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A bill to establish a Caribbean Basin Port Assistance Program.

Bill: 109-s-744
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2005-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Caribbean area
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Containerization
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economic assistance
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Freight
Harbors
Imports
International cooperation
Latin America
Marine safety
Marine terminals
Regionalism (International organization)
Security measures
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: 
Directs the Administrator of the Maritime Administration to establish a Caribbean Basin Assistance Program for ports that lack effective antiterrorism measures. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Inland Empire Regional Water Recycling Initiative

Bill: 109-s-746
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: California
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Infrastructure
Waste water treatment
Water conservation
Water districts
Water treatment plants

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: 
Inland Empire Regional Water Recycling Initiative - Amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior: (1) in cooperation with the Inland Empire Utilities Agency, to participate in the design, planning, and construction of the Inland Empire regional water recycling project; and (2) in cooperation with the Cucamonga Valley Water District, to participate in the design, planning, and construction of the Cucamonga Valley Water District satellite recycling plants in Rancho Cucamonga, California, to reclaim and recycle approximately two million gallons per day of domestic wastewater. Limits the Federal share of the cost of each project to 25 percent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3421)
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3420-3421)
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Children's Express Lane to Health Coverage Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-747
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2005-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Caregivers
Child nutrition
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Parents
Poor children
Pregnant women
School lunch program
Social Welfare
State laws
Welfare eligibility
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: 
Children's Express Lane to Health Coverage Act of 2005 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to give States the option of providing that Medicaid or SCHIP financial eligibility requirements are met for children based on their eligibility for nutrition assistance or similar public programs with comparable income standards and methodologies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the establishment at Antietam National Battlefield of a memorial to the officers and enlisted men of the Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiments and the First New Hampshire Light Artillery Battery who fought in the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-748
Sponsor: Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH]
Introduced: 2005-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Civil War
Commemorations
Fund raising
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
History
Infantry
Maryland
Military parks
Military personnel
Monuments and memorials
New Hampshire
Volunteer forces

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to authorize the establishment, at a suitable location approved by the Secretary within the boundaries of Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland, of a memorial to the officers and enlisted men of the Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiments and the First New Hampshire Light Artillery Battery who fought in the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-355.
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to establish a governmentwide policy requiring competition in certain executive agency procurements, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-749
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2005-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Apprenticeship
Armed Forces and National Security
Charitable contributions
Classified defense information
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Correctional personnel
Crime and Law Enforcement
Defense contracts
Defense procurement
Electric power distribution
Energy
Federal Prison Industries, Inc.
Federal employees
Gas pipelines
Government and business
Government contractors
Government corporations
Government procurement
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Labor and Employment
Layoffs
New products
Petroleum pipelines
Prison labor
Rehabilitation of criminals
Social Welfare
Subcontractors
Transportation and Public Works
Vocational and technical education
Volunteer workers
Water Resources Development
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to require an executive agency, when procuring Federal Prison Industries (FPI) products or services, to: (1) use competitive procedures; or (2) make an individual purchase under a multiple award contract in accordance with applicable competition requirements. Requires an agency to: (1) timely notify FPI of procurements; (2) consider a timely offer from FPI in the same manner as other offers; and (3) consider a timely offer from FPI without limitation as to the dollar value, unless competition is limited to small business concerns. Outlines exceptions to the competitive procedures requirement. 
Prohibits requiring a contractor to use FPI as a subcontractor or supplier. 
Prohibits access to classified and sensitive information by an inmate worker. 
 
 
Restricts the interstate and foreign commerce of services resulting from convict labor. Subjects knowing violators of such restrictions to fine or imprisonment, or both. 
Requires Federal, State, and local prison work programs to meet specified requirements. 
Allows FPI to sell or donate a product or service to tax-exempt charitable organizations which may then donate or sell any such product or service to low-income individuals. 
 
Establishes the Enhanced In-Prison Educational and Vocational Assessment and Training Program within the FPI. 
 
