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Pascua Yaqui Mineral Rights Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1291
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2005-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Arizona
Energy
Indian lands
Land transfers
Mineral reserves
Minorities
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
Pascua Yaqui Mineral Rights Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in coordination with the Attorney General and with the consent of the state of Arizona, to acquire all subsurface rights, title, and interests (including subsurface mineral interests) held by the state in specified tribally-owned parcels and in specified parcels held in trust for the benefit of the Tribe. Requires the Secretary to pay the state, as consideration for the acquisition of subsurface mineral interests, an amount equal to their market value.
 
Directs the Secretary to take into trust for the benefit of the Tribe the subsurface rights, title, and interests, formerly reserved to the United States, to other specified parcels. Requires the Tribe to pay to the Secretary only the transaction costs relating to the assessment, review, and transfer of the subsurface rights, title, and interests taken into trust.

action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Pascua Yaqui Mineral Rights Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in coordination with the Attorney General and with the consent of the state of Arizona, to acquire all subsurface rights, title, and interests (including subsurface mineral interests) held by the state in specified tribally-owned parcels and in specified parcels held in trust for the benefit of the Tribe. Requires the Secretary to pay the state, as consideration for the acquisition of subsurface mineral interests, an amount equal to their market value.

Directs the Secretary to take into trust for the benefit of the Tribe the subsurface rights, title, and interests, formerly reserved to the United States, to other specified parcels. Requires the Tribe to pay to the Secretary only the transaction costs relating to the assessment, review, and transfer of the subsurface rights, title, and interests taken into trust.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 186.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator McCain without amendment. With written report No. 109-116.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator McCain without amendment. With written report No. 109-116.
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7296-7297)
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7296)
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Telework Tax Incentive Act

Bill: 109-s-1292
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Labor and Employment
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax credits
Telecommuting

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
Telework Tax Incentive Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for telework expenses. Defines &quot;telework&quot; as the use of electronic information and communication technologies to perform work functions, thereby reducing or eliminating the physical commute to and from a traditional worksite. Limits the annual amount of such credit to $500.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7297)
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit the consolidation of life insurance companies with other companies.

Bill: 109-s-1293
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2005-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Department of the Treasury
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Insurance companies
Law
Life insurance
Losses
Stocks
Subsidiary corporations
Tax deductions
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow affiliated life and non-life insurance companies to file consolidated tax returns; (2) phase in, between 2005 and 2011, the full application of losses of affiliated non-life insurance companies against the taxable income of an affiliated life insurance company; and (3) automatically waive the five-year waiting period applicable to affiliated non-life insurance companies for offset of their losses against life insurance company income. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7297-7298)
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Broadband Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1294
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadband
Government Operations and Politics
Internet
Minorities
State government-Indian relations
State laws
State-local relations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
Community Broadband Act of 2005 - Amends the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to prohibit any state statute, regulation, or other legal requirement from prohibiting any public provider from providing, to any person or public or private entity, advanced telecommunications capability or any service that utilizes such capability.
 
Defines as a &quot;public provider&quot; any State or political subdivision thereof, or Indian tribe, that provides telecommunications capability or any service that utilizes such capability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7298-7299)
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7298)
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Ninth Circuit Judgeship and Reorganization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1296
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2005-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Alaska
Appellate courts
Arizona
California
Congress
Government Operations and Politics
Guam
Hawaii
Idaho
Judges
Judicial reform
Judicial tenure
Montana
Nevada
Northern Mariana Islands
Oregon
Presidential appointments
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
Ninth Circuit Judgeship and Reorganization Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal judicial code to divide the Ninth Judicial Circuit into the Ninth Circuit (to be composed of California, Guam, Hawaii, and the Northern Mariana Islands), and the Twelfth Circuit (to be composed of Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.
 
Requires the President to appoint five additional circuit judges for the new Ninth Circuit and two temporary judges for the former Ninth Circuit.
 
Specifies the locations where new circuits are to hold regular sessions. Locates the offices of the new Twelfth Circuit in Phoenix, Arizona.
 
Assigns active circuit judges of the former Ninth Circuit to the new circuits. Allows senior circuit judges of the former Ninth Circuit to elect assignment.
 
Specifies the disposition of cases pending in the former Ninth Circuit before the effective date of this Act as follows: (1) proceedings in matters that have been submitted for decision shall continue without regard to this Act; (2) matters not yet submitted for decision must be transferred to the court to which they would have been submitted under this Act; and (3) petitions for rehearing en banc that are pending shall be considered by the court to which they would have been submitted had this Act been in full force and effect at the time that the appeal or other proceeding was filed.
 
Authorizes the temporary assignment of circuit and district judges of the former Ninth Circuit among the new circuits. 
 
Directs that the former Ninth Circuit shall cease to exist for administrative purposes two years after enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-190.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7300-7301)
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Patient and Physician Safety and Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1297
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Grievance procedures
Hospital care
Hospital personnel
Hospitals
Hours of labor
Labor and Employment
Law
Medical residents
Medicare
Quality of care
Social Welfare
Surveys
Whistle blowing

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
Patient and Physician Safety and Protection Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require a participating hospital that uses the services of postgraduate trainees to limit their working hours to specified schedules.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate regulations to monitor and supervise postgraduate trainees assigned patient care responsibilities as part of an approved medical training program, as well as to assure patient quality care.
 
Prescribes whistleblower protections for employees who in good faith report violations of working hour limits.
 
Makes appropriations to the Secretary to provide for additional payments to hospitals for their reasonable additional, incremental costs of compliance with this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7301-7302)
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7301)
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Care for Young Adults Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1298
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2005-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare
Territories (U.S.)
Youth

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
Health Care for Young Adults Act of 2005 - Amends titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) to permit states to provide Medicaid and SCHIP coverage of low-income youth up to age 23.
 
Provides for additional SCHIP allotments for the provision of coverage to optional young adults. 
 
Amends SSA title XI to modify Medicaid caps for territories.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for grants to states in order to enable them to implement expansions of eligibility for children and young adults in their state Medicaid and state SCHIP plans. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Community College Partnership Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1299
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2005-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: College entrance requirements
Colleges
Community colleges
Compensatory education
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Educational counseling
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Mentoring
Social Welfare
Student enrollment
Technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
Community College Partnership Act of 2005 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a community college opportunity program to help students at community or technical colleges to transfer to four-year institutions and complete bachelor's degrees.

Directs the Secretary of Education to award program grants to eligible partnerships that include one or more community or technical colleges that award associate's degrees and one or more institutions of higher education that offer a baccalaureate or postbaccalaureate degree not awarded by the partner colleges (or to statewide boards or partnerships with jurisdiction over such educational entities). 

Requires funds from such grants to be used for: (1) development of policies to expand opportunities for community or technical college students to earn bachelor's degrees, including transfer of academic credits between institutions and expanded articulation and guaranteed transfer agreements; (2) support services to students participating in the program, including tutoring, mentoring, academic and personal counseling, and transition facilitation; (3) academic program enhancements at the community or technical college that increase program quality and the number of student participants in the dual degree program offered in conjunction with a baccalaureate degree-granting institution; and (4) programs to identify barriers that inhibit student transfers. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Food Promotion Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1300
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural statistics
Agriculture in foreign trade
Animals
Aquaculture
Business records
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Agriculture
Fines (Penalties)
Fisheries
Fishes
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fruit
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Imports
Labeling
Law
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Meat
Seafood
Shellfish
Surveys
Vegetables

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
Food Promotion Act of 2005 - Amends the Agricultural Marketing of 1946 to replace current mandatory country of origin labeling requirements with voluntary country of origin labeling programs for: (1) meat and meat products; (2) wild fish, wild shellfish, farm-raised fish, farm-raised shellfish, and related products; and (3) perishable agricultural commodities.
 
Sets forth: (1) limitations on use of U.S. country of origin labels; and (2) civil penalties for program violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Ninth Circuit Judgeship and Reorganization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1301
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2005-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Alaska
Appellate courts
Appellate procedure
Arizona
California
Congress
Government Operations and Politics
Guam
Hawaii
Idaho
Judges
Judicial districts
Judicial reform
Judicial tenure
Montana
Nevada
Northern Mariana Islands
Oregon
Presidential appointments
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
Ninth Circuit Judgeship and Reorganization Act of 2005 - Amends the federal judicial code to divide the Ninth Judicial Circuit into the Ninth Circuit (to be composed of California, Guam, Hawaii, and the Northern Mariana Islands), the Twelfth Circuit (to be composed of Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, and Montana), and Thirteenth Circuit (to be composed of Alaska, Oregon, and Washington State).
 
Requires the President to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, five additional circuit judges for the new Ninth Circuit and two temporary judges for the former Ninth Circuit.
 
Specifies the locations where the new circuits are to hold regular sessions.
 
Assigns active circuit judges of the former Ninth Circuit to the new circuits based on their current duty station. Allows senior circuit judges of the former Ninth Circuit to elect assignment to any of the three new circuits.
 
Specifies the disposition of cases pending in the former Ninth Circuit before the effective date of this Act as follows: (1) proceedings in matters that have been submitted for decision shall continue without regard to this Act; (2) matters not yet submitted for decision must be transferred to the court to which they would have been submitted under this Act; and (3) proceedings on petitions for rehearing or rehearing en banc that have been submitted or decided shall continue without regard to this Act.
 
Authorizes the temporary assignment of the circuit and district judges of the former Ninth Circuit among the new circuits. Authorizes administrative coordination between any two contiguous circuits among the new circuits.
 
Directs that the former Ninth Circuit shall cease to exist for administrative purposes two years after enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-190.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop the Raid on Social Security Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1302
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2005-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Estate tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Retirement income
Saving and investment
Stocks
Tax exemption
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
Stop the Raid on Social Security Act of 2005 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to establish a Social Security Personal Retirement Accounts Program, to be administered by a Social Security Personal Savings Board established within the Social Security Administration. Authorizes any individual credited with wages paid after December 31, 2005, or self-employment income derived in any taxable year ending after such date, who is born on or after January 1, 1950, and who has not filed an election to renounce such individual's status as a participating individual, to participate in the Program.
 
Directs the Board to establish a social security personal retirement account for each participating individual upon initial receipt of a transfer from amounts held in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to make necessary transfers from the general fund of the Treasury to maintain a 100 percent ratio of assets of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund to the annual amount required to pay the full amount of benefits payable for each year up to 2041. 
 
Requires designation of a certified account manager by or on behalf of each participating individual to hold the individual's account assets for investment, including in broad-based index funds similar to the index fund investment options available within the Thrift Savings Fund.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Prescribes requirements for withdrawal from such accounts, annuitization, and related matters.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make all social security personal retirement accounts exempt from income taxation; but (2) subject distributions from closed accounts to taxation as social security benefits. 
 
Exempts assets of Social Security Personal Retirement Accounts from the estate tax.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12829-12830)
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7303-7308)
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7303)
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate
MediKids Health Insurance Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1303
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2005-06-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Catastrophic health insurance
Child health
Comprehensive health care
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Health insurance
Identification devices
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
National health insurance
Poor children
Preventive medicine
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Taxation
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
MediKids Health Insurance Act of 2005 - Amends the Social Security Act to add a new title XXII (Medikids Program) to provide for health insurance coverage for all children born after December 31, 2006, in a program modeled after Medicare that also includes prescription drugs and reduced cost-sharing for low-income children. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, during September of each year, to establish a monthly Medikids premium for the following year.
 
Establishes in the Treasury the Medikids Trust Fund to contain the Medikids premiums collected under the Internal Revenue Code.
 
Amends title XVIII to increase Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MEDPAC) membership to 19.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a Medikids premium for the taxable year on a taxpayer with a dependent enrolled in the MediKids program, with exceptions for very low-income taxpaters.
 
Provides that in the case of a taxpayer who has a MediKid at any time during the taxable year, there shall be allowed as a refundable credit against income taxes an amount equal to the excess of: (1) the amount paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year as cost-sharing; over (2) 5% of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income for the taxable year.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to propose a gradual schedule of progressive tax changes to fund the MediKids program as the number of enrollees grows in the out-years. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8379)
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7308-7312)
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7308)
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in Senate