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Intermodal Equipment Safety and Responsibility Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1296
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2005-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Business records
Commerce
Department of Transportation
Equipment and supplies
Federal preemption
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Identification devices
Intermodal transportation
Law
Liability (Law)
Maintenance and repair
Motor vehicle safety
Restrictive trade practices
Traffic accidents and safety
Trucking
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: 
Intermodal Equipment Safety and Responsibility Act of 2005 - Subjects an equipment controller to liability for the systematic inspection, maintenance, and repair of equipment interchanged or intended for interchange.
 
 Requires an equipment controller: (1) prior to offering a motor carrier agent the equipment for interchange, to inspect the equipment and perform maintenance and repairs to the equipment to ensure that it complies with all applicable Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations; and (2) to promptly reimburse the motor carrier for actual expenses incurred and time spent by the motor carrier for any repair required to interchanged equipment to comply with the Regulations while in a motor carrier's possession.
 
Makes an equipment controller liable for all violations of the Regulations attributable to the controller's equipment. Directs the controller to pay any applicable fines, penalties, and damages resulting from such violations, except for violations attributable to the controller's equipment that are proximately caused by the motor carrier's negligence or willful misconduct.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to conduct inspections. 
 
Prohibits an equipment controller from: (1) retaliating against a motor carrier who requests maintenance or repair of equipment intended for interchange to comply with the Regulations; and (2) delegating its responsibility to systematically maintain and repair equipment intended for interchange to a motor carrier in an equipment interchange agreement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Improvement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1297
Sponsor: Rep. Burton, Dan [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2005-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Claims
Compensation (Law)
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Death
Earnings
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family services
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Guardian and ward
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal fees
Limitation of actions
Public service advertising
Trusts and trustees
Vaccination
Vaccines

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: 
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Improvement Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise provisions of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
 
Specifies how loss of earning is to be calculated for vaccine-related injuries to individuals under the age of 18.
 
Increases the award for vaccine-related deaths.
 
Allows compensation under the Program for expenses for family counseling and for establishing and maintaining a guardianship, conservatorship, or trust for an individual with a vaccine-related injury.
 
Allows a special master to make an interim award of attorneys' fees and costs under certain circumstances. Allows such award to be payable directly to the petitioner's attorney.
 
Extends the statute of limitation for vaccine-related injury or death to six years after the date of injury or onset of symptoms.
 
Specifies who is to be a member of the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines. Provides that the Commission shall meet at the call of the Chair (currently, the Commission must meet not less than four times a year).
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the amount of expenses for administering the Program that are allowed to be paid from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund. Allows the payment from the Trust Fund of administrative and personnel expenses that the Bureau of Public Debt incurs for financial services for the Trust Fund.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to include a public service announcement in efforts to inform the public about the Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
Critical Habitat Enhancement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1299
Sponsor: Rep. Cardoza, Dennis A. [D-CA-18]
Introduced: 2005-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Animals
Cost effectiveness
Decision making
Department of the Interior
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Habitat conservation
Indian lands
Internet
Landowners
Law
Licenses
Local budgets
Maps
Minorities
Native Americans
Science, Technology, Communications
State budgets
State laws
Surveys
Web sites
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: 
Critical Habitat Enhancement Act of 2005 - Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require the relevant Secretary (the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Commerce) to make any designation of critical habitat of an endangered or threatened species not later than one year after final approval of a recovery plan for the species or three years after final regulations implementing a determination that the species is endangered or threatened, whichever is earlier. 
 
Directs the Secretary to reconsider determinations that critical habitat designation is not practicable or determinable during the next five-year review of listed species or at the time of final approval of a recovery plan for the species.
 
Makes critical habitat designations inapplicable to actions authorized by: (1) an incidental taking permit; (2) an incidental taking statement provided by the Secretary; or (3) a land conservation or species management program that meets specified requirements.
 
Directs the Secretary, in determining whether an area is critical habitat, to seek and consider information from local governments in the vicinity of the area.
 
Specifies factors for consideration in determining the economic impact of critical habitat designation.
 
Modifies notice requirements applicable to proposed designations of critical habitat to require that any municipality having administrative jurisdiction over the area in which the species is believed to occur is given actual notice.
 
Redefines &quot;critical habitat&quot; to mean geographic areas determined by field survey data to be occupied by the species at the time of designation and which are necessary to the continued existence of the species.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-22
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
Civic Participation and Rehabilitation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1300
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2005-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Building construction
Civil actions and liability
Civil rights enforcement
Congress
Congressional elections
Correctional institutions
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Ex-offenders
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal preemption
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Injunctions
Law
Maintenance and repair
Political rights
Presidential elections
Prisoners
Prisons
State laws
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: 
Civic Participation and Rehabilitation Act of 2005 - States that the right of an individual who is a citizen of the United States to vote in any election for Federal office shall not be denied or abridged because that individual has been convicted of a criminal offense unless such individual is serving a felony sentence in a correctional institute or facility at the time of the election. 
 
Authorizes the Attorney General, in a civil action, to obtain declaratory or injunctive relief to remedy a violation of this Act.
 
Provides for a private right of action.
 
Prohibits any State, unit of local government, or other person from receiving or using any Federal grant amount, to construct or otherwise improve a prison, jail, or other place of incarceration, unless that person has in effect a program under which each U.S. citizen incarcerated in that person's jurisdiction is notified, upon release, of that citizen's rights.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2005-03-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E453-454)
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Charter of the Boy Scouts of America in title 36, United States Code, to ratify the authority of the Secretary of Defense and military installations and units of the Armed Forces to officially sponsor units of the Boy Scouts of America serving dependents of members of the Armed Forces and to make facilities of the Department of Defense available for Boy Scout meetings and activities, such as national and world Boy Scout Jamborees.

Bill: 109-hr-1301
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-15]
Introduced: 2005-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Boy Scouts
Civil-military relations
Department of Defense
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Military bases
Military dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense and U.S. military installations and units to support the Boy Scouts of America by: (1) officially sponsoring Boy Scout units serving dependents of members of the Armed Forces; and (2) making facilities of the Department of Defense available for Boy Scout meetings and other activities such as national and world Boy Scout Jamborees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4007)
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H421-422)
Stealth Lobbyist Disclosure Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1302
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-25]
Introduced: 2005-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Associations, institutions, etc.
Commerce
Government paperwork
Lobbying
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Trade associations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: 
Stealth Lobbyist Disclosure Act of 2005 - Amends the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to redefine the term "client" with respect to coalitions and associations on whose behalf a lobbyist must file a registration. Provides that, in the case of a coalition or association that employs or retains other persons to conduct lobbying activities, each of the individual members of the coalition or association, and not the coalition or association itself as under current law, is the client for whom a registration must be filed. Makes an exception for certain tax-exempt associations and for certain members of a coalition or association if the amount reasonably expected to be contributed by such member toward specific legislation-influencing activities of the coalition or association is less than $1,000 per any semiannual period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
Fairness and Accountability in International Taxation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1303
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-25]
Introduced: 2005-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Income tax
International Affairs
Partnerships
Prices
Residence requirements
Stockholders
Subsidiary corporations
Tax deductions
Tax evasion
Tax havens
Tax rates
Tax treaties
Taxation of foreign income
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Fairness and Accountability in International Taxation Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny reduced withholding tax treaty benefits to a foreign entity on any deductible foreign payment (deductible payment made by a domestic entity to a related foreign entity) unless such entity is predominantly owned by individuals who are residents of such foreign country. Exempts from such provision: (1) corporations with substantial business activities in a treaty country with specified tax rates; (2) payments received by controlled foreign corporations from U.S. shareholders; and (3) certain conduit payments made by foreign corporations. 
Provides a special income and deduction allocation rule for related-party inbound (transfer price reduced by deflected tax haven income) and outbound (transfer price increased by deflected tax haven income) transactions. Defines "related-party inbound transaction," "related-party outbound transaction," and "deflected tax haven."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
Stealth Lobbyist Disclosure Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1304
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-25]
Introduced: 2005-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Associations, institutions, etc.
Commerce
Electronic government information
Fees
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Law
Liability (Law)
Lobbying
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax penalties
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Trade associations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: 
Stealth Lobbyist Disclosure Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat as a tax-exempt political organization for purposes of the disclosure and other requirements applicable to such organizations (with certain modifications) any coalition or association that is identified as a client on any registration filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 and that is not a political organization. 
 
Requires any such coalition or association to notify the Secretary of the Treasury of: (1) its existence within 72 hours after one of its lobbyists makes an initial contact; and (2) any change in membership within 72 hours. Requires such notice to include a general description of the business or activities of each member of the coalition or association and the amount reasonably expected to be contributed by each member toward coalition or association activities of influencing legislation. Imposes a penalty tax for failure to give required notices.
 
Exempts from the disclosure requirements imposed by this Act: (1) public charities and other tax-exempt organizations which have substantial exempt activities other than lobbying; and (2) members of a coalition or association who contribute less than $2,000 per year for lobbying activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
Retirement Savings for Working Americans Act

Bill: 109-hr-1305
Sponsor: Rep. Emanuel, Rahm [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2005-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Saving and investment
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: 
Retirement Savings for Working Americans Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make the tax credit for certain retirement savings contributions permanent and refundable. Adjusts the phaseout range to expand eligibility for the tax credit for taxpayers at certain adjusted gross income levels.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1962-1963)
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the tax on beer to its pre-1991 level.

Bill: 109-hr-1306
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2005-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alcohol tax
Beer
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce from $18 to $9 (its pre-1991 level) the per-barrel tax on beer.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to establish a combat badge for helicopter medical evacuation ambulance (Medevac) pilots and crews.

Bill: 109-hr-1308
Sponsor: Rep. Holden, Tim [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2005-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Air force
Aircraft pilots
Ambulances
Army
Commemorations
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Flight crews
Health
Marines
Medical personnel
Military helicopters
Military medals, decorations, etc.
Military medicine
Military personnel
Navy
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to issue a Combat Medevac Badge to each person who served in combat on or after June 25, 1950, as a pilot or crew member of a helicopter medical evacuation ambulance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3921-3922)
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
One Strike and You're Out! Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1309
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2005-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Disabled
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Economics and Public Finance
Eviction
Federal aid to housing
Fines (Penalties)
Housing for the aged
Housing for the disabled
Housing subsidies
Landlord and tenant
Low-income housing
Public housing
Rental housing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: 
One Strike and You're Out! Act of 2005 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to exempt a tenant in public housing or housing assisted under the section 8 rental assistance program from the eviction for criminal or drug-related criminal activity provisions if such activity was engaged in by a member of the tenant's household or any guest or other person under the tenant's control and the tenant: (1) is an elderly or disabled person; and (2) did not know and should not have known of the activity, or the tenant or member of household was the victim of the criminal activity.
 
Requires public housing agencies to report annually on the number of such evictions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
Child Care Construction and Renovation Act

Bill: 109-hr-1311
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2005-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Block grants
Building construction
Building laws
Commerce
Community development
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Construction industries
Construction workers
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal aid to housing
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Fire prevention
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Liability insurance
Minimum wages
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Nonprofit organizations
Revolving funds
Secondary mortgage market
Social Welfare
Subcontractors
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Urban affairs
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Child Care Construction and Renovation Act - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize the use of community development block grants to construct and renovate child care facilities.
Amends the National Housing Act to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to insure mortgages for: (1) new or rehabilitated child care and development facilities, including for fire safety equipment loans; and (2) acquiring or refinancing debt of existing child care facilities.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to study the availability of secondary markets for mortgages on child care facilities.
Authorizes HUD grants to eligible nonprofit organizations for technical and financial assistance to assist eligible child care providers in acquiring or improving facilities or equipment.
Applies the provisions of the Davis-Bacon Act to actions taken under this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House