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Hawaiian Homeownership Opportunity Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5851
Sponsor: Rep. Ney, Robert W. [R-OH-18]
Introduced: 2006-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Authorization
Building construction
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Hawaii
Hawaiians
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Indian housing
Interest
Minorities
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Residential rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: 
Hawaiian Homeownership Opportunity Act of 2006 - Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 and the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to extend through FY2011 the authorization of appropriations for housing assistance for Native Americans and loan guarantees for Native Hawaiian housing.
 
Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 to: (1) make the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands of the state of Hawaii eligible for loan guarantees; and (2) extend through FY2011 the authorization of appropriations for the credit subsidy to cover the costs of federal guarantees for financing for tribal housing activities.

action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Hawaiian Homeownership Opportunity Act of 2006 - Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996, and the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992, respectively, to extend through FY2011 the authorization of appropriations for housing assistance for Native Americans and loan guarantees for Native Hawaiian housing.
 
Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 to: (1) make the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands of the state of Hawaii eligible for loan guarantees; and (2) extend through FY2011 the authorization of appropriations for the credit subsidy to cover the costs of federal guarantees for financing for tribal housing activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 421.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 109-697.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Reported by the Committee on Financial Services. H. Rept. 109-697.
action_date: 2006-07-26
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2006-07-26
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in House
Oil and Gas Traders Oversight Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5853
Sponsor: Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]
Introduced: 2006-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Business records
Coal
Commerce
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Commodity exchanges
Diesel motor
Electric power production
Finance and Financial Sector
Futures trading
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Heating
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Natural gas
Petroleum
Propane

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: 
Oil and Gas Traders Oversight Act of 2006 - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to prescribe reporting and recordkeeping requirements for positions involving energy commodities (a commodity or the derivatives of a commodity used primarily as a source of energy).
 
Directs the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to subject to the requirements of this Act a contract, agreement, or transaction for future delivery in an energy commodity.
 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in House
Partnership for Academic Success in the States Act

Bill: 109-hr-5854
Sponsor: Rep. Beauprez, Bob [R-CO-7]
Introduced: 2006-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Private schools
School districts
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: 
Partnership for Academic Success in the States Act, or the PASS Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to implement a competitive pilot program, in up to 10 states, under which, pursuant to a performance agreement with each state, the Secretary: (1) directly provides the grant amount that such state would otherwise receive under one or more specified elementary and secondary education grant programs; and (2) waives the applicability of one or more of the requirements of such programs.
 
Allows the Secretary to terminate a state's participation in the pilot program if it fails for three consecutive years to demonstrate adequate yearly progress toward achieving challenging academic performance standards.
 

 
Requires the equitable participation of private schools in the use of such grants.
 
Provides for awards to states for reducing achievement gaps.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the exclusion from gross income of certain wages of a certified master teacher, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-5855
Sponsor: Rep. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD-3]
Introduced: 2006-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congressional reporting requirements
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Preschool education
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Tax exclusion
Tax returns
Teacher salaries
Teachers
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income up to 25 percent of the wages earned by a certified master teacher in certain schools identified as in need of improvement or in a Head Start program. Defines &quot;certified master teacher&quot; as a teacher who: (1) has at least five years teaching experience in a public elementary or secondary school; (2) is highly qualified as defined by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; (3) has a master's degree; and (4) has advanced certification in the applicable State licensing system. Terminates such exclusion after 2013.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the allocation of the alternative fuel vehicle refueling property credit to patrons of agricultural cooperatives.

Bill: 109-hr-5856
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2006-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural cooperatives
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Compressed natural gas
Diesel motor
Energy
Hydrogen
Income tax
Liquefied natural gas
Liquefied petroleum gas
Natural gas
Oils and fats
Service stations
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an agricultural producer cooperative to elect to allocate among its patrons the tax credit for alternative fuel vehicle refueling property expenditures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in House
GROWTH Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5858
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2006-07-20 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Business education
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Community organization
Congressional reporting requirements
Cooperative societies
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crimes against women
Developing countries
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Employee rights
Entrepreneurs
Equality before the law
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial services
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign banks and banking
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government statistics
Government trust funds
Health
Health education
Information technology
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Labor unions
Land tenure
Leadership
Literacy programs
Marketing
Nongovernmental organizations
Performance measurement
Personnel management
Probate law and practice
Right of property
Science, Technology, Communications
Self-employed
Sex discrimination
Small business
Technical assistance
Trade agreements
Trade negotiations
Vocational and technical education
Wages
Women
Women in business
Women's employment
Women's health
Women's organizations
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: 
Global Resources and Opportunities for Women to Thrive Act of 2006 or the GROWTH Act of 2006 - Targets assistance for women in developing countries with respect to: (1) microenterprises; (2) small and medium enterprises; (3) private property rights and land tenure security; (4) employment access; (5) trade benefits; (6) exchanges with U.S. entrepreneurs; (7) Millennium Challenge Account assistance; and (8) indigenous women's organizations.
 
