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Next Generation Hispanic-Serving Institutions Act

Bill: 109-hr-761
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2005-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Authorization
Building construction
Community and school
Curricula
Department of Education
Distance education
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational technology
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Graduate education
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Internet
Junior colleges
Laboratories
Mentoring
Minorities
Minority education
Scholarships
School buildings
School libraries
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Scientific instruments and apparatus
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: 
Next Generation Hispanic-Serving Institutions Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise requirements for Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) under title V (Developing Institutions).
 
Establishes a program of competitive grants to eligible HSIs that offer postbaccalaureate certifications or degrees (part B grants). Limits a part B grant award's duration to not more than five years. Prohibits the Secretary of Education from awarding more than one part B grant to an HSI in any one fiscal year.
 
Authorizes appropriations for: (1) the current part A program of grants to HSIs that offer baccalaureate degrees or are junior or community colleges; and (2) the new part B program of grants to HSIs that offer postbaccalaureate certifications or degrees.
 
Eliminates the requirement that an eligible HSI provide assurances that at least 50 percent of its Hispanic students are low-income students.
 
Includes, among authorized activities under part A grants, articulation agreements and student support programs to help transfers from two-year to four-year institutions.
 
Eliminates the two-year wait-out period between any two five-year part A grants to an HSI.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Battlefields Commemorative Coin Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-762
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2005-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: American Revolution
Armed Forces and National Security
Coins and coinage
Europe
Finance and Financial Sector
Foundations
Gold
History
Military history
Military parks
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Silver
Social Welfare
United Kingdom
War

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: 
Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Battlefields Commemorative Coin Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue five-dollar gold coins, one-dollar silver coins, and half-dollar clad coins emblematic of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E222-223)
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Battlefield Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-763
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2005-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: American Revolution
Armed Forces and National Security
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Europe
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Land transfers
Land use
Military history
Military parks
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare
United Kingdom
War

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: 
Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Battlefield Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the American Battlefield Protection Act of 1996 to direct the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the American Battlefield Protection Program, to establish an acquisition grant program for battlefields and associated sites identified in the Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Historic Preservation Study (battlefield report). 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to States or local governments (eligible entities) to pay the Federal share of the cost of acquiring such sites. Permits eligible entities to acquire an interest in eligible sites using such grants in partnership with nonprofit organizations.
 
Requires the non-Federal share of the cost of acquisition of eligible sites to be not less than 50 percent of the total.
 
Subjects acquired property to the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act's prohibition against conversion to other than public outdoor recreation uses without the Secretary's approval.
 
Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress a report on activities carried out under this Act and updates to the battlefield report.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E222-223)
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
To require the Attorney General to establish a Federal register of cases of child abuse or neglect.

Bill: 109-hr-764
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Sue W. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2005-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child abuse
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Confidential communications
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Directories
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Law
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: 
Directs the Attorney General to create a national register of cases of child abuse or neglect (abuse), with the information in the register supplied by States or political subdivisions. Requires the register to collect information on children reported as abused in a central electronic database.
 
Requires: (1) information provided to the Attorney General to relate to substantiated reports of abuse; (2) each State to determine whether such information also relates to reports of suspected instances of abuse that were unsubstantiated or unfounded, except that if a State has an equivalent electronic register of abuse cases, the information provided to the Attorney General shall be coextensive with information in such register; and (3) the information to be in a standardized electronic form and to contain case-specific identifying information.
 
Directs the Attorney General to establish standards for the dissemination of information in the national register that preserve the confidentiality of records in order to protect the rights of the child and the child's parents or guardians while ensuring that Federal, State, and local government entities have access to such information in order to carry out their legal responsibilities to protect children from abuse.
 
Makes compliance with this Act a condition precedent to receipt of funds under the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7915)
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Fair Care for the Uninsured Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-765
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Mark R. [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2005-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Access to health care
Associations, institutions, etc.
Commerce
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Long-term care insurance
Medical economics
Medical savings accounts
Medically uninsured
Nonprofit organizations
Self-employed
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax refunds
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Fair Care for the Uninsured Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a refundable tax credit for health insurance paid for the benefit of a taxpayer, his spouse, and dependents (no more than two). Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make advance payments of credit amounts to the provider of the taxpayer's health insurance. 
Requires each health insurer, health maintenance organization, and health service organization to participate in a State-established health insurance safety net to assure the availability of health insurance to uninsurable individuals. Funds such safety nets through assessments against such insurers and organizations. Permits such insurers and organizations to add the costs of such assessments to the costs of their insurance or coverage. 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow health benefits coverage through individual membership associations (IMAs). Sets forth IMA requirements, including that the IMA be an organization operated under the direction of an association and that IMA health benefits coverage only be provided through contracts with health insurance issuers. Requires IMAs to include a minimum of two health insurance coverage options.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
President Ronald Reagan $50 Bill Act

Bill: 109-hr-766
Sponsor: Rep. Kline, John [R-MN-2]
Introduced: 2005-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Ex-presidents
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
History
Money
Reagan Administration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: 
President Ronald Reagan $50 Bill Act - Amends the Federal Reserve Act to require that the face of $50 Federal reserve notes printed after December 31, 2005, bear the likeness of President Ronald Wilson Reagan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial 1-Cent Coin Redesign Act

Bill: 109-hr-767
Sponsor: Rep. LaHood, Ray [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2005-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Anniversaries
Coins and coinage
Commemorations
Copper
Ex-presidents
Government Operations and Politics
History
Lincoln Administration
Money
Zinc

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: 
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial 1-Cent Coin Redesign Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, during 2009, to issue one-cent coins with the reverse side bearing four different designs representing different aspects of the life of Abraham Lincoln.
 
Requires the design of the reverse side, after 2009, to bear an image emblematic of President Lincoln's preservation of the United States of America as a single and united country.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Family Life Education Act

Bill: 109-hr-768
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2005-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Alcohol and youth
Child development
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Contraceptives
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Ethnic relations
Families
Federal aid to education
Health education
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Lifestyle
Marriage
Minorities
Parent and child
Preventive medicine
Sex education
Sexual abstinence
Sexual harassment
Sexual orientation
Sexually transmitted diseases
Social life and customs
Stress (Psychology)
Teenage pregnancy
Women
Youth
Youth employment
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: 
Family Life Education Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to States for family life education, including education on abstinence and contraception, to prevent teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that States are encouraged but not required to provide matching funds. 
Requires the Secretary to provide for a national evaluation of a representative sample of such programs for effectiveness in changing adolescent sexual behavior, including delaying sexual and high-risk activity, preventing pregnancy and disease (including HIV/AIDS), and increasing contraceptive knowledge. Requires States receiving such grants to provide for an individual evaluation of the State's program by an external, independent entity.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Ukrainian American Veterans Charter Act

Bill: 109-hr-769
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2005-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Europe
European American ethnic groups
Federal incorporation
Ukraine
Veterans' organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Ukrainian American Veterans Charter Act - Grants a Federal charter to the Ukrainian American Veterans, Incorporated (a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
To require the annual poverty estimate and the National Assessment of Educational Progress to be subject to certain guidance on the release of information to the public.

Bill: 109-hr-770
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2005-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Academic performance
Administrative procedure
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Government publicity
Income statistics
Law
Office of Management and Budget
Poverty
Social Welfare
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: 
Requires the annual poverty estimate and the National Assessment of Educational Progress to be treated as if they were principal economic indicators and subject to the Statistical Policy Directive on Compilation, Release, and Evaluation of Principal Federal Economic Indicators of the Office of Management and Budget (including its guidance on the release of information to the public).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E217)
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Crosby-Puller Combat Wounds Compensation Act

Bill: 109-hr-771
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2005-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Income tax
Iraq compilation
Military pay
Tax exclusion
Taxation
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: 
Crosby-Puller Combat Wounds Compensation Act - Requires a member of the Armed Forces who is wounded or otherwise injured while serving in a combat zone for which special pay is authorized to be paid monthly military pay, during the period in which the member recovers from such wound or injury, that is at least equal to the monthly pay received by the member immediately before receiving the wound or injury. Makes such requirement effective for pay periods beginning on or after September 11, 2001.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to continue during such recovery period the combat zone special pay income tax exclusion. Makes such requirement effective for months beginning on or after the above date.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Resuming Education After Defense Service Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-772
Sponsor: Rep. Matheson, Jim [D-UT-2]
Introduced: 2005-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Iraq compilation
Military pay
National Guard
Payroll deductions
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: 
Resuming Education After Defense Service Act of 2005 - Makes eligible for basic educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill a member of the Selected Reserve who (among other qualifications), during the period beginning on September 11, 2001, and ending on December 31, 2006, serves on active duty in the Armed Forces for one or more periods aggregating not less than two years. Entitles such individuals to one month of educational assistance for each month served on active duty. Makes the amount of such assistance equivalent to that provided for active-duty personnel who have served a minimum of two years of active duty. Requires the basic pay of qualifying members to be reduced by $100 for each of first 12 months of such active duty service.
 
Requires the Secretaries of the military departments concerned to inform eligible Selected Reserve personnel of such entitlement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5608)
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
Fairness in Labor Litigation Act

Bill: 109-hr-773
Sponsor: Rep. McKeon, Howard P. "Buck" [R-CA-25]
Introduced: 2005-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Employers' liability
Frivolous lawsuits
Government Operations and Politics
Industrial relations
Labor unions
Law
Legal fees
Liability (Law)
National Labor Relations Board
Unfair labor practices

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: 
Fairness in Labor Litigation Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to make it an unfair labor practice for an employer or a labor organization, respectively, to bring or cause to be brought any civil or adversarial adjudicatory action against a labor organization or an employer, respectively, if, irrespective of the outcome, such action is determined by a competent fact finder to be frivolous, vexatious, or objectively baseless and not brought in good faith. Makes the party found to have violated this prohibition liable to the party or parties against whom such action is brought for all reasonable costs, fees, and expenses incurred in the defense of such action.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House