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Cancer Testing, Education, Screening, and Treatment Act

Bill: 109-hr-3640
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Clinics
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Health counseling
Health education
Homeless
Language and languages
Medical screening
Medical tests
Minorities
Minority health
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Cancer Testing, Education, Screening, and Treatment Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to qualifying health centers and nonprofit organizations for programs providing cancer screening, counseling, and treatment and information and education on cancer prevention. Targets service populations with significant numbers of low-income minority individuals who are at-risk for cancer, requiring programs to provide: (1) services in the languages most appropriate for, and with consideration for the cultural backgrounds of, services recipients; (2) outreach activities; and (3) cancer information. Requires the Secretary to designate the type(s) of cancer covered by a grant. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Minority Diabetes Initiative Act

Bill: 109-hr-3641
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Community health services
Diabetes
Economics and Public Finance
Eye care
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Kidney diseases
Language and languages
Minorities
Minority health
Preventive medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Minority Diabetes Initiative Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to public and nonprofit private health care providers for the purpose of providing treatment for diabetes in minority communities. Conditions grants on the recipient agreeing to provide: (1) services in the languages most appropriate for, and with consideration for the cultural backgrounds of, service recipients; (2) outreach activities; and (3) offsite information on diabetes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Alzheimer's Treatment and Caregiver Support Act

Bill: 109-hr-3642
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alzheimer's disease
Caregivers
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family services
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Nonprofit organizations
Nursing homes
Senior centers
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Alzheimer's Treatment and Caregiver Support Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to public and nonprofit private health care providers to expand treatment services for patients with Alzheimer's disease and training and support services for families and caregivers. Conditions grants on the recipient agreeing to: (1) employ a comprehensive approach to care that integrates the treament of patients with training and support services for families and caregivers; (2) provide services in the languages most appropriate for, and with consideration for the cultural backgrounds of, service recipients; (3) provide outreach activities; and (4) provide information on Alzheimer's. Allocates 10% of grant funds for medically underserved communities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Spaceport Equality Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3643
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Dave [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Airports
Commerce
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Leases
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Space activities
Tax-exempt securities
Terminals (Transportation)
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Spaceport Equality Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the issuance of tax-exempt facility bonds for spaceports. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in House
To exempt boilermakers from the numerical limitation applicable to nonimmigrants issued a visa or otherwise provided status under section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Bill: 109-hr-3644
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Aliens
Labor and Employment
Temporary employment
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Exempts an H-2B visa (temporary nonagricultural worker) alien coming to work in the United States as a boilermaker from fiscal year numerical limitations under the Immigration and Nationality Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in House
Gas Price Relief and Oil Conservation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3646
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2005-09-02 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alabama
Department of Energy
Economic concentration
Emergency Management
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy demand
Energy prices
Floods
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Law
Louisiana
Mississippi
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Price regulation
Profit
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-02
text: 
Gas Price Relief and Oil Conservation Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to promulgate regulations to: (1) prevent companies from raising wholesale prices for gasoline more than once every 24 hours; and (2) limit, immediately and until the end of FY2006, the profits of oil companies that sell gasoline on the wholesale market to no more than the average of their profits during the five-year period from FY2001-FY2005.
 
Directs the appropriate federal departments and agencies, as identified by the President, to propose voluntary, regulatory, and other actions sufficient to reduce demand for oil in the United States by at least one million barrels per day from projected demand for oil in 2013, for purposes of reducing waste of oil and decreasing demand for foreign oil.
 
Directs the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether price gouging has occurred in the wholesale and retail gasoline markets in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and whether consolidation in the markets has led to higher prices for consumers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-09-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-09-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-02
text: Introduced in House
To render nationals of Denmark eligible to enter the United States as nonimmigrant traders and investors.

Bill: 109-hr-3647
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2005-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Aliens
Denmark
Europe
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign investments
Investors
Reciprocity
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: 
 Makes Danish nationals eligible to enter the United States as nonimmigrant traders and investors (E-visa) if Denmark extends reciprocal nonimmigrant treatment to U.S. nationals.

action_date: 2005-10-18
text: 
Makes Danish nationals eligible to enter the United States as nonimmigrant traders and investors (E-visa) if Denmark extends reciprocal nonimmigrant treatment to U.S. nationals.
 
(Specifies that the provisions providing E-3 specialty occupation status for nationals of Australia shall not apply to Denmark.)

action_date: 2005-11-16
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on October 18, 2005. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Makes Danish nationals eligible to enter the United States as nonimmigrant traders and investors (E-visa) if Denmark extends reciprocal nonimmigrant treatment to U.S. nationals.
 
