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Student Loan Fairness Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1029
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2005-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer education
Debtor and creditor
Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Higher education
Interest rates
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: 
Student Loan Fairness Act of 2005 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise student aid requirements for consolidation loans.
 
Repeals a prohibition against refinancing consolidation loans.
 
Allows borrowers to select lenders of consolidation loans. Requires lenders and institutions to provide certain information on consolidation loans to applicants.
 
Revises interest rates on consolidated and reconsolidated loans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Earning and Learning Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1030
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2005-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Colleges
Commerce
Contracts
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Student employment

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: 
Earning and Learning Act of 2005 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education to enter into agreements with private for-profit organizations for the provision of work-study employment, except as otherwise permitted by regulations of the Secretary of Education. (Current law allows such institutions to enter into such agreements at their own option.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Community College Partnership Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1031
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2005-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: College entrance requirements
Colleges
Community colleges
Compensatory education
Counseling
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Educational counseling
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Mentoring
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student enrollment
Technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: 
Community College Partnership Act of 2005 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a community college opportunity program to help students at community or technical colleges to transfer to four-year institutions and complete bachelor's degrees.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to award program grants to eligible partnerships that include one or more community or technical colleges that award associate's degrees and one or more institutions of higher education that offer a baccalaureate or postbaccalaureate degree not awarded by the partner colleges. 
Requires funds from such grants to be used for: (1) development of policies to expand opportunities for community or technical college students to earn bachelor's degrees, including transfer of academic credits between institutions and expanded articulation and guaranteed transfer agreements; (2) support services to students participating in the program, including tutoring, mentoring, academic and personal counseling, and transition facilitation; (3) need-based scholarships to transfer students for their third and fourth years of undergraduate education; (4) academic program enhancements at the community or technical college that increase program quality and the number of student participants in the dual degree program offered in conjunction with a baccalaureate degree-granting institution; and (5) programs to identify barriers that inhibit student transfers.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Introduced in House
To eliminate the termination date on authority for schools with low default rates to make single disbursements of student loans.

Bill: 109-hr-1032
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2005-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Higher education
Loan defaults
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: 
Amends the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 to eliminate a termination date for certain provisions, and thus continue to authorize schools with low default rates to make single disbursements of student loans. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Introduced in House
Student Loan Interest Full Deductibility Act

Bill: 109-hr-1033
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2005-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Education
Finance and Financial Sector
Higher education
Income tax
Interest
Student loan funds
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: 
Student Loan Interest Full Deductibility Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the current dollar limitations on the tax deduction of interest on education loans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Jose Manuel Guzman-Morales.

Bill: 109-hr-1034
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Mark R. [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2005-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: 
Makes Jose Manuel Guzman-Morales eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of a lawful permanent resident of the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act, upon payment of the required visa fees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the fisheries and coastwise trade for the vessel MONTAGUE.

Bill: 109-hr-1035
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Ships

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the fisheries and coastwise trade for the vessel MONTAGUE (United States official number 1158063).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Introduced in House
To make technical corrections to title 17, United States Code.

Bill: 109-hr-1037
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2005-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Cable television
Communication satellites
Copyright
Fees
Intellectual property
Law
Licenses
Science, Technology, Communications
Television broadcasting
Television programs
Television relay systems
Television stations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: 
Makes technical corrections to satellite distant signal compulsory copyright license provisions (copyright law regarding secondary transmissions of superstations and network stations for private home viewing).

action_date: 2005-05-10
text: 

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

 
Makes technical corrections to satellite distant signal compulsory copyright license provisions (copyright law regarding secondary transmissions of superstations and network stations for private home viewing).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 36.
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 109-75.
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 109-75.
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Introduced in House
New Shipper Review Amendment Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1039
Sponsor: Rep. Pickering, Charles W. "Chip" [R-MS-3]
Introduced: 2005-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Collection of accounts
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Countervailing duties
Customs administration
Department of Commerce
Dumping
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Imports
Law
Surety and fidelity

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: 
New Shipper Review Amendment Act of 2005 - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 with respect to reviews by the administering authority to establish an individual weighted average dumping margin or an individual countervailing duty rate (as the case may be) for a new exporter or producer that: (1) did not export the merchandise that was the subject of an antidumping duty or countervailing duty order to the United States during the period of investigation; and (2) was not affiliated with any exporter or producer who did.
 
