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Taxpayer Campaign Fund Elimination Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3960
Sponsor: Rep. Neugebauer, Randy [R-TX-19]
Introduced: 2005-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Campaign funds
Checkoff
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Income tax
Presidential elections

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: 
Taxpayer Campaign Fund Elimination Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to terminate, after 2005: (1) taxpayer checkoffs to finance presidential election campaigns; (2) the Presidential Election Campaign Fund (Fund) and related provisions; and (3) presidential primary matching payment accounts. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer any amounts remaining in the Fund after 2005 to the general fund of the Treasury.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2005-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2005-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2005-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide liability protections for employees and contractors of health centers under section 330 of such Act who provide health services in emergency areas.

Bill: 109-hr-3962
Sponsor: Rep. Schwarz, John J.H. "Joe" [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2005-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accreditation (Medical care)
Alabama
Clinics
Disaster relief
Disasters
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Floods
Florida
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government liability
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Law
Licenses
Louisiana
Medical malpractice
Medical personnel
Mississippi
Physicians
Public health personnel
Social Welfare
State laws
Texas
Volunteer workers
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to deem certain physicians or other licensed or certified health care practitioners to be employees of the Public Health Service for purposes of any civil action that may arise due to services provided in an emergency area by a contractor or an employee of a qualified health center. Provides that such services must be provided under an arrangement with a qualified health center or with a federal agency with responsibility for providing health services in the emergency area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Eliminate Gas Price Discrimination Act

Bill: 109-hr-3964
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2005-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Commerce
Franchises (Retail trade)
Petroleum industry
Restrictive trade practices
Service stations
Wholesale trade

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: 
Eliminate Gas Price Discrimination Act - Amends the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act to prohibit a franchise from placing a limitation on the source from which a franchisee may obtain motor fuel. Permits a franchise, however, to require the franchisee to obtain only motor fuels with respect to which the franchisor, or the refiner that supplies the franchisor, owns or controls a trademark.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Preserving the Sacredness of our National Cemeteries Act

Bill: 109-hr-3965
Sponsor: Rep. Tiahrt, Todd [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2005-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Crime and Law Enforcement
Ex-offenders
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Life imprisonment
Veterans' benefits
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: 
Preserving the Sacredness of our National Cemeteries Act - Prohibits the interment or memorialization in a national cemetery of any person convicted of a State capital crime and sentenced to death or life imprisonment. (Currently, such prohibition extends only to those so convicted and sentenced without the possibility of parole.)
 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to require a person submitting an application for interment or memorialization to certify whether the individual has been convicted of a capital crime.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Introduced in House
Stimulating Leadership in Cutting Expenditures Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3966
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2005-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Congress
Disaster relief
Disasters
Emergency Management
Expedited congressional procedure
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Government spending reductions
House rules and procedure
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Legislation
Presidential messages
Presidential powers
Rescission of appropriated funds
Senate rules and procedure
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: 
Stimulating Leadership in Cutting Expenditures Act of 2005 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to authorize the President to transmit to Congress, by specified dates, a special message proposing to rescind amounts of budget authority provided in: (1) the Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (P.L. 109-59); or (2) an appropriation Act enacted before January 1, 2006, in order to offset amounts appropriated or expected to be appropriated in connection with natural disasters occurring during calendar year 2005.
 
Prescribes procedures for expedited consideration of such proposed rescissions. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8989)
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2005-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2005-09-29
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2005-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8527-8528)
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the designation of a Department of Agriculture disaster liaison to assist State and local employees of the Department in coordination with other disaster agencies in responding to federally declared disasters.

Bill: 109-hr-3969
Sponsor: Rep. Blunt, Roy [R-MO-7]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural insurance
Agricultural subsidies
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Disasters
Emergency Management
Executive reorganization
Federal employees
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Transfer of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to deploy disaster liaisons to state and local Department of Agriculture Service Centers to coordinate Department assistance with other designated disaster agencies in a federally declared disaster area whenever Federal Emergency Management personnel are deployed in that area.
 
Defines &quot;federally declared disaster area&quot; for such purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House
Pathways Advancing Career Training Act

Bill: 109-hr-3972
Sponsor: Rep. Hart, Melissa A. [R-PA-4]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Career education
College costs
Compensatory education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Counseling
Curricula
Day care
Demography
Displaced homemakers
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Educational counseling
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government statistics
Higher education
Information technology
Job hunting
Labor statistics
Mentoring
Performance measurement
Recruiting and enlistment
Science, Technology, Communications
Single-parent families
Skilled labor
Social Welfare
Students
Teacher education
Technical education
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Vocational and technical education
Vocational guidance

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Pathways Advancing Career Training Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make formula matching grants to states with approved plans for programs of vocational education, training, employment counseling, and related services, including tuition assistance, for: (1) single parents and displaced homemakers; and (2) individuals receiving preparatory services and secondary and postsecondary students training for high-skill, high-wage nontraditional employment fields where individuals from one gender compose less than 25% of workers. 
 
Requires eligible state agencies to administer such programs, make competitive subgrants to eligible entities, and identify certain core indicators of performance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the closure or relocation of county or local Farm Service Agency offices pending the completion of the next omnibus agriculture law.

Bill: 109-hr-3974
Sponsor: Rep. Lucas, Frank D. [R-OK-3]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Congress
Department of Agriculture
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Legislation
Relocation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from closing or relocating a county or local Farm Service Agency office before the later of: (1) October 1, 2007; or (2) the date of the enactment of an omnibus Act authorizing FY2008 funds for the Department of Agriculture. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House
Worker Recovery Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3976
Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-7]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Adult education
Alabama
Bank accounts
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Day care
Disaster relief
Dislocated workers
Displaced persons
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Employment agencies
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Job hunting
Louisiana
Mississippi
Occupational retraining
Relocation
Social Welfare
Texas
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance
Vocational and technical education
Vocational guidance
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Worker Recovery Act of 2005 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to establish a temporary program to provide worker recovery accounts to workers affected by a Gulf hurricane disaster.
 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to make grants to eligible entities to provide such accounts to eligible individuals affected by Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita, in order to meet such individuals' employment and training needs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House
National Private Well Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3977
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Bacteria
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Consumer education
Damages
Environmental law enforcement
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health
Iron
Land transfers
Landowners
Law
Lead
Leases
Legal fees
Liability (Law)
Liability for environmental damages
Limitation of actions
Manganese
Medical economics
Mercury
Nitrates
Pollution measurement
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Water Resources Development
Water quality
Wells

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
National Private Well Protection Act of 2005 - Requires any private property owner whose property includes a well that has fewer than 15 service connections and does not regularly serve at least 25 individuals for at least 60 days each year to: (1) conduct tests on such wells to determine the level of contaminants in the well water; (2) disclose the results of such tests to any prospective buyer or lessee of the property; and (3) provide the results of such tests to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Allows civil remedies and penalties for nondisclosure of test results to prospective buyers or lessees or to the EPA. 
 
Requires the EPA Administrator to collect, compile, and maintain the results of such tests and make them available to the public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
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
To authorize the Secretary of Energy to purchase certain essential mineral rights and resolve natural resource damage liability claims.

Bill: 109-hr-3978
Sponsor: Rep. Beauprez, Bob [R-CO-7]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Armed Forces and National Security
Boundaries
Colorado
Commerce
Department of Energy
Department of the Interior
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Government Operations and Politics
Habitat conservation
Hazardous wastes
Land transfers
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Liability for nuclear damages
Mines and mineral resources
Mining claims
Nuclear weapons
Radioactive wastes
Restoration ecology
Sand and gravel industry
Trusts and trustees
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
States that specified funds authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Energy for the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site (Colorado) shall be available to the Secretary for the purchase of essential mineral rights at Rocky Flats.
 
Prescribes related conditions under which any natural resource damage liability claim shall be deemed to be satisfied.
 
Exempts mineral rights purchased under this Act from the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
 
Amends the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge Act of 2001 to repeal the mandate for a Memorandum of Understanding in connection with the transfer to the Secretary of the Interior of management responsibilities and jurisdiction over Rocky Flats. Repeals, also, the prohibiton against any reduction in funds available to the Secretary of Energy for cleanup and closure of Rocky Flats as a result of such transfer.
 
 
Revises the composition of the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge and excludes specified lands subject to certain essential mineral rights.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the provisions of title 5, United States Code, relating to the mandatory separation of members of the Capitol Police by reason of age or years of service.

Bill: 109-hr-3979
Sponsor: Rep. Burton, Dan [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Civil service retirement
Congress
Congressional agencies
Crime and Law Enforcement
Federal law enforcement officers
Labor and Employment
Mandatory retirement
Police
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Prohibits any member of the Capitol Police, during the 12-month period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, from being subject to mandatory separation by reason of age or years of service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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 House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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 House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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 authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out certain land exchanges involving small parcels of National Forest System land in the Tahoe National Forest in the State of California, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-3981
Sponsor: Rep. Doolittle, John T. [R-CA-4]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Land transfers
Mines and mineral resources
National forests

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire from Irving N. Christensen and from Dennis W. and Cindy M. McCreary certain parcels of land in exchange for certain parcels of National Forest System lands in Tahoe National Forest, California.
 
Withdraws all exchanged lands from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws.

action_date: 2005-11-15
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire from Irving N. Christensen and from Dennis W. and Cindy M. McCreary certain parcels of land in exchange for certain parcels of National Forest System lands in Tahoe National Forest, California.
 
Withdraws all exchanged lands from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held.
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H10172)
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H10172)
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3981.
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H10171-10172)
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: Mrs. Musgrave moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2005-10-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Freedom to Lend Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3982
Sponsor: Rep. Doolittle, John T. [R-CA-4]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporate governance
Corporate management
Corporation directors
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Loans
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Small Business Freedom to Lend Act of 2005 - Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to establish a three-year pilot program to permit an eligible certified development company (CDC) to make loans (for small business development) in any state that is contiguous to its the state of incorporation. Makes eligible CDCs that are designated as either an accredited or premier certified lender under the Small Business Investment Act of 1958. Removes the requirement that such a CDC maintain, in each state in which it makes or intends to make loans, separate and distinct memberships, officers, boards of directors, and loan committees.
 
Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to allow an officer, director, or manager of one qualified state or local development company to serve as an officer, director, or manager of another qualified state or local development company. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in House