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Jetseta Gage Prevention and Deterrence of Crimes Against Children Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-956
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Appellate courts
Appellate procedure
Capital punishment
Child sexual abuse
Commerce
Computer crimes
Conspiracy
Deceptive advertising
District courts
Evidence (Law)
Families
Firearms
Habeas corpus
Imprisonment
Internet
Jurisdiction
Kidnapping
Law
Limitation of actions
Mandatory sentences
Murder
Pornography
Prostitution
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Victims of crimes
Violence
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
Jetseta Gage Prevention and Deterrence of Crimes Against Children Act of 2005 - Rewrites provisions of the federal criminal code regarding penalties for crimes against children to require a person convicted of a federal crime of violence against an individual under age 15 to be sentenced to: (1) death or life imprisonment if the crime results in the death of the victim; (2) life or at least 30 years imprisonment if the crime is a kidnaping, sexual assault, or maiming or results in serious bodily injury; (3) life or at least 14 years imprisonment if the crime results in bodily injury to a person under age 12; (4) life or at least ten years imprisonment if a dangerous weapon was used during and in relation to the crime; and (5) life or at least two years imprisonment in any other case.
 
Increases penalties for sexual abuse of children, sexual exploitation and other abuse of children, and conduct relating to child prostitution. 
 
Christy Ann Fornoff Act - Denies a court, justice, or judge jurisdiction to consider claims relating to the judgment or sentence in an application for writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a state court for a crime that involved the killing of a person under age 18. Sets timetables for proceedings. Extends certain rights associated with habeas corpus proceedings to victims of the state offense at issue. Makes this Act applicable to pending cases.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8021)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4570-4571)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4569-4570)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Clean Coal Power Initiative Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-957
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Air pollution control
Carbon cycle
Chemicals
Coal
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power production
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Environmental protection groups
Federal aid to education
Feedstock
Finance and Financial Sector
Fuel
Fuel cells
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Labor unions
Mercury
Natural gas
Nitrogen oxides
Performance measurement
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research and development
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Sulphur
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
 Clean Coal Power Initiative Act of 2005 - Instructs the Secretary of Energy to establish a clean coal power initiative under which the Secretary shall provide assistance for projects that advance efficiency, reliability, environmental performance, and cost competitiveness.
 
Prescribes technical conditions and criteria for projects, including gasification projects.
 
Instructs the Secretary to award competitive, merit-based grants to institutions of higher education for the establishment of centers of excellence for energy systems of the future, including clean coal technology.
 
Prescribes guidelines for the Secretary to conduct a program of technology research, development, demonstration, and commercial application for coal and power systems, including programs to facilitate production and generation of coal-based power. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4571)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Star-Spangled Banner and War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission Act

Bill: 109-s-959
Sponsor: Sen. Sarbanes, Paul S. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Alabama
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Delaware
Economics and Public Finance
Europe
Executive reorganization
Exhibitions
Flags
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Indiana
Louisiana
Maryland
Michigan
Military history
National monuments
National parks
New York State
Nonprofit organizations
Ohio
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Social Welfare
Tourism
United Kingdom
Virginia
War

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
Star-Spangled Banner and War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission Act - Establishes the Star-Spangled Banner and War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission to encourage, plan, develop, coordinate, and execute programs, observances, and activities commemorating the historic events that preceded and are associated with the War of 1812. Requires the Commission to prepare a strategic plan and annual performance plans for any activity carried out by the Commission under this Act.
 
Terminates the Commission on December 31, 2015.

action_date: 2005-12-16
text: 
Star-Spangled Banner and War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission Act - Establishes the Star-Spangled Banner and War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission to encourage, plan, develop, coordinate, and execute programs, observances, and activities commemorating the historic events that preceded and are associated with the War of 1812. Requires the Commission to prepare a strategic plan and annual performance plans for any activity carried out by the Commission under this Act.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-08
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2006-06-08
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S13941-13942)
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-12-16
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4571-4572)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Captive Supply Reform Act

Bill: 109-s-960
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices
Animals
Cattle
Commerce
Competition
Contracts
Livestock
Meat packing industry
Restrictive trade practices
Swine

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Captive Supply Reform Act - Amends the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 respecting livestock producer-packer forward contracts to: (1) require the inclusion of fixed dollar amount base pricing and public bidding; (2) prohibit formula pricing; (3) limit individual contract size; and (4) exclude from the definition of "formula price" futures-based prices and base adjustments resulting from factors outside packer control.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4572-4573)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Reform Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-961
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Authorization
Coal
Commerce
Department of Agriculture
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Energy
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Health
Housing and Community Development
Indian lands
Infrastructure
Insurance premiums
Interest
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Investment of public funds
Labor and Employment
Landowners
Law
Licenses
Liens
Medical economics
Mine wastes
Mine water
Miners
Mining royalties
Minorities
Native Americans
Oil and gas royalties
Reclamation of land
Retiree health benefits
Sediment control
Social Welfare
Soil conservation
Soil erosion
State laws
Strip mining
Tennessee
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Reform Act of 2005 - Amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to repeal the authorization for use of certain moneys in the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund: (1) by the Secretary of Agriculture for reclamation of rural lands; and (2) by the Department of the Interior for certain studies, research, and demonstration projects.
 
 Extends the authority to collect reclamation fees to 2019. Revises Fund allocation requirements with respect to such fees.
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to transfer specified sums to: (1) the United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund; (2) the United Mine Workers of America 1992 Benefit Plan; and (3) a certain multiemployer health benefit plan established after July 20, 1992, by the parties that are the settlors of the 1992 Plan.
 
Repeals Fund objectives concerning: (1) protection , construction, or enhancement of public facilities such as utilities, roads, recreation and conservation facilities adversely affected by coal mining practices; and (2) the development of publicly owned land adversely affected by coal mining practices, including land acquired as provided for recreation and historic purposes, conservation, and reclamation purposes and open space benefits.
 
States that no lien shall be filed against any person who neither consented to, nor participated in, nor exercised control over the mining operation which necessitated reclamation. Repeals the limitation of such prohibition to persons who owned the surface before May 2, 1977.
 
Modifies guidelines for certification of completion of coal reclamation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 109-256.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Clean Energy Bonds Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-962
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Bonds
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Environmental Protection
Finance and Financial Sector
Government securities
Income tax
Irrigation
Municipal solid waste
Refuse as fuel
Solar energy
Tax credits
Tennessee Valley development
Water Resources Development
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
Clean Energy Bonds Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow holders of clean energy bonds a nonrefundable tax credit of 25 percent of an annual credit amount as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury. Defines &quot;clean energy bond&quot; as any bond issued by a clean energy bond lender, a cooperative electric company, a governmental body, or the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) that is used for capital expenditures for specified projects for producing electricity from certain renewable resources, such as wind, biomass, solar energy, small irrigation power, and municipal solid waste. 
 
Sets forth rules for maturity limitations, arbitrage, and expenditures, including a requirement that 95 percent of proceeds from the sale of a bond issue be spent on a renewable resource project within five years from the date of a bond issuance. Terminates the authority to issue clean energy bonds after 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4573-4574)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans' Health Care and Equitable Access Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-963
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Armed forces reserves
Chronically ill
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Day care
Disabled
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Health
Health insurance
Hospital rates
Housing and Community Development
Insurance companies
Medicare
Military dependents
Military medicine
National Guard
Rural health
Social Welfare
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
Veterans' Health Care and Equitable Access Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make specified funds available to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Secretary) for Veterans Health Administration FY 2007 programs.
 
Prohibits fund use for: (1) construction, acquisition, or alteration of veterans' medical facilities (other than for certain repairs); or (2) grants for the construction of State home facilities for veterans' domiciliary, nursing home, and hospital care. 
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct a pilot program to improve health care access for rural veterans.
 
Provides: (1) for travel reimbursement for veterans receiving treatment in VA facilities at the same as for Federal employees on official business; (2) that the disability rating for a veteran who loses a limb as a result of a service-connected injury shall be at least 50 percent; and (3) that if a member of the Armed Forces, National Guard, or Reserve dies while on active service or active status such individual's child enrolled in any Federal child care program shall continue receiving such services for 24 months after such death.
 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a Medicare subvention project under which HHS shall reimburse the VA for Medicare health care services furnished to Medicare-eligible veterans in VA facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6400-6401)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Americans Outdoors Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-964
Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Animals
Citizen participation
Coastal zone
Continental shelf
Demography
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Environmental Protection
Estuaries
Federal aid to Indians
Gas in submerged lands
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Habitat conservation
Indian lands
Indigenous peoples
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Interstate compacts
Land transfers
Land use
Local finance
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Metropolitan areas
Minorities
Native Americans
Nature conservation
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Open space lands
Outdoor recreation
Parks
Petroleum in submerged lands
Planning
Recreation areas
Restoration ecology
Revenue sharing
Sports and Recreation
State finance
State laws
Urban affairs
Urban areas
Water Resources Development
Water quality
Water rights
Wetlands
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
Americans Outdoors Act of 2005 - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) to require the transfer of qualified outer continental shelf revenues from the Treasury to specified programs.
 
Rewrites coastal impact assistance program provisions to set forth new formulas for allocating amounts transferred for coastal impact assistance payments among producing States (coastal States within a specified distance from qualified Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas drilling leases) and among coastal political subdivisions.
 
Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (LWCFA) to: (1) establish a new formula for apportioning outdoor conservation and recreation funds to the States (including U.S. territories and the District of Columbia); (2) make Indian tribes eligible for funds under a competitive grants program established by the Secretary of the Interior; and (3) require States to allocate a percentage of their annual apportionment to localities.
 
Requires States seeking LWCFA funds to develop State action agendas.
 
Amends the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act to establish a new formula for apportioning Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Account funds to include apportionments to Indian tribes.
 
Amends the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act of 1978 to: (1) include among that Act's purposes the development of new recreation areas and facilities; and (2) address the treatment of funds transferred under OCSLA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4574-4579)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the recognition period for built-in gains for subchapter S corporations.

Bill: 109-s-965
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Income tax
Small business
Tax administration
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce from ten to seven years the period during which certain built-in gains of subchapter S corporations are subject to tax.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4581)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4580-4581)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate a United States courthouse located in Fresno, California, as the "Robert E. Coyle United States Courthouse".

Bill: 109-s-966
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: California
Congress
Congressional tributes
Courthouses
Judges
Law
Names

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
Designates the U.S. courthouse bordered by O Street, P Street, Tulare Street, and Capitol Street in Fresno, California, as the &quot;Robert E. Coyle United States Courthouse.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4581)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Prepackaged News Story Announcement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-967
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcast journalism
Cable television
Government Operations and Politics
Government and the press
Government publicity
Identification devices

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
Truth in Broadcasting Act of 2005 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require that any prepackaged news story produced by or on behalf of a Federal agency that is broadcast or distributed by a network organization, broadcast licensee or permittee, or multichannel video programming distributor in the United States conspicuously identifies the U.S. Government as the story's source. 
 
Makes it unlawful to remove such identifying announcement.
 
Defines &quot;prepackaged news story&quot; as a complete, ready-to-use audio or video news segment designed to be indistinguishable from a news segment produced by an independent news organization.

action_date: 2005-12-20
text: 
Prepackaged News Story Announcement Act of 2005 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require that any prepackaged news story produced by or on behalf of a federal agency and intended for broadcast over the air or distribution by a multichannel video programming distributor within the United States contain a clear notification that it was prepared or funded by the &quot;United States Government.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 352.
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Stevens with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-210.
action_date: 2005-12-20
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Stevens with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-210.
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 109-1091.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Public Safety Officer Surviving Spouse Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-968
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Annuities
Civil service retirement
Crime and Law Enforcement
Families
Federal law enforcement officers
Labor and Employment
Marriage
Survivors' benefits
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
Federal Public Safety Officer Surviving Spouse Protection Act of 2005 - Revises the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) to permit, effective as of January 1, 1988, and only for remarriages occurring on or after that date, remarried widows and widowers of Federal public safety officers who are killed in the line of duty to continue to receive a survivor annuity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce,  and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate