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Family Asthma Act

Bill: 109-s-1489
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Allergies
Asthma
Child health
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Diesel motor
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health education
Health surveys
Higher education
Medical education
Medical records
Medical research
Medical statistics
Mortality
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ozone
Preventive medicine
Public-private partnerships
Research centers
Research grants
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Smog
Telemedicine

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Family Asthma Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to award grants to eligible entities to conduct pilot projects to prevent and control asthma symptoms and to reduce asthma attacks in families. Requires the Secretary to give: (1) priority to entities that serve a medically underserved population; and (2) consideration to an adequate rural-urban distribution, so as to gain better information about asthma at the national level.
 
Authorizes additional appropriations to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to develop a National Asthma Action Plan and to fund a report to Congress by the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to: (1) collaborate with state and local health departments to conduct activities to inform and educate the public regarding asthma; (2) conduct asthma surveillance activities to collect data on the prevalence and severity of asthma, the effectiveness of public heath asthma intervention, and the quality of asthma management; and (3) compile and annually publish asthma data.
 
Requires the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to establish Dr. Irving J. Selikoff individual and institutional training grants for education and training of health care providers on the role of environmental factors in the development and prevention of asthma and recurrent asthma attacks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Chesapeake Bay Program Reauthorization and Environmental Accountability Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1490
Sponsor: Sen. Sarbanes, Paul S. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Agricultural pollution
Agriculture and Food
Authorization
Chesapeake Bay
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Delaware
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental monitoring
Estuaries
Federal aid to water pollution control
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Maryland
New York State
Pennsylvania
Restoration ecology
Sediment control
Virginia
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Watersheds
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Chesapeake Bay Program Reauthorization and Environmental Accountability Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) complete a plan for achieving the nutrient and sediment reduction goals described in the Chesapeake 2000 Agreement; (2) publish and circulate an annual tributary health report card to evaluate progress made in achieving and maintaining nutrient and sediment reduction goals for each major tributary of the Chesapeake Bay; and (3) make annual reports to Congress on nutrient and sediment reduction in the Chesapeake Bay.
 
Requires the states of Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia and the District of Columbia to submit information to the Administrator annually on actions taken by such states to achieve nutrient and sediment reductions in the Chesapeake Bay.
 
Directs the Office of Management and Budget to report to Congress on the funding of restoration activities in the Chesapeake Bay.
 
Increases and extends through FY2010 the authorization of appropriations for the Chesapeake Bay Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8953-8954)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8951-8953)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Nutrient Removal Assistance Act

Bill: 109-s-1491
Sponsor: Sen. Sarbanes, Paul S. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Agricultural pollution
Agriculture and Food
Chesapeake Bay
Construction costs
Delaware
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental technology
Estuaries
Federal aid to water pollution control
Infrastructure
Maryland
New York State
Nitrogen
Nonpoint source pollution
Pennsylvania
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Science, Technology, Communications
Sewage treatment
Virginia
Waste water treatment
Water Resources Development
Water treatment plants
Watersheds
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Chesapeake Bay Watershed Nutrient Removal Assistance Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to provide grants to states and municipalities to upgrade municipal wastewater treatment plants of a specified capacity and located within the Chesapeake Bay watershed with nutrient removal technologies.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8954-8955)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8951-8953)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Chesapeake Bay Environmental Education Pilot Program Act

Bill: 109-s-1492
Sponsor: Sen. Sarbanes, Paul S. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Chesapeake Bay
Computer networks
Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Delaware
Distance education
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental education
Environmental protection groups
Federal aid to education
Forest conservation
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Maryland
New York State
Nonprofit organizations
Pennsylvania
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Riparian ecology
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Stream conservation
Teacher education
Teaching materials
Teleconferencing
Virginia
Water Resources Development
Water quality
Watersheds
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Chesapeake Bay Environmental Education Pilot Program Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to establish a Chesapeake Bay Environmental Education Grant Pilot Program of matching grants for developing, demonstrating, or disseminating information on practices, methods, or techniques relating to environmental education and training in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Makes eligible for such grants public elementary or secondary schools and nonprofit environmental or educational organizations located in the District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, or West Virginia.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8955-8956)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8951-8953)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Forestry Program Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1493
Sponsor: Sen. Sarbanes, Paul S. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Chesapeake Bay
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Delaware
Department of Agriculture
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental monitoring
Estuaries
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to water resources development
Forest conservation
Forest ecology
Forest health
Forest management
Forestry research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Habitat conservation
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Maryland
National forests
New York State
Nonprofit organizations
Pennsylvania
Restoration ecology
Riparian ecology
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Urban affairs
Urban forestry
Virginia
Water pollution control
Water quality
Watersheds
West Virginia
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Forestry Program Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Forest Service and the program Coordinator, to carry out a Chesapeake Bay watershed forestry program under which the Secretary shall make grants and provide technical assistance to eligible entities to restore and conserve forests in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, including grants and assistance to: (1) promote forest conservation, restoration, and stewardship efforts; (2) accelerate the restoration of riparian forest buffers; (3) assist in developing and carrying out projects and partnerships; (4) promote the protection and sustainable management of forests; (5) develop public communication and education resources; (6) conduct forest research, assessment, and planning activities; and (7) contribute to the achievement Chesapeake Bay Agreement goals.
 
Directs the Secretary to designate a Forest Service employee as program Coordinator. Sets forth the Coordinator's responsibilities.
 
Defines an eligible entity as: (1) a Chesapeake Bay state (Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia), or a political subdivision thereof; (2) a university or other institution of higher education; (3) a tax-exempt organization operating in the Chesapeake Bay watershed; or (4) any other person in the Chesapeake Bay watershed determined by the Secretary as eligible.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) make grants (75% federal maximum) to such entities to carry out specified program projects; (2) conduct a study of urban and rural forests in the Chesapeake Bay watershed; and (3) establish a watershed forestry research program for the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
 
Authorizes the use of funds under this Act to employ a state watershed forester to work with the Coordinator.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8956-8957)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8951-8953)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
NOAA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Monitoring, Education, Training, and Restoration Act

Bill: 109-s-1494
Sponsor: Sen. Sarbanes, Paul S. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agricultural education
Agriculture and Food
Animals
Aquaculture
Aquatic ecology
Aquatic plants
Authorization
Chesapeake Bay
Coastal zone
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Education
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Environmental monitoring
Environmental research
Environmental technology
Estuaries
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to water pollution control
Government Operations and Politics
Habitat conservation
Higher education
Land use
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine ecology
Science, Technology, Communications
Shellfish
Shore protection
Tax-exempt organizations
Teacher education
Water Resources Development
Water quality
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
NOAA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Monitoring, Education, Training, and Restoration Act - Requires the Director of the Chesapeake Bay Office, within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to establish a Chesapeake Bay Integrated Observing System.
 
Directs the System to coordinate existing monitoring and observing activities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, identify new data collection needs, and deploy new technologies to provide a complete set of environmental information needed to restore the health of the Chesapeake Bay.
 
Requires the Director to establish programs for: (1) watershed education and training; and (2) watershed stock enhancement and habit restoration.
 
Authorizes the Director to make grants and enter into contracts with an institution of higher education to support education in Chesapeake Bay aquaculture sciences and technologies, including to develop aquaculture processes and technologies to improve production of disease-free oyster spat and submerged aquatic vegetation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8957-8958)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8951-8953)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Obligation of Funds Transparency Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1495
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Congress
Congressional committees (House)
Congressional committees (Senate)
Congressional conference committees
Government Operations and Politics
House Appropriations
Legislation
Senate Appropriations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Obligation of Funds Transparency Act of 2005 - Prohibits a Federal agency from obligating funds made available in an appropriation Act to implement an earmark that is included in a congressional report accompanying such Act, unless the earmark is also included in that Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security. Hearings held.
action_date: 2006-01-27
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8959-8960)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to provide incidental take permits to public electric utilities that adopt avian protection plans.

Bill: 109-s-1497
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Eagles
Electric power transmission
Electric utilities
Endangered species
Energy
Environmental Protection
Fines (Penalties)
Law
Licenses
Migratory bird conservation
Protection of animals
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to provide an incidental take permit to a public electric utility that has adopted an avian protection plan, if the Secretary determines that the utility has included in the plan specific measures to mitigate hazards to eagles and other migratory birds.
 
