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Worker Reemployment Accounts Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-26
Sponsor: Rep. Porter, Jon C. [R-NV-3]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Adult education
Business education
Case management
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employment subsidies
Entrepreneurs
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Job hunting
Literacy programs
Occupational retraining
Planning
Prison labor
Social Welfare
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance
Vocational guidance

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Worker Reemployment Accounts Act of 2005 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to authorize the Secretary of Labor to establish and implement a national demonstration project on personal reemployment accounts (PRAs). 
 
Directs the Secretary to make competitive project grants to States or local boards or consortia to provide PRAs to eligible individuals. 
 
Makes eligible for a PRA, in a designated State or local area, individuals who: (1) are identified as likely to exhaust unemployment compensation and in need of job search assistance to make a successful transition to new employment (or if their unemployment can be attributed in substantial part to unfair competition from Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated); (2) are receiving regular unemployment compensation under any Federal or State unemployment compensation program administered by the State; and (3) are eligible for at least 20 weeks of regular unemployment compensation.
 
Allows PRAs to be used to purchase intensive services, training services, or supportive services through the one-stop delivery system on a fee-for-service basis, or through other providers, consistent with specified safeguards. Provides for cash reemployment bonuses, consisting of the balance of their PRAs, to recipients who obtain full-time employment before the end of the 13th week of unemployment for which compensation is paid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E10-11)
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Samuel B. Moody Bataan Death March Compensation Act

Bill: 109-hr-30
Sponsor: Rep. Mica, John L. [R-FL-7]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: East Asia
Ex-prisoners of war
Families
History
Japan
Labor and Employment
Married people
Military history
Philippines
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Samuel B. Moody Bataan Death March Compensation Act - Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to pay certain compensation to individuals (or their survivors) who, as members of the armed forces during World War II: (1) were captured on the peninsula of Bataan or the island of Corregidor in the Philippines by Japanese forces; and (2) participated in and survived the Bataan Death March.
Allows a survivor payment to be made only to an unremarried surviving spouse of such individual.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-01-27
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Administrator of General Services to take such action as may be necessary to have the Federal Trade Commission vacate the building located at 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, in the District of Columbia and to make that building available for occupancy by the National Gallery of Art.

Bill: 109-hr-31
Sponsor: Rep. Mica, John L. [R-FL-7]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Art
Arts, Culture, Religion
District of Columbia
Federal Trade Commission
Federal office buildings
Independent regulatory commissions
Museums
Relocation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Requires the Administrator of General Services to: (1) take necessary action to have the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) vacate the building located at 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, in the District of Columbia, make that building available for occupancy by the National Gallery of Art, and relocate the FTC; and (2) reconstruct the building to meet the Gallery's requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 to require Federal agencies to impose certain requirements on recipients of awards for scientific and engineering research.

Bill: 109-hr-33
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Engineering
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Law
Liability (Law)
Metric system
Research grants
Weights and measures

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Amends the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 to require guidelines on government use of the metric system of measurement to require any Federal agency transaction providing for a person to perform scientific or engineering research with Federal funding to include provisions: (1) clearly identifying the extent to which such system or other systems of measurement will be used under the transaction and requiring such use; and (2) assigning such person the financial responsibility for failure to follow such requirements.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To redesignate the Department of the Navy as the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps.

Bill: 109-hr-34
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Department of Defense
Government Operations and Politics
Marines
Names
Navy

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Redesignates the: (1) Department of the Navy as the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps; and (2) Secretary of the Navy as the Secretary of the Navy and Marine Corps. Makes similar redesignations with respect to Department Assistant Secretaries and the General Counsel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6008-6009)
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H819)
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
North Texas Mobility Improvement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-35
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Highway finance
Infrastructure
Interstate highway system
Road construction
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
North Texas Mobility Improvement Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to carry out a project to widen from four to six lanes Interstate Route 35 East between Farm-to-Market Road 2181 and Lake Lewisville in Denton County, Texas. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H9016-9017)
action_date: 2005-01-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a small agri-biodiesel producer credit and to improve the small ethanol producer credit.

Bill: 109-hr-36
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-5]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Commerce
Diesel motor
Energy
Energy crops
Environmental Protection
Income tax
Oils and fats
Refuse as fuel
Small business
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the tax credit for biodiesel used as fuel to include a credit for the production of agri-biodiesel fuel equal to 10 cents for each gallon produced. Limits: (1) the amount of qualified agri-biodiesel production of a producer to 15 million gallons for any taxable year; and (2) eligible producers to those with a productive capacity not exceeding 60 million gallons.
 
Revises the small ethanol producer tax credit to: (1) expand the eligibility of small ethanol producers for the credit; (2) exclude the credit from the definition of passive activity credit; and (3) exclude credit amounts from inclusion in gross income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Health Insurance Affordability Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-37
Sponsor: Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-5]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Coinsurance
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Medical savings accounts
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Health Insurance Affordability Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction from gross income for premiums paid under a high deductible health plan by an individual eligible for a deduction for amounts paid into a health savings account, for months when such taxpayer is not covered under any other plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act

Bill: 109-hr-40
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Black history
Blacks
Claims
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
History
Law
Minorities
Racial discrimination
Reparations
Slavery
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act - Establishes the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans to examine: (1) the institution of slavery which existed within the United States and the colonies that became the United States from 1619 through 1865; (2) the extent to which the Federal and State governments supported the institution of slavery in constitutional and statutory provisions; (3) Federal and State laws that discriminated against freed African slaves and their descendants; and (4) the lingering negative effects of the institution of slavery on living African-Americans and on society in the United States.
Instructs the Commission to address the following issues when making its recommendations to Congress: (1) whether the Federal government should offer a formal apology for the perpetration of gross human rights violations on African slaves and their descendants; (2) whether African-Americans still suffer from the lingering effects of slavery; and (3) whether any form of compensation to the descendants of African slaves is warranted.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E5)
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Tax Reform Action Commission Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-41
Sponsor: Rep. Barrett, J. Gresham [R-SC-3]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional reorganization
Congressional reporting requirements
Expedited congressional procedure
Federal advisory bodies
House rules and procedure
Income tax
Legislation
Senate rules and procedure
Tax simplification

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Tax Reform Action Commission Act of 2005 - Declares that Congress must reform the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 so that the United States has a tax system that is: (1) simple, transparent, and efficient; (2) fair and equitable to all Americans; and (3) neutral between different activities and between current and future consumption. 
 
Establishes in the legislative branch a Tax Reform Action Commission (Commission). Requires the Commission to make recommendations for tax reform to meet those objectives to Congress within two years after it is established. 
 
Directs the Commission to establish task forces in Federal agencies to assist in the making and compiling of recommendations for tax reform.
 
Sets forth procedures for congressional consideration of the Commission's recommendations. 
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Washington-Lincoln Recognition Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-43
Sponsor: Rep. Bartlett, Roscoe G. [R-MD-6]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Anniversaries
Government Operations and Politics
History
Holidays
Lincoln Administration
Special days
Washington Administration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Washington-Lincoln Recognition Act of 2005 - States that (the legal public holiday) Washington's Birthday shall be referred to solely as such: (1) by all U.S. entities and officials; and (2) on all federally funded publications. 
Requests that the President issue an annual proclamation recognizing President Lincoln's birthday.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish an independent panel to assess the homeland security needs of the National Capital Region.

Bill: 109-hr-44
Sponsor: Rep. Bartlett, Roscoe G. [R-MD-6]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
District of Columbia
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Interstate highway system
Maryland
Metropolitan areas
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Urban affairs
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish an independent panel to assess the homeland security needs of the National Capital Region. Requires the panel to: (1) determine whether the definition of National Capital Region used by the Department of Homeland Security should be modified to include additional areas, including jurisdictions in Maryland and Virginia along Interstate Routes 270, 95, and 66; and (2) determine whether those jurisdictions should be taking actions to prepare for a terrorist attack in the Region, including the construction of necessary facilities, and if so, to make recommendations for appropriate funding. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science, and Technology.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security (Select).
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Political Convention Reform Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-45
Sponsor: Rep. Bartlett, Roscoe G. [R-MD-6]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Campaign funds
Economics and Public Finance
Government trust funds
Political conventions
Presidential elections

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Political Convention Reform Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal provisions providing for the use of funds from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund for presidential nominating conventions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
First Amendment Restoration Act

Bill: 109-hr-46
Sponsor: Rep. Bartlett, Roscoe G. [R-MD-6]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Business and politics
Campaign funds
Commerce
Corporations
Government paperwork
Labor and Employment
Labor unions
Political advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: 
First Amendment Restoration Act - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to repeal: (1) a requirement that persons making disbursements for electioneering communications file reports on such disbursements with the Federal Election Commission; (2) a prohibition against the making of disbursements for electioneering communications by corporations and labor organizations; and (3) a provision treating coordinated communications as contributions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Citizens' Self-Defense Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-47
Sponsor: Rep. Bartlett, Roscoe G. [R-MD-6]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Damages
Families
Firearms
Firearms control
Government liability
Injunctions
Law
Legal fees
Limitation of actions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Citizens' Self-Defense Act of 2005 - Declares that a person not prohibited under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act from receiving a firearm shall have the right to obtain firearms for security and to use firearms in defense of: (1) self or family against a reasonably perceived threat of imminent and unlawful infliction of serious bodily injury; (2) self or family in the course of the commission by another person of a violent felony against the person or a member of the person's family; and (3) the person's home in the course of the commission of a felony by another person. 
Authorizes persons whose rights under this Act have been violated to bring an action in U.S. district court against the United States, any State, or any person for damages, injunctive relief, and such other relief as the court deems appropriate.
Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) the award of attorney's fees; and (2) the statute of limitations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Powder-Crack Cocaine Penalty Equalization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-48
Sponsor: Rep. Bartlett, Roscoe G. [R-MD-6]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Cocaine
Crack (Drug)
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Smuggling

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Powder-Crack Cocaine Penalty Equalization Act of 2005 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to eliminate the disparity in sentencing between crack and powder cocaine, with regard to trafficking, possession, importation, and exportation of such substances, by changing the applicable amounts for powder cocaine to those currently applicable to crack cocaine.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House