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Ginseng Harvest Labeling Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-854
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2005-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture in foreign trade
Commerce
Consumer education
Department of Agriculture
Dietary supplements
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Grocery trade
Health
Herbs
Imports
Labeling
Law
Medicinal plants
Packaging
Retail trade
Signs and signboards
Wholesale trade

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: 
Ginseng Harvest Labeling Act of 2005 - Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require: (1) the labeling of raw ginseng offered for sale as food or a dietary supplement to contain country of harvest information; (2) ginseng importers to disclose country of harvest information at the point of U.S. entry.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to impose civil monetary penalties for failure to make such disclosures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4027)
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4026-4027)
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Port Security Grants Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-855
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2005-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Criminal justice information
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal aid to transportation
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Harbors
Indexing (Economic policy)
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Law enforcement officers
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine safety
Marine terminals
Planning
Police
Police training
Port authorities
Public-private partnerships
Risk
Salaries
Security measures
State-local relations
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: 
Port Security Grants Act of 2005 - Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness, to establish a grant program to fairly and equitably allocate Federal financial assistance: (1) to help implement Area Maritime Transportation Security Plans; (2) to correct port security vulnerabilities; and (3) for non-Federal projects contributing to the overall security of an individual port or system of ports.
 
Directs the Secretary, in awarding grants under this Act, to: (1) take into account national economic and strategic defense considerations of individual ports; and (2) strongly encourage efforts to promote integration of port-wide security, information and intelligence sharing, and joint efforts.
 
Sets forth authorized and prohibited uses of grant funds.
 
Limits the Federal share of funding for eligible projects to 75 percent of the total cost, subject to specified exceptions.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish grant application procedures and requirements, subject to specified minimum standards; and (2) submit reports on security funding and compliance to specified congressional committees.
 
States that amounts authorized to be appropriated by this Act (for FY 2007 through 2012) shall originate from duties collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4027-4028)
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to extend the minimum medicare deadlines for filing claims to take into account delay in processing adjustment from secondary payor status to primary payor status.

Bill: 109-s-856
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2005-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Clinics
Community health services
Disabled
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Home care services
Hospital care
Housing and Community Development
Medicare
Mental health services
Physical therapy
Prosthesis
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Rural health
Social Welfare
Surgery

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend the minimum Medicare claims filing deadlines to account for any delay in processing adjustments from secondary to primary payor status. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Development Homeownership Tax Credit Act

Bill: 109-s-859
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Community development
Cost of living adjustments
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Housing authorities
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Indian housing
Infrastructure
Liens
Low-income housing
Minorities
Nonprofit organizations
Rental housing
Residential rehabilitation
Rural housing
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax returns
Tax-exempt organizations
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: 
 Community Development Homeownership Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow homebuilders and investors a general business tax credit for building or substantially rehabilitating residences for low and moderate-income individuals in certain areas, including a rural area, an Indian reservation, or an area of chronic economic distress. Sets forth rules for the calculation of such credit and its administration and allocation by the States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S 4031)
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
American History Achievement Act

Bill: 109-s-860
Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN]
Introduced: 2005-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Authorization
Civics education
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
History
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: 
American History Achievement Act - Amends the National Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization Act (NAEPAA) to direct the Commissioner for Education Statistics to give a priority to conducting national assessments of student achievement in history at least once every four years in grades 4, 8, and 12. Requires the Commissioner to conduct trial State academic assessments, in at least ten geographically diverse States, of student achievement in: (1) U.S. history in grades 8 and 12; and (2) civics in grades 8 and 12.
 
 Directs the National Assessment of Educational Progress governing board to select the participating States.

action_date: 2006-09-26
text: 
American History Achievement Act - Amends the National Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization Act to direct the Commissioner for Education Statistics to give a priority to conducting national assessments of student achievement in U.S. history at least once every four years in grades 4, 8, and 12.
 
Requires the Commissioner to conduct, in at least ten geographically diverse states, trial state academic assessments of student achievement in: (1) U.S. history in grades 8 and 12; and (2) civics in grades 8 and 12.
 
Directs the National Assessment of Educational Progress governing board to select the participating states.
 
Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 640.
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Enzi with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-348.
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Enzi with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-348.
action_date: 2006-05-17
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee on Education and Early Childhood Development. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-173.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4031-4032)
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Employee Pension Preservation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-861
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2005-04-20 in the Senate
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: 2005-04-20
text: 
Employee Pension Preservation 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: 2005-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4033)
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Puerto Rico Medicare Reimbursement Equity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-862
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Hospital care
Hospital rates
Medicare
Puerto Rico
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: 
Puerto Rico Medicare Reimbursement Equity Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise the formula for the Medicare inpatient hospital services payment rate for Puerto Rico hospitals to: (1) reduce the applicable Puerto Rico percentage from 25 percent to zero; and (2) increase the applicable Federal percentage from 75 percent to 100 percent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Servant Retirement Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-866
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Civil service retirement
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Public Servant Retirement Protection Act of 2005 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to repeal the current windfall elimination provision (WEP) (that reduces the Social Security benefits of workers who also have pension benefits from employment not covered by Social Security) for individuals first performing non-covered service beginning one year after enactment of this Act. 
 
Establishes a new formula for the treatment of non-covered earnings in determining Social Security benefits. Applies such formula to individuals subject to the current WEP if the benefit under the new formula would be higher.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4110-4112)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 8200 South Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles, California, as the "Sergeant First Class John Marshall Post Office Building".

Bill: 109-s-867
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Army
California
Congress
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Names
Officer personnel
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 8200 South Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles, California, as the "Sergeant First Class John Marshall Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Ordered placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 145.
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
America Saving for Personal Investment, Retirement, and Education Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-868
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Auditing
Collection of accounts
College costs
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education savings accounts
Executive reorganization
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Financial statements
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Higher education
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Individual retirement accounts
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Investments
Labor and Employment
Law
Payroll deductions
Personal budgets
Saving and investment
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Student aid
Survivors' benefits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Trusts and trustees
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
America Saving for Personal Investment, Retirement, and Education Act of 2005, or the ASPIRE Act of 2005 - Establishes a KIDS Account Fund in the Treasury.
 
Establishes within the Fund a Kids Investment and Development Savings Account (KIDS Account). Makes eligible to contribute to such account, and to receive a matching Federal contribution, any U.S. citizen born after December 31, 2006, and under 18 years of age, whose modified adjusted gross income is below the applicable national median adjusted gross income amount.
 
Creates the KIDS Account Fund Board to establish a default investment program under which, in a manner similar to a lifecycle investment program, sums in each KIDS Account are allocated to investment funds in the KIDS Account Fund based on the amount of time before the account holder attains the age of 18.
 
States that, for purposes of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, each KIDS Account shall be treated in the same manner as a Roth IRA. 
 
Subjects the Board to the same statutory composition requirements, duties, and responsibilities as the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board.
 
Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury, in coordination with the Financial Literacy and Education Commission, to develop programs to promote the financial literacy of account holders of KIDS Accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4112)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Milk Marketing Reform Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-869
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices
Agricultural subsidies
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dairy industry
Marketing of farm produce
Milk
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Federal Milk Marketing Reform Act of 2005 - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from using distance or transportation costs from a location not within a marketing area as the basis for pricing Class I (fluid) milk unless such location supplies the recipient marketing area with specified quantities of milk (single base point pricing).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4114)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4113)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Electricity Needs Rules and Oversight Now (ENRON) Act

Bill: 109-s-870
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Commerce
Electric power transmission
Electric utilities
Electric utility rates
Energy industries
Predatory pricing
Restrictive trade practices

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Electricity Needs Rules and Oversight Now (ENRON) Act - Amends the Federal Power Act to declare unlawful the use in contravention of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regulations of any manipulative or deceptive device or contrivance in connection with the purchase or sale of electric energy or the purchase or sale of transmission services subject to FERC jurisdiction, including rates and charges that result from such manipulative or deceptive device or contrivance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 87.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the taxation of income of controlled foreign corporations attributable to imported property.

Bill: 109-s-872
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Imports
Income tax
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include in foreign base company income, for purposes of determining the foreign trade income of controlled foreign corporations, imported property income. Defines &quot;imported property income&quot; as, with certain exceptions, income attributable to property manufactured outside of the United States and imported for sale into the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 89.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Prescription Drug Savings and Choice Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-873
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Drug industry
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Medicare Prescription Drug Savings and Choice Act of 2005 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to offer one or more Medicare operated prescription drug plans nationally that provide qualified prescription drug coverage and access to negotiated prices. Allows the plan to offer supplemental prescription drug coverage in the same manner as other qualified prescription drug coverage by other prescription drug plans.
 
Requires the Secretary to negotiate with pharmaceutical manufacturers to reduce the purchase cost of covered Medicare part D drugs for eligible part D individuals, and encourage the use of more affordable therapeutic equivalents.
 
Requires the monthly beneficiary premium charged under such a plan to be uniform nationally. Makes the premium for months in 2006 $35, with a formula for determining premium adjustments in subsequent years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10525-1052 6)
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 90.
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4114)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Save More for Retirement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-875
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2005-04-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Annuities
Defined contribution plans
Department of Labor
Employee rights
Executive compensation
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Investments
Law
Payroll deductions
Pension funds
State laws
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Taxation
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: 
Save More for Retirement Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that a 401(k) pension plan which provides for automatic enrollment of new employees shall be treated as meeting nondiscrimination requirements if employers contribute a specified amount to such plans, allow for earlier vesting of employee ownership, and provide certain notices to employees of their rights and obligations under such plans. Permits automatically-enrolled employees to opt out of plan participation. 
 
Requires such plans to provide for annual increases in employee contributions up to a maximum level of ten percent of employee compensation.
 
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to: (1) preempt State laws that would prohibit or restrict automatic employee contributions; and (2) direct the Secretary of Labor to provide guidance, by regulations, to employers in selecting default investments for employees who elect not to direct the investment of their pension plan assets. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4119-4120)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4118-4119)
action_date: 2005-04-21
text: Introduced in Senate