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A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on Cuprate(3-), [2-[[[3-[[4-[[2-[2-(ethenylsulfonyl)ethoxy]ethyl]amino]-6-fluoro-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl]amino]-2-(hydroxy-.kappa.O)-5-sulfophenyl]azo-.kappa.N2]phenylmethyl]azo-.kappa.N1]-4-sulfobenzoato(5-)-.kappa.O],trisodium.

Bill: 109-s-1944
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2005-11-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2009, of the duty on Cuprate(3-), [2-[[[3-[[4-[[2-[2-(ethenylsulfonyl)ethoxy]ethyl]amino]-6-fluoro-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl]amino]-2-(hydroxy-.kappa.O)-5-sulfophenyl]azo-.kappa.N2]phenylmethyl]azo-.kappa.N1]-4-sulfobenzoato(5-)-.kappa.O],trisodium.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on 2,7-Naphthalenedisulfonic acid, 5-[[4-chloro-6-[[2-[[4-fluoro-6-[[5-hydroxy-6-[(4-methoxy-2-sulfophenyl)azo]-7-sulfo-2-naphthalenyl]amino]-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl]amino]-1-methylethyl]amino]-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl]amino]-3-[[4-(ethenylsulfonyl)phenyl]azo]-4-hydrox'-, sodium salt.

Bill: 109-s-1945
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2005-11-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2009, of the duty on 2,7-Naphthalenedisulfonic acid, 5-[[4-chloro-6-[[2-[[4-fluoro-6-[[5-hydroxy-6-[(4-methoxy-2-sulfophenyl)azo]-7-sulfo-2-naphthalenyl]amino]-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl]amino]-1-methylethyl]amino]-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl]amino]-3-[[4-(ethenylsulfonyl)phenyl]azo]-4-hydrox'-, sodium salt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the temporary suspension of duty on 7,7'-[1,3-propanediylbis[imino(6-fluoro-1,3,5-triazine-4,2-diyl)imino[2-[(aminocarbonyl)amino]-4,1-phenylene]azo]]bis-,sodium salt.

Bill: 109-s-1946
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2005-11-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2009, of the duty on 7,7'-[1,3-propanediylbis[imino(6-fluoro-1,3,5-triazine-4,2-diyl)imino[2-[(aminocarbonyl)amino]-4,1-phenylene]azo]]bis-,sodium salt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Specially Adapted Housing Grants Improvements Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1947
Sponsor: Sen. Sununu, John E. [R-NH]
Introduced: 2005-11-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Disabled
Home repair and improvement
Housing and Community Development
Housing for the disabled
Housing subsidies
Self-help devices for the disabled

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: 
Specially Adapted Housing Grants Improvements Act of 2005 - Provides that if a veteran who is totally and permanently service-disabled (due to loss of, or loss of use of, one or more limbs or organs) resides, but does not intend to permanently reside, in a residence owned by a member of that veteran's family, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs may assist such veteran in acquiring such residence adaptations as necessary due to such disability. Provides assistance limits. Prohibits any veteran from receiving more than three assistance grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12129)
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Cameron Gulbransen Kids and Cars Safety Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1948
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2005-11-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Automobiles
Child health
Child safety
Commerce
Consumer education
Data banks
Department of Transportation
Disabled
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government statistics
Health
High technology
Law
Motor vehicle safety
Safety appliances
Science, Technology, Communications
Traffic accidents and safety
Transportation and the disabled

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: 
Cameron Gulbransen Kids and Cars Safety Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations for all passenger motor vehicles to require: (1) automatic reversal of direction by power windows and panels when they detect an obstruction, to prevent children from being trapped, injured, or killed; (2) a rearward visibility performance standard to prevent backing incidents; and (3) engagement of the vehicle service brake in all key positions while the key is out of the ignition before the engine is started or the transmission is engaged, to prevent accidents resulting from vehicles accidentally rolling away.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish a database of injuries and deaths in nontraffic, noncrash events involving passenger motor vehicles; and (2) supplement a consumer information program on child safety or create a new program with information about hazards to children in nontraffic, noncrash incident situations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12129-12130)
action_date: 2005-11-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act

Bill: 109-s-1951
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-11-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Community health services
Congregate housing
Disability evaluation
Disability insurance
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Flexible benefit plans
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Home care services
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Long-term care
Long-term care insurance
Paramedical personnel
Payroll deductions
Poverty
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: 
Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act or the CLASS Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to create a national, voluntary disability insurance program (CLASS program) under which: (1) all employees are automatically enrolled, but are allowed to waive enrollment; (2) payroll deductions pay monthly premiums; and (3) two-tiered benefits are provided, based on the level of disability, to purchase nonmedical services and supports that the beneficiary needs to maintain independence.
 
