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Bitterroot National Forest Dam and Reservoir Maintenance Act

Bill: 109-s-2633
Sponsor: Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]
Introduced: 2006-04-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Airspace (Law)
Dams
Forest roads
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Land transfers
Maintenance and repair
Maps
Montana
National forests
Reservoirs
Right-of-way
Sports and Recreation
Trails
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-24
text: 
Bitterroot National Forest Dam and Reservoir Maintenance Act - Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to grant to the owner of a dam, a water storage right for a dam, or a right-of-way, for no consideration, rights-of-way to: (1) the trails, access routes, or primitive roads in the Bitterroot National Forest, Montana, for purposes of providing access to such dam; and (2) areas of that Forest adjacent to such dam for purposes of dam construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, and operation.
 
Requires such owners to prepare a map establishing the boundaries of the rights-of-way granted, which shall extend at least eight feet but not more than 60 feet in width from the center of the trail.
 
Authorizes an owner to: (1) use mechanized transport on the rights-of-way and at the owner's dam; and (2) operate aircraft in the airspace over the Forest to access the dam; and (3) land the aircraft on the rights-of-way.
 
 Provides that any activities carried out by an owner in a right-of-way granted under this Act shall be regulated by the state and shall not be subject to specified federal law, including the Wilderness Act and the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-04-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3424)
action_date: 2006-04-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to strike the term of the positions Under Secretary for Health and the Under Secretary for Benefits and simplify appointments to such positions.

Bill: 109-s-2634
Sponsor: Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2006-04-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Congress
Department of Veterans Affairs
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Presidential appointments
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-24
text: 
Repeals the: (1) four-year terms for the positions of the Under Secretary for Health and the Under Secretary for Benefits within the Department of Veterans Affairs; and (2) requirement that, whenever there is a vacancy in either position, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs establish a commission to recommend individuals for appointment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2006-04-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-04-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3424-3425)
action_date: 2006-04-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Bicycle Commuters Benefits Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2635
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2006-04-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bicycles
Commuting
Fringe benefits
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-24
text: 
Bicycle Commuters Benefits Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include a bicycle commuting allowance as a qualified transportation fringe benefit, excludable from gross income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3426)
action_date: 2006-04-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3425-3426)
action_date: 2006-04-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Oil Company Acountability Act

Bill: 109-s-2636
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2006-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Energy
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign tax credit
Income tax
Inventories
Petroleum industry
Tax administration
Tax rebates

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: 
Oil Company Accountability Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) grant individual taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes of not more than $120,000 a $500 tax rebate in 2006; (2) require large integrated oil companies to make certain adjustments to the value of their LIFO inventories of crude oil, natural gas, or other petroleum products; and (3) deny a foreign tax credit to large integrated oil companies designated as dual capacity taxpayers for amounts paid to a foreign country which does not have a generally applicable income tax and from which such oil companies receive an economic benefit. Defines &quot;large integrated oil companies&quot; as companies with annual gross receipts in excess of $1 billion and average daily worldwide crude oil production of at least 500,000 barrels.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3440)
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on 1, 4-Benzoquinone.

Bill: 109-s-2637
Sponsor: Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN]
Introduced: 2006-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on 1, 4-Benzoquinone.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on 2-Methylhydroquinone.

Bill: 109-s-2638
Sponsor: Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN]
Introduced: 2006-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on 2-Methylhydroquinone.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on o-Anisidine.

Bill: 109-s-2639
Sponsor: Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN]
Introduced: 2006-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on o-Anisidine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Benzoic acid 3,4,5-trihydroxy-, propyl ester.

Bill: 109-s-2640
Sponsor: Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN]
Introduced: 2006-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on Benzoic acid 3,4,5-trihydroxy-, propyl ester. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on 2,4-Xylidine.

Bill: 109-s-2641
Sponsor: Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN]
Introduced: 2006-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on 2,4-Xylidine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Oil and Gas Traders Oversight Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2642
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2006-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Business records
Coal
Commerce
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Commodity exchanges
Diesel motor
Electric power production
Finance and Financial Sector
Futures trading
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Heating
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Natural gas
Petroleum
Propane

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: 
Oil and Gas Traders Oversight Act of 2006 - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to prescribe reporting and recordkeeping requirements for positions involving energy commodities (a commodity or the derivatives of a commodity used primarily as a source of energy).
 
Directs the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to subject to the requirements of this Act a contract, agreement, or transaction for future delivery in an energy commodity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Native American Methamphetamine Enforcement and Treatment Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2643
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2006-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child safety
Child welfare
Drug abuse
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to law enforcement
Indian children
Indian law enforcement
Methamphetamine
Minorities
Pregnant women
Prisoners
Rehabilitation of criminals
Social Welfare
Territories (U.S.)
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: 
 Native American Methamphetamine Enforcement and Treatment Act of 2006 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include territories and Indian tribes as eligible grant recipients (or reaffirm that eligibility) under the programs to: (1) address the manufacture, sale, and use of methamphetamine; (2) aid children in homes in which methamphetamine or other drugs are unlawfully manufactured, distributed, dispensed, or used; and (3) address methamphetamine use by pregnant and parenting women offenders.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3508)
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2644
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2006-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Arts, Culture, Religion
Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional reporting requirements
Copyright
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Intellectual property
Interactive media
Law
Library of Congress
Licenses
Music
Science, Technology, Communications
Sound recording and reproducing
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: 
Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music Act of 2006 or the Perform Act of 2006 - Requires Copyright Royalty Judges (CRJs) to establish rates for a statutory license for the transmission of sound recordings by organizations that most clearly represent the fair market value of the rights licensed.
 
