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Public Safety Act

Bill: 109-hr-2305
Sponsor: Rep. Strickland, Ted [D-OH-6]
Introduced: 2005-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Commerce
Correctional institutions
Correctional personnel
Corrections
Department of Justice
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal law enforcement officers
Government Operations and Politics
Government service contracts
Local employees
Prison administration
Prisons
Privatization
State employees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: 
Public Safety Act - Prohibits funds provided by the federal government to a state or local government for the purpose of providing core correctional services from being used to contract with private contractors or vendors to provide such activities. Defines &quot;core correctional services&quot; as the housing, safeguarding, protecting, and disciplining of persons charged or convicted of an offense.
 
Amends the federal criminal code to require the Bureau of Prisons to provide that: (1) any penal or correctional facility or institution, except a facility for nonprofit community correctional confinement (such as halfway houses), confining any person convicted of offenses against the United States shall be under the direction of the Director of the Bureau and shall be managed and maintained by federal, state, or local government employees; and (2) the housing, safeguarding, protection, and disciplining of any person charged with or convicted of any offense against the United States (with that exception) shall be conducted and carried out by federal, state, or local government employees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Outreach Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2306
Sponsor: Rep. Strickland, Ted [D-OH-6]
Introduced: 2005-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Cemeteries and funerals
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Veterans Affairs
Executive reorganization
Families
Family services
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Law
Married people
Nursing
Parents
Performance measurement
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' medical care
Widowers
Widows

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: 
Veterans Outreach Act of 2005 - Rescinds a specified Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) memorandum (Status of VHA Enrollment and Associated Issues) from the Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Operations and Management. States that: (1) Veterans Integrated Service Networks' marketing activities shall be carried out without regard to such memorandum; and (2) no VA funds shall be used to carry out such memorandum. 
 
 Directs the Secretary of the VA to annually prepare a plan for VA outreach activities for the following year which shall include plans to: (1) identify veterans who are not enrolled for VA benefits; and (2) inform veterans and their dependents of benefits changes, including medical and nursing care eligibility. 
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish procedures to coordinate VA outreach activities; and (2) assign VA employees to conduct outreach program services for eligible dependents (spouse, surviving spouse (whether or not remarried), child (regardless of age or marital status), or parent of a person who served in the active military, naval, or air service).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat certain payments made to the European Union in lieu of income taxes to a member of the European Union as income taxes paid to a foreign country for purposes of the foreign tax credit.

Bill: 109-hr-2307
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Tom [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2005-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Europe
European Union
Foreign tax credit
Income tax
International Affairs
International employees
Payments in lieu of taxes
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers who pay employment taxes to the European Union a foreign tax credit for such payments. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E933)
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Clinical Research Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2308
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Dave [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2005-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Clinical trials
Communication in medicine
Communication in science
Community and school
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Epidemiology
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Human experimentation in medicine
Information technology
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Labor and Employment
Medical centers
Medical education
Medical ethics
Medical personnel
Medical records
Medical research
Medical technology
Research centers
Research grants
Salaries
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Scientists
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: 
Clinical Research Act of 2005 - Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to award clinical investigator advancement grants to eligible academic health centers to: (1) establish career development programs for new and mid-level clinician-investigators who are fully committed to academic clinical research careers; (2) support the translation of basic science to patient care by implementing and conducting all aspects of their clinical research mission; and (3) support activities leading to innovative ways to achieve such purposes in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Requires that health centers receive a proportionate share of the total grant money awarded based on the amount invested by the grantee in clinical research compared to the total clinical research investment of all grantees.
 
Requires the Director to award clinical research infrastructure grants to eligible academic health centers to: (1) foster the use of information technology to facilitate the transformation of basic research findings on disease mechanisms into the development of new methodologies for diagnosis, therapy, and prevention; (2) address the obstacles impeding the expeditious application of new science, including a lack of up-to-date information technology systems and an underrepresentation of some populations in clinical research; and (3) share clinical research infrastructure across academic health centers to enable and facilitate cross-center clinical research collaborations.
 
Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make up to five grants to eligible academic health centers to form partnerships with health care providers for carrying out clinical human subject research to demonstrate how academic research centers may collaborate with the practicing health care community.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Aniline 2.5 Di-sulphonic Acid.

Bill: 109-hr-2309
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Aniline 2.5 Di-sulphonic Acid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on 1,4-Benzenedicarboxylic Acid, Polymer With N,N-Bis(2-Aminoethyl)-1,2-Ethanediamine, Cyclized, Me Sulfates.

Bill: 109-hr-2310
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Polymers
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on 1,4-Benzenedicarboxylic Acid, Polymer With N,N-Bis(2-Aminoethyl)-1,2-Ethanediamine, Cyclized, Me Sulfates. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain high-performance loudspeakers.

Bill: 109-hr-2311
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Commerce
Electronics industry
Equipment and supplies
Science, Technology, Communications
Sound recording and reproducing
Stereophonic sound systems
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on certain high-performance loudspeakers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain R-core transformers.

Bill: 109-hr-2312
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Electronics
Electronics industry
Science, Technology, Communications
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on certain R-core transformers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Sulfur Blue 7.

Bill: 109-hr-2313
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Sulfur Blue 7.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of duty on reduced vat blue 43.

Bill: 109-hr-2314
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on reduced vat blue 43.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of duty on sulfur black 1.

Bill: 109-hr-2315
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on sulfur black 1.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Diresul Brown GN Liquid Crude.

