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Leave No Abused or Neglected Child Behind Act

Bill: 109-hr-3576
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Adoption
Caregivers
Child welfare
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuum of care
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employee training
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Family services
Federal aid to Indians
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-state relations
Federal-territorial relations
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grandparents
Grants-in-aid
Guardian and ward
Health
Higher education
Indian children
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Judicial officers
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal education
Minorities
Native Americans
Occupational health and safety
Performance measurement
Recruiting of employees
Salaries
Scholarships
Secondary education
Siblings
Standards
State employees
State government-Indian relations
State laws
Students
Vocational and technical education
Wages
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Leave No Abused or Neglected Child Behind Act - Amends the Social Security Act to revise requirements for foster care and adoption assistance and for child welfare services.
 
Provides for: (1) a state-optional child and family services component in the state plan for foster care and adoption assistance, and related federal payments; (2) expanded eligibility for foster care and adoption assistance by eliminating certain income eligibility requirements, revising maintenance payments match rates, and authorizing Indian tribes to receive federal funds for such assistance; (3) state-optional kinship guardianship assistance payments for children, and related federal payments; (4) a state-optional separate standard for relative foster family homes; (5) application of certain care standards to all children in state custody; (6) child welfare service quality improvement grants to states; and (7) an increased payment rate to states for short-term training of certain child welfare agency staff and court personnel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 10501 of title 49, United States Code, to exclude solid waste disposal from the jurisdiction of the Surface Transportation Board.

Bill: 109-hr-3577
Sponsor: Rep. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ-13]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Department of Transportation
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Jurisdiction
Law
Railroads
Refuse and refuse disposal
Surface Transportation Board

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Excludes solid waste management facilities and the processing or sorting of solid waste from the jurisdiction of the Surface Transportation Board. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1714-1715)
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Citizen Soldier Relief Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3578
Sponsor: Rep. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ-13]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Income tax
Iraq compilation
Military pay
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Citizen Soldier Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income military pay received by a member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces who is called or ordered to active duty for a period of more than 180 days or for an indefinite period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Blinded Veterans Continuum of Care Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3579
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Blind
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuum of care
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disabled
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Iraq compilation
Medical personnel
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Blinded Veterans Continuum of Care Act of 2005 - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to assign at least one employee of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) who is designated as a blind rehabilitation outpatient specialist to each Department of Veterans Affairs medical facility: (1) which has a visual impairment services team with a full-time coordinator; or (2) in which the number of veterans enrolled in the veterans' patient enrollment system who reside in the catchment area of that facility exceeds 150.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Environmental Restoration Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3580
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Tim [R-PA-18]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Coal
Commerce
Electric power production
Energy
Energy facilities
Environmental Protection
Income tax
Recycling of waste products
Refuse as fuel
Tax credits
Tax-exempt securities

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Environmental Restoration Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) a transferable business tax credit for waste coal energy production; and (2) the issuance of tax-exempt facility bonds for waste coal processing facilities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1678-1679)
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum Act

Bill: 109-hr-3581
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Anthropology
Arts, Culture, Religion
Black history
Cemeteries and funerals
Commemorations
Department of the Interior
Executive reorganization
Exhibitions
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
Land transfers
Leases
Minorities
Museums
National parks
New York City
Slavery

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum Act - Establishes: (1) the African Burial Ground National Historic Site as a unit of the National Park System within the African Burial Ground National Historic Landmark in New, York, New York; and (2) a memorial museum and visitor's center to be known as the &quot;African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum&quot; (the Museum) at the Historic Site.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to: (1) acquire a site for the Historic Site; and (2) plan, design, and construct the Museum at such Site.

Provides for operation of the Museum by the Secretary.

Establishes within the Department of the Interior the African Burial Ground Advisory Council to: (1) make recommendations to the Secretary on the planning, design, and construction of the Museum; and (2) advise and assist the Secretary on all matters relating to the administration, operation, maintenance, and preservation of the Museum.

Requires: (1) the Secretary to appoint a Director for the Museum; and (2) the Director of the Museum to manage such Museum.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
CARE Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3582
Sponsor: Rep. Ney, Robert W. [R-OH-18]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child sexual abuse
Court records
Criminal justice information
Criminal statistics
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Incest
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sex offenders
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Child Abuse Reform and Enforcement Act of 2005 - CARE Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General to reduce by 25 percent certain fiscal year allocations and grant amounts, under the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the National Child Protection Act of 1993, respectively, to any state that is not in compliance with requirements of this Act. 
 
Directs the Attorney General to use such withheld amounts and authorized funds under this Act for additional grants to states in compliance to computerize, improve, transmit, and index their own data and criminal history files in the national data and criminal history systems for child sexual abuse protection and sentencing reform.
 
 Requires a state, to be eligible for funding under this Act, to: (1) study its laws pertaining to intrafamilial and extrafamilial sexual abuse of children, and examine issues concerning their differences; (2) examine disparities in charging and sentencing perpetrators of child sexual abuse; (3) examine, and implement, legislative actions necessary to equalize charging and sentencing without regard to familial relationship of perpetrator to child victim; (4) compile, analyze, and report relevant data; and (5) promote regulations requiring its courts and agencies to compile such data.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Free Trade in Pharmaceuticals Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3583
Sponsor: Rep. Northup, Anne M. [R-KY-3]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Consumer protection
Drugs
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Imports
Intellectual property
International Affairs
Legislation
Patent infringement
Patents
Trade agreements
Trade negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Protecting Free Trade in Pharmaceuticals Act of 2005 - Amends the Bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority Act of 2002 to include among the overall trade negotiating objectives of the United States avoiding negotiating trade agreements that could restrict, or be interpreted to restrict, the access of consumers in the United States to pharmaceutical imports from countries with a pharmaceutical infrastructure that is equivalent, or superior, to that of the United States: (1) by or through the use and development of the doctrine of international patent exhaustion, as interpreted or applied by U.S. courts on the enactment of this Act; or (2) by making it a violation for the United States to enact legislation permitting pharmaceutical imports without the consent of patent owners when the products involved have been sold outside the United States.
 
Prohibits the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) from: (1) entering into a bilateral or multilateral trade agreement that, with respect to the importation of pharmaceutical products without the consent of the patent owners, includes provisions identical or similar to the provisions of the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement, the United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement, or the United States-Morocco Free Trade Agreement; or (2) negotiating an agreement or understanding with respect to any of such provisions.
 
Requires the USTR, with respect to the advisory committee on matters relating to intellectual property, to ensure that, for each meeting that relates or potentially relates to the importation of pharmaceutical products into the United States, at least 10% of the committee members represent the interests of consumers of such products.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Superfund Polluter Pays Act

Bill: 109-hr-3584
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Government trust funds
Hazardous wastes
Income tax
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Petroleum
Pollution taxes
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Superfund Polluter Pays Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code by reinstating until January 1, 2016, the Hazardous Substance Superfund financing rate and the corporate environmental income tax.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Education Savings Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3585
Sponsor: Rep. Porter, Jon C. [R-NV-3]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Commerce
Education
Education savings accounts
Employee benefit plans
Higher education
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Tax exclusion
Tax returns
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Education Savings Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income employer contributions to a qualified tuition plan or a Coverdell education savings account held by an employee or the employee's spouse. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3586
Sponsor: Rep. Porter, Jon C. [R-NV-3]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Excise tax
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Law
Small business
Tax deductions
Tax penalties
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Small Business Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain small business owners a tax deduction for cash contributions to a Small Business Protection Account. Limits the amount of such deduction to 50 percent of a taxpayer's net profits. 
 
Directs the Small Business Administration, through the Small Business Development Center Program, to assist small businesses in establishing and operating Small Business Protection Accounts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Church Plan Investment Fairness Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3587
Sponsor: Rep. Ramstad, Jim [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Churches
Commerce
Debt
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Real estate investment
Religion
Unrelated business income tax

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Church Plan Investment Fairness Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt church retirement income accounts from the tax on unrelated debt-financed income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide an additional place of holding court for the District of Arizona.

Bill: 109-hr-3589
Sponsor: Rep. Renzi, Rick [R-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Arizona
District courts
Judicial districts

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Amends the federal judicial code to add Flagstaff as a location where court will be held for the District of Arizona.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Community Forest Restoration Expansion Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3590
Sponsor: Rep. Renzi, Rick [R-AZ-1]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Authorization
Department of Agriculture
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fire prevention
Forest conservation
Forest ecology
Forest fires
Forest management
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Indian lands
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Minorities
Native Americans
New Mexico
Restoration ecology

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Community Forest Restoration Expansion Act of 2005 - Amends the Community Forest Restoration Act to: (1) revise the federal and non-federal contribution requirements under the Collaborative Forest Restoration Program; (2) direct the Secretary of Agriculture to expand the Program to cover Arizona in addition to New Mexico; (3) require a separate technical advisory panel for each covered state; and (4) increase the annual authorization of appropriations for the Program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit to facilitate the accelerated development and deployment of crash avoidance and crash protection systems.

Bill: 109-hr-3591
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike J. [R-MI-8]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accident prevention
Air bag restraint systems
Commerce
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Lighting
Motor vehicle safety
Motor vehicles
Navigational aids
Safety appliances
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Traffic accidents and safety
Transportation and Public Works
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for the cost of installing a qualified intelligent vehicle system in a motor vehicle. Defines &quot;qualified intelligent vehicle system&quot; to include devices designed to avoid collisions, ensure vehicle stability, provide automatic back-up warnings, or any other devices specifically identified by the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration as significantly enhancing motor vehicle safety. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House