Replaces the different processes for setting rates and terms of royalty payments for subscription transmissions by preexisting subscription services, satellite digital radio services, and eligible nonsubscription transmission services with one process for all such transmissions. Directs CRJs, when setting such rates and terms, to consider: (1) the fair market value of the rights licensed; and (2) the degree to which reasonable recording affects the potential market for sound recordings and the additional fees that are required to be paid by services for compensation.
 
Conditions statutory licensing of transmissions on the transmitting entity using technology that is reasonably available, technologically feasible, and economically reasonable to prevent the making of copies or phonorecords embodying the transmission in whole or in part, except for reasonable recording. (Current law provides for limits on phonorecords of the transmission directly in a digital format.)
 
Allows a performing rights society or a mechanical rights organization to monitor public performances or other uses of copyrighted works contained in transmissions.
 
Requires the Register of Copyrights to convene a meeting among affected parties to discuss whether to recommend creating a new category of limited interactive services within certain statutory licenses for subscription transmissions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3510-3511)
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3509-3510)
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2645
Sponsor: Sen. Allen, George [R-VA]
Introduced: 2006-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Architecture
Arts, Culture, Religion
Boundaries
Citizen participation
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil War
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-state relations
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Land use
Landowners
Law
Maps
Maryland
Nonprofit organizations
Outdoor recreation
Pennsylvania
Planning
Public meetings
Public-private partnerships
Regional economic development
Right of property
Signs and signboards
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Sunset legislation
Tourism
Traffic signs and signals
Transportation and Public Works
Virginia
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: 
Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act of 2006 - Establishes the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area comprising the 175 miles of historic transportation routes through Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia. Designates the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership as the management entity for the Area. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to enter into a compact with the Partnership to carry out this Act's purposes. Requires the Partnership to develop a management plan for the Area that presents strategies and recommendations for conservation, funding, management, and development of the Area. Prohibits the Partnership from using federal funds received under this Act to acquire real property or any interest in real property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-663.
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Child Care Lending Pilot Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2646
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2006-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Charities
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Law
Loans
Nonprofit organizations
Small Business Administration
Small business
Social Welfare
Surety and fidelity
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: 
Child Care Lending Pilot Act of 2006 - Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to allow proceeds of loans made through the Small Business Administration (SBA) to be used by certified local development companies to assist a small, nonprofit child care business (business) if: (1) the loan is used for a sound business purpose approved by the SBA; (2) each business meets eligibility requirements applicable to for-profit businesses; (3) one or more individuals has personally guaranteed the loan; (4) each business has clear title to the collateral for the loan; and (5) each business has sufficient cash flow to meet loan obligations and reasonable operating expenses. Prohibits more than seven percent of the total number of loans guaranteed in any fiscal year for certified development companies from being awarded under such program. Allows such assistance through FY2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3512-3513)
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3511-3512)
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain acrylic fiber tow imported in the form of 6 sub-bundles.

Bill: 109-s-2647
Sponsor: Sen. Thomas, Craig [R-WY]
Introduced: 2006-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Synthetic fibers
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on certain acrylic fiber tow imported in the form of six sub-bundles. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain acrylic fiber tow.

Bill: 109-s-2648
Sponsor: Sen. Thomas, Craig [R-WY]
Introduced: 2006-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Synthetic fibers
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on certain acrylic fiber tow. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Salmon Assistance and Recovery Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2649
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2006-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Anadromous fishes
Animal breeding
Animals
Aquatic ecology
Aquatic pests
California
Congressional reporting requirements
Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Environmental monitoring
Fisheries
Fishery management
Habitat conservation
Health
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
National forests
Parasitic diseases
Pest control
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Riparian ecology
Salmon
Veterinary medicine
Water pollution control
Water quality
Water supply
Watersheds
Wild rivers

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: 
Salmon Assistance and Recovery Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to develop and implement a coordinated, comprehensive research and recovery program for Klamath River Fall Chinook salmon and Klamath River Fall Coho salmon. Provides emergency disaster assistance to fishing communities, Indian tribes, businesses, holders of community development quotas, individuals, and other entities to mitigate economic losses caused by declining Klamath River Fall Chinook salmon.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the Federal courthouse to be constructed in Greenville, South Carolina, as the "Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. Federal Courthouse".

Bill: 109-s-2650
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Courthouses
Ex-Members of Congress
Government Operations and Politics
Governors
Law
Names
South Carolina

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: 
Designates the Federal courthouse to be constructed in Greenville, South Carolina, building number SC0017ZZ, as the Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. Federal Courthouse.

action_date: 2006-05-24
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Designates the Federal courthouse to be constructed in Greenville, South Carolina, building number SC0017ZZ, as the Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. Federal Courthouse.

action_date: 2006-06-27
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Designates the Federal courthouse to be constructed in Greenville, South Carolina, building number SC0017ZZ, as the Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. Federal Courthouse.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2006-06-27
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6589; text as passed Senate: CR S6589)
action_date: 2006-06-27
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S6589; text as passed Senate: CR S6589)
action_date: 2006-05-24
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 447.
action_date: 2006-05-24
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Inhofe without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2006-05-24
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Inhofe without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2006-05-23
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Education Assistance Act

Bill: 109-s-2651
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2006-04-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
History
Jewish holocaust (1939-1945)
Secondary education
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Teacher education
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: 
Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Education Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to educational organizations to carry out educational programs about the Holocaust. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3513)
action_date: 2006-04-25
text: Introduced in Senate