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Vermont Wilderness Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5157
Sponsor: Rep. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
National forests
National recreation areas
Sports and Recreation
Trails
Vermont
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Vermont Wilderness Act of 2006 - Designates as wilderness areas and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System certain lands in Vermont to be known as the Glastenbury Wilderness, Joseph Battell Wilderness, Breadloaf Wilderness, Lye Brook Wilderness, Peru Peak Wilderness, and Big Branch Wilderness.
 
Designates specified federal land as the Moosalamoo National Recreation Area. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, to develop and submit to specified congressional committees a comprehensive management plan for the Area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Anti-hunger Empowerment Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5158
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Alaska
California
Child nutrition
Commerce
Community organization
Congressional reporting requirements
Connecticut
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Exercise
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Fingerprints
Food relief
Food stamps
Fruit
Georgia
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government statistics
Grants-in-aid
Health
Homeless
Hunger
Illinois
Indiana
Internet
Iowa
Job hunting
Kentucky
Labor and Employment
Law
Maryland
Metropolitan areas
Missouri
National service
New York City
New York State
Nonprofit organizations
Nutrition
Obesity
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Personal budgets
Puerto Rico
Saving and investment
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Texas
Trusts and trustees
Urban affairs
Vegetables
Virginia
Volunteer workers
Weight loss
Welfare eligibility
West Virginia
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Anti-hunger Empowerment Act of 2006 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to replace current food stamp program (program) administrative cost provisions with provisions authorizing 75% reimbursement for specified state activities to increase program access.
 
States that fingerprinting shall not be required for program participation.
 
Beyond the Soup Kitchen Grants Program Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a Beyond the Soup Kitchen pilot program to provide grants: (1) to a primary community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger group in each designated pilot community which shall allocate subgrants to other nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger groups in such community; and (2) for technical assistance grants. Sets forth program provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
To posthumously award a Congressional gold medal on behalf of each person aboard United Airlines Flight 93 who helped resist the hijackers and caused the plane to crash.

Bill: 109-hr-5159
Sponsor: Rep. Shuster, Bill [R-PA-9]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Air piracy
Airline passenger traffic
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Crime and Law Enforcement
Flight crews
International Affairs
Pennsylvania
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to make arrangements for the posthumous presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal to the next of kin or personal representative of each passenger or crew member on board United Airlines Flight 93 who is identified by the Attorney General as having aided in the effort to resist the hijackers on board the plane, in recognition of heroic service to the Nation.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike a gold medal with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions. Authorizes the Secretary to strike and sell bronze duplicates of such gold medal.
 
Declares such medals to be national medals.
 
Requires that proceeds from the sale of duplicate bronze medals be deposited into the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Commission on Mexican-American Removal during 1929-1941 Act

Bill: 109-hr-5161
Sponsor: Rep. Solis, Hilda L. [D-CA-32]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Citizenship
Compensation (Law)
Congressional reporting requirements
Deportation
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
History
Immigrants
Immigration
Latin America
Mexican Americans
Mexico
Minorities

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Commission on Mexican-American Removal during 1929-1941 Act - Establishes the Commission on Mexican-American Removal during 1929-1941, which shall: (1) review the facts and circumstances surrounding the removal of certain U.S. citizens and permanent legal residents to Mexico, and such actions' impact on individuals, families, and the Mexican-American community in the United States; (2) review federal, state, and local removal directives; and (3) report to Congress. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
To pay a one-time bonus to members of the Armed Forces who serve honorably in a combat zone designated for Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-5162
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Air force
Armed forces abroad
Armed forces reserves
Army
Coast guard
Crime and Law Enforcement
International Affairs
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Marines
Middle East and North Africa
Military operations
Military pay
Military personnel
Navy
South Asia
Terrorism
War

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Requires the payment of a one-time bonus of $1,500 to each active-duty and reserve member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard who served or serves for any period of time in a combat zone designated in connection with Operations Iraqi Freedom or Enduring Freedom, and whose service is characterized as honorable.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Federal and Small Business Telework Promotion Act

Bill: 109-hr-5163
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Bicycles
Car pools
Commuting
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Disabled
Employment of the disabled
Energy
Energy conservation
Federal employees
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Government travel
Mass rapid transit
Science, Technology, Communications
Sheltered workshops
Small business
Telecommuting
Transportation and Public Works
Veterans' employment
Walking

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Federal and Small Business Telework Promotion Act - Amends the National Energy Conservation Policy Act to require each federal agency to take necessary actions to reduce the level of fuel consumed by vehicles of employees of such agency (other than fuel for military purposes) by ten percent or more during the one-year period following enactment of this section. Outlines methods to achieve such reduction, including telework and carpooling.
 
Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to conduct, in not more than five of the SBA's regions, a pilot program to raise awareness about telework among small business employers and to encourage such employers to offer telework options to employees. Requires the Administrator to make special efforts to conduct outreach to businesses owned by or employing individuals with disabilities, including disabled American veterans, and agencies, groups, or organizations that aid such individuals. Terminates such program after two years. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman .
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Earning and Living Opportunities Act

Bill: 109-hr-5164
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Advertising
Apprenticeship
Building construction
Commerce
Community development
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction workers
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Directories
Economics and Public Finance
Employee selection
Employee training
Federal aid to housing
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Housing authorities
Housing management
Indian housing
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Law
Maintenance and repair
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Minority employment
Native Americans
Public housing
Recruiting of employees
Residential rehabilitation
Skilled labor
Social Welfare
Urban affairs
Women
Women in business
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Earning and Living Opportunities Act - Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 to set forth as a condition of federal housing and community development assistance that: (1) a public or Indian housing agency or contractor shall require that at least 20% of employee hours be performed by low- or very low-income persons; and (2) a recipient of assistance for housing rehabilitation, construction, or other public construction projects and their contractors shall require that at least 20% of new employee hours be performed by low- or very low-income persons. 
 
Directs the Secretary to require a public or Indian housing agency and other recipients of federal housing and community development assistance to: (1) establish a section 3 committee of interested parties to oversee all aspects of compliance with section 3 of such Act; (2) advertise training and employment opportunities generated by development assistance; and (3) maintain a registry of eligible low- and very low-income persons who express interest in those opportunities.
 
Prescribes requirements for: (1) contractor compliance and job training; and (2) agency recruitment and referral. 
 
Establishes fines for noncompliance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Targeting Homeland Security Resources Effectively Against Terrorism Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5165
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Grants-in-aid
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Population
Risk
Terrorism
Urban affairs
Urban areas

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Targeting Homeland Security Resources Effectively Against Terrorism Act of 2006 (THREAT Act) - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to carry out a program of discretionary grants for use in high-threat, high-density urban areas. Directs the Secretary to make grants to not more than 15 areas in a fiscal year after considering the population, presence of critical infrastructure, and credibility of the terrorism-related threat for an area. Requires amounts awarded to be disbursed directly to local governments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science, and Technology.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Independent Pharmacy Protection Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5166
Sponsor: Rep. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS-1]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drugs
Electronic funds transfers
Finance and Financial Sector
Generic drugs
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Managed care
Medical fees
Medicare
Pharmacies
Prescription pricing
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Independent Pharmacy Protection Act of 2006 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require each prescription drug plan contract entered into with a plan sponsor to provide for: (1) the availability of direct deposit payments; (2) an increased dispensing fee for generic drugs; and (3) payments within 10 days for certain pharmacies.
 
Requires the dispensing fee paid to a participating pharmacy for a generic covered part D drug therapeutically equivalent and bioequivalent to a brand name covered part D drug dispensed through the pharmacy to be at least 50% greater than the dispensing fee for the brand name drug.
 
Limits to $10 the dispensing fee paid to a participating pharmacy for a generic covered part D drug.
 
Prohibits a prescription drug plan, subject to exception by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, from decreasing the dispensing fee paid to a participating pharmacy for a brand name drug to an amount less than the dispensing fee paid for it on the date of enactment of this Act.
 
Applies this Act to contracts with a Medicare Advantage organization in the same manner as they apply to those with a prescription drug plan sponsor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman .
action_date: 2006-04-06
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: 2006-04-06
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: 2006-04-06
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: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5167
Sponsor: Rep. Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Body weight
Child health
Child nutrition
Chronically ill
Department of Agriculture
Diet
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Fund raising
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law
Obesity
Oils and fats
Salt
School lunch program
Sugar
Vending machines

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act of 2006 - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to revise the definition of &quot;food of minimal nutritional value,&quot; the sale of which in areas where school meals are sold or eaten is prohibited as a condition for federal funding of school lunch and breakfast programs.
 
 Applies such definition (and prohibition) to all food sold outside such programs anywhere on school campuses at any time of the day, with the possible limited exemption of food sold at school fundraisers.
 
Requires the Secretary, when revising such definition, to consider the recommendations of authoritative scientific organizations and evidence concerning the relationship between diet and health.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Eric Westhagen.

Bill: 109-hr-5168
Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Real property

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to permit the continued occupancy and use of specified property by Eric Westhagen for the remainder of his natural life, subject to stated requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Ethanol Tax Relief Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5170
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2006-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Energy
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: 
Ethanol Tax Relief Act of 2006 - Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend the duty on ethanol.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Communities Building Access Act

Bill: 109-hr-5171
Sponsor: Rep. Hoekstra, Peter [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2006-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Ambulances
Ambulatory care
Case management
Chronically ill
Clinics
Coinsurance
Commerce
Community health services
Data banks
Drugs
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency medicine
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Health information systems
Health insurance
Hospital care
Information technology
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Managed care
Maternal health services
Medical economics
Medical fees
Medical records
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Nonprofit organizations
Performance measurement
Physicians
Prescription pricing
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Self-employed
Social Welfare
Subsidies
Transportation and Public Works
Vaccination
Volunteer workers
Women
X-rays

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: 
Communities Building Access Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to public or nonprofit private entities to carry out demonstration projects for the purpose of making health care coverage available, on a cost-sharing basis, to: (1) employees through employers that have not contributed to health care benefits for employees during the prior 12 months; and (2) self-employed individuals who have been without such coverage during the prior 12 months.
 
Requires the Secretary to make matching grants to public or nonprofit private entities to carry out demonstration projects for the purpose of forming and maintaining networks composed of health care specialists who volunteer health services to eligible individuals.
 
Directs the Secretary to make an award of a grant or contract for the establishment and operation of a clearinghouse for information on demonstration projects under this Act and similar projects that are community initiated. Allows the Secretary to carry out a program to encourage public and private entities that plan or operate such projects to submit information to the clearinghouse.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Introduced in House