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Limited English Proficiency and Integrated Workforce Training Act

Bill: 109-s-834
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2005-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Adult education
Bilingualism
Colleges
Community colleges
Community organization
Compensatory education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Employee training
English language
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Immigrant education
Immigration
Labor unions
Literacy programs
Vocational and technical education
Wages
Workplace literacy

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: 
Limited English Proficiency and Integrated Workforce Training Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to direct the Secretary of Labor to establish and implement a national demonstration project to analyze and provide data on workforce training programs that integrate English language acquisition and occupational training.
 
Requires the Secretary to award at least ten competitive grants to entities with expertise in serving individuals with limited English proficiency and in providing such integrated training programs. Requires such entities to work with a local board and to include as a principal participant at least one of the following: (1) an employer or employer organization; (2) a nonprofit provider of English instruction; (3) a provider of occupational or skills training; (4) a community-based organization; (5) an educational institution, including a two- or four-year college, or a technical or vocational school; (6) a labor organization; or (7) a local board.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3830-3831)
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Senior Elder Care Relief and Empowerment (SECURE) Act

Bill: 109-s-835
Sponsor: Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2005-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adult day care
Caregivers
Chronically ill
Costs
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Income tax
Long-term care
Respite care
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: 
Senior Elder Care Relief and Empowerment (SECURE) Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a nonrefundable income tax credit for 50 percent of expenses exceeding $1,000 that are incurred for the care of chronically ill individuals who have attained normal retirement age (as determined under the Social Security Act). Allows the credit for certain long-term care services, respite care, or adult day care, but disqualifies expenses that are compensated by insurance or paid to a nursing facility. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3832)
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3831-3832)
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Fuel Economy Truth in Labeling Act

Bill: 109-s-836
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2005-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air conditioning
Automobiles
Commerce
Consumer education
Environmental Protection Agency
Fuel consumption
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Law
Quality of products
Speed limits
Transportation and Public Works
Weather

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: 
Fuel Economy Truth in Labeling Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to initiate a rulemaking to revise certain Federal vehicle fuel economy test procedures to take into consideration current factors that may affect vehicle fuel economy, including higher speed limits, faster acceleration rates, variations in temperature, use of air conditioning, shorter city test cycle lengths, and the use of other fuel depleting features.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to clarify the definition of the term "underground injection".

Bill: 109-s-837
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2005-04-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Energy
Energy storage
Groundwater
Hydraulic engineering
Hydrology
Infrastructure
Natural gas
Oil well drilling
Potable water
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: 
Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to exclude from the definition of &quot;underground injection&quot; (the subsurface emplacement of fluids by well injection) the underground injection of fluids or propping agents pursuant to hydraulic fracturing operations related to oil or gas production activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Democracy for Dairy Producers Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-838
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2005-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural cooperatives
Commerce
Dairy industry
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Marketing orders
Milk
Referendum
Stockholders

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Democracy for Dairy Producers Act of 2005 - Requires, with respect to a specified referendum on Federal milk marketing orders and related reforms, that: (1) if a cooperative association of milk producers elects bloc voting on behalf of its members it shall provide each member with written notice of referendum issues, its intended voting position, and individual producer voting procedures; and (2) the Secretary of Agriculture adjust the association vote to reflect individual producer votes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3900)
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3899-3900)
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Access to Reproductive Health Information Act

Bill: 109-s-839
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Physicians

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: 
Access to Reproductive Health Information Act - Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005 to repeal a provision that prohibits certain Federal funds from being made available to any Federal agency or program or State or local government that discriminates against any institutional or individual health care entity on the basis that such entity does not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortion. Defines &quot;health care entity&quot; to include an individual physician or health care profession, a hospital, a provider-sponsored organization, a health maintenance organization, a health insurance plan, or any other kind of health care facility, organization, or plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 77.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Pay Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-840
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2005-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Business records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Civil rights enforcement
Class actions (Civil procedure)
Commerce
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional employees
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Dismissal of employees
Employee rights
Employers' liability
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Expert witnesses
Federal employees
Fees
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Hours of labor
Labor statistics
Labor unions
Law
Legal fees
Minimum wages
Pay equity
Position classification
Punitive damages
Racial discrimination
Right of privacy
Salaries
Sex discrimination
Small business
Wage restitution
Wage surveys
Wages
Whistle blowing
Women
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: 
Fair Pay Act of 2005 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit discrimination in the payment of wages on account of sex, race, or national origin. (Allows payment of different wages under seniority systems, merit systems, systems that measure earnings by quantity or quality of production, or differentials based on bona fide factors that the employer demonstrates are job-related or further legitimate business interests.)
 
