Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006

Bill: 109-hr-2862
Sponsor: Rep. Wolf, Frank R. [R-VA-10]
Introduced: 2005-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Abortion
Aeronautics
Alaska
Alcohol and youth
Alzheimer's disease
Ammunition
Animals
Antitrust law
Appropriations
Arab-Israeli conflict
Arabs
Arctic and polar regions
Arizona
Armed Forces and National Security
Arrest
Arson
Arts, Culture, Religion
Asia
Astronautics
Astronomy
Atmosphere
Attorneys general
Australia
Block grants
Boundaries
Broadcasting Board of Governors
Building construction
Buy American
Cable television
California
Canada
Capital cities
Capital investments
Caribbean area
Census
Child abuse
Child health
China
Citizenship
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil service retirement
Claims
Clergy
Coastal zone
Commemorations
Commerce
Commission on Civil Rights
Community policing
Computer crimes
Conferences
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional-executive relations
Construction costs
Consumer complaints
Consumer protection
Countervailing duties
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Crimes against the elderly
Crimes against women
Criminal aliens
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Criminal statistics
Criminology
Cuba
Cultural relations
DNA
Deceptive advertising
Democracy
Department of Commerce
Department of Justice
Department of State
Diplomacy
Disabled
Disaster loans
Discrimination in employment
Dogs
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drug approvals
Drug courts
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Drugs
Dumping
East Asia
Economic development
Economic impact statements
Education
Educational exchanges
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
Embassies
Emergency Management
Energy
Energy policy
Energy prices
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Equipment and supplies
Europe
Explosives
Export controls
Families
Family violence
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Prison Industries, Inc.
Federal Trade Commission
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal aid to research
Federal employees
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal office buildings
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Fire fighters
Firearms
Fishery agreements
Fishery management
Forced labor
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign investments
Foreign service
Foreign trade promotion
Forfeiture
Foundations
Free trade
Freedom of speech
Gangs
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government attorneys
Government contractors
Government corporations
Government procurement
Government travel
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Guam
Haiti
Hawaii
Health
Higher education
Historic sites
History
Human rights
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Identification devices
Immigration
Import restrictions
Independent regulatory commissions
Indian law enforcement
Information technology
Inspectors general
Intellectual property
International Affairs
International agencies
International broadcasting
International employees
International environmental cooperation
International military forces
Iron and steel industry
Israel
Judicial officers
Juvenile delinquency
Labeling
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Land transfers
Latin America
Law
Law enforcement officers
Layoffs
Legal Services Corporation
Legal aid
Legal education
Legal fees
Legal services
Licenses
Manufacturing industries
Marijuana
Marine Mammal Commission
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine mammals
Mentoring
Methamphetamine
Mexico
Middle East and North Africa
Military bases
Military command and control
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Missing persons
Money laundering
Montana
Morocco
Murder
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Science Foundation
Native Americans
New Mexico
Nonprofit organizations
North Dakota
Nuclear nonproliferation
Oceania
Oceanographic research
Oceanography
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
Organized crime
Pacific Ocean
Paramedical personnel
Parole
Patents
Peacekeeping forces
Petroleum industry
Police
Police communication systems
Police training
President and foreign policy
Prison labor
Prison violence
Prisoners
Prisons
Prosecution
Prostitution
Protection of officials
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public prosecutors
Railroads
Rape
Rehabilitation of criminals
Religion
Religious liberty
Repatriation
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Rescission of appropriated funds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-10
text: 
 Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 for science-related programs, the Departments of State, of Justice and of Commerce, and related agencies.
 
Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Justice for FY2006 for: (1) general administration; (2) the U.S. Parole Commission; (3) legal activities; (4) the U.S. Marshals Service; (5) interagency crime and drug enforcement; (6) the Federal Bureau of Investigation; (7) the Drug Enforcement Administration; (8) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; (9) the Federal prison system; (10) Office on Violence Against Women; and (10) Office of Justice Programs.
 
Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 for: (1) the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; (2) the International Trade Commission; (3) the International Trade Administration; (4) the Bureau of Industry and Security; (5) the Economic Development Administration; (6) the Minority Business Development Agency; (7) economic and statistical analysis programs; (8) the Bureau of the Census; (9) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; (10) public telecommunications facilities planning and construction grants; (11) the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; (12) the Under Secretary for Technology/Office of Technology Policy; (13) the National Institute of Standards and Technology; (14) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; (15) restoration of Pacific salmon populations; (16) the fisheries finance program account; and (17) departmental management, including for the Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General.
 
Science Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 for: (1) the Office of Science and Technology Policy; (2) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, including for the Office of Inspector General; (3) the National Science Foundation; (4) carrying out science and engineering education and human resources programs and activities pursuant to the National Science Foundation Act of 1950; (5) the Office of the National Science Board; and (6) the National Science Foundation Office of Inspector General.
 
Department of State and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for the Department of State for FY2006 for: (1) administration of foreign affairs; (2) the Office of Inspector General; (3) international organizations; (4) the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West in the State of Hawaii; and (5) the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
 
Makes appropriations for FY2006 for: (1) the Antitrust Modernization Commission; (2) the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad; (3) the Commission on Civil Rights; (4) the Commission on International Religious Freedom; (5) the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; (6) the Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China; (7) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; (8) the Federal Communications Commission; (9) the Federal Trade Commission; (10) the Helping Enhance the Livelihood of People Around the Globe Commission; (11) the Legal Services Corporation; (12) the Marine Mammal Commission; (13) the Securities and Exchange Commission; (14) the Small Business Administration, including the Office of Inspector General; (15) the Surety Bond Guarantees Revolving Fund; (16) the State Justice Institute; (17) the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission; and (18) the United States Institute of Peace.
 
Rescinds certain unobligated balances available to the Department of Justice for: (1) legal activities (Assets Forfeiture Fund); and (2) the Office of Justice Programs for State and local law enforcement assistance and community oriented policing services.
 
Rescinds certain unobligated balances available to the: (1) Emergency Steel Guaranteed Loan Program Account; and (2) United States-Canada Alaska Rail Commission.

action_date: 2005-06-16
text: 
Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 for science-related programs, the Departments of State, of Justice and of Commerce, and related agencies.
 

Title I: Department of Justice 
- Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Justice for FY2006 for: (1) general administration, including for Department information sharing technology, conversion to narrowband communications, administration of pardon and clemency petitions and immigration-related activities, the Federal Detention Trustee, and the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General; (2) the U.S. Parole Commission; (3) legal activities, including reimbursement from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund for processing cases under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, for antitrust enforcement, the Offices of the U.S. Attorneys, the U.S. Trustee Program, and the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission; (4) the U.S. Marshals Service (including for the renovation of prisoner holding space), fees and expenses of witnesses, the Community Relations Service, and for certain uses of the Assets Forfeiture Fund; (5) interagency crime and drug enforcement; (6) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); (7) the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); (8) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATFE); (9) the Federal prison system, including for the construction of new buildings and facilities and for the Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated (subject to certain limitations on administrative expenses); (10) the Office on Violence Against Women for violence against women prevention and prosecution programs; and (11) Office of Justice Programs, including state and local law enforcement assistance, the Weed and Seed Program Fund, community-oriented policing services, juvenile justice programs, and public safety officers benefits.
 
Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act. 
 
(Sec. 102) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this title to: (1) pay for an abortion, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or in the case of rape; or (2) require any person to perform or facilitate an abortion. 
 
(Sec. 104) Declares that nothing in the prohibition against the use of funds for abortions shall remove the obligation of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to provide escort services necessary for a female inmate to receive an abortion outside of a Federal facility. 
 
(Sec. 106) Authorizes the Attorney General to extend through FY2007 the Personnel Management Demonstration Project for certain positions of the ATFE Bureau without limitation on the number of employees or the positions covered.
 
(Sec. 107) Prohibits the use of funds by the DEA establish a procurement quota following approval of a new drug application or an abbreviated new drug application for a controlled substance.
 
(Sec. 108) Declares that the foregoing prohibition shall not apply to any new drug application or abbreviated new drug application for which the DEA has reviewed and provided public comments on labeling, promotion, risk management plans, and any other documents.
 
