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Commuter Benefits Equity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2390
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2005-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commuting
Federal employees
Fringe benefits
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: 
Commuter Benefits Equity Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to equalize and increase to $200, with a modified cost-of-living adjustment, the tax exclusion for both transportation and parking fringe benefits. Extends such benefits to federal employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
To provide for a continuation of the mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Kerrville, Texas, including the maintenance of acute care beds at that medical center.

Bill: 109-hr-2392
Sponsor: Rep. Bonilla, Henry [R-TX-23]
Introduced: 2005-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Case mix (Medical care)
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Health
Texas
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: 
States that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs: (1) may not implement a change in the mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Kerrville, Texas; and (2) shall continue to maintain a minimum of 25 acute care beds there.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
Frivolous Lawsuit Reduction Act

Bill: 109-hr-2393
Sponsor: Rep. Chocola, Chris [R-IN-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Civil procedure
Damages
District courts
Evidence (Law)
Legal fees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: 
Frivolous Lawsuit Reduction Act - Amends the Federal judicial code to authorize parties in civil diversity litigation to serve written settlement offers on an adverse party at any time not less than 10 days before trial.
 
Authorizes the court, at any time before judgment is entered, to exempt from settlement any claim that presents a novel and important question of law or fact that substantially affects nonparties. Voids all settlement offers made by the parties with respect to such exempted claims.
 
Authorizes an offeror whose proposed settlement was declined by an offeree to file a petition with the court seeking payment by the offeree of costs and fees, including attorney's fees, from the date of the last settlement offer by either party if the ultimate judgment or order is not more favorable to the offeree than the proposed settlement. Requires the court to order payment by the offeree in such circumstances unless requiring payment would be manifestly unjust.
 
Limits attorney's fees ordered under this Act to: (1) the actual attorney's fees incurred by the offeree in connection with the claim; or (2) if no such cost was incurred due to a contingency fee agreement, a reasonable cost that would have been incurred by the offeree absent a contingency fee agreement.
 
States that this Act does not apply to claims seeking equitable remedies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Spirodiclofen.

Bill: 109-hr-2394
Sponsor: Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-20]
Introduced: 2005-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Pesticides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on 2,2-Dimethylbutanoic acid, 3-(2,4-dichlorophenyl)-2-oxo-1-oxaspiro(4.5)dec-3-en-4-yl ester (Spirodiclofen).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Propamocarb HCL (Previcur).

Bill: 109-hr-2395
Sponsor: Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-20]
Introduced: 2005-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Fungicides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Mixtures of propyl 3-(dimethylamino)propylcarbamate monohydrochloride Propamocarb hydrochloride (Propamocarb HCL (Previcur)).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on Imidacloprid pesticides.

Bill: 109-hr-2396
Sponsor: Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-20]
Introduced: 2005-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Insect control
Pesticides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on Imidacloprid pesticides. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on Trifloxystrobin.

Bill: 109-hr-2397
Sponsor: Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-20]
Introduced: 2005-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the suspension, through December 31, 2008, of the duty on Trifloxystrobin.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
Constitutional Protection of the Right to Vote Act

Bill: 109-hr-2398
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2005-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Crime and Law Enforcement
Ex-offenders
Government publicity
Prisoners
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: 
Constitutional Protection of the Right to Vote Act - Provides that the right of a citizen to vote shall not be denied or abridged because that citizen has been convicted of a criminal offense, unless such citizen is, at the time of the vote, serving a felony sentence in a correctional institution or facility or is otherwise under the supervision or actual or constructive custody of a governmental authority pursuant to that conviction.
 
Requires each correctional institution or facility to establish and carry out a system of notice to ensure that persons being released from that institution or facility are informed of the right to vote protected by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
Improved Medical Malpractice Information Reporting and Competition Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2399
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2005-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Corporate finance
Damages
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive reorganization
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health insurance
Insurance companies
Insurance premiums
Investments
Law
Liability insurance
Losses
Medical malpractice
Punitive damages
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: 
Improved Medical Malpractice Information Reporting and Competition Act of 2005 - Establishes the Office of Health Care Competition Policy within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with responsibility for the National Practitioner Data Bank.
 
Amends the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 to require each entity that underwrites a policy of insurance for medical malpractice actions or claims to report information respecting such insurance or claims for payment under such policy. Specifies information to be reported, including: (1) direct premiums written and earned; (2) net investment income; (3) incurred claims; (4) actual incurred expenses; (5) net operation gain or loss; and (6) certain information on claims for the year, including claims paid and verdict amounts. 
Sets forth a civil penalty for failure to comply with this Act. 
Requires the Secretary of HHS to make the information reported that does not provide individually identifiable information available on the Data Bank website.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Malpractice Liability Insurance Commission (EMLIC) Act

Bill: 109-hr-2400
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2005-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Auditing
Commerce
Congress
Congressional hearings
Congressional investigations
Damages
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Insurance companies
Insurance premiums
Law
Legislation
Liability insurance
Medical associations
Medical economics
Medical malpractice
Regulatory impact statements
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: 
Emergency Malpractice Liability Insurance Commission (EMLIC) Act - Establishes the Emergency Malpractice Liability Insurance Commission to examine the causes of soaring medical malpractice premiums and propose a comprehensive strategy to alleviate the impact. Directs the Commission to investigate and determine whether a causal relationship exists between: (1) skyrocketing malpractice insurance premiums; (2) jury awards; (3) decreased accessibility and affordability of health care; and (4) an increase in the number of physicians moving, quitting, or retiring. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
Insurance Competitive Pricing Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2401
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2005-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Antitrust law
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Insurance
Insurance companies
Monopolies
Price fixing
Restrictive trade practices
State laws
Territorial arrangements (Antitrust law)

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Insurance Competitive Pricing Act of 2005 - Amends the McCarran-Ferguson Act to eliminate the antitrust exemption applicable to the business of insurance where the conduct involves: (1) price fixing; (2) allocating with a competitor a geographical area in which, or persons to whom, insurance will be offered for sale; (3) unlawfully tying the sale or purchase of one type of insurance to the sale or purchase of another type of insurance or any other service or product; or (4) monopolizing, or attempting to monopolize, any part of such business. 
Retains such exemption for conduct involving the making of a contract, or engaging in a combination or conspiracy, to: (1) collect or disseminate historical loss data; (2) determine a loss development factor applicable to such data; (3) perform actuarial services if such contract, combination, or conspiracy does not involve restraint of trade; or (4) determine a trend factor (an adjustment to reflect a change in inflation or any other change in the estimated loss costs incurred by certain persons engaged in the business of insurance) during a specified transition period.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Desmodur IL.

Bill: 109-hr-2402
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2005-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Commerce
Plastics
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on a specific toluene diisocyanate homopolymer (Desmodur IL).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Chloroacetone.

Bill: 109-hr-2403
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2005-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on 1-Chloro-2-propanone (Chloroacetone).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
To reduce temporarily the duty on IPN (Isophthalonitrile).

Bill: 109-hr-2404
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2005-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce, through December 31, 2006, the duty on 1,3-Benzenedicarbonitrile (IPN (Isophthalonitrile)).
 
Provides for: (1) an increase in such duty from January 1, 2007, through December 31, 2007; and (2) a decrease in it from January 1, 2008, through December 31, 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on NOA 466510 Technical.

Bill: 109-hr-2405
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2005-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Pesticides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on 4-chloro-N-[2-[3-methoxy-4-(2-propynyloxy)phenyl]ethyl]-a-(2-propynyloxy)benzeneacetamide (NOA 466510 Technical).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Hexythiazox Technical.

Bill: 109-hr-2406
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2005-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on trans-5-(4-Chlorophenyl)-N-cyclohexyl-4-methyl-2-oxothiazolidine-3-carboxamide (Hexythiazox Technical).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
San Juan Island National Historical Park Boundary Addition Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2407
Sponsor: Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boundaries
Commemorations
Historic sites
History
Islands
Land transfers
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
National parks
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: 
San Juan Island National Historical Park Boundary Addition Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire the property known as Mitchell Hill in the State of Washington for the San Juan Island National Historic Park. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
Public Domain Enhancement Act

Bill: 109-hr-2408
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2005-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Advertising
Congress
Congressional agencies
Copyright
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Fees
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Intellectual property
Law
Library of Congress
Sales promotion
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: 
Public Domain Enhancement Act - Requires the Register of Copyrights to charge a fee of $1 for maintaining in force the copyright in any published U.S. work. Requires the fee to be due 50 years after the date of first publication or on December 31, 2006, whichever occurs later, and every ten years thereafter until the end of the copyright term. Terminates the copyright unless payment of the applicable maintenance fee is received in the Copyright Office on or before its due date or within a grace period of six months thereafter. 
 
Deems any ancillary or promotional work used in connection with the maintained work, such as an advertisement for a motion picture, also to be maintained in force.
 
Requires the: (1) maintenance fee to be accompanied by a form prescribed by the Register; and (2) the Register to establish procedures to minimize the burden of submitting the form, including procedures to allow the electronic submission of the form, and to make the information contained in such forms easily accessible to the public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
Child Support Reinvestment Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2409
Sponsor: Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-5]
Introduced: 2005-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Automation
Child support
Collection of accounts
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: 
Child Support Reinvestment Act of 2005 - Amends part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of title IV of the Social Security Act with respect to the administrative penalty incurred by a state for failure of its plan for child and spousal support to have in effect an automated data processing and information retrieval system meeting all federal requirements. Modifies the formula for calculation of the child support automation penalty to provide for specified reductions of the penalty for a state making a good faith effort to comply with a corrective compliance plan by making increased expenditures under (reinvesting in) the general state child and spousal support plan by the equivalent of the original, unreduced penalty amount.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3338-3339)
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House