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Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2364
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2006-03-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Arts, Culture, Religion
Biological diversity
Camping
Cultural property
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Endangered species
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal aid to transportation
Fire prevention
Flood damage prevention
Forest ecology
Forest fires
Forest roads
Habitat conservation
Hazardous wastes
Infrastructure
Land transfers
Landscape protection
Logging
Mining leases
National forests
Oil pollution
Outdoor recreation
Potable water
Religion
Restoration ecology
Road construction
Soil conservation
Soil pollution
Sports and Recreation
Timber sales
Traffic accidents and safety
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water quality
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: 
Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2006 - Prohibits road construction and road reconstruction in inventoried roadless areas of the National Forest System. Specifies exceptions, including because: (1) there is threat of a catastrophic event; (2) a natural resource restoration action is necessary; or (3) a Federal-aid highway project is in the public interest or is consistent with the purposes for which the land was reserved or acquired.
 
 Prohibits timber from being cut, sold, or removed in an inventoried roadless area. Permits various exceptions, including for specified environmental reasons, if the responsible official determines that the cutting, sale, or removal of timber is expected to be infrequent.
 
Declares that this Act does not: (1) revoke, suspend, or modify legal instruments and decisions concerning the use of NFS land made before January 12, 2001; (2) compel the amendment or revision of any land and resource management plan; or (3) apply to specified activities in the Tongass National Forest.
 
States that the prohibitions and restrictions of this Act cannot be reconsidered, modified, or terminated under the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1655-1657)
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1655)
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Scott Gardner Act

Bill: 109-s-2365
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2006-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Aliens
Arrest
Building construction
Compensation (Law)
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Deportation
Detention of persons
Drug abuse
Drug testing
Drunk driving
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Illegal aliens
Imprisonment
Informers
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Law
Law enforcement officers
Local employees
Local officials
Police
Police communication systems
Police training
Prisons
Science, Technology, Communications
State employees
State laws
State officials
Transportation and Public Works
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-03
text: 
Scott Gardner Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to share immigration information with the Attorney General. Requires a joint report from such officials to Congress on improving the performance of federal immigration databases to ensure the prompt entry of immigration information.
 
Requires: (1) the director of each state and local law enforcement agency receiving federal incarceration funds under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to collect and report to the Secretary all immigration and DWI (driving while intoxicated) information collected in the course of normal duties; and (2) such information to appear in the wanted person file of the National Criminal Information Center (NCIC) database. Requires mandatory state or local detention of such an arrested person pending transfer to federal custody.
 
Amends INA to: (1) require the Secretary to reimburse the costs of training state and local law enforcement employees on federal immigration laws; and (2) authorize the apprehension and detention of an alien for DWI or a similar violation, as long as the alien is deportable on any other grounds or is an illegal alien. 
 
Requires each state motor vehicle administrator to share with the Secretary all information concerning aliens with records of DWI convictions or refusals to take sobriety tests.
 
Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a formula for the allocation of federal detention facilities for aliens.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to replace the recapture bond provisions of the low income housing tax credit program.

Bill: 109-s-2366
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2006-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Limitation of actions
Low-income housing
Social Welfare
Surety and fidelity
Tax credits
Tax penalties
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-03
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal provisions of the low income housing tax credit requiring a bond to cover recapture amounts from the disposition, prior to a 15-year compliance period, of a building (or interest therein) eligible for the credit. Provides for a three-year statute of limitation (from the end of the compliance period) for assessing a recapture deficiency.
 
Requires owners of buildings eligible for the low income housing tax credit to file informational returns with the Secretary of the Treasury upon the occurrence of a recapture event and to provide persons who are named in such returns with specified information. Imposes penalties for failure to file required returns.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Local Port Security Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2367
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2006-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Corporate mergers
Crime and Law Enforcement
Dubai Ports World aftermath legislation
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Foreign investments
Governmental investigations
Infrastructure
International Affairs
Law
Marine safety
Marine terminals
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-03
text: 
Local Port Security Act of 2006 - Authorizes the owner of a U.S. port to file an action seeking relief (including nullification of any contractual obligation with any marine terminal operator) in U.S. district court if a merger, acquisition, or takeover would result in the ownership of a marine terminal operator being controlled by a foreign entity. Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) review any such proposed change to determine any potential security concerns; and (2) transmit such review to the marine terminal operator and to the President for purposes of a certain mandatory investigation to determine the effects on national security of such mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers which could result in the ownership of a marine terminal operator within a U.S. port being controlled by a foreign entity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1681)
action_date: 2006-03-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1680-1681)
action_date: 2006-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require a more reasonable period for delayed-notice search warrants, to provide enhanced judicial review of FISA orders and national security letters, to require an enhanced factual basis for a FISA order, and to create national security letter sunset provisions.

Bill: 109-s-2369
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2006-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Bank records
Business records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Congress
Consumer credit
Counterintelligence
Criminal investigation
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign agents
International Affairs
Judicial review
Law
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Searches and seizures
Sunset legislation
Telephone
Terrorism
Warrants (Law)

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-06
text: 
Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) reduce from 30 to seven days after the issuance of a warrant the period in which notice must be given to the subject of the warrant that it was issued to search for and seize any property or material that constitutes evidence of a criminal offense; and (2) repeal provisions treating as conclusive the certification of the Attorney General or the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation that certain disclosures of information endanger national security. 
 
Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to: (1) authorize judicial review of nondisclosure orders (orders prohibiting persons from disclosing that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has sought information); (2) repeal the requirement prohibiting judicial review of production or nondisclosure orders until one year after such order.
 
Requires a production order (an order from the FBI Director to produce any tangible thing, such a book, document, or record) to either: (1) pertain to a foreign power, agent of a foreign power, or an individual in contact with, or known to, a suspected agent of a foreign power; or (2) be relevant to the activities of a suspected agent of a foreign power who is the subject of the authorized investigation.
 
Amends the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 to sunset, as of December 31, 2009, the national security letter authority provisions added to the federal criminal code, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Right to Financial Privacy Act, and the National Security Act of 1947.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1792-1793)
action_date: 2006-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1791-1792)
action_date: 2006-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to permit the use of certain funds for recovery and mitigation activities in the upper basin of the Missouri River, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-2371
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2006-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Appropriations
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Missouri River development
Montana
Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-06
text: 
Permits the use of funds made available for recovery or mitigation activities in the lower basin of the Missouri River for such activities in the upper basin of that river.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2006-03-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2006-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Expedited Budget Item Veto Review Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2372
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2006-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Budget reconciliation
Congress
Congressional budget
Congressional conference committees
Congressional joint committees
Congressional voting
Entitlements
Expedited congressional procedure
Food stamps
Government Operations and Politics
House rules and procedure
Income tax
Item veto
Joint Taxation
Legislation
Legislative resolutions
Rescission of appropriated funds
Senate rules and procedure
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax preferences
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-06
text: 
Expedited Budget Item Veto Review Act of 2006 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to provide for the expedited consideration of certain proposed cancellations of appropriations, new direct spending, and limited tax benefits. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2006-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1796-1797)
action_date: 2006-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Foreign Investment Transparency and Security Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2374
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2006-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Corporate mergers
Corporation directors
Crime and Law Enforcement
Dubai Ports World aftermath legislation
Foreign corporations
Foreign investments
Government Operations and Politics
Government ownership
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
International Affairs
Security measures
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation safety

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-06
text: 
Foreign Investment Transparency and Security Act of 2006 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to permit a foreign government controlled entity to acquire, own, or otherwise control or manage any critical infrastructure of the United States only through the establishment or operation of a foreign owned general business corporation that has a board of directors, the majority of which is comprised of U.S. citizens, and a chief security officer who is a U.S. citizen.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1797)
action_date: 2006-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Conquer Childhood Cancer Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2375
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2006-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Child health
Clinical trials
Communication in medicine
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Health education
Health information systems
Medical research
Preventive medicine
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: 
Conquer Childhood Cancer Act of 2006 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), acting through the National Cancer Institute, to establish special programs of research excellence in the area of pediatric cancers. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a grant mechanism for the establishment of Research Fellowships in Pediatric Cancer to support adequate numbers of pediatric focused clinical and translational investigators.
 
