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Preventing Sexual Assaults in the Military Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4077
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2005-10-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Authorization
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
DNA
Department of Defense
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Evidence (Law)
Forensic medicine
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
Identification of criminals
Laboratories
Law
Medical personnel
Military and naval offenses
Military bases
Military hospitals
Military medicine
Military personnel
Nurses
Rape
Science, Technology, Communications
Service academies
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: 
Preventing Sexual Assaults in the Military Act of 2005 - Authorizes necessary appropriations to: (1) eliminate the backlog in processing DNA evidence at military DNA laboratories, including the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory; (2) ensure that DNA testing and analysis of samples from crimes, including sexual assault and other serious violent crimes, are carried out in a timely manner; (3) distribute a sufficient amount of DNA evidence kits to each military academy, domestic military base, overseas military base, and theater of operations; and (4) ensure that at least one military medical personnel member trained as a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) or Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE) is on duty at all times in the health care facility of each military academy, domestic military military base, overseas military base, and theater of operations, except where a memorandum of understanding ensures that a nonmilitary SANE or SAFE is on duty at all times.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11316-11317)
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2127)
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Introduced in House
Maintaining Medicare Access Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4078
Sponsor: Rep. Norwood, Charles W. [R-GA-9]
Introduced: 2005-10-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medical fees
Medicare
Physicians
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: 
Maintaining Medicare Access Act of 2005 - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish the single conversion factor for Medicare physician payment rates for 2006 at not less than the level for 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-10-19
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: 2005-10-19
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: 2005-10-19
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: 2005-10-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Introduced in House
Glendo Unit of the Missouri River Basin Project Contract Extension Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4080
Sponsor: Rep. Cubin, Barbara [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-10-19 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Missouri River development
Reservoirs
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: 
Glendo Unit of the Missouri River Basin Project Contract Extension Act of 2005 - Amends the Irrigation Project Contract Extension Act of 1998 to extend each of the water service or repayment contracts identified in the Act for the Glendo Unit of the Missouri River Basin Project, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Colorado, until December 31, 2007.

action_date: 2006-04-25
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Glendo Unit of the Missouri River Basin Project Contract Extension Act of 2005 - Amends the Irrigation Project Contract Extension Act of 1998 to extend each of the water service or repayment contracts identified in the Act for the Glendo Unit of the Missouri River Basin Project, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Colorado, until December 31, 2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 240.
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 109-432.
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 109-432.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Subcommittee on Water and Power Discharged.
action_date: 2006-02-08
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Introduced in House
Hurricane Assistance Accountability Commission Act

Bill: 109-hr-4081
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2005-10-19 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Accounting
Appropriations
Cost effectiveness
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Waste in government spending

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: 
Hurricane Assistance Accountability Commission Act - Establishes the Hurricane Oversight Board to oversee expenditures of emergency appropriation funds for hurricane assistance relief to ensure that funds are used to assist only individuals in affected areas.
 

 
Allows a member of the Board to review a project and any proposed or existing expenditure of appropriation funds for hurricane assistance relief under the member&#146;s area of expertise and, with the agreement of a majority of Board members, disallow a project or expenditure considered ineffective or not cost effective. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Introduced in House
Biotechnology Future Investment Expansion Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4082
Sponsor: Rep. Hart, Melissa A. [R-PA-4]
Introduced: 2005-10-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Biotechnology
Capital gains tax
Clinical trials
Commerce
Corporate debt
Corporate finance
Corporate mergers
Corporate reorganizations
Corporation taxes
Drug industry
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Income tax
Investments
Losses
Pharmaceutical research
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax incentives

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: 
Biotechnology Future Investment Expansion Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit certain biomedical research corporations to engage in investments and other transactions involving shifts in ownership without incurring limitations on net operating loss carryforwards and certain built-in losses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Introduced in House
Border Security Improvement Act

Bill: 109-hr-4083
Sponsor: Rep. Goode, Virgil H., Jr. [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2005-10-19 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Arizona
Boundaries
California
Illegal aliens
International Affairs
Mexico
New Mexico
Security measures
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: 
Border Security Improvement Act - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to: (1) make the Secretary of Homeland Security rather than the Attorney General responsible for border barrier improvements; and (2) direct the Secretary to provide for construction of a fence along the entire U.S. southern border.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Introduced in House
Flexibility in Assessments for Individuals Reform Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4085
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2005-10-19 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Child health
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Disabled
Disasters
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational planning
Educational statistics
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency Management
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Language arts
Literacy programs
Parent-school relationships
Reading
Religion
Religious liberty
Secondary education
Special education
Standards
Weather

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: 
Flexibility in Assessments for Individuals Reform Act of 2005 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to revise certain requirements regarding student assessments and adequate yearly progress which were added by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for health insurance costs of eligible disaster relief recipients.

Bill: 109-hr-4086
Sponsor: Rep. Jindal, Bobby [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2005-10-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Coinsurance
Disaster relief
Disasters
Dismissal of employees
Emergency Management
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Tax credits
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to qualify disaster relief recipients living or working in a federally-declared disaster area for the tax credit for health insurance costs and for advance payments of such credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Introduced in House
District of Columbia Court, Offender Supervision, Parole, and Public Defender Employees Equity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4087
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-10-19 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Annuities
Civil service retirement
Congress
Congressional pensions
Correctional personnel
Disability retirement
Disabled
District of Columbia
Early retirement
Families
Federal employees
Judicial officers
Labor and Employment
Law
Local employees
Members of Congress
Survivors' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: 
District of Columbia Court, Offender Supervision, Parole, and Public Defender Employees Equity Act of 2005 - Entitles any individual serving as a federal or congressional employee or a Member of Congress who performed qualifying District of Columbia service (certain service as a D.C. court nonjudicial employee, certain service performed by an individual as an employee of an entity of the DC government whose functions were transferred to the Pretrial Services, Parole, Adult Supervision, and Offender Supervision Trustee under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, and certain service performed by an individual as an employee of the DC Public Defender Service) to have such service included in calculating such individual's creditable service under the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS), but only for purposes of specified sections of FERS. 
 
