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Coal Leasing Amendments Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-905
Sponsor: Rep. Cubin, Barbara [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Coal
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Energy
Energy development
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Inventories
Mining royalties
Reclamation of land
Rent
Sulphur dioxide
Surety and fidelity

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Coal Leasing Amendments Act of 2005 - Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to repeal the 160-acre limitation placed upon coal leases. 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to establish a mining plan period of more than 40 years upon a determination that the longer period: (1) will ensure the maximum economic recovery of a coal deposit; or (2) the longer period is in the interest of the orderly, efficient, or economic development of a coal resource.
Revises the statutory formula for the payment of advance royalties. Extends from ten years to twenty years the lease term for which advance royalties may be accepted in lieu of the condition of continued operation.
Eliminates the deadline for submission of a coal lease operation and reclamation plan.
Prohibits the Secretary from requiring a surety bond or any other financial assurance to guarantee payment of deferred bonus bid installments with respect to any coal lease issued based upon a cash bonus bid.
Requires the Secretary to review and identify for Congress coal assessments on public lands and the restrictions or impediments to development of those resources.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Reasonable Right-of-Way Fees Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-906
Sponsor: Rep. Cubin, Barbara [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Collection of accounts
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Finance and Financial Sector
Gas pipelines
Government Operations and Politics
Indexing (Economic policy)
Interest rates
Law
Maintenance and repair
National forests
Petroleum pipelines
Real estate appraisal
Rent
Right-of-way
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Reasonable Right-of-Way Fees Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to direct the Secretary of the Interior to amend the Code of Federal Regulations to revise the per acre rental fee zone value schedule by State, county, and type of linear right-of-way use to reflect current land values. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make such revisions for linear rights-of-way granted, issued, or renewed on National Forest System lands. 
Directs the Secretaries to update annually the schedules of linear rights-of-way under their respective jurisdictions by a specified method using the Gross National Product Implicit Price Deflator Index. 
Requires the Secretaries to review the zones and rental per acre figures whenever the cumulative change in the index exceeds 30 percent, or whenever the change in the three-year average of the one-year Treasury interest rate used to determine per acre rental fee zone values exceeds plus or minus 50 percent. Authorizes the Secretaries to revise the base zones and rental fees if the value of Federal land differs sufficiently from the index to warrant such action. 
Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior or appropriate agency heads to use the same valuation method as in the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (as revised by this Act) to calculate the value of rights-of-way for pipeline passage.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant easements and rights-of-way on the Outer Continental Shelf for activities otherwise authorized by that Act.

Bill: 109-hr-907
Sponsor: Rep. Cubin, Barbara [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Competitive bidding
Continental shelf
Easements
Energy
Energy development
Energy storage
Energy transportation
Environmental Protection
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Gas in submerged lands
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine resources conservation
Ocean energy resources
Ocean mining
Oil and gas leases
Petroleum engineering
Petroleum in submerged lands
Petroleum storage
Prospecting
Rent
Right-of-way
Submarine oil well drilling
Surety and fidelity
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to permit easements or rights-of-way for energy and related purposes on the Outer Continental Shelf for activities otherwise proscribed by the Act (as well as the Deepwater Port Act of 1974 and the Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Act of 1980) when such activities: (1) support exploration, development, production, transportation, or storage of oil, natural gas, or other minerals; and (2) produce or support production, transportation, or transmission of energy from sources other than oil and gas.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Witness Security and Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-908
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal statistics
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Homicide
Murder
Relocation
State courts
Violence
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Witness Security and Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal judicial code to provide for the establishment within the United States Marshals Service of a Short Term State Witness Protection Section to provide protection for witnesses in State and local trials involving homicide or involving a serious violent felony or serious drug offense, pursuant to cooperative agreements with State and local district attorneys and the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia (DC).
 
 Directs the Section to give priority in awarding grants and providing services to prosecutor's offices in States with an average of at least 100 murders per year during the five-year period immediately preceding an application for protection.
 
Authorizes: (1) the Attorney General to make grants to State and local district attorneys and the U.S. attorney for DC for providing such witness protection; (2) each grant recipient to use the grant to provide witness protection or to credit the grant to the Section to cover the Section's costs of providing witness protection on the recipient's behalf; and (3) grants to be awarded only in States with an average of not less than 100 murders per year during the most recent five-year period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H813-815)
action_date: 2005-02-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E299-300)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Community-Based Attendant Services and Support Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-910
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative remedies
Commerce
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer protection
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family services
Federal aid to health facilities
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Health services administration
Home care services
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law
Long-term care
Medicaid
Medicare
Mental care facilities
Nursing
Nursing homes
Paramedical personnel
Patient satisfaction
Patients' rights
Preventive medicine
Quality of care
Small business
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Medicaid Community-Based Attendant Services and Supports Act of 2005 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require State Medicaid plan coverage of community-based attendant services and supports for certain Medicaid-eligible individuals.
 
Outlines requirements for: (1) an enhanced Federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) for ongoing activities of early coverage States that enhance and promote the use of community-based attendant services and supports; and (2) increased Federal financial participation for certain expenditures incurred by the State for the provision of such services and supports.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) award grants to eligible States which have established a Consumer Task Force to assist the State in its development of real choice systems change initiatives; and (2) conduct a demonstration project for the purpose of evaluating service coordination and cost-sharing approaches with respect to the provision of community-based services and supports to non-elderly dually eligible individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Reopen Reagan National to General Aviation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-911
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Tom [R-VA-11]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Access to airports
Administrative procedure
Air cargo
Aircraft
Airline employees
Airline passenger traffic
Airports
Aviation safety
Charter airlines
Department of Homeland Security
Flight crews
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Law
Private aviation
Security measures
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Reopen Reagan National to General Aviation Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to implement regulations permitting the resumption of non-scheduled, commercial air carrier (air charter) and general aviation operations at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Allows such regulations to provide reasonable requirements to ensure the security of airport operations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Broad-Based Stock Option Plan Transparency Act

Bill: 109-hr-913
Sponsor: Rep. Dreier, David [R-CA-26]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Earnings
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Employee motivation
Employee ownership
Employee stock options
Executive compensation
Financial statements
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
High technology
Independent regulatory commissions
Industrial research
Information disclosure (Securities law)
International competitiveness
Investors
Labor and Employment
Product development
Recruiting of employees
Science, Technology, Communications
Securities and Exchange Commission
Skilled labor
Standards
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Broad-Based Stock Option Plan Transparency Act - Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to require companies to include within certain mandatory reports details regarding stock option plans, stock purchase plans, and other arrangements involving employee acquisition of an equity interest in the company, including: (1) a discussion of the dilutive effect of stock option plans (written in accordance with the Plain English Handbook published by the Office of Investor Education and Assistance of the Commission); (2) expanded disclosure of the dilutive effect of employee stock options on the company's earnings per share number; (3) prominent placement and increased comparability of all stock option related information; and (4) a summary of stock options granted to the five most highly compensated executive officers, including outstanding stock options of those officers.
 
Directs the SEC to examine and report to specified congressional committees on the effectiveness of the enhanced disclosures required by this Act in increasing transparency to current and potential investors.
 
Prohibits the Commission, between enactment of this Act and submission of such report, from recognizing as generally accepted accounting principles any new accounting standards regarding the treatment of stock options.
 
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to analyze and report to specified congressional committees on broad-based employee stock option plans, particularly in the high technology and any other high growth industries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Truth in Spending Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-914
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Campaign funds
Fund raising
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Political action committees
Political parties
Tax penalties
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Truth in Spending Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise disclosure requirements for tax-exempt political organizations. Requires such organizations to file monthly reports in any calendar year in which they accept a contribution or make an expenditure for an exempt function and to file a single year-end report not later than January 31 of the following calendar year. Eliminates the quarterly reporting requirement in calendar years in which a regularly scheduled election is held. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Cultural Conservation of the Crossroads of Civilization Act

Bill: 109-hr-915
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Afghanistan
Archaeology
Arts, Culture, Religion
Congress
Congressional oversight
Cultural property
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
History
Import restrictions
Presidential powers
South Asia
Trade agreements
Treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Cultural Conservation of the Crossroads of Civilization Act - Authorizes the President to exercise authority under the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act to implement specified emergency restrictions on imports in order to protect certain archaeological or ethnological materials of Afghanistan which are illegally removed after enactment of this Act.
 
Authorizes such measures as if Afghanistan were a State Party under such Act.
 
Terminates the President's authority under this Act upon the earlier of: (1) five years after the President certifies normalization of U.S.-Afghanistan relations; or (2) September 30, 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-916
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Medical fees
Medicare
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal the outpatient therapy cap.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-02-17
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: 2005-02-17
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: 2005-02-17
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: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Better Access to Chiropractors to Keep our Veterans Healthy Act (BACK Veterans Health Act)

Bill: 109-hr-917
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Chiropractic and chiropractors
Health
Medical tests
Preventive medicine
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Better Access to Chiropractors to Keep our Veterans Healthy ( BACK Veterans Health) Act - Includes chiropractic services and counseling, as well as periodic and preventative chiropractic examinations and services, among the medical, rehabilitative, and preventive health services available to veterans.
 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to permit eligible veterans to receive medical, rehabilitative, and preventative health services from a licensed doctor of chiropractic on a direct access basis at the election of the veteran, if such services are within the State scope of practice of such doctor. Prohibits the Secretary from discriminating among licensed health-care providers in the determination of needed services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E625)
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat certain publicly-traded debt issued or guaranteed by Federal, State, or local governments as qualified nonrecourse financing.

Bill: 109-hr-919
Sponsor: Rep. Foley, Mark [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government securities
Income tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to qualify certain publicly-traded debt as qualified nonrecourse financing for purposes of tax rules limiting tax deductions to amounts considered at risk.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the treatment of qualified restaurant property as 15-year property for purposes of the depreciation deduction.

Bill: 109-hr-920
Sponsor: Rep. Foley, Mark [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Income tax
Restaurants
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the 15-year recovery period for purposes of the tax deduction for depreciation of qualified restaurant property. Revises the term &quot;qualified restaurant property&quot; to include existing buildings as well as improvements to buildings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
Supply Our Soldiers Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-923
Sponsor: Rep. Fossella, Vito [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Afghanistan
Armed forces abroad
Authorization
Commerce
Department of Defense
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Labeling
Law
Middle East and North Africa
Military dependents
Military pay
Postal service
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
South Asia
United States Postal Service
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Mailing Support to Troops Act of 2005 - Authorizes free mailing privileges for mail matter sent by a family member from within an area served by a U.S. post office to members of the Armed Forces on active duty in Iraq or Afghanistan, or hospitalized at an Armed Forces facility as a result of such service.

action_date: 2005-11-03
text: 
Supply Our Soldiers Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide for a program under which postal benefits are provided to a member of the Armed Forces who is on active duty and who is either: (1) serving in Iraq or Afghanistan; or (2) hospitalized at a military medical facility as a result of such service. Provides the postal benefits in the form of coupons or other evidence of credit (vouchers) to use for postal-free mailings. Limits: (1) the weight of the mail and parcels authorized for the program; (2) a member to one voucher per month; and (3) the program duration to one year after the date of implementing regulations.
 
Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 147.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Government Reform. H. Rept. 109-268.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Government Reform. H. Rept. 109-268.
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in House