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To direct the Secretary of Energy to conduct a program in partnership with the private sector to accelerate efforts of domestic automobile manufacturers to manufacture commercially available competitive hybrid vehicle technologies in the United States.

Bill: 109-hr-1706
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2005-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Automobile industry
Commerce
Commercialization
Electric batteries
Electric vehicles
Electronics
Energy storage
Government Operations and Politics
Public-private partnerships
Science, Technology, Communications
Technological innovations
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Energy, in partnership with the private sector, to implement a program to address the ability of domestic automobile manufacturers to manufacture commercially available competitive hybrid vehicle technologies in the United States. 
 
States the objective of the program is to accelerate improvement of: (1) batteries and other rechargeable energy storage systems; (2) power electronics; (3) hybrid systems integration; and (4) other technologies for use in hybrid vehicles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, 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: 2005-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, 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: 2005-04-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, 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: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Great Cats and Rare Canids Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1707
Sponsor: Rep. Shaw, E. Clay, Jr. [R-FL-22]
Introduced: 2005-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Animal breeding
Cats
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Dogs
Ecological research
Economic assistance
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Environmental law enforcement
Environmental monitoring
Environmental protection groups
Federal advisory bodies
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Habitat conservation
Hunting
International Affairs
International environmental cooperation
Lions
Panthers
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public meetings
Public-private partnerships
Restoration ecology
Science, Technology, Communications
Sports and Recreation
Tigers
Treaties
Wild animal trade
Wildlife conservation
Wolves

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: 
Great Cats and Rare Canids Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to provide assistance for projects for the conservation of rare felids and rare canids. Authorizes the Secretary to convene an advisory group of individuals representing public and private organizations actively involved in the conservation of felids and canids. 
 
Restricts the use of grants for captive breeding or display purposes.
 
Establishes in the Multinatonal Species Conservation Fund as a separate account the Great Cats and Rare Canids Conservation Fund.
 
Defines &quot;rare canid&quot; to: (1) mean any canid species, subspecies, or population that is not native to the United States and Canada, and is included in the threatened or endangered lists of the World Conservation Union, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or the Endangered Species Act of 1973; and (2) include such a subspecies or population of dhole, gray wolf, ethiopian wolf, african wild dog, or maned wolf.
 
Defines &quot;rare felid&quot; to: (1) mean any felid species, subspecies, or population that is not native to the United States and Canada, and is included in the threatened or endangered lists of the World Conservation Union, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or the Endangered Species Act of 1973; and (2) include such a subspecies or population of lion, leopard, jaguar, snow leopard, clouded leopard, cheetah, or iberian lynx. Does not include any tiger. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Clean Water Investment and Infrastructure Security Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1708
Sponsor: Rep. Shaw, E. Clay, Jr. [R-FL-22]
Introduced: 2005-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Environmental Protection
Income tax
Infrastructure
Sewage treatment
Sewerage
Tax-exempt securities
Water Resources Development
Water treatment plants

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: 
Clean Water Investment and Infrastructure Security Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from State volume caps private facility bonds for sewage and water supply facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Internet Police Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1710
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2005-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Correctional personnel
Electronic mail systems
Emergency Management
Facsimile transmission
Federal employees
Federal law enforcement officers
Fines (Penalties)
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Identification devices
Internet
Judges
Judicial officers
Juries
Law
Law enforcement officers
Military personnel
Paramedical personnel
Police
Public prosecutors
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Telephone
Volunteer workers
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: 
Internet Police Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit knowingly making restricted personal information about a covered official publicly available through the Internet. Defines &quot;covered official&quot; to mean a Federal officer or employee, a public safety officer for a public agency that receives Federal financial assistance, or a U.S. court officer, juror, or magistrate judge.
 
Makes it a defense to a prosecution that: (1) the defendant is an Internet service provider and did not knowingly participate in the offense; or (2) the covered official gave permission to make such information publicly available.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries Boundary Modification and Protection Act

Bill: 109-hr-1712
Sponsor: Rep. Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6]
Introduced: 2005-04-19 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Animals
Aquaculture
Boundaries
California
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Department of Commerce
Ecological research
Ecosystem management
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Environmental monitoring
Fines (Penalties)
Fisheries
Fishing boats
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Land transfers
Law
Maps
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine parks and reserves
Marine pollution
Marine resources conservation
Marine safety
Mining engineering
Mining leases
Non-native species
Oil and gas leases
Pests
Petroleum engineering
Pipeline siting
Planning
Saline waters
Science, Technology, Communications
Shellfish
Ships
Transportation and Public Works
Waste disposal in the ocean
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water use

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: 
Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries Boundary Modification and Protection Act - Declares it is U.S. policy to protect and preserve living and other resources of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (Farallones NMS) and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary (Cordell Bank NMS) marine environments.
 
Makes certain adjustments to expand the boundaries of the Farallones NMS and the Cordell NMS. 
 
Prohibits within the Farallones NMS and the Cordell Bank NMS: (1) the leasing, exploration, development, production, or transporting by pipeline of minerals or hydrocarbons; (2) the conduct of aquaculture (with exceptions); and (3) the discharge of materials and substances or a change in the salinity. Prohibits the conduct of aquaculture within Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
 
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to complete an interim supplemental management plan for each sanctuary that focuses on protective resource management in the areas added by this Act.
 
