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Medicare Dual Eligible Prescription Drug Coverage Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-566
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2005-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Community health services
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Cost control
Drug utilization
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health counseling
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Health surveys
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical records
Medical statistics
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Rebates
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: 
Medicare Dual Eligible Prescription Drug Coverage Act of 2005 - Provides that, for prescriptions filled between January 1 and June 30, 2006, requirements for the coordination of prescription drug benefits with Medicare as primary payor for dual eligible individuals under the new prescription drug benefit program (PDP) under Medicare part E (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) shall not apply. Requires a State to continue to provide Medicaid medical assistance with respect to prescription drugs as if such coordination requirements had not been enacted. 
 
Declares that no State or the District of Columbia shall be required to pay (reimburse) the Secretary of Health and Human Services for Medicaid prescription drug costs for dual eligible individuals (Medicaid clawback payments) for any month before July 1, 2006. 
 
Earmarks specified amounts for education and outreach to dual eligibles regarding prescription drug coverage and monitoring of their transition to prescription drug coverage under Medicare.
 
Requires a PDP sponsor and an MA organization offering an MA-PD plan to submit to the Secretary appropriate information regarding the drug utilization of enrollees in such plans who are full-benefit dual eligible individuals. Directs the Secretary to collect data on the drug utilization of full-benefit dual eligible individuals and share it with the States and District of Columbia in as close to a real-time basis as possible.
 
Directs the Comptroller General of the United States to study and report to Congress on the clawback formula.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2271-2272)
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2270-2271)
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Nonprofit Athletic Organization Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-567
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2005-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Athletics
Civil actions and liability
Employee training
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Liability (Law)
Licenses
Negligence
Nonprofit organizations
Privileges and immunities
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: 
Nonprofit Athletic Organization Protection Act of 2005 - Exempts a nonprofit athletic organization from liability for harm caused by an act or omission in the adoption of rules of play for sanctioned or approved athletic competitions or practices if: (1) the organization was acting within the scope of its duties; (2) the organization was properly licensed, certified, or authorized for the competition or practice; and (3) the harm was not caused by the organization's willful or criminal misconduct, gross negligence, or reckless misconduct. Makes exceptions where State law: (1) requires such an organization to adhere to risk management procedures, including mandatory training; (2) makes the organization liable for the acts or omissions of its employees, agents, and volunteers to the same extent as an employer is liable for its employees; and (3) makes a limitation of liability inapplicable if the civil action was brought by an officer of a State or local government
 
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Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2272-2273)
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Women's Health Office Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-569
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2005-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Clinical trials
Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug approvals
Education
Executive reorganization
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health education
Health information systems
Health planning
Higher education
Medical education
Medical ethics
Medical research
Medical supplies
Pharmaceutical research
Preventive medicine
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: 
Women's Health Office Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act, the Social Security Act, and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the establishment of separate Offices on Women's Health within the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Office of the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Office of the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and the Office of the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to carry out specified activities relating to the health of women. Directs the lead officers of each Office of Women's Health to establish goals, provide information, serve as a consultant, and establish a Coordinating Committee on Women's Health within their respective agencies.
 
Requires the Director of the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to designate an official of the Office of Priority Populations to carry out similar responsibilities relating to women's health.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Office of Women's Health, to establish a National Women's Health Information Center to facilitate the exchange of information, access to such information, and the analysis of issues and problems relating to women's health.
 
Transfers the functions of the Office on Women's Health of the Public Health Service to the Office of Women's Health within HHS.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4863-4864)
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2273)
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Advance Directives Education Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-570
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2005-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health counseling
Health education
Health maintenance organizations
Living wills
Medicaid
Medicare
Motor vehicle registration
Power of attorney
Right to die
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
State laws
Telephone
Terminal care
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: 
Advance Directives Education Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require a service provider, Medicare Advantage organization, or prepaid or eligible organization to: (1) provide each individual receiving medical care through such provider or organization with the opportunity to discuss issues relating to an individual's rights under State law to make decisions concerning medical care and formulate advance directives; and (2) give effect to an advance directive executed outside the State even if such directive does not appear to meet State requirements, unless the provider or organization can reasonably demonstrate that the directive is not an authentic expression of the individual's health care wishes. Makes such advance directive requirements applicable under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act. 
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for the establishment of a national, toll-free, information clearinghouse for State-specific information regarding advance directives and end-of-life decisions.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to study and report on the feasibility of a national registry for advanced directives.
 
