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Medicare Independent Living Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5983
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Disabled
Home care services
Long-term care
Medical supplies
Medicare
Self-help devices for the disabled
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Medicare Independent Living Act of 2006 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the in-the-home restriction for Medicare coverage of mobility devices for individuals with expected long-term needs. Deems such devices to be durable medical equipment (DME) if they are used in customary settings for the purpose of normal domestic, vocational, or community activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Unredeemed U.S. Savings Bond Return Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5984
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Claims
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Department of the Treasury
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Law
Public records
Savings bonds
Science, Technology, Communications
Taxation
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Unredeemed U.S. Savings Bond Return Act of 2006 - Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations authorizing states to enter into owner location and claims agreements with the Secretary in order to: (1) locate owners of specified unredeemed savings bonds; (2) identify such owners; and (3) process and verify claims for the redemption of such savings bonds.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Working American Competitiveness Act

Bill: 109-hr-5986
Sponsor: Rep. Chocola, Chris [R-IN-2]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Earnings
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Working American Competitiveness Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayers to elect to exclude from gross income, without limitation, earned income (i.e., income for services performed) from sources within a foreign country.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
To provide for a feasibility study of alternatives to augment the water supplies of the Central Oklahoma Master Conservancy District and cities served by the District.

Bill: 109-hr-5987
Sponsor: Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Governmental investigations
Infrastructure
Lakes
Oklahoma
Water districts
Water storage
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Directs the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation to conduct a feasibility study of alternatives to augment the water supplies of the Central Oklahoma Master Conservatory District and cities served by the District.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2006-08-07
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-08-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Predominantly Black Institution Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5988
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Black colleges
Blacks
Building construction
Community and school
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational facilities
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Minorities
Minority education
Scholarships
School buildings
School libraries
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student aid
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Predominantly Black Institution Act of 2006 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide grants to Predominantly Black Institutions to: (1) enhance their capacity to serve more low and middle-income Black American students; (2) expand higher education opportunities for students eligible for student assistance under title IV of the Act by encouraging such students to prepare for college and persist in secondary and postsecondary education; and (3) strengthen their financial ability to serve the academic needs of such students. 
 
Defines such institutions as accredited institutions: (1) serving at least 1,000 undergraduate students, at least 50% of which are pursuing a bachelor's or associate's degree; (2) serving an undergraduate population at least 40% of which are Black Americans and at least 50% of which are low-income or first-generation college students; and (3) whose spending per full-time undergraduate student is low in comparison to that of institutions offering similar instruction.
 
Allows grant recipients to use up to 20% of their grant on an endowment fund, provided they raise nonfederal matching funds at least equal to the amount of the grant used for such endowment. Allots funding among institutions on the basis of their share of Pell Grant recipients, graduates, and graduates pursuing a higher degree.
 
Establishes a minimum allotment for each institution of $250,000, which is to be ratably reduced if appropriations are insufficient to pay such amount.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the injection of carbon monoxide in meat products.

Bill: 109-hr-5991
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Carbon monoxide
Commerce
Food safety
Meat
Meat packing industry
Packaging

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to prohibit the use of carbon monoxide in any meat or meat food product or the packaging of any meat or meat food product.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture .
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Choices in Child Care Act

Bill: 109-hr-5992
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Block grants
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Government Operations and Politics
Infants
Labor and Employment
Poor children
Social Welfare
Working poor

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Choices in Child Care Act - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to five to seven states for demonstration projects to provide at-home infant care benefits to low-income families. Allows grants to Indian tribes. Requires the Secretary to seek to ensure geographic diversity among participants and to give priority to states that demonstrate a commitment to improving the quality of infant care and the choices available to parents of infants, that have relevant experience, and that have a shortage of infant care.
 
Requires states, to participate in the demonstration project, to certify to the Secretary that the state: (1) will not reduce expenditures for child care services while carrying out the project; (2) will not give priority or preference to low-income families seeking to receive at-home infant care benefits over other families on a waiting list for child care assistance through other state programs, but will select a combination of such families; and (3) will ensure that applicants are permitted to choose between receipt of at-home care subsidies and certificates for child care needed for employment.
 
Sets forth eligibility requirements for families seeking assistance, including having a parent who had a recent work history prior to the application for benefits. Requires states to permit two-parent families to participate in the project, but prohibits states from limiting participation in the project to such families.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the marketing of authorized generic drugs.

Bill: 109-hr-5993
Sponsor: Rep. Emerson, Jo Ann [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Generic drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit a holder of a new, approved drug application from manufacturing, marketing, selling, or distributing a generic version of such drug during any exclusivity period granted to manufacturers of generic brands. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
To designate the outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Farmington, Missouri, as the "Robert Silvey Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic".

Bill: 109-hr-5994
Sponsor: Rep. Emerson, Jo Ann [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Armed Forces and National Security
Clinics
Congressional tributes
Health
Missouri
Names
Veterans' hospitals

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient clinic in Farmington, Missouri, as the &quot;Robert Silvey Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the prohibitions on United States assistance to countries that are parties to the International Criminal Court.

Bill: 109-hr-5995
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Americans in foreign countries
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal courts
Economic assistance
International courts
Law
Military assistance
Prosecution
Sanctions (International law)
Treaties

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Amends the American Servicemembers' Protection Act of 2002 to repeal the prohibition on military assistance to a country that is a party to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
 
Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2005 and the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2006 to repeal limitations on Economic Support Fund assistance to a country that is a party to the ICC and has not entered into an agreement with the United States preventing ICC proceedings against U.S. personnel present in such country. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to identify a western passage of the CANAMEX Corridor in Arizona, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-5997
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Arizona
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Highway finance
Infrastructure
Interstate highway system
Road construction
Roads and highways

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to include a western passage in the State of Arizona from San Luis as part of the identification of the CANAMEX Corridor in Arizona as a high priority corridor. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Snoqualmie Pass Land Conveyance Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5999
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Doc [R-WA-4]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Emergency Management
Fire departments
Fire prevention
Government Operations and Politics
Land transfers
National forests
Rescue work
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Snoqualmie Pass Land Conveyance Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey a specified parcel of National Forest System land to the King and Kittitas Counties Fire District #51 of King and Kittitas counties, Washington, to permit the District to use such parcel as a site for a new Snoqualmie Pass fire and rescue station. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-02
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2006-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
To revise the Farmland Protection Program of the Department of Agriculture.

Bill: 109-hr-6000
Sponsor: Rep. Holden, Tim [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Conservation easements
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Farm lands
Forest conservation
Gifts
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Land use
Landowners
Licenses
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Range management
Riparian ecology
Zoning and zoning law

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to revise the farmland protection program.
 
Includes as eligible program land woodlots, wooded corners, and forested riparian areas that comprise up to 50% of the offered acreage.
 
 Gives priority to farm and ranchland: (1) with prime, unique, or other productive soils at risk of nonagricultural development; (2) that will stay in production agriculture; (3) in rural communities that face intense pressure for conversion to nonagricultural use; or (4) in areas that have locally-led land-use planning and zoning strategies. 
 
Provides for: (1) grants to eligible entities to protect agricultural production capacity by limiting incompatible nonagricultural land use; and (2) grant agreements with eligible entities to purchase conservation easements using a combination of their own funds and grant funds. 
 
Sets forth reversionary interest and cost-sharing provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development, and Research.
action_date: 2006-08-07
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
To require the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to establish an identity verification system that ensures that disaster assistance payments are paid only to qualified individuals.

Bill: 109-hr-6001
Sponsor: Rep. Jindal, Bobby [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster relief
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Law
Names

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Requires the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish a system that verifies applicant identity in near-real time to ensure that disaster assistance payments are paid only to qualified individuals.
 
Requires the Director, in order to determine if an individual is qualified and ensure that the system is efficient, to: (1) establish registration criteria that provides simple but specific instructions to registrants regarding the required information; (2) require registrants to provide their name exactly as it appears on their social security card; (3) test the system prior to implementation; (4) ensure that call center employees give prompt feedback regarding whether the registrant's identity has been validated; and (5) establish an expeditious appeal and alternative verification process for a registrant who is rejected.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Volunteer Firefighter/Emergency Medical Service Gas Price Relief Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6002
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Sue W. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Expense accounts
Fire fighters
Health
Income tax
Medical personnel
Paramedical personnel
Social Welfare
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Volunteer Firefighter/Emergency Medical Service Gas Price Relief Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow volunteers who provide firefighting or emergency medical services a tax deduction for up to $250 of their travel expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Psychological Kevlar Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6003
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Congressional reporting requirements
Families
Family services
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health planning
Labor and Employment
Medical research
Mental health services
Military dependents
Military medicine
Military personnel
Military training
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Preventive medicine
Psychotherapy
Science, Technology, Communications
Stress (Psychology)

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Psychological Kevlar Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to develop and implement a plan to incorporate preventive and early-intervention measures, practices, or procedures that reduce the likelihood that personnel in combat will develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or other stress-related psychopathologies, including substance use conditions.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) update the plan periodically; (2) develop and implement a training program to educate and promote awareness among commissioned and noncommissioned officers, front-line medical professionals and primary care providers, and military personnel and their families about the signs and risks of combat stress and stress-related psychopathology; (3) establish a working group to research and develop measures that reduce the likelihood of PTSD or other pathologies in combat veterans; and (4) establish a new Peer-Reviewed Research program for such research and development.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
GROW America's Small Businesses Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6004
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Interest
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Law
Military pay
National Guard
Salaries
Small business
Surety and fidelity
Tax deferral
Trusts and trustees
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Generating Reinvestment Opportunities with America's Small Businesses Act of 2006 or the GROW America's Small Businesses Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow certain small businesses (generally, businesses with $12 million or less in gross receipts for a taxable year) to defer payment of income tax by making four equal installments over a specified two-year period; (2) extend such deferral period to three years for small businesses that increase employment and maintain salary levels of employees called to duty as members of the Ready Reserve/National Guard; and (3) establish tax-exempt GROW Accounts to provide financing and tax relief for such small businesses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House