility of resolutions when the UN does not mandate absolute obedience.
 
Terminates the Commission 15 days after submission of its final report.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Adoption Information Act

Bill: 109-hr-69
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Jo Ann [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Adoption
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family planning and birth control
Government Operations and Politics
Government publications
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Adoption Information Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require family planning service projects or programs, as a condition of receiving certain grants or contracts, to assure the Secretary of Health and Human Services that they will provide to each person who inquires about their services a pamphlet containing a comprehensive list of adoption centers in their State.
 
Directs the Secretary to prepare, annually update, and distribute such pamphlets to such projects or programs.


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