(Sec. 109) Extends certain authorities for FBI and DEA undercover investigative operations to the ATFE Bureau in the conduct of undercover investigative operations and makes such authorities applicable with respect to any such operation initiated by the ATFE Bureau that is necessary for the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States. 
 
(Sec. 110) Subjects any funds provided in this Act under &quot;Department of Justice&quot; used to implement E-Government Initiatives to the procedures set forth in section 605 of this Act. 
 
(Sec. 111) Prohibits the use of funds made available to the Department of Justice in this Act for the purpose of transporting an individual who is a prisoner pursuant to conviction for crime under state or federal law and is classified as a maximum or high security prisoner, other than to a prison or other facility certified by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure for housing such a prisoner.
 
(Sec. 112) Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act from being used by federal prisons to purchase cable television services, to rent or purchase videocassettes, videocassette recorders, or other audiovisual or electronic equipment used primarily for recreational purposes. Excludes from such prohibition the renting, maintaining, or purchasing of audiovisual or electronic equipment for inmate training, religious, or educational programs.
 

Title II: Department of Commerce and Related Agencies 
- Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 for: (1) the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; (2) the International Trade Commission; (3) the International Trade Administration; (4) the Bureau of Industry and Security; (5) the Economic Development Administration; (6) the Minority Business Development Agency; (7) economic and statistical analysis programs; (8) the Bureau of the Census; (9) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; (10) public telecommunications facilities planning and construction grants; (11) the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; (12) the Under Secretary for Technology/Office of Technology Policy; (13) the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), including amounts for the Manufacturing Extension Partnerships and for construction of new research facilities; (14) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including an amount for procurement, acquisition, and construction of capital assets; (15) restoration of Pacific salmon populations; (16) the Coastal Zone Management Fund; (17) the fisheries finance program account; and (18) departmental management, including for the Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General.
 
Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act. 
 
(Sec. 205) Subjects any funds provided in this Act under &quot;Department of Commerce&quot; used to implement E-Government Initiatives to the procedures set forth in section 605 of this Act.
 

Title III: Science 
- Science Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 for: (1) the Office of Science and Technology Policy; (2) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), including for the Office of Inspector General; (3) the National Science Foundation (NSF); (4) carrying out science and engineering education and human resources programs and activities pursuant to the National Science Foundation Act of 1950; (5) the Office of the National Science Board; and (6) the National Science Foundation Office of Inspector General.
 

Title IV: Department of State and Related Agency 
- Department of State and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for the Department of State for FY2006 for: (1) administration of foreign affairs, diplomatic and consular programs; (2) the Capital Investment Fund; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) educational and cultural exchange programs; (5) representation allowances; (6) protection of foreign missions and officials; (7) U.S. embassy security, construction, and maintenance; (8) emergencies in the diplomatic and consular service; (9) the repatriation loans program account; (10) the American Institute in Taiwan; (11) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (12) international organizations, peacekeeping, and commissions; (13) the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico; (14) plan preparation and construction of authorized projects; (15) the International Joint Commission and the International Boundary Commission, United States and Canada; (16) international fisheries commissions; (17) the Asia Foundation; (18) the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Incorporated; (19) the Israeli Arab Scholarship Program; (20) the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West in the State of Hawaii; (21) the National Endowment for Democracy; and (22) the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
 
Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act. 
 
(Sec. 403) Bars the use of funds under in this Act by the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors to provide assistance to the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation. 
 
(Sec. 404) Directs the Senior Policy Operating Group on Trafficking in Persons to coordinate policies related to international trafficking in persons, including traffickers and victims of severe forms of trafficking. 
 
(Sec. 405) Subjects any funds provided in this Act under &quot;Department of State&quot; used to implement E-Government Initiatives to the procedures set forth in section 605 of this Act.
 
 (Sec. 406) Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to authorize the Secretary of State to pay a reward to an officer or employee of a foreign government (or any entity thereof) who, while in the performance of his or her official duties, furnishes information leading to certain actions being taken with respect to international terrorism or narcotics-related offenses, including trafficking, if such payment: (1) is appropriate in light of the exceptional or high-profile nature of the information furnished; (2) may aid in furnishing further information; and (3) is formally requested by such agency. 
 

