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Appalachian Regional Development Act Amendments of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5812
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2006-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appalachia
Appalachian Regional Commission
Authorization
Business education
Commerce
County politics and government
Depressed areas
Entrepreneurs
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to housing
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Grants-in-aid
Health
Housing and Community Development
Labor and Employment
Low-income housing
Moderate income housing
Regional economic development
Rural economic development
Rural health
Rural housing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: 
Appalachian Regional Development Act Amendments of 2006 - Limits the maximum Appalachian Regional Commission non-highway grant amount for designated at-risk counties to 70%.
 
Directs the Commission to designate as &quot;at-risk counties&quot; those counties in the Appalachian region that are most at risk of becoming economically distressed.
 
Authorizes additional appropriations to the Commission through FY2011 to carry out Appalachian regional development.
 
Extends, for five years, the termination date of the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 (with exceptions for the Appalachian development highway system and certain definitions).
 

 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Introduced in House
To require budgeting for ongoing military operations.

Bill: 109-hr-5816
Sponsor: Rep. Ford, Harold E., Jr. [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2006-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Afghanistan
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional-executive relations
Crime and Law Enforcement
Defense budgets
Federal budgets
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military occupation
Military operations
South Asia
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: 
Requires the President's budget for each fiscal year after FY2007 to include: (1) a request for funds for ongoing military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq; (2) an estimate of all funds expected to be required in that fiscal year for such operations; and (3) a detailed justification of the funds requested.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Introduced in House
Bainbridge Island Japanese American Monument Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5817
Sponsor: Rep. Inslee, Jay [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2006-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Boundaries
California
Concentration camps
Detention of persons
Executive orders
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
Idaho
Japanese Americans
Monuments and memorials
National monuments
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Washington State
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: 
Bainbridge Island Japanese American Monument Act of 2006 - Adjusts the boundary of the Minidoka Internment National Monument located in Idaho to include the Nidoto Nai Yoni (&quot;Let it not happen again&quot;) memorial that commemorates the Japanese Americans of Bainbridge Island, Washington, who were the first to be forcibly removed from their homes and relocated to internment camps during World War II . 
 
Authorizes the Secretary, for the purposes of developing, interpreting, operating, and maintaining the Nidoto Nai Yoni Memorial, in partnership with other public and private entities, to enter into agreements with: (1) the City of Bainbridge Island; (2) the Bainbridge Island Metropolitan Park Camp Recreational District; (3) the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community Memorial Committee; (4) the Bainbridge Island Historical Society; (5) successor entities to all such named entities; and (6) other appropriate individuals or entities. 
 
Requires the Secretary to coordinate the development of interpretive and educational materials and programs for the Nidoto Nai Yoni Memorial and the Minidoka Internment National Monument with the Manzanar National Historic Site in California.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2006-07-21
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-07-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Introduced in House
Currency Overhaul for an Industrious Nation (COIN) Act

Bill: 109-hr-5818
Sponsor: Rep. Kolbe, Jim [R-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2006-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting
American Samoa
Buy American
Coins and coinage
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Copper
Department of the Treasury
District of Columbia
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal Reserve System
Federal budgets
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Guam
Metals
Monetary policy
Money
Northern Mariana Islands
Paper and paper products
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Puerto Rico
Retail trade
Silver
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: 
Currency Overhaul for an Industrious Nation (COIN) Act - Amends federal law governing coins and currency to prescribe requirements for redesign and issuance of commemorative circulating $2 Federal Reserve notes. 
 
 Requires selection of a new design for $2 Federal Reserve notes placed into circulation during each year of the five-year periods beginning January 1, 2007.
 

 
Authorizes Federal Reserve banks to continue to place into circulation $1 Federal Reserve notes until a date determined according to certain criteria.
 
Transfers the U.S. Mint and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to the Federal Reserve Board.
 

 

 
Requires the design and issuance of a circulating quarter dollar honoring the District of Columbia and each of the Territories.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2006-07-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2006-07-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2006-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Introduced in House
Senior Citizenship Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5819
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2006-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Citizenship
Civics education
Education
Educational tests
English language
Government Operations and Politics
Language and languages
Naturalization
Residence requirements
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: 
Senior Citizenship Act of 2006 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt certain older persons from the naturalization U.S. history-government and English language requirements and permit certain other older persons to take such history-government examination in a language other than English.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Introduced in House
Federal Agency Data Privacy Protection Act

Bill: 109-hr-5820
Sponsor: Rep. Sweeney, John E. [R-NY-20]
Introduced: 2006-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Computer networks
Computer security measures
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Encryption
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial disclosure
Financial statements
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Health
Identification devices
Income tax
Inspectors general
Licenses
Medical records
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Tax returns
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: 
Federal Agency Data Privacy Protection Act - Sets forth requirements: (1) for the use of encryption for sensitive data maintained by the federal government; (2) relating to access by agency personnel to sensitive data; and (3) relating to government contractors and their employees involving sensitive data. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7477)
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Introduced in House
At-Risk Youth Protection Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5821
Sponsor: Rep. Watson, Diane E. [D-CA-33]
Introduced: 2006-07-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Commerce
Community and school
Compensatory education
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Employment of the disadvantaged
Families
Federal aid to education
Gangs
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Secondary education
Service learning
Social Welfare
Tax deductions
Taxation
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: 
At-Risk Youth Protection Act of 2006 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to states for subgrants to alternative public schools or programs that serve the needs of students who are at risk of educational failure. Requires subgrantees to require their secondary school students to perform at least 100 hours of community service each school year and receive training or counseling on conflict resolution as a prerequisite to performing such service.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax deduction to a business of: (1) $750 per 100 hours of community service provided by such a student through such business during the taxable year; and (2) $2,000 for each graduate of such alternative school or program who completes one year of employment with such business.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-07-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-07-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-07-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Introduced in House
America's Opportunity Scholarships for Kids Act

Bill: 109-hr-5822
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2006-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Charter schools
Compensatory education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Nonprofit organizations
Private schools
Scholarships
School choice
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: 
America's Opportunity Scholarships for Kids Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to local educational agencies, state educational agencies, or nonprofit organizations to provide scholarships or sustained supplemental educational services to low-income students who attend, or their siblings who would attend, a public elementary or secondary school due for restructuring for failing to meet state academic performance standards. 
 
Requires such scholarships to enable students to attend: (1) the private elementary or secondary school of their parent's choice; or (2) a public elementary or secondary school of their parent's choice outside the student's home school district, consistent with state law. 
 
Requires the Secretary to conduct an independent evaluation of this program, including an assessment of its impact on student achievement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Communities from Power Line Abuse Act

Bill: 109-hr-5823
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Sue W. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2006-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Compensation (Law)
Department of Energy
Electric power transmission
Eminent domain
Executive Office of the President
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Licenses
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Right-of-way
State laws
Transportation and Public Works
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: 
Protecting Communities from Power Line Abuse Act - Amends the Federal Power Act to repeal provisions regarding: (1) mandatory fair market value compensation for right-of-way acquisitions; (2) transmission facility modifications in accordance with state law; and (3) requirements for coordination of federal authorizations for interstate electric transmission facilities, including authorization to file an appeal with the President regarding denial of an application for such an authorization.
 
Modifies requirements for acquisition of rights-of-way for electric transmission facilities located on property other than federal or state property. Provides that, if the permit holder cannot acquire by contract, or is unable to agree upon compensation with the owner of the property, the permit holder may acquire the right-of-way in accordance with state law for the state in which the property is located. (Thus repeals current law which allows the permit holder to acquire the-right-of-way through the exercise of eminent domain in a federal district court.)
 
Requires the length of at least one year for the comment period on an application for a transmission facility permit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5284)
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Introduced in House
Manchester Bidwell Center for Arts and Technology Act

Bill: 109-hr-5824
Sponsor: Rep. Hart, Melissa A. [R-PA-4]
Introduced: 2006-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Arts
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commerce
Corporations
Economics and Public Finance
Educational facilities
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to the arts and humanities
Labor and Employment
Nonprofit organizations
Pennsylvania
Social Welfare
Technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: 
Manchester Bidwell Center for Arts and Technology Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to award a grant to the Manchester Bidwell Corporation in Pennsylvania to improve, expand, and replicate the arts and technology education centers operated by such Corporation. 
 
Permits the Manchester Bidwell Corporation to use the grant awarded under this Act to conduct any of the following activities: (1) the development of a business plan to replicate at other locations in the United States the arts and technology education centers modeled after the Corporation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; (2) the implementation of such business plan at locations in the United States where there is an interest in establishing arts and technology education centers similar to those operated by the Corporation in Pittsburgh; or (3) any other activities the Secretary determines to be appropriate. 
 
Requires Manchester Bidwell Corporation, in order to be eligible to receive such grant, to provide matching funds from non-federal sources (in cash or in kind) in an amount equal to or greater than the federal funds received in accordance with the grant to carry out the activities supported by it. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 5, United States Code, to provide for greater flexibility in the number of levels of benefits that may be offered by certain health plans under chapter 89 of such title.

Bill: 109-hr-5826
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Mark R. [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2006-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Federal employees
Government employees' health insurance
Health

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: 
Amends federal health insurance provisions to provide for greater flexibility in the number of levels of benefits that may be offered by certain health benefits plans under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Introduced in House
To make Celina, Ohio, eligible for certain rural development loans and grants.

Bill: 109-hr-5827
Sponsor: Rep. Boehner, John A. [R-OH-8]
Introduced: 2006-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Grants-in-aid
Infrastructure
Ohio
Rural economic development
Sewage disposal
Sewage treatment
Sewerage
Waste water treatment
Water Resources Development
Water supply
Water treatment plants

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: 
Considers Celina, Ohio, to be an eligible rural area (until the city's population exceeds 150% of the greatest population an area could have and, in the absence of this section, still be considered an eligible rural area) under the following Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act programs: (1) water and waste facility loans and grants; (2) emergency and imminent community water assistance grants; and (3) the rural community advancement program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development, and Research.
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to remove the reimbursement requirement for evacuation as a result of war, civil unrest, or natural disaster.

Bill: 109-hr-5828
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-15]
Introduced: 2006-07-18 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Americans in foreign countries
Armed Forces and National Security
Collection of accounts
Disasters
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Evacuation of civilians
Immigration
Repatriation
Riots
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
War

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: 
Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to remove the reimbursement requirement for evacuation as a result of war, civil unrest, or natural disaster.
 
Applies such amendment to evacuations conducted on or after July 12, 2006. 
 
Directs the Secretary of State to reimburse an individual who: (1) was evacuated by the United States on or after July 12, 2006; and (2) has reimbursed the United States for such evacuation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Introduced in House
Civil Rights History Project Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5829
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2006-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Archives
Arts, Culture, Religion
Black history
Civil rights movements
Congress
Congressional agencies
Federal libraries
Fund raising
Gifts
History
Library of Congress
Minorities
Museums
Smithsonian Institution
Sound recording and reproducing
Surveys
Video tape recording

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: 
Civil Rights History Project Act of 2006 - Requires the Librarian of Congress and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (acting through the Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture) to establish an oral history project to: (1) collect video and audio recordings of, and visual and written materials relevant to the personal histories of, participants in the Civil Rights movement; and (2) make the collection available for public use through the Library of Congress and the Museum.
 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to extend a reissue patent for up to two years if the application for reissue is not processed within 10 years.

Bill: 109-hr-5831
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2006-07-19 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Commerce
Government Operations and Politics
Intellectual property
Law
Patents

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: 
Allows the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to extend the term of a reissued patent for up to two years if the reissue delay is due to USPTO's failure to act within 10 years after the reissue application is filed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: Introduced in House