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A bill for the relief of Esidronio Arreola-Saucedo, Maria Elna Cobian Arreola, Nayely Bibiana Arreola, and Cindy Jael Arreola.

Bill: 109-s-120
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Declares Esidronio Arreola-Saucedo, Maria Elna Cobian Arreola, Nayely Bibiana Arreola, and Cindy Jael Arreola each to have been lawfully admitted to, and remained in, the United States, and to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence under of the Immigration and Nationality Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S310)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S309-310)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend titles 10 and 38, United States Code, to improve the benefits provided for survivors of deceased members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-121
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: East Asia
Education
Families
Health
Health insurance continuation
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Managed care
Marriage
Military dependents
Military pensions
Philippines
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' education
Veterans' pensions
Veterans' rehabilitation
War casualties
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Increases from $12,000 to $100,000 the death gratuity payable to survivors of members of the Armed Forces who die while on active duty or inactive duty training. Provides an additional gratuity of $25,000 to any child of such member under 18 years old at the time of the member's death, payable when such child attains 21.
 
Continues TRICARE (a Department of Defense managed health care program) eligibility for the dependents of a member who dies while serving on active duty of more than 30 days for a three-year period after the member's death, with a further conditional extension in the case of a dependent child.
 
Terminates a 45-month limit on the use of survivors' and dependents' educational assistance.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide special restorative training to certain individuals.
 
Increases the amount of basic educational assistance for veterans' survivors and dependents pursuing certain types of institutional education. Authorizes the provision of tutorial assistance to such individuals without charge to their educational assistance entitlement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S311-313)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S310-311)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-122
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Air piracy
Aircraft
Airports
Aliens
Americans in foreign countries
Armed Forces and National Security
Assassination
Automobile theft
Capital punishment
Child pornography
Child sexual abuse
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Conspiracy
Correctional personnel
Criminal investigation
Destruction of property
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Election candidates
Emergency Management
Espionage
Explosives
Families
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal officials
Firearms
Genocide
Government Operations and Politics
Hostages
Immigration
Informers
International Affairs
Kidnapping
Larceny
Law
Law enforcement officers
Life imprisonment
Mandatory sentences
Marine safety
Members of Congress
Motor vehicles
Murder
Offshore structures
Organized crime
Parole
Police
Postal service
Presidential protection
Prison violence
Prisoners
Protection of officials
Racial discrimination
Railroads
Rape
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sex crimes
Smuggling
State employees
Supreme Court justices
Terrorism
Torture
Transportation and Public Works
Treason
Vice Presidents
Victims of crimes
Violence
Weapons of mass destruction
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act - Repeals death penalty provisions for a wide range of specified offenses under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the federal criminal code, the Controlled Substances Act, and other statutes, including for murder relating to the smuggling of aliens, murder during a hostage-taking, and certain non-homicide-related offenses (espionage and treason). Repeals procedural provisions relating to the imposition of the death sentence.
 
Prohibits sentencing to death or putting to death any person for any violation of federal law. Commutes death penalty sentences imposed prior to the enactment of this Act to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S314-315)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S313-314)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Efficiency in Government Health Care Spending Act

Bill: 109-s-123
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Drug industry
Drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Efficiency in Government Health Care Spending Act - States that it is the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Health and Human Services should exercise the authority under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to negotiate prices for Medicare prescription drugs so as to assure an affordable Medicare drug benefit for Medicare beneficiaries and taxpayers. 
 
Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of SSA title XVIII (Medicare) to repeal the prohibition against the Secretary's negotiating with drug manufacturers, pharmacies, and Medicare prescription drug plan sponsors concerning the prices of prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries. Grants the Secretary, instead, authority similar to that of other Federal entities that purchase prescription drugs in bulk in order to negotiate contracts with manufacturers of covered part D drugs. Prohibits the Secretary from requiring a particular formulary for covered part D drugs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S315-316)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S315)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the MA Regional Plan Stabilization Fund.

Bill: 109-s-124
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government trust funds
Health insurance
Insurance companies
Managed care
Medicare
Preferred provider organizations (Medical care)
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal the MA Regional Plan Stabilization Fund. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S316)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S316)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S316)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the United States courthouse located at 501 I Street in Sacramento, California, as the "Robert T. Matsui United States Courthouse".

Bill: 109-s-125
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: California
Congress
Congressional tributes
Courthouses
Ex-Members of Congress
House of Representatives
Law
Names

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Designates the U.S. courthouse at 501 I Street in Sacramento, California, as the Robert T. Matsui United States Courthouse.

action_date: 2005-02-16
text: 
Designates the U.S. courthouse at 501 I Street in Sacramento, California, as the Robert T. Matsui United States Courthouse.

action_date: 2005-02-17
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the Senate on February 16, 2005. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Designates the U.S. courthouse at 501 I Street in Sacramento, California, as the Robert T. Matsui United States Courthouse.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: For Further Action See H.R.787.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1693; text as passed Senate: CR S1693)
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S1693; text as passed Senate: CR S1693)
action_date: 2005-02-16
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 7.
action_date: 2005-02-16
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Inhofe without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2005-02-16
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Inhofe without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2005-02-16
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S316)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to improve the administration of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-126
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Department of Agriculture
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Licenses
Migratory bird conservation
Wildlife management

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Exempts any migratory bird management carried out by the Secretary of Agriculture through the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service from the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (including regulations).
Authorizes a Service employee acting under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to: (1) issue a depredation permit to a Service stakeholder or cooperator; and (2) manage and take migratory birds.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Clinical Social Workers' Recognition Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-127
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Disability evaluation
Disabled
Federal employees
Health
Job stress
Labor and Employment
Social Welfare
Social work
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Clinical Social Workers' Recognition Act of 2005 - Amends Federal law concerning Federal workers' compensation to authorize the use of clinical social workers to conduct evaluations to determine work-related emotional and mental illnesses.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-09
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: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S316)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S316)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 23, United States Code, to provide for HOV facilities.

Bill: 109-s-129
Sponsor: Sen. Talent, Jim [R-MO]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Bicycles
Biomass energy
Coal
Commuting
Electric vehicles
Energy
Energy security
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to transportation
Fuel consumption
Highway finance
Hydrogen
Interstate highway system
Liquefied petroleum gas
Mass rapid transit
Motor vehicle pollution control
Motorcycles
Natural gas vehicles
Speed limits
Toll roads

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Amends the Federal Aid Highways program to require a State agency with jurisdiction over the operation of a HOV facility to establish the occupancy requirements of vehicles operating on the facility.
 
Requires such agency to permit motorcycles and bicycles to use the HOV facility. 
 
Permits a State agency to restrict use of the HOV facility by motorcycles or bicycles (or both) if it certifies to the Secretary of Transportation that such use would create a safety hazard. 
 
Prescribes guidelines under which a State agency may permit use of an HOV facility by: (1) public transportation vehicles and high occupancy toll vehicles; (2) inherently low-emission vehicles and low emission and energy-efficient vehicles; and (3) advanced lean burn technology vehicles.
 
Permits tolls to be charged on a HOV facility on the Interstate System.
 
Requires a State agency that allows low-emission and energy-efficient vehicles to use a HOV facility to certify to the Secretary that it will establish: (1) a continuous monitoring, assessment, and reporting program regarding the impacts such vehicles may have on the operation of the facility and adjacent highways; and (2) an enforcement program that ensures the facility is operated in accordance with this Act.
 
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection to issue a final rule establishing certification requirements for low emission and energy-efficient vehicles and for advanced lean burn technology vehicles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S317-319)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S317)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize an additional district judgeship for the district of Nebraska.

Bill: 109-s-130
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Congress
District courts
Government Operations and Politics
Judges
Judicial districts
Nebraska
Presidential appointments

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Requires the President to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, one additional district judge for the district of Nebraska.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S319)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Mortgage Insurance Fairness Act

Bill: 109-s-132
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government insurance
Government paperwork
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Insurance
Insurance premiums
Interest
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgages
Tax deductions
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Mortgage Insurance Fairness Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat mortgage insurance premium payments as tax deductible interest. Phases out the deduction for taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes exceeding $100,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S348)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S348)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Tory Jo's AMBER Response Act

Bill: 109-s-133
Sponsor: Sen. Talent, Jim [R-MO]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child safety
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Department of Justice
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Infants
Information networks
Informers
Kidnapping
Law
Missing children
Police communication systems
Radio broadcasting
Science, Technology, Communications
Signs and signboards
Standards
Traffic signs and signals
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Tory Jo's AMBER Response Act - Amends the PROTECT Act to: (1) require the minimum standards for the issuance and dissemination of alerts through the AMBER Alert communications network to allow local law enforcement officials to issue and provide for the dissemination of an alert to facilitate the recovery of an abducted newborn; and (2) define &quot;child&quot; to mean an individual under age 18 or a newborn.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S348-349)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Redwood National Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-134
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boundaries
California
Government Operations and Politics
Land transfers
Maps
National parks

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Redwood National Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2005 - Revises the boundaries of the Redwood National Park in California. Increases to 133,000 acres the maximum acreage of the Park.

action_date: 2005-03-09
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Redwood National Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2005 - Revises the boundaries of the Redwood National Park in California. Requires that the map of the revised boundaries be placed on file and be available for public inspection in offices of the National Park Service and that such map be provided by the Secretary of the Interior to officers of Del Norte and Humboldt Counties, California. 
 
Increases to 133,000 acres the maximum acreage of the Park.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 35.
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici without amendment. With written report No. 109-23.
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici without amendment. With written report No. 109-23.
action_date: 2005-02-09
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S349)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S349)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to expand country of origin labeling for certain covered commodities.

Bill: 109-s-135
Sponsor: Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture in foreign trade
Animals
Aquaculture
Commerce
Department of Agriculture
Food industry
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Labeling
Law
Marketing of farm produce
Meat
Peanuts
Seafood
Sheep
Swine

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 with respect to country of origin labeling provisions to: (1) include as a covered commodity ground and muscle cuts of beef, lamb, and pork as a processed food ingredient; and (2) make country of origin provisions applicable to retail sales as of September 30, 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Federal Contractor Safeguard Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-137
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Defense contracts
Defense procurement
Federal employees
Federal officials
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Law
Performance measurement
Rating of employees
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Subcontractors

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Small Business Federal Contractor Safeguard Act of 2005 - Amends the Small Business Act to prohibit an official of a military department, Defense Agency, or the Department of Defense Field Activity, or the head of any other Federal agency from executing an acquisition strategy that includes a consolidation of contract requirements with a total value above specified amounts unless the senior procurement executive first: (1) conducts market research; (2) identifies any alternative contracting approaches that would involve less consolidation; and (3) determines that the consolidation is necessary and justified. Defines &quot;consolidation of defense requirements&quot; as the use of a solicitation to obtain offers for a single contract to satisfy two or more requirements for goods or services that have previously been provided under separate contracts for a smaller cost or are capable of being so provided. 
 
Requires each procurement employee to communicate to their subordinates the importance of achieving small business goals and include the success of such an employee in small business utilization as an annual performance evaluation factor. 
 
Requires small business subcontracting plans to include a certification that the offeror or bidder will acquire articles or services from small businesses in the amount used in preparing the bid or proposal. 
 
Requires the Small Business Administration (SBA) to share subcontracting compliance review data with Federal contracting officers and to update a national centralized Government-wide database with such information. 
 
Requires annual reports from the Associate Administrator of Business Development to the small business committees on the effectiveness of the BusinessLINC program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S353-355)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S351-353)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate