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Textile Negotiator Promotion Act

Bill: 109-hr-6032
Sponsor: Rep. Hayes, Robin [R-NC-8]
Introduced: 2006-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Clothing
Congress
Diplomats
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
Presidential appointments
Textile fabrics
Trade agreements
Trade negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: 
Textile Negotiator Promotion Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to redesignate the Special Textile Negotiator of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) as the Chief Textiles Negotiator who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Makes it a function of the Chief Textiles Negotiator to conduct trade negotiations and enforce trade agreements regarding U.S. textile and apparel products and services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in House
Classroom Commitment Partnership Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6034
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2006-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
School administration
Secondary education
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: 
Classroom Commitment Partnership Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Education to provide demonstration grants to states to extend the academic year at elementary and secondary schools to at least 200 academic days, each day comprising at least seven hours of actual instruction.
 
Conditions a state's grant eligibility on its having laws and policies ensuring such school year length and hours of daily instruction for the three consecutive academic years covered by the grant.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in House
Rural Veterans Transportation Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6035
Sponsor: Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2]
Introduced: 2006-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Health
Housing and Community Development
Rural health
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: 
Rural Veterans Transportation Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a program to make grants to state veterans' service officers and veterans service organizations for providing innovative transportation options to veterans in remote rural areas.
 
Requires the subsistence allowance paid by the Secretary to veterans required to travel significant distances to receive treatment at facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to be at the rate provided to federal employees for authorized travel.
 
Repeals the requirement that the Secretary investigate periodically the actual cost of such travel (including lodging and subsistence).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in House
Help Establish Access to Local Timely Healthcare for Your Vets (HEALTHY Vets) Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6036
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2006-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Community health services
Cost effectiveness
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Health
Housing and Community Development
Rural health
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: 
Help Establish Access to Local Timely Healthcare for Your Vets (HEALTHY Vets) Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in the case of a veteran for whom Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facilities are geographically inaccessible, to use current authority for contracting out veterans' medical care to non-Department facilities in order to provide the following care to such veterans: (1) primary care; (2) acute or chronic symptom management; (3) nontherapeutic medical services; and (4) other medical services determined appropriate by the director of that geographic service region, after consultation with the Department physician responsible for the veteran's primary care. 
 
Outlines conditions under which Department facilities shall be deemed geographically inaccessible.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to waive the requirement of geographic inaccessibility, on a case-by-case basis, if the costs to the Department of providing such care significantly outweigh the benefits of localized health care for the veteran.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the village of Santa Clara, the city of Bayard, or the county of Grant, in the State of New Mexico, in tracts of not less than 40 acres, at market price at its present state of use as agricultural grazing lands as determined by the Secretary, for business and community development, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-6037
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2006-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Historic sites
History
Land transfers
Mines and mineral resources
New Mexico

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey specified lands formerly part of the Fort Bayard Military Reservation, Grant County, New Mexico, to the Village of Santa Clara, the City of Bayard, and Grant County, New Mexico, in tracts of not less than 40 acres, for business and community development.
 
Requires approval of all parties for any such conveyance.
 
Provides that the Secretary shall be responsible for the costs and recovery of any historic or prehistoric cultural properties located on such lands. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in House
Stop AIDS in Prison Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6038
Sponsor: Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2006-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Health
Health counseling
Health education
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Medical records
Medical screening
Medical tests
Physical examinations
Preventive medicine
Prison administration
Prisoners
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: 
Stop AIDS in Prison Act of 2006 - Requires the Bureau of Prisons to develop a comprehensive policy to coordinate HIV/AIDS testing, treatment, and prevention for federal prison inmates. Requires such policy to include provisions for: (1) testing and counseling of inmates immediately following admission to a prison facility; (2) education regarding HIV/AIDS transmission and encouragement of behavior to reduce the risk; (3) HIV/AIDS testing annually or after exposure to HIV; (4) procedures for inmates to request HIV/AIDS counseling and tests confidentially; (5) comprehensive medical treatment of inmates who test positive and confidential counseling on managing their medical condition and preventing transmission to others; (6) testing, counseling, and referral prior to reentry into the community; and (7) noting but not penalizing an inmate's refusal of HIV/AIDS testing.
 