Requires each State to establish a program that: (1) provides information to residents at the State's department of motor vehicles on the advance directives clearinghouse; and (2) is modeled after the State's organ donation program at the department of motor vehicles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-10
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 49.
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2386-2387)
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2385-2386)
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor Amendments Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-574
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2005-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Authorization
Commemorations
Commerce
Connecticut
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Land use
Landscape protection
Nature conservation
Public-private partnerships
Tourism
Water Resources Development
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: 
Amends the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor Act of 1994 to: (1) extend the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to make grants or provide any assistance under the Act for the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor to September 30, 2027; and (2) double the total amount that may be appropriated for the Corridor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-663.
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Educational Opportunity for All Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-575
Sponsor: Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2005-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Education
Higher education
Income tax
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: 
Educational Opportunity for All Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a refundable tax credit for qualfied tuition expenses. Defines &quot;qualified tuition expenses&quot; as tuition required for the enrollment of the taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse or dependents at an institution of higher learning. Limits the annual amount of such credit to $4,000 per student.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1172)
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2391-2392)
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2391)
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to restore the prohibition on the commercial sale and slaughter of wild free-roaming horses and burros.

Bill: 109-s-576
Sponsor: Sen. Byrd, Robert C. [D-WV]
Introduced: 2005-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Environmental Protection
Fines (Penalties)
Horses
Meat packing industry
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Wild animal trade
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife management

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: 
Amends the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act to: (1) prohibit the sale or transfer for commercial product processing of any free-roaming horse or burro on U.S. public lands; and (2) repeal the provisions permitting the sale of certain excess animals or their remains, and excluding from criminal fine or imprisonment a person who processes or permits the processing of such animals' remains.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2392)
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
HIPAA Recreational Injury Technical Correction Act

Bill: 109-s-577
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2005-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: All terrain vehicles
Animals
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Horses
Labor and Employment
Motorcycles
Recreation
Skiing
Snowmobiles
Sports and Recreation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: HIPAA Recreational Injury Technical Correction Act - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit a group health plan or health insurance issuer offering group health coverage from denying benefits or coverage otherwise provided under the plan for the treatment of an injury solely because it resulted from participation in a legal mode of transportation or recreational activity.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2392-2393)
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Terrorist Apprehension and Record Retention Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-578
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal justice information
Data banks
Federal-state relations
Firearms
Firearms control
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification of criminals
Science, Technology, Communications
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: 
Terrorist Apprehension and Record Retention Act of 2005 or the TARR Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide that if the national criminal background check system indicates that a person attempting to purchase a firearm or applying for a State permit to possess, acquire, or carry a firearm is identified as a known or suspected member of a terrorist organization in records maintained by the Department of Justice or the Department of Homeland Security, including the Violent Gang and Terrorist Organization File or records maintained by the Intelligence Community: (1) all information related to the prospective transaction shall be automatically and immediately transmitted to the appropriate Federal and State counterterrorism officials, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); (2) the FBI shall coordinate the response; and (3) all records generated in the course of the check that are obtained by Federal and State officials shall be retained for at least ten years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2393-2394)
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Children and Media Research Advancement Act

