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Marc and Chelsea's Law

Bill: 109-hr-2958
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Tim [R-PA-18]
Introduced: 2005-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Accidents
Construction workers
Crime and Law Enforcement
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Environmental Protection
Excavation
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Labor and Employment
Law
Pipelines
Science, Technology, Communications
Transportation of hazardous substances

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: 
Pipeline Safety Emergency Notification Act or Marc and Chelsea's Law - Amends federal transportation law to revise certain one-call notification system minimum requirements to require a person (including a government employee or contractor) who, while engaged in demolition, excavation, tunneling, or construction in the vicinity of a pipeline, becomes aware of damage to the pipeline that may endanger life or cause serious bodily harm or damage to property, or damages the pipeline in such a manner, to promptly report the damage to the pipeline operator and to other appropriate authorities (notification of medical, law enforcement, and fire prevention public authorities, or calling 9-1-1). Sets forth both civil and criminal penalties for violation of such requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the establishment of Parkinson's Disease Research Education and Clinical Centers in the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 109-hr-2959
Sponsor: Rep. Evans, Lane [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2005-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Health information systems
Higher education
Medical centers
Medical education
Medical records
Medical research
Medical residents
Nervous system diseases
Neurology
Parkinson's disease
Peer review organizations (Medicine)
Research centers
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans to designate, establish, and operate at selected Department of Veterans Affairs health-care facilities six centers for Parkinson's disease research, education, and clinical activities. Requires the Under Secretary for Health to establish a panel to assess the scientific and clinical merit of proposals submitted by a facility for the operation of such a center.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Provisions of This Measure Incorporated in H.R. 1220, Section 6.
action_date: 2005-06-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1289)
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
College Opportunity for All Act

Bill: 109-hr-2960
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2005-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Athletes
Authorization
Black colleges
Child nutrition
Child welfare
Department of Education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Infants
Interest
Interest rates
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Mathematics
Migrant education
Minorities
Minority education
Nurses
Nursing education
Olympic games
Reading
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Social work
Special education
Sports and Recreation
Student aid
Student employment
Student loan funds
Subsidies
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
WIC program

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: 
College Opportunity for All Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise and reauthorize requirements relating to: (1) Pell Grants and other student aid amounts and access to higher education for all students; (2) elimination of borrower origination fees; (3) allowance of refinancing of consolidation loans; (4) student loan forgiveness for certain public service employment; (5) termination of government payment of special allowances at excessive interest rates to lenders and holders of student loans; (6) simplification of the student aid process; (7) an initiative to enhance college graduation rates and accelerate time to degree; (8) reduction of guaranty agency payments; (9) teacher preparation and recruiting programs of TEACH grants and for teachers of mathematics, science, and languages; (10) TRIO, GEAR UP, LEAP outreach programs to disadvantaged students pursuing a postsecondary education; (11) postbaccalaureate opportunities at Hispanic-serving institutions; and (12) support and educational opportunities for students at historically Black colleges and universities and at other minority-serving institutions, including centers of excellence for teacher education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
Sole Community Hospital Preservation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2961
Sponsor: Rep. Walden, Greg [R-OR-2]
Introduced: 2005-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: 
Sole Community Hospital Preservation Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the prospective payment system (PPS) for hospital outpatient department (OPD) services, particularly the transitional adjustment for sole community hospitals to limit any decline in payment. Holds sole community hospitals permanently harmless from any decline in payment. Increases the payment for covered OPD services in a sole community hospital by the amount of any difference between the pre-Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (pre-BBA) amount and a lesser PPS amount.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to substitute a specified minimum base payment-to-cost ratio for determining the pre-BBA amount for sole community hospitals.
 
Specifies the rebasing of the payment -to-cost ratio for sole community hospitals for cost reporting periods beginning on or after October 1, 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
Atomic Veterans Relief Act

Bill: 109-hr-2962
Sponsor: Rep. Abercrombie, Neil [D-HI-1]
Introduced: 2005-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disabled
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Ionizing radiation
Law
Nuclear weapons
Radiation victims
Radioactive pollution
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: 
Atomic Veterans Relief Act - Includes within the definition of a &quot;radiation-risk activity&quot; for purposes of eligibility criteria for veterans' disability compensation the exposure to ionizing radiation due to residual contamination resulting from participation in a nuclear detonation.
 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to include in regulations pertaining to the service-connection of veterans' disabilities additional provisions to ensure, in the case of a claim by a radiation-exposed veteran for service-connection of a nonpresumptive disability, that the procedures for establishment of whether the disability is service-connected do not require imputation to the veteran, through a process known as dose reconstruction, of any particular level of exposure to ionizing radiation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
Dr. James Allen Disabled Veterans Equity Act

Bill: 109-hr-2963
Sponsor: Rep. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2005-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Blind
Disabled
Eye diseases
Health
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Dr. James Allen Disabled Veterans Equity Act - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay special disability compensation due to a veteran's loss of paired organs when the veteran has suffered impairment of vision compensable to a degree of ten percent or more (currently, blindness) in one eye as a result of a service-connected disability and impairment of vision (currently, blindness) in the other eye as a result of a non-service-connected disability not the result of the veteran's own willful misconduct.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
Chisholm and Great Western Cattle Trails Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2964
Sponsor: Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4]
Introduced: 2005-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Cattle
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Kansas
Land transfers
Landowners
Oklahoma
Range management
Right of property
Sports and Recreation
Texas
Trails

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: 
Chisholm and Great Western Cattle Trails Act of 2005 - Amends the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct separate studies to determine the feasibility and suitability of designation of: (1) at least one of the routes commonly known as the Chisholm Trail as components of the Chisholm Trail National Historic Trail; and (2) at least one of the routes commonly known as the Great Western Trail as components of the Great Western Trail National Historic Trail. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-28
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2005-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the availability of emergency medical care for veterans in non-Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities.

Bill: 109-hr-2966
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2005-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Health
Hospital care
Hospitals
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: 
Requires the determination of whether a veteran can be transferred to a Department of Veterans Affairs medical facility after receiving emergency medical treatment in a non-Department facility to be based both on the condition of the veteran and on the availability of a bed in a Department facility that is not geographically inaccessible to the veteran.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
Dave Thomas Adoption Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2968
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2005-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adoption
Annuities
Costs
Families
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Pension funds
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Dave Thomas Adoption Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow for penalty-free withdrawals from individual retirement plans if used to pay adoption expenses.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
Preservation of Civil Rights Protections Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2969
Sponsor: Rep. Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10]
Introduced: 2005-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Collective bargaining
Employee rights
Industrial arbitration
Industrial relations
Labor contracts

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: 
Preservation of Civil Rights Protections Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Arbitration Act to modify the definition of commerce so as to exclude employment contracts from arbitration provisions (currently, employment contracts of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce are excluded).
 
Makes arbitration clauses in employment contracts unenforceable, with exceptions for: (1) consent by the involved parties after a claim arises; and (2) enforcement of rights or terms of collective bargaining agreements.
Provides that this Act shall apply to existing and future employment contracts.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
Disabled Public Safety Officers Fairness Act

Bill: 109-hr-2970
Sponsor: Rep. Kuhl, John R. "Randy", Jr. [R-NY-29]
Introduced: 2005-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Disability retirement
Disabled
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Fire fighters
Health
Law enforcement officers
Medical personnel
Paramedical personnel
Police
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: 
Disabled Public Safety Officers Fairness Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide public safety officer disability benefits to officers disabled before the enactment of the public safety officer disability law. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
Parental Notification and Intervention Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2971
Sponsor: Rep. Musgrave, Marilyn N. [R-CO-4]
Introduced: 2005-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Child abuse
Civil actions and liability
Crime and Law Enforcement
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Evidence (Law)
Families
Family violence
Fines (Penalties)
Injunctions
Law
Minors
Parent and child
Physicians

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: 
Parental Notification and Intervention Act of 2005 - Prohibits any person or organization from performing, permitting facilities to be used to perform, or assisting in the performance of an abortion on an unemancipated minor unless: (1) written notification is provided to the parents of the minor informing the parents that an abortion has been requested, unless there is clear and convincing evidence of physical abuse of the minor by the parent; (2) there is compliance with a 96-hour waiting period after notice has been received by the parents; and (3) there is compliance with the judicial intervention process. Prescribes penalties of not more than a $1 million fine and/or imprisonment for not more than 10 years for violating such prohibition.
 
Provides for an exception where a physician without principal responsibility for making the decision to perform the abortion determines that: (1) a medical emergency exists due to a grave, physical disorder or disease that would cause the minor's death if an abortion is not performed; (2) parental notification is not possible as a result of the emergency; and (3) certifications regarding compliance with such rules and the reasons upon which such determinations are based have been entered in the minor's medical records. 
Requires parental notification through certified mail or personal delivery. 
Authorizes a notified parent to bring an action in federal court which shall enjoin the abortion: (1) until the court's judgment is final; or (2) permanently unless the court determines that granting such relief would be unlawful.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on 2-Naphthalenesulfonic acid, 6-[(2,4-diaminophenyl)azo]-3-[[4-[[4-[[7-[(2,4-diaminophenyl azo]-1-hydroxy-3-sulfo-2-naphthalenyl]azo]phenyl]amino]-3- sulfophenyl]azo]-4-hydroxy-, trisodium salt.

Bill: 109-hr-2972
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2005-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on 2-Naphthalenesulfonic acid, 6-[(2,4-diaminophenyl)azo]-3-[[4-[[4-[[7-[(2,4-diaminophenyl azo]-1-hydroxy-3-sulfo-2-naphthalenyl]azo]phenyl]amino]-3- sulfophenyl]azo]-4-hydroxy-, trisodium salt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Methylene Bis-Benzotriazolyl Tetramethylbutylphenol.

Bill: 109-hr-2973
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2005-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Methylene Bis-Benzotriazolyl Tetramethylbutylphenol.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Bis-Ethylhexyloxyphenol Methoxyphenol Triazine.

Bill: 109-hr-2974
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2005-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Bis-Ethylhexyloxyphenol Methoxyphenol Triazine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Introduced in House