Amends federal criminal code provisions relating to HIV/AIDS testing to: (1) make such testing available to all federal prison inmates upon intake and upon release regardless of length of sentence or risk factors; (2) allow inmates to decline such testing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7503-7504)
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in House
To expand retroactive eligibility of the Army Combat Action Badge to include members of the Army who participated in combat during which they personally engaged, or were personally engaged by, the enemy at any time on or after December 7, 1941.

Bill: 109-hr-6039
Sponsor: Rep. Brown-Waite, Ginny [R-FL-5]
Introduced: 2006-09-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Army
Commemorations
Military medals, decorations, etc.
Military personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to award the Army Combat Action Badge to any member of the Army who participated in combat during which the person actually engaged, or was personally engaged by, the enemy at any time between December 7, 1941, and September 18, 2001, as long as such person has not been previously recognized for such participation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Introduced in House
Accountable Budgeting Commission Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6040
Sponsor: Rep. Crenshaw, Ander [R-FL-4]
Introduced: 2006-09-07 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Accounting
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic forecasting
Federal advisory bodies
Federal budget process
Federal budgets
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Governmental investigations
Health
Medicare
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Public debt
Risk
Social Welfare
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: 
Accountable Budgeting Commission Act of 2006 - Establishes the Accountable Budgeting Commission to review, evaluate, and make recommendations respecting the budget concepts that underlie the federal budget and its process.
 
Prohibits the Commission from making findings, conclusions, or recommendations with respect to Social Security, Medicare, or government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs).
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1674)
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Introduced in House
Disabled Veteran Small Business Eligibility Expansion Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6041
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Jo Ann [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2006-09-07 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Disabled
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government procurement
Small business
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: 
Disabled Veteran Small Business Eligibility Expansion Act of 2006 - Amends the Small Business Act to make small businesses owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans eligible for the award by the Small Business Administration (SBA) of small business development grants in the same manner as small businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Animal Health Protection Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from implementing or carrying out a National Animal Identification System or similar requirement and to require the Secretary to protect information obtained as part of any voluntary animal identification system.

Bill: 109-hr-6042
Sponsor: Rep. Emerson, Jo Ann [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2006-09-07 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Animal diseases
Animals
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Livestock
Local laws
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: 
Amends the Animal Health Protection Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from implementing or carrying out (and prohibits use of federal funds to implement or carry out) a National Animal Identification System or similar requirement that mandates the participation of livestock owners.
 
Sets forth requirements governing disclosure of information obtained through a voluntary animal identification system established by the Secretary to identify and trace animals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture .
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act so that it will be interpreted in accordance with the original intent of Congress to require a significant relationship be found between remains discovered on federal lands and presently existing Native American tribes for those remains to be applicable under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

Bill: 109-hr-6043
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Doc [R-WA-4]
Introduced: 2006-09-07 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Archaeology
Arts, Culture, Religion
Cemeteries and funerals
Cultural property
Federal-Indian relations
Hawaiians
History
Minorities
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: 
Amends the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to redefine Native American to mean cultural items that have a significant and substantial genetic or cultural relationship, based on factors other than geography alone, to a presently existing tribe, people, or culture that is now indigenous to the United States.
 
Declares that nothing in such Act shall be deemed to restrict excavation, examination, investigation, or scientific study under the Archeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 of any cultural item found on federal land that has not been determined to be the property of an Indian or a Native Hawaiian organization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-18
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Introduced in House
Rural Housing and Economic Development Improvement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6044
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2006-09-07 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to housing
Indian economic development
Indian housing
Minorities
Native Americans
Rural economic development
Rural housing

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: 
Rural Housing and Economic Development Improvement Act of 2006 - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, through the Office of Rural Housing and Economic Development, to implement an assistance program to support innovative housing and economic development activities in rural areas by: (1) Indian tribes; (2) state housing finance agencies; (3) state community or economic development agencies; (4) local nonprofit organizations; and (5) community development corporations.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2006-09-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6394-6396)
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Introduced in House
James Zadroga Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6045
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2006-09-07 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Claims
Compensation (Law)
Compensation for victims of crime
Crime and Law Enforcement
Families
Health
International Affairs
Mental illness
September 11, 2001
Survivors' benefits
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: 
James Zadroga Act of 2006 - Amends the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 (Fund), part of the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act, to extend the current December 22, 2003, deadline for filing claims under the Fund for five years following enactment of this Act if the Special Master determines that the individual: (1) was unaware that he or she had suffered physical harm as the result of the September 11, 2001, terrorist-related aircraft crashes until after the deadline and before enactment of this Act; (2) was unaware of his or her eligibility to file a claim until after December 22, 2003; (3) suffered psychological harm as a result of the crashes; or (4) in the case of an individual who had previously filed a claim, suffered a significantly greater physical harm than was known to the individual as of the date the claim was filed, but did not know its full extent until after the claim was filed and before enactment of this Act.
 
Allows the filing of a claim also during the five years after the individual first knew that he or she had suffered physical or psychological harm as the result of such crashes, if he or she did not know that until on or after enactment of this Act. Extends the same five-year filing allowance to anyone who did not know the full extent of the harm suffered until on or after the enactment of this Act, even though he or she had previously filed a claim and had suffered a significantly greater physical or psychological harm than was known to the individual as of the date the claim was filed. Waives the single claim requirement in such circumstances.
 
Makes a claimant eligible for compensation based on the psychological harm suffered as a result of the crashes.
 
Defines &quot;immediate aftermath&quot; for compensation eligibility purposes as any period of time after the crashes that was sufficiently close in time to them that there was a demonstrable risk to the claimant of resulting physical or psychological harm, including the period of time during which related rescue, recovery, and cleanup activities were conducted.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Introduced in House
Uniting America's Military Families Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6047
Sponsor: Rep. Ortiz, Solomon P. [D-TX-27]
Introduced: 2006-09-07 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Aliens
Armed Forces and National Security
Families
Fraud
Law
Military dependents
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: 
Uniting America's Military Families Act of 2006 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to waive inadmissibility grounds based on visa, document, or immigration benefit misrepresentation in the case of an immediate family member of an active duty or reserve member of the Armed Forces.
 
Amends V-visa (permits nonimmigrant spouses and minor children of lawful permanent residents who are beneficiaries of an immigrant petition to reside and work in the United States while waiting to obtain immigrant status) provisions to eliminate specified restrictions on a petition's filing date and length of pendency for a petition filed by an active duty or reserve member of the Armed Forces. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 1729 of title 38, United States Code, to eliminate the authorization for the United States to recover or collect from health plans, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-6049
Sponsor: Rep. LaTourette, Steven C. [R-OH-14]
Introduced: 2006-09-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-08
text: 
Eliminates the authority of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to obtain payment or reimbursement of veterans' health care costs from health care plans, other than plans under the Social Security Act, state medical assistance plans (Medicaid), and certain workers' compensation plans. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-09-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-09-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-08
text: Introduced in House
Balanced Trade Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6050
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2006-09-08 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Balance of payments
Economics and Public Finance
Gross national product
Import restrictions
Imports
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-08
text: 
Balanced Trade Act of 2006 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the President whenever there is a trade deficit that exceeds 2% of the gross domestic product (GDP) to: (1) restrict imports; and (2) proclaim, for a determined period, a temporary import surcharge of not less than 20% ad valorem on articles imported into the United States. (Currently, the President has the authority to temporarily impose import surcharges (not to exceed 15% ad valorem) and import restrictions on articles in certain situations of fundamental international payments problems.)
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-08
text: Introduced in House