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New Mexico Rivers Feasibility Studies Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4007
Sponsor: Rep. Strickland, Ted [D-OH-6]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alabama
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Data banks
Disabled
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Environmentally induced diseases
Epidemiology
Evidence (Law)
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Health information systems
Health surveys
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Law
Louisiana
Medical economics
Medical records
Medical research
Medical statistics
Military civic action
Military personnel
Mississippi
National Guard
Science, Technology, Communications
Texas
Toxicology
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Makes a member of the Armed Forces who is performing duty in response to a disaster or emergency declaration after August 28, 2005, in an area affected by Hurricane Katrina or Rita eligible for hospital care, medical services, and nursing home care for any disability, notwithstanding insufficient medical evidence to conclude that the disability is attributable to such duty. Prohibits such care or services with respect to a disability found to have resulted from a cause other than such duty. Terminates eligibility two years after the member's discharge or release from such duty.
 
Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to review and make recommendations for the health surveillance of members who may be exposed to environmental hazards as the result of duty in areas affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
 
Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to maintain a database of members provided health care by the Department of Veterans Affairs pursuant to such duty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2005-10-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2005-10-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House
To posthumously award a Congressional gold medal on behalf of each person aboard United Airlines Flight 93 who helped resist the hijackers and caused the plane to crash.

Bill: 109-hr-4008
Sponsor: Rep. Tancredo, Thomas G. [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Air piracy
Airline passenger traffic
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Crime and Law Enforcement
Flight crews
International Affairs
Pennsylvania
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to make arrangements for the posthumous presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal to the next of kin or personal representative of each passenger or crew member on board United Airlines Flight 93 who is identified by the Attorney General as having aided in the effort to resist the hijackers on board the plane, in recognition of heroic service to the Nation.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike a gold medal with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions. Authorizes the Secretary to strike and sell bronze duplicates of such gold medal.
 
Declares such medals to be national medals.
 
Requires that proceeds from the sale of duplicate bronze medals be deposited into the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House
Low-Income Gasoline Assistance Program Act

Bill: 109-hr-4010
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Tom [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Access to health care
Aid to dependent children
Cash welfare block grants
Commuting
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy assistance for the poor
Energy prices
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Health
Labor and Employment
Minorities
Native Americans
Transportation and Public Works
Vocational and technical education
Welfare eligibility
Welfare recipients

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Low-Income Gasoline Assistance Program Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to states to establish emergency assistance programs to pay eligible households for the purchase of gasoline.
 
Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to authorize a state to use funds from any TANF grant to carry out such a state low-income gasoline assistance program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2051)
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House
Mercury in Dental Fillings Disclosure and Prohibition Act

Bill: 109-hr-4011
Sponsor: Rep. Watson, Diane E. [D-CA-33]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Child health
Commerce
Consumer protection
Dental care
Equipment and supplies
Families
Health
Health warnings
Labeling
Mercury
Pregnant women
Product safety
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Warning labels
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Mercury in Dental Fillings Disclosure and Prohibition Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem adulterated (hence prohibited), effective January 1, 2009, any amalgam containing mercury intended for use in a dental filling.
 
Provides for a transition period, during which such a device may be manufactured and sold if it bears a specified warning label, until this Act becomes effective.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H9282)
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House
Community Disaster Loan Equity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4012
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Disaster loans
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Income tax
Interest
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Local finance
Local taxation
State finance
State taxation
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Community Disaster Loan Equity Act of 2005 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President to make community disaster loans to state governments. Eliminates the $5 million limit on such a loan, and prohibits the President from requiring its repayment, if the state or local government receiving it may suffer a substantial loss of tax and other revenues as a result of a major disaster determined to be an incident of national significance.
 

 
Applies this Act to any major disaster occurring on or after August 24, 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8796, E2055)
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Milk Regulatory Equity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4015
Sponsor: Rep. Nunes, Devin [R-CA-21]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices
Agricultural subsidies
Arizona
Marketing orders
Milk
Nevada

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Milk Regulatory Equity Act of 2005 - Amends the the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to subject specified Class I milk handlers (including producer-handlers) to federal milk marketing order minimum and uniform price requirements applicable to the county in which the plant of the handler is located, at federal order class prices, if the handler has packaged fluid milk product route dispositions, or sales of packaged fluid milk products to other plants, in a marketing area located in a state that requires handlers to pay minimum prices for raw milk purchases. 
 
Exempts from such provision: (1) a handler operating a nonpool plant; (2) a producer-handler for any month during which packaged fluid milk route dispositions and sales to other plants are less than three million pounds of milk; or (3) specified handlers whose fluid milk products are disposed of as route dispositions or transfers, or whose dispositions or transfers are in states requiring minimum prices for raw milk purchases. 
 
Subjects a Class I milk handler in the Arizona-Las Vegas marketing area (Order 131) to minimum milk price requirements for any month in which the handler distributes in such area at least three million pounds of Class I products from his or her own production. 
 
Excludes Nevada from federal milk marketing orders.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Hurricane Education Assistance Act

Bill: 109-hr-4017
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Disabled
Disaster relief
Displaced persons
Economics and Public Finance
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Families
Federal aid to education
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Labor and Employment
Louisiana
Maintenance and repair
Mental health services
Mississippi
Preschool education
Private schools
Psychotherapy
Recruiting of employees
School buildings
School choice
School health programs
School personnel
School-age child care
Secondary education
Special education
Student enrollment
Student transportation
Teacher salaries
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers
Teaching materials
Texas
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Hurricane Education Assistance Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants for the 2005-2006 school year to eligible entities that serve students displaced by Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita who enroll in elementary or secondary, including charter, schools served by or in such entities. Makes eligible for such grants: (1) the Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas state educational agency; and (2) other states' local educational agencies, or schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, if they enroll at least 10 displaced students.
 
Directs the Secretary to make one-time emergency grants to state educational agencies to reimburse parents or guardians of displaced students who are attending private schools in such states for the 2005-2006 school year.
 
Prohibits use of funds under this Act for: (1) school construction, except for minor remodeling as otherwise authorized; or (2) expenses covered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) or private insurance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Setting Priorities in Spending Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4018
Sponsor: Rep. Boehner, John A. [R-OH-8]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Adult education
Alaska
Animals
Apprenticeship
Arts
Arts, Culture, Religion
Career education
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Crime and Law Enforcement
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational technology
Educational television
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government spending reductions
Hawaiians
Higher education
Indian education
Indigenous peoples
Interactive media
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Literacy programs
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Massachusetts
Minorities
Multicultural education
Native Americans
Parent-school relationships
Preschool education
Prisoners
Rehabilitation of criminals
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Sex discrimination
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Technical education
Vocational and technical education
Vocational guidance
Whaling
Women
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Setting Priorities in Spending Act of 2005 - Repeals provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 for: (1) ready-to-learn television; (2) the Star Schools Act; (3) Ready to Teach; (4) the Foreign Language Assistance Act of 2001; (5) community technology centers; (6) educational, cultural, apprenticeship, and exchange programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and their historical whaling and trading partners in Massachusetts; (7) arts in education; (8) parental assistance and local family information centers; and (9) the Women's Educational Equity Act of 2001.

Repeals the Early Learning Opportunities Act.

Repeals provisions of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998 for: (1) occupational and employment information; and (2) Tech-Prep demonstration.

Repeals provisions of the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 for state grants for incarcerated youth.

Prohibits the Secretary of Education from obligating any funds to carry out provisions of the National Literacy Act of 1991 for literacy for prisoners.

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Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Implementing Katrina Disaster Relief Through the CDFI Fund Act

Bill: 109-hr-4020
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Alabama
Authorization
Bank capital
Bank deposits
Bank loans
Community development banking
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Financial services
Floods
Florida
Government trust funds
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Louisiana
Mississippi
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Implementing Katrina Disaster Relief Through the CDFI Fund Act - Authorizes appropriations for FY2006 to the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (Fund) in order to provide assistance to community development financial institutions located in a Hurricane Katrina affected area.
 
Requires the Fund to limit the selection of applicants for such assistance to any financial institution that: (1) is located in a Hurricane Katrina affected area; or (2) demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Fund that it has the ability to provide capital, credit, or financial services within the Hurricane Katrina affected area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To permit statues honoring citizens of the District of Columbia to be placed in Statuary Hall in the same manner as statues honoring citizens of the States are placed in Statuary Hall, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-4021
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Commemorations
District of Columbia
Government Operations and Politics
Sculpture

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Permits statues honoring deceased citizens of the District of Columbia to be placed in Statuary Hall. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2073)
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Reconstructive Surgery Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4022
Sponsor: Rep. Ross, Mike [D-AR-4]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Labor and Employment
Plastic surgery

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Reconstructive Surgery Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to require a group health plan, and a health insurance issuer offering group health insurance coverage, that provide coverage for surgery to also cover reconstructive surgery, including medically-necessary treatment for preoperative and postoperative care. Defines &quot;reconstructive surgery&quot; as any medically necessary and appropriate surgery performed to correct or repair abnormal structures of the body caused by congenital defects, developmental abnormalities, trauma, infection, tumors, or disease to: (1) improve functions; or (2) give the patient a normal appearance. Excludes cosmetic surgery that is performed to alter or reshape normal structures of the body in order to improve appearance.
 
Applies such requirements to health insurance coverage offered in the individual market. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Children's Gasoline Burn Prevention Act

Bill: 109-hr-4023
Sponsor: Rep. Bachus, Spencer [R-AL-6]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child safety
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Container industry
Energy
Families
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Petroleum storage
Product safety
Safety measures
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Children's Gasoline Burn Prevention Act - Directs the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate final child-resistance product safety standards for closures on portable gasoline containers intended for use by consumers.
 
Prescribes criteria for such standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Community Disaster Loan Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4024
Sponsor: Rep. Baker, Richard H. [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Disaster loans
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-local relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Loan defaults
Local finance
Reprogramming of appropriated funds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Community Disaster Loan Act of 2005 - Authorizes the transfer of up to $300 million in certain disaster relief funds to the Disaster Assistance Direct Loan Program (DADLP) for the cost of direct loans authorized by the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (the Act) to assist local governments in providing essential services. Authorizes the transfer, also, of up to $1 million of such funds to the DADLP for administrative expenses.
 

 
Amends the Act to eliminate the $5 million limit on the amount of any community disaster loans (but keep the limit of 25% of the local government annual operating budget for the fiscal year in which the major disaster occurs).
 
Repeals the requirement that repayment of all or part of any such loans be cancelled to the extent that the local government's revenues during the three fiscal years following the major disaster are insufficient to meet its operating budget. (Retains denial of such a government's eligibility for further assistance during any period in which it is in arrears on required repayment of such a loan.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House