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Fuels Security Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1232
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Air pollution control
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Cellulose
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Diesel motor
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy crops
Energy prices
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental health
Environmental law enforcement
Federally-guaranteed loans
Feedstock
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fuel consumption
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government procurement
Government publicity
Government vehicles
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Health
Housing and Community Development
Imports
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Law
Local laws
Motor vehicle pollution control
Oxygen
Oxygenates
Ozone
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Recycling of waste products
Reformulated gasoline
Refuse as fuel
Rural economic development
Small business
Standards
State laws
Transportation and Public Works
Trees
Water pollution control
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Fuels Security Act of 2005 - Amends the Clean Air Act to require that motor vehicle fuel contain a specified volume of renewable fuel. Defines &quot;renewable fuel&quot; to include motor vehicle fuel that is: (1) produced from grain, starch, or oilseeds; (2) natural biogas; (3) cellulosic biomass fuel; (4) biodiesel; or (5) composed of a mix of components derived from renewable fuel. 
 
Establishes a system of: (1) tradeable credits for motor vehicle fuel containing more renewable fuel than required; and (2) waivers of renewable fuel requirements for states and small refineries. 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to require federal agency heads to ensure that ethanol-blended gasoline and biodiesel-blended diesel fuel is purchased for agency vehicles in areas where such fuel is available at competitive prices. 
Amends the Clean Air Act to eliminate the oxygen content requirement for reformulated gasoline. 
Requires the Administrator to: (1) establish standards for toxic air pollutants from the use of reformulated gasoline; and (2) within 30 days of enactment of this Act, determine the adequacy of any petition from a state governor to exempt gasoline sold in the state from certain requirements for reformulated gasoline. 
 
Permits states additional opt-in areas under the reformulated gasoline program. 
 Requires the Administrator, at the request of a state, to enforce state controls on fuels and fuel additives. 
 
Sets forth various data collection and reporting requirements. 
Directs the Secretary of Energy to provide loan guarantees for demonstration projects to convert celllulosic biomass into ethanol.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Diana Gecaj Engstrom.

Bill: 109-s-1233
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: 
Declares Diana Gecaj Engstrom to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6483-6484)
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Amateur Radio Spectrum Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1236
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2005-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Communication satellites
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Radio broadcasting
Radio spectrum allocation
Radio stations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Amateur Radio Spectrum Protection Act of 2005 - Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from reallocating primary allocations of bands of frequencies of the amateur radio and amateur satellite services, diminishing the secondary allocations of such bands to such services, or making additional allocations within such bands that would substantially reduce their utility to the amateur radio or satellite service, unless the FCC provides equivalent replacement spectrum to amateur radio and satellite service.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
SAVE LIVES Act

Bill: 109-s-1237
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2005-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Auctions
Cable television
Canada
Commerce
Consumer education
Department of the Treasury
Economics and Public Finance
Electronics
Electronics industry
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Employee training
Environmental Protection
Families
Federal Communications Commission
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Grocery trade
Income tax
Independent regulatory commissions
International Affairs
International cooperation
Labeling
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Law
Licenses
Mexico
Postal facilities
Recycling industry
Recycling of waste products
Rescue work
Retail trade
Standards
State laws
Tax credits
Taxation
Television
Television and children
Television broadcasting
Television frequency allocation
Television programs
Television relay systems
Television stations
Video display terminals

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: 
Spectrum Availability for Emergency-Response and Law-Enforcement to Improve Vital Emergency Services Act or SAVE LIVES Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to extend through December 31, 2008 (currently, 2006) the termination date for television broadcast licenses that authorize analog television service. Repeals provisions authorizing analog service extensions in limited circumstances. Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to take specified actions within specified deadlines for the final television channel assignment of full-power broadcast television stations authorized for digital service.
 
Provides deadlines for the auction of recovered analog spectrum to be used for providing public emergency services.
 
Directs the FCC to distribute to eligible persons analog-to-digital signal converter devices.
 
Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a grant program to provide enhanced interoperability of communications equipment for first responders.
 
Provides certain consumer education requirements regarding the transition to digital television service.
 
Authorizes, with a sunset, temporary digital-to-analog signal conversion for certain cable television subscribers.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax credits for qualified electronic waste (television display screens) collected from consumers and recycled.
 
Directs the: (1) Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to study establishing a nationwide recycling program for electronic waste; and (2) FCC to complete certain pending proceedings relating to conversion to digital television and related matters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6486)
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
American Indian Elderly and Disabled Access to Health Care Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1239
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2005-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Drug utilization
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Indian medical care
Insurance premiums
Medicare
Minorities
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: 
American Indian Elderly and Disabled Access to Health Care Act of 2005 - Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to allow the Indian Health Service, an Indian tribe, a tribal organization, or an urban Indian organization to pay the monthly premium of an Indian who is a Medicare part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) eligible individual enrolled in a prescription drug plan or a Medicare Advantage-Prescription Drug (MA-PD) plan under Medicare part D. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S6488)
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6488)
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an investment tax credit for the purchase of trucks with new diesel engine technologies, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-1240
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2005-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Depreciation and amortization
Diesel motor
Environmental Protection
Income tax
Investment tax credit
Minimum tax
Motor vehicle pollution control
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an investment tax credit for five percent of the cost of a qualified truck. Defines &quot;qualified truck&quot; as a motor vehicle: (1) first placed in service on or after January 1, 2007, and before January 1, 2008; (2) powered by diesel fuel; (3) having a gross vehicle weight of more than 26,000 pounds; and (4) which complies with certain Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations for diesel emissions. Allows such credit to reduce regular or alternative minimum tax liability. 
 
Permits a taxpayer election to expense the cost of qualified trucks placed in service in 2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6488-6489)
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on fixed ratio speed changers for truck-mounted concrete mixers.

Bill: 109-s-1241
Sponsor: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI]
Introduced: 2005-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Building materials
Commerce
Machinery
Tariff
Transportation and Public Works
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on fixed ratio speed changers for truck-mounted concrete mixers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S6489)
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6489)
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on lutetium oxide.

Bill: 109-s-1242
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2005-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Metals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on Lutetium oxide.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to reduce temporarily the duty on triethylene glycol bis[3-(3-tert-butyl-4-hydroxy-5-methylphenyl)propionate].

Bill: 109-s-1243
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2005-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to impose a duty, through December 31, 2008, on triethylene glycol bis[3-(3-tert-butyl-4-hydroxy-5-methylphenyl)propionate]. (Currently, this chemical is duty-free through December 31, 2006.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Long-Term Care and Retirement Security Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1244
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2005-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Caregivers
Commerce
Consumer protection
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Excise tax
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Flexible benefit plans
Health
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Long-term care
Long-term care insurance
Medical economics
Social Welfare
Standards
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax refunds
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: 
Long-Term Care and Retirement Security Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a tax deduction from gross income for long-term care insurance premiums; (2) include long-term care insurance in employee benefit cafeteria plans and flexible spending arrangements; (3) allow a tax credit for certain long-term care costs; (4) set forth certain consumer protections for long-term care insurance contracts; and (5) allow tax free exchanges of long-term care insurance contracts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S6490-6491)
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6489)
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on phosphoric acid, lanthanum salt, cerium terbium-doped.

Bill: 109-s-1245
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2005-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Commerce
Dyes and dyeing
Lighting
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on phosphoric acid, lanthanum salt, cerium terbium-doped.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Medical Education Affordability Act

Bill: 109-s-1246
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2005-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Collection of accounts
Dentists
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Health
Higher education
Law
Licenses
Medical education
Medical residents
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: 
Medical Education Affordability Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to revise specified regulations regarding student loan repayment deferment under certain programs of the Higher Education Act of 1965 with respect to borrowers who are in postgraduate medical or dental internship, residency, or fellowship programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S6492)
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6492)
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Youth Service Scholarship Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1247
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2005-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Higher education
Labor and Employment
National service
Scholarships
Service learning
Social Welfare
Social work
Student employment

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Youth Service Scholarship Act of 2005 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a Public Service Incentives college scholarship program to reward low-income students who have, during high school, and who continue, during college, to make significant public service contributions to their communities. 
Requires 300 hours of public service by the student: (1) during each of two academic years of secondary school, to be eligible for a scholarship for the first year of college; and (2) during the preceding postsecondary academic year, to be eligible for a second, third, or fourth year. 
Requires such students to: (1) have been eligible for a free or reduced price lunch under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act; and (2) be eligible to receive Federal Pell Grants in the year in which the scholarships are awarded. Sets the scholarship amount at $5,000 for any academic year during a student's first four years of undergraduate education, and provides for adjustments of such amount in the event of insufficient appropriations. 
Requires applications to demonstrate maintenance of satisfactory academic progress and at least a 3.0 grade point average. 
Requires program dissemination and promotion.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S6493)
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6492-6493)
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Servitude and Emancipation Archival Research ClearingHouse Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1248
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2005-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Archives
Arts, Culture, Religion
Black history
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Federal aid to education
Genealogy
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
History
Minorities
Science, Technology, Communications
Slavery

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: 
Servitude and Emancipation Archival Research ClearingHouse Act of 2005 or the SEARCH Act of 2005 - Directs the Archivist of the United States to establish, as part of the National Archives, a national database consisting of historic records of servitude and emancipation in the United States to assist African Americans in researching their genealogy. Requires the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to maintain the database.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S6494)
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6493-6494)
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Student Fairness Act

Bill: 109-s-1249
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-06-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Income tax
Rebates
Scholarships
State taxation
Student aid
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: 
Student Fairness Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to rebate the amount of aid lost to students whose Pell Grants were reduced or eliminated for academic year 2005-2006 as a result of the update to the tables for state and other taxes in the student aid need analysis determination of expected family contribution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6661)
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6660-6661)
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1251
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2005-06-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Colorado
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Government liability
Hazardous wastes
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Mineral reserves
Nuclear facilities
Nuclear weapons
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research and development facilities
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: 
Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site Act of 2005 - Instructs the Secretary of Energy to purchase essential mineral rights at the Department of Energy facility, Colorado, known as the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site.
 
Includes among conditions for such purchase that certain federal and state officials designated as trustees enter into a natural resources damage settlement providing that the purchase of essential mineral rights satisfies any existing or potential natural resource damage liability claim arising from releases of certain hazardous substances. Requires the settlement to include a covenant not to sue.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Disabled Veterans Insurance Improvement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1252
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2005-06-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Finance and Financial Sector
Government life insurance
Insurance premiums

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: 
Disabled Veterans Insurance Improvement Act of 2005 - Increases from $20,000 to $40,000 the maximum amount of supplemental service disabled veterans' insurance for totally disabled veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: Introduced in Senate