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End Racial Profiling Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2138
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2005-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Civil rights enforcement
Community policing
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Criminal statistics
Department of Justice
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Injunctions
Law
Legal fees
Minorities
Police training
Racial discrimination
Searches and seizures

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: 
End Racial Profiling Act of 2005 or ERPA - Prohibits any law enforcement agent or agency from engaging in racial profiling. Authorizes the United States or an individual injured by racial profiling to bring a civil action for declaratory or injunctive relief in state court or U.S. district court. Makes proof that the routine or spontaneous investigatory activities of law enforcement agents in a jurisdiction have had a disparate impact on racial, ethnic, or religious minorities prima facie evidence of a violation. Authorizes the court to allow a prevailing plaintiff attorney's fees under specified circumstances.
 
Directs federal law enforcement agencies to: (1) cease practices that permit racial profiling; and (2) maintain policies and procedures to eliminate racial profiling.
 
Requires applications for funding under the Byrne or Cops on the Beat program to include a certification that the applicant: (1) maintains adequate policies and procedures designed to eliminate racial profiling; and (2) does not engage in any practices that permit racial profiling.
 
Requires applicants to establish an administrative complaint procedure or independent auditor program. Directs the Attorney General to carry out a demonstration project to collect data on hit rates for stops and searches.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General, through the Bureau of Justice Assistance, to make grants to develop and implement best practice devices and systems to eliminate racial profiling.
 
Directs the Attorney General to report to Congress annually on racial profiling by law enforcement agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13805-13808)
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13804-13805)
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Earned Income Tax Credit Simplification Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2139
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2005-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alien labor
Aliens
Dividends
Earned income tax credit
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Immigration
Income tax
Interest
Married people
Social Welfare
Social security numbers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: 
Earned Income Tax Credit Simplification Act of 2005 - Amends provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to the earned income tax credit to: (1) allow certain married taxpayers filing separate returns and residing with a dependent child to claim such credit; (2) allow certain taxpayers residing in a household with a qualifying child to claim the credit independently as a taxpayer without a qualifying child; (3) eliminate provisions denying the credit for individuals with excessive investment income; and (4) require aliens claiming the credit to have a social security number authorized for employment purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13809-13810)
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Children from Sexual Exploitation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2140
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2005-12-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Business records
Child pornography
Commerce
Computer simulation
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: 
Protecting Children from Sexual Exploitation Act of 2005 - Amends federal criminal code provisions regarding child sexual exploitation to apply recordkeeping requirements applicable to visual depictions of sexually explicit conduct to pictures, digital images, and digitally- or computer-manipulated images of actual human beings. Prohibits any person to whom these provisions apply from refusing to permit the Attorney General to conduct an inspection of records at that person's business premises at a reasonable time. Establishes recordkeeping requirements for simulated sexual conduct.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7896)
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13810-13811)
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain entries of suit pants.

Bill: 109-s-2142
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-12-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-19
text: 
Directs the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection to: (1) liquidate or reliquidate certain entries of suit pants at the rate of duty that would have been applicable to such merchandise if it had been entered before July 11, 1996, and not subject to duty; and (2) refund any amounts owed with interest. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-12-19
text: Introduced in Senate
National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent Act

Bill: 109-s-2143
Sponsor: Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN]
Introduced: 2005-12-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Computers
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Engineering
Engineers
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Infrastructure
Language and languages
Life sciences
Mathematics
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-19
text: 
National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to award National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) grants to third and fourth year undergraduate students of physical, life, or computer sciences, mathematics, technology, engineering, or foreign languages critical to national security who are also eligible for Pell grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11243)
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S14073)
action_date: 2005-12-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S14065)
action_date: 2005-12-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the suitability and feasibility of designating the Solders' Memorial Military Museum located in St. Louis, Missouri, as a unit of the National Park System.

Bill: 109-s-2144
Sponsor: Sen. Talent, Jim [R-MO]
Introduced: 2005-12-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
History
Military history
Missouri
Monuments and memorials
Museums
National parks

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-19
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to carry out a study to determine the suitability and feasibility of designating the Soldiers' Memorial Military Museum, located at 1315 Chestnut, St. Louis, Missouri, as a unit of the National Park System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-12-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the period of time which a veteran's multiple sclerosis is to be considered to have been incurred in, or aggravated by, military service during a period of war.

Bill: 109-s-2147
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2005-12-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Health
Multiple sclerosis
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: 
Eliminates the period following separation from service within which a veteran's multiple sclerosis must have developed to a degree of disability of 10% or more to be considered to have been incurred in or aggravated by such service during a period of war.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Chattahoochee Trace National Heritage Corridor Study Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2148
Sponsor: Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL]
Introduced: 2005-12-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alabama
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural property
Environmental Protection
Georgia
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Nature conservation
Water Resources Development
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: 
Chattahoochee Trace National Heritage Corridor Study Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to assess the suitability and feasibility of designating a specified study area in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin (Alabama and Georgia) as the &quot;Chattahoochee Trace National Heritage Corridor.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Introduced in Senate
STEP Up Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2149
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-12-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Literacy programs
Mathematics
Reading
Social Welfare
Year round schools

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: 
Summer Term Education Programs for Upward Performance Act of 2005, or STEP UP Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Education to make competitive demonstration grants to state educational agencies to pay the federal share of summer learning grants for eligible students to be summer scholars in summer learning opportunity programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S14188-14189)
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S14187-14188)
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Share for Military Children in Public Schools Act

Bill: 109-s-2151
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-12-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Authorization
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Impact aid

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: 
 Fair Share for Military Children in Public Schools Act - Amends title VIII (Impact Aid) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations for basic payments for heavily impacted local educational agencies (LEAs) for eligible federally connected children. Authorizes such funds in amounts equal to increasing portions of the full amount computed for each such LEA for each of FY2007-FY2010, until the full amount is reached for FY2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S14190)
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Sales Tax Fairness and Simplification Act

Bill: 109-s-2152
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2005-12-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Congress
Congressional oversight
Data banks
Electronic commerce
Excise tax
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental tax relations
Internet
Interstate compacts
Judicial review
Law
Right of privacy
Sales tax
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
State taxation
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Tax simplification
Telecommunication industry

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: 
Sales Tax Fairness and Simplification Act - Grants the consent of Congress to the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement, the multistate agreement for the administration and collection of sales and use taxes adopted on November 12, 2002. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Agreement provides sufficient simplification and uniformity to warrant federal authorizations to states that are parties to it (member states) to require remote sellers (sellers without a physical presence in the taxing state) to collect and remit the sales and use taxes of such states and their local taxing jurisdictions.
 
Authorizes each member state, after 10 states (comprising at least 20% of all states imposing a sales tax) have petitioned for and become member states, to require all sellers, except those sellers with gross remote taxable sales nationwide of less than $5 million, to collect and remit sales and use taxes on remote sales owed to such member state under the terms of the Agreement.
 
Allows any person affected by the Agreement to petition the Governing Board established by the Agreement for a determination of any issue arising under the Agreement. Provides for judicial review of Governing Board determinations by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. 
 
Sets forth minimum simplification requirements for the Agreement.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that member states should work with each other to prevent double taxation where a foreign country has imposed a transaction tax on a digital good or service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S14191-14193)
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S14190-14191)
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Streamlined Sales Tax Simplification Act

Bill: 109-s-2153
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2005-12-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Electronic commerce
Excise tax
Expedited congressional procedure
Government Operations and Politics
House rules and procedure
Intergovernmental tax relations
Internet
Interstate compacts
Judicial review
Law
Legislative resolutions
Right of privacy
Sales tax
Science, Technology, Communications
Senate rules and procedure
Small Business Administration
Small business
State taxation
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Tax simplification
Telecommunication industry

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: 
 Streamlined Sales Tax Simplification Act - Grants the consent of Congress to the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement, the multistate agreement for the administration and collection of sales and use taxes adopted on November 12, 2002. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Agreement provides sufficient simplification and uniformity to warrant federal authorizations to states that are parties to it (member states) to require remote sellers (sellers without a physical presence in the taxing state) to collect and remit the sales and use taxes of such States and their local taxing jurisdictions.
 
Authorizes each member state, after 10 states (comprising at least 20% of all states imposing a sales tax) have petitioned for and become member states, to require all sellers, except those sellers qualifying for a small business exception, to collect and remit sales and use taxes on remote sales owed to such member state under the terms of the Agreement.
 
Allows any person affected by the Agreement to petition the Governing Board established by the Agreement for a determination of any issue arising under the Agreement. Provides for judicial review of Governing Board determinations by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. 
 
Sets forth minimum simplification requirements for the Agreement.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that member state should work with each other to prevent double taxation where a foreign country has imposed a transaction tax on a digital good or service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S14193-14194)
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor of Rosa Parks.

Bill: 109-s-2154
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-12-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Blacks
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights workers
Government Operations and Politics
Minorities
Postage stamps

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: 
Requires the Postmaster General to issue a commemorative postage stamp in honor of Rosa Parks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide meaningful civil remedies for victims of the sexual exploitation of children.

Bill: 109-s-2155
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-12-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child pornography
Child sexual abuse
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Damages
Families
Law
Prostitution
Sex-oriented businesses
Torts

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: 
Amends the federal criminal code to allow any person who was the victim of a sexual crime while a minor to sue in federal court for damages for resulting injury, regardless of whether the injury occurred while such person was a minor. (Current law allows a minor who is the victim of a sexual crime to sue.) Increases from $50,000 to $150,000 the minimum amount of damages such a victim shall be deemed to have sustained.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S14194)
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 332 South Main Street in Flora, Illinois, as the "Robert T. Ferguson Post Office Building."

Bill: 109-s-2156
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-12-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Illinois
Names
Postal facilities
United States Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 332 South Main Street in Flora, Illinois, as the "Robert T. Ferguson Post Office Building.&quot;

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR 12/22/2005 S14318)
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 12/22/2005 S14318)
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Honor Our Fallen Prisoners of War Act

Bill: 109-s-2157
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-12-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Commemorations
Military medals, decorations, etc.
Prisoners of war
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: 
Honor Our Fallen Prisoners of War Act - Requires the Secretary concerned, for purposes of awarding the Purple Heart, to treat members of the Armed Forces who die in captivity under circumstances establishing eligibility for the prisoner-of-war medal but not for the Purple Heart as a member who is killed or wounded in action. 
 
 Applies this Act to members who died on or after December 7, 1941.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 12/22/2005 S14318-14319)
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: Introduced in Senate
National Homeland Security Academy Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2158
Sponsor: Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2005-12-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Curricula
Department of Homeland Security
Distance education
Education
Employee training
Executive reorganization
Federal officials
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fire departments
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Local officials
Police training
Professional education
Rescue work
State officials

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: 
National Homeland Security Academy Act of 2005 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) a National Homeland Security Academy consisting of: (1) a National Homeland Security Education and Strategy Center to provide fundamental instruction and develop a homeland security curriculum; (2) a communications network capable of delivering distance learning opportunities; (3) the programs of the Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness' Center for Homeland Defense and Security; and (4) a National Homeland Security Education Network composed of representatives from all of the academies and training centers within DHS jurisdiction..
 
Directs the Secretary to appoint a State and Local Education and Training Coordinator in the Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness to serve as the primary point of contact between federal, state, and local training facilities, the Academy, and the Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR 12/22/2005 S14319-14321)
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 12/22/2005 S14319)
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for reimbursement of the cost of certain projects at the Fern Ridge Dam, Oregon.

Bill: 109-s-2159
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2005-12-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Dams
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Maintenance and repair
Oregon

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: 
Requires the repairs initiated at Fern Ridge Dam, Oregon, during FY2005 to be considered to be a dam safety project (as that term is defined by the Chief of Engineers), and the cost of such repairs to be reimbursable under the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (except the portion allocated to irrigation as a project benefit).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2005-12-21
text: Introduced in Senate