Directs FPI to increase inmate employment by producing products for the public sector that would otherwise be produced outside the United States. 
 Authorizes priority placement in the Bureau of Prisons for FPI employees displaced because FPI loses business following enactment.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3421-3423)
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3421)
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow look-through treatment of payments between related foreign corporations.

Bill: 109-s-750
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2005-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Dividends
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Income tax
Interest
Rent
Subsidiary corporations
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt dividends, interest, rents, and royalties received or accrued from certain controlled foreign corporations by a related entity from treatment as foreign personal holding company income (thus permitting tax deferral of such income).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3424)
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act

Bill: 109-s-751
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Bank accounts
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Consumer credit
Credit cards
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Damages
Data banks
Debit cards
Driver licenses
Electronic government information
Electronic mail systems
Encryption
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Identification devices
Identity theft
Injunctions
Internet
Local laws
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
State laws
Telephone
Transportation and Public Works
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: 
Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act - Requires any Federal agency or person that owns, licenses, or collects personal information data following the discovery of a breach its personal data security system, or upon receiving notice of a system breach, to notify (as specified) the individual whose information was obtained by an unauthorized person. Requires any agency or person possessing, but not owning or licensing such data, to notify the information owner or licensee of an unauthorized acquisition. Excepts agencies from notification requirements for national security and law enforcement purposes and requires Congress to be immediately notified when such exceptions are made. Sets forth enforcement provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-20
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
OPEC Accountability Act

Bill: 109-s-752
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Cartels
Commerce
Dispute settlement
East Asia
Energy
Energy prices
Energy supplies
Export controls
Free trade
Indonesia
International Affairs
International agencies
Kuwait
Latin America
Middle East and North Africa
Natural gas
Nigeria
Nontariff trade barriers
OPEC countries
Petroleum
Price fixing
Qatar
Restrictive trade practices
Trade negotiations
United Arab Emirates
Venezuela

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: 
OPEC Accountability Act - Requires the President to initiate consultations with Indonesia, Kuwait, Nigeria, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela to seek their elimination of any action that: (1) limits the production or distribution of oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product; (2) sets or maintains the price of any such product; or (3) otherwise is an action in restraint of trade with respect to such products when such action constitutes an act, policy, or practice that is unjustifiable and burdens and restricts U.S. commerce.
 
Requires the U.S. Trade Representative to: (1) initiate World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute proceedings if the consultation is not successful with respect to any such country; and (2) take appropriate action regarding the country under U.S. trade remedy laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3424-3425)
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Student Aid Reward Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-754
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: College administration
Cost control
Cost effectiveness
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Graduate education
Higher education
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: 
Student Aid Reward Act of 2005 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) title IV (Student Assistance) to direct the Secretary of Education to carry out a Student Aid Reward (SAR) Program of payments to encourage institutions of higher education (IHEs) to participate in the student loan program under title IV that is most cost-effective for taxpayers.
 
Requires that a SAR payment to an IHE equal at least 50 percent of the savings to the Federal Government generated by the IHE's participation in the most cost-effective student loan program, rather than one not cost-effective for taxpayers.
 
Requires IHEs receiving SAR payments to: (1) provide student loans under that most cost-effective program for five years after the payment date; and (2) use payment funds, where appropriate, to supplement student Pell Grants. Allows such funds to be used also to award need-based grants to lower and middle income graduate students.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3430-3431)
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Informed Choice Act

Bill: 109-s-755
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2005-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Adoption
Childbirth
Clinics
Community health services
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to health facilities
Finance and Financial Sector
Health education
Imaging systems in medicine
Liability insurance
Maternal health services
Medical malpractice
Medical supplies
Nonprofit organizations
Physical examinations
Physicians
Pregnant women
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: 
Informed Choice Act - Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to nonprofit community based pregnancy help medical clinics for the purchase of ultrasound equipment. Requires each grantee to: (1) provide free ultrasound examinations to pregnant women; (2) show the visual image of the fetus from the ultrasound examination to each pregnant woman with a general anatomical and physiological description of the fetus; (3) give each pregnant woman the approximate age of the embryo or fetus; (4) provide information on abortion and alternatives to abortion, such as childbirth and adoption, and information concerning public and private agencies that will assist in those alternatives; and (5) obtain medical malpractice insurance. Limits each grant to the lesser of 50 percent of the purchase price of the ultrasound machine involved or $20,000. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Lupus Research, Education, Awareness, Communication, and Healthcare Amendments of 2005

Bill: 109-s-756
Sponsor: Sen. Bennett, Robert F. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2005-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Asian American ethnic groups
Autoimmune diseases
Blacks
Communication in medicine
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Epidemiology
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Health information systems
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Indian medical care
Medical education
Medical research
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Minorities
Minority health
Nonprofit organizations
Quality of life
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: 
Lupus Research, Education, Awareness, Communication, and Healthcare Amendments of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to expand research on lupus to include: (1) basic research to discover the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of the disease; and (2) research to validate lupus biomarkers.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to work with a consortium of academic health institutions to undertake an epidemiological study to determine the prevalence and incidence of lupus in the United States. Requires the Director of CDC to: (1) enter into a cooperative agreement with such consortium to develop, implement, and manage a system for lupus data collection and analysis; and (2) ensure that such consortium represents different geographic areas and includes individuals of racial and ethnic backgrounds disproportionately affected by lupus.
 
Requires the Secretary to enter into a contract with the Institute of Medicine to study and make recommendations related to lupus, to include: (1) evaluating Federal and State activities related to lupus and recommending ways to expand such activities; (2) identifying gaps in Federal research; and (3) recommending ways to improve the quality of life for people with lupus.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Office on Women's Health, to conduct and support a national lupus public awareness and health professional education campaign, with an emphasis on reaching populations at highest risk for the disease.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3431)
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Internet Tax Prohibition Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-758
Sponsor: Sen. Allen, George [R-VA]
Introduced: 2005-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Excise tax
Internet
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: 
Federal Internet Tax Prohibition Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt Internet access service from the excise tax on communication services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Make College Affordable Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-759
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2005-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Congress
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Interest
Labor and Employment
Student loan funds
Sunset legislation
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: 
Make College Affordable Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the amount of the tax deduction for higher education tuition and related expenses; and (2) allow a tax credit for up to $1,500 of the interest paid annually on certain student loans for higher education expenses. Reduces the allowable amount of both the tax deduction and the tax credit based upon taxpayer adjusted gross income levels. Provides for an inflation adjustment for calendar years after 2005 to such adjusted gross income levels. 
 
Makes the tax deduction for higher education tuition and related expenses permanent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3432)
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Wakefield Act

Bill: 109-s-760
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2005-04-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Authorization
Child health
Cost effectiveness
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Health information systems
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Medical education
Medical research
Medical technology
Mortality
Quality of care
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
Trauma care

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: 
Wakefield Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to extend by one year the length of time for which a grant may be awarded under the emergency medical services for children grant program, which allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to States or schools of medicine to support projects to expand and improve emergency medical services for children who need treatment for trauma or critical care.
 
Sets forth as the purpose of the program the reduction of child and youth morbidity and mortality by supporting improvements in the quality of all emergency medical care children receive.
 
Requires the Secretary to support emergency medical services for children by supporting projects that: (1) develop and present scientific evidence; (2) promote existing innovative technologies appropriate for the care of children; and (3) provide information on health outcomes and effectiveness and cost-effectiveness.
 
Directs that such program: (1) strive to enhance the pediatric capability of emergency medical service systems; and (2) be coordinated with all research, evaluations, and awards undertaken by the Federal Government related to emergency medical services for children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3433)
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3432-3433)
action_date: 2005-04-11
text: Introduced in Senate