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Securing Access, Value, and Equality in Health Care Act

Bill: 109-hr-2089
Sponsor: Rep. Granger, Kay [R-TX-12]
Introduced: 2005-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Medical savings accounts
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: 
Securing Access, Value, and Equality in Health Care Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow individual taxpayers a refundable tax credit for health insurance costs paid for the benefit of the taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, and dependents; (2) require business taxpayers who receive payments for certain employee health insurance coverage to file informational returns; and (3) direct the Secretary of the Treasury to make advance payments of health insurance tax credit amounts to health insurance providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on 4-Methoxy-2-methyldiphenylamine.

Bill: 109-hr-2091
Sponsor: Rep. Hoekstra, Peter [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on 4-Methoxy-2-methyldiphenylamine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on 2-Methylhydroquinone.

Bill: 109-hr-2093
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, William L. [R-TN-1]
Introduced: 2005-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on 2-Methylhydroquinone.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on thionyl chloride.

Bill: 109-hr-2094
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, William L. [R-TN-1]
Introduced: 2005-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Thionyl chloride.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on 1-fluoro-2-nitro benzene.

Bill: 109-hr-2095
Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, William L. [R-TN-1]
Introduced: 2005-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on 1-fluoro-2-nitro benzene.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain high tenacity rayon filament yarn.

Bill: 109-hr-2096
Sponsor: Rep. Linder, John [R-GA-7]
Introduced: 2005-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Synthetic fibers
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on certain high tenacity rayon filament yarn.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Child Care Public-Private Partnership Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2097
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2005-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Commerce
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Employee benefit plans
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Nonprofit organizations
Public-private partnerships
Small business
Social Welfare
Working poor

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: 
Child Care Public-Private Partnership Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a business-incentive grant program to provide child care through public-private partnerships.
 
Provides program grants to cover up to one-third of the costs for: (1) businesses or consortia to start up, or provide additional, employee child care services; and (2) nonprofit business organizations to provide technical information and assistance to enable businesses to provide such services. 
 
Requires such services to: (1) be provided equitably and affordably to low- and moderate-income employees; and (2) comply with state and local licensing requirements. 
 
Gives priority in grant selection to businesses with fewer than 100 full-time employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend Public Law 97-435 to extend the authorization for the Secretary of the Interior to release certain conditions contained in a patent concerning certain land conveyed by the United States to Eastern Washington University until December 31, 2009.

Bill: 109-hr-2100
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2005-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colleges
Education
Educational facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Land transfers
Land use
Recreation
Sports and Recreation
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: 
Extends, until December 31, 2009, the authorization for the Secretary of the Interior to release certain land reversion conditions contained in a patent concerning certain land conveyed by the United States to Eastern Washington University, Washington.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E874)
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Coastal Restoration Tax Credit Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2102
Sponsor: Rep. Melancon, Charlie [D-LA-3]
Introduced: 2005-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Coastal zone
Environmental Protection
Income tax
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Nature conservation
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Shore protection
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: 
Coastal Restoration Tax Credit Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for expenditures related to any project approved by the Natural Resources Conservation Service to restore or protect coastal lands in the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Kristen's Act Reauthorization of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2103
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2005-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime prevention
Crimes against the elderly
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family services
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Labor and Employment
Missing persons
Nonprofit organizations
Police training
Prosecution
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Victims of crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: 
Kristen's Act Reauthorization of 2005 - Directs the Attorney General, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, to make grants to public agencies and/or nonprofit private organizations to: (1) maintain a national resource center and information clearinghouse for missing and unidentified adults; (2) maintain a national, interconnected database for tracking missing adults who are determined by law enforcement to be endangered due to age, diminished mental capacity, or the circumstances of disappearance, when foul play is suspected or circumstances are unknown; (3) coordinate public and private programs that locate or recover missing adults or reunite missing adults with their families; (4) provide assistance and training to law enforcement agencies, State and local governments, elements of the criminal justice system, nonprofit organizations, and individuals in the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and treatment of cases involving missing adults; (5) provide assistance to families in locating and recovering missing adults; and (6) assist in public notification and victim advocacy related to missing adults.
 
Directs the Attorney General, through the Director, to: (1) coordinate Government-funded programs relating to missing adults; and (2) provide the public agencies or nonprofit private organizations receiving grants to maintain a national resource center and information clearinghouse for missing and unidentified adults with access to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Crime Information Center.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to permit local jurisdictions within a State to conduct early voting in elections for Federal office held in such jurisdictions, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-2104
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Absentee voting
Ballots
Congress
Congressional elections
Election administration
Government publicity
Local laws
Postage stamps
Presidential elections
State laws
State-local relations
Voting

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: 
Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to: (1) permit local jurisdictions within a State to conduct early voting in elections for Federal office held in such jurisdictions; (2) require acceptance of absentee ballots without sufficient postage; (3) require ballots cast at incorrect polling places by eligible voters to be counted; and (4) provide notification of individuals whose names do not appear on the official list of eligible voters for the polling place to cast ballots at the correct polling place.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E869)
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 23, United States Code, relating to the use of safety belts and child restraint systems by children, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-2105
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2005-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Air bag restraint systems
Child safety
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Highway finance
Motor vehicle safety
Safety appliances
Seat belts
State laws
Traffic accidents and safety

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: 
Amends Federal highway law to direct the Secretary of Transportation to transfer a specified percentage of Federal-aid highway program funds apportioned to a State to its apportionment of highway safety program funds, if the State has not enacted a child safety restraint law. Requires the State to use such transferred funds to implement a statewide comprehensive child and other passenger protection education program to promote child and other passenger safety, including education programs about proper seating positions for children in air bag-equipped motor vehicles and instruction that increases the proper use of child restraint systems. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Employee Pension Preservation and Taxpayer Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2106
Sponsor: Rep. Price, Tom [R-GA-6]
Introduced: 2005-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Airline employees
Commerce
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Government liability
Law
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Pension funds
Pension trust guaranty insurance
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: 
Employee Pension Preservation and Taxpayer Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to permit commercial passenger airline pension plans to elect to restructure their unfunded plan liabilities over a 25-year period. Prohibits plans that elect restructuring to accrue future unfunded pension plan liabilities. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to deny tax-exempt status to a successor of a plan restructured under this Act unless all benefit obligations of the restructured plan have been satisfied.
 
Amends ERISA to exempt the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) from liability for any unfunded pension plan liabilities incurred by commercial passenger airline pension plans after an election to restructure is made.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4990-4991)
action_date: 2005-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3117)
action_date: 2005-05-04
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: 2005-05-04
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: 2005-05-04
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: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Safeguarding Schoolchildren of Deployed Soldiers Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2108
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2005-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces abroad
Armed forces reserves
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Military dependents
Residence requirements
Secondary education
Student enrollment
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: 
Safeguarding Schoolchildren of Deployed Soldiers Act of 2005 - Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to require a State or local educational agency, for the duration of the military service on which a child's change of residence is based and at the request of a parent, to treat a child who changes residence based on the qualifying service of one or both of the child's parents as if the child has the residence held before the change of residence, for purposes of enrollment in elementary or secondary school. Defines &quot;qualifying military service&quot; to mean military service to which a member of a reserve component of the uniformed services is ordered that includes a period of deployment to a location outside the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out certain authorities under an agreement with Canada respecting the importation of municipal solid waste, to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize States to restrict receipt of foreign municipal solid waste, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-2109
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2005-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Canada
Civil actions and liability
Crime and Law Enforcement
Environmental assessment
Environmental health
Environmental law enforcement
Export controls
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Highway maintenance
Import restrictions
Imports
Incineration
International Affairs
International environmental cooperation
Landfills
Law
Motor vehicle pollution control
Municipal solid waste
Recycling of waste products
Refuse and refuse disposal
State laws
Subpoena
Transboundary pollution
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances
Treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: 
Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to prohibit any person from importing, transporting, or exporting municipal solid waste for final disposal or for incineration in violation of the Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Canada Concerning the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste or any regulation implementing such agreement.
 
Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) perform the functions of the Designated Authority of the United States with respect to such importation and exportation under the agreement; and (2) implement and enforce the notice and consent provisions of the agreement as well as its other provisions.
 
Sets forth factors to consider in determining whether to consent to the importation of municipal solid waste. Requires that the views of States be given substantial weight.
 
Authorizes the Administrator to issue orders assessing civil penalties, requiring compliance, or both, or to commence civil actions in U.S. district court to address violations of this Act. Limits civil penalties assessed pursuant to an administrative order to $25,000 per day of noncompliance. Authorizes persons subject to administrative orders to request a public hearing.
 
Authorizes States to enact laws imposing limitations (including prohibitions) on the receipt and disposal of foreign municipal solid waste. States that no such action shall be considered to impose an undue burden on interstate or foreign commerce.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
Rocky Flats Minerals Acquisition Act

Bill: 109-hr-2111
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Armed Forces and National Security
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Colorado
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Energy
Land transfers
Landowners
Law
Mining claims
Nuclear facilities
Nuclear weapons
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Research and development facilities
Right of property
Sand and gravel industry
Science, Technology, Communications
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: 
Rocky Flats Minerals Acquisition Act - Amends Federal law to permit the Secretary of the Interior to acquire mineral interests, including interests in sand and gravel, within Rocky Flats, Colorado, by purchase, exchange, issuance of credits, or any combination. Defines credits as legal instruments or other written documentation, or an entry in an account managed by the Secretary, that can be used in lieu of any other monetary payment for: (1) bonus bids for lease sales on the Outer Continental Shelf; or (2) royalty due on any oil or gas production under any lease of an area located in a specified part of the Outer Continental Shelf.
 
Declares that the requirement under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 that lands or interests exchanged must be located in the same State shall not apply to land or an interest in land in Rocky Flats that is acquired by the United States in an exchange.
 
States that any interests acquired by the United States under this Act shall be managed by the Secretary under the standards that apply to the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge. Declares that no minerals acquired under this Act shall be subject to development or disposal by the United States or any other party under any law related to minerals owned by the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E870-871)
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
To designate the exclusive economic zone of the United States as the "Ronald Wilson Reagan Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States".

Bill: 109-hr-2112
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2005-05-04 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-presidents
Government Operations and Politics
History
International Affairs
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Names
Reagan Administration
Territorial waters

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: 
Designates the U.S. exclusive economic zone (as established by Presidential Proclamation Numbered 5030, dated March 10, 1983) as the &quot;Ronald Wilson Reagan Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States&quot;.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-04
text: Introduced in House