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A bill to extend the date on which the National Security Personnel System will first apply to certain defense laboratories.

Bill: 109-s-3692
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2006-07-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Federal employees
Laboratories
Military research
Personnel management
Research and development facilities
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: 
Delays until October 1, 2011, the application of the National Security Personnel System to personnel management at certain defense research laboratories.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-02
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce,  and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Fuel Economy Reform Act

Bill: 109-s-3694
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2006-07-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Armed Forces and National Security
Automobile engines
Automobile industry
Automobiles
Cartels
Commerce
Congress
Cost effectiveness
Defense budgets
Department of Transportation
Economics and Public Finance
Electric vehicles
Employee training
Energy efficiency
Energy prices
Energy security
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fuel consumption
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Imports
Income tax
Industrial buildings
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Law
Motor vehicle pollution control
Petroleum
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Tax credits
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation research
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: 
Fuel Economy Reform Act - Amends federal transportation law to: (1) revise the definition of automobile to require including all automobiles up to 10,000 pounds (currently, not all automobiles up to 10,000 pounds are required to be included in the definition); and (2) continue applying the current minimum corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards for non-passenger and passenger automobiles to automobiles manufactured through model year 2011, but, for passenger automobiles, adds an increase of four percent per year in such standard for model years 2009 through 2011.
 
Requires an average fuel economy standard of 27.5 miles per gallon for all automobiles manufactured by all manufacturers for model year 2012, with an increase of four percent in the average fuel economy from the level for the prior model year for model year 2013 and beyond.
 
Requires the average fuel economy standard in a model year for a manufacturer's domestic and foreign fleetwide passenger automobiles under calculation of average fuel economy provisions to be at least 92% of the average fuel economy projected by the Secretary for the combined domestic and foreign fleets manufactured by all manufacturers in that model year.
 
Permits lower fuel economy standards if the minimum standards: (1) are technologically unachievable; (2) materially reduce auto safety; or (3) are not cost effective.
 
Allows, with a specified exception, the selling of credits between manufacturers.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) terminate the limitation on the number of new qualified hybrid and advanced lean burn technology vehicles eligible for the alternative motor vehicle credit; and (2) allow an advanced technology motor vehicles manufacturing credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7926-7927)
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the marketing of authorized generic drugs.

Bill: 109-s-3695
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2006-07-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Generic drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: 
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit a holder of a new, approved drug application from manufacturing, marketing, selling, or distributing a generic version of such drug during any exclusivity period granted to manufacturers of generic brands. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7928)
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7927)
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans' Memorials, Boy Scouts, Public Seals, and Other Public Expressions of Religion Protection Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3696
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2006-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Boy Scouts
Civil rights enforcement
Commemorations
Damages
Emblems
Families
Federal incorporation
Federal office buildings
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Injunctions
Judicial opinions
Law
Legal fees
Military bases
Monuments and memorials
Religion
Religious liberty
Signs and symbols

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: 
Veterans' Memorials, Boy Scouts, Public Seals, and Other Public Expressions of Religion Protection Act of 2006 - Amends the Revised Statutes of the United States to limit remedies to injunctive relief and declaratory relief in a civil action against a state or local official for deprivation of rights where the deprivation consists of a violation of a prohibition in the Constitution against the establishment of religion, including a violation resulting from: (1) a veterans' memorial, a public building, or the official seal of a state or local government containing religious words or imagery; or (2) the chartering of Boy Scout units by a state or local government and the Boy Scouts using state or local government buildings. 
 
Denies attorneys' fees in such a civil action, including such an action against the federal government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-02
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 109-756.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Health Savings Accounts Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3697
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2006-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medical savings accounts
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: 
Medicare Health Savings Accounts Act of 2006 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish a new part E (Medicare Health Savings Accounts) under which the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall establish procedures entitling each eligible beneficiary to elect to receive benefits under a Medicare Health Savings Account (HSA) instead of benefits under Medicare parts A (Hospital Insurance), B (Supplementary Medical Insurance), or D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program).
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to conform to this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8050-8051)
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide private relief.

Bill: 109-s-3699
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2006-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: 
Makes the survivors of Christopher Kangas of Brookhaven, Pennsylvania, eligible for a specified monetary award to be issued by the Bureau of Justice Assistance of the Department of Justice due to his death as a result of his acting in the capacity of a public safety officer.
 
Directs the United States Fire Administration to include the name of Christopher Kangas on the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial in Emmitsburg, Maryland.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8059-8060)
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Korean War Veterans Recognition Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3700
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armistices
Flags
History
Korean War, 1950-1953
Military history
Special days

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Korean War Veterans Recognition Act of 2006 - Adds National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, July 27, to the list of days on which the flag of the United States should be displayed.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8190)
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Catastrophic Health Coverage Promotion Act

Bill: 109-s-3701
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2006-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Catastrophic health insurance
Coinsurance
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Hospital care
Income
Indexing (Economic policy)
Labor and Employment
Legislation
Medicaid
Medicare
Mortality
Preventive medicine
Reinsurance
Small business
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: 
Catastrophic Health Coverage Promotion Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish demonstration projects to provide health care coverage to individuals who: (1) are not eligible for Medicaid or Medicare benefits and have exceeded $10,500 in out-of-pocket health care costs in a year or an adjusted amount based on the average out-of-pocket costs of individuals with catastrophic illnesses in a state for the year; or (2) were receiving Medicare or Medicaid benefits but who have exhausted their eligibility and any additional private health insurance coverage. Directs the Secretary, in designing such demonstration projects, to use: (1) state risk pools; (2) reinsurance mechanisms for small businesses; (3) public or private arrangements for the provision of affordable health insurance coverage to cover catastrophic health care expenses; and (4) any combination of such arrangements.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish demonstration projects to provide health insurance coverage for catastrophic health benefits to individuals who do not have health insurance coverage. Directs the Secretary, in designing such demonstration projects, to: (1) use a catastrophic health insurance product administered by private health insurance plans with a deductible indexed to income level or an adjusted deductible amount based on average out-of-pocket costs; and (2) subsidize such catastrophic coverage and allow subsidies on a sliding scale to offer an affordable product for individuals earning below 200% of the federal poverty level.
 
Establishes evaluation requirements for the projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8060)
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Farm and Forestry Worker Transportation Safety Act

Bill: 109-s-3702
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2006-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural labor
Agricultural machinery
Agriculture and Food
Department of Labor
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law
Migrant labor
Motor buses
Motor vehicle safety
Occupational health and safety
Seasonal labor
Seat belts
Standards
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: 
Farm and Forestry Worker Transportation Safety Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor, in promulgating vehicle safety standards under the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, to ensure that designated seats with operational seat belts are provided for the transportation of agricultural workers, with an exception for buses otherwise not federally required to have seat belts. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Transportation to issue minimum performance requirements for the strength of seats and the attachment of seats and seat belts in vehicles that are converted, after being sold for purposes other than resale, for the purpose of transporting such workers.
 
Requires, effective seven years after enactment of this Act, vehicles converted for transport of such workers to provide the same level of safety as vehicles manufactured or altered for such purpose prior to being sold for purposes other than resale.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8062)
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8062)
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Prescription Drug Lifeline Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3703
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2006-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Coinsurance
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: 
Medicare Prescription Drug Lifeline Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a process under which an individual may terminate enrollment in the prescription drug plan or the Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug (MA-PD) Plan in which he or she is enrolled and enroll in any prescription drug plan or MA-PD Plan serving the area where the individual resides that provides some coverage of covered part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) drugs after the individual has reached the initial coverage limit but not yet the annual out-of-pocket threshold.
 
Sets forth a special rule permitting applicable individuals to enroll in a prescription drug plan outside the region in which they reside. 
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on: (1) the costs to the Medicare program of eliminating the initial coverage limit and providing specified standard prescription drug coverage until the individual reaches the annual out-of-pocket threshold; and (2) the adjustment to the applicable coinsurance that would be necessary to eliminate the initial coverage limit under such conditions without increasing the costs to the Medicare program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8062-8063)
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Danielle's Act

Bill: 109-s-3704
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2006-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Brain
Disabled
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Emergency medicine
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Medicaid
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: 
Danielle's Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require state Medicaid plans to require staff working with individuals with a developmental disability or traumatic brain injury to call emergency services in the event of a life-threatening situation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8064)
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8063-8064)
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Children's Health in Schools Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3705
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2006-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child health
Competitive bidding
Department of Education
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Law
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical fees
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Poor children
School health programs
Social Welfare
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: 
Protecting Children's Health in Schools Act of 2006 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to establish requirements for providing and receiving reimbursement for school-based health care for children, including children with special needs, and the related administrative and transportation costs covered under Medicaid. Includes health care provided through Medicaid managed care organizations.
 

 

 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Education, acting jointly, to develop and implement a uniform methodology for claims under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8064-8066)
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8064)
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Spaceport Equality Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3706
Sponsor: Sen. Martinez, Mel [R-FL]
Introduced: 2006-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Airports
Commerce
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Leases
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Space activities
Tax-exempt securities
Terminals (Transportation)
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: 
Spaceport Equality Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the issuance of tax-exempt facility bonds for spaceports. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8068)
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8066-8068)
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Passenger Vehicle Loss Disclosure Act

Bill: 109-s-3707
Sponsor: Sen. Lott, Trent [R-MS]
Introduced: 2006-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air bag restraint systems
Automobile insurance
Commerce
Consumer education
Department of Transportation
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Insurance companies
Law
Losses

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: 
Passenger Vehicle Loss Disclosure Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to require all insurers and self-insurers of passenger motor vehicles to disclose to the public, in a commercially reasonable, electronically accessible manner, for each passenger motor vehicle declared or determined to be a total loss: (1) the vehicle identification number and odometer reading; (2) the date of and primary reason for the total loss determination; and (3) whether the airbags deployed.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Teacher Center Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3710
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2006-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Community and school
Continuing education
Curricula
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational research
Educational technology
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Illiteracy
Labor and Employment
Literacy programs
Mathematics
Mentoring
Paraprofessional school personnel
Recruiting of employees
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers
Teaching

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: 
Teacher Center Act of 2006 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) or consortiums of LEAs for the establishment and operation of new teacher centers or the support of existing centers. Requires that special consideration be given to high-need LEAs that serve a specified number or percentage of poor children and face difficulties in recruiting highly qualified teachers.
 
Requires teacher centers established or supported with such funds to provide: (1) high-quality professional development to teachers that will enable them to help students improve their achievement and meet state academic standards; (2) teachers with information on developments in curricula, assessments, and educational research; and (3) training and support for new teachers. Lists other permissible uses of such funds by teacher centers. Conditions a center's receipt of such assistance on its operation under the supervision of a teacher center policy board, the majority of whose members must be representatives of, and selected by, the elementary and secondary school teachers to be served by the center.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8069-8070)
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8068-8069)
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Dayton Wright Brothers-Dunbar National Historical Park Designation Act

Bill: 109-s-3712
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2006-07-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Aircraft
Commemorations
Economics and Public Finance
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Intellectual property
Inventors
Names
National parks
Ohio
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-21
text: 
Dayton Wright Brothers-Dunbar National Historical Park Designation Act - Amends the Dayton Aviation Heritage Preservation Act of 1992 to: (1) rename the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park as the Dayton Wright Brothers-Dunbar National Historical Park; and (2) authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide grants to public and private organizations for the preservation, development, use, and interpretation of properties within the Park.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-07-21
text: Introduced in Senate