Prohibits the discharge of or any other discrimination against an individual for opposing any act or practice made unlawful by this Act, or for assisting in an investigation or proceeding under it. 
Directs courts, in any action brought under this Act for violation of such prohibition, to allow expert fees as part of the costs awarded to prevailing plaintiffs. Allows any such action to be maintained as a class action. 
Directs the EEOC to: (1) undertake studies and provide information and technical assistance to employers, labor organizations, and the general public concerning effective means available to implement this Act; and (2) carry on a continuing program of research, education, and technical assistance with specified components related to the purposes of this Act. 
Makes conforming amendments relating to congressional and executive branch employees to the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 and the Presidential and Executive Office Accountability Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3900)
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Employee Free Choice Act

Bill: 109-s-842
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Collective bargaining
Commerce
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Dismissal of employees
Employee rights
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Industrial arbitration
Injunctions
Labor contracts
Labor unions
Law
Mediation
National Labor Relations Board
Unfair labor practices
Wage restitution

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: 
Employee Free Choice Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to require the National Labor Relations Board to certify a bargaining representative without directing an election if a majority of the bargaining unit employees have authorized designation of the representative and there is no other individual or labor organization currently certified or recognized as the exclusive representative of any of the employees in the unit.
 
Sets forth special procedural requirements for reaching an initial collective bargaining agreement following certification or recognition.
 
Revises enforcement requirements with respect to unfair labor practices during union organizing drives. Provides, under injunction provisions, for priority to be given to preliminary investigation of charges of violations by employers or other entities. Adds to remedies for such violations: (1) back pay plus liquidated damages; and (2) additional civil penalties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3901)
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to permit retired servicemembers who have a service-connected disability to receive disability compensation and either retired pay or Combat-Related Special Compensation and to eliminate the phase-in period with respect to such concurrent receipt.

Bill: 109-s-845
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2005-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Labor and Employment
Military pensions
Retired military personnel
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: 
 Expresses the sense of Congress that military retired pay should not be reduced because a military retiree is also eligible for veterans' disability compensation awarded for a service-connected disability.
 
Allows the receipt of both military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation with respect to any service-connected disability (currently, only a disability rated at 50 percent or more). Repeals provisions phasing in the full concurrent receipt of such pay through December 31, 2013.
 
Makes eligible for the full concurrent receipt of both veterans' disability compensation and either military retired pay or combat-related special pay those individuals who were retired or separated from military service due to a service-connected disability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 79.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3901-3902)
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide fair wages for America's workers.

Bill: 109-s-846
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Congress
Cost of living adjustments
Defined benefit pension plans
Department of Labor
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Hours of labor
Indexing (Economic policy)
Law
Legislation
Minimum wages
Pension funds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: 
Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to deny any force or effect to any portion of a rule promulgated on April 23, 2004, that has the effect of exempting from FLSA overtime compensation requirements (which limit maximum hours at regular compensation) any employee who would not otherwise be exempted if regulations in effect on March 31, 2003, remained in effect. Reinstates that portion of such regulations that would prevent such an employee from being exempt. Directs the Secretary of Labor to increase, in a specified manner, the minimum salary level for the exemption for executive, administrative, and managerial occupations from FLSA overtime compensation requirements.
 
Amends the FLSA to increase the Federal minimum wage to: (1) $5.85 an hour, beginning on the 60th day after enactment of this Act; (2) $6.55 an hour, beginning 12 months after that 60th day; and (3) $7.25 an hour, beginning 24 months after that 60th day.
 
Expresses the sense of the Senate regarding multiemployer pension plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 80.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3902-3903)
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to lower the burden of gasoline prices on the economy of the United States and circumvent the efforts of OPEC to reap windfall oil profits.

