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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit rollovers from retirement plans to health savings accounts.

Bill: 109-hr-3873
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Employee health benefits
Health
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Medical savings accounts
Pension funds
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exclude from gross income distributions from a retirement plan to fund a health savings account; and (2) exempt such distributions from the penalty for premature retirement plan distributions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for tax exempt qualified small issue bonds to finance agricultural processing property.

Bill: 109-hr-3874
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Equipment and supplies
Food industry
Food preservation
Income tax
Meat packing industry
Packaging
Tax-exempt securities

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the issuance of tax-exempt small issue bonds to finance the purchase of property or land used primarily for the processing of agricultural products. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Consistency Act

Bill: 109-hr-3876
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Antennas
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Land use
Law
Local laws
Radio broadcasting
Radio stations
State laws
Zoning and zoning law

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Consistency Act - Provides that, for purposes of the Federal Communications Commission's regulation relating to station antenna structures in the amateur radio services, any private land use rules applicable to such structures shall be treated as a State or local regulation and subject to the same requirements and limitations of such a regulation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain parts of machinery for molding and forming certain articles.

Bill: 109-hr-3877
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Timothy V. [R-IL-15]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Machinery
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 

 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2010, the duty on certain parts of machinery for molding and forming certain articles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain parts of machinery for molding and forming certain articles.

Bill: 109-hr-3878
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Timothy V. [R-IL-15]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Machinery
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 

 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2010, the duty on certain parts of machinery for molding and forming certain articles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain parts of machinery for molding and forming certain articles.

Bill: 109-hr-3879
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Timothy V. [R-IL-15]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Machinery
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 

 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2010, the duty on certain parts of machinery for molding and forming certain articles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain parts of machinery for molding and forming certain articles.

Bill: 109-hr-3880
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Timothy V. [R-IL-15]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Machinery
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 

 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2010, the duty on certain parts of machinery for molding and forming certain articles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on machinery for molding and forming certain articles.

Bill: 109-hr-3881
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Timothy V. [R-IL-15]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Machinery
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 

 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2010, the duty on certain parts of machinery for molding and forming certain articles.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Financial Safety and Equity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3882
Sponsor: Rep. Leach, James A. [R-IA-2]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank holding companies
Commerce
Corporate divestiture
Nonbank banks

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 
Financial Safety and Equity Act of 2005 - Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 regarding interests in nonbanking organizations to provide that any company that controls an industrial loan company, industrial bank, or similar institution shall become a financial holding company.
 
 Requires such entity to comply with all federal conditions, requirements, restrictions and limitations applicable to a financial holding company.
 
Grants a five-year divestiture period for nonconforming activities to an entity that: (1) owned or controlled an industrial loan company, industrial bank, or similar institution on January 1, 2005; and (2) was not a bank holding company or a foreign bank on that date. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Timber Tax Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3883
Sponsor: Rep. McCrery, Jim [R-LA-4]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Income tax
Lumber trade
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tax deductions
Timber sales

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 
Timber Tax Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction (available to taxpayers whether or not they itemize deductions) for up to 60% of gains from certain sales or exchanges of timber.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Disaster Areas Teacher Recruitment Act

Bill: 109-hr-3884
Sponsor: Rep. Millender-McDonald, Juanita [D-CA-37]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Disasters
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency Management
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Labor and Employment
Recruiting of employees
Relocation
Scholarships
School personnel
Secondary education
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 
Disaster Areas Teacher Recruitment Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow eligible applicants in major disaster areas to: (1) be given expedited review of their applications for teacher recruitment grants; and (2) use such grant funds to provide student loan forgiveness, housing assistance, and other services as incentives for highly qualified teachers and administrators to remain in or relocate to such areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
District of Columbia and United States Territories Circulating Quarter Dollar Program Act

Bill: 109-hr-3885
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: American Samoa
Coins and coinage
Commemorations
Copper
District of Columbia
Federal-city relations
Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
Guam
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
Silver
Urban affairs
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 
District of Columbia and United States Territories Circulating Quarter Dollar Program Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue during 2009 redesigned quarter dollars commemorating the District of Columbia and the U.S. Territories.

action_date: 2006-12-09
text: 
District of Columbia and United States Territories Circulating Quarter Dollar Program Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue during 2009 redesigned quarter dollars commemorating the District of Columbia and the U.S. Territories, including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-09
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2006-12-09
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2006-12-09
text: On passage Passed without objection.
action_date: 2006-12-09
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.
action_date: 2006-12-09
text: Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR 12/8/2006 H9300-9301; text of measure as introduced: CR 12/8/2006 H9301)
action_date: 2006-12-09
text: Mr. Castle asked unanimous consent to discharge from committee and consider.
action_date: 2006-12-09
text: Committee on Financial Services discharged.
action_date: 2006-12-09
text: Committee on Financial Services discharged.
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of the Navy to comply with certain reversionary requirements related to property donated to the Navy for use as a Navy homeport whenever the property ceases to be used for that purpose.

Bill: 109-hr-3886
Sponsor: Rep. Ortiz, Solomon P. [D-TX-27]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Gifts
Land transfers
Military base closures
Military bases
Mississippi
Navy
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Real property
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 
Requires the Secretary of the Navy, when real property donated during the period beginning on January 1, 1980, and ending on the date of enactment of this Act for use as a Navy homeport ceases to be used for that purpose, to comply with the terms of any reversionary interest and promptly convey the property to the reversionary interest holder.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the designation of 3 closed military installations as appropriate sites for construction of an oil refinery.

Bill: 109-hr-3887
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Building construction
Energy
Military base closures
Military bases
Petroleum refineries

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of Defense, within 90 days after enactment of this Act, to jointly designate three military installations closed pursuant to a base closure law as suitable for construction of an oil refinery.
 
Prohibits the federal government, for two years, from selling or disposing of any such designated site except for purposes of oil refinery construction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-10-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
HOPE VI Reauthorization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3888
Sponsor: Rep. Shays, Christopher [R-CT-4]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Authorization
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Government Operations and Politics
Housing subsidies
Low-income housing
Public housing
Rental housing
Residential rehabilitation
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 
HOPE VI Reauthorization Act of 2005 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to extend and authorize appropriations for the HOPE VI revitalization program through FY2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the participation in Head Start programs and Early Head Start programs, by children affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Bill: 109-hr-3890
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Alabama
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Families
Federal aid to education
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Louisiana
Mississippi
Preschool education
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide technical assistance, guidance, and resources to assist in providing Head Start services to children affected by Hurricane Katrina (HK), to Head Start agencies that: (1) are in HK-disaster areas; or (2) receive a significant number of such children from such areas.
 
Provides that the Secretary, for the period up to March 31, 2006, and so far as the Secretary considers appropriate: (1) may waive Head Start Act provisions limiting the federal share of funding; and (2) shall waive documentation requirements for HK- affected children who participate in Head Start and Early Head Start programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
States' Right To Innovate in Health Care Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3891
Sponsor: Rep. Tierney, John F. [D-MA-6]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Child health
Citizen participation
Comprehensive health care
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Employee health benefits
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal employees
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Grants-in-aid
Health insurance
Health planning
Higher education
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Interstate compacts
Interstate relations
Labor and Employment
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medical education
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Poor children
Quality of care
Social Welfare
Welfare waivers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 
States' Right To Innovate in Health Care Act of 2005 - Amends the Social Security Act to add a new title XXII (State Comprehensive Health Care and Cost Containment Demonstration Projects) to allow up to ten states to receive from the Secretary of Health and Human Services planning and demonstration grants to develop a cost-effective delivery system of universal, comprehensive health care with simplified administration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Hurricane Katrina Bond Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3892
Sponsor: Rep. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS-1]
Introduced: 2005-09-22 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Alabama
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Floods
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Louisiana
Mississippi
Savings bonds
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: 
Hurricane Katrina Bond Act of 2005 - Amends federal law governing the public debt to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to designate one or more series of bonds or certificates (or any portion thereof) as &quot;Hurricane Katrina Relief Bonds.&quot;
 
Requires proceeds from such bonds and certificates to be used for expenditures authorized for relief and reconstruction relating to the impact of Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast of the United States in 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Introduced in House
Entrepreneur Soldiers Empowerment Act

Bill: 109-hr-3898
Sponsor: Rep. Akin, W. Todd [R-MO-2]
Introduced: 2005-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Business education
Disabled
Entrepreneurs
Executive reorganization
Families
Family services
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Mentoring
National Guard
Small Business Administration
Small business
Social Welfare
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' employment
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: 
Entrepreneur Soldiers Empowerment Act - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, acting through the Associate Administrator for Veterans Business Development, to establish: (1) at least one Veterans Business Outreach Center in each geographic region; and (2) a Technical and Mentoring Assistance Committee in each District Office service location where no such Center has been established.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Small Employer Defined Benefit Expansion Act

Bill: 109-hr-3899
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2005-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Bonds
Commerce
Cost control
Defined benefit pension plans
Defined contribution plans
Department of the Treasury
Employee rights
Executive compensation
Families
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Investments
Law
Local laws
Married people
Payroll deductions
Pension funds
Pension trust guaranty insurance
Small business
Standards
State laws
Stocks
Tax deductions
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: 
Small Employer Defined Benefit Expansion Act - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to set forth special rules for treating the combination in a single pension plan of: (1) a defined benefit plan (a traditional benefit plan, or else a cash-balance plan for which additional special rules are required); and (2) a defined contribution plan (an individual account plan which includes a cash or deferred arrangement). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Introduced in House