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Louisiana Hurricane and Flood Protection Council Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2421
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2006-03-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Civil engineering
Coastal zone
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Disaster relief
Ecosystem management
Environmental Protection
Federal advisory bodies
Flood control
Flood damage prevention
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Louisiana
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Navigation
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-15
text: 
Louisiana Hurricane and Flood Protection Council Act of 2006 - Establishes the Louisiana Hurricane and Flood Protection Council. 
 
Directs the Council to: (1) manage and oversee the implementation of a system-wide, comprehensive plan for Corps of Engineers projects that addresses hurricane protection, flood control, coastal and ecosystem restoration, storm surge damage reduction, or navigation in any area along the Louisiana coast in which a major disaster relating to Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita was declared by the President on or after August 29, 2005, in accordance with the comprehensive hurricane protection program authorized by Congress during 2005; (2) establish and carry out a 20-year demonstration program for the study, design, integrated implementation, and system-wide management of any project or component of a Corps project in such disaster area; and (3) develop recommendations for an emergency strategy to repair infrastructure relating to projects under the plan and to supplement the Corps' authority in any Louisiana area affected by a major disaster or emergency declared by the President to exist during the demonstration program period.
 
Requires each Corps' study in the disaster area authorized during the period of such program to be conducted in accordance with it. Prohibits the Corps from implementing a report or recommendation of the Council until it is approved by specified congressional committees.
 
Terminates the Council on December 31, 2026.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7850)
action_date: 2006-03-27
text: Referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2006-03-27
text: Star Print ordered on S. 2421.
action_date: 2006-03-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-03-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Coastal Conservation and Habitat Restoration Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2422
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2006-03-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Coastal zone
Continental shelf
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental degradation
Fishery management
Gas in submerged lands
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Habitat conservation
Land subsidence
Local finance
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas royalties
Petroleum in submerged lands
Restoration ecology
Revenue sharing
Signs and signboards
Submarine oil well drilling
Water Resources Development
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-15
text: 
Coastal Conservation and Habitat Restoration Act of 2006 - Establishes the Coastal Conservation and Habitat Restoration Fund. Provides for the deposit into the Fund of specified amounts from the Digital Transition and Public Safety Fund and royalties from Outer Continental Shelf Fund revenues. Allocates Fund amounts in the form of grants to coastal states that have an approved Coastal Conservation and Habitat Restoration Plan that includes activities for coastal zone management, coastal wetlands conservation, coastal land protection, and fisheries habitat restoration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2006-03-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the contribution limits for health savings accounts, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-2424
Sponsor: Sen. Allen, George [R-VA]
Introduced: 2006-03-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Health
Income tax
Medical savings accounts
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-15
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow participants in high deductible health care insurance plans an increased tax deduction for contributions to a health savings account.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-03-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2206-2207)
action_date: 2006-03-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to apply amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act related to providing medical services in underserved areas, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-2425
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2006-03-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Education
Educational exchanges
Health
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Medical residents
Physicians
Residence requirements
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-15
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Technical Corrections Act of 1994, as amended, to make the J-1 visa (medical services in underserved areas) program permanent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-03-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2207)
action_date: 2006-03-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Cyber Safety for Kids Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2426
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2006-03-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Auditing
Child safety
Crime and Law Enforcement
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Identification devices
Internet
Law
Liability (Law)
Names
Pornography
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Cyber Safety for Kids Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, to: (1) develop, pursuant to the Memorandum of Understanding Between the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (concerning the policy for determining the addition of top-level Internet domains), a plan for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to establish a top-level international domain meeting specified requirements; (2) make the plan available to the public; and (3) enter into any necessary agreements with ICANN to carry out the plan. Provides a process for the selection of an operator of the new domain. 
Requires the operator of any web site or online service whose primary business is making available material that is harmful to minors to register and operate such web site or online service under the new domain.
Provides: (1) liability protections for the new domain operator; (2) registration enforcement procedures; and (3) outreach requirements. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2316-2317)
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Sustainable Solvency First for Social Security Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2427
Sponsor: Sen. Bennett, Robert F. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2006-03-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Appropriations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost of living adjustments
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Indexing (Economic policy)
Life expectancy
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Retirement age
Social security beneficiaries
Social security finance

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: 
Sustainable Solvency First for Social Security Act of 2006 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to provide for progressive indexing of old age insurance benefits with respect to any individual who initially becomes eligible for them or who dies (before becoming eligible for them) in calendar year 2012 or later.
 