Shields a public utility that receives such an incidental take permit from criminal or civil penalty under specified statutes for the incidental death by electrocution of such birds by a power line during the period the permit is in effect.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain water distribution facilities to the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District.

Bill: 109-s-1498
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Canals
Colorado
Colorado River development
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Government Operations and Politics
Government property
Infrastructure
Transportation and Public Works
Water districts
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary) to convey the St. Vrain Supply Canal, the Boulder Creek Supply Canal that extends from the St. Vrain River to Boulder Creek, and the South Platte Supply Canal, all of which are facilities of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project located in the counties of Larimer, Boulder, and Weld, Colorado, to the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District.
 
Provides that the District shall not be required to provide additional consideration for this conveyance. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer from the reclamation fund in the Treasury to the Secretary specified funds, which shall be derived from amounts collected by the Western Area Power Administration for the sale of electricity from the Loveland Area Projects.
 
Directs the Secretary: (1) if the transferred water distribution facilities have not been conveyed to the District within one year after this Act's enactment, to submit to specified congressional committees a report that describes the reasons for the failure to convey such facilities and the schedule for completing the transfer as soon as practicable; and (2) to provide annual reports until the date on which such facilities are conveyed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-273.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8960)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Federal Power Act to provide for competitive and reliable electricity transmission in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Bill: 109-s-1499
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Electric power transmission
Electric utilities
Kentucky

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Amends the Federal Power Act with respect to equitability within territory restricted electric systems (the prohibition against any Federal Power Commission order that requires an electric utility, otherwise prohibited by federal law from being a direct or indirect source of power supply outside a particular area, or one of its distributors, to provide transmission services to another entity if the electric energy to be transmitted will be consumed within the area set forth in such federal law, unless the order is in furtherance of a sale of electric energy to that electric utility).
 
Declares that such prohibition shall not apply to any area in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8960)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Environmental Health Research Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1500
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Animals
Chemicals
Child development
Child health
Communication in medicine
Communication in science
Community health services
Continuing education
Department of Health and Human Services
Ecological research
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Environmental Protection
Environmental estrogens
Environmental health
Environmental research
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Higher education
Hormones
Medical education
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical tests
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Nursing education
Preventive medicine
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research centers
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Wildlife conservation
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Environmental Health Research Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to make grants for the development and operation of not more than six centers to conduct multidisciplinary research on environmental factors that may be related to the development of women's health conditions. Requires each center to conduct basic and clinical research, develop training protocols, conduct training, develop model continuing education programs, and disseminate information to professionals and the public, with priority to prevention activities. 
 
Allows a center to use grant funds to provide stipends for health and allied health professionals enrolled in training programs.
 
Requires the Director to establish a comprehensive program to: (1) conduct research on the impact of chemicals that affect the health of women and children through disruption of the hormone system; (2) conduct research on the occurrence of hormone-disrupting chemicals in the environment and their effects on ecological and wildlife health; (3) coordinate the design of a multiagency research initiative on hormone disruption; and (4) coordinate research on hormone disruption in the United States with such research conducted in other nations.
 
 Requires the Director to establish the Hormone Disruption Research Interagency Commission to advise the Director of the Institute and the Director of the United States Geological Survey on the development of a comprehensive agenda for conducting research on hormone disruption.
 
Establishes a Hormone Disruption Research Panel to advise the Director of the Institute on the scientific hormone-disruption research program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Crow Tribe Land Restoration Act

Bill: 109-s-1501
Sponsor: Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Indian lands
Land transfers
Minorities
Montana
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Crow Tribe Land Restoration Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) develop a program to provide funds to the Crow Tribe of the State of Montana to acquire land and interests in land from eligible individuals within the Crow Reservation in the state; and (2) accept from eligible individuals the donation of land or an interest in land, to hold in trust for the benefit of the Tribe. Requires the Tribe to manage such land and interests.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to issue to the Secretary of the Treasury any obligations necessary to fund the purchasing program established by this Act.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in Senate