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A bill to authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of Ukraine.

Bill: 109-s-410
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2005-02-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Emigration
Europe
Human rights
Immigration
International Affairs
Most favored nation principle
Normal trade relations
Ukraine

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-16
text: 
Authorizes the President to extend nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of the Ukraine. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-02-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1555)
action_date: 2005-02-16
text: Introduced in Senate
MediFair Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-411
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2005-02-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Law
Medical fees
Medicare
Physicians
Quality of care
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-16
text: 
MediFair Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a system for making adjustments to the amount of payment made to entities and individuals for items and services provided under the original Medicare fee-for-service program under parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance). Requires the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MEDPAC) to develop recommendations on policies and practices that would encourage: (1) healthy outcomes and quality care under the Medicare program in States with respect to which payments are reduced under such system; and (2) the efficient use of payments made under the Medicare program in such States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1556)
action_date: 2005-02-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1555-1556)
action_date: 2005-02-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to reauthorize the Native American Programs Act of 1974.

Bill: 109-s-412
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2005-02-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska
Authorization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental law enforcement
Federal aid to Indians
Government Operations and Politics
Hawaiians
Health
Housing and Community Development
Indian economic development
Indian lands
Indian law enforcement
Indian medical care
Indigenous peoples
Law
Legal education
Minorities
Pacific Islanders
Research

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-16
text: 
Amends the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to make the Commissioner for Native American Programs (the current chairperson) and the Director of the Indian Health Service (the current vice-chairperson) both co-chairpersons of the Intra-Departmental Council on Native American Affairs.
 
Authorizes appropriations under such Act.
 
Changes from annual to every five years the Secretary of the Interior's periodic report to Congress on the social and economic conditions of American Indians, Native Hawaiians, other Native American Pacific Islanders (including American Samoan Natives), and Alaska Natives. 
 
Amends the Native Hawaiian Education Act to authorize grants for research and educational activities relating to Native Hawaiian law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1557)
action_date: 2005-02-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1556-1557)
action_date: 2005-02-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the definition of disaster, for purposes of section 7(b)(2) of the Small Business Act, to include below average water levels in the Great Lakes.

Bill: 109-s-413
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Disaster loans
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Great Lakes
Small business
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Amends the Small Business Act to include under the definition of &quot;disaster,&quot; for purposes of small business disaster loan relief, below-average water levels in the Great Lakes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Voter Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-414
Sponsor: Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Absentee voting
Ballots
Congress
Congressional elections
Conspiracy
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Destruction of property
Economics and Public Finance
Election Day
Election administration
Election fraud
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Identification devices
Interstate relations
Photography
Presidential elections
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
State laws
Voter registration
Voting

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Voter Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 concerning: (1) requirements for voters who register other than in person with an officer or employee of a State or local Government entity: (2) removal of registrants from voting rolls for failure to vote; (3) use of Social Security numbers for voter registration and election administration; (4) synchronization of State databases; (5) incomplete registration forms: (6) requirements for submission of registration forms by third parties; (7) voter rolls; (8) return of absentee ballots; (9) identification requirement; (10) identification at the polls; (11) payments for free photo identification; (12) authorization of appropriations; (13) counting of provisional ballots; (14) applications for absentee ballots; (15) pilot program for use of indelible ink at polling places; and (16) various criminal penalties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1627-1629)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1625,1627)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
State Child Well-Being Research Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-415
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aid to dependent children
Cash welfare block grants
Child development
Child health
Child safety
Child welfare
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational statistics
Educational surveys
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government statistics
Health
Health surveys
Income statistics
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Medical statistics
Poor children
Secondary education
Surveys

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
State Child Well-Being Research Act of 2005 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop comprehensive indicators to assess child well-being in each State. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory panel to make recommendations regarding the appropriate measures and statistical tools necessary for making such assessment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1630-1631)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1629-1630)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Intermediary Lending Pilot Program Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-416
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Community development
Community development banking
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Credit
Depressed areas
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Housing and Community Development
Indian economic development
Infrastructure
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Legislation
Minorities
Nonprofit organizations
Poverty
Small business
Social Welfare
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Small Business Intermediary Lending Pilot Program Act of 2005 - Establishes a three-year small business intermediary lending pilot program under which the Small Business Administration (SBA) may make direct loans to eligible nonprofit lending intermediaries for the purpose of making fixed interest rate and mid-size loans ($35,000 to $200,000) to startup, newly-established, and growing small businesses. Authorizes the SBA, under the program, to make one percent, 20-year loans of up to $1 million, on a competitive basis, to up to 20 nonprofit lending intermediaries. Requires geographic diversity and representation of urban and rural communities under the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Reserve Mobilization Income Security Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-417
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Armed forces reserves
Income tax
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Military pay
National Guard
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Military Reserve Mobilization Income Security Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow members of the National Guard or the Ready Reserve who have been activated for military duty a refundable income tax credit for the lesser of: (1) the excess of such reservist's daily civilian compensation over the reservist's daily military pay while on active duty or full-time National Guard duty; or (2) $54.80 per day. Includes the amount of such credit in the reservist's gross income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1631)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the treatment of qualified restaurant property as 15-year property for purposes of the depreciation deduction.

Bill: 109-s-419
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Income tax
Restaurants
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the 15-year recovery period for purposes of the tax deduction for depreciation of qualified restaurant property. Revises the term &quot;qualified restaurant property&quot; to include existing buildings as well as improvements to buildings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1632-1633)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-420
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congress
Estate tax
Gift tax
Inheritance tax
Sunset legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Death Tax Repeal Permanency Act of 2005 - Provides that the sunset provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (i.e., December 31, 2010) shall not apply to the repeal of the Federal estate tax and generation-skipping transfer tax (thus making such repeal permanent).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1633-1634)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Sportfishing and Recreational Boating Safety Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-421
Sponsor: Sen. Lott, Trent [R-MS]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Accident prevention
American Samoa
Aquatic ecology
Authorization
Boats and boating
Coastal zone
Department of Commerce
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Federal-state relations
Fishery management
Fishing
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Guam
Habitat conservation
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine safety
Motor vehicles
Northern Mariana Islands
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Puerto Rico
Ships
Taxation
Territories (U.S.)
Transportation and Public Works
Virgin Islands
Water Resources Development
Wetlands
Wildlife management

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Sport Fishing and Recreational Boating Safety Act of 2005 - Amends the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act to provide for distribution of FY 2006 through 2020 appropriations for certain fish restoration and management projects, including for the multistate conservation grant program.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require transfer to the land and water conservation fund of the equivalent of certain motorboat fuel taxes received into the Highway Trust Fund.
 
Establishes the Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund (effectively merging the Sport Fish Restoration Account and the Boat Safety Account of the Aquatic Resources Trust Fund). Transfers any excess motorboat fuel taxes not transferred to the land and water conservation fund into such Fund. 
 
Authorizes for FY 2006 through 2010 certain expenditures from the Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund, including for aid to States for fish restoration and management projects.
 
Amends the Clean Vessel Act of 1992, with respect to grants for State marine sanitation device pumpout station programs, to repeal the mandatory priority consideration given to grant applications that, in coastal States, propose constructing and renovating pumpout stations and waste reception facilities in accordance with a coastal State's approved plan.
 
Amends Federal shipping law to increase from one-half to 75 percent the maximum percentage of a State's total cost for its recreational boating safety program represented by the Federal allocation the State receives. Extends the availability of such allocation from two years to three years. Requires a reduction of such allocation if the State's expenditures for the program for the previous fiscal year is below the average expenditures for the three preceding fiscal years (failure of maintenance of effort).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1634)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Sportfishing and Boating Equity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-422
Sponsor: Sen. Lott, Trent [R-MS]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Boats and boating
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Excise tax
Gasoline
Government trust funds
Highway finance
Sports and Recreation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Sportfishing and Boating Equity Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the transfer of all motor fuel excise taxes attributable to motorboat and small engine fuels into the Aquatic Resources Trust Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to make a stillborn child an insurable dependent for purposes of the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance program.

