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To suspend temporarily the duty on oleoresin paprika.

Bill: 109-hr-2777
Sponsor: Rep. Clay, Wm. Lacy [D-MO-1]
Introduced: 2005-06-07 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Spices
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on Oleoresin paprika.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
Common Sense in Voter Registration Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2778
Sponsor: Rep. Dent, Charles W. [R-PA-15]
Introduced: 2005-06-07 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress
Congressional elections
Directories
Election administration
Government paperwork
Presidential elections
Voter registration
Voting

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: 
Common Sense in Voter Registration Act of 2005 - Amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to permit a voting registrar to remove an individual from the official list of registered voters for Federal elections on the ground that the individual no longer resides in the registrar's jurisdiction, if the individual fails to vote in any election held during two consecutive Federal election cycles, the registrar sends a notice to the individual at the end of the second cycle, and the individual fails to respond to the notice within 60 days.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
Species Rescue Act

Bill: 109-hr-2779
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2005-06-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Animals
Dams
Department of the Interior
Emergency Management
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Flood control
Flood damage prevention
Government Operations and Politics
Habitat conservation
Infrastructure
Law
Maintenance and repair
Relocation
Water Resources Development
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Species Rescue Act - Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to provide for expedited consultation and conferencing (within 60 days of the date on which initiated) with respect to impacts on endangered or threatened species of federal agency flood control actions. 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior or of Commerce, as appropriate, acting through the Fish and Wildlife Service, any other federal land management agency, the National Marine Fisheries Service, or a state conservation agency, to relocate from the flood control levee: (1) any threatened or endangered species of plant or animal that would be taken in the course of the agency action; and (2) any plant or other natural material that the Secretary considers to be suitable habitat, or a component of suitable habitat, for such species and that the Secretary determines would be damaged, destroyed, or removed in the course of the action. Bars the Secretary from requiring a non-federal person (other than a state conservation agency) to carry out any measures to minimize or mitigate impacts of agency flood control actions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
Commercial Airline Missile Defense Act

Bill: 109-hr-2780
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2005-06-07 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Airlines
Antimissile missiles
Armed Forces and National Security
Aviation safety
Commercial aircraft
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Guided missiles
Law
Ordnance
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: 
Commercial Airline Missile DefenseAct - Directs the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for the Transportation Security Administration to: (1) issue regulations that require all turbojet aircraft used by an air carrier for scheduled air services to be equipped with a missile defense system; and (2) purchase and make available to an air carrier such missile defense systems as may be necessary for it to comply with such regulations.
 
Makes an air carrier responsible for installing and operating a missile defense system purchased and made available by the Assistant Secretary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity.
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2005-06-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2005-06-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2005-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Naugard 412S.

Bill: 109-hr-2781
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Nancy L. [R-CT-5]
Introduced: 2005-06-07 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Pentaerythritol tetrakis-(3-laurylthiopropionate) (Naugard 412S). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Triacetonamine.

Bill: 109-hr-2782
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Nancy L. [R-CT-5]
Introduced: 2005-06-07 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on 2,2,6,6-Tetramethyl-4-piperidone (Triacetonamine).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Ipconazole.

Bill: 109-hr-2783
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Nancy L. [R-CT-5]
Introduced: 2005-06-07 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Pesticides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on 2-[(4-chlorophenyl)methyl]-5-(1-methylethyl)-1-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-ylmethyl) cyclopentanol (Ipconazole).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Omite Tech.

Bill: 109-hr-2784
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Nancy L. [R-CT-5]
Introduced: 2005-06-07 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Pesticides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on Sulfurous acid, 2[4(1,1-dimethyl-ethyl)phenoxy]cyclohexyl-2-propynylester (CA) (Omite Tech).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Pantera Technical.

Bill: 109-hr-2785
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Nancy L. [R-CT-5]
Introduced: 2005-06-07 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Environmental Protection
Herbicides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on (+/-)-tetrahydrofurfuryl-(R)-2-[4-(6-chloroquinoxalin-2-yloxy)phenoxy] propanoate and any mixtures containing such compound (Pantera Technical).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
Art and Collectibles Capital Gains Tax Treatment Parity Act

Bill: 109-hr-2786
Sponsor: Rep. Reynolds, Thomas M. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2005-06-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Art
Arts, Culture, Religion
Capital gains tax
Charitable contributions
Income tax
Literature
Music
Tax deductions
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: 
Art and Collectibles Capital Gains Tax Treatment Parity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) eliminate the 28-percent capital gains tax rate for collectibles, thus allowing gain from the sale of collectibles (including art works) to be taxed at the 15-percent tax rate applicable to other investment property; (2) allow the creator of a literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly property a fair market value tax deduction for the donation of such property to a tax-exempt organization, if properly appraised and donated no sooner than 18 months after its creation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
Promotion Responsibility for Our U.S. Aviation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2787
Sponsor: Rep. Tiahrt, Todd [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2005-06-07 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Aeronautics
Commerce
Commercialization
Department of Transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Private aviation
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: 
Promotion Responsibility for Our U.S. Aviation Act of 2005 - Amends federal transportation law to direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), in carrying out safety regulation, to consider as being in the public interest: (1) regulating air commerce in a way that best promotes development of safety; and (2) promoting civil aeronautics.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Gabriella Dee.

Bill: 109-hr-2789
Sponsor: Rep. Dent, Charles W. [R-PA-15]
Introduced: 2005-06-07 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: 
Makes Gabriella Dee eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of a lawful permanent resident of the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act, upon payment of the required visa fees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
To authorize and request the President to award the Medal of Honor to Richard D. Winters, of Hershey, Pennsylvania, for acts of valor on June 6, 1944, in Normandy, France, while an officer in the 101st Airborne Division.

Bill: 109-hr-2790
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Curt [R-PA-7]
Introduced: 2005-06-07 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Military medals, decorations, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: 
Authorizes and requests the President to award the Medal of Honor to Richard D. Winters of Hershey, Pennsylvania, for acts of valor on June 6, 1944, in Normandy, France, while serving as an officer in the 101st Airborne Division.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4166-4167)
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-07
text: Introduced in House
Access to Medical Treatment Act

Bill: 109-hr-2792
Sponsor: Rep. Burton, Dan [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Advertising
Agriculture and Food
Alternative medicine
Australia
Canada
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Customs unions
Deceptive advertising
Dietary supplements
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Drug interactions
Drugs
East Asia
Europe
European Union
Evidence (Law)
Food industry
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health warnings
Informed consent (Medical law)
Japan
Labeling
Law
Medical supplies
New Zealand
Oceania
Patients' rights

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Access to Medical Treatment Act - Gives an individual the right to be treated by a health care practitioner with any medical treatment that the individual desires, including a treatment that is not approved, certified, or licensed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, if: (1) the practitioner has personally examined the individual and agrees to treat the individual; and (2) the administration of such treatment does not violate licensing laws.
 
Authorizes health care practitioners to provide any method of treatment to such an individual if certain requirements are met, including that: (1) there is no reason to conclude that such treatment will cause danger to the individual; and (2) the patient is informed in writing that such treatment has not been approved, certified, or licensed by the Secretary. 
Requires a practitioner to report: (1) administering such treatment and discovering it to be a danger to an individual; and (2) the positive effects of an unconventional medical treatment for a life-threatening medical condition. 
States that nothing in this Act shall in any way adversely affect the distribution or sale of dietary supplements.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
HIPAA Recreational Injury Technical Correction Act

Bill: 109-hr-2793
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: All terrain vehicles
Animals
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Horses
Labor and Employment
Motorcycles
Recreation
Skiing
Snowmobiles
Sports and Recreation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
HIPAA Recreational Injury Technical Correction Act - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit a group health plan or health insurance issuer offering group health coverage from denying benefits or coverage otherwise provided under the plan for the treatment of an injury solely because it was sustained while a person was engaged in any particular mode of transportation specified in the plan, consisting of the use of a motorcycle, snowmobile, all-terrain vehicle, or other similar recreational vehicle or horseback riding, unless such mode of transportation or its use was illegal. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Clean Energy Bonds Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2794
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, Ron [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Bonds
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Environmental Protection
Finance and Financial Sector
Government securities
Income tax
Irrigation
Municipal solid waste
Refuse as fuel
Solar energy
Tax credits
Tennessee Valley development
Water Resources Development
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Clean Energy Bonds Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow holders of clean energy bonds a nonrefundable tax credit of 25 percent of an annual credit amount as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury. Defines &quot;clean energy bond&quot; as any bond issued by a clean energy bond lender, a cooperative electric company, a governmental body, or the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) that is used for capital expenditures for specified projects for producing electricity from certain renewable resources, such as wind, biomass, solar energy, small irrigation power, and municipal solid waste. 
 
Sets forth rules for maturity limitations, arbitrage, and expenditures, including a requirement that 95 percent of proceeds from the sale of a bond issue be spent on a renewable resource project within five years from the date of a bond issuance. Terminates the authority to issue clean energy bonds after 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
Patent Reform Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2795
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2005-06-08 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Civil actions and liability
Contracts
Damages
Department of Commerce
Evidence (Law)
Executive reorganization
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Injunctions
Intellectual property
Inventions
Inventors
Law
Patent infringement
Patents
Profit

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 
Patent Reform Act of 2005 - Revises conditions under which a patent may be obtained for an invention, including by: (1) providing for joint research agreements; (2) giving patent priority to the first filed patent application (currently, priority is given to the first invention); and (3) amending provisions related to patents internationally.
 
Gives an inventor a right to apply for and obtain a patent, subject to conditions and regulations. (Current law allows inventors to obtain a patent.)
 
Requires the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to: (1) impose a duty of candor and good faith on individuals associated with the filing and prosecution of an application and on individuals who are parties adverse to a patent or application for patent in contested cases before USPTO; and (2) establish a special office to investigation violations of such duty.
 
Revises provisions regarding treble damages for willful infringement of a patent.
 
Allows the Director to limit the ability of patent applicants to get the benefit of the filing date of a prior-filed application.
 
Expands the publication of patent applications.
 
Revises provisions regarding the infringement defense based on prior use of the subject matter of a patent before the effective filing dates.
 
Sets forth procedures and requirements for opposing a patent grant.
 
Allows third parties to submit relevant information for inclusion in the record of a patent application.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-15
text: Hearings Held on Issue by Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property. The Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 2795.
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Introduced in House