Provides for: (1) modification of primary insurance amount (PIA) factors to reflect changes in life expectancy; (2) computation of the PIA for an individual who has or has had a period of disability and who initially becomes eligible for such benefits in or after 2012; (3) acceleration of the increase in retirement age to 67; and (4) automatic appropriations to maintain the balance ratio of the Social Security Trust Funds at not less than 100% for the calendar year commencing during each fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2317-2320)
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Automated Defibrillation in Adam's Memory Reauthorization Act

Bill: 109-s-2428
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2006-03-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Authorization
Cardiovascular diseases
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Federal aid to health facilities
Medical supplies

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: 
Automated Defibrillation in Adam's Memory Reauthorization Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize appropriations for grants for states, political subdivisions, Indian tribes, and tribal organizations to develop and implement public access defibrillation programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S2321)
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2320-2321)
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the President to waive the application of certain requirements under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 with respect to India.

Bill: 109-s-2429
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2006-03-16 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Arms control agreements
Ballistic missiles
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Energy
Export controls
Fissionable materials
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Guided missiles
India
International cooperation
Nuclear energy
Nuclear exports
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear reactors
Nuclear security measures
President and foreign policy
Sanctions (International law)
Science, Technology, Communications
South Asia
Technology transfer
Trade agreements
Uranium enrichment

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: 
Authorizes the President, upon making specified determinations, to exempt a certain proposed cooperation agreement with India from requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (AEC) regarding: (1) mandatory maintenance of International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards for nuclear materials in peaceful nuclear activities; (2) certain additional export criteria and procedures; and (3) conduct resulting in termination of nuclear exports. 
 
Renders any such determinations without effect if the President finds that India has detonated a nuclear explosive device after enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Hearings held.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Hearings held.
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2321)
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Savings Competitiveness Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2431
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2006-03-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Annuities
Budget deficits
Commerce
Congress
Department of Labor
Economics and Public Finance
Employee rights
Families
Federal budget process
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Food stamps
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Investments
Law
Legislation
Medical savings accounts
Payroll deductions
Pension funds
Pension portability
Saving and investment
Senate rules and procedure
Small business
Social Welfare
State laws
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax refunds
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Taxation
Welfare eligibility
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: 
Savings Competitiveness Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain employers to provide a payroll retirement savings option to their employees who are not covered under a tax-qualified retirement plan; (2) allow such employers a tax credit for the costs of maintaining a payroll retirement savings plan; (3) establish tax-exempt secure retirement accounts; (4) allow certain individual taxpayers a refundable tax credit for retirement savings contributions; (5) establish Young Savers Accounts (Roth IRAs which are established and maintained on behalf of an individual who has not attained the age of 18); (6) provide for automatic contributions of employee compensation to deferred compensation plans; (7) allow certain small employers a business-related tax credit for pension plan contributions; (8) disregard retirement plan savings for purposes of determining eligibility for certain means-tested federal aid programs; (9) provide for direct deposit of tax refunds into individual retirement plans; and (10) revise rules and eliminate certain penalties for distributions and rollovers from certain retirement plans.
 