Requires the Secretary to review the operations of the Farallones NMS to determine whether area added to it by this Act shall be designated as a new and separate NMS.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2782-2783)
action_date: 2005-12-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H11566)
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Executive Comment Requested from Commerce.
action_date: 2005-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in House
Public Servant Retirement Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1714
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2005-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Civil service retirement
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: 
Public Servant Retirement Protection Act of 2005 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to repeal the current windfall elimination provision (WEP) (that reduces the Social Security benefits of workers who also have pension benefits from employment not covered by Social Security) for individuals first performing non-covered service beginning one year after enactment of this Act. 
 
Establishes a new formula for the treatment of non-covered earnings in determining Social Security benefits. Applies such formula to individuals subject to the current WEP if the benefit under the new formula would be higher.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in House
To reduce until December 31, 2008, the duty on PDCB (p-Dichlorobenzene).

Bill: 109-hr-1715
Sponsor: Rep. McIntyre, Mike [D-NC-7]
Introduced: 2005-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on PDCB (p-Dichlorobenzene).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in House
Access to Money (ATM) Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1716
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Advertising
Automated teller machines
Commerce
Consumer protection
Electronic funds transfers
Fees
Government Operations and Politics
Science, Technology, Communications
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Access to Money (ATM) Act of 2005 - Amends the Electronic Fund Transfer Act to prohibit operators of automated teller machines that carry paid advertising from charging user fees for electronic fund transactions whether or not the consumer maintains an account with the operator. 
Exempts from this prohibition: (1) advertising relating to products or services provided by the operator of an automated teller machine (or by any affiliate of such operator); or (2) any public service announcement.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in House
Korean Immigration Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 109-hr-1717
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Anniversaries
Asian American ethnic groups
Coins and coinage
East Asia
Immigrants
Immigration
North Korea
Silver
South Korea

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: 
Korean Immigration Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue $1 silver coins emblematic of the immigration of Koreans into the United States and the significant contributions of Korean Americans to this Nation.
 
Restricts such issuance to the one-year period beginning on January 1, 2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in House
Pollution Accountability Act

Bill: 109-hr-1718
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Accounting
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Hazardous wastes
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Pollution control
Refuse and refuse disposal

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Pollution Accountability Act - Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) to require the public availability of an accounting of funds used (or required to be used) in response to a release of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2005-04-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2005-04-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in House
Diabetic Food Complication and Lower Extremity Amputation Reduction Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1719
Sponsor: Rep. Baker, Richard H. [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2005-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Ambulatory care
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Diabetes
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Health education
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical tests
Patient satisfaction
Preventive medicine
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Surgery

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: 
Diabetic Foot Complication and Lower Extremity Amputation Reduction Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to eligible multidisciplinary health care programs for: (1) providing a high-risk, underserved population with screening, education, and evidence-based medical treatment regarding diabetic foot complications that may lead to lower extremity amputations; and (2) evaluating the quality, cost effectiveness, parity, and patient satisfaction of medical interventions in the prevention of diabetic foot complications and lower extremity amputations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 4/21/2005 E713-714)
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in House
Raw Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act

Bill: 109-hr-1720
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Timothy H. [D-NY-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Authorization
Drainage
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Environmental health
Environmental monitoring
Federal aid to water pollution control
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health
Pollution measurement
Revolving funds
Sewage disposal
Sewerage
Waste water
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: 
Raw Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to direct owners or operators of publicly owned treatment works to: (1) institute an alert system for sanitary sewer overflows; (2) notify the public of such overflows in areas where human health is potentially affected within 24 hours; (3) immediately notify public health authorities and other affected entities; and (4) provide specified reports to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or the State.
 
 Makes the alert systems eligible for State water pollution control revolving fund assistance. Authorizes appropriations for such fund through FY 2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Education to revise regulations to increase the percentage of proficient and advanced level scores based on alternate assessments and alternate achievement standards for purposes of calculating adequate yearly progress, to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to decrease the percentage of students who meet or exceed the proficient level of academic achievement on State assessments required to calculate adequate yearly progress, to direct the Secretary of Education to expand to two years the exclusion for second year limited English proficiency students from adequate yearly progress calculations, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-1722
Sponsor: Rep. Bradley, Jeb [R-NH-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Administrative procedure
Department of Education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Immigrant education
Immigration
Language arts
Law
Reading
Refugees
Secondary education
Special education
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Education to revise certain regulations to increase, from one to three percent, the number of proficient and advanced level scores based on alternate assessments and alternate achievement standards for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities that may be counted in calculating adequate yearly progress (AYP) for schools, local educational agencies, and States, under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (ESEA-NCLBA).
 
Amends ESEA-NCLBA to lower from ten to seven percent the amount of the decrease, in the percentage in a school year from the preceding school year, of students in any of specified groups who did not meet or exceed the proficient level of academic achievement on the State assessments, which is required under certain conditions for a school to be considered to have made AYP.
 
Requires the Secretary to issue policy guidance directing that the assessment results of first-year and second-year limited English proficiency students who are recently resettled refugees and who take the reading-language arts assessment are not required to be included in AYP determinations, even if such students have been enrolled in the school or district for one or two full academic years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax for recycling or remanufacturing equipment, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-1723
Sponsor: Rep. Bradley, Jeb [R-NH-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air bag restraint systems
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Environmental Protection
Equipment and supplies
Income tax
Machinery
Manufacturing industries
Metals
Motor vehicle safety
Product safety
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Recycling industry
Recycling of waste products
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation research

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for investment in qualified reclamation property. Defines &quot;qualified reclamation property&quot; as tangible depreciable recycling or remanufacturing property with a useful life of at least five years. Limits the amount of such credit to 20 percent of the basis (not exceeding $10 million) of qualified reclamation property placed in service during a taxable year. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to study the performance and safety of recycled, non-deployed airbags used in automobiles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in House