Establishes the Independence Fund within the Treasury. 
 
Requires the CLASS program to be treated for tax purposes in the same manner as a qualified long-term care insurance contract.
 
Amends the Social Security Act to require each state to: (1) assess the extent to which personal care services providers are serving or able to serve as fiscal agents, employers, and providers of employment-related benefits for personal care attendant workers, who provide personal care services to individuals receiving benefits under this Act; (2) designate or create entities to serve such purposes; and (3) ensure that such entities will not impede the ability of individuals to retain, manage, or dismiss such workers or inhibit individuals from relying on family members for such services.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a Personal Care Attendants Workforce Advisory Panel to examine and advise the Secretary and Congress on workforce issues related to personal care attendant workers.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) a deduction for premiums paid for the CLASS program; (2) a credit for low-income CLASS program enrollees; and (3) a credit for employers for the cost incurred to automatically enroll employees and withhold monthly premiums.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12239-12240)
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Critical Access to Health Information Technology Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1952
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2005-11-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Health and Human Services
Diseases
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic data interchange
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health information systems
Health planning
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Information technology
Law
Medical records
Medical statistics
Medical technology
Performance measurement
Quality of care
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: 
Critical Access to Health Information Technology Act of 2005 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program to award grants to states to increase access to health care in rural areas by improving health information technology.
 
 Requires a state that receives such a grant to designate a lead agency to: (1) administer the grant; (2) develop the state plan for use of grant funds; and (2) coordinate the expenditure of funds and provision of services under the grant with other federal and state health care programs. 
 
Directs the lead agency to award local grants on a competitive basis based on the extent to which an entity: (1) demonstrates a need to improve its health information reporting and health information technology; and (2) will serve a community with a significant low-income or other medically underserved population. Requires each grant recipient to be a government-owned or private nonprofit hospital located in a rural area.
 
Requires the lead agency to annually report to the Secretary on: (1) the amounts received under the grant; (2) the amounts allocated to state grant recipients; and (3) the types of expenditures made by local grant recipients.
 
Requires the Secretary to review and monitor state compliance with the requirements of this Act.
 
Directs the Secretary to promulgate a final rule concerning the replacement of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, 9th revision, Clinical Modification with the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th revision, Clinical Modification and Clinical Modification Coding System. Authorizes the Secretary to adopt specified standards for electronic health care transactions that are recommended in relation to such replacements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12241-12242)
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12240-12241)
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Insular Possessions Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1954
Sponsor: Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2005-11-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Caribbean area
Latin America
Tariff
Territories (U.S.)

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: 
Insular Possessions Act of 2005 - Amends the General Notes of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to revise the requirement for duty-free treatment of products imported from U.S. insular possessions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Access, Compassion, Care, and Ethics for Seriously Ill Patients Act

Bill: 109-s-1956
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2005-11-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Cancer
Chemotherapy
Clinical trials
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug approvals
Employee training
Federal advisory bodies
Federal employees
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Human experimentation in medicine
Law
Medical ethics
Medical research
Medical statistics
Medical supplies
Patients' rights
Pharmaceutical research
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: 
Access, Compassion, Care, and Ethics for Seriously Ill Patients Act or the ACCESS Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to replace the current fast track product approval process with a multi-tiered approval process for any investigational drug, biological product, or device. Provides for expedited approval for a drug, biological product, or device for a serious or life-threatening condition, with additional conditions such as additional studies, limits on advertising and promotional materials, and expedited withdrawal procedures.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish the Accelerated Approval Advisory Committee to issue recommendations to the Secretary on applications submitted by a sponsor of such a drug, product, or device; (2) prohibit placebo-only or no-treat-only concurrent controls in clinical investigations with respect to any life-threatening condition or disease where reasonably effective, approved, alternative therapies exist for the specific indication; (3) establish a program to encourage the development of surrogate endpoints and biomarkers that are reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit for serious or life-threatening conditions for which there exist significant unmet medical needs; (4) request that the Institute of Medicine undertake a study to identify validated surrogate endpoints and biomarkers, and recommend research to validate surrogate endpoints and biomarkers, that may support approvals for products intended for the treatment of serious or life-threatening conditions or diseases; and (5) give equal weight to clinical judgment and statistical analysis in the evaluation of the safety and effectiveness of new products and not disapprove a product application solely on the basis of a statistical analysis or the rigid use of the 95 percent confidence level convention.
 
Requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to establish a new program to expand access to investigation treatments for individuals with serious or life-threatening conditions and diseases.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12355-12357)
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the Secretary of Interior to convey to The Missouri River Basin Lewis and Clark Interpretive Trail and Visitor Center Foundation, Inc. certain Federal land associated with the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail in Nebraska, to be used as an historical interpretive site along the trail.

Bill: 109-s-1957
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2005-11-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Foundations
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
Nebraska
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Tourism
Trails
West (U.S.)

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the Missouri River Basin Lewis and Clark Interpretive Trail and Visitor Center Foundation, Inc., specified federal land associated with the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail in Nebraska, to be used as an historic site and interpretive center for the Trail. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-447.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Northern Border Prosecution Initiative Reimbursement Act

Bill: 109-s-1958
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2005-11-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Alaska
Boundaries
Criminal investigation
Detention of persons
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Idaho
Law
Legal aid
Legal fees
Maine
Michigan
Minnesota
Montana
New Hampshire
New York State
North Dakota
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Prosecution
Social Welfare
Vermont
Washington State
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: 
Northern Border Prosecution Initiative Reimbursement Act - Directs the Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance of the Office of Justice Programs, to carry out the Northern Border Prosecution Initiative to provide funds to reimburse eligible northern border states (or local governments thereof) for costs incurred for handling dispositions of criminal cases that are federally initiated but federally declined-referred (i.e., where a decision has been made in a criminal case by a U.S. Attorney or a federal law enforcement agency during a federal investigation to no longer pursue federal criminal charges against a defendant and to refer the investigation to a state or local jurisdiction for possible prosecution). Requires that such program be modeled after the Southwestern Border Prosecution Initiative and serve as a partner program to that initiative to reimburse local jurisdictions for processing federal cases. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to direct the Architect of the Capitol to obtain a statue of Rosa Parks and to place the statue in the United States Capitol in National Statuary Hall.

Bill: 109-s-1959
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-11-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Blacks
Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights workers
Congress
Congressional tributes
Minorities
Sculpture

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: 
Directs the Architect of the Capitol to enter into an agreement to obtain a statue of Rosa Parks and to place the statue in the Capitol in a suitable permanent location in National Statuary Hall.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12358)
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12357-12358)
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Integrity in Professional Sports Act

Bill: 109-s-1960
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2005-11-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Drug abuse
Drug testing
Drugs and athletes
Steroids

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: 
Integrity in Professional Sports Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that the individual records of athletes achieved as a result of performance-enhancing substances or methods should be invalidated.
 
Prohibits a professional sports league from organizing, sponsoring, endorsing, promoting, producing, or recognizing a professional sports event without adopting and enforcing a testing policy for performance-enhancing drugs that meets or exceeds the standards specified in this Act.
 
Requires each such league to adopt policies and procedures that: (1) proscribe the use of prohibited substances and methods; (2) provide for random testing of each professional athlete at least five times a year; and (3) proscribe any employee or contractor of the league, the team or club, or the professional athletes' union from complicity in an offense by an athlete.
 
 Provides that the testing policy shall be violated if: (1) a test reveals the presence of a prohibited substance or its metabolites or markers; (2) evidence of the use of a prohibited substance or method is discovered; (3) an athlete refuses to submit to a test; (4) an athlete tampers with the testing process; (5) a league or union representative administers a prohibited substance or method to any athlete a or assists, encourages, aids, abets, or covers up any other type of complicity involving an offense by a professional athlete.
 
Allows a league to provide an individual athlete an exemption for a particular prohibited substance or method for a documented medical condition.
 
Sets penalties as a minimum of two years' suspension for the first violation, permanent suspension for any subsequent violation, and public disclosure of the name of the violator and substance involved.
 
Allows the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to seek civil penalties for violations of this Act.
 
Requires the United States Boxing Commission (after it is established) to promulgate uniform performance-enhancing substance testing standards for professional boxing consistent with this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 280.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12345)
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to revise certain repayment contracts with the Bostwick Irrigation District in Nebraska, the Kansas Bostwick Irrigation District No. 2, the Frenchman-Cambridge Irrigation District, and the Webster Irrigation District No. 4, all a part of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-1962
Sponsor: Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS]
Introduced: 2005-11-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Collection of accounts
Construction costs
Federal aid to water resources development
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Irrigation districts
Missouri River development
Nebraska
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to revise the repayment contracts with the Bostwick Irrigation District in Nebraska, the Kansas Bostwick Irrigation District No. 2, the Frenchman-Cambridge Irrigation District, and the Webster Irrigation District, by: (1) equalizing the annual total repayment obligation under the contracts for the distribution works construction charge and the water supply repayment obligation for the remaining years of the contracts, relying upon the annual water supply repayment obligation as of the date of this Act's enactment as the base for equalizing the annual total payments; and (2) extending the date for adjusting the annual deposits into the distribution works reserve fund and the district water supply reserve fund for an additional 10 years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-30
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-460.
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Introduced in Senate