Prohibits consideration in the Senate of any direct spending or revenue legislation that would increase or cause an on-budget deficit during certain specified time periods.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9638)
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2323-2324)
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Veterans Care Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2433
Sponsor: Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]
Introduced: 2006-03-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Chronically ill
Clinics
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Veterans Affairs
Education
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Indian medical care
Medical education
Medical fees
Medical research
Medicare
Minorities
Presidential appointments
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: 
Rural Veterans Care Act of 2006 - Establishes the Assistant Secretary for Rural Affairs in the Department of Veterans Affairs to: (1) formulate and implement all Department policies and procedures that affect veterans living in rural areas; (2) carry out demonstration projects to examine alternatives for expanding veterans' care in rural areas; (3) reevaluate, and revise as necessary, Department guidance and procedures related to the use of fee basis care nationwide; and (4) establish and operate at least one and up to five centers of excellence for rural health research, education, and clinical activities.
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct a pilot program for improving the access of veterans who reside in highly rural or geographically remote areas to certain health care services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S2324-2326)
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Senate Campaign Reform Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2434
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2006-03-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Campaign funds
Congressional elections
Congressional employees
Congressional ethics
Congressional officers
Government Operations and Politics
Members of Congress
Political action committees
Political advertising
Senate
Senate rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: 
Senate Campaign Reform Act of 2006 - Amends Rule XLI (Political Fund Activity; Definitions) of the Standing Rules of the Senate to prohibit a Member, officer, or employee of the Senate from soliciting, receiving, directing, or authorizing the acceptance of a contribution with respect to a political committee authorized by or affiliated with a Senator, except during the 18 months before the next general election for the Senator's office.
 
Exempts from this restriction: (1) periods beginning when a candidate opposing a Senator receives contributions or makes expenditures in excess of $100,000; and (2) in cases where a Senator is targeted (by name or office) in broadcast advertisements paid for by an individual or group not affiliated with another candidate, but only to the extent that contributions do not exceed the amount paid for the advertisements. Requires the permitted contributions to be used solely for responding to such advertisements, and funds remaining at the conclusion of such response to be returned to the individual contributors (based on the percentage of the total amount contributed).
 
Requires the Senator to submit for review to the Select Committee on Ethics the amount raised, copies of the advertisements in question, and the dates and outlets on which the advertisements were run.
 
Exempts any authorized committee of a Senator who is a candidate for an office other than Senator, but only if such committee is established for running for such other office, and no contribution accepted by the committee is used for running for the office of Senator.
 
 
 

 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S2326)
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2326)
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Trade Commission Consumer Advocacy Act

Bill: 109-s-2436
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2006-03-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Consumer complaints
Consumer protection
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Deceptive advertising
Executive reorganization
Federal Trade Commission
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Informers
Public service advertising
Restrictive trade practices
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: 
Federal Trade Commission Consumer Advocacy Act - Establishes within the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) an Office of Consumer Advocacy and Outreach to protect minority consumers, disabled consumers, and other targeted consumers from unfair or deceptive acts or practices.
 
Requires the head of the Office to: (1) assist law enforcement personnel in investigating unfair or deceptive acts or practices that affect such consumers and in increasing the amount of information available about such conduct through the Consumer Sentinel (or an equivalent) database system; (2) provide consumers with information regarding detecting unfair or deceptive acts or practices; (3) administer a program that permits the anonymous reporting of information concerning unfair or deceptive acts or practices that affect such consumers; (4) carry out a program of monetary rewards for reports of such conduct if such reports result in civil penalties; and (5) carry out a public awareness campaign in Spanish.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S2327)
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2327)
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to increase penalties for trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor.

Bill: 109-s-2437
Sponsor: Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]
Introduced: 2006-03-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Capital punishment
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Forced labor
Kidnapping
Labor and Employment
Murder
Prostitution
Rape
Recruiting of employees
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sex crimes
Slavery
Smuggling
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: 
Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) increase the penalties for trafficking with respect to peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, or forced labor; and (2) allow the death penalty for trafficking which involves kidnaping, or aggravated sexual assault on, more than one person. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2327-2328)
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Nevada Test Site Veterans' Compensation Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2439
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2006-03-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Claims
Compensation (Law)
Department of Energy
Energy
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government liability
Health
Ionizing radiation
Law
Nevada
Nuclear weapons
Occupational health and safety
Radiation victims

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: 
Nevada Test Site Veterans' Compensation Act of 2006 - Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to set forth criteria for the inclusion of certain nuclear weapons program workers in the special exposure cohort under the energy employees occupational illness compensation program.
 
Establishes a deadline for claims adjudication.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S2329)
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2328-2329)
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Introduced in Senate