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To provide for Federal research, development, demonstration, and commercial application activities to enable the development of farms that are net producers of both food and energy, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-5925
Sponsor: Rep. Bartlett, Roscoe G. [R-MD-6]
Introduced: 2006-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Agricultural extension work
Agricultural research
Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Alternative energy sources
Awards, medals, prizes
Biomass energy
Commemorations
Commercialization
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Farms
Federal aid to research
Federally-guaranteed loans
Government lending
Governmental investigations
Refuse as fuel
Research and development
Research grants
Revolving funds
Science, Technology, Communications
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Energy to enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences to: (1) develop recommendations for evaluation measures and criteria for programs under this Act; and (2) evaluate the feasibility of prize and best practices award programs as tools to promote self-powered farms. 
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish an award program for up to 30 state agricultural research programs for self-powered farm demonstrations; (2) provide low-cost revolving loans and loan guarantees to eligible entities for the commercial application of energy or other technologies that will contribute to establishing self-powered farms, with highest preference given to applicants who propose to meet their energy needs from biobased feedstocks or other renewable energy sources produced on that farm; and (3) enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences for a review of the programs under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development, and Research.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
21st Century High-Performing Public School Facilities Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5928
Sponsor: Rep. Chandler, Ben [D-KY-6]
Introduced: 2006-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Appropriations
Architecture and the disabled
Asbestos
Authorization
Building construction
Charter schools
Child safety
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction industries
Construction workers
Department of Education
Disabled
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government lending
Indian education
International Affairs
Lead
Maintenance and repair
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Minimum wages
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Native Americans
Oceania
Paints and varnishes
Poor children
Revolving funds
School buildings
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Small business
Social Welfare
Wages
Women
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: 
21st Century High-Performing Public School Facilities Act of 2006 - Requires the Secretary of Education to make grants in each fiscal year to local educational agencies (LEAs) in each state for the construction, modernization, or repair of kindergarten, elementary, or secondary schools to make them safe, healthy, high-performing, and technologically up-to-date. Gives priority to LEAs serving a high number or percentage of disadvantaged children and those whose public schools are in relatively poor condition. Requires LEAs to contribute funds toward the costs of the program, but uses a sliding scale that factors in the relative poverty of an LEA's service area. 
 
Requires the Secretary to make low-interest loans to LEAs in each fiscal year for the same purposes and with the same priorities given in the distribution of the grants.
 
Establishes the School Construction, Modernization, and Repair Revolving Fund consisting of amounts derived from the low-interest loans and appropriations made to the Fund by this Act.
 
Amends part D of title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize and make appropriations for educational technology.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 109-hr-5930
Sponsor: Rep. Cramer, Robert E. (Bud), Jr. [D-AL-5]
Introduced: 2006-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alabama
Arts, Culture, Religion
Blind
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Commerce
Dams
Deaf
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Exhibitions
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Land use
Landowners
Landscape protection
Maps
Music
Nature conservation
Outdoor recreation
Public meetings
Public-private partnerships
Regional economic development
Regional planning
Right of property
Signs and signboards
Sports and Recreation
Tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: 
Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area in Alabama. 
 
Designates the Muscle Shoals Regional Center as the local coordinating entity for the Area. 
 
Requires the Muscle Shoals Regional Center to prepare and submit a management plan for the Area. 
 
Prohibits the Muscle Shoals Regional Center from using federal funds received under this Act to acquire real property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2006-08-07
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Farm Risk Management Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5932
Sponsor: Rep. Everett, Terry [R-AL-2]
Introduced: 2006-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural subsidies
Agriculture and Food
Crop insurance
Farm income
Farmers
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Law
Tax deductions
Tax penalties
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: 

 
Farm Risk Management Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish tax-exempt farm risk management accounts to allow taxpayers engaged in the business of farming or ranching to use distributions from such accounts to offset operational losses in lieu of receiving, after a specified transitional period, federal subsidies to purchase crop insurance; (2) allow a tax deduction for cash contributions to such accounts; (3) specify minimum levels of contributions to, and maximum levels of distributions from, such accounts; (4) require the Secretary of Agriculture to make matching contributions to such accounts; and (5) set forth tax rules relating to account distributions, excess contributions, and prohibited transactions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Business Travel Facilitation Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5933
Sponsor: Rep. Feeney, Tom [R-FL-24]
Introduced: 2006-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Affiliated corporations
Alien labor
Aliens
Business education
Commerce
Contracts
Department of Homeland Security
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
International cooperation
Joint ventures
Labor and Employment
Law
Passports
Service industries
Skilled labor
Technical education
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: 
Business Travel Facilitation Act of 2006 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include business facilitation visitors from a qualifying country as nonimmigrant aliens visiting the United States temporarily for business.
 
Defines &quot;business facilitation visitor&quot; as an alien visiting the United States temporarily to: (1) provide services pursuant to a qualifying services contract; or (2) provide management or technical training to, or receive management or technical training from personnel of a U.S. entity. Sets forth conditions with respect to: (1) provision of services; and (2) provision or receipt of management or technical training.
 
 Provides a period of authorized admission of: (1) one year with a one-time six month extension for an alien providing services; and (2) one year for an alien providing or receiving management or technical training.
 
Prohibits such aliens from changing nonimmigrant status or adjusting to immigrant status.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to prohibit business facilitation entries from a country whose nationals have engaged in a pattern of fraud involving visas or other immigration matters.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
HUBZone Improvement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5934
Sponsor: Rep. Goode, Virgil H., Jr. [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2006-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government procurement
Housing and Community Development
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Metropolitan areas
Population
Rural economic development
Small business
Unemployment
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: 
HUBZone Improvement Act of 2006 - Amends the Small Business Act redefine a Hubzone Qualified Area to count as a qualified nonmetropolitan county any county located within a metropolitan statistical area if: (1) its total population is 80,000 or less; (2) the population residing within the county's urbanized areas is 10% or less of the county's total population; and (3) the county meets either a specified median household income or a specified unemployment rate requirement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Residency Program Fairness Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5935
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Mark [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2006-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Higher education
Hospital care
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Medical education
Medical residents
Medicare
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: 
Medicare Residency Program Fairness Act of 2006 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to payments to hospitals for the direct graduate medical education (DGME) costs of inpatient hospital services, particularly the redistribution among qualifying hospitals of unused resident positions which figure in the calculation of DGME costs.
 
Requires a specified adjustment to the reduction of Medicare resident positions for rural and small urban hospitals, where that reduction was based on a cost report subsequently settled, whether as a result of an appeal or otherwise, if the reference resident level under such settled cost report is higher than the resident level used for the reduction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Caregiver Credit Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5936
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2006-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aliens
Caregivers
Citizenship
Disabled
Domestic partners
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Grandparents
Immigration
Labor and Employment
Married people
Names
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Parents
Residence requirements
Social security numbers
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: 
Social Security Caregiver Credit Act of 2006 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act with respect to determining entitlement to and the amount of any monthly benefit, including any lump-sum death payment, payable under OASDI on the basis of the wages and self-employment income of any individual. Deems such an individual to have been paid a wage (according to a specified formula) during each month during which the individual was engaged for at least 80 hours in providing care to a dependent relative without monetary compensation for up to five years of such service. Makes this Act inapplicable in the case of any monthly benefit or lump-sum death payment if a larger benefit or payment would be payable without its application. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Stop Obesity in Schools Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5938
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2006-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Child nutrition
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Exercise
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Health education
Lifestyle
Obesity
Performance measurement
Preventive medicine
School health programs
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: 
Stop Obesity in Schools Act of 2006 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a national strategy to reduce childhood obesity that: (1) provides for the reduction of childhood obesity rates by 10% by the year 2010; (2) addresses solutions to reducing the rates of childhood obesity; (3) identifies how the federal government can work effectively with entities to implement the strategy; and (4) includes measures to identify and overcome all obstacles to achieving the goal of reducing childhood obesity.
 
Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to: (1) make grants to local educational agencies to reduce childhood obesity by adopting wellness policies and anti-obesity initiatives; (2) arrange for the evaluation of a wide variety of existing programs designed to prevent obesity in children and adolescents in order to identify factors contributing to program effectiveness; and (3) make grants on a competitive basis to state governments, local governments, and consortia of local governments to reduce childhood obesity through establishing or expanding healthy living and wellness coordinating councils and supporting regional workshops.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Criminal Terrorism Improvements Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5939
Sponsor: Rep. Lungren, Daniel E. [R-CA-3]
Introduced: 2006-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Antiaircraft missiles
Armed Forces and National Security
Biological warfare
Capital punishment
Conspiracy
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic surveillance
Evidence (Law)
Federal aid programs
Finance and Financial Sector
Fund raising
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Homicide
International Affairs
Law
Licenses
Life imprisonment
Mandatory sentences
Military training
Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear weapons
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Violence
Virus diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: 
Criminal Terrorism Improvements Act of 2006 - Amends the federal criminal code to impose the death penalty or life imprisonment on individuals who cause the death of a person while committing a terrorist act.
 
Authorizes the death penalty for: (1) developing, possessing, or threatening to use radiological weapons against a person or against U.S. property; (2) causing the death of an individual by using missile systems designed to destroy aircraft, by using radiological dispersal devices, or by using the variola virus; and (3) use of atomic weapons with intent to injure the United States.
 
Increases criminal penalties for: (1) attempting or conspiring to kill a U.S. national; (2) engaging in physical violence with the intent to injure a U.S. national; (3) financing terrorism or concealing assets to be used for terrorist activities; and (4) providing material support to terrorists or receiving military-type training from a foreign terrorist organization. Amends the crime of receiving military-type training from a foreign terrorist organization to include attempts or conspiracies to receive such training.
 
Denies certain federal benefits to individuals convicted of a federal crime of terrorism. 
 
Expands the authorization for interception of communications (wiretapping) to include all federal crimes of terrorism.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
Comprehensive Comparative Study of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Populations Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5940
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2006-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Autism
Epidemiology
Medical research
Nervous system diseases
Neurology
Science, Technology, Communications
Vaccination
Vaccines

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: 
Comprehensive Comparative Study of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Populations Act of 2006 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health, to conduct or support a comprehensive study to: (1) compare total health outcomes, including risk of autism, in vaccinated, U.S. populations with such outcomes in unvaccinated, U.S. populations; and (2) determine whether vaccines or vaccine components play a role in the development of autism spectrum or other neurological conditions.
 
Requires the Secretary to include in the study U.S. populations that have traditionally remained unvaccinated for religious or other reasons, members of clinical practices who choose alternative medical practices, and practitioners of anthroposophic lifestyles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
To establish certain requirements relating to the continuation of the Survey of Income and Program Participation.

Bill: 109-hr-5941
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2006-07-27 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Federal advisory bodies
Government paperwork
Income
Public assistance programs
Social Welfare
Surveys

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of Commerce from: (1) discontinuing the Survey of Income and Program Participation; (2) making any change in the design or content of such Survey; or (3) allowing any of the foregoing unless the discontinuation or change involved has first been approved in accordance with this Act.
 
Provides that whenever, in the judgment of the Secretary, it becomes necessary to discontinue the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), or to make any change in its design or content, the Secretary shall prepare a written proposal.
 
Establishes the Commission on the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP Commission) to consider and act on any proposal relating to the SIPP in accordance with this Act.
 
Requires the SIPP Commission to consider promptly any proposal received under this Act and, after appropriate deliberation, transmit its decision of approval or disapproval to the Secretary in a timely fashion.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1571)
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Introduced in House