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United States Workers Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3406
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2005-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Government contractors
Government procurement
Grants-in-aid
Offshore manufacturing
Subcontractors

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: 
United States Workers Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to prohibit: (1) outsourced federal government work from being performed by a contractor or any subcontractor outside the United States unless federal employees previously performed such work outside the United States; (2) work on a contract from being performed outside the United States unless it is necessary in order to meet a requirement for the contract to be performed specifically at a location outside the United States or the President deems it necessary for national security reasons, or the head of the executive agency makes and reports a determination to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget that the property or services needed are available only outside the United States and no property or services available inside the United States would satisfy the agency's need; and (3) federal funds from being disbursed to a state until the Governor of the state has transmitted written certification that none of the funds will be spent for the performance of contracts outside the United States and if the Governor of such state determines that the property and services needed by the state are available only outside the United States and no property or services available inside the United States would satisfy the state's need and transmits a notification of such determination to the agency head administering the authority under which such funds are disbursed to or for such state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Jessica Lunsford and Sarah Lunde Act

Bill: 109-hr-3407
Sponsor: Rep. Emanuel, Rahm [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2005-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child sexual abuse
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic surveillance
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Law enforcement officers
Police
Recruiting of employees
Sex offenders

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: 
Jessica Lunsford and Sarah Lunde Act - Directs the Attorney General to award grants to assist state and local governments in: (1) carrying out programs to outfit sexual offenders (i.e., offenders age 18 or older who commit sexual offenses against minors) with electronic monitoring units; and (2) employing law enforcement officials necessary to carry out such programs. Limits grant awards to a three-year period. Directs the Attorney General to: (1) ensure that different approaches to monitoring are funded; and (2) report to Congress on program effectiveness. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Federal Tax Withholding Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3409
Sponsor: Rep. Hostettler, John N. [R-IN-8]
Introduced: 2005-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Labor and Employment
Payroll deductions
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Tax administration
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: 
Federal Tax Withholding Act of 2005 - Amend the Internal Revenue Code to repeal withholding of tax requirements for income, railroad retirement, and social security taxes. Requires estimated tax payments for social security and railroad retirement taxes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a religious exemption from providing identifying numbers for dependents to claim certain credits and deductions on a tax return.

Bill: 109-hr-3410
Sponsor: Rep. Hostettler, John N. [R-IN-8]
Introduced: 2005-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adoption
Adult day care
Day care
Disabled
Earned income tax credit
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Identification devices
Income tax
Religion
Religious liberty
Social Welfare
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax returns
Tuition tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer who is conscientiously opposed, on religious grounds, to obtaining a taxpayer identification number (TIN) for a qualified dependent, for purposes of obtaining certain tax benefits for such dependent, to submit certain documentation supporting his or her religious beliefs in lieu of obtaining a TIN.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Robin Danielson Act

Bill: 109-hr-3411
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2005-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Breast cancer
Cervical cancer
Child development
Child health
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dioxins
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Epidemiology
Families
Federal aid to research
Fetus
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health education
Maternal and infant welfare
Medical research
Medical statistics
Ovarian cancer
Pelvic inflammatory disease
Product safety
Reproduction
Science, Technology, Communications
Synthetic fabrics
Toxic shock syndrome
Toxicology
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: 
Robin Danielson Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide for the conduct or support of research on the extent to which additives in feminine hygiene products pose any risks to the health of women or the health of the children of women who use those products during or before the pregnancies involved.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to: (1) collect, analyze, and make available data on toxic shock syndrome, including data on the causes of such syndrome; and (2) determine the national incidence and prevalence of such syndrome.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To authorize and request the President to issue a posthumous commission in the regular Army to Milton Holland, who, while sergeant major of the 5th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, was awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry during the Civil War.

Bill: 109-hr-3412
Sponsor: Rep. Ney, Robert W. [R-OH-18]
Introduced: 2005-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Army
Civil War
History
Infantry
Military history
Military promotions
Officer personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: 
Authorizes and requests the President to issue a posthumous commission in the regular Army to Milton Holland, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry during the Civil War.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Minimum Wage Competitiveness Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3413
Sponsor: Rep. Boehlert, Sherwood [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2005-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
Minimum wages
Northern Mariana Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: 
Minimum Wage Competitiveness Act of 2005 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the federal minimum wage to: (1) $6.00 an hour, beginning on the 60th day after enactment of this Act; (2) $6.75 an hour, beginning on January 1, 2006; and (3) $7.15 an hour, beginning on January 1, 2007.

Makes federal minimum wage requirements applicable to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Sets forth a transition period during which a specified minimum wage there shall be gradually increased to equal the federal minimum wage. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain refracting and reflecting telescopes.

Bill: 109-hr-3414
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Gary G. [R-CA-42]
Introduced: 2005-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Space activities
Tariff
Telescopes

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2010, the duty on certain refracting and reflecting telescopes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on mixture of magnesium peroxide and magnesium oxide containing 35 percent magnesium peroxide.

Bill: 109-hr-3415
Sponsor: Rep. Baird, Brian [D-WA-3]
Introduced: 2005-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on mixtures of magnesium peroxide and magnesium oxide containing 35 % magnesium peroxide.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Introduced in House
CITA Transparency Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3416
Sponsor: Rep. Weller, Jerry [R-IL-11]
Introduced: 2005-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Clothing
Commerce
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Law
Textile fabrics
Textile industry
Trade agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: 
CITA Transparency Act of 2005 - Declares that the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) shall not invoke the foreign affairs exemption from notice-and-comment requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act with respect to any of its actions related to textile trade.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Health Education Loan Payment (HELP) for Citizen Soldiers Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3417
Sponsor: Rep. Brown-Waite, Ginny [R-FL-5]
Introduced: 2005-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Health
Higher education
Medical education
Military medicine
Officer personnel
Scholarships
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: 
Health Education Loan Payment (HELP) for Citizen Soldiers Act of 2005 - Increases from $50,000 to $100,000 the maximum amount of education loans that may be repaid by the Department of Defense on behalf of officers in the Selected Reserve who possess professional qualifications, or are enrolled in programs of education leading to such qualifications, in health professions that are critically needed to meet wartime combat medical skill shortages.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Northern Nevada Sustainable Development in Mining Act

Bill: 109-hr-3419
Sponsor: Rep. Gibbons, Jim [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2005-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Land transfers
Mines and mineral resources
Mining claims
Nevada
Reclamation of land
Revenue sharing
Sustainable development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: 
Northern Nevada Sustainable Development in Mining Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to Couer Rochester, Inc., in return for a payment of $500 per acre, specified federal lands in Pershing County, Nevada, subject to Coeur Rochester Inc.'s mining claims maintained under the general mining laws. Prohibits any conveyance of land under this Act from being subject to review, consultation, or approval under any other federal law.
 
Provides for the disposition of the proceeds of conveyances of land under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2005-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Introduced in House
To reauthorize the United States Grain Standards Act, to facilitate the official inspection at export port locations of grain required or authorized to be inspected under such Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-3421
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2005-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Agricultural estimating and reporting
Agriculture in foreign trade
Authorization
Boundaries
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Agriculture
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Exports
Federal advisory bodies
Food safety
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Governmental investigations
Grain
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Marine terminals
Privatization
Recruiting of employees
Standards
Supervision of employees
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: 
Amends the United States Grain Standards Act to extend: (1) authority for inspection, weighing, and supervisory fees, supervisory and administrative cost limitations, and the advisory committee; and (2) authorization of appropriations.
 
Authorizes with respect to export port locations of grain: (1) private entity performance of official inspection and weighing activities; and (2) use of more than one designated person or entity to perform such activities. (Makes certain geographic boundary provisions inapplicable to designated agencies at export port locations.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Pilot Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3424
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2005-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aircraft pilots
Airports
Assault
Destruction of property
Fines (Penalties)
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Navigational aids
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: 
Pilot Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit: (1) interfering with or disabling anyone engaged in the authorized operation of an aircraft or air navigation facility, with intent to endanger the safety of any person or with reckless disregard for the safety of human life; or (2) attempting, conspiring, or threatening to do so.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Health Administration Employee Protection Act

Bill: 109-hr-3425
Sponsor: Rep. Tancredo, Thomas G. [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2005-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Administrative procedure
Department of Veterans Affairs
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Informed consent (Medical law)
Labor and Employment
Law
Medical tests
Occupational health and safety
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: 
Veterans Health Administration Employee Protection Act - Requires that, whenever an employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs incurs in an occupational setting a possible exposure to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall test for HIV the person who is the source of the exposure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Preservation of Federalism in Banking Act

Bill: 109-hr-3426
Sponsor: Rep. Gutierrez, Luis V. [D-IL-4]
Introduced: 2005-07-26 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Affiliated corporations
Bank deposits
Bank examination
Civil actions and liability
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer complaints
Consumer credit
Consumer protection
Damages
Department of the Treasury
Federal preemption
Federal-state relations
Foreclosure
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government statistics
Governmental investigations
Housing and Community Development
Law
Mortgage banks
Mortgages
Restrictive trade practices
Savings and loan associations
State laws
Subsidiary corporations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: 
Preservation of Federalism in Banking Act - Amends the Revised Statutes of the United States and the Home Owners' Loan Act to declare applicable to either a national bank or federal savings association any consumer protection in state consumer law of general application (including unfair or deceptive acts or practices, consumer fraud law and repossession, foreclosure, and collection).
 
Declares that when a national bank or federal savings association avails itself of state law for its benefit, all related consumer protections in such state law shall apply.
 
Declares applicable to a national bank or federal savings association: (1) state banking or thrift laws enacted pursuant to federal law; and (2) state laws providing greater protection in high cost mortgage loans (predatory mortgage loans). 
 
Permits the Comptroller of the Currency to preempt state law only when a comparable federal statute or regulation pursuant to a federal statute, other than this Act, expressly governs the activity.
 
States that any federal law relating to visitorial powers or which otherwise limits or restricts the supervisory, examination, or regulatory authority to which a national bank or federal savings association is subject shall not be construed as restricting the authority of any chief state law enforcement officer to bring an action on behalf of state residents to enforce federal or state law, or to seek relief and recover damages for violations by a national bank or federal savings association.
 
Prescribes procedural guidelines requiring the Comptroller and the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision to record and monitor consumer complaints regarding either a national bank or a federal savings association, respectively.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1625)
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Introduced in House