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To amend title 5, United States Code, to make creditable for civil service retirement purposes certain periods of service performed with Air America, Incorporated, Air Asia Company Limited, or the Pacific Division of Southern Air Transport, Incorporated, while those entities were owned or controlled by the Government of the United States and operated or managed by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Bill: 109-hr-1276
Sponsor: Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2005-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Annuities
Armed Forces and National Security
Central Intelligence Agency
Civil service retirement
Commerce
Families
Federal employees
Government corporations
Labor and Employment
Law
Military aviation
Office of Personnel Management
Subsidiary corporations
Survivors' benefits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: 
Makes creditable for civil service retirement purposes pre-1977 service performed by a U.S. citizen with Air America, Incorporated, Air Asia Company Limited, or the Pacific Division of Southern Air Transport, Incorporated, while those entities were owned or controlled by the U.S. Government and operated or managed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
College Aid Made EZ Act

Bill: 109-hr-1277
Sponsor: Rep. Emanuel, Rahm [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2005-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Aid to dependent children
Cash welfare block grants
Computer matching
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Cost effectiveness
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Earned income tax credit
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Ex-offenders
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal-state relations
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Food stamps
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Higher education
Identification devices
Income
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Internet
Labor and Employment
Local taxation
Parents
Scholarships
School lunch program
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
State taxation
Student aid
Student employment
Student loan funds
Supplemental security income program
Tax credits
Tax returns
Taxation
WIC program
Web sites
Welfare recipients

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: 
College Aid Made EZ Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise and simplify the Federal student aid application process, including the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
 
Provides for: (1) a FAFSA-EZ form with fewer pages and questions; (2) a pre-FAFSA process, allowing application for HEA student assistance one year earlier, in junior year of high school; (3) greater Internet access to FAFSA forms; (4) more students qualifying for using a simplified form; and (5) automatic qualification for a simplified form for those students eligible for specified Federal programs, including school lunches.
 
Reduces the types of income and benefits which are considered untaxed for purposes of student assistance need analysis. Removes specified requirements relating to suspension of student aid eligibility due to drug-related offenses. Revises requirements relating to income protection allowances and student contributions from available income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Billionaire's Loophole Elimination Act

Bill: 109-hr-1278
Sponsor: Rep. Emanuel, Rahm [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2005-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Collection of accounts
Debtor and creditor
Law
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: 
Billionaire's Loophole Elimination Act - Amends Federal bankruptcy law to permit the bankruptcy trustee to avoid a transfer to an asset protection trust of an interest of the debtor in property made within ten years before filing of the bankruptcy petition, if the transfer amount (or the aggregate amount of all transfers to the trust within the ten-year period) exceeds $125,000, to the extent that the debtor's beneficial interest in the trust does not become property of the estate because of a restriction enforceable under applicable nonbankruptcy law (because it is income from a spendthrift trust reasonably necessary for the support of debtor and dependents).
 
 
Defines asset protection trust as one settled by the debtor, in which the debtor has a direct or indirect beneficial interest or under which the trustee may distribute property to or for the benefit of the debtor, and as to which a restriction on the voluntary or involuntary transfer of the debtor's beneficial interest in the trust is enforceable under applicable nonbankruptcy law. 
 
Excludes from the meaning of asset protection trust: (1) specified retirement funds, (2) charitable trusts; and (3) certain educational trust, funds, or accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend part C of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to prohibit the operation of the Medicare Comparative Cost Adjustment (CCA) program in Texas.

Bill: 109-hr-1280
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2005-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Competitive bidding
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Insurance premiums
Managed care
Medical economics
Medical fees
Medicare
Metropolitan areas
Rebates
Social Welfare
Texas
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: 
Amends part C (Medicare+Choice) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the operation of the Medicare comparative cost adjustment program in Texas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-03-14
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: 2005-03-14
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: 2005-03-14
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: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Trade Act of 1974 to extend trade adjustment assistance to certain service workers.

Bill: 109-hr-1281
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2005-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dislocated workers
High technology
Information technology
Labor and Employment
Location of industries
Science, Technology, Communications
Service industries
Trade adjustment assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: 
 Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to extend trade adjustment assistance (TAA) to workers in an entity engaged in the business of providing information technology or other high technology services (service sector firm or its subdivision).
 
Revises group eligibility requirements for TAA to include: (1) a shift, by such workers' firm or subdivision to a foreign country, in provision of services, like or directly competitive with services which are provided by such firm or subdivision; and (2) the situation where such workers' firm or subdivision obtains or is likely to obtain such services from a foreign country.
 
Extends TAA to adversely affected secondary workers in such a service sector firm or its subdivision.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
GRAD Act

Bill: 109-hr-1282
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2005-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Community and school
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational research
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Higher education
Literacy programs
Mathematics
Nonprofit organizations
Parent-school relationships
Public schools
Reading
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student aid
Subcontractors

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: 
Graduation Really Achieves Dreams Act - GRAD Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award a grant to Project GRAD USA, a nonprofit educational organization for improving high school graduation and college attendance and completion rates for disadvantaged students, to provide technical assistance and support through subgrants to existing and new programs that implement a set of integrated education reform services.
 
Requires the grantee to select only subgrantees that serve a substantial number or percentage of low-income students. Requires the programs to identify one or more groups of public schools at which services will be provided through a feeder pattern through which elementary and secondary schools channel students having participated in program services into an identified high school. Requires program services to include: (1) research-based programs in reading, mathematics, and classroom management; (2) campus-based social services programs, including increasing family and community involvement in schools; (3) a college access program, including providing college scholarships for students who meet established criteria, increasing student and family college awareness, and assisting students to apply for college financial aid; and (4) other services the grantee identifies as necessary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
To provide that transit pass transportation fringe benefits be made available to all qualified Federal employees in the National Capital Region; to allow passenger carriers which are owned or leased by the Government to be used to transport Government employees between their place of employment and mass transit facilities, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-1283
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2005-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Commuting
District of Columbia
Electric vehicles
Energy
Executive orders
Federal employees
Fringe benefits
Government travel
Government vehicles
Labor and Employment
Local employees
Maintenance and repair
Maryland
Mass rapid transit
Natural gas vehicles
Terminals (Transportation)
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Requires each Federal agency in the National Capital Region to implement a program under which all qualified Federal employees serving in or under such agency shall be offered transit pass transportation fringe benefits as required under Executive Order 13150.
Authorizes the use of a passenger carrier to transport a Federal officer or employee between his or her place of employment and a mass transit facility. Requires a Federal agency that provides such service to: (1) absorb the cost; (2) when possible, use alternative fuel vehicles; and (3) coordinate such transportation with other Federal agencies.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E438-439)
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the placement of an equestrian statue depicting frontiersman, explorer, and missionary Jacob Hamblin on the grounds of the Forest Service Kaibab Plateau Visitor Center in Jacob Lake, Arizona, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-1284
Sponsor: Rep. Renzi, Rick [R-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2005-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Fund raising
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
History
Missionaries
Monuments and memorials
Mormons
National forests
Religion
Sculpture
Tourism
West (U.S.)

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to authorize the Jacob Hamblin Legacy Organization to install a bronze equestrian statue depicting frontiersman, explorer, and missionary Jacob Hamblin on the grounds of the Forest Service Kaibab Plateau Visitor Center in Jacob Lake, Arizona. Prohibits the use of Federal funds to design, acquire, prepare the site for, or install the statue.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Right to Know Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1286
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2005-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Accounting
Budget deficits
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security beneficiaries
Social security finance
Social security taxes
Tax rates
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: 
Social Security Right to Know Act of 2005 - Amends the Social Security Act to require Social Security account statements to contain additional information, such as a statement of the current Social Security tax rates applicable to wages and self-employment income, including an indication of the combined total of such rates of employee and employer taxes with respect to wages. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
Designating the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 312 East North Avenue in Flora, Illinois, as the "Robert T. Ferguson Post Office Building."

Bill: 109-hr-1287
Sponsor: Rep. Shimkus, John [R-IL-19]
Introduced: 2005-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Illinois
Names
Postal facilities
United States Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 332 South Main Street in Flora, Illinois, as the "Robert T. Ferguson Post Office Building."
action_date: 2006-03-20
text: 
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 312 East North Avenue in Flora, Illinois, as the "Robert T. Ferguson Post Office Building." 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-20
text: Became Public Law No: 109-184.
action_date: 2006-03-20
text: Became Public Law No: 109-184.
action_date: 2006-03-20
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2006-03-20
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2006-03-10
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2006-03-10
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2006-03-03
text: Cleared for White House.
action_date: 2006-03-03
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2006-03-03
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1756)
action_date: 2006-03-03
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S1756)
action_date: 2005-12-19
text: Received in the Senate, read twice.
action_date: 2005-12-19
text: The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-12-19
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-12-19
text: On passage Passed without objection.
action_date: 2005-12-19
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.
action_date: 2005-12-19
text: Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H12212; text of measure as introduced: CR H12212)
action_date: 2005-12-19
text: Mr. Issa asked unanimous consent to discharge from committee and consider.
action_date: 2005-12-19
text: Committee on Government Reform discharged.
action_date: 2005-12-19
text: Committee on Government Reform discharged.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 109-184
Southern Campaign of the Revolution Heritage Area Study Act

Bill: 109-hr-1289
Sponsor: Rep. Spratt, John M., Jr. [D-SC-5]
Introduced: 2005-03-14 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: American Revolution
Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural property
Environmental Protection
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Landscape protection
Military history
Military parks
National monuments
National parks
Nature conservation
North Carolina
Outdoor recreation
Public-private partnerships
Social life and customs
South Carolina
Sports and Recreation
State parks

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: 
Southern Campaign of the Revolution Heritage Area Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating specified South Carolina counties, including specified public sites, other sites maintained by the State, and National Park Service sites in the State, and, possibly, North Carolina sites, as the Southern Campaign of the Revolution Heritage Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Introduced in House
To make technical corrections to the Veterans Benefits Improvement Act of 2004.

Bill: 109-hr-1292
Sponsor: Rep. Buyer, Steve [R-IN-4]
Introduced: 2005-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Housing and Community Development
Housing for the disabled
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: 
Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to restore the specially adapted housing assistance for certain active-duty members of the Armed Forces which was deleted by provisions of the Veterans Benefits Improvement Act of 2004 and which created similar assistance for certain disabled veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Provisions of This Measure Incorporated in H.R. 2046, Section 4.
action_date: 2005-03-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E457-458)
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
Access and Equity in Higher Education Act

Bill: 109-hr-1293
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Authorization
Collection of accounts
Colleges
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Federal employees
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Higher education
Income
Interest
Interest rates
Local employees
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Social work
State employees
Student loan funds
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: 
Access and Equity in Higher Education Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise title IV student assistance programs with respect to: (1) higher maximum amounts for subsidized and unsubsidized student loans under the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program; (2) existence or amount of origination fees under FFEL and Federal Direct Loan programs; (3) loan-flex programs with income-sensitive repayment plans; (4) consolidation loan interest rate variation based on income; and (5) loan forgiveness for public service employees.
 
Extends through FY 2010 the authorization of appropriations for programs for Historically Black colleges and universities, under HEA title III part B.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: Introduced in House
Customs Business Fairness Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1294
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2005-03-15 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bankruptcy
Debtor and creditor
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Surety and fidelity
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-15
text: 
Customs Business Fairness Act of 2005 - Amends Federal bankruptcy law governing priority among claims and expenses to place in the tenth order of priority allowed unsecured claims for duties, taxes, or other charges paid to the U.S. Customs Service by customs brokers and sureties on behalf of the debtor arising out of the importation of merchandise entered for consumption within one year before the date of the filing of the petition in bankruptcy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
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