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Individual Alternative Minimum Tax Repeal Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1103
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Minimum tax
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Individual Alternative Minimum Tax Repeal Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the alternative minimum tax on individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5787-5788)
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Immigrant Children's Health Improvement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1104
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Child health
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Health
Health insurance
Immigrant health
Immigration
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Pregnant women
Welfare eligibility
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
 Immigrant Children's Health Improvement Act of 2005 - Amends titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to grant States the option of covering certain categories of eligible pregnant women and child resident aliens, including targeted low-income children, under the Medicaid and SCHIP programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5788)
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
International and Foreign Language Studies Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1105
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Authorization
Business education
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural relations
Economics and Public Finance
Educational exchanges
Educational innovations
Educational statistics
Federal aid to education
Foreign service
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
International Affairs
International education
Language and languages
Minorities
Minority education
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
International and Foreign Language Studies Act of 2005 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to extend the authorization of appropriations for international education programs under title VI: (1) part A, international and foreign language studies; (2) part B, business and international education; and (3) part C, Institute for International Public Policy (IIPP). Authorizes the Secretary of Education to use up to 1% of title VI funds for program evaluation, outreach, and information dissemination.
 
Revises VI-A to: (1) include support for instructors of less commonly taught languages among activities of national language and area centers and programs; (2) make undergraduate students eligible for fellowships for foreign language and area or international studies (in addition to graduate students under current law); (3) allow a portion of funds for undergraduate international studies and foreign language programs to be used for subgrants to undergraduate students for educational programs abroad that promote foreign language literacy and cultural knowledge, and are closely linked to grant program goals; (4) authorize the Secretary of Education to support data collection, analysis, and dissemination that helps achieve VI-A purposes; and (5) add to authorized uses of funds for technological innovation and cooperation for foreign information access.
 
Revises VI-C to authorize the IIPP to provide summer stipends and Ralph Bunche scholarships for needy students to participate in IIPP programs. Authorizes: (1) waiver of an eligible recipient's match requirement for a professional development program; (2) broader institutional development; (3) advanced degrees in international relations; and (4) biennial reports. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5788-5789)
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Arkansas Valley Conduit Act

Bill: 109-s-1106
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2005-05-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Colorado
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Infrastructure
Pipelines
Transportation and Public Works
Water districts
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: 
Arkansas Valley Conduit Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to plan, design, and construct a water delivery pipeline, to be known as the Arkansas Valley Conduit, from a location in the vicinity of Pueblo Reservoir, Pueblo, to Lamar, Colorado.
 
Designates the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District, or its designee that is recognized under State law as an entity that has taxing authority, as the lead non-federal entity for the Conduit. Directs such entity to: (1) act as the official agent of the Conduit; (2) pay the non-federal share of any increased costs, including construction costs, under this Act; and (3) pay costs for and perform the operations, maintenance, and replacement of the Conduit. Sets the federal share of: (1) total planning, design, and construction costs at 80 percent; and (2) any increased costs that are a result of fundamental design changes conducted at the request of anyone other than such entity at 100 percent. Directs the Secretary, upon completion, to transfer ownership of the Conduit to such entity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-781.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5789-5790)
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5789)
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Access to Emergency Services Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1108
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2005-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulances
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Emergency medicine
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Health information systems
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Labor and Employment
Medical education
Medical fees
Medicare
Paramedical personnel
Peer review organizations (Medicine)
Quality of care
Recruiting of employees
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
State officials
Telecommunication rates
Telemedicine
Transportation and Public Works
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: 
Rural Access to Emergency Services Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to: (1) cost-based critical access hospital ambulance services; (2) appropriate coverage of rural ground ambulance services; and (3) payments to retain emergency and other capacity for ambulances in rural areas.
 
Amends SSA title XI to provide for expanding the work of Medicare quality improvement organizations to include ambulance providers.
 
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 with respect to including ambulance providers in the definition of health care provider for purposes of the Universal Service Fund. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to States to encourage them to make improvements to their emergency medical services systems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5852-5853)
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Ambulance Payment Reform and Rural Equity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1109
Sponsor: Sen. Lott, Trent [R-MS]
Introduced: 2005-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulances
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
Housing and Community Development
Medical fees
Medicare
Rural health
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: 
Medicare Ambulance Payment Reform and Rural Equity Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) revise ambulance payment rates; and (2) provide additional payments for providers furnishing ambulance services in rural areas. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review the system for adjusting payments for rural ambulance services to determine their adequacy and appropriateness.
 
