Protecting America in the War on Terror Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-3
Sponsor: Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Admission of nonimmigrants
Afghanistan
Agriculture and Food
Air cargo
Aliens
Animals
Antitrust law
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Arson
Bank records
Biological warfare
Block grants
Bribery
Business records
Capital
Chemical warfare
Child health
Choice of law
Chronically ill
Civil actions and liability
Clinical trials
Commerce
Communicable diseases
Communication in medicine
Compensation (Law)
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Consumer credit
Containerization
Corporation taxes
Counterintelligence
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Damages
Department of Health and Human Services
Destruction of property
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Drug resistance in microorganisms
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Emergency medicine
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Epidemics
Epidemiology
Explosives
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Federal employees
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Food safety
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fraud
Freight
Government Operations and Politics
Government aircraft
Government contractors
Government lending
Government life insurance
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Harbors
Health
Health information systems
Health insurance continuation
Health surveys
Health warnings
Higher education
Immigration
Imports
Income tax
Indian medical care
Industrial buildings
Influenza
Information technology
Intellectual property
Intermodal transportation
International Affairs
International organization
Inventions
Investment tax credit
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Joint ventures
Labor and Employment
Laboratory animals
Larceny
Law
Liability (Law)
License agreements
Licenses
Managed care
Marine pollution
Marine safety
Marine terminals
Marketing
Mass rapid transit
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical laboratories
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medical supplies
Medical technology
Medicare
Middle East and North Africa
Military dependents
Military medicine
Military operations
Military pay
Minorities
Nongovernmental organizations
Nuclear terrorism
Obstruction of justice
Oil pollution
Patents
Pharmaceutical research
Physicians
Poisons
Police
Potable water
Preventive medicine
Prices
Product development
Products liability
Public health administration
Public health personnel
Punitive damages
Railroad safety
Recruiting of employees
Research and development
Research and development tax credit
Research grants
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Searches and seizures
Security measures
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sentencing guidelines
Social Welfare
South Asia
Standards
State laws
Student loan funds
Survivors' benefits
Syndromes
Tax deductions
Taxation
Technology transfer
Telephone
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Vaccination
Vaccines
Veterinary medicine
Vital statistics
War casualties
Waste disposal in the ocean
Water Resources Development
Women
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Protecting America in the War on Terror Act of 2005 - Biopreparedness Act of 2005 - Sets forth provisions concerning bioterrorism preparedness and defense, including provisions: (1) extending the patent terms for certain countermeasure products; (2) exempting meetings between the Secretary of Health and Human Services and parties developing priority countermeasures from antitrust laws; (3) establishing the Commission on Countermeasure and Vaccine Regulation; (4) prohibiting a State from establishing requirements different from certain Federal food and drug laws; (5) allowing tax credits for vaccine and countermeasures manufacturing and research; and (6) requiring procedures for inspecting imported live animals.
 
 Increases the death gratuity payable to survivors upon the combat-related death of a member of the Armed Forces. Increases the maximum life insurance payable for a member of the uniformed service or a veteran.
 
Homeland Security Technology Improvement Act of 2005 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide for the transfer of certain counterterrorism technologies, equipment, and information to State and local law enforcement agencies.
 
Sets forth provisions regarding information sharing among Federal agencies and between Federal agencies and State and local governments. Prohibits certain acts relating to national and maritime security, including: (1) acts of destruction on passenger vessels; (2) resisting the boarding of vessels authorized by Federal law; (3) placing a device or substance that is likely to destroy or damage a vessel or its cargo; (4) discharging or releasing any dangerous substance with the intent to endanger human life, health, or welfare; (5) knowingly and willfully transporting an explosive device, biological agent, chemical weapon, radioactive or nuclear material, or terrorist aboard a vessel; and (6) offering or receiving anything of value to commit or aid terrorism or fraud affecting any secure or restricted area or seaport.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3263-3265)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate