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Eurasia Foundation Act

Bill: 109-hr-6364
Sponsor: Rep. Gallegly, Elton [R-CA-24]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Auditing
Central Asia
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Democracy
Developing countries
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Europe
Former Soviet states
Foundations
Free enterprise
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Human rights
Russia
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Eurasia Foundation Act - Directs the Secretary of State to make an annual grant to the Eurasia Foundation, a private, nonprofit corporation whose purposes are to: (1) promote civil society, private enterprise, and sound public administration and policy in the former Soviet Union; (2) strengthen indigenous institutions that foster national development, constructive social change, equitable economic growth, and cooperative international relationships that are fully consistent with U.S. interests in Eurasia; and (3) conduct programs in response to initiatives in the region that would be difficult or impossible for an official U.S. entity. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to make grants to distributors of electricity for the purpose of upgrading their electrical distribution systems to provide protection against hurricanes.

Bill: 109-hr-6365
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Electric power distribution
Electric power transmission
Emergency Management
Grants-in-aid
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Authorizes the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to make grants to state and local governments that distribute electricity for the purpose of upgrading their electrical distribution systems to provide protection against hurricanes. Sets the maximum federal share of a grant at 75% of the cost of the upgrade.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
CTR Modernization Act

Bill: 109-hr-6366
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Bank deposits
Bank records
Coins and coinage
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Department of the Treasury
Economics and Public Finance
Financial institutions
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Indexing (Economic policy)
Law
Money
Money laundering

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
CTR Modernization Act - Amends federal law governing mandatory reports on currency transactions to exempt depository institutions from the requirement that all domestic financial institutions file a report on every domestic coin and currency transaction. 
 
Requires such a depository institution to file a currency transaction report, however, if the transaction involves at least $30,000.
 
Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury after a certain date from requiring a depository institution to file a currency transaction report regarding a transaction of less than $30,000.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) review at least every five years the threshold for reporting currency transactions; and (2) adjust the threshold amount for inflation.
 
Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations that exempt any depository institution from reporting a currency transaction with a qualified customer.
 
Defines qualified customer as any person that: (1) is incorporated or organized under federal or state law, or registered and eligible to do business within the United States or a state; (2) has maintained a deposit account with the depository institution for at least 12 months; and (3) has engaged, using such account, in multiple currency transactions subject to reporting requirements.
 
Requires the Secretary to prescribe regulations that: (1) provide guidance on identifying currency transactions involving illegal or suspicious activities; and (2) create a list of information that may be disclosed to customers before the reporting of suspicious activity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
Tax Code Termination Act

Bill: 109-hr-6367
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-5]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Commerce
Economic growth
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Internal revenue law
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Marriage
Saving and investment
Tax administration
Tax rates
Tax simplification
Taxpayers

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Tax Code Termination Act - Mandates the termination of the Internal Revenue Code after December 31, 2010, except for self-employment taxes, Federal Insurance Contributions Act taxes, and Railroad Retirement taxes. 
 
Declares that any new federal tax system should be a simple and fair system that: (1) provides tax relief for working Americans; (2) protects the rights of taxpayers and reduces tax collection abuses; (3) eliminates the bias against savings and investment; (4) promotes economic growth and job creation; and (5) does not penalize marriage or families.
 
Requires that the new federal tax system be approved by Congress in its final form by July 4, 2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
Study of Ways to Improve the Accuracy of the Collection of Federal Oil, Condensate, and Natural Gas Royalties Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6368
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Air pollution control
Carbon dioxide
Carcinogens
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Environmental Protection
Fines (Penalties)
Gas industry
Gas pipelines
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Helium
Indian lands
Law
Marketing
Minorities
Native Americans
Nitrogen
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Petroleum industry
Sulphur
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Study of Ways to Improve the Accuracy of the Collection of Federal Oil, Condensate, and Natural Gas Royalties Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to arrange with the National Academy of Engineering to study and report to the Secretary regarding whether the accuracy of collection of royalties on production of oil, condensate, and natural gas under leases of federal lands (including submerged, deep water, and Indian lands) would be improved by implementing certain prescribed measures.
 
Requires the Secretary to award a contract under which the contractor shall: (1) compare royalty payments made under federal oil and gas lease provisions for covered lands against data supplied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; (2) make such comparison retroactive to June 1, 1974; (3) determine whether the correct production standard volume and heating content analysis was used to calculate such payments; and (4) determine whether such payments were adequate under the terms of the oil and gas leases.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2102)
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on stick and golf umbrellas.

Bill: 109-hr-6369
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on stick and golf umbrellas.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2084)
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
Building Opportunities for Our Kids Act

Bill: 109-hr-6370
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Gifts
Parent-school relationships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teachers
Textbooks

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Building Opportunities for Our Kids Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide additional funds for the purchase of textbooks for eligible schools under the schoolwide program of part A (Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Educational Agencies) of title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged). 
Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a Textbook Recycling Program to facilitate the donation of textbooks by any local educational agency (LEA) to any other LEA for use by such schools. 
Directs the Comptroller General to assess the condition of textbooks used in public elementary and secondary schools.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
Patients' Privacy Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-6371
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil procedure
Confidential communications
Criminal procedure
Evidence (Law)
Health
Medical records
Patients' rights
Physician-patient privilege
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Patients' Privacy Protection Act of 2005 (sic) - Amends the Federal Rules of Evidence to declare that a patient has a privilege with respect to any evidence consisting of a confidential communication or record made in the course of medical treatment by a duly licensed health care provider.

 Authorizes a court to order the disclosure of such a communication or record to the extent the court determines that the public interest in disclosure significantly outweighs the patient's privacy interests. Requires the court to ensure that personally identifiable information is redacted and that the patient's communications and records remain under seal.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse and customhouse located at 515 West First Street in Duluth, Minnesota, as the "Gerald W. Heaney Federal Building and United States Courthouse and Customhouse".

Bill: 109-hr-6372
Sponsor: Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Courthouses
Federal office buildings
Judges
Law
Minnesota
Names

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Designates the federal building and U.S. courthouse and customhouse located at 515 West First Street in Duluth, Minnesota, as the &quot;Gerald W. Heaney Federal Building and United States Courthouse and Customhouse.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
Preserving Crime Victims' Restitution Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6374
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Appellate procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Compensation for victims of crime
Death
Forfeiture
Indictments
Law
Pleas (Criminal procedure)
Probation
Right to counsel
Sentences (Criminal procedure)

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Preserving Crime Victims' Restitution Act of 2006 - Amends the federal criminal code to establish guidelines for cases in which a defendant in a criminal prosecution dies prior to the final adjudication of guilt. Sets forth rules for restitution to victims, appeals, motions, petitions, and civil forfeiture in such cases.
 
Provides, as a general rule, that the death of a defendant who has been convicted of a federal criminal offense shall not be the basis for abating or otherwise invalidating a plea of guilty or nolo contendere accepted, a verdict returned, a sentence announced, or a judgment entered prior to the death of such defendant, or for dismissing or otherwise invalidating the indictment, information, or complaint, except as provided by this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Defense to submit to Congress an annual report and to provide notice to the public on congressional initiatives in funds authorized or made available to the Department of Defense.

Bill: 109-hr-6375
Sponsor: Rep. Souder, Mark E. [R-IN-3]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Authorization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Defense budgets
Department of Defense
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to report annually to Congress on congressional initiatives applicable to funds authorized or made available for the Department of Defense (DOD) for that fiscal year.
 
Requires each report to be posted on a public DOD Internet website.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 70 - 330 (Roll no. 535).
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Failed of passage/not agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 70 - 330 (Roll no. 535).
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H9081)
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6375.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8919-8922; text of measure as introduced: CR H8919)
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Mr. Hunter moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
To provide that Federal property reversions on land deeded to the Municipality of Anchorage be conveyed to the Municipality in order to unencumber the Municipality's title.

Bill: 109-hr-6376
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, the reversionary interest of the United States in and to parcels of real property, including improvements thereon, which are owned by the Municipality and located in Anchorage, for the purpose of unencumbering the title of the Municipality. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act

Bill: 109-hr-6377
Sponsor: Rep. Radanovich, George [R-CA-19]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Animals
Bonds
California
Central Valley Reclamation Project (California)
Civil actions and liability
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dams
Department of Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Endangered species
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal aid to water resources development
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government securities
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Hydroelectric power
Infrastructure
Land transfers
Law
Licenses
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Rivers
Salmon
Water allocation (Policy)
Water rights
Water storage
Water supply
Water use

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to implement the terms and conditions of the Stipulation of Settlement dated September 13, 2006, in 
Natural Resources Defense Council, et al. v. Kirk Rodgers, et al.
, in cooperation with the state of California, including measures to: (1) design and construct channel and structural improvements; (2) modify Friant Dam operations to provide Restoration Flows and Interim Flows; (3) acquire water, water rights, or options to acquire water from willing sellers; (4) implement terms and conditions related to recirculation, recapture, reuse, exchange, or transfer of water released for such flows; and (5) develop and implement the Recovered Water Account.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) enter into agreements with California to facilitate or expedite Settlement implementation; and (2) identify impacts associated with such actions and measures to mitigate impacts on adjacent and downstream water users and landowners. Provides that Settlement implementation and the reintroduction of Chinook salmon shall not result in the involuntary reduction in contract water allocations to Central Valley Project long-term contractors apart from Friant Division contractors.
 
 Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) acquire through purchase from willing sellers property needed to implement the Settlement; and (2) dispose of such property. Requires proceeds from the disposal of such property to be deposited into the San Joaquin River Restoration Fund (established by this Act). 
 
Declares that the Settlement satisfies and discharges the Secretary's obligations under the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992. Provides for the reintroduction of Chinook salmon into the San Joaquin River.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2136)
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
Spinach Research and Recovery Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6379
Sponsor: Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural research
Agricultural subsidies
Authorization
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Escherichia coli
Food safety
Health
Health warnings
Marketing of farm produce
Produce trade
Science, Technology, Communications
Vegetables

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Spinach Research and Recovery Act of 2006 - Authorizes additional appropriations, for the purpose of conducting and supporting applied research to enhance the safety of perishable agricultural commodities for consumers, for: (1) the Agricultural Research Service: (2) the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service; and (3) the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make payments (not to exceed 75% of the value of the unmarketed spinach crop) to growers and first handlers of fresh spinach that were unable to market spinach crops as a result of the Food and Drug Administration Public Health Advisory issued on September 14, 2006. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
Medication Safety Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6380
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Julia [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Housing and Community Development
Medicare
Quality of care
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Medication Safety Act of 2006 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare), as amended by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, with respect to requirements for payments to hospitals for inpatient hospital services.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to adopt certain consensus-based measures, approved by national organizations with health care quality expertise, which are designed to reduce the likelihood of hospital medication errors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in House