Title V: Related Agencies 
- Makes appropriations for FY2006 for: (1) the Antitrust Modernization Commission; (2) the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad; (3) the Commission on Civil Rights; (4) the Commission on International Religious Freedom; (5) the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; (6) the Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China; (7) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); (8) the Federal Communications Commission (FCC); (9) the Federal Trade Commission (FTC); (10) the Helping Enhance the Livelihood of People Around the Globe (HELP) Commission; (11) the Legal Services Corporation; (12) the Marine Mammal Commission; (13) the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); (14) the Small Business Administration (SBA), including the Office of Inspector General; (15) the Surety Bond Guarantees Revolving Fund, the Business Loans Program Account, and the Disaster Loans Program Account; (16) the State Justice Institute; (17) the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission; and (18) the United States Institute of Peace.
 

Title VI: General Provisions 
- Specifies certain uses and limits on, or prohibitions against, the use of funds appropriated by this Act.
 
(Sec. 601) Prohibits the use of funds for: (1) publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by Congress; or (2) the use of any guidelines similar to certain EEOC guidelines published in 1993 covering harassment based on religion.
 
(Sec. 607) ) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the funding of UN peacekeeping missions involving U.S. armed forces under the command of a foreign national unless sanctioned by the President.
 
(Sec. 608) Requires the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the NSF, NASA, the FCC, the SEC, and the SBA to provide the House and Senate Appropriations Committees with a quarterly accounting of the cumulative balances of any unobligated funds received by such agencies during any previous fiscal year.
 
(Sec. 609) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for: (1) opening, operating, or expanding any U.S. diplomatic or consular post in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam that was not operating on July 11, 1995, or increasing the number of personnel assigned in that country; (2) promoting the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products; (3) issuing visas to any individuals named or implicated in certain killings or murders in Haiti; or (4) implementing any tax or fee for the implementation of the national instant criminal background check system for firearms or any background check system that does not require the destruction of identifying information of any person who has been determined not to be prohibited from owning a firearm.
 
(Sec. 614) Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to obligate more than $625 million during FY 2006 from the Crime Victims Fund for paying the salaries and expenses of Department of Justice personnel. 
 
(Sec. 615) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for: (1) the use of Department of Justice funds to discriminate against or denigrate the religious or moral beliefs of students participating in certain programs, or their parents or legal guardians; or (2) the granting of visas to citizens of countries that deny or unreasonably delay accepting the return of their citizens under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
 
(Sec. 618) Requires the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the SEC, and the SBA to certify that telecommuting opportunities have increased over levels certified to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees for FY 2005, to make quarterly reports on the status of telecommuting programs, and to maintain a Telework Coordinator. 
 
(Sec. 619) Requires NASA and the NSF to certify that telecommuting opportunities are available to 100 percent of their eligible workforce, to make quarterly reports on the status of telecommuting programs, and to designate a Telework Coordinator.
 
(Sec. 620) Requires the ATFE Bureau to include certain disclaimers in data releases on the limitations of data in firearms tracing studies with respect to firearms-related crime.
 
(Sec. 621) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for: (1) violation of provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act denying admissibility to aliens engaged in international child abduction; (2) the issuance of patents on claims directed to or encompassing a human organism; or (3) payment of expenses for any U.S. delegation to any UN specialized agency, body, or commission if such commission is chaired or presided over by a country that has provided support for acts of international terrorism.
 
(Sec. 624) Prohibits a project to construct a U.S. diplomatic facility from including office space or other accommodations for an employee of a Federal agency or department if the Secretary of State determines that such department or agency has not provided to the Department the full amount of advanced funding for its share of the costs for such facility. Excludes the Marine Corps from such prohibition.
 
(Sec. 625) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the support or justification of the use of torture by any official or contract employee of the United States.
 
(Sec. 626) Earmarks (out of amounts made available in this Act for the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the U.S. Trade Representative, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, NASA, and the NSF) funds to implement the Capital Security Cost Sharing Program.
 
(Sec. 627) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to contravene certain provisions of the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 prohibiting: (1) promotion or advocacy of the legalization or practice of prostitution or sex trafficking; or (2) assistance to any group or organization that does not have a policy explicitly opposing prostitution and sex trafficking. 
 
(Sec. 628) Prohibits funds made available to NASA in this Act from being used for voluntary separation incentive payments unless the Administrator of NASA has first certified to Congress that such payments would not result in the loss of skills related to the safety of the Space Shuttle or the International Space Station or to the conduct of independent safety oversight in NASA.
 
(Sec. 629) Authorizes the NASA Administrator to sell NASA-owned property on the Camp Parks Military Reservation, Alameda County, California, and to credit the net proceeds of such sales as offsetting collections to its Exploration, science, and aeronautics account. Requires such funds to be used to replace the facilities at Camp Parks that are still required, and/or to improve other NASA-owned facilities.
 
(Sec. 630) Directs the President, through his designee the NASA Administrator and in consultation with other Federal agencies, to develop a national aeronautics policy to guide NASA aeronautics programs through 2020, which includes a description of the priority areas of research for aeronautics through FY2011. Instructs the NASA Administrator, in developing the policy, to consider specified questions which shall be discussed in the policy statement. Permits the NASA Administrator to enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences to help develop the policy. Requires such Administrator to submit the new national aeronautics policy to specified congressional committees and to make available to Congress any study done by a non-governmental entity that was used in the development of the national aeronautics policy.
 
(Sec. 631) Subjects any funds provided in this Act under &quot;National Science Foundation&quot; used to implement E-Government Initiatives to the procedures set forth in section 605 of this Act.
 
(Sec. 632) Prohibits any funds made available under this Act or any other Act from being spent to pay administrative expenses or to compensate a U.S. officer or employee in connection with requiring an export license for the export to Canada of components, parts, accessories, or attachments for certain firearms with a total value not exceeding $500 wholesale in any transaction, provided that specified conditions are met by the exporting party. Requires the District Director of Customs and postmasters to permit the export without a license of any such unclassified articles to Canada for end use in Canada or return to the United States, or temporary import of Canadian-origin items from Canada for end use in the United States or return to Canada for a Canadian citizen. Allows the President to require export licenses on a temporary basis under this section if, the Government of Canada has inadequate import controls for the articles specified in this section, such that a significant diversion of such articles has and continues to take place for use in international terrorism or in the escalation of a conflict in another nation.
 
(Sec. 633) Bars any department, agency, or U.S. instrumentality receiving appropriated funds under this Act or any other Act from obligating or spending such funds to pay administrative expenses or the compensation of any U.S. officer or employee to deny any application for a permit to import U.S. origin &quot;curios or relics&quot; firearms, parts, or ammunition.
 
(Sec. 634) Prohibits any of the funds under this Act from being used to include in any bilateral or multilateral agreement specified text of: (1) the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement; (2) the United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement; or (3) the United States-Morocco Free Trade Agreement.
 

Title VII: Rescissions 
- Rescinds certain unobligated balances available to the Department of Justice for: (1) legal activities (Assets Forfeiture Fund); and (2) the Office of Justice Programs for State and local law enforcement assistance and community oriented policing services.
 
Rescinds certain unobligated balances available to the: (1) Emergency Steel Guaranteed Loan Program Account; and (2) United States-Canada Alaska Rail Commission.
 

Title VIII: Additional General Provisions
 - (Sec. 801) Prohibits funds under this Act from being used by the United Nations (U.N.) to: (1) develop or publicize any proposal concerning taxation or fees on any U.S. person in order to raise revenue for the U.N. or any of its specialized or affiliated agencies; or (2) implement or impose any such taxation or fee on any U.S. person.
 
(Sec. 802) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act by NASA to employ any individual under the title &quot;artist in residence.&quot; 
 
(Sec. 803) Provides $1 million for expenses necessary for enforcing specified provisions under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 relating to communication between government agencies and the Immigration and Naturalization Service with respect to information regarding the lawful or unlawful citizenship or immigration status of any individual. Decreases the amount otherwise provided in this Act for legal activities of the Department of Justice by $1 million.
 
(Sec. 804) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to deny the production of safety reports regarding the NASA Space Shuttle program and the International Space Station.
 
(Sec. 805) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated in this Act to enforce the judgment of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana in the case of Russelburg v. Gibson County, decided January 31, 2005. 
 
(Sec. 806) Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to: (1) make an application under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 for an order requiring the production of library circulation records, library patron lists, book sales records, or book customer lists; and (2) contravene specified U.S. laws or regulations to implement the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 for science-related programs, the Departments of Justice and of Commerce, and related agencies. 
 

Title I: Department of Justice 
- Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Justice for FY2006 for: (1) general administration, including for Department information sharing technology, conversion to narrowband communications, administration of pardon and clemency petitions and immigration-related activities, the Federal Detention Trustee, and the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General; (2) the U.S. Parole Commission; (3) legal activities, including reimbursement from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund for processing cases under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, for antitrust enforcement, the Offices of the U.S. Attorneys (including for training personnel in debt collection, locating debtors and their property, paying the net costs of selling property, and tracking debts owed to the U.S. Government),the U.S. Trustee Program, and the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission; (4) the U.S. Marshals Service (including for courthouse security equipment, and construction in space controlled, occupied, or utilized by the U.S. Marshals Service in U.S. courthouses and federal buildings), fees and expenses of witnesses, the Community Relations Service, and for certain uses of the Assets Forfeiture Fund; (5) interagency crime and drug enforcement; (6) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); (7) the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); (8) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATFE); (9) the federal prison system, including for the construction of new buildings and facilities and for the Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated (subject to certain limitations on administrative expenses); (10) the Office on Violence Against Women for violence against women prevention and prosecution programs; and (11) Office of Justice Programs, including state and local law enforcement assistance, the Weed and Seed Program Fund, community-oriented policing services, juvenile justice programs, and public safety officers benefits. 
 
Specifies certain uses and limits on, or prohibitions against, the use of funds appropriated by this Act. 
 
(Sec. 102) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this title to: (1) pay for an abortion, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or in the case of rape; or (2) require any person to perform or facilitate an abortion. 
 
(Sec. 104) Declares that nothing in the prohibition against the use of funds for abortions shall remove the obligation of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to provide escort services necessary for a female inmate to receive an abortion outside of a federal facility. 
 
(Sec. 105) Prohibits more than five percent of any appropriation made available for the current fiscal year for the Department of Justice in this Act from being transferred between such appropriations, but no such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall be increased by more than ten percent by any such transfers.
 
Prohibits the transfer of any of the funds appropriated to &quot;Buildings and Facilities, Federal Prison System&quot; in this or any other Act to &quot;Salaries and Expenses, Federal Prison System&quot;, or any other Department of Justice account, unless the President certifies that such a transfer is necessary to U.S. national security interests. Bars such authority from being delegated and subjects that authority to section 505 of this Act. 
 
(Sec. 106) Authorizes the Attorney General to make permanent the Personnel Management Demonstration Project for certain positions of the ATFE Bureau without limitation on the number of employees or the positions covered. 
 
(Sec. 107) Extends certain authorities for FBI and DEA undercover investigative operations to the ATFE Bureau in the conduct of undercover investigative operations and makes such authorities applicable with respect to any such operation initiated by the ATFE Bureau that is necessary for the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States. 
 
(Sec. 108) Requires funds appropriated by this Act for the federal prisons system to be in the amounts and accounts specified in the report accompanying this Act. Mandates that the Bureau of Prisons will submit a comprehensive financial plan for the federal prison system to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. Bars any funds appropriated for the federal prison system in this or any other Appropriations Act for the construction of new facilities from being rescinded, canceled, or used for any other purpose.
 
(Sec. 109) Prohibits the use of funds made available to the Department of Justice in this Act for the purpose of transporting an individual who is a prisoner pursuant to conviction for crime under state or federal law and is classified as a maximum or high security prisoner, other than to a prison or other facility certified by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure for housing such a prisoner.
 
(Sec. 110) Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act from being used by federal prisons to purchase cable television services, to rent or purchase videocassettes, videocassette recorders, or other audiovisual or electronic equipment used primarily for recreational purposes. Excludes from such prohibition the renting, maintaining, or purchasing of audiovisual or electronic equipment for inmate training, religious, or educational programs. 
 
