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September 11th Assistance Clarification Act

Bill: 109-hr-2196
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Block grants
Commerce
Community development
Compensation (Law)
Compensation for victims of crime
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Infrastructure
International Affairs
Law
September 11, 2001
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax refunds
Terrorism
Urban affairs
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: September 11th Assistance Clarification Act - Exempts from Federal taxation specified funds made available to the Department of Housing and Urban Development under the 2002 Supplemental Appropriations Act for Further Recovery From and Response To Terrorist Attacks on the United States, the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002, the 2001 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Recovery from and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States, and the Department of Defense and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Recovery from and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States Act, 2002, that are paid to any person as assistance on account of any property or business damaged by, and for economic revitalization directly related to, the terrorist attacks on the United States that occurred on September 11, 2001.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E893)
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on fixed ratio speed changers for truck-mounted concrete mixers.

Bill: 109-hr-2198
Sponsor: Rep. Petri, Thomas E. [R-WI-6]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Building materials
Commerce
Machinery
Tariff
Transportation and Public Works
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on fixed ratio speed changers for truck-mounted concrete mixers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Steve Grissom Relief Fund Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2199
Sponsor: Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Blood banks
Blood transfusions
Claims
Compensation (Law)
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Fraud
Government liability
Government trust funds
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Income
Labor and Employment
Law
Married people
Medical records
Medical tests
Physical examinations
Social Welfare
Supplemental security income program
Survivors' benefits
Tissue banks
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
Steve Grissom Relief Fund Act of 2005 - Establishes the Steve Grissom Relief Fund in the Treasury.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make a single payment from the Fund to any individual infected with HIV or diagnosed with AIDS who: (1) was treated with HIV-contaminated blood, blood components, human tissue, or organs; (2) is the lawful spouse of an individual so treated; (3) is a former spouse of such an individual and can assert reasonable certainty of transmission of HIV from such individual; and (4) acquired HIV through perinatal transmission from such an individual or individual's spouse. 
Sets forth documentation, petition, determination, and payment procedures. States that such payments do not create or admit any claim, but do constitute full satisfaction of all claims by or on behalf of such an individual. Provides that such payments do not constitute income for tax, benefits, or other purposes. 
Prohibits the assignment or transfer of rights under this Act. Limits petitions to one per victim. Terminates the program after five years. 
Excludes payments from consideration as: (1) compensation or reimbursement in determining repayment for insurance or worker's compensation benefits; or (2) income or resources in determining eligibility for social security income benefits.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Prescription Drug Price Fairness Act

Bill: 109-hr-2200
Sponsor: Rep. Ruppersberger, C. A. Dutch [D-MD-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Drug industry
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Interstate relations
Managed care
Medicaid
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Rebates
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
Prescription Drug Price Fairness Act - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) grant the Secretary of Health and Human Services authority similar to that of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to negotiate the lowest possible prices for outpatient prescription drugs; (2) include prices charged for covered outpatient drugs to certain Federal agencies in the determination of best price for such drugs under the Medicaid program; and (3) allow States, in entering into rebate agreements with manufacturers, to form pools to negotiate price concessions from the manufacturers for covered outpatient drugs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Debt Prevention and Education Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2201
Sponsor: Rep. Ruppersberger, C. A. Dutch [D-MD-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alimony
Bankruptcy
Collection of accounts
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Credit cards
Debtor and creditor
Direct mail advertising
Families
Federal Reserve System
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law
Medical economics
Support of dependents

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
Consumer Debt Prevention and Education Act of 2005 - Amends the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 to prohibit a judge, U.S. trustee, or other party in interest from filing a presumption-of-abuse motion if the debtor is a medically distressed debtor.
 
Amends the Truth in Lending Act to require credit card disclosures under an open end consumer credit plan to include an explanation of: (1) credit scores and the negative effects that low credit scores can have on the consumer; (2) how being over a credit limit hurts the consumer; and (3) how long it would take paying off a credit balance by just making the minimum payments required, and the effect that negative amortization may have in extending such time.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Benefits Tax Fairness Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2202
Sponsor: Rep. Ryun, Jim [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Railroad retirement plans
Social Welfare
Tax exclusion
Tax rates
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
Social Security Benefits Tax Fairness Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the base and adjusted base amounts used to determine the amount of Social Security benefits excluded from gross income. Provides for an inflation adjustment to the base and adjusted base amounts beginning in 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
527 Transparency Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2204
Sponsor: Rep. Shaw, E. Clay, Jr. [R-FL-22]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Campaign funds
Congress
Congressional elections
Excise tax
Gift tax
Government paperwork
Income tax
Political action committees
Presidential elections
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
527 Transparency Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise disclosure requirements for tax-exempt political organizations (527 organizations) to require monthly reporting of contributions and expenditures. Imposes a penalty tax on political organizations that fail to meet disclosure requirements. Denies a gift tax exclusion for donations to political organizations that fail to meet disclosure requirements.
 
Requires political organizations to file disclosure reports simultaneously with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Federal Election Commission (FEC). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 5, United States Code, to extend the veterans' preference provisions of such title to individuals who served on active duty in the armed forces for a period of more than 180 consecutive days any part of which occurred after September 11, 2001, and before January 1, 2006, and separated from the armed forces under honorable conditions.

Bill: 109-hr-2205
Sponsor: Rep. Tiberi, Patrick J. [R-OH-12]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Federal employees
Iraq compilation
September 11, 2001
Veterans' employment

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
Extends veterans' preference provisions to individuals who served on active duty in the Armed Forces for a period of more than 180 consecutive days any part of which occurred after September 11, 2001, and before January 1, 2006, and separated from the Armed Forces under honorable conditions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Veterinary Workforce Expansion Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2206
Sponsor: Rep. Pickering, Charles W. "Chip" [R-MS-3]
Introduced: 2005-05-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Biological warfare
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Federal aid to education
Food safety
Higher education
Medical education
Medical laboratories
Medical research
Science, Technology, Communications
Terrorism
Veterinary medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: 
Veterinary Workforce Expansion Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to eligible entities to improve public health preparedness through increasing the number of veterinarians in the workforce. Defines &quot;eligible entities&quot; as accredited public or nonprofit schools of veterinary medicine, departments of comparative medicine, departments of veterinary science, schools of public health, or schools of medicine that offer training for veterinarians in a public health practice area.
 
Requires the Secretary to give preference to applicants that demonstrate a comprehensive approach by involving more than one eligible entity.
 
Allows grantees to use funds to: (1) pay the costs associated with construction, the acquisition of equipment, and other capital costs relating to the expansion of existing schools or departments; and (2) pay the capital costs associated with the expansion of academic programs that offer postgraduate training for veterinarians or concurrent training for veterinary students in specific areas of specialization


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-09
text: Introduced in House
Full-Service Community Schools Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2207
Sponsor: Rep. Hoyer, Steny H. [D-MD-5]
Introduced: 2005-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Adult education
Agriculture and Food
Child development
Child nutrition
Commerce
Community and school
Community health services
Community schools
Compensatory education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Day care
Dental care
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational planning
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Higher education
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Literacy programs
Mental health services
Mentoring
Nonprofit organizations
Nutrition
Parent and child
Parent-school relationships
Performance measurement
Preschool education
Preventive medicine
Problem children
Public-private partnerships
School health programs
School personnel
Secondary education
Service learning
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Vocational guidance
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: 
Full-Service Community Schools Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants to: (1) eligible entities to assist public elementary or secondary schools to function as full-service community schools; and (2) state collaboratives to support development of full-service community school programs. 
 
Requires such schools to: (1) participate in community-based efforts to coordinate educational, developmental, family, health, and other comprehensive services through community-based organizations and public and private partnerships; and (2) provide access to such services to students, families, and the community.
 
Gives local grant priority to entities that: (1) will serve at least one school eligible for schoolwide programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and more than one full-service community school as part of a community or districtwide strategy; and (2) demonstrate a record of effectiveness in integrating at least three of various qualified services.
 
Establishes a Full-Service Community Schools Advisory Committee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to prepare an annual report specifying the number of permanent and temporary non-Federal employees for local offices of the Farm Service Agency that will be needed to efficiently and effectively handle the workload generated by recurring and anticipated agriculture programs administered by the Farm Service Agency and the funding levels necessary to support such workforce, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-2209
Sponsor: Rep. McIntyre, Mike [D-NC-7]
Introduced: 2005-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agricultural credit
Agricultural subsidies
Appropriations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Salaries
Soil conservation
Temporary employment

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: 
 Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to report annually on the number of required permanent and temporary non-Federal employees for Farm Service Agency (FSA) local offices and the funding levels necessary to support such workforce.
 
Limits temporary workers to not more than ten percent of all such non-Federal workers in any fiscal year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-24
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Introduced in House
Save Every Child Using Restraints Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2210
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2005-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child safety
Department of Transportation
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Law
Motor vehicle safety
School buses
Seat belts
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: 
Save Every Child Using Restraints Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations establishing a safety standard requiring school buses with a gross vehicle weight of more than 10,000 pounds, as the Secretary determines appropriate, to be equipped with three-point safety belts on all seats. Requires the Secretary to establish an elementary and secondary school traffic safety program, including education on the use and misuse of three-point safety belts on all school buses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E931)
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Introduced in House