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Encourage Initiative and Promote Self-Esteem Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4095
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Chronically ill
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Earnings
Health
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security eligibility
Supplemental security income program
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
Encourage Initiative and Promote Self-Esteem Act of 2005 - Amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) and XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act to establish special rules for disability benefits based on waxing and waning medical condition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
Stealth Tax Relief Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4096
Sponsor: Rep. Reynolds, Thomas M. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Minimum tax
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
Stealth Tax Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2006 the increased alternative minimum tax exemption amount for individual taxpayers; and (2) adjust such increased exemption amount for inflation in 2006.

action_date: 2005-12-07
text: 

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

 
Stealth Tax Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2006 the increased alternative minimum tax exemption amount for individual taxpayers; and (2) adjust such increased exemption amount for inflation in 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-13
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 326.
action_date: 2005-12-12
text: Received in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 414 - 4 (Roll no. 613). (text: CR H11141)
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 414 - 4 (Roll no. 613).(text: CR H11141)
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H11147-11148)
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4096.
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H11141-11147)
action_date: 2005-12-07
text: Mr. Reynolds moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
Family Education Reimbursement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4097
Sponsor: Rep. Boehner, John A. [R-OH-8]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Alabama
Auditing
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Displaced persons
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic funds transfers
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency Management
Federal aid to education
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government procurement
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Identification devices
Information technology
Internet
Louisiana
Mississippi
School choice
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Student enrollment
Telephone
Texas
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
Family Education Reimbursement Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a Family Education Reimbursement Account Program for families of students displaced by Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita. 

Provides for reimbursing parents for costs of such students or preschool-age children attending schools or preschool programs, chosen by the parents, during the 2005&#150;2006 school year.

 Requires the Secretary to make a contract with a nongovernmental entity to administer and operate the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
Community Cancer Care Preservation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4098
Sponsor: Rep. Ramstad, Jim [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Chemotherapy
Clinical trials
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Drugs
Medical fees
Medical research
Medicare
Overhead costs
Performance measurement
Physicians
Prescription pricing
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
Community Cancer Care Preservation Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to subject to quarterly reconciliation any payments to physicians for drugs or biologicals made according to average sales price payment methodology in order to assure that they do not exceed or fall short of the actual average sales price during any preceding period.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review all such payments in the preceding quarter and compare them to the verified average sales price reported by the manufacturer for such quarter.
 
Removes prompt pay discounts from the calculation of the manufacturer's average sales price.
 
Extends through December 31, 2006, the current demonstration project to identify and assess oncology services that positively affect cancer outcomes.
 
Requires the Secretary to make an additional 2% for drug administration services payment to physicians for overhead and related costs.
 
Directs the Secretary to develop indicators for the evaluation of the quality of oncology services provided in the physician office setting.
 
Requires the Director of the National Cancer Institute to develop a strategic plan to increase the number of cancer patients who enroll in clinical trials.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-10-20
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: 2005-10-20
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: 2005-10-20
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: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
Homeland Security Volunteerism Enhancement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4099
Sponsor: Rep. McCaul, Michael T. [R-TX-10]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Authorization
Border patrols
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Department of Homeland Security
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Employee training
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Government travel
Identification of criminals
Illegal aliens
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Recruiting of employees
Smuggling
Social Welfare
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
Homeland Security Volunteerism Enhancement Act of 2005 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish: (1) a Citizens Corps, as a component of the USA Freedom Corps, to coordinate homeland security volunteer activities; and (2) a Border Corps as a volunteer organization to assist the U.S. Border Patrol in carrying out its mission. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
Louisiana Recovery Corporation Act

Bill: 109-hr-4100
Sponsor: Rep. Baker, Richard H. [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Accounting
Advice and consent of the Senate
Auditing
Building construction
Church and social problems
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Commemorations
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Congress
Contractors
Corporate finance
Debtor and creditor
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Eminent domain
Environmental Protection
Executive reorganization
Financial statements
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government corporations
Government paperwork
Government securities
Historic sites
History
Housing and Community Development
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Land transfers
Landowners
Law
Louisiana
Mortgages
Nonprofit organizations
Presidential appointments
Profit
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public utilities
Real estate appraisal
Real estate business
Real estate development
Regional economic development
Religion
Right of property
Road construction
Sewerage
Social Welfare
Stocks
Subcontractors
Transportation and Public Works
Urban affairs
Urban economic development
Urban housing
Waste water treatment
Water Resources Development
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
Louisiana Recovery Corporation Act - Establishes the Louisiana Recovery Corporation as an independent establishment in the executive branch whose primary mission shall be the economic stabilization and redevelopment of areas within Louisiana that were devastated or significantly distressed by Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita. 
 
Directs the Corporation to establish the following divisions: (1) Environment and Land Use Management; (2) Economic Development; (3) Property Acquisition; (4) Property Management; (5) Property Disposition; and (6) Urban Homesteading and Community and Faith-Based Organizations. 
 
Sets forth Corporation authority with respect to: (1) property acquisition and mortgage debt assumption; (2) property resale, disposition, or improvement; and (3) limited eminent domain power.
 
Terminates the Corporation ten years after enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-15
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2005-12-15
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
Public Health Emergency Medicines Act

Bill: 109-hr-4102
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Access to health care
Commercialization
Compensation (Law)
Drug industry
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Exports
Federal aid to research
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Health
Intellectual property
Inventions
Law
Licenses
Medical supplies
Medical technology
Patents
Pharmaceutical research
Product development
Public health
Research grants
Restrictive trade practices
Risk
Science, Technology, Communications
Technology transfer
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
Public Health Emergency Medicines Act - Gives the Secretary of Health and Human Services the right to authorize use of the subject matter of a patent relating to health care without authorization of the patent holder if the Secretary determines that the invention is needed to address a public health emergency. Provides for reasonable remuneration for the patent holder for use of the patent.
 
Allows the Secretary to authorize the use of a patent, without the patent holder's authorization, to export medicines or other health care products that are needed to address global public health emergencies when the legitimate rights of the patent holder are protected in the export market. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
Qualified Long-term Care Fairness Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4104
Sponsor: Rep. Brown-Waite, Ginny [R-FL-5]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Income tax
Long-term care
Long-term care insurance
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
Qualified Long-term Care Fairness Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction from gross income for the cost of long-term care services and long-term care insurance contracts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H608)
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
Perquimans River Wild and Scenic River Study Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4105
Sponsor: Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
North Carolina
Water Resources Development
Wild rivers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
Perquimans River Wild and Scenic River Study Act of 2005 - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate the Perquimans River and its tributaries in Perquimans County, North Carolina, for study for potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
American Parity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4110
Sponsor: Rep. Emanuel, Rahm [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Block grants
Building construction
Capital investments
Crime and Law Enforcement
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to housing
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal aid to the aged
Federal aid to transportation
Federal aid to water resources development
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Higher education
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
International Affairs
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Maintenance and repair
Medical laboratories
Middle East and North Africa
Poverty
Public health
Road construction
School buildings
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Transportation and Public Works
Unemployment
War relief
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
American Parity Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make grants to states and local governments for assistance in making priority expenditures. Defines priority expenditures as ordinary and necessary maintenance and operating expenses for: (1) primary, secondary, or higher education; (2) public safety; (3) public health; (4) social services for the disadvantaged or aged; (5) roads, transportation, and water infrastructure; and (6) housing, as well as ordinary and necessary capital expenditures authorized by state law. Requires at least one third of grant amounts to be made available to local governments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8517)
To redesignate the Caribbean National Forest in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as the El Yunque National Forest.

Bill: 109-hr-4111
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Fortuno, Luis G. [R-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Caribbean area
Names
National forests
Puerto Rico

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
Redesignates the Caribbean National Forest in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as the &quot;El Yunque National Forest.&quot; 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
National Emergency Centers Establishment Act

Bill: 109-hr-4112
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Access to health care
Armed Forces and National Security
Building construction
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster relief
Disasters
Displaced persons
Education
Educational facilities
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency housing
Emergency medicine
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Evacuation of civilians
Federal law enforcement officers
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Hazardous wastes
Health
Health facilities
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Labor and Employment
Land transfers
Law enforcement officers
Maintenance and repair
Military base closures
Military bases
Military civic action
Paramedical personnel
Police
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Refuse and refuse disposal

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
National Emergency Centers Establishment Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish at least six national emergency centers on mililtary installations to provide: (1) temporary housing, medical, and humanitarian assistance to individuals and families dislocated due to an emergency or major disaster; and (2) centralized locations for the training and coordination of federal, state, and local first responders, and to improve coordination of preparedness, response, and recovery efforts of government, private, and not-for-profit entities and faith-based organizations.
 
Requires the use of such centers to meet other appropriate needs determined by the Secretary.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2144)
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
To provide for a reduction in pay for Members of Congress.

Bill: 109-hr-4113
Sponsor: Rep. Hayes, Robin [R-NC-8]
Introduced: 2005-10-20 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional salaries
Economics and Public Finance
Government spending reductions
Members of Congress

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: 
Reduces the rate of pay for each Member of Congress for service performed during the 110th Congress by 5% of the rate of pay for such position as of December 31, 2006.
 
Subjects the rate, after such Congress, to adjustment to the same extent and in the same manner as if the rate determined for such position (after rounding in accordance with this Act) had been determined under the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-20
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: 2005-10-20
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: 2005-10-20
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: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Introduced in House