Requires the Office of Personnel Management to accept the certification of the appropriate personnel official of the government of the District of Columbia concerning whether an individual performed qualifying District of Columbia service and the length of the period of such service such individual performed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2126)
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Introduced in House
Protect Our Homes Act

Bill: 109-hr-4088
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2005-10-19 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Affordable housing
Citizen participation
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Eminent domain
Federal aid to housing
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Housing and Community Development
Housing for the aged
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Landowners
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public health
Public meetings
Real estate appraisal
Real estate development
Referendum
Relocation
Right of petition
Right of property

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: 
Protect Our Homes Act - Prohibits a federal, state, or local governmental entity from using the power of eminent domain to take private property for economic development purposes unless the entity meets specified conditions, including that: (1) the property constitutes a significant public health or safety risk; (2) the entity has examined all reasonable alternatives to the taking; (3) the entity has provided notice of the taking and opportunity for public comment; (4) the entity has provided just compensation for the property; and (5) the entity has provided a process by which the affected community may petition to put the proposed development to a ballot initiative at the earliest practicable time.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2006-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2005-10-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2005-10-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2005-10-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Introduced in House
Government Credit Card Sunshine Act

Bill: 109-hr-4089
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2005-10-19 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Credit cards
Disciplining of employees
Dismissal of employees
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Fraud
Freedom of information
Government procurement
Government publicity
Government travel
Internet
Law
Misconduct in office
Science, Technology, Communications
Travel costs
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: 
Government Credit Card Sunshine Act - Requires specified information regarding the use of all federal credit cards to be made publicly available within 15 days after receipt (by the government or the federal employee, as the case may be) of any bill for purchases made with the card.
 
Requires the information to be posted on the official website of the Inspector General of the federal department or agency concerned.
 
Allows the Secretary of a department or agency to omit from the website otherwise required information in the interest of national security.
 
Subjects a federal employee to disciplinary action for fraudulent use of a government credit card that involves a purchase in an amount greater than $500.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-19
text: Introduced in House
Whatever It Takes to Rebuild Act, Part II

Bill: 109-hr-4090
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Disaster loans
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Income tax
Interest
Local finance
Local taxation
State finance
State taxation
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
Whatever It Takes to Rebuild Act, Part II - Repeals the Community Disaster Loan Act of 2005.
 
Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President to make community disaster loans to any state government which may suffer a substantial loss of tax and other revenue as a result of a major disaster, and has demonstrated a need for financial assistance in order to perform its governmental functions.
 
Removes the $5 million cap set for community disaster loans.
 
Provides that in the case of a community disaster loan made to a state or local government which suffers a substantial loss of tax and other revenues as a result of a major disaster the President determines to be an incident of national significance: (1) the amount of the loan shall not be subject to the current limitation of 25% of the annual operating budget of that state or local government for the fiscal year in which the major disaster occurs; and (2) the President shall not require the payment of any interest or principal on a loans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2139-2140)
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
To permit certain projects and activities to resume on National Forest System lands by ratifying part 215 of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations, relating to notice, comment, and appeal procedures for such projects and activities.

Bill: 109-hr-4091
Sponsor: Rep. Pombo, Richard W. [R-CA-11]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Citizen participation
Department of Agriculture
Forest management
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Land use
Law
National forests

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Declares that regulations relating to public notice, comment, and appeal procedures for National Forest System (NFS) projects and activities are consistent with, and fully in compliance with, provisions of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993 concerning Forest Service decision making and appeals.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
Advocates Dedicated to Older Child Parental Tax Credit (ADOPT) Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4092
Sponsor: Rep. Bean, Melissa L. [D-IL-8]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adoption
Age
Cost of living adjustments
Costs
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Tax credits
Youth

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
Advocates Dedicated to Older Child Parental Tax Credit (ADOPT) Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a $2,000 tax credit for costs associated with the adoption of a child who has reached nine years of age before the adoption decree becomes final. Allows the credit each year until such child attains the age of 19.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
Redistricting Reform Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4094
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Census
Citizen participation
Civil actions and liability
Congressional districts
Congressional elections
Congressional powers
District courts
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-state relations
Gerrymandering
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Grievance procedures
Injunctions
Judicial review
Law
Legal fees
Public meetings
State courts
State laws
State legislatures
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
Redistricting Reform Act of 2005 - Prohibits a state that has been redistricted after an apportionment from being redistricted again until after the next apportionment of Representatives, unless the state is ordered by a court to conduct such a subsequent redistricting in order to: (1) comply with the U.S. Constitution; or (2) enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
 
Requires such redistricting to be conducted according to: (1) a plan developed by the independent redistricting commission established in the state; or (2) if such plan is not enacted into law, the redistricting plan selected by the state's highest court or developed by a U.S. district court.
 
Provides for: (1) establishment of a state independent bi-partisan redistricting commission; (2) development of a redistricting plan; (3) its submission to the state legislature; (4) selection of a plan, under specified conditions, by the state's highest court or the U.S. district court; (5) special rules for redistricting conducted under a federal court order; (6) Election Assistance Commission payments to states for carrying out redistricting; (7) civil enforcement to carry out this Act; and (8) the right of action for a person who is aggrieved by a violation of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House