Bill: 109-s-423
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Childbirth
Death
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Government life insurance
Labor and Employment
Survivors' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Makes a stillborn child an insurable dependent under the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance Program for veterans and their survivors and dependents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Provisions of measure incorporated into measure S. 1235, as amended, ordered to be reported.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Green Mountain National Forest Land Adjustment Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-425
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Land transfers
Maps
National forests
National recreation areas
Recreation areas
Relocation
Skiing
Sports and Recreation
Trails
Vermont
Water Resources Development
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Green Mountain National Forest Land Adjustment Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange any right, title, and interest of the United States in and to five specified parcels of National Forest System land in Vermont. Directs the Secretary to offer to convey such land to Bromley Mountain Ski Resort, Inc. 
 
Makes sale proceeds available for: (1) the location and relocation of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail and the Long National Recreation Trail in Vermont; (2) the acquisition of land for National Forest System purposes within the boundary of Green Mountain National Forest; (3) the acquisition of wetland within the boundary of the Forest to offset the loss of wetland from the parcels sold or exchanged; and (4) the payment of direct administrative costs incurred in carrying out this Act.
 
Allows the Secretary, using funds made available as described above or otherwise made available for acquisition, to acquire land or an interest in land for National Forest System purposes within the boundary of the Forest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Renewable Energy Investment Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-427
Sponsor: Sen. Jeffords, James M. [I-VT]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Alternative energy sources
Auditing
Biomass energy
Cellulose
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power distribution
Electric power production
Electric utility rates
Energy crops
Energy development
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Farm manure
Fibers
Finance and Financial Sector
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grain
Grants-in-aid
Hydroelectric power
Hydrogen
Landfills
Legumes
Lumber trade
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Methane
Ocean energy resources
Oils and fats
Plants
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Refuse as fuel
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Solar energy
Sugar
Technological innovations
Trees
Water Resources Development
Wind power
Wood

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Renewable Energy Investment Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to require retail electric suppliers to submit to the Secretary of Energy renewable energy credits in an amount equal to the required annual percentage of the retail electric supplier's total amount of kilowatt-hours of non-hydropower electricity sold to retail consumers during the previous calendar year (excluding incremental hydropower).
 
States that a renewable energy credit that is not used to satisfy the minimum requirement for that year may be carried over for use within the next two years.
 
Specifies a schedule of the minimum percentage of renewable energy sources that must be used to generate the total amount of non-hydropower electricity sold by each retail electric supplier during a calendar year (excluding incremental hydropower).
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a program to issue, monitor the sale or exchange of, and track renewable energy credits; and (2) make funds available under this Act to State energy agencies for grant programs for renewable energy research and development, and for loan guarantees to encourage construction of renewable energy facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1642-1643)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1641-1642)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Build America Bonds Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-428
Sponsor: Sen. Talent, Jim [R-MO]
Introduced: 2005-02-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Border patrols
Boundaries
Canada
Capital investments
Commerce
Corporations
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal aid to transportation
Finance and Financial Sector
Freight
Government trust funds
Highway finance
Highway planning
Immigration
Income tax
Infrastructure
Intermodal transportation
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Mass rapid transit
Mexico
Mutual funds
Public-private partnerships
Railroad finance
Railroad freight operations
Railroad passenger traffic
Regional economic development
Right-of-way
Road construction
Security measures
Tax credits
Tax-exempt organizations
Tax-exempt securities
Traffic accidents and safety
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation planning
Transportation safety

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 
Build America Bonds Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax credit to a taxpayer holding a Build America bond on one of its credit allowance dates.
 
Defines a Build America bond as any bond issued by the Transportation Finance Corporation as part of an issue if the net spendable proceeds from the sale of such issue are to be used for expenditures incurred for any qualified project, or for deposit in the Build America Trust Account for repayment of Build America bonds at maturity.
 
Defines: (1) qualified project as any qualified highway project and qualified public transportation project proposed by one or more States and approved by the Transportation Finance Corporation; and (2) qualified highway project as any project of regional or national significance, freight intermodal connector project, multistate corridor program, and border planning and capacity improvement program.
 
Establishes the nonprofit Transportation Finance Corporation to: (1) issue Build America bonds for the financing of qualified projects; (2) establish and operate the Build America Trust Account; (3) leverage resources and stimulate public and private investment in transportation infrastructure; and (4) perform any other function the sole purpose of which is to carry out the financing of qualified projects through Build America bonds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-16
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1643-1647)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Introduced in Senate