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Campus Fire Safety Right-to-Know Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1196
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Building construction
Building laws
College teachers
Colleges
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Death
Drug abuse
Economics and Public Finance
Educational facilities
Educational statistics
Electric appliances
Emergency Management
Equipment and supplies
Federal aid to education
Fire prevention
Fires
Fraternal organizations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Planning
School buildings
School personnel
Smoke detectors
Smoking
Standards
Student housing
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Campus Fire Safety Right-to-Know Act of 2005 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require each institution participating in any program under the Act to provide to all current students and employees, and to any applicant for enrollment or employment upon request, an annual fire safety report containing specified information about the campus fire safety practices and standards of that institution.
 
Requires such institutions to: (1) record all on-campus fires, including the nature, date, time, and general location of each fire and all false fire alarms; and (2) open such information to public inspection. Requires the institutions to report on such information annually to the campus community in a manner that will aid the prevention of similar occurrences.
 
Requires the institutions to request their fraternities and sororities to collect and report such information for each building and property they own or control.
 
Requires the Secretary of Education to report to Congress on fire safety systems in facilities of institutions of higher education and on fire safety standards in all such facilities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6229)
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6228-6229)
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in Senate
International Solid Waste Importation and Management Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1198
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air pollution control
Canada
Civil actions and liability
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental health
Export controls
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Import restrictions
Landfills
Law
Municipal solid waste
Recycling of waste products
State laws
Traffic accidents and safety
Traffic congestion
Transboundary pollution
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
International Solid Waste Importation and Management Act of 2005 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize states to enact laws restricting the receipt and disposal of foreign municipal solid waste within their borders until the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promulgates regulations implementing and enforcing the Agreement Concerning the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste between the United States and Canada (Agreement).
 
Defines the authority of the Administrator with respect to the importation and exportation of municipal solid waste under the Agreement. Requires the Administrator to give substantial weight to the views of affected states and local governments before consenting to the importation of foreign municipal solid waste into the United States under the Agreement, and to consider the impact of such importation on: (1) the continued public support for state and local recyling programs; (2) landfill capacities; (3) air emissions and road deterioration from increased vehicular traffic; and (4) homeland security, public health, and the environment.
 
Authorizes the Administrator to assess civil penalties for any past or current violations of this Act or to commence a civil action in the U.S. district court. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6232-6234)
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6232)
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Prompt Disability Payment to Mesothelioma Victims Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1199
Sponsor: Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Asbestos
Disability insurance
Disabled
Environmental Protection
Health
Lung cancer
Old age, survivors and disability insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Prompt Disability Payment to Mesothelioma Victims Act of 2005 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to shorten the waiting period for Social Security disability benefits for individuals with mesothelioma.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6234)
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6234)
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Realistic Roofing Tax Treatment Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1200
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Building construction
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Realistic Roofing Tax Treatment Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) classify as 20-year property for depreciation purposes any roof system which meets the requirements of Standard 90.1-2004 of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers; and (2) require use of the straight line method for depreciation of such property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prevent certain discriminatory taxation of natural gas pipeline property.

Bill: 109-s-1201
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Commerce
District courts
Energy
Gas pipelines
Government Operations and Politics
Industrial property
Interstate commerce
Jurisdiction
Law
Local taxation
Property tax
Real estate appraisal
State taxation
Tax rates
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Describes the following as acts that unreasonably burden and discriminate against interstate commerce, and prohibits States, political subdivisions, and any other taxing authority from: (1) assessing natural gas pipeline property at a value that has a higher ratio to its true market value than the ratio used to assess other commercial and industrial property in the same assessment jurisdiction; (2) levying or collecting a tax on such an assessment; (3) levying or collecting an ad valorem property tax on natural gas pipeline property at a rate that exceeds the rate applicable to commercial and industrial property in the same assessment jurisdiction; or (4) imposing any other tax that discriminates against a natural gas pipeline providing transportation or storage of natural gas subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
 
 Grants jurisdiction to U.S. District Courts and provides for specified relief for claims of discriminatory taxation of natural gas pipeline property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Colorado Water Infrastructure Act

Bill: 109-s-1202
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Colorado
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Planning
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Storm drains
Waste water treatment
Water conservation
Water rates
Water supply
Water treatment plants

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Rural Colorado Water Infrastructure Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to establish a pilot program to provide environmental assistance to non-federal interests in Colorado, which may be provided in the form of design and construction assistance for water-related environmental infrastructure and resource protection and development projects. 
 
Requires projects to be publicly owned as a prerequisite for assistance.
 
Directs the Secretary to enter into local cooperation agreements with non-federal interests for project design and construction. Sets the federal share of project costs under local cooperation agreements at 75 percent.
 
Sets the non-federal share of operation and maintenance costs for projects constructed with assistance under this Act at 100 percent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6234-6235)
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6234)
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Climate Change Technology Tax Incentives Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1203
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Air pollution control
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Charitable contributions
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Coal
Congress
Construction costs
Department of the Treasury
Electric power production
Energy
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Environmental technology
Farm manure
Finance and Financial Sector
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Grain
Incineration
Income tax
Investment tax credit
Irrigation
Law
Legumes
Lumber trade
Methane
Municipal solid waste
Nuclear power plants
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Refuse as fuel
Research and development tax credit
Science, Technology, Communications
Solar energy
Sugar
Sunset legislation
Synthetic fuel
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax-exempt securities
Technology transfer
Trees
Water Resources Development
Wind power
Wood

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Climate Change Technology Tax Incentives Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax credits for: (1) investment in a greenhouse gas intensity reduction project; (2) production from advanced nuclear power facilities; and (3) investment in nuclear power facilities.
 
Authorizes the issuance of tax-exempt facility bonds for nuclear power facilities. 
 
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the tax credit for electricity produced from certain renewable resources should be extended through 2010; and (2) the tax credit for increasing research activities should be increased and made permanent. 
 
Terminates the tax credits proposed by this Act after 2010. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Getting Results for Advanced Degrees Act

Bill: 109-s-1204
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Arts
Arts, Culture, Religion
Authorization
College costs
College teachers
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Graduate education
Health
Health insurance
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Married people
Minorities
Minority education
Nonprofit organizations
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Social sciences
Student housing
Student loan funds
Tax exclusion
Tax-exempt securities
Taxation
Teacher education
Women
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Getting Results for Advanced Degrees Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise and reauthorize provisions relating to graduate student assistance.
 
Extends and increases the authorization of appropriations for: (1) Jacob K. Javits Fellowships (Javits Fellows); and (2) graduate assistance in areas of national need. Sets the amount of a stipend under both such programs at the same level as the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, without regard to financial need. Revises Board membership requirements under the Javits Fellows program.
 
Establishes, and authorizes appropriations for, the Patsy T. Mink Fellowship program of awards to assist highly qualified minorities and women to acquire the doctoral degree, or highest possible degree available, in academic areas in which such individuals are underrepresented, to enable them to enter the higher education professoriate.
 
Revises cost of attendance calculations for graduate students with one or more dependents to include actual living expenses incurred for dependents, including their room, board and health insurance (as well as, currently, dependent care).
 
Increases unsubsidized Stafford loan limits for graduate and professional students.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat reasonable room, board, and special needs services allowances as part of permitted higher education expenses, in cases of qualified scholarships or of tuition reduction programs for teaching and research assistants.
 
Amends HEA, as amended by the Taxpayer-Teacher Protection Act of 2004, to provide for further reduction of certain special allowances to lenders and holders of student loans. Directs the Secretary to use any funds made available thereby to carry out programs and activities under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6235-6238)
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6235)
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Ratepayers Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1205
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air pollution control
Carbon dioxide
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Disabled
Electric utilities
Electric utility rates
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Minorities
Poverty
Public utility regulation
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Ratepayers Protection Act of 2005 - Requires the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to study and report to Congress on the effect on certain disadvantaged individuals (e.g., low-income, disabled, and minority groups) of actions taken or considered by regulated electric utilities to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions.
 
Amends the National Climate Program Act to prohibit: (1) regulated electric utilities from recovering additional costs from ratepayers for reducing carbon dioxide emissions; and (2) state utility commissions from compelling ratepayers to pay any amount incurred by a regulated public utility for reducing carbon dioxide emissions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6238)
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6238)
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4960 West Washington Boulevard in Las Angeles, California, as the "Ray Charles Post Office Building".

Bill: 109-s-1206
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
California
Congress
Congressional tributes
Entertainers
Government Operations and Politics
Music
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4960 West Washington Boulevard in Las Angeles, California, as the "Ray Charles Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Ordered placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 147.
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 30777 Rancho California Road in Temecula, California, as the "Dalip Singh Saund Post Office Building".

Bill: 109-s-1207
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: California
Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
Government Operations and Politics
House of Representatives
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 30777 Rancho California Road in Temecula, California, as the "Dalip Singh Saund Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Ordered placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 148.
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Environmentally Responsible Windpower Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1208
Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Animals
Armed Forces and National Security
Birds
Coastal zone
Commemorations
Electric utility rates
Energy facilities
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Historic sites
History
Landscape protection
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Migratory bird conservation
Military parks
National lakeshores
National parks
National seashores
Offshore structures
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Sea birds
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife refuges
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Environmentally Responsible Windpower Act of 2005 - States that a wind turbine project must complete its Local Notification Process as a prerequisite to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issuance of its Exempt-Wholesale Generator Status, Market-Based Rate Authority, or Qualified Facility rate schedule.
 
Requires the lead agency to conduct and complete an environmental impact statement prior to FERC issuance of its Exempt-Wholesale Generator Status, Market-Based Rate Authority, or Qualified Facility rate schedule to a Qualified Wind Project in or near a Highly Scenic Area (or within 20 miles off the coast of a National Wildlife Refuge).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6301-6303)
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6301)
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Higher Education for Freedom Act

Bill: 109-s-1209
Sponsor: Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Civics education
Curricula
Democracy
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Graduate education
Higher education
History
Nonprofit organizations
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Higher Education for Freedom Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to eligible institutions to prepare elementary, middle, and secondary school history teachers and to strengthen postsecondary programs in fields related to the founding of the United States, free institutions, and Western civilization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6304-6305)
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6304)
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Foreign Science and Technology Assessment Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1211
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2005-06-09 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Department of State
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
High technology
Science, Technology, Communications
Technology assessment

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: 
Foreign Science and Technology Assessment Act of 2005 - Establishes within the Department of State an Office of Foreign Science and Technology Assessment to assess foreign science and technologies that have the capability to cause a loss of high technology industrial leadership in the United States. Places at the head of the Office of Foreign Science and Technology Assessment a Director, who shall be the Science Advisor to the Secretary of State. 
 
Directs the Secretary of State to establish a Foreign Science and Technology Assessment Panel to provide advice on assessments performed by the Office of Foreign Science and Technology Assessment, including review of foreign science and technology assessment reports, methodologies, subjects of study, and the means of improving the quality and timeliness of such Office. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6313)
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6312-6313)
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Introduced in Senate