Bill: 109-s-847
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2005-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Consumer protection
Energy prices
Gasoline
Governmental investigations
OPEC countries
Petroleum industry
Petroleum reserves
Profit
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restrictive trade practices
Strategic materials

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: 
 Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should: (1) directly confront and challenge the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to increase oil production immediately; and (2) direct the Federal Trade Commission and Attorney General to exercise vigorous oversight over the oil markets to protect the people of the United States from price gouging and unfair practices at the gasoline pump.
 
 Declares that from the date of enactment of this Act until 30 days afterward: (1) deliveries of oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) shall be suspended; and (2) one million barrels of oil per day shall be released from the SPR. 
 
Provides for the release of one million barrels of oil per day from the SPR for an additional 30 days if it is necessary to: (1) lower the burden of gasoline prices on the domestic economy; and (2) circumvent OPEC efforts to reap windfall crude oil profits. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 81.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act

Bill: 109-s-849
Sponsor: Sen. Allen, George [R-VA]
Introduced: 2005-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Electronic commerce
Electronic mail systems
Excise tax
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental tax relations
Internet
Local laws
Local taxation
Sales tax
Science, Technology, Communications
State laws
State taxation
Tax administration
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: 
Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act - Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to make permanent the ban on State taxation of Internet access and on multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8018)
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Global Health Corps Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-850
Sponsor: Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN]
Introduced: 2005-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Access to health care
Agriculture and Food
Animals
Charities
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dental care
Department of Health and Human Services
Diplomacy
Education
Executive reorganization
Federal employees
Food safety
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health surveys
Higher education
International agencies
Medical education
Medical personnel
Medical supplies
Nongovernmental organizations
Peace Corps
Potable water
Preventive medicine
Public health personnel
Public-private partnerships
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Veterinary medicine
Volunteer workers
Water Resources Development
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: 
Global Health Corps Act of 2005 - Establishes the Office of the Global Health Corp within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to assist in improving the health, welfare, and development of communities in foreign countries and regions through the provision of health care personnel, items, and related services.
 
Directs the Secretary of HHS to establish the Global Health Corps to: (1) improve the heath, welfare, and development of communities in select foreign countries and regions; (2) advance U.S. public diplomacy in such locations; and (3) provide individuals in the United States with the opportunity to serve such communities by providing a broad range of needed health care and related services. Requires that Corp participants be available to provide: (1) health care items and related services; (2) preventive care, treatment, and services; (3) veterinary and related services; and (4) sanitation, hygiene, food preparation, and clean water training.
 
Requires the Director of the Global Health Corps to establish and carry out a program to provide members of the Corps with training in a variety of health care disciplines.
 
Requires the head of the Volunteers for Prosperity program to establish the Health Care for Peace initiative to make non-Federal volunteers available to participate in the Corps.
 
Permits members of the Public Health Service and volunteers in the Peace Corps to participate in the Global Health Corps.
 
Allows the Director to establish private-public partnerships to further the purpose of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4097-4098)
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3903-3905)
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Fiscal Responsibility for a Sound Future Act

Bill: 109-s-851
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2005-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits
Budget reconciliation
Budget resolutions
Congress
Congressional budget
Congressional voting
Expedited congressional procedure
Federal budget process
Government spending reductions
Legislation
Senate rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: 
Fiscal Responsibility for a Sound Future Act - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to extend through FY 2005 the spending caps for discretionary, highway, and mass transit categories in new budget authority and outlays.
 
Declares that Congress should enact a limit on total discretionary spending for FY 2006.
 
Retains (eliminates the expiration of) pay-as-you-go.
 
Reenacts into law (effective for FY 2005) certain budget enforcement mechanisms through FY 2015.
 
Makes it out of order in the Senate to consider under expedited procedures applicable to reconciliation in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 any measure that increases the deficit in the: (1) first fiscal year covered by the most recently adopted concurrent resolution on the budget; (2) first five fiscal years covered by such adoption; or (3) first five fiscal years following such period.
 
Amends H.Con.Res. 95 (108th Congress) to revise provisions concerning the Pay-As-You-Go point of order rule in the Senate to: (1) modify the formula used to estimate the baseline; and (2) extend the application of such rule through FY 2015.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 83.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate