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Helping Our Patriotic Employers at Helping Our Military Employees Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1142
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Commerce
Defined benefit pension plans
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Leave of absence
Military pay
Military personnel
National Guard
Salaries
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Veterans' employment
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Helping Our Patriotic Employers at Helping Our Military Employees Act of 2005 or the HOPE at HOME Act of 2005 - Entitles federal employees who are absent from their jobs for a period of more than 90 days for the purpose of performing active duty service in the uniformed services to receive the full amount of basic pay that they would have received if there had been no such interruption in their federal employment.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow employers a business tax credit for 50 percent of the actual compensation paid to Ready Reserve-National Guard employees while on active duty or hospitalized incident to such duty; (2) allow employers a tax credit for wages paid to temporary employees hired to replace Ready Reserve-National Guard employees while on active duty; (3) provide for withholding of tax on differential wage payments to active duty members of the uniformed services; and (4) treat such differential wage payments as employee compensation for retirement plan purposes, including for the deductibility of contributions to individual retirement accounts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6035-6037)
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6034-6035)
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Aerial Firefighter Relief Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1143
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Aircraft pilots
Aviation safety
Emergency Management
Families
Fire fighters
Fire prevention
Flight crews
Forest fires
Government contractors
Labor and Employment
Survivors' benefits
Transportation and Public Works
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to make aerial firefighters eligible for public safety officer death benefits. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide military retirement credit for certain service by National Guard members performed while in a State duty status immediately after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Bill: 109-s-1144
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Crime and Law Enforcement
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Military pensions
National Guard
New York City
New York State
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Counts as federal active duty for military retirement credit purposes full-time State active duty service performed by a member of the Army or Air National Guard on or after September 11, 2001, and before October 1, 2001, in specified counties of New York and Arlington County, Virginia, to support a federal declaration of emergency following the terrorist attacks on the United States of September 11, 2001.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1145
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Arson
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime prevention
Crimes against women
Criminal investigation
Criminal statistics
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Explosives
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal-state relations
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Hate crimes
Housing and Community Development
Indian law enforcement
Juvenile delinquency
Kidnapping
Labor and Employment
Law
Minorities
Murder
Police training
Prejudice
Prosecution
Racial discrimination
Rape
Religion
Religious liberty
Rural crime
Sentencing guidelines
Sex crimes
Sex discrimination
Sexual orientation
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Victims of crimes
Women
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Attorney General to provide technical, forensic, prosecutorial, or other assistance in the criminal investigation or prosecution of any crime that: (1) constitutes a crime of violence under federal law or a felony under state or Indian tribal law; and (2) is motivated by prejudice based on the race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or disability of the victim or is a violation of the hate crime laws of the state or tribe. Directs the Attorney General to give priority for assistance to crimes committed by offenders who have committed crimes in more than one state and to rural jurisdictions that have difficulty covering the extraordinary investigation or prosecution expenses. 
Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants to assist state, local, and Indian law enforcement officials with such extraordinary expenses. Directs the Office of Justice Programs to: (1) work closely with funded jurisdictions to ensure that the concerns and needs of all affected parties are addressed; and (2) award grants to state and local programs designed to combat hate crimes committed by juveniles. 
Prohibits specified offenses involving actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or disability. 
Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to study and provide sentencing enhancements for adult recruitment of juveniles to commit hate crimes. 
Amends the Hate Crimes Statistics Act to require the crime data to be collected and published by the Attorney General to include data about crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on gender.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6037-6038)
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Federal Trade Commission to monitor and investigate gasoline prices under certain circumstances.

Bill: 109-s-1146
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Energy prices
Energy supplies
Federal Trade Commission
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Independent regulatory commissions
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Petroleum reserves
Public meetings
Restrictive trade practices
Strategic materials

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
 Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate the retail price of gasoline in a state in which the average price of regular grade gasoline has increased 20 percent or more for at least seven days during any three-month period in order to determine if the price is being artificially manipulated by reducing refinery capacity or by any other form of manipulation.
 
 
Requires the FTC to: (1) report to Congress within 14 days after initiating an investigation; and (2) present investigation results, within 14 days after reporting to Congress, at a public hearing in the state in which the retail price of gasoline was investigated.
 
Requires the FTC, in cooperation with the Attorney General of the relevant state, to take appropriate action if it determines that the increase in gasoline prices in a state is a result of market manipulation.
 
Requires the FTC to notify the Secretary of Energy, who shall, within two weeks of such notification, decide if the Strategic Petroleum Reserve should be used to assure adequate supplies of gasoline, if the FTC determines that the increase in gasoline prices in a state is not the result of market manipulation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6038-6039)
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the expensing of broadband Internet access expenditures, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-1147
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Antennas
Broadband
Cable television
Capital investments
Commerce
Communication satellites
Cooperative societies
Corporation taxes
Department of the Treasury
Depreciation and amortization
Depressed areas
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Enterprise zones
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Internet
Law
Lease and rental services
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax deductions
Tax returns
Tax-exempt organizations
Telecommunication industry
Telecommunication systems
Telephone
Television relay systems
Urban affairs
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit taxpayers to elect to expense (i.e., deduct all expenses in the current taxable year) qualified broadband expenditures, including installation and connection costs for subscribers in rural or underserved areas.
 
Permits mutual or cooperative telephone companies to elect to reduce their unrelated business taxable income in any year by the amount of their qualified broadband expenditures. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) designate census tracts identifying rural and underserved areas under this Act; and (2) prescribe regulations for carrying out the purposes of this Act. Prohibits federal or state agencies from adopting regulations and ratemaking procedures that would eliminate or reduce the broadband expense deduction provided by this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6040-6042)
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6039-6040)
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Clinical Social Work Medicare Equity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1148
Sponsor: Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medical fees
Medicare
Nursing homes
Social Welfare
Social work

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Clinical Social Work Medicare Equity Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to exclude clinical social worker services from coverage under the Medicare skilled nursing facility prospective payment system (thus permitting direct payment under the Medicare program for clinical social worker services provided to residents of skilled nursing facilities). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6043)
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6042-6043)
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Access to Workers' Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act

Bill: 109-s-1149
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Federal employees
Health
Nurse practitioners
Physicians' assistants
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Improving Access to Workers' Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act - Amends the Federal Employees' Compensation Act to include within the definition of &quot;physician&quot; physician assistants and nurse practitioners.


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: 2005-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6043)
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Dirty Bomb Prevention Act

Bill: 109-s-1150
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Armed Forces and National Security
Bombs
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Electronic data interchange
Environmental Protection
Executive reorganization
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Health
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Import restrictions
Independent regulatory commissions
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Law
Legislation
Licenses
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nuclear energy research
Nuclear exports
Nuclear fuels
Nuclear security measures
Nuclear terrorism
Personnel records
Plutonium
Radiation safety
Radioactive wastes
Radioisotopes in medicine
Sabotage
Science, Technology, Communications
Storage
Technological innovations
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Dirty Bomb Prevention Act - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to direct the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to promulgate regulations: (1) prohibiting the export of a radiation source unless it has found specified requirements have been met; and (2) establishing a mandatory tracking system for all radiation sources in the United States. 
 
Subjects violations of such regulations to a specified civil penalty.
 
Establishes a task force on radiation source protection and security to provide recommendations to ensure the security of radiation sources from potential terrorist threats, including acts of sabotage, theft, or use of such radiation sources in a radiological dispersal device.
 
Expands the definition of byproduct material to include treatment of accelerator-produced and other radioactive material.
 
Instructs the NRC, in its promulgation of implementing rules, to consider the impact on the availability of radiopharmaceuticals to the physicians and patients whose medical treatment relies on them.
 
Amends the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act to exclude from its definition of low-level radioactive waste the byproduct material defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.
 
Requires the Secretary, within six months of the enactment of this Act, to report to Congress on the location and status of all nuclear fuel exported by the federal government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6044-6046)
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6044)
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Mental Health Copayment Equity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1152
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Coinsurance
Finance and Financial Sector
Medical economics
Medicare
Mental health services
Psychotherapy
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Medicare Mental Health Copayment Equity Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide, by a gradual increase in the percentage of expenses considered incurred expenses, for a gradual reduction (from 50% to the standard 20%) by 2011 of copayment rates for outpatient psychiatric services under the Medicare program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6051-6052)
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Coal-based Generation Improvement Act

Bill: 109-s-1153
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bonds
Coal
Commerce
Cooperative societies
Electric power production
Electric utilities
Energy
Environmental Protection
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Income tax
Investment tax credit
Natural gas
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax credits
Tennessee Valley Authority

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Coal-based Generation Improvement Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy to provide certain financial incentives for the deployment of advanced coal-based generation technologies. Allows sponsors of projects using advanced coal-based generation technology to elect certain tax benefits, including an investment tax credit and accelerated depreciation.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for investment in clean energy bonds.
 
Directs the Secretary to designate a federal project coordinator to facilitate federal agency approvals of eligible advanced coal generation projects. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Commission on the Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies Act

Bill: 109-s-1155
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Expedited congressional procedure
Federal employees
Government downsizing
Government spending reductions
House rules and procedure
Legislation
Performance measurement
Presidential appointments
Presidential commissions
Senate rules and procedure
Transfer of employees
Waste in government spending

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Commission on the Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies Act - Establishes the Commission on the Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies to: (1) evaluate executive agencies and their programs; and (2) submit to Congress a plan recommending agencies and programs that should be realigned or eliminated and proposing implementing legislation. 
Directs the President to: (1) establish a systematic method for assessing the effectiveness and accountability of agency programs; and (2) submit to the Commission assessments of not less than 50 percent of the programs that use such method. Prohibits the implementation of such method until it has been reviewed and accepted by the Commission. Requires the Commission to consider submitted assessments in evaluating programs. 
Requires the President to identify common performance measures for programs having similar functions and provide the Commission with data on such measures.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6053)
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the credit period for electricity produced from renewable resources at certain facilities, to extend the credit for electricity produced from certain renewable resources, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-1156
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Alternative energy sources
Biodegradation
Biomass energy
Coal
Electric power production
Energy
Environmental Protection
Farm manure
Geothermal resources
Incineration
Income tax
Irrigation
Landfills
Methane
Municipal solid waste
Refuse as fuel
Solar energy
Synthetic fuel
Tax credits
Water Resources Development
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend the credit period for the tax credit for producing electricity from renewable resources to 10 years for all renewable resources eligible for such credit; and (2) extend such tax credit through 2007 for qualified facilities placed in service before January 1, 2011, pursuant to a written binding contract in effect on December 31, 2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6054)
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6053-6054)
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Treatment for Precious Metals Investors Act

Bill: 109-s-1157
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Coins and coinage
Finance and Financial Sector
Gold
Income tax
Law
Platinum
Precious metals
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Silver
Tax rates
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Fair Treatment for Precious Metals Investors Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat bullion (e.g., gold, silver, platinum, and palladium) as a long-term capital asset (currently, treated as a collectible), eligible for preferential capital gains tax rates. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Terminating Our Pensions Act

Bill: 109-s-1158
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Bankruptcy
Commerce
Corporate reorganizations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Law
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Pension funds
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Stop Terminating Our Pensions Act - Imposes a six-month moratorium on terminations of certain pension plans, instituted under specified provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), in cases in which reorganization of contributing sponsors is sought in bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6054-6055)
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in Senate