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Law Enforcement Officers Retirement Equity Act

Bill: 109-s-3652
Sponsor: Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2006-07-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Annuities
Civil service retirement
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of the Treasury
Families
Federal employees
Federal law enforcement officers
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Mandatory retirement
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits
Tax administration
Tax evasion
Tax returns
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Law Enforcement Officers Retirement Equity Act - Redefines the term "law enforcement officer" under provisions of the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) and the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) to include: (1) Federal employees not otherwise covered by such term whose duties include the investigation or apprehension of suspected or convicted individuals and who are authorized to carry a firearm; and (2) such employees of the Internal Revenue Service whose duties are primarily the collection of delinquent taxes and the securing of delinquent returns. 
Requires that such service which is performed by an incumbent law enforcement officer be treated: (1) on or after the enactment date of this Act, for all purposes, as service performed as a law enforcement officer, irrespective of how such service is treated under the following; and (2) before, on, or after such date, for purposes of CSRS and FERS, as service performed as such an officer, but only if an appropriate written election is submitted to the Office of Personnel Management five years after such date or before separation from Government service, whichever is earlier.
Provides that nothing under current law respecting mandatory separation from Government service under CSRS or FERS shall cause the involuntary separation of an officer before the end of the three-year period beginning on such date.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-19
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: 2006-07-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7513-7514)
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Law Enforcement Pension Adjustment Equity Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3653
Sponsor: Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2006-07-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Annuities
Armed Forces and National Security
Civil service retirement
Cost of living adjustments
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of the Interior
Department of the Treasury
Federal law enforcement officers
Labor and Employment
National parks
Police
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Salaries
Secret service

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Federal Law Enforcement Pension Adjustment Equity Act of 2006 - Amends the Law Enforcement Pay Equity Act of 2000 to apply a prohibition against treatment as an increase in salary, for purposes of increased annuitant pension benefits, of the conversion of positions and members of the U.S. Park Police and the Secret Service Uniformed Division to a new salary schedule, and the associated initial adjustments in basic pay rates, with respect to any payment made prior to January 1, 2006. (Thus permits cost-of-living adjustments in pension benefits for annuitants of the U.S. Park Police and the U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division for payments made in 2006 and in subsequent years.)

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-19
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: 2006-07-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in Senate
RISE Act

Bill: 109-s-3654
Sponsor: Sen. Jeffords, James M. [I-VT]
Introduced: 2006-07-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Environmental Protection
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Leases
Minimum tax
Recycling industry
Recycling of waste products
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax-exempt securities

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: 
Recycling Investment Saves Energy or the RISE Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a taxpayer election of a tax credit for 15% of the cost of qualified reuse and recycling property or a tax deduction for 50% of the adjusted basis of such property; and (2) define solid waste disposal facilities to include reuse and recycling functions for purposes of tax-exempt bond financing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7515-7516)
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7514-7515, S7516)
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals eligible for veterans health benefits to contribute to health savings accounts.

Bill: 109-s-3655
Sponsor: Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2006-07-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Health
Health insurance
Hospital care
Income tax
Medical savings accounts
Tax deductions
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that individual taxpayers who receive Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) periodic health care or medical services shall not be disqualified from making tax deductible contributions to health savings accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7516-7517)
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in Senate
HIV Prevention Youth Act

Bill: 109-s-3656
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2006-07-13 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Child health
Condoms
Economic assistance
Epidemiology
Families
Health
Health education
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Preventive medicine
Sex education
Sexual abstinence
Sexually transmitted diseases
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: 
HIV Prevention for Youth Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that sexually active young people who live in a country where HIV infection is spreading through the general population, rather than being confined to specific populations should be: (1) considered at high risk of contracting HIV infection; and (2) provided with the knowledge, skill-building programs, and tools to protect themselves from HIV infection. 
 
Amends the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 to define &quot;abstinence-until-marriage programs&quot; as programs that place the highest priority on encouraging unmarried individuals to abstain from sexual activity, which if practiced 100% correctly and consistently is the only certain way to protect against exposure to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. (Such programs include information on the health benefits of delayed sexual debut in reducing HIV transmission and may be used to support approaches that promote skill-building strategies for practicing abstinence.) Reserves at least 33% of the Act's appropriations for FY2006-FY2008 for prevention of the sexual transmission of HIV (currently, for HIV/AIDS prevention).
 
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to include within the activities for which HIV/AIDS assistance is available preventive intervention education for sexually active young people who live in a country experiencing a generalized HIV epidemic. 
 
Defines &quot; generalized epidemic&quot; as a country where: (1) HIV infection is spreading through the general population, rather than being confined to specific populations, such as sex workers and their clients, injecting drug users, and men who have sex with men; and (2) the HIV infection rate among people between the ages of 15 and 49 exceeds 1%. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7518-7519)
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7517-7518)
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow bonds guaranteed by the Federal home loan banks to be treated as tax exempt bonds.

Bill: 109-s-3657
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2006-07-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bonds
Economics and Public Finance
Federal home loan banks
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Tax-exempt securities

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow bonds guaranteed by the federal home loan banks to be treated as tax-exempt state or local bonds (thus excluding interest on such bonds from gross income).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7520)
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Women's Small Business Ownership Programs Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3659
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2006-07-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Business education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Small business
Women
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: 
 Women's Small Business Ownership Programs Act of 2006 - Amends the Small Business Act with respect to the Office of Women's Business Ownership to direct the Assistant Administrator of the Small Business Administration to: (1) address issues concerning management, operations, manufacturing, technology, finance, retail and product sales, international trade, and other disciplines required for starting, operating, and growing a small business concern; and (2) develop programs and services for women-owned businesses.
 
Authorizes the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to award women's business center grants to private nonprofit organizations.
 
Amends the Women's Business Ownership Act of 1988 to authorize the National Women's Business Council to enter into agreements as a cosponsor with public and private entities in order to implement its duties.
 
Establishes within such Council: (1) the Committee on Manufacturing, Technology, and Training and Professional Services; (2) the Committee on Travel, Tourism, Product and Retail Sales, and International Trade; and (3) the Committee on Federal Procurement and Contracting.
 
Directs the Council to serve as a clearinghouse for information on small businesses owned and controlled by women.
 
Directs the Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration to serve as acting chairperson of the Interagency Committee on Women's Business Enterprise until a chairperson is appointed. 
 
Establishes a Policy Advisory Group to assist the chairperson in developing policies and programs.
 
Requires the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, when filling vacancies, to ensure that there are an equal number of members on the Council from each of the two major political parties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measured as introduced: CR S7521-7524)
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Credit Monitoring Enhancement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3662
Sponsor: Sen. Bennett, Robert F. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2006-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Charities
Commerce
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Social Welfare
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: 
Credit Monitoring Enhancement Act of 2006 - Amends the Credit Repair Organizations Act to cite conditions under which provision to a consumer of credit reports, credit score analysis, and assistance with identity theft shall not be treated as an activity to improve a consumer's credit status, which is subject to regulation under such Act.
 
Revises credit repair organization disclosure requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business International Trade Enhancements Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3663
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2006-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Alabama
Economics and Public Finance
Federal employees
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign trade promotion
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Louisiana
Mississippi
Small Business Administration
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: 
Small Business International Trade Enhancements Act of 2006 - Amends the Small Business Act to increase: (1) the ceiling on a Small Business Administration (SBA) international trade loan (ITL) guarantee under the Export Working Capital Program from $1.75 million to $2.75 million; (2) the maximum ITL to $3.67 million; and (3) the maximum available for export working capital, supplies, or financing from $1.25 million to $2 million.
 
Allows the use of an ITL for working capital.
 
Allows an ITL to be secured by a second lien position on the property or equipment financed by the loan or on other assets of the small business concern. (Currently a first lien position or first mortgage on the property, equipment, or other business assets is required.)
 
Directs the SBA Administrator to assign to the Office of International Trade (OIT) one additional full-time international finance specialist to carry out the export promotion efforts in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Requires such specialist to be located at the U.S. Export Assistance Center in the New Orleans, Louisiana.
 
Directs the Administrator to ensure that the number of full-time equivalent OIT employees (international finance specialists) assigned to the district and foreign one-stop shops for U.S. exporters operated by the United States and Foreign Commercial Service is at least the number of such employees (16) so assigned on January 1, 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7556)
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7555-7556)
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Disaster Recovery Assistance Improvements Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3664
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2006-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Accounting
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Disaster loans
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Executive reorganization
Federal officials
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Grants-in-aid
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Loan defaults
Nonprofit organizations
Planning
Small Business Administration
Small business
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: 
Small Business Disaster Recovery Assistance Improvements Act of 2006 - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to make both emergency bridge loans and business recovery grants to a qualified small business concern after major disasters, and to provide assistance until the concern is able to obtain funding through insurance claims, other federal assistance programs, or other sources.
 

 

 

 
Authorizes the Administrator to: (1) guarantee loans made under an approved State Bridge Loan Program; and (2) make loans under expedited procedures that include loss verification and loan processing.
 
Sets forth maximum disaster loan amounts.
 
Doubles the minimum size of loans for which collateral must be required.
 
Directs the Administrator to hire a full-time disaster planning specialist in the Office of Disaster Assistance.
 
Provides for economic injury disaster loans to private non-profit organizations.
 
Authorizes the Administrator, in the event of a major disaster, to waive the maximum $100,000 amount for small business development center portability grants. Makes such grants available for small business development centers assisting small business concerns adversely affected by the disaster.
 
Directs the Administrator to authorize a small business development center, regardless of location, to provide advice, information, and assistance to a small business concern located in a major disaster area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7557-7560)
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7556-7557)
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend temporarily the suspension of duty on certain ceramic knives.

Bill: 109-s-3665
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2006-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend temporarily the suspension of duty on certain ceramic knives.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Florida National Forest Land Management Act of 2003 to authorize the conveyance of an additional tract of National Forest System land under that Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-3666
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2006-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Florida
Forest management
Land transfers
National forests

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: 
Amends the Florida National Forest Land Management Act of 2003 to authorize the conveyance of a specified additional tract of National Forest System (NFS) land located in Leon County, Florida.
 
Authorizes proceeds from the sale of such land to be used for acquisition, construction, or maintenance of administrative improvements for NFS units in the state.
 
Declares that proceeds from the sale or exchange of such land: (1) shall be used exclusively for the purchase of inholdings in the Apalachicola National Forest; and (2) may be used for authorized administrative improvements only if the land generating the proceeds was improved with infrastructure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7560-7561)
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7560)
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
North Korea Nonproliferation Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3667
Sponsor: Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN]
Introduced: 2006-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Arms sales
Ballistic missiles
Biological warfare
Chemical warfare
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Cruise missiles
East Asia
Energy
Export controls
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Guided missiles
International cooperation
North Korea
Nuclear exports
Nuclear nonproliferation
President and foreign policy
Sanctions (International law)
Science, Technology, Communications
Technology transfer

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: 
North Korea Nonproliferation Act of 2006 - Amends the Iran and Syria Nonproliferation Act to extend the provisions of such Act to North Korea.
 
States that in view of North Korea's determination to proliferate missiles, nuclear weapons, and other weapons of mass destruction it should be U.S. policy to impose sanctions on persons who transfer such weapons and related goods and technology to and from North Korea in the same manner as persons who transfer such items to and from Iran and Syria currently are sanctioned under U.S. law.
 
Urges all governments concerned about the threat of North Korean proliferation to impose measures on persons involved in such proliferation that are similar to those imposed by the United States pursuant to the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act, as amended by this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7561-7562)
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7561)
action_date: 2006-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Traumatic Brain Injury Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3668
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2006-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Authorization
Brain
Case management
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Head injuries
Health information systems
Health surveys
Indian medical care
Law
Legal services
Medical research
Medical statistics
Minorities
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Native Americans
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Trauma care

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: 
Traumatic Brain Injury Act of 2006 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to conduct a study to: (1) determine the incidence and prevalence of traumatic brain injury; (2) report national trends in traumatic brain injury; (3) identify common therapeutic interventions which are used for the rehabilitation of individuals with such injuries; and (4) develop practice guidelines for such rehabilitation.
 
Allows the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA), to make grants to states and American Indian consortia (currently, only states) to improve access to rehabilitation (currently, health) and other services regarding traumatic brain injury.
 
Requires the Administration and the Commissioner of the Administration on Developmental Disabilities to coordinate the collection of data regarding protection and advocacy services. Directs the Administrator to make a grant for training and technical assistance to protection and advocacy systems, if funds permit.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7629)
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain footwear with coated or laminated textile fabrics.

Bill: 109-s-3669
Sponsor: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2006-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain footwear with coated or laminated textile fabrics.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate