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Neighborhood Rail Accountability Act

Bill: 109-hr-106
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Citizen participation
Department of Transportation
Environmental Protection
Environmental justice
Federal-local relations
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Licenses
Railroad engineering
Surface Transportation Board

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Neighborhood Rail Accountability Act - Amends Federal transportation law to require the Surface Transportation Board, in determining whether to issue a certificate authorizing the construction of an additional railroad line or of an extension to any railroad line, to: (1) give greater weight to local official statements and public comments in opposition to the proposed construction, especially with respect to construction in a residential area, if there is an unusually high level of public opposition; and (2) identify any disproportionate negative impacts on any socioeconomic population, including a discussion of alternatives that were considered that would have avoided such impacts.
 
Prescribes procedural requirements for dealing with any false or incorrect information provided by a certificate applicant.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Life Insurance Employee Notification Act

Bill: 109-hr-107
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Business insurance
Commerce
Employee rights
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Insurance companies
Life insurance
Restrictive trade practices

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Life Insurance Employee Notification Act - Requires an employer to notify an employee in writing upon the purchase of an employer-owned insurance policy on the life of such employee for a beneficiary other than the individual who is the subject of the policy.
Declares that violation of this Act constitutes an unfair method of competition and an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2005-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
LIHEAP Equity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-108
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Appropriations
Economics and Public Finance
Energy assistance for the poor
Heating
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: LIHEAP Equity Act of 2005 - Amends the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 with respect to State allotments under the low-income energy assistance program to limit to 50 percent the earmark for home heating purposes of amounts appropriated for program implementation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-01-04
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: 2005-01-04
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: 2005-01-04
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: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Tribal Parity Act

Bill: 109-hr-109
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Compensation (Law)
Dams
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Housing and Community Development
Hydroelectric power
Indian claims
Indian economic development
Indian lands
Infrastructure
Law
Minorities
Missouri River development
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reservoirs
Revenue sharing
South Dakota
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Tribal Parity Act - Amends the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Infrastructure Development Trust Fund Act to increase from $39.3 million to $186,822,140 the aggregate amount to be deposited into the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Infrastructure Development Trust Fund by the Secretary of the Treasury to provide compensation to the Lower Brule Tribe of South Dakota for damage to tribal land caused by Pick-Sloan projects along the Missouri River.
 
Amends the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Infrastructure Development Trust Fund Act of 1996 to increase from $27.5 million to $105,917,853 the aggregate amount to be deposited into the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Infrastructure Development Trust Fund by the Secretary to provide compensation to the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of South Dakota for such damage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E10)
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
School Environment Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-110
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Agriculture and Food
Child health
Child safety
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection Agency
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Fines (Penalties)
Freedom of information
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Health
Health warnings
Integrated pest management
Judicial review
Law
Legal fees
Licenses
Parent-school relationships
Pesticide regulation
Pesticides
Playgrounds
Product safety
Public schools
School administration
School boards
School buildings
School districts
School personnel
Secondary education
Signs and signboards
Students
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
School Environment Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) establish a National School Integrated Pest Management Advisory System to develop and update uniform standards and criteria for implementing integrated pest management systems in schools; (2) establish a National School Integrated Pest Management Advisory Board; (3) provide grants to local educational agencies to develop such systems. 
Prohibits: (1) the application of a pesticide when a school or school ground is occupied or in use; or (2) the use of an area or room treated by a pesticide, other than a least toxic pesticide, during the 24-hour period beginning at the end of the treatment. 
Requires each local educational agency or school to provide notice of the integrated pest management system of the school district at the beginning of each school year and to give prior notice of any use of a pesticide (other than a least toxic pesticide). 
Prescribes procedures to be followed if a pest cannot be controlled after having used an integrated pest management system and least toxic pesticides. 
Prescribes civil penalties for violations of this Act. 
Establishes the Integrated Pest Management Trust Fund to carry out education, training, propagation, and development activities under school integrated pest management systems.
Prohibits, no later than six years after this Act's enactment, the use of any pesticide other than a least toxic pesticide in schools unless the Administrator has met the requirements of this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Community Choice in Real Estate Act

Bill: 109-hr-111
Sponsor: Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-44]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank holding companies
Commerce
Housing and Community Development
Real estate business
Subsidiary corporations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Community Choice in Real Estate Act - Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, and the Revised Statutes of the United States, to prohibit the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Secretary of the Treasury, respectively, from determining that real estate brokerage activity or real estate management activity is financial in nature, is incidental to any financial activity, or is complementary to a financial activity. (In effect, prohibits financial holding companies and national banks from engaging, directly or indirectly, in real estate brokerage or real estate management activities.)
Exempts from such prohibition: (1) activities of a bank holding company (or any affiliate) that directly relate to managing any real property owned by national banks or their affiliates; and (2) the right, power, or ability of any financial holding company to engage in any activity, or acquire or retain the shares of any company engaged in an activity authorized for financial holding companies on December 6, 2001 ("grandfather clause").

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To require the videotaping of interrogations and other pertinent actions between a detainee or prisoner in the custody or under the effective control of the armed forces of the United States pursuant to an interrogation, or other pertinent interaction, for the purpose of gathering intelligence and a member of the armed forces of the United States, an intelligence operative of the United States, or a contractor of the United States.

Bill: 109-hr-112
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Charities
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Constitutional amendments
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal procedure
Evidence (Law)
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Human rights
Intelligence officers
International Affairs
International agencies
Iraq compilation
Judges
Law
Military and naval offenses
Military intelligence
Military law
Military personnel
Nongovernmental organizations
Prisoners of war
Prisoners' rights
Punishment
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Security classification (Government documents)
Social Welfare
Torture
Treaties
Video tape recording
War crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Requires the President to take such actions as are necessary, in accordance with specified laws and treaties, to ensure the videotaping of interrogations and other intelligence-related interactions between detainees or prisoners under the effective control of the U.S. Armed Forces, and members of the U.S. Armed Forces, U.S. intelligence operatives, or contractors of the United States. Directs the President to provide for the appropriate classification of such videotapes. Requires such videotapes to be made available, under seal if appropriate, to both the prosecution and defense if material to any military or civilian criminal proceeding. 
 
Requires the President to take necessary actions to ensure immediate and unfettered access to detainees or prisoners in the custody or effective control of the U.S. Armed Forces by the following organizations: (1) International Federation of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent; (2) United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; and (3) United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture.
 
Directs the Judge Advocate General to develop guidelines to ensure that the videotaping required by this Act is sufficiently expansive to prevent any abuse of detainees and prisoners and violations of specified laws and treaties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-27
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1-15)
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of Transportation, in computing the estimated tax payments attributed to highway users for purposes of title 23, United States Code, to take into account the replacement of the reduced rates of tax on gasohol with an excise tax credit.

Bill: 109-hr-113
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Mark R. [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Excise tax
Government trust funds
Highway finance
Tax credits
Tax rates
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Transportation to determine apportionments to States of Federal-aid highway funds for FY 2006 or any subsequent fiscal year in a particular manner if FY 2005 or any preceding fiscal year is taken into account in the computation. Directs the Secretary, in such an instance, to use the amount of estimated tax receipts that would have resulted if certain alcohol fuel mixture and biodiesel mixture excise tax credits under the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 had taken effect at the beginning of the fiscal year taken into account.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring College Access for All Americans Act

Bill: 109-hr-114
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Higher education
Income
State taxation
Student aid
Student loan funds
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Ensuring College Access for All Americans Act - Prohibits the application of the annual updates (prescribed in the Federal Register on December 23, 2004) to the allowance for State and other taxes in the tables used in the Federal Needs Analysis Methodology to determine a student's expected family contribution for the award year 2005-2006 under the Higher Education Act of 1965, to the extent such updates will reduce the amount of Federal student assistance for which the student is eligible.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E14)
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Social Security and Medicare Lock-box Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-116
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Budget deficits
Budget reconciliation
Budget resolutions
Budget surpluses
Congress
Congressional budget
Congressional voting
Federal budgets
Government trust funds
Health
House rules and procedure
Legislation
Legislative amendments
Legislative resolutions
Medicare
Off-budget expenditures
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Public debt
Senate rules and procedure
Social Welfare
Social security finance

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Social Security and Medicare Lock-box Act of 2005 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make it out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate, until there is both a Social Security and Medicare solvency certification by the Boards of Trustees of the Social Security and Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Funds, respectively, to consider: (1) any concurrent budget resolution that would use any portion of the baseline budget surpluses; or (2) any legislation or amendment if the enactment of such legislation or amendment would use any portion of such surpluses. 
Defines "baseline budget surplus" as the sum of the on- and off-budget surpluses contained in the most recent baseline budget projections by the Congressional Budget Office at the beginning of the annual budget cycle and no later than the month of March. 
Defines circumstances in which a portion of such surpluses is used in the case of legislation affecting revenues or direct spending or an appropriations bill.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Higher Education Affordability and Fairness Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-117
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Income tax
Scholarships
Tax deductions
Tuition tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Higher Education Affordability and Fairness Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the tax deduction for qualified higher education tuition and related expenses. Makes such tax deduction permanent. 
Increases adjusted gross income limits for purposes of determining the allowable amount of the Hope Scholarship tax credit. 
Directs the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct an annual study to examine whether the Federal income tax incentives to provide education assistance affect higher education tuition rates in order to identify if institutions of higher education are absorbing the intended savings by raising tuition rates. 
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the maximum Pell Grant should be increased to $4,700 to pay approximately: (1) 20 percent of the tuition, fees, room and board, and other expenses of the average college; or (2) the tuition and fees of the average public college.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E17)
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Keeping Small Businesses Healthy Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-118
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Self-employed
Small business
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Keeping Small Businesses Healthy Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain small business employers (100 or fewer employees) a refundable tax credit for up to 60 percent of the health insurance costs paid for their employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Expand America's Workforce Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-119
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Recruiting of employees
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Expand America's Workforce Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow, until December 31, 2007, a general business tax credit for hiring certain new employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House