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Green Vehicles Promotion Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5703
Sponsor: Rep. Meehan, Martin T. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2006-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Buy American
Commerce
Consumer education
Depressed areas
Diesel motor
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Energy crops
Energy prices
Environmental Protection
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Hydrogen
Income tax
Labeling
Law
Liquefied petroleum gas
Marketing
Motor vehicles
Natural gas vehicles
Oils and fats
Refuse as fuel
Service stations
Signs and signboards
Tax credits
Tax incentives
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: 
Green Vehicles Promotion Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax credits through 2010 for the purchase of a qualified flexible fuel motor vehicle and for the conversion of an existing motor vehicle into a qualified flexible fuel motor vehicle. Defines &quot;qualified flexible fuel vehicle&quot; to include a vehicle using fuel with an 85% ethanol content.
 
Establishes in the Treasury the Alternative Fueling Infrastructure Trust Fund to create a grant program for the construction and operation of alternative fuel refueling stations. Defines &quot;alternative fuels&quot; to mean: (1) fuels with an 85% ethanol content, liquefied petroleum gas, or hydrogen; or (2) biodiesel mixtures.
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to remit 90% of the civil penalties collected for violations of automobile fuel economy standards to the Trust Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman .
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2006-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2006-06-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2006-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Access to Medicare Imaging Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5704
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2006-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Government spending reductions
Housing and Community Development
Imaging systems in medicine
Medical fees
Medicare
Physicians
Quality of care
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: 
Access to Medicare Imaging Act of 2006 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for a budget-neutral two-year moratorium on certain Medicare physician payment reductions for imaging services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-06-28
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: 2006-06-28
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: 2006-06-28
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: 2006-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to provide for the pass through of all child support collected on behalf of families receiving assistance under the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families.

Bill: 109-hr-5706
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Paul [R-WI-1]
Introduced: 2006-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aid to dependent children
Cash welfare block grants
Child support
Collection of accounts
Families
Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: 
Amends part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of title IV of the Social Security Act to revise requirements for the pass-through of child support collected on behalf of families receiving assistance under the program of block grants to states for temporary assistance for needy families (TANF).
 
Requires pass-through to a family receiving TANF of the total amount of collected child support. (Currently the federal government receives its share and the state retains or distributes to the family the state share of such child support.)
 
Requires payment to: (1) the federal government of its share of foster care maintenance payments; (2) the state for retention, or distribution to the family, of the state share of such payments; and (3) the family of any remaining amount.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Cruise Line Accurate Safety Statistics Act

Bill: 109-hr-5707
Sponsor: Rep. Shays, Christopher [R-CT-4]
Introduced: 2006-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Arson
Commerce
Consumer education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Criminal statistics
Department of Homeland Security
Embassies
Employee training
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Homicide
International Affairs
Kidnapping
Labor and Employment
Law
Merchant seamen
Missing persons
Murder
Passenger ships
Rape
Victims of crimes
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: 
Cruise Line Accurate Safety Statistics Act - Requires the owner of a cruise ship that calls at a U.S. port to report to the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating each: (1) crime that occurred on the cruise ship in which a U.S. citizen was a victim; (2) incident on a cruise ship in which a U.S. citizen was missing or reported overboard for four hours or more; and (3) crime and incident that occurred on the cruise ship in the preceding three-month period. Requires the Secretary to make such information available to the public, including on a site on the Internet.
 
Directs the Secretary to inspect each cruise ship that enters a U.S. port to determine whether such ship has adequate equipment and trained personnel to investigate such crimes.
 
Requires a cruise line that sells a ticket for carriage of an individual on a cruise ship that will call at a U.S. port to: (1) refer such individual to the Internet site before selling the ticket; and (2) provide the individual with the name of each country the cruise ship will visit, as well as the locations of each U.S. embassy and consulate in such country.
 
Sets forth civil penalties for persons that violate the requirements of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2951 New York Highway 43 in Averill Park, New York, as the "Major George Quamo Post Office Building".

Bill: 109-hr-5708
Sponsor: Rep. Sweeney, John E. [R-NY-20]
Introduced: 2006-06-28 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Army
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Names
New York State
Officer personnel
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2951 New York Highway 43 in Averill Park, New York, as the "Major George Quamo Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Introduced in House
Ethics in Government Reauthorization Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5710
Sponsor: Rep. Porter, Jon C. [R-NV-3]
Introduced: 2006-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Authorization
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Government contractors
Government ethics
Office of Government Ethics
Performance measurement
Science, Technology, Communications
Technology assessment

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: 
Ethics in Government Reauthorization Act of 2006 - Amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Office of Government Ethics through FY2010.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to submit to the President and the appropriate congressional committees a report on the Office of Government Ethics, which shall include: (1) an evaluation of the functions and performance of the Office; (2) a study of the advantages and disadvantages of permanently reauthorizing the Office as a stand-alone entity and of transferring all or part of the functions of the Office to another federal agency or department; (3) an evaluation of the technologies currently being used by the Office and recommendations as to whether any new technologies should be deployed to allow the Office to carry out its functions more efficiently; and (4) any other findings or recommendations of the Comptroller General, including recommendations for any legislation or administrative action which may be necessary. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2006-07-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2006-06-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2006-06-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2006-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Introduced in House
To permit the Joint Committee on Judicial Administration in the District of Columbia to establish a program of voluntary separation incentive payments for nonjudicial employees of the District of Columbia courts.

Bill: 109-hr-5711
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2006-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: District of Columbia
Judicial officers
Labor and Employment
Law
Local employees
Severance pay

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: 
Authorizes the Joint Committee on Judicial Administration in the District of Columbia to establish a program for making voluntary separation incentive payments for nonjudicial employees of the District of Columbia courts which is substantially similar to the program established for federal employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Securities and Exchange Commission Authority Restoration Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5712
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2006-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Futures trading
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Independent regulatory commissions
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Investment advisers
Law
Mutual funds
Securities and Exchange Commission
Securities regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: 
Securities and Exchange Commission Authority Restoration Act of 2006 - Amends the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 with respect to the exemption from the requirement of registration for any investment adviser: (1) who has had fewer than fifteen clients during the course of the preceding twelve months; and (2) who neither holds himself out generally to the public as an investment adviser, nor acts an an investment adviser to any registered investment company or a company which has elected to be a business development company.
 
Authorizes the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to: (1) limit the availability of this exemption; and (2) require the registration of any investment adviser by requiring that certain shareholders, partners, and beneficial owners of, or investors in, clients of the adviser be counted as clients themselves.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Introduced in House
United Nations Budget Reform Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5713
Sponsor: Rep. Hyde, Henry J. [R-IL-6]
Introduced: 2006-06-29 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Appropriations
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
United Nations
United Nations finances
Voting

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: 
United Nations Budget Reform Act of 2006 - States that it shall be U.S. policy to use its influence at the United Nations to pursue: (1) General Assembly adoption of formal procedures for the use of weighted voting in the General Assembly with respect to the adoption of regularly assessed budgets for biennial periods (the proportionate value of a member's vote to be equal to such member's assessed budget contribution); and (2) U.N. adoption of formal procedures that prohibit passage of a regularly assessed budget for a biennial period without first obtaining the unanimous consent of all members. 
 
Provides that if the United Nations adopts such a budget without unanimous consent the United States shall appropriate, but withhold from expenditure, 25% of its budget contributions which shall be available for release to the United Nations until the earlier of five years or until the Secretary of State certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that the United Nations is in compliance with this Act (such funds to revert to the United States if there is no certification).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Introduced in House
To make amendments to the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992.

Bill: 109-hr-5715
Sponsor: Rep. Bilbray, Brian P. [R-CA-50]
Introduced: 2006-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Authorization
California
Construction costs
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Government Operations and Politics
Groundwater
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Irrigation
Waste water treatment
Water conservation
Water treatment plants

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: 
Amends the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992 to authorize appropriations for Phase II of the Olivenhain Water Treatment Plant in California (part of the San Diego County Area Water Recycling Project). Limits the federal share of project costs for which funds are made available to $35 million (the current limit is $20 million).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-12
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2006-07-03
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-07-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Iraq Transition Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5716
Sponsor: Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-9]
Introduced: 2006-06-29 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Democracy
Federal advisory bodies
Foreign leaders
Government Operations and Politics
Government officials
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military occupation
Military operations
Military withdrawal
Sovereignty

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: 
Iraq Transition Act of 2006 - Establishes the Commission on Iraqi Transition, which shall report upon all issues relating to the transfer of power for Iraqi government operations from U.S. military forces to the newly-elected government of Iraq, particularly to the Prime Minister of Iraq, the President of Iraq, and the Iraqi Council of Representatives, including day-to-day operations of Iraqi ministries and departments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5099)
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2006-06-29
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2006-06-29
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2006-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Introduced in House
Education Assessment Technical Corrections Act

Bill: 109-hr-5717
Sponsor: Rep. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL-10]
Introduced: 2006-06-29 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Congressional reporting requirements
Disabled
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Government Operations and Politics
Illiteracy
Literacy programs
Performance measurement
Rating of teachers
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Standards
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: 
Education Assessment Technical Corrections Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 to except teachers in hard to staff areas from the requirement that all teachers teaching in core academic subjects within a state be highly qualified not later than the end of the 2005-2006 school year. Requires teachers in hard to staff areas, instead, to satisfy at least 80% of the requirements to be highly qualified by the end of the 2006-2007 school year, and satisfy all of them by the end of the following school year.
 
Revises requirements for assessments of student groups in measuring the adequate yearly progress of the state, and of all public schools and local educational agencies (LEAs) in the state, toward enabling all public elementary school and secondary school students to meet the state's student academic achievement standards.
 
Provides that a student group which has failed to meet or exceed achievement standards may satisfy assessment requirements if it met such standards in the immediately preceding year.
 
Authorizes the testing of disabled students at their instructional level, rather than grade level, provided they show progress in accordance with individualized education programs.
 
Permits states to change the method of counting students who are in more than one group.
 
Revises the sanctions for schools which fail an assessment by reason of a group of no more than four students from designation as needing improvement to mandatory redirection of funds to the needs of such group.
 
Requires the Secretary of Education to make recommendations to Congress for increasing the percentage of limited English proficient students and disabled students who meet or exceed state academic achievement standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1343)
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-29
text: Introduced in House