Bill: 109-s-579
Sponsor: Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2005-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advertising
Agriculture and Food
Child development
Child health
Child nutrition
Child welfare
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Diet
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Infants
Interactive media
Internet
Learning
Learning disabilities
Lifestyle
Medical research
Motion pictures
Obesity
Parent and child
Psychiatry
Psychology
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Television and children
Video games
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: 
Children and Media Research Advancement Act or CAMRA Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to establish an independent panel of experts to: (1) review, synthesize, and report on research, theory, and applications in the social, behavioral, and biological sciences regarding the roles and impact of the use of and exposure to electronic media on youth in certain core areas of child and adolescent development; and (2) establish research priorities regarding such issues.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct initial pilot projects to supplement and inform the panel's work. Requires the Director to develop and implement a program that funds additional research determined to be necessary by the panel concerning the role and impact of electronic media in the development of children and adolescents, with a particular focus on media content, format, length of exposure, age of the child or adolescent, and nature of parental involvement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2396-2397)
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2394-2396)
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain modifications to be made to qualified mortgages held by a REMIC or a grantor trust.

Bill: 109-s-580
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2005-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government securities
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Law
Loan defaults
Mortgages
Secondary mortgage market
Tax penalties
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit certain amendments, waivers, or other modifications to mortgages held by a Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit (REMIC) or a Grantor Trust without disqualifying such mortgages as REMIC or Grantor Trust mortgages. Permits amendments, waivers, or modifications that do not: (1) extend the final maturity date of a mortgage; (2) increase the outstanding balance of the mortgage; (3) result in the release of an interest in real property securing the mortgage; or (4) result in an instrument or property right which is not debt for Federal income tax purposes. Exempts such amendments, waivers, or modifications from the penalty for prohibited transactions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2397-2398)
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2397)
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Prescription Drug Cost Containment Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-581
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2005-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Budget surpluses
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Expedited congressional procedure
Government trust funds
House rules and procedure
Legislation
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Senate rules and procedure
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: 
Medicare Prescription Drug Cost Containment Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, on the same date on which the President submits a budget to Congress, to submit to Congress a determination on the following: (1) whether there is projected to be excess general revenue Medicare prescription drug funding for the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted; or (2) whether there was excess general revenue Medicare prescription drug funding in the prior fiscal year. States that, if there is an affirmative determination on either question, it shall be treated as a Medicare part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) funding warning in the fiscal year during which the determination is submitted to Congress. 
 
Amends Federal money and finance law, as amended by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, to direct the President to submit to Congress, within 15 days after the budget submission, proposed legislation to respond to such a Medicare part D funding warning. States that such requirement shall not apply if, during the year in which the warning is made, legislation is enacted which eliminates excess general revenue Medicare funding for the period beginning with the fiscal year for which the determination is made and ending on September 30, 2013.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that any such submitted legislation should be designed to eliminate excess general revenue Medicare funding for such period.
 
Sets out the special procedures for House and Senate consideration of the President's legislative proposal in response to such a warning.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Little Rock Central High School Desegregation 50th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 109-s-582
Sponsor: Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2005-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Anniversaries
Arkansas
Black history
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Coins and coinage
Desegregation in education
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Finance and Financial Sector
Historic sites
History
Minorities
Secondary education
Silver

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: 
Little Rock Central High School Desegregation 50th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act - Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue not more than 500,000 $1 coins emblematic of the desegregation of the Little Rock Central High School and its contribution to civil rights in America, beginning January 1, 2007.
 
Terminates such minting authority after December 31, 2007.
 
States that all sales shall include a surcharge of $10 per coin, to be equally divided and paid to: (1) the Jefferson National Parks Association for the purpose of providing support for programs and other developmental activities at the Little Rock Central High National Historic Site and support for the ongoing mission of the Little Rock Central High National Historic Site; and (2) the Secretary of the Interior for site improvements at the Little Rock Central High National Historic Site, including the establishment of cooperative agreements to preserve and restore the historic character of the vicinity in the historic site's boundaries.
 
States that Congress intends for such surcharges to supplement amounts provided to the Secretary in appropriation Acts for the Little Rock Central High National Historic Site, and are not intended to be a substitute for such appropriated amounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2005-03-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2513)
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate