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To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize appropriations for grants for coastal recreation water quality monitoring and notification programs.

Bill: 109-hr-2686
Sponsor: Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Authorization
Beaches
Coastal zone
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental health
Environmental monitoring
Federal aid to water pollution control
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Health warnings
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Outdoor recreation
Pollution measurement
Sports and Recreation
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to extend through FY2010 the authorization of appropriations for grants to states and local governments for coastal recreation water quality monitoring and notification programs.
 
Amends the Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act of 2000 to extend through FY2010 the authorization of appropriations for such Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Amerasian Naturalization Act

Bill: 109-hr-2687
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Asian American ethnic groups
Cambodia
Citizenship
East Asia
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Immigrants
Laos
North Korea
Residence requirements
South Korea
Thailand
Vietnam
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Amerasian Naturalization Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to confer automatic citizenship on aliens residing in the United States in lawful permanent resident status: (1) pursuant to a classification petition approved under a provision that gives preferential treatment to persons born in Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Kampuchea, or Thailand after 1950 and before October 22, 1982, and fathered by a U.S. citizen; or (2) who were born in Vietnam after January 1, 1962, and before January 1, 1976, and fathered by a U.S. citizen. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1119)
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Guaranteeing Airport Physical Screening Standards Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2688
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Air cargo
Airline employees
Airline passenger traffic
Airports
Aviation safety
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Federal employees
Fingerprints
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Law
Motor vehicles
Recruiting of employees
Risk
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Standards
Technology assessment
Terrorism
Transportation workers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Guaranteeing Airport Physical Screening Standards Act of 2005 - Amends federal transportation law to set a deadline of 120 days after enactment of this Act for the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security of the Department of Homeland Security to require screening (at a minimum, screening for metal objects) or inspection of all individuals, goods, property, vehicles, and other equipment before entry into a secured area of a U.S. airport.
 

 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) to require random screenings and inspections until such deadline is met. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to hire additional passenger and baggage screeners to ensure aviation security.
 
Directs the Secretary to require airport personnel accessing airport sterile areas from unrestricted areas to undergo security screening.
 
Requires the Secretary to ensure that all unescorted airport personnel accessing airport sterile and secured areas have undergone a background check.
 
Directs the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration) to report to Congress on ongoing efforts and projected timelines for: (1) developing and implementing uniform screening standards for airport personnel with access to sterile areas; (2) completing, and making available to airport operators, an assessment of available technologies applicable to securing airport perimeters; and (3) developing and implementing a standardized approach to conducting airport vulnerability assessments and compliance inspections.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Dirty Bomb Prevention Act

Bill: 109-hr-2689
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
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: 2005-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Voter Choice Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2690
Sponsor: Rep. McKinney, Cynthia A. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Computer software
Congress
Congressional districts
Congressional elections
Economics and Public Finance
Election administration
Grants-in-aid
House of Representatives
Presidential elections
Proportional representation
Runoff elections
Science, Technology, Communications
Voting
Voting machines
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Voter Choice Act of 2005 - Authorizes a state entitled to more than one Representative in Congress to establish a number of districts for election of Representatives that is less than the number of Representatives to which the state is entitled, as long as the Representatives are elected: (1) under a system meeting the constitutional standard of majority rule and of individuals having equal voting power; (2) the system ensures the election of any candidate in a multiseat district who receives a share of votes cast that is at least one vote greater than one-third of the total number of votes cast in the district; and (3) the number of residents per Representative is equal for all Representatives elected in the state.
 
Requires each state to conduct general elections for federal office held in the state during 2008 and each succeeding year using an instant runoff voting system, and ensure that the voting equipment and technology used to conduct the elections is compatible with such a system.
 
Establishes a program under which the Election Assistance Commission shall make grants to eligible states to defray the costs of administering an instant runoff voting system or a proportional voting system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority Act of 2002 to require the President to submit to the Congress, within 90 days after entering into a trade agreement, the implementing legislation, the statement of administrative action, and supporting information, with respect to that trade agreement.

Bill: 109-hr-2691
Sponsor: Rep. Melancon, Charlie [D-LA-3]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
International Affairs
Law
Legislation
Trade agreements

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Amends the Bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority Act of 2002 to require the President to submit to Congress, within 90 days after entering into a trade agreement regarding tariff and nontariff barriers, the implementing legislation, the statement of administrative action, and supporting information, with respect to that trade agreement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Acadia National Park Improvement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2692
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Authorization
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Intermodal transportation
Land transfers
Maine
National parks
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation planning

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Acadia National Park Improvement Act of 2005 - Extends the Acadia Park Advisory Commission. 
 
