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To suspend temporarily the duty on formulated products containing mixtures of the active ingredient 2-chloro-N-[[(4-methoxy-6-methyl-1,3,5-triazin-2yl) amino]carbonyl] benzenesulfonamide and application adjuvants.

Bill: 109-hr-3024
Sponsor: Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Herbicides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on formulated products containing mixtures of the active ingredient 2-chloro-N-[[(4-methoxy-6-methyl-1,3,5-triazin-2yl) amino]carbonyl] benzenesulfonamide and application adjuvants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of duty on Esfenvalerate.

Bill: 109-hr-3025
Sponsor: Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Pesticides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2009, of the duty on Esfenvalerate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on 2-methyl-4-methoxy-6-methylamino-1,3,5-triazine.

Bill: 109-hr-3026
Sponsor: Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on 2-methyl-4-methoxy-6-methylamino-1,3,5-triazine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
To reduce temporarily the duty on mixtures of sodium-2-chloro-6-[(4,6 dimethoxypyrimidin-2-yl)thio]benzoate and application adjuvants (pyrithiobac-sodium).

Bill: 109-hr-3027
Sponsor: Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Herbicides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce, through December 31, 2009, the duty on mixtures of sodium-2-chloro-6-[(4,6 dimethoxypyrimidin-2-yl)thio]benzoate and application adjuvants (pyrithiobac-sodium).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of duty on Methyl 2-[[[[[4-(dimethylamino)-6-(2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy)-1,3,5-tri zin-2-yl]-amino]carbonyl]amino]sulfonyl]-3-methylbenzoate and application adjuvants.

Bill: 109-hr-3028
Sponsor: Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Herbicides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2010, of the duty on Methyl 2-[[[[[4-(dimethylamino)-6-(2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy)-1,3,5-tri zin-2-yl]-amino]carbonyl]amino]sulfonyl]-3-methylbenzoate and application adjuvants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of duty on Benzyl carbazate.

Bill: 109-hr-3029
Sponsor: Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2009, of the duty on Benzyl carbazate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on mixtures of N-[[(4,6-dimethoxypyrimidin-2-yl)amino]carbonyl]-3-(ethylsul onyl)-2-pyridinesulfonamide and application adjuvants.

Bill: 109-hr-3030
Sponsor: Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Herbicides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to: (1) strike the article discription for Heading 9902.33.60 and insert mixtures of N-[[(4,6-dimethoxypyrimidin-2-yl)amino]carbonyl]-3-(ethylsul onyl)-2-pyridinesulfonamide and application adjuvants; and (2) suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on such mixtures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
Corporate Advance Disclosure Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3031
Sponsor: Rep. Everett, Terry [R-AL-2]
Introduced: 2005-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation directors
Executive compensation
Government Operations and Politics
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Labor and Employment
Pension funds
Stockholders
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: 
Corporate Advance Disclosure Act of 2005 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require an issuer to provide at least 60 days advance notice to the Securities and Exchange Commission if it creates, substantially increases, or funds any non-qualified pension plan for which a director or executive officer is the beneficiary. 
 
Requires implementing SEC rules to require that the disclosure separately state each creation, increase, or funding with respect to each such director or officer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1318-1319)
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
TV Truth Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3032
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2005-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer education
Electronic commerce
Labeling
Television
Television broadcasting
Television relay systems

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: 
TV Truth Act of 2005 - Makes it unlawful for a manufacturer to ship in interstate commerce an analog television unless there is displayed clearly and conspicuously, as a removable label on the screen of such television, a disclosure, in both English and Spanish, stating that such analog television will no longer receive a broadcast signal without additional equipment as early as December 31, 2006, when federal law will require broadcast television transmission to change from analog to digital service (with a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) phone number for further information). Makes it unlawful for any distributor to sell at retail or rent such a television unless the distributor places adjacent to such television a sign containing such disclosure.
 
Provides for enforcement through the Federal Trade Commission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary reduction in duty on certain educational devices.

Bill: 109-hr-3033
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2005-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Education
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Science, Technology, Communications
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to: (1) provide duty-free treatment for certain educational devices; and (2) extend such treatment through December 31, 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1313)
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
Uterine Fibroid Research and Education Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3034
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Stephanie Tubbs [D-OH-11]
Introduced: 2005-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to research
Gynecology
Health education
Medical research
Minorities
Minority health
Science, Technology, Communications
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: 
Uterine Fibroid Research and Education Act of 2005 - Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand, intensify, and coordinate programs for the conduct and support of uterine fibroids research. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to develop and disseminate to the public information regarding uterine fibroids, including information on: (1) the incidence and prevalence of uterine fibroids among women; (2) the elevated risk for minority women; and (3) the availability of a range of treatment options. 
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to develop and disseminate uterine fibroids information to health care providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
Streamlined Procedures Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3035
Sponsor: Rep. Lungren, Daniel E. [R-CA-3]
Introduced: 2005-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Appellate courts
Appellate procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Evidence (Law)
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Habeas corpus
Judicial review
Law
Limitation of actions
Pardons
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
State courts
Victims of crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: 
Streamlined Procedures Act of 2005 - Amends the federal judicial code to revise the law and procedures for habeas corpus petitions.
 
Denies or restricts the jurisdiction of federal courts to hear habeas corpus petitions that: (1) have been procedurally barred in a state court; (2) are based upon errors in sentences or sentencing ruled as harmless error by a state court; (3) pertain to capital cases; or (4) challenge the exercise of a states's executive clemency or pardon power.
 
