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To direct the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to designate New Jersey Task Force 1 as part of the National Urban Search and Rescue System.

Bill: 109-hr-88
Sponsor: Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Emergency medicine
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Medical personnel
New Jersey
Paramedical personnel
Rescue work

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Requires the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to designate New Jersey Task Force 1 as part of the National Urban Search and Rescue System.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Airline Consumer Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-89
Sponsor: Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Airline passenger traffic
Airlines
Bankruptcy
Commerce
Consumer protection
Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Airline Consumer Protection Act of 2005 - Requires each air carrier that provides air passenger transportation on a route to honor the tickets of any other air carrier that suspends, interrupts, or discontinues service on that route by reason of insolvency or bankruptcy of that air carrier. Provides that an air carrier is not required to provide such air transportation to a passenger unless that passenger makes alternative arrangements with such air carrier within 60 days after the date on which the passenger's air transportation was suspended, interrupted, or discontinued (without regard to the originally scheduled travel date on the ticket).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Comprehensive Hepatitis C Health Care Act

Bill: 109-hr-90
Sponsor: Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Case management
Communication in medicine
Department of Veterans Affairs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Health counseling
Health education
Hepatitis
Higher education
Hospital personnel
Law
Medical education
Medical tests
Physicians
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Social Welfare
Social work
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care
Vietnam veterans

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Veterans Comprehensive Hepatitis C Health Care Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, during the first year after the enactment of this Act, to provide a blood test for the Hepatitis C virus to: (1) each veteran who served on active military duty during the Vietnam era, or who is considered to be "at risk," and who is enrolled to receive veterans' medical care and requests such care or is otherwise receiving a physical examination or any other care or treatment from the Secretary; and (2) any other veteran who requests such test. Requires the Secretary, after such period, to provide such test to any veteran who requests it. Requires the Secretary to provide followup tests and appropriate treatment for any veteran who tests positive. Prohibits a copayment from being charged for such treatment. 
Provides funding for Department Hepatitis C detection and treatment programs, beginning with FY 2006. 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop and implement a standardized Department policy with respect to such virus; and (2) annually take appropriate outreach actions to notify untested veterans.
Directs the Secretary to establish at least one and no more than three additional Hepatitis C centers of excellence within the Department health care network. Provides funding.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to permit Medicare beneficiaries upon request to use an identification number other than a social security account number under the Medicare Program in order to deter identity theft.

Bill: 109-hr-92
Sponsor: Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [R-NJ-11]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Department of Health and Human Services
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Identity theft
Law
Medicare
Social Welfare
Social security numbers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a procedure under which, upon the request of an individual entitled to Medicare benefits, the Secretary shall provide for the issuance of an: (1) identification number other than the individual's Social Security account number for Medicare purposes; and (2) an appropriate Medicare card containing such alternative identification number.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Flagship Species Conservation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-93
Sponsor: Rep. Gilchrest, Wayne T. [R-MD-1]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Environmental law enforcement
Environmental monitoring
Environmental research
Federal advisory bodies
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Habitat conservation
International Affairs
International environmental cooperation
Public meetings
Restoration ecology
Wild animal trade
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Flagship Species Conservation Act of 2005 - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to use amounts in the Multinational Species Conservation Fund (Fund) to provide conservation assistance for flagship species of fish or wildlife where project proposals for such conservation are approved by the Secretary in accordance with this Act.
 
Identifies eligible applicants and sets forth requirements for project proposals. Authorizes the Secretary to approve a project proposal if it will help recover and sustain viable populations of flagship species in the wild by assisting efforts in foreign countries to implement flagship species conservation programs.
 
Establishes in the Fund a separate account to be known as the Flagship Species Conservation Fund to fund approved flagship species conservation projects.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to convene an advisory group to assist in carrying out this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Fallen Law Enforcement Officers and Firefighters Flag Memorial Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-94
Sponsor: Rep. Gillmor, Paul E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Congress
Congressional tributes
Crime and Law Enforcement
Emergency Management
Families
Federal law enforcement officers
Fire fighters
Flags
Government Operations and Politics
Law enforcement officers
Monuments and memorials
Police
Social Welfare
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Fallen Law Enforcement Officers and Firefighters Flag Memorial Act of 2005 - Authorizes the family of a law enforcement officer or paid or volunteer firefighter who dies in the line of duty to request, and a Member of Congress to provide, a U.S. flag flown over the Capitol in honor of the officer or firefighter.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Dru's Law

Bill: 109-hr-95
Sponsor: Rep. Gillmor, Paul E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child sexual abuse
Civil commitment
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Directories
Electronic government information
Ex-offenders
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health
Identification of criminals
Internet
Parole
Probation
Public records
Rape
Science, Technology, Communications
Sex offenders
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Database Act of 2005 or Dru's Law - Directs the Attorney General to: (1) make publicly available in a registry via the Internet, from information contained in the National Sex Offender Registry, specified information about sexually violent predators and persons convicted of a sexually violent offense or a criminal offense against a minor, who are required to register with a minimally sufficient State sexual offender registration program; and (2) allow registry users to identity offenders who are currently residing within a radius of the location indicated by the user. Requires registry information to include the offender's name, address, date of birth, physical description, and photograph, the nature and date of commission of the offense, and the date on which the person is released from prison or placed on parole, supervised release, or probation
 
Requires: (1) any State that provides for a civil commitment proceeding to notify the State attorney general of the impending release of a sexually violent predator or a person has been deemed to be at high-risk for recommitting any sexually violent offense or criminal offense against a minor; (2) the State attorney general to consider instituting a civil commitment proceeding; and (3) each State to intensively monitor, for at least a year, any such person who has been unconditionally released by the State and who has not been civilly committed.
 
Makes a State that fails to implement Act requirements ineligible to receive 25 percent of funds that would otherwise be allocated to it under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Tory Jo's Loophole AMBER Response Act

Bill: 109-hr-96
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child safety
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Department of Justice
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Infants
Information networks
Informers
Kidnapping
Law
Missing children
Police communication systems
Radio broadcasting
Science, Technology, Communications
Signs and signboards
Standards
Traffic signs and signals
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Tory Jo's Loophole AMBER Response Act - Amends the PROTECT Act to: (1) require the minimum standards for the issuance and dissemination of alerts through the AMBER Alert communications network to allow local law enforcement officials to issue and provide for the dissemination of an alert to facilitate the recovery of an abducted newborn; and (2) define &quot;child&quot; to mean an individual under age 18 or a newborn.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Servicemembers Anti-Predatory Lending Protection Act

Bill: 109-hr-97
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Families
Federal preemption
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Interest
Interest rates
Military dependents
Military personnel
State laws
Usury

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Servicemembers Anti-Predatory Lending Protection Act - Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to set forth terms for consumer credit extended to a servicemember or servicemember's dependent, including terms of interest with respect to the extension of such credit. 
 
Prohibits a creditor from imposing an annual percentage rate greater than 36 percent with respect to the consumer credit extended.
 
Sets forth mandatory loan disclosures, including: (1) a statement of the annual percentage rate applicable to the extension of credit; and (2) a clear description of the payment obligations.
 
Prohibits a creditor from automatically renewing, repaying, refinancing, or consolidating any consumer credit with the proceeds of other credit extended to a servicemember or a servicemember's dependent by the same creditor without: (1) executing new loan documentation signed by the servicemember; and (2) providing the mandatory loan disclosures.
 
Preempts any State or Federal law, rule, or regulation, including any State usury law, to the extent that it is inconsistent with this Act. States that this Act does not preempt any such law, rule, or regulation that provides additional protection.
 
Prescribes criminal penalties for violation of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To designate California State Route 99 as a high priority corridor on the National Highway System and a future route on the Interstate System.

Bill: 109-hr-99
Sponsor: Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-21]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: California
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Highway finance
Infrastructure
Interstate highway system
Road construction
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to designate California State Route 99 from south of Bakersfield to Sacramento, California, (California Farm-to-Market Corridor) as: (1) a high priority corridor on the National Highway System; and (2) a future route on the Interstate System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Citizens and Legal Immigration Act

Bill: 109-hr-100
Sponsor: Rep. Dreier, David [R-CA-26]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Appellate courts
Appellate procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Crime and Law Enforcement
Deportation
Habeas corpus
International Affairs
Judicial review
Jurisdiction
Law
Punishment
Torture
Treaties
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Citizens and Legal Immigration Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to bar inadmissible arriving aliens from seeking judicial review of removal orders through habeas corpus, mandamus, or other extraordinary petitions. 
 
Imposes a similar bar on denials of discretionary relief and orders against criminal aliens with an exception for petitions for review concerning constitutional claims or pure questions of law. 
 
Establishes the INA's judicial review provisions as the sole avenue for challenging removal orders and reviewing claims arising under the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Labor Relations First Contract Negotiations Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-101
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Collective bargaining
Industrial arbitration
Labor contracts
Labor disputes
Law
Mediation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Labor Relations First Contract Negotiations Act of 2005 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to require mediation and, if necessary, binding arbitration of initial contract negotiation disputes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Children's Access to Technology Act

Bill: 109-hr-102
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Computers
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Telecommunication rates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Children's Access to Technology Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to allow unexpended universal service funds to be used (within certain monetary limits) by schools in low-income areas to acquire information services, including devices necessary to access and use such services.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Low-Income Families Flood Insurance Access Act

Bill: 109-hr-103
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Disaster insurance
Emergency Management
Flood damage prevention
Floods
Housing and Community Development
Insurance premiums
Low-income housing
Social Welfare
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Low-Income Families Flood Insurance Access Act - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act to provide for a 50 percent discount in the chargeable premium flood insurance rates, for a limited period, for specified low-cost properties (principal residences valued at not more than $75,000) that are located within any area not previously designated as an area having special flood hazards that becomes designated as such an area.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E185-186)
action_date: 2005-02-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Law Enforcement Officers Flag Memorial Act

Bill: 109-hr-104
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Congress
Congressional tributes
Crime and Law Enforcement
Families
Flags
Law enforcement officers
Monuments and memorials
Police

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Law Enforcement Officers Flag Memorial Act - Allows the family of a deceased law enforcement officer to request, and the Attorney General to provide, a U.S. flag flown over the Capitol in honor of the officer, to be supplied by the Architect of the Capitol. Directs that the family pay the cost of such flag, including shipping.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt elementary and secondary schools from the fee imposed on employers filing petitions with respect to non-immigrant workers under the H-1B program.

Bill: 109-hr-105
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Labor and Employment
Law
Secondary education
Skilled labor
Teachers
Temporary employment
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt elementary and secondary schools from the fee imposed on employers filing petitions for temporary nonimmigrant workers under the H-1B (specialty occupations) visa program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House