Amends SSA title XVIII with respect to a Secretary-specified uniform coding system identifying furnished ambulance services for purposes of a fee schedule. Directs the Secretary to establish a system or systems for the coding of claims for ambulance services for which payment is made, including a code set specifying the medical condition of the individual who is transported and the level of service that is appropriate for the transportation of an individual with that medical condition. Requires the code set to take into account the list of medical conditions developed in the course of the negotiated rulemaking process. (Current law authorizes the Secretary to require the claim for any ambulance services to include a code (or codes) under a uniform coding system specified by the Secretary, but does not require the establishment of such a coding system.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Oil Shale and Tar Sand Development Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1111
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2005-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Canada
Coal
Colorado
Commerce
Commercialization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Defense contracts
Defense procurement
Department of Energy
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
International Affairs
International cooperation
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Oil shales
Petroleum industry
Petroleum reserves
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Strategic materials
Strategic planning
Tax deductions
Taxation
Utah
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: 
Oil Shale and Tar Sand Development Act of 2005 - Establishes the Strategic Fuels Task Force to develop a five-year commercial development plan for strategic fuels (domestic and military fuels derived from strategic hydrocarbon resources, to be managed and developed under the guidance and authorities of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve). 
 
Requires the Task Force to direct the Office of Strategic Fuels (created by this Act) to formulate a five-year plan and coordinate with representatives of the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of the Interior to promote the development of strategic fuels by industry. 
 
Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to develop and manage comprehensive leasing programs for strategic fuels on federal land that address all stages of the leasing process from research and development to full commercial leasing.
 
Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to increase from 50 cents per acre to $2.00 per acre the royalty owed to the United States for the privilege of mining, extracting, and disposing of oil or other minerals covered by a lease.
 
Grants a preference right to lessees to lease a specified maximum of additional lands for commercial production facilities.
 
Requires the reduction of royalties owed to the United States by specified percentages pegged to certain increases in the price of a barrel on the date on which the strategic fuel is sold until the project for extraction of strategic fuel reaches payback . 
 
Establishes the Office of Strategic Fuels to coordinate the creation and implementation of a commercial strategic fuel development program for the United States.
 

 

 

 
Prescribes guidelines for DOD procurement of unconventional fuels derived from coal, oil shale, and tar sand.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction from gross income of qualified oil shale and oil sands technology expenditures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5853-5854)
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
College 529 InvEST Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1112
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2005-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: College costs
Colleges
Congress
Education savings accounts
Families
Higher education
Income tax
Sunset legislation
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: 
College 529 InvEST Act of 2005 - Makes permanent the provision relating to qualified tuition programs enacted by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Prescription Drug Coverage Stewardship Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1113
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2005-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug therapy
Drugs
Ex-offenders
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Indian medical care
Medicaid
Medicare
Military medicine
Minorities
Sex
Sex offenders
Social Welfare
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: 
Prescription Drug Coverage Stewardship Act of 2005 - Prohibits any Federal funds from being expended for payment or reimbursement for a drug that is prescribed for the treatment of sexual or erectile dysfunction, including for such a drug that is prescribed to an individual who has a conviction for sexual abuse, sexual assault, or any other sexual offense. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5854-5855)
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Clean Sports Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1114
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2005-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Baseball
Basketball
Boxing
Business records
College sports
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Designer drugs
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug testing
Drugs and athletes
Drugs and youth
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Executive Office of the President
Families
Federal Trade Commission
Fines (Penalties)
Football
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Hockey
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Legislation
Public service advertising
Restrictive trade practices
Salaries
Secondary education
Standards
Steroids

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: 
Clean Sports Act of 2005 - Prohibits a major professional league from arranging, promoting, organizing, or producing a professional game without meeting the requirements established by this Act for testing for the use of prohibited substances by professional athletes and for public disclosure of the names of athletes who test positive.
 