Revises deadlines for filing appeals to federal courts of state habeas corpus decisions.
 
Revises procedures for mixed habeas corpus petitions (petitions bringing claims exhausted and unexhausted in state court) to require petitioners to describe how they have exhausted each claim in state court. Requires unexhausted claims to be dismissed with prejudice. 
 
Limits the ability of habeas corpus petitioners to amend petitions or modify or add additional claims.
 
Requires any period in which a petitioner does not have a habeas corpus petition pending in a state court to be charged against the one year limitation period for filing a federal habeas corpus petition from a state court decision. 
 
Requires requests for financial support for petitioners in a habeas corpus proceeding to be decided by a judge other than the judge presiding over such proceeding. Requires any amount of financial support authorized by a judge to be publicly disclosed. 
 
Extends crime victims' rights to federal habeas corpus proceedings arising out of a state conviction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
No Qualified Teacher Left Behind Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3036
Sponsor: Rep. Matheson, Jim [D-UT-2]
Introduced: 2005-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Authorization
Continuing education
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational planning
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Labor and Employment
Rating of teachers
Recruiting of employees
Rural education
School districts
Secondary education
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: 
No Qualified Teacher Left Behind Act of 2005 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) with respect to teacher qualifications.

Revises the definition of highly qualified teacher, in the case of middle or secondary school teachers who are new to the profession. 

Includes consideration of any professional development being pursued, in determining such qualifications for elementary, middle, or secondary school teachers who are not new to the profession.

Provides for rural school districts: (1) an extension of a deadline for having highly qualified teachers; and (2) an authorization of additional appropriations for grants for teacher recruitment, retention, and professional development.

Revises requirements for qualified teachers under ESEA title I part A (I-A) programs for disadvantaged students to: (1) apply only to teachers of core subjects; and (2) eliminate reference to the proportion of inexperienced teachers.

Requires all ESEA grantees, whether under I-A or not, to meet specified qualification deadlines for all teachers of core subjects whom they employ.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3037
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2005-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Drug abuse
Government Operations and Politics
Marijuana
Plant fibers
Public Lands and Natural Resources
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: 
Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2005 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of &quot;marihuana.&quot; Defines &quot;industrial hemp&quot; to mean the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant with a delta-nine tetrahydrocannabinol concentration that does not exceed .3 percent on a dry weight basis. Grants a state regulating the growing and processing of industrial hemp exclusive authority, in any criminal or civil action or administrative proceeding, to determine whether any such plant meets that concentration limit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-06-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1313-1314)
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
To enact title 51, United States Code, "National and Commercial Space Programs", as positive law.

Bill: 109-hr-3039
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2005-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Aeronautics
Artificial satellites
Astronautics
Astronomy
Awards, medals, prizes
Commemorations
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Geographic information systems
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government procurement
Graduate education
Health
Higher education
Indemnity
Intellectual property
International Affairs
International competitiveness
International cooperation in astronautics
Inventions
Launch vehicles
Law
Liability (Law)
Liability insurance
Licenses
Medical research
Meteorological satellites
Patents
Privatization
Remote sensing
Research and development
Scholarships
Space activities
Space commercialization
Space programs
Space sciences
Space shuttles
Space stations
Spacecraft
Technology transfer

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: 
Enacts title 51 of the United States Code into positive law to be entitled &quot;National and Commercial Space Programs.&quot; 
 
Makes conforming changes to existing law and repeals specified provisions of specified laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1322)
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
Health Care for Young Adults Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3040
Sponsor: Rep. Snyder, Vic [D-AR-2]
Introduced: 2005-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare
Territories (U.S.)
Youth

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: 
Health Care for Young Adults Act of 2005 - Amends titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) to permit states to provide Medicaid and SCHIP coverage of low-income youth up to age 23.
 
Provides for additional SCHIP allotments for the provision of coverage to optional young adults. 
 
Amends SSA title XI to modify Medicaid caps for territories.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for grants to states in order to enable them to implement expansions of eligibility for children and young adults in their state Medicaid and state SCHIP plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
POWER Act

Bill: 109-hr-3041
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2005-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Inspectors general
Law
Oaths
Right of privacy
Subpoena

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: 
Privacy Officer With Enhanced Rights Act of 2005 or POWER Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 with respect to the authorities of the privacy officer of the Department of Homeland Security. Specifies the privacy officer's investigative authority to: (1) have access to all records and other materials available to the Department relating to programs and operations for which the privacy officer has responsibilities; (2) make necessary or desirable investigations and reports on the administration of Department programs and operations; (3) require by subpoena the production, by persons other than Federal agencies, of all information and other data and documentary evidence necessary to performance of the privacy officer's functions; (4) administer oaths, affirmations, or take affidavits; and (5) take any other action that may be taken by the Inspector General of the Department, as necessary to require Department employees to produce documents and answer questions relevant to performance of the privacy officer' s functions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Management, Integration, and Oversight.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Accountability Act

Bill: 109-hr-3042
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2005-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Business records
Commerce
Employee health benefits
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Labor and Employment
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medically uninsured
Personnel records
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: 
Health Care Accountability Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require the state Medicaid plan to provide for the annual reporting by the state, using data only from medical assistance applications by individuals, on each employer in the state with 50 or more employees who received Medicaid at any time during the previous year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Introduced in House