(Specifies that the provisions providing E-3 specialty occupation status for nationals of Australia shall not apply to Denmark.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H10243)
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H10243)
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3647.
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H10243)
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Mr. Sensenbrenner moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2005-10-18
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 138.
action_date: 2005-10-18
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 109-251.
action_date: 2005-10-18
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 109-251.
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-09-26
text: Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims Discharged.
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in House
To impose additional fees with respect to immigration services for intracompany transferees.

Bill: 109-hr-3648
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2005-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Aliens
Economics and Public Finance
Labor and Employment
Law
Transfer of employees
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to an employer of L-visa (intracompany transfer) nonimmigrant aliens to direct: (1) the Secretary of State to impose a $1,500 fee on an employer when an alien files a visa application abroad authorizing initial U.S. admission under a blanket petition; and (2) the Secretary of Homeland Security to impose a $1,500 fee on an employer filing a petition initially to grant an alien L-visa status or to extend for the first time the stay of an L-visa alien.
 
States that: (1) such fee shall apply to the principal alien and not to an accompanying spouse or child; and (2) an employer may not require fee reimbursement from an L-visa alien.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 20 - 6.
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-09-26
text: Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims Discharged.
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 9, United States Code, to allow employees the right to accept or reject the use of arbitration to resolve an employment controversy.

Bill: 109-hr-3651
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Employee rights
Industrial arbitration
Industrial relations
Labor contracts
Labor disputes

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: 
Authorizes the use of arbitration to settle a dispute, notwithstanding an employment contract that provides for the use of arbitration to resolve a controversy arising out of or relating to the employment relationship, only if: (1) the employer or employee submits a written request after the dispute arises to the other party to use arbitration; and (2) the other party consents in writing within 60 days after receipt of the request.

Prohibits an employer subject to federal arbitration provisions from requiring an employee to arbitrate a dispute as a condition of employment.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in House
Driver Protection Act

Bill: 109-hr-3652
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Disabled
Discrimination against the disabled
Dismissal of employees
Driver licenses
Employment of the disabled
Traffic accidents and safety
Transportation and Public Works
Truck drivers
Trucking

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: 
Driver Protection Act - Prohibits the demotion or firing of any employee on the basis of a vision impairment if the employee is granted a vision waiver by the Secretary of Transportation and has: (1) only one valid driver's license at any time; (2) never had a license suspended, revoked, or canceled as a result of a conviction for a moving violation; (3) never been convicted of a serious traffic violation; (4) never been convicted of more than one moving violation and such violation did not involve personal injury or significant damage to property; and (5) no record of an accident in which the driver was at fault.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in House
Employee Participation Incentive Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3653
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Employee ownership
Employee stock options
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: 
Employee Participation Incentive Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) cap at 30 percent the maximum income tax rate for corporations that have a 20 percent or greater employee ownership rate; (2) exclude from employee gross income up to 20 percent of wages paid in stock; and (3) allow such corporations a tax deduction for certain stock options granted to employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in House
International U.S. Seniors Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3654
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aliens
Americans in foreign countries
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Finance and Financial Sector
Immigration
Insurance premiums
International Affairs
Medical economics
Medicare
Medigap
Social Welfare
Treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: 
International U.S. Seniors Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide certain Medicare beneficiaries living abroad: (1) a special Medicare part B enrollment period during which the late enrollment penalty is waived; and (2) a special Medigap open enrollment period during which certain anti-discriminatory prohibitions apply.
 
Expresses the sense of the Congress on the need for an international convention for reimbursement of the costs of health care coverage for foreign senior citizens.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-09-06
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: 2005-09-06
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: 2005-09-06
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: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in House
School Violence Prevention Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3655
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2005-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Department of Education
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee training
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Law
School discipline
School personnel
School security
Secondary education
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: 
School Violence Prevention Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Education to review and revise the guidelines relating to the principles of effectiveness criteria developed under the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act to ensure that such guidelines meet the findings of a 2002 report prepared for the Department of Education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in House
National Emergency Management Restoration and Improvement Act

Bill: 109-hr-3656
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-15]
Introduced: 2005-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Congress
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster relief
Disasters
Executive reorganization
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federal employees
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Presidential appointments
Terrorism
Transfer of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: 
National Emergency Management Restoration and Improvement Act - Establishes the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as an independent establishment in the executive branch.
 
Requires the FEMA Director to be appointed, by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, from among persons who have significant expertise in the area of emergency preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation as related to natural disasters and other national cataclysmic events.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science, and Technology.
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Management, Integration, and Oversight.
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2005-09-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2005-09-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2005-09-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7648)
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in House