Requires a suspension of an athlete for a minimum of two years for the first violation and a lifetime ban for the second violation.
 
Allows a league to impose a lesser penalty if the athlete: (1) establishes that he did not know or suspect, and could not reasonably have known or suspected even with the exercise of utmost caution, that he had used the prohibited substance; or (2) provides substantial assistance to the league in identifying violations of the league's drug testing policy by other athletes or by any personnel working with or treating athletes.
 
Authorizes the Director of National Control Policy to modify standards for a league under exceptional circumstances or for good cause with limitations.
 
Require the Director to include additional professional sporting leagues or colleges if such additions would prevent the use of such substances by high school, college, or professional athletes.
 
Treats violations of this Act as unfair or deceptive acts or practices under the Federal Trade Commission Act. 
 
Requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to study the use of performance-enhancing substances by college athletes.
 
Requires the Director to establish a commission on high school and college athletics.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 109-525.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5855)
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Indian tribes to receive charitable contributions of inventory.

Bill: 109-s-1115
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2005-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Income tax
Inventories
Minorities
Native Americans
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow corporations to make direct charitable contributions of inventory and other property to Indian tribes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5856)
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5855-5856)
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Irrigation Subsidy Reduction Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1118
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2005-05-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural subsidies
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Farms
Federal aid to water resources development
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Interest rates
Irrigation
Law
Leases
Reclamation of land
Tax returns
Taxation
Trusts and trustees
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Irrigation Subsidy Reduction Act of 2005 - Amends the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982 to direct the Secretary of the Interior, for each parcel of land to which irrigation water is delivered or proposed to be delivered, to identify a single individual or legal entity as the owner, lessee, or operator. 
Allows irrigation water to be delivered at less than the normal per-acre cost to either: (1) a qualified recipient that reports gross farm income from a single farm operation in excess of $500,000 per taxable year; or (2) a limited recipient that received such water on or before October 1, 1981, and that reports gross farm income in excess of such amount. 
Requires lessees (currently, only owners and operators) of an irrigation district to furnish such district a certification of compliance. Allows the Secretary to require a lessee or operator to submit for examination a copy of a tax return for any taxable year in which the single farm operation of the lessee or operator received irrigation water at less than full cost. 
Repeals a provision exempting from federal reclamation ownership and cost pricing limitations district lands held in trust for a beneficiary whose interests in the lands served do not exceed such limitations. 
Directs the Secretaries of the Interior, the Treasury, and Agriculture to enter into a memorandum of understanding to grant the Secretary of the Interior access to and use available information collected or maintained by either the Department of the Treasury or Agriculture that would aid in enforcing federal ownership and pricing limitations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5927-5928)
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Diversity Visa Fairness Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1119
Sponsor: Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA]
Introduced: 2005-05-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Aliens
Immigrants
Law
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: 
Diversity Visa Fairness Act of 2005 - Amends the Immigration and and Nationality Act with respect to the diversity visa lottery program to permit an alien to remain eligible for a diversity visa or status adjustment beyond the fiscal year of acceptance if: (1) the visa or status adjustment was properly applied for during the fiscal year of selection; and (2) notice of application authorization was given through publication in the Visa Bulletin.
 
Authorizes reopening of a prior fiscal year visa lottery application if: (1) the alien was eligible for, and properly applied for, status adjustment during FY1998-FY2004; (2) the application was denied because the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) failed to adjudicate the application during the fiscal year of application; (3) the alien moves to reopen the application; and (4) the alien has continuously resided in the United States since submitting the application. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5928)
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Southern Campaign of the Revolution Heritage Area Study Act

Bill: 109-s-1121
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2005-05-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: American Revolution
Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural property
Environmental Protection
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Landscape protection
Military history
Military parks
National monuments
National parks
Nature conservation
North Carolina
Outdoor recreation
Public-private partnerships
Social life and customs
South Carolina
Sports and Recreation
State parks

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: 
Southern Campaign of the Revolution Heritage Area Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating specified South Carolina counties, including specified public sites, other sites maintained by the State, and National Park Service sites in the State, and, possibly, North Carolina sites, as the Southern Campaign of the Revolution Heritage Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Introduced in Senate