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To provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain entries relating to high-density laminate panels entered from 1998 through 2000.

Bill: 109-hr-5569
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2006-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-08
text: 
Directs the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection to provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain entries relating to high-density laminate panels.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-08
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain entries relating to high-density laminate panels entered from 1998 through 2004.

Bill: 109-hr-5570
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2006-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-08
text: 
Directs the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection to provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain entries relating to high-density laminate panels.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-08
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain entries relating to high-density laminate panels entered from 1997 through 2005.

Bill: 109-hr-5571
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2006-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-08
text: 
Directs the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection to provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain entries relating to high-density laminate panels.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-08
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain entries relating to high-density laminate panels entered from 2000 through 2005.

Bill: 109-hr-5572
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2006-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-08
text: 
Directs the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection to provide for the liquidation or reliquidation of certain entries relating to high-density laminate panels.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Pigford Claims Remedy Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5575
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2006-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural credit
Blacks
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Claims
Farmers
Finance and Financial Sector
Government liability
Law
Limitation of actions
Minorities
Racial discrimination

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: 
Pigford Claims Remedy Act of 2006 - States that any Pigford claimant (relating to a racial discrimination action against the Department of Agriculture) who has not previously obtained a determination on the merits of a Pigford claim may, in a civil action, obtain that determination. 
 
States that it is Congress' intent that this Act be liberally construed so as to effectuate its remedial purpose of giving a full determination on the merits for each denied Pigford claim. 
 
Defines: (1) &quot;Pigford claimant&quot; as an individual who previously submitted a late-filing request under the consent decree in the case of 
Pigford v. Glickman 
(1999); and (2) &quot;Pigford claim&quot; as a discrimination complaint as defined and documented by such consent decree.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Identity Protection Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5577
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2006-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces abroad
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Computer security measures
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Veterans Affairs
Executive reorganization
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Identification devices
Identity theft
Inspectors general
Military personnel
Misconduct in office
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: 
Veterans Identity Protection Act of 2006 - Expresses the sense of Congress that it is the responsibility of the Department of Veterans Afffairs: (1) to safeguard Department records that contain personal identifying information about present and former members of the Armed Forces and their family members; and (2) when such information is lost or compromised due to the carelessness of the Department or one of its employees, to assist the affected individuals in mitigating the effects of such loss or compromise.
 
Establishes within the Department an Office of Identity Protection to prevent such loss or compromise of information and to assist affected individuals.
 
Directs the Department's Inspector General to conduct a study of Department data security practices.
 
Provides criminal penalties for Department officers or employees who remove from Department custody any protected personnel file, record, report, or document.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Unfavorable Executive Comment Received from Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: Executive Comment Requested from Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Protection for Participants in Research Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5578
Sponsor: Rep. DeGette, Diana [D-CO-1]
Introduced: 2006-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accreditation (Medical care)
Administrative procedure
Clinical trials
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Communication in science
Conflict of interests
Continuing education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Grievance procedures
Higher education
Human experimentation in medicine
Informed consent (Medical law)
Labor and Employment
Law
Medical ethics
Medical fees
Medical research
Mentally disabled
Minorities
Minority employment
Peer review organizations (Medicine)
Pharmaceutical research
Recruiting of employees
Research ethics
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: 
Protection for Participants in Research Act of 2006 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require all human subject research conducted, supported, or otherwise subject to federal regulation, to be conducted in accordance with the Common Rule and the vulnerable-population rules, as set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review and harmonize such regulations. 
 
Requires informed consent before an individual may be a subject of human research.
 
Requires an Institutional Review Board to approve all human subject research proposals.
 
 Directs the Secretary to establish criteria for identifying and monitoring high-risk human subject research projects. 
 
Prohibits grants or awards to a public entity or private academic institution that does not have a program to educate investigators and Board members on the protection of human research subjects.
 
Prohibits the use of federal funds for classified human subject research if: (1) the Board has waived the informed consent requirement; or (2) the research is exempt from Board review. 
 
Establishes the Office of Human Research Protections within the Office of the Secretary. Requires the Director of the Office to: (1) provide for the protection of human research subjects; (2) establish criteria regarding assurance of compliance with Common Rule requirements; and (3) coordinate federal activities with respect to the protection of human research subjects. Authorizes the Director to make grants for a model education program.
 
Requires the Secretary to promulgate regulations enhancing the protection of people with diminished decisionmaking capacity participating in human subject research.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: Introduced in House
No Special Tax Subsidies for Gas Guzzlers Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5579
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2006-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Automobile industry
Automobiles
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Energy
Excise tax
Fuel consumption
Income tax
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: 
No Special Tax Subsidies for Gas Guzzlers Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose: (1) depreciation limits applicable to luxury automobiles on certain heavy vehicles (rated at 8,500 pounds gross vehicle weight or less) and sport utility vehicles; and (2) the gas guzzler excise tax on such heavy vehicles and sport utility vehicles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1104-1105)
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: Introduced in House
United States-India Energy Security Cooperation Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5580
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2006-06-09 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Carbon cycle
Coal
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Energy
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Energy security
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection
Environmental technology
India
International cooperation
International environmental cooperation
Petroleum
Petroleum reserves
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
South Asia
Technical assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: 
United States-India Energy Security Cooperation Act of 2006 - Authorizes the President to establish programs in support of greater energy cooperation between the United States and India.
 
Authorizes assistance for cooperation related to research, development, and deployment in selected areas, including: (1) clean coal and emission reduction technologies and carbon sequestration projects; (2) alternative fuel sources, such as ethanol, biomass, coal-based fuels, and hydrogen; and (3) energy efficiency projects.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Government Credit Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5581
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2006-06-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Armed Forces and National Security
Auditing
Checks
Commerce
Consumer credit
Consumer discounts
Credit cards
Defense contracts
Defense procurement
Department of Defense
Disciplining of employees
Dismissal of employees
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Fraud
General Services Administration
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government travel
Inspectors general
Interest
Labor and Employment
Law
Misconduct in office
Negligence
Rebates
Risk
Science, Technology, Communications
Transfer of employees
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Waste in government spending

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: 

 

 

 

 
Government Credit Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2006 - Directs each executive agency (with separate Department of Defense (DOD) requirements) and amends the Travel and Transportation Reform Act of 1998 to require specified credit card and convenience card controls and safeguards, including risk assessment analyses, audits, and the reporting of such analyses and audits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2006-06-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2006-06-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2006-06-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-09
text: Introduced in House
Keep Small Businesses Profitable Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5583
Sponsor: Rep. Bean, Melissa L. [D-IL-8]
Introduced: 2006-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Automobiles
Commerce
Income tax
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-12
text: 
Keep Small Businesses Profitable Act of 2006 - Provides that the optional standard mileage rate used to calculate the tax deduction for business use of an automobile shall not be less than 48.5 cents per mile in 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Special Operations Forces Retention Improvement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5584
Sponsor: Rep. Hayes, Robin [R-NC-8]
Introduced: 2006-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Labor and Employment
Military pay
Military pensions
Special forces (Military science)

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-12
text: 
Special Operations Forces Retention Improvement Act of 2006 - Amends federal Armed Forces provisions to require the retired military pay of a qualified special operations forces member to be increased by the amount of specified special and incentive pays received by such member prior to retirement.
 
Requires the member, in order to qualify for such retired pay increase, to have been: (1) paid special pay for duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger for no fewer than 18 months; and (2) assigned in a special operations forces duty assignment for not less than 60 months.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2006-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-12
text: Introduced in House
HSA Premium Affordability Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5586
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2006-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Coinsurance
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Medical savings accounts

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-12
text: 
HSA Premium Affordability Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow payment of premiums for high deductible health insurance coverage from health savings accounts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Commission on Catastrophic Disaster Risk and Insurance Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5587
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2006-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Alabama
Building laws
Casualty insurance
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Depressed areas
Disaster insurance
Earthquakes
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal advisory bodies
Floods
Florida
Government Operations and Politics
Government insurance
Government trust funds
Housing and Community Development
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Income tax
Insurance companies
Legislation
Louisiana
Mississippi
Property insurance
Public-private partnerships
Reinsurance
Risk
Tax deferral
Tax exemption
Taxation
Texas
Tsunamis
Urban affairs
Volcanoes
Zoning and zoning law

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-12
text: 
Commission on Catastrophic Disaster Risk and Insurance Act of 2006 - Establishes a bipartisan Commission on Catastrophic Disaster Risk and Insurance to assess: (1) the condition of the property and casualty insurance and reinsurance markets in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma in 2005, and the four major hurricanes that struck the United States in 2004; (2) the ongoing exposure of the United States to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and floods; and (3) recommend and report legislative and regulatory changes that will improve the domestic and international financial health and competitiveness of such markets.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2006-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Comprehensive Veterans' Data Protection and Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5588
Sponsor: Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3]
Introduced: 2006-06-12 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Computer security measures
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Department of Veterans Affairs
Encryption
Executive reorganization
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial services
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Identification devices
Identity theft
Law
Ombudsman
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-12
text: 
Comprehensive Veterans' Data Protection and Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2006 - Places upon the Secretary of Veterans Affairs an affirmative obligation to protect from any data breach the sensitive personal information of veterans and any other individuals that the Department of Veterans Affairs possesses, creates, or maintains, as well as information or tools (including passwords and encryption keys) used to protect the integrity of such data.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) implement and maintain reasonable security policies and procedures to protect such information; and (2) prescribe policies and procedures regarding employee and third party access to, and use of, such information which the Department receives, maintains, or transmits.
 
Directs the Secretary, upon discovery of a data breach, to: (1) notify the United States Secret Service, the Department's Inspector General, the congressional veterans' committees, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC); (2) notify each individual whose information was acquired or accessed by an unauthorized person; and (3) place a conspicuous notice on the Department's Internet website.
 
Requires the Secretary, upon request of an affected individual, to: (1) include a fraud alert in the file of the individual with each nationwide consumer reporting agency; (2) apply a security freeze to the file of such individual; and (3) provide free damage mitigation services, including credit monitoring and annual copies of consumer credit reports.
 
Establishes within the Department an Ombudsman for Data Security.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Unfavorable Executive Comment Received from Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: Executive Comment Requested from Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-06-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3803)
action_date: 2006-06-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-06-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-12
text: Introduced in House
Stealth Tax Relief Extension Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5590
Sponsor: Rep. Reynolds, Thomas M. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2006-06-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Minimum tax
Tax credits
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-13
text: 
Stealth Tax Relief Extension Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the exemption from the alternative minimum tax for individual taxpayers in 2007; and (2) extend through 2007 the allowance of certain nonrefundable tax credits against alternative minimum tax liability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-06-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-13
text: Introduced in House
To name the national cemetery being constructed in Dixon, California, as the "Solano National Cemetery".

Bill: 109-hr-5591
Sponsor: Rep. Tauscher, Ellen O. [D-CA-10]
Introduced: 2006-06-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: California
Cemeteries and funerals
Names

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-13
text: 
Designates the national cemetery being constructed in Dixon, California, as the &quot;Solano National Cemetery.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2006-06-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-06-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-13
text: Introduced in House
Growing Responsible Energy and Environment Nationally through Federal Energy Decisions Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5592
Sponsor: Rep. Weller, Jerry [R-IL-11]
Introduced: 2006-06-13 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Diesel motor
Energy crops
Environmental Protection
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Government vehicles
Oils and fats
Refuse as fuel
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-13
text: 
Growing Responsible Energy and Environment Nationally through Federal Energy Decisions Act of 2006 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to set forth a federal agency fleet ethanol-blended gasoline and biodiesel purchasing requirement.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2006-06-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-13
text: Introduced in House