Suspends, until three years after enactment of this Act, the requirement that the administering authority direct the Customs Service to allow, at the option of the importer of such merchandise, the posting, until completion of the review, of a bond or security in lieu of a cash deposit for each entry of the subject merchandise (bonding privileges). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Freedom Flat Tax Act

Bill: 109-hr-1040
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2005-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Commerce
Congress
Congressional voting
Estate tax
Families
Federal employees
Flat-rate tax
Gift tax
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Inheritance tax
Labor and Employment
Legislation
Legislative amendments
Legislative resolutions
Local employees
Married people
Minimum tax
State employees
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax rates
Tax-exempt organizations
Unemployment insurance
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Freedom Flat Tax Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize an individual or a person engaged in business activity to make an irrevocable election to be subject to a flat tax (in lieu of the existing tax provisions) of 19 percent for the first two years after an election is made, and 17 percent thereafter. 
 Calculates taxable income for individual taxpayers by subtracting a basic standard deduction and an additional standard deduction for each dependent from the total of wages, retirement distributions, and unemployment compensation. Defines &quot;business taxable income&quot; to mean gross active income reduced by the cost of certain business inputs. 
Imposes an employer tax on the value of excludable compensation provided to employees not engaged in business activity of 19 percent for the first two years after an election is made under this Act and 17 percent thereafter. 
Repeals the estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes. 
Requires a two-thirds vote of the House of Representatives or the Senate to increase the flat tax rate proposed by this Act or to reduce the amount of the standard deduction or business-related deductions allowed by this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Social Security KidSave Accounts Act

Bill: 109-hr-1041
Sponsor: Rep. Weller, Jerry [R-IL-11]
Introduced: 2005-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Annuities
Bonds
Civil service retirement
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Gift tax
Government Operations and Politics
Government securities
Government trust funds
Grandparents
Individual retirement accounts
Inheritance tax
Investments
Labor and Employment
Law
Mutual funds
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Parents
Social security finance
Social security numbers
Stocks
Tax exemption
Tax refunds
Taxation
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: 
Social Security KidSave Accounts Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to create a new part B (KidSave Accounts). Directs the Commissioner of Social Security to establish in the name of each individual born on or after January 1, 2006, an individual retirement account in the Thrift Savings Fund known as a KidSave Account. Requires such Account to be treated in the same manner as an account maintained by a Federal employee under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) (into which contributions by or on behalf of the individual are deposited into one or more designated investment funds).
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer from the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund to each account holder's KidSave Account: (1) $2,000, on the date such individual's KidSave Account is established; plus (2) other, including rollover, contributions, by or on behalf of the individual, the aggregate amount of which in the case of any individual below age 19 is capped at $500 for any taxable year. Provides for the treatment of distributions.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income any rollovers into a KidSave Account. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Net Worth Amendment For Credit Unions Act

Bill: 109-hr-1042
Sponsor: Rep. Bachus, Spencer [R-AL-6]
Introduced: 2005-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank mergers
Credit unions
Deposit insurance
Earnings

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: 
Net Worth Amendment For Credit Unions Act - Amends the Federal Credit Union Act relating to the requirement of prompt corrective action to resolve the problems of an insured credit union at the least possible long-term loss to the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund.
 
Redefines net worth as the retained earnings balance of a credit union (as determined under generally accepted accounting principles, as under current law), together with any amounts that were previously retained earnings of any other credit union with which the credit union has combined. 

action_date: 2005-06-13
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Net Worth Amendment For Credit Unions Act - (Sec. 2) Amends the Federal Credit Union Act relating to the requirement of prompt corrective action to resolve the problems of an insured credit union at the least possible long-term loss to the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund.
 
Redefines net worth as the retained earnings balance of a credit union (as determined under generally accepted accounting principles, as under current law), together with any amounts that were previously retained earnings of any other credit union with which the credit union has combined. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4368)
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H4368)
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1042.
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4368-4371)
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Mr. Bachus moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E367)
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Ombudsman Reauthorization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1043
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Michael [R-FL-9]
Introduced: 2005-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alternative dispute resolution
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Conflict of interests
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental health
Evidence (Law)
Executive reorganization
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Health
Inspectors general
Labor and Employment
Law
Mediation
Obstruction of justice
Ombudsman
Refuse and refuse disposal
Subpoena
Whistle blowing
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: 
Ombudsman Reauthorization Act of 2005 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to reestablish the Office of the Ombudsman within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
 
Specifies the Ombudsman's duties and authorities. Requires the Ombudsman to appoint a Deputy Ombudsman for each EPA region.
 
Provides employee protections for persons complying with this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 23, United States Code, to permit the State of West Virginia to allow the operation of certain vehicles for the hauling of coal and coal by-products on Interstate Route 77 in Kanawha County, West Virginia.

Bill: 109-hr-1044
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2005-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Coal
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Highway finance
Interstate highway system
Law
Licenses
Motor vehicle safety
State laws
Trucking
Trucks
Weights and measures
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: 
Amends Federal highway law to authorize the State of West Virginia to allow, by special permit, the operation of vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of up to 126,000 pounds for the hauling of coal and coal by-products on Interstate Route 77 in Kanawha County, West Virginia, between Exits 85 and 97.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Introduced in House
To extend the filing deadline for certain Medicare claims to account for a delay in processing adjustments from secondary payor status to primary payor status.

Bill: 109-hr-1045
Sponsor: Rep. Costello, Jerry F. [D-IL-12]
Introduced: 2005-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend for one year the filing deadline for Medicare claims for items and services furnished between January 1, 1987, and August 10, 1993, to account for a delay in processing adjustments from secondary to primary payor status.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-03-02
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: 2005-03-02
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: 2005-03-02
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: 2005-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Introduced in House