Increases the ceiling on the amount of appropriations for the acquisition of lands and interests with respect to the Acadia National Park.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to provide assistance in the planning, construction, and operation of an intermodal transportation center located outside the Park's boundary, in the town of Trenton, Maine, to improve the management, interpretation, and visitor enjoyment of the Park.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-28
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-05-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Great Ape Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2693
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Animal diseases
Authorization
Biological diversity
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of the Interior
Disaster relief
Disasters
East Asia
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Employee training
Environmental Protection
Federal advisory bodies
Forest conservation
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Habitat conservation
Health
Indonesia
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Logging
Poaching
Primates
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Technical assistance
Tsunamis
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Great Ape Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2005 - Amends the Great Ape Conservation Act to: (1) authorize the Secretary of the Interior to use amounts in the Great Ape Conservation Fund to provide emergency financial and technical assistance for great ape conservation needs in Aceh Province, Indonesia, arising from the tsunami of December 2004; (2) authorize the Secretary to approve projects to address the root causes of threats to great apes in range states; (3) require the Secretary to convene the panel of experts created under the Great Ape Conservation Act not later than 120 days after the enactment of this Act and quadrennially thereafter; (4) increase funding for administrative expenses; and (5) extend through FY2010 the authorization for appropriations to the Great Ape Conservation Fund. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-05-31
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2005-05-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1114)
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
Keeping Our Promises to America's Children Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2694
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Dennis [D-KS-3]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Appropriations
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
School districts
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Keeping Our Promises to America's Children Act of 2005 - Provides a moratorium on compliance with certain requirements for adequate yearly progress under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (ESEA), for any fiscal year in which amounts appropriated are less than those authorized for the applicable program, project, or activity under ESEA title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) part A (Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Educational Agencies) (I-A).
 
Authorizes state or local educational agencies receiving I-A funds to observe such moratorium. Directs the Secretary of Education to ensure that otherwise applicable negative consequences shall not apply to such recipients because of such action.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
SHIELD Act

Bill: 109-hr-2695
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family violence
Federal aid to housing
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Homeless
Housing subsidies
Identification devices
Parents
Rape
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Stalking
Victims of crimes
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Safe Housing Identity Exception for the Lives of Domestic Violence Victims Act - SHIELD Act - Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to prohibit disclosure of the personally identifying information of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

action_date: 2005-12-13
text: 

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

Safe Housing Identity Exception for the Lives of Domestic Violence Victims Act - SHIELD Act - Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to prohibit disclosure of the personally identifying information of victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-13
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 186.
action_date: 2005-12-13
text: Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 109-336.
action_date: 2005-12-13
text: Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 109-336.
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity Discharged.
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4194)
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1114)
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on 9,10-Anthracenedione, 1,8-dihydroxy-4-nitro-5-(phenylamino)-.

Bill: 109-hr-2696
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on 9,10-Anthracenedione, 1,8-dihydroxy-4-nitro-5-(phenylamino)-. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Chromate(2-), [2,4-dihydro-4-[[2-(hydroxy-kO)-4-nitrophenyl]azo-kN1]-5-met hyl-3H-pyrazol-3-onato(2-)-kO3][3-[[4,5-dihydro-3-methyl-1-( 4-methylphenyl)-5-(oxo-kO)-1H-pyrazol-4-yl]azo-kN1]-4-(hydro xy-kO)-5-nitrobenzenesulfonato(3-)]-, disodium.

Bill: 109-hr-2697
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Chromate(2-), [2,4-dihydro-4-[[2-(hydroxy-kO)-4-nitrophenyl]azo-kN1]-5-met hyl-3H-pyrazol-3-onato(2-)-kO3][3-[[4,5-dihydro-3-methyl-1-( 4-methylphenyl)-5-(oxo-kO)-1H-pyrazol-4-yl]azo-kN1]-4-(hydro xy-kO)-5-nitrobenzenesulfonato(3-)]-, disodium.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on 9,10-Anthracenedione, 1,8-bis(phenylthio)-.

Bill: 109-hr-2698
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on 9,10-Anthracenedione, 1,8-bis(phenylthio)-.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on 2,7-Naphthalenedisulfonic acid, 4-amino-3,6-bis[[5-[[4-chloro-6-[methyl[2-(methylamino)-2-ox oethyl]amino]-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl]amino]-2-sulfophenyl]azo]-5 -hydroxy-, lithium potassium sodium salt.

Bill: 109-hr-2699
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on 2,7-Naphthalenedisulfonic acid, 4-amino-3,6-bis[[5-[[4-chloro-6-[methyl[2-(methylamino)-2-ox oethyl]amino]-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl]amino]-2-sulfophenyl]azo]-5 -hydroxy-, lithium potassium sodium salt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on 2-Naphthalenesulfonic acid, 7-[(5-chloro-2,6-difluoro-4-pyrimidinyl)amino]-4-hydroxy-3-[ (4-methoxy-2-sulfophenyl)azo]-, sodium salt.

Bill: 109-hr-2700
Sponsor: Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]
Introduced: 2005-05-26 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on 2-Naphthalenesulfonic acid, 7-[(5-chloro-2,6-difluoro-4-pyrimidinyl)amino]-4-hydroxy-3-[ (4-methoxy-2-sulfophenyl)azo]-, sodium salt.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-26
text: Introduced in House