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To amend the automobile fuel economy provisions of title 49, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to set fuel economy standards for passenger automobiles based on one or more vehicle attributes.

Bill: 109-hr-5359
Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]
Introduced: 2006-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Automobile industry
Automobiles
Canada
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Customs unions
Department of Transportation
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy efficiency
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Free trade
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Law
Mexico
North America
Prices
Regulatory impact statements
Standards
Trade agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: 
Amends federal transportation law to revise passenger automobile fuel economy standards (CAFE standards) to require that average fuel economy standards in effect for the preceding model year for a passenger automobile shall apply to such model year and beyond if the Secretary of Transportation does not prescribe new average fuel economy standards for a given model year. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe regulations amending average fuel economy standards for passenger automobiles to a maximum feasible average fuel economy level that the Secretary decides automobile manufacturers can achieve in a model year based on one or more vehicle attributes related to fuel economy. (Currently, the Secretary can prescribe average fuel economy standards that the Secretary decides are the maximum feasible average fuel economy level for that model year). Eliminates the congressional approval requirement if the Secretary prescribes an amendment that makes an average fuel economy standard more stringent.
 
Directs the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to conduct a study, and report the results to Congress and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, on the effects of the requirement of separate fuel economy calculations for domestic and foreign automobiles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-22
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 263.
action_date: 2006-05-22
text: Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 109-475.
action_date: 2006-05-22
text: Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 109-475.
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Perform Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5361
Sponsor: Rep. Berman, Howard L. [D-CA-28]
Introduced: 2006-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Arts, Culture, Religion
Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional reporting requirements
Copyright
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Intellectual property
Interactive media
Law
Library of Congress
Licenses
Music
Science, Technology, Communications
Sound recording and reproducing
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: 
Platform Equality and Remedies for Right Holders in Music Act of 2006 or the Perform Act of 2006 - Requires Copyright Royalty Judges (CRJs) to establish rates for a statutory license for the transmission of sound recordings by organizations that most clearly represent the fair market value of the rights licensed.
 
Replaces the different processes for setting rates and terms of royalty payments for subscription transmissions by preexisting subscription services, satellite digital radio services, and eligible nonsubscription transmission services with one process for all such transmissions. Directs CRJs, when setting such rates and terms, to consider: (1) the fair market value of the rights licensed; and (2) the degree to which reasonable recording affects the potential market for sound recordings and the additional fees that are required to be paid by services for compensation.
 
Conditions statutory licensing of transmissions on the transmitting entity using technology that is reasonably available, technologically feasible, and economically reasonable to prevent the making of copies or phonorecords embodying the transmission in whole or in part, except for reasonable recording. (Current law provides for limits on phonorecords of the transmission directly in a digital format.)
 
Allows a performing rights society or a mechanical rights organization to monitor public performances or other uses of copyrighted works contained in transmissions.
 
Requires the Register of Copyrights to convene a meeting among affected parties to discuss whether to recommend creating a new category of limited interactive services within certain statutory licenses for subscription transmissions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Department of Energy Contractor Employee Equitable Treatment Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5362
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2006-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Defense industries
Defined benefit pension plans
Department of Energy
Employee health benefits
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Health
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: 
Department of Energy Contractor Employee Equitable Treatment Act of 2006 - Prohibits any funds from being expended to implement, administer, or enforce the guidance of the Department of Energy (DOE) relating to contractor employee pension and medical benefits policy. (DOE will no longer reimburse contractors for new employees' pension and medical costs under defined benefit plans, but will now reimburse only such costs under defined contribution, market-based plans that vary from the average cost of such market-based plans by no more than 5%.) Requires the Secretary of Energy to: (1) withdraw such guidance not later than one day after enactment of this Act; and (2) reinstate eligibility or reimbursement for benefits or reinstate reimbursement for benefits if the Secretary has acted on such guidance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2006-05-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E824)
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Family Fairness Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5364
Sponsor: Rep. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2006-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Families
Family leave
Health
Hours of labor
Part-time employment
Sick leave

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: 
Family Fairness Act of 2006 - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to make an employee eligible for coverage under such Act if that employee has been employed for at least 12 months by a covered employer with respect to whom such leave is requested. (Eliminates the requirement, under current law, that the employee have served at least 1,250 hours during the 12-month period before the leave request.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the establishment of a Strategic Refinery Reserve.

Bill: 109-hr-5365
Sponsor: Rep. Boucher, Rick [D-VA-9]
Introduced: 2006-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Competition
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Disasters
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Energy prices
Energy security
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Military and naval supplies
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Petroleum reserves
Strategic materials
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: 
Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to instruct the Secretary of Energy to establish and operate a Strategic Refinery Reserve (SRR) in order to provide petroleum products to: (1) the general public; and (2) the federal government, including the Department of Defense, and state and local governments which choose to purchase refined petroleum products from the SRR.
 
Restricts availability of petroleum products from the SRR to: (1) periods of severe energy supply interruption; or (2) a regional petroleum product supply shortage of significant scope and duration, as determined by the President, if such action would assist directly and significantly in reducing the adverse impact of such shortage.
 
Directs the Secretary to ensure that SRR refineries are designed to enable a rapid increase in production capacity during such periods.
 
Requires the owner or operator of a domestic refinery to notify the Secretary at least six months in advance of permanently closing the refinery, and include in such notice an explanation of the reasons for the proposed closing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E805-806)
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Continuity of Operations Demonstration Project Act

Bill: 109-hr-5366
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2006-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Decentralization in government
Emergency Management
Employee training
Federal employees
Governmental investigations
Information technology
Labor and Employment
Planning
Science, Technology, Communications
Telecommuting

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: 
Continuity of Operations Demonstration Project Act - Directs the Chief Human Capital Officers Council and the Interagency Continuity of Operations Working Group, in order to test the preparedness of the federal government to continue to operate in the event of an extended emergency situation, to jointly provide for a demonstration project under which two or more agencies shall perform a representative range of government services and operations (both essential and nonessential) under circumstances simulating a situation in which federal employees are, as a result of a sudden and unexpected contingency, required to work: (1) from locations apart from their usual and customary workplace, including from home and from agency-designated facilities; and (2) for a continuous period of not less than ten consecutive workdays. 
 
Directs the Council, in carrying out the demonstration project, to ensure that specified requirements are met with respect to: (1) communications; (2) training relating to duties and responsibilities during an emergency situation; (3) access to technologies, information, or other assistance; (4) coordination with the earliest governmentwide continuity of operations interagency exercise; (5) plans detailing which operations will be performed, which employees will perform those operations, and how those operations are to be performed; (6) participation (limited to those employees who would otherwise have been eligible to telework); and (7) coordination with otherwise existing federal telework policies, requirements, and funding. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Simplification Through Additional Reporting Tax Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5367
Sponsor: Rep. Emanuel, Rahm [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2006-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Brokers
Department of the Treasury
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Law
Mutual funds
Securities
Tax administration
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: 
Simplification Through Additional Reporting Tax Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include within the reporting requirements of investment brokers the adjusted basis of any security owned by customers of such brokers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule Improvement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5369
Sponsor: Rep. Ferguson, Mike [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2006-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Congressional reporting requirements
DNA
Department of Health and Human Services
Evidence (Law)
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Law
Medical fees
Medical laboratories
Medical tests
Medicare
Molecular biology
Proteins
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: 
Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule Improvement Act of 2006 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to: (1) correction of erroneous determinations and other changes in fee schedule and national limitation amounts for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests; (2) issuance of regulations on gap-filling methodology in determining the Medicare fee schedule for such tests; (3) increased transparency of process for determining fee schedule amounts for new tests; and (4) mandatory advance notice of clinical diagnostic laboratory test amounts being considered for adjustment under inherent reasonableness authority.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a demonstration project to evaluate new approaches to coding and payment under the Medicare program for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests; and (2) appoint a standing panel to determine tests to be included in the project and make recommendations derived from project results to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Clean Air Act to require that gasoline contain at least 15 billion gallons of renewable fuel by the year 2012, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-5370
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2006-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Cellulose
Diesel motor
Energy crops
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Motor vehicle pollution control
Natural gas
Natural gas vehicles
Oils and fats
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Refuse as fuel
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: 
Amends the Clean Air Act to require that gasoline contain at least 15 billion gallons (currently, 7.5 billion gallons) of renewable fuel by the year 2012). Revises the calculation used to determine the applicable volume of renewable fuel for 2013 and beyond by using the ratio of 15 billion gallons (currently, 7.5 billion gallons) of renewable fuels to the number of gallons of gasoline sold or introduced into commerce in 2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Lawful Intelligence and Surveillance of Terrorists in an Emergency by NSA Act

Bill: 109-hr-5371
Sponsor: Rep. Harman, Jane [D-CA-36]
Introduced: 2006-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional-executive relations
Courts of special jurisdiction
Department of Defense
Department of Justice
Electronic surveillance
Federal employees
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Information technology
Judicial review
Law
Legislation
Presidential powers
Recruiting of employees
Science, Technology, Communications
Searches and seizures
Warrants (Law)

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: 
Lawful Intelligence and Surveillance of Terrorists in an Emergency by NSA Act or LISTEN Act - States that specified provisions of federal criminal law concerning wire and electronic communications and their interception and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) shall be the exclusive means by which domestic electronic surveillance may be conducted. Directs the President to ensure that: (1) all electronic surveillance of persons in the United States is conducted within those exclusive means; and (2) the procedures for applying for an order for electronic surveillance under FISA continue to be adequate for the timely and efficient electronic surveillance of appropriate targets.
 
Requires: (1) the President to report to the congressional intelligence and judiciary committees upon a determination that such procedures are inadequate; and (2) the report to contain findings and recommendations with respect to emergency or routine applications for such orders.
 
Authorizes appropriations to the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) for activities of the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review to ensure the timely and efficient processing of applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House
Rural Rental Housing Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5373
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2006-05-11 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Affordable housing
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Government lending
Housing subsidies
Indian housing
Interest
Low-income housing
Minorities
Rental housing
Residential rehabilitation
Rural housing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Rural Rental Housing Act of 2006 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to provide rural rental assistance, with applicant priority given to very low-income families, low-income communities, rural areas, and communities with a severe lack of affordable rental housing.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Introduced in House