Directs the Secretary of State to establish the Global Resources and Opportunities for Women to Thrive (GROWTH) Fund to enhance economic opportunities for very poor, poor, and low-income women in developing countries with a focus on: (1) increasing women-owned enterprise development; (2) increasing property rights for women; (3) increasing women's access to financial services; (4) increasing women in leadership in implementing organizations, such as indigenous nongovernmental organizations, community-based organizations, and regulated financial intermediaries; (5) improving women's employment benefits and conditions; and (6) increasing women's ability to benefit from global trade. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in House
Commission On Reforming Entitlement Spending Act

Bill: 109-hr-5859
Sponsor: Rep. McHenry, Patrick T. [R-NC-10]
Introduced: 2006-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Balance of payments
Budget deficits
Congress
Congressional Record
Congressional committees (House)
Congressional committees (Senate)
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Economic growth
Economic impact statements
Entitlements
Expedited congressional procedure
Federal advisory bodies
Federal budget process
Federal budgets
Finance and Financial Sector
Fiscal policy
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign investments
Government Operations and Politics
Government securities
Government spending reductions
House Budget
House rules and procedure
Legislation
Public meetings
Saving and investment
Senate Budget
Senate rules and procedure
Social Welfare
Tax rates
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: 
Commission On Reforming Entitlement Spending Act, or CORE Spending Act - Establishes the Commission On Reforming Entitlement Spending to examine the long-term fiscal challenges facing the United States and develop legislation designed to address them.
 
Authorizes the President and the House or Senate Budget Committee to submit alternatives to the legislative proposal submitted by the Commission.
 
Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to prepare a long-term cost estimate of legislation proposed under this Act or a related amendment, and have it published in the Congressional Record as expeditiously as possible.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2006-07-20
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2006-07-20
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow an above-the-line deduction for State and local, and foreign, real property taxes.

Bill: 109-hr-5860
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2006-07-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Local taxation
Property tax
State taxation
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow all individual taxpayers to deduct from gross income state, local, and foreign real property taxes whether or not such taxpayers itemize their tax deductions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow individuals eligible for veterans health benefits to contribute to health savings accounts.

Bill: 109-hr-5862
Sponsor: Rep. Campbell, John [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2006-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Health
Health insurance
Hospital care
Income tax
Medical savings accounts
Tax deductions
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that individual taxpayers who receive Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) periodic health care or medical services shall not be disqualified from making tax deductible contributions to health savings accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Introduced in House
To authorize temporary emergency extensions to certain exemptions to the requirements with respect to polychlorinated biphenyls under the Toxic Substances Control Act.

Bill: 109-hr-5863
Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]
Introduced: 2006-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Environmental Protection Agency
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Hazardous wastes
Import restrictions
Imports
Law
Polychlorinated biphenyls
Storage
Sunset legislation
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances
Waste reduction

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: 
Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to: (1) authorize the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to extend temporary emergency exemptions to requirements concerning polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) for 30 days for the purpose of authorizing their safe, effective, and efficient shipment into the United States for disposal, treatment, or storage; and (2) require any person granted such an exemption to report to Congress on the status of foreign-manufactured PCBs generated by or under the control of that person outside of the United States.

action_date: 2006-09-14
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to: (1) authorize the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to extend temporary emergency exemptions to requirements concerning polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) for 30 days for the purpose of authorizing their safe, effective, and efficient shipment into the United States for disposal, treatment, or storage; and (2) require any person granted such an exemption to report to Congress on the status of foreign-manufactured PCBs generated by or under the control of that person outside of the United States. Requires the report to address: (1) the remaining volume of such foreign-manufactured PCBs that may require shipment into the United States; and (2) the efforts that have been made to reduce such volume.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 392.
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 109-659.
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 109-659.
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2006-07-26
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2006-07-26
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to clarify the authority of the Secretary of a military department, or the Secretary of Homeland Security in the case of the Coast Guard, to sell untreated water located on military installations.

Bill: 109-hr-5867
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Jo Ann [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2006-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Defense contracts
Government Operations and Politics
Military bases
Water Resources Development
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: 
Revises the authority of the Secretary of the military department concerned, or the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard, to sell to local purchasers untreated water on a military facility to prohibit any such Secretary, in determining whether the water to be sold is available from other local sources, from considering: (1) the availability of treated water from any local source; or (2) the availability of untreated water from another local source that is situated outside of the political subdivision in which the military facility that will supply the untreated water is located.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental and Native American Public Policy Act of 1992 to provide funds for training in tribal leadership, management, and policy, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-5868
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2006-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Authorization
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Federal aid to Indians
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
Indian education
Indian medical care
Leadership
Management
Medical education
Minorities
Policy sciences

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: 
Amends the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environment and Native American Public Policy Act of 1992 to authorize appropriations for training in tribal leadership, management, and policy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2006-07-31
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2006-07-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2006-07-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2006-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Lebanon Evacuation Assistance Act

Bill: 109-hr-5869
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2006-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Americans in foreign countries
Arab-Israeli conflict
Armed Forces and National Security
Emergency Management
Evacuation of civilians
Immigration
International Affairs
Lebanon
Middle East and North Africa
Repatriation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: 
Lebanon Evacuation Assistance Act - Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to provide for a temporary increase in the total amount of temporary assistance available for U.S. citizens evacuated from foreign crises.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Introduced in House
South Texas Veterans Access to Care Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5870
Sponsor: Rep. Ortiz, Solomon P. [D-TX-27]
Introduced: 2006-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Building construction
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Hospital care
Hospitals
Long-term care
Military medicine
Nursing homes
Public-private partnerships
Texas
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: 
South Texas Veterans Access to Care Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to determine, and notify Congress, whether the needs of veterans for acute inpatient hospital care in 24 counties comprising Far South Texas shall be met through: (1) a public-private venture to provide such services and long-term care to veterans in an existing facility in Far South Texas; (2) a project for construction of a new full-service, 50-bed hospital with a 125-bed nursing home in Far South Texas; or (3) a sharing agreement with a military treatment facility in Far South Texas. Requires the Secretary to take appropriate action depending on the option selected.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Introduced in House