Bill: 109-hr-2316
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Diresul Brown GN Liquid Crude.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Protection Against Sexual Exploitation of Children Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2318
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Mark [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2005-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Capital punishment
Child pornography
Child sexual abuse
Commerce
Computer crimes
Conspiracy
Deceptive advertising
Families
Homicide
Internet
Life imprisonment
Mandatory sentences
Prostitution
Recidivists
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sex offenders
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: 
Protection Against Sexual Exploitation of Children Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal criminal code to increase mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment for sexual offenses against children, including: (1) aggravated sexual abuse of children; (2) abusive sexual contact with children under age 12; (3) sexual abuse of children under age 12 resulting in death; (4) sexual exploitation of children; (5) activities relating to material involving the sexual exploitation of children; (6) activities relating to material constituting or containing child pornography; (7) using misleading domain names to direct children to harmful material on the Internet; and (8) production of sexually explicit depictions of children; and (9) conduct relating to child prostitution.
 
Includes within the definition of &quot;federal sex offense&quot; (for purposes of provisions regarding mandatory life imprisonment for repeat sex offenses against children) offenses under provisions relating to: (1) travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct; and (2) the use of interstate facilities to transmit information about a minor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow taxpayers to expense property eligible for bonus depreciation.

Bill: 109-hr-2319
Sponsor: Rep. Weller, Jerry [R-IL-11]
Introduced: 2005-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Agriculture and Food
Aircraft
Commerce
Computer software
Contracts
Depreciation and amortization
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Fire prevention
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Minimum tax
Private aviation
Public utilities
Rental housing
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax refunds
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: 
 Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction in the current taxable year for the entire adjusted basis of certain qualified property eligible for bonus depreciation allowances. Defines &quot;qualified property&quot; to include: (1) computer software, water utility property, or qualified leasehold improvement property that has a depreciation recovery period of 20 years or less and that was acquired after May 12, 2005; and (2) certain noncommercial aircraft acquired after May 12, 2005.
 
Permits the use of the percentage of completion accounting method for computing certain depreciation allowances.
 
Allows corporate taxpayers to elect an increased refundable alternative minimum tax credit in lieu of a bonus depreciation deduction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the 50-percent bonus depreciation added by the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003.

Bill: 109-hr-2320
Sponsor: Rep. Weller, Jerry [R-IL-11]
Introduced: 2005-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Commerce
Contracts
Corporation taxes
Depreciation and amortization
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Minimum tax
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) permanently extend the 50 percent and 30 percent bonus depreciation for certain original use property, including water utility property, computer software, or qualified leasehold improvement property; (2) permit the use of the percentage of completion accounting method for computing certain depreciation allowances; and (3) allow corporate taxpayers to elect an increased refundable alternative minimum tax credit in lieu of taking a bonus depreciation deduction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Pension Security Disclosure Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2321
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-25]
Introduced: 2005-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Department of Labor
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Freedom of information
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Internet
Law
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Pension funds
Public records
Science, Technology, Communications
Valuation
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: 
Pension Security Disclosure Act of 2005 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to disclose publicly certain information on the funding status of pension plans, through making it available: (1) for inspection at PBGC headquarters; (2) in written form upon request of a plan participant or beneficiary; and (3) on a PBGC website. Requires pension plan administrators to provide to each plan participant and beneficiary a written summary of material provided to the PBGC, and notification that such material is on the PBGC website. 
 
Authorizes, only in cases of hardship, the Secretary of Labor to extend the deadline for a pension plan to file an annual report past 275 days after the close of the plan year. Requires actuarial valuations in an annual report to be determined as of the last date of the plan year. Directs the Secretary to display annual report information on a Department of Labor website. Requires such information also to be displayed on any website maintained by the plan sponsor or administrator on the sponsor's behalf.
 
Requires issuance of summary annual reports within 15 days after annual report filing. Requires such summaries to include disclosure of plan assets and liabilities and notification that certain annual report information is on the Department of Labor website and on a plan sponsor or administrator website. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe simplified requirements for summary annual reports of pension plans covering less than 100 participants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
Southern Sea Otter Recovery and Research Act

Bill: 109-hr-2323
Sponsor: Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2005-05-12 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
California
Census
Coastal zone
Communicable diseases
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Demography
Ecological research
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Health planning
Immunology and vaccination
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine ecology
Marine pollution
Medical research
Medical tests
Nutrition
Otters
Pacific Ocean
Parasitic diseases
Protection of animals
Public meetings
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Tissue banks
Toxicology
Veterinary medicine
Virus diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: 
Southern Sea Otter Recovery and Research Act - Requires the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, to carry out a recovery program for southern sea otter populations along the coast of California.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop a Southern Sea Otter Health Assessment Plan; (2) collect and analyze tissue samples from southern sea otters; and (3) submit the tissue to the Secretary of Commerce for inclusion in the National Marine Mammal Tissue Bank to allow for managed access to such tissues by other researchers.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) award competitive grants to support research regarding southern sea otters; and (2) establish the Southern Sea Otter Recovery Implementation Team to make recommendations on overall implementation of the southern sea otter recovery program and research goals and review the recommendations of the Scientific Advisory Subcommittee. Requires the Team to establish the Subcommittee to evaluate the scientific merit and quality of southern sea otter research proposals submitted for funding and make funding recommendations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1832)
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1951)
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in House