Requires the Director to award a grant for the operation of a population-based national childhood cancer database, the Childhood Cancer Research Network.
 
Requires the Secretary to award grants to recognized childhood cancer professional and advocacy organizations to raise public awareness of currently available information, treatment, and research with intent to ensure access to best available therapies for pediatric cancers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 80 Killian Road in Massapequa, New York, as the "Gerard A. Fiorenza Post Office Building".

Bill: 109-s-2376
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Names
New York State
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 80 Killian Road in Massapequa, New York, as the "Gerard A. Fiorenza Post Office Building."
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: 

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

Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 80 Killian Road in Massapequa, New York, as the "Gerard A. Fiorenza Post Office Building." 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 480.
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Collins without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Collins without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2006-06-14
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Broadband Data and E-rate Improvement Act

Bill: 109-s-2378
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2006-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Broadband
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to the arts and humanities
Internet
Libraries
Minorities
Native Americans
Surveys
Telecommunication rates

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: 
Broadband Data and E-rate Improvement Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to make ineligible for preferential rates (E-rate assistance) or treatment with respect to universal telecommunications service any library or library consortium (tribal library) ineligible for assistance funded by a grant under the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) from an Indian tribe or other organization. (Thus makes LSTA grant-eligible tribal libraries also eligible for E-rate assistance to the same extent as other libraries receiving such assistance.)
 
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to expand the American Community Survey conducted by the Bureau of the Census to elicit information for residential households, including those located on native lands, as to what technology such households use to access the Internet from home.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction for health and long-term care insurance costs of individuals not participating in employer-subsidized health plans.

Bill: 109-s-2379
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2006-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Health insurance continuation
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Long-term care insurance
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a tax deduction from gross income (available to itemizing and non-itemizing taxpayers) for the cost of health care insurance, including long-term care insurance, for such taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, and dependents. Disallows such tax deduction for taxpayers participating in an employer-paid health care plan or for taxpayers who have health care coverage under certain federal assistance programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1835)
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
U.S. National Security Protection Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2380
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2006-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Cabinet officers
Central Intelligence Agency
Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporate mergers
Department of Defense
Department of Homeland Security
Director of National Intelligence
Dubai Ports World aftermath legislation
Executive reorganization
Federal officials
Foreign corporations
Foreign investments
Government Operations and Politics
Government ownership
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
International Affairs
President and foreign policy

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: 
U.S. National Security Protection Act of 2006 - Revises the structure of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to: (1) add the Director of National Intelligence and the Director of Central Intelligence as members; (2) designate the Secretaries of Homeland Security and of Defense as vice chairs; and (3) require the President to establish a Subcommittee on Intelligence.
 
Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to charge the Subcommittee with the tasks of providing review and comment both before and after investigations authorized or required under the Act to determine the national security effects of mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers (&quot;takeovers,&quot; for purposes of this Act) involving foreign persons or foreign government-controlled entities that could result in foreign control of persons engaged in interstate commerce.
 
Includes ownership, control, or operation of critical infrastructure as interstate commerce activity that could affect national security.
 
Requires certification by the President or by the chair of CFIUS (when CFIUS is acting as the President's designee) of a final determination not to proceed with an investigation by the President of a takeover action.
 
Requires persons controlled by or acting on behalf of a foreign government or person to notify the President (or the President's designee) in writing of any proposed takeover of critical infrastructure, providing information necessary to assess national security effects. Requires notice to Congress within 15 days of such notification and at the commencement of an investigation.
 
Requires the President to report quarterly to Congress on all takeovers that were subject to investigation or review during the quarter.
 
Makes CFIUS the President's designee for purposes of the takeover investigation provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1837-1838)
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1835-1837)
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate