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National Computer Recycling Act

Bill: 109-hr-425
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Mike [D-CA-1]
Introduced: 2005-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative fees
Commerce
Computer industry
Computers
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic commerce
Electronics
Electronics industry
Environmental health
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Hazardous wastes
Health
Internet
Labeling
Landfills
Law
Nonprofit organizations
Packaging
Raw materials
Recycling industry
Recycling of waste products
Refuse and refuse disposal
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Technological innovations
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances
Video display terminals

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: National Computer Recycling Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), after submitting to Congress the results of a study of waste materials in used computers that may be hazardous to human health or the environment along with related management recommendations, to require assessment of a fee on the sale to an end-user of any computer, monitor, or other designated electronic devices. 
Exempts nonprofit organizations from the fee requirement. Authorizes the Administrator to create additional fee exemptions for sales that will likely result in maximum reuse of significant components and the disposal of remaining components in an environmentally sound and lawful manner. 
Requires fees collected to be used for administration of this Act and for making grants to eligible individuals or organizations for: (1) collecting or processing used computers, monitors, or other devices for recycling; (2) reusing or reselling such devices; and (3) extracting and using, or selling for reuse, raw materials from such devices. 
Requires reports to Congress on the status of computer recycling, which shall include descriptions of fee collection and use.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in House
Environmental Justice Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-427
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2005-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Citizen participation
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental assessment
Environmental health
Environmental justice
Environmental law enforcement
Environmental research
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal installations
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health
Income statistics
Law
Medical statistics
Minorities
Minority health
Native Americans
Performance measurement
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public meetings
Racial discrimination
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Strategic planning

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: 
Environmental Justice Act of 2005 - Requires Federal agencies to include achieving environmental justice in their missions through identifying and addressing any disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of their activities on minority and low-income communities. 
 
Establishes the Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice. 
 
Directs each Federal agency to develop an agency-wide environmental justice strategy. 
 
Establishes the Federal Environmental Justice Advisory Committee. 
 
Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to collect and analyze data assessing environmental and human health risks borne by populations identified by race, national origin, or income. Targets for data collection those areas surrounding facilities expected to have a substantial environmental, human health, or environmental effect on surrounding populations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2005-01-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2005-01-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2005-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E91-92)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in House
Rocky Flats Special Exposure Cohort Act

Bill: 109-hr-428
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2005-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Claims
Colorado
Compensation (Law)
Department of Energy
Energy
Environmental Protection
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Health
Labor and Employment
Nuclear weapons
Occupational health and safety
Plutonium
Radiation victims
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: 
Rocky Flats Special Exposure Cohort Act - Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to provide compensation (for beryllium- and radiation-related health conditions) for employees of the Department of Energy (DOE) or of a DOE contractor employed for an aggregate number of at least 250 work days before January 1, 2006, at the Rocky Flats (nuclear weapons production and testing) site in Colorado.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2005-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-01-26
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: 2005-01-26
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: 2005-01-26
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: 2005-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E82-83)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in House
Indian School Bus Route Safety Reauthorization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-429
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Tom [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2005-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Authorization
Department of Transportation
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to transportation
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Highway finance
Highway maintenance
Indian education
Infrastructure
Minorities
Native Americans
School buses

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: 
Indian School Bus Route Safety Reauthorization Act of 2005 - Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to authorize appropriations for FY 2005 through 2010 for allocations to States for Indian reservation roads.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to identify a route that passes through the States of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Kansas as a high priority corridor on the National Highway System.

Bill: 109-hr-430
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Tom [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2005-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Highway finance
Infrastructure
Interstate highway system
Kansas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Road construction
Roads and highways
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: 
Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to identify as a high priority corridor on the National Highway System the Southwest Passage Initiative for Regional and Interstate Transportation Corridor (or SPIRIT Corridor), which extends along U.S. Route 54 from its starting point at El Paso, Texas, on the border between the United States and Mexico, through Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and ending in Wichita, Kansas. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E83-84)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Flavia Maboloc Cahoon.

Bill: 109-hr-431
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2005-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: 
Declares Flavia Maboloc Cahoon eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in House
Betty Dick Residence Protection Act

Bill: 109-hr-432
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2005-01-26 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Real property

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: 
Betty Dick Residence Protection Act - Permits continued occupancy and use of specified property by Betty Dick for the remainder of her natural life, subject to certain requirements.

action_date: 2005-06-08
text: 

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

 
Betty Dick Residence Protection Act - Permits continued occupancy and use of specified property by Betty Dick for the remainder of her natural life, subject to certain requirements.

action_date: 2005-06-29
text: 

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

 
Betty Dick Residence Protection Act - Permits continued occupancy and use of specified property by Betty Dick for the remainder of her natural life, subject to certain requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-201.
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: On passage Passed without objection. (text as passed House: CR H5365-5366)
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.(text as passed House: CR H5365-5366)
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Considered from the Private Calendar. (consideration: CR H5365-5366)
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Called up from the Private Calendar for consideration.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Placed on the Private Calendar, Calendar No. 1.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 109-114.
action_date: 2005-06-08
text: Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 109-114.
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Subcommittee on National Parks Discharged.
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-04-14
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-02-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-02-11
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E86-87)
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 to provide assistance for residential properties designated as Superfund sites.

Bill: 109-hr-433
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Hazardous wastes
Home repair and improvement
Housing and Community Development
Lead
Low-income housing
Paints and varnishes
Residential rehabilitation
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Amends the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 to require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to give priority, when awarding grants for lead-based paint hazard reduction under that Act, to residential properties included on the National Priorities List established by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Superfund Enhancement and Priorization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-434
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Appropriations
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection Agency
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Hazardous wastes
Overhead costs
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Supplemental appropriations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Superfund Enhancement and Prioritization Act of 2005 - Transfers certain funds made available to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005, to the FY 2005 Hazardous Substance Superfund appropriation for use in carrying out cleanup activities under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act for facilities on the National Priorities List.
 
Authorizes additional appropriations for such cleanup for FY 2006 through 2009.
 
Limits the amount of such appropriations that may be used for management and administration costs.
 
Prohibits the addition of any site or facility to the National Priorities List until the President certifies that remedial actions have been completed at all sites and facilities included on such list as of the date of enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Women's Health and Cancer Rights Conforming Amendments of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-437
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Sue W. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Labor and Employment
Mastectomy
Plastic surgery
Prosthesis
Standards
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Women's Health and Cancer Rights Conforming Amendments of 2005- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require group health plans to provide coverage for post-mastectomy reconstructive surgery.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2000 Allston Way in Berkeley, California, as the "Maudelle Shirek Post Office Building".

Bill: 109-hr-438
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: California
Congress
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Local officials
Names
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2000 Allston Way in Berkeley, California, as the "Maudelle Shirek Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 190 - 215 (Roll no. 495). (text: CR H8369)
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Failed of passage/not agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 190 - 215 (Roll no. 495).(text: CR H8369)
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H8375-8376)
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 438.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8369-8370)
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Ms. Brown-Waite, Ginny moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Pay to Play Reform Protection Act

Bill: 109-hr-439
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Campaign funds
Commerce
Construction industries
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government ethics
Highway finance
Infrastructure
Public corruption
Road construction
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Pay to Play Reform Protection Act - Amends Federal highway law regarding requirements for the letting of a contract for the construction of Federal-aid highway project by or under the supervision of a State transportation department. Declares that nothing in such requirements prohibits a State from enacting a law or issuing an order that limits the amount of money an individual doing business with a State agency for a Federal-aid project may contribute to a political campaign.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Education, Achievement, and Opportunity Act

Bill: 109-hr-441
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Compensatory education
Computer software
Computers
Costs
Disabled
Education
Educational technology
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Income tax
Private schools
Public schools
School buses
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Special education
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Textbooks
Transportation and Public Works
Tuition tax credits
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Education, Achievement, and Opportunity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an annual refundable tax credit for certain expenses incurred for children enrolled in elementary or secondary public and private schools. Includes as eligible expenses: tuition and fees, computers and educational software, academic tutoring, special needs services for children with disabilities, transportation fees, and academic testing services. Excludes expenses for nonacademic purposes, including fees for student activities, athletics, insurance, school uniforms, and nonacademic after-school activities.
 
Limits the amount of such credit to $2,500 for a child enrolled in an elementary school and $3,500 for a child in secondary school. Reduces such credit amounts for taxpayers earning over $75,000 ($150,000 for married taxpayers filing a joint return). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E160-161)
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to change the deadline for income tax returns for calendar year taxpayers from the 15th of April to the first Monday in November.

Bill: 109-hr-442
Sponsor: Rep. Bartlett, Roscoe G. [R-MD-6]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Tax administration
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to change the income tax filing deadline for calendar year taxpayers from April 15 to the first Monday in November.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House