(Sec. 111) Directs the Attorney General, within the funds provided under &quot;Justice Information Sharing Technology&quot;, to establish an investment review board, which the Deputy Attorney General shall head. Requires the Department of Justice to submit: (1) a plan outlining the governance structure and membership of the board; and (2) to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, the project criteria that will trigger the board's oversight, including a listing of all projects to be reviewed during FY2006. 
 
(Sec. 112) Repeals the prohibition limiting the selection of individuals for the FBI-DEA Senior Executive Service to career civil service employees.
 
 

Title II: Department of Commerce and Related Agencies 
- Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 for: (1) the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; (2) the International Trade Commission; (3) the International Trade Administration (ITA); (4) the Bureau of Industry and Security; (5) the Economic Development Administration; (6) the Minority Business Development Agency; (7) economic and statistical analysis programs; (8) the Bureau of the Census; (9) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; (10) public telecommunications facilities planning and construction grants; (11) information infrastructure grants; (12) the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; and (13) departmental management, including for the Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General. 
 
Declares that, with regard to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the ITA, negotiations shall be conducted within the World Trade Organization (WTO) to recognize the right of members to distribute monies collected from antidumping and countervailing duties. Instructs that the negotiations be conducted within the WTO consistent with the negotiating objectives contained in the Trade Act of 2002. 
 
Exempts the ITA from the requirements of Circular A-25 (or any successor administrative regulation or policy) issued by the Office of Management and Budget. 
 
Specifies certain uses and limits on, or prohibitions against, the use of funds appropriated by this Act. 
 
(Sec. 204) States that, funds made available for salaries and expenses to administer the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Program under Public Law 108-199 (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004) shall remain available until expended. Amends the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Act of 1999 to extend the Emergency Loan Guarantee Board's authority from December 31, 2005, until December 31, 2007. 
 
(Sec. 205) Prohibits more than five percent of any appropriation made available for the current fiscal year for the Department of Commerce in this Act from being transferred between such appropriations, but no such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall be increased by more than ten percent by any such transfers. Provides that, for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), this section shall provide for transfers among appropriations made only to NOAA. Prohibits such appropriations from being transferred and reprogrammed to other Department of Commerce bureaus and appropriation accounts. 
 

Title III: Science 
- Science Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 for: (1) the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), including for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership of NIST, the Advanced Technology Program of NIST, and construction of new research facilities; (2) the NOAA, including for grants to states pursuant to the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, the National Ocean Service, the National Marine Fisheries Service, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, the National Weather Service, the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, program support, and an amount for procurement, acquisition, and construction of capital assets; (3) the restoration of Pacific salmon populations; (4) the Coastal Zone Management Fund; (5) the fisheries finance program account; (6) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), including for science, aeronautics, and exploration (including for a Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, for Constellation systems, and for other related exploration, science, and aeronautics activities), and the NASA Office of Inspector General; (7) the National Science Foundation (NSF), including for research and related activities, major research equipment and facilities, education and human resources, the Office of the National Science Board, and the NSF Office of Inspector General; and (8) the Executive Office of the President for the Office of Science and Technology Policy. 
 
Prohibits any of the funds in this Act from being used for NOAA to implement the Department of Commerce's E-Government initiatives.
 
Requires the Secretary of Commerce, annually, to include in the budget justification materials that such Secretary submits to Congress in support of the Department of Commerce budget, an estimate for each NOAA procurement, acquisition, and construction program having a total multiyear program cost of more than $5 million and an estimate of the budgetary requirements for each such program for each of the five subsequent fiscal years. 
 
Specifies certain uses and limits on, or prohibitions against, the use of funds appropriated by this Act.
 
Sec. (301) Provides, from the amounts made available elsewhere in this title to the &quot;National Institute of Standards and Technology, Construction of Research Facilities&quot;, specified amounts for: (1) a cooperative agreement with the Medical University of South Carolina; (2) the National Formulation Science Laboratory at the University of Southern Mississippi; (3) the University of Mississippi Research Park; (4) the Alabama State University Science and Education Building; (5) Tuscaloosa, Alabama, revitalization; (6) the Biomedical Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham; and (7) the University of Alabama for the design and construction of the Science and Engineering Center.
 
(Sec. 302) Provides, from the amount made available from the fund entitled &quot;Promote and Develop Fishery Products and Research Pertaining to American Fisheries&quot;, specified amounts to be provided to: (1) the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board; and (2) the Southern Shrimp Alliance for its &quot;Wild American Shrimp Marketing Program.&quot;
 
(Sec. 303) Transfers, from amounts made available under the heading &quot;Procurement, Acquisition, and Construction, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration&quot;, a specified amount to NASA for the planning, design, and construction of Building 3203, and for the planning and design of Buildings 3205 and 3216.
 

Title IV: Related Agencies 
- Makes appropriations for FY2006 for: (1) the Commission on Civil Rights; (2) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); (3) the Federal Communications Commission (FCC); (4) the Federal Trade Commission (FTC); (5) the Legal Services Corporation; (6) the Marine Mammal Commission; (7) the National Veterans Business Development Corporation; (8) the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); (9) the Small Business Administration (SBA), including the Office of Inspector General; (10) the Surety Bond Guarantees Revolving Fund, the Business Loans Program Account, and the Disaster Loans Program Account; and (11) the State Justice Institute. 
 
Prohibits, hereafter, any funds appropriated in this or any other Act from being expended to remove the FTC from its headquarters building, the Federal Trade Commission Building, to render such building appropriate for occupation by another federal agency or other organization or division thereof, or to locate any such agency, organization, or division in that building.
 
Authorizes the SBA to award grants under the Women's Business Center Sustainability Pilot Program. Requires that, of amounts provided for Women's Business Centers, not less than 48 percent shall be available to continue such Centers in sustainability status. 
 

Title V: General Provisions 
- Specifies certain uses and limits on, or prohibitions against, the use of funds appropriated by this Act.
 
(Sec. 501) Requires the Departments of Commerce and Justice, NASA, the FCC, the SEC, and the SBA to provide the House and Senate Appropriations Committees with a quarterly accounting of the cumulative balances of any unobligated funds that were made available to any such agency in any previous appropriations Act.
 
(Sec. 502) Prohibits any part of any appropriation contained in this Act from remaining available for obligation or expenditure beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
 
(Sec. 505) Prohibits the reprogramming of funds as specified, including any reprogramming that either creates a new program or eliminates an existing program, unless the Appropriations Committees of the House and Senate are notified 15 days in advance.
 
(Sec. 506) Prohibits, thereafter, the use of any of the funds made available in this Act or any other Act for the construction, repair (other than emergency repair), overhaul, conversion, or modernization of vessels for NOAA in shipyards located outside of the United States.
 
(Sec. 507) Provides that, if it has been finally determined by a court of federal agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bearing a &quot;Made in America&quot; inscription, or any inscription with the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that is not made in the United States, such person shall be ineligible to receive any contract or subcontract made with funds made available in this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility procedures described in the Code of Federal Regulations. 
 
(Sec. 508) Prohibits the use of any of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act or any other Act to implement, enforce, or otherwise abide by the Memorandum of Agreement signed by the FTC and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice on March 5, 2002. 
 
(Sec. 509) Waives the requirement under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 that not less than $27 million be made available for grants for economic development planning and grants for administrative expenses. 
 
(Sec. 510) Requires any costs incurred by a department or agency funded under this Act resulting from personnel actions taken in response to funding reductions included in this Act to be absorbed within the total budgetary resources available to such department or agency. 
 
(Sec. 511) Limits to 90 percent the availability of any award of a Local Law Enforcement Block Grant to an entity employing a public safety officer if the entity does not provide an officer who retires or is separated from service due to injury suffered as the result of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty while responding to an emergency situation or a hot pursuit with the same or better level of health insurance benefits at the time of retirement or separation as that officer received while on duty.
 
 (Sec. 512) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products or to seek the reduction or removal by any foreign country of restrictions on the marketing of tobacco or tobacco products (except for the reduction or removal of restrictions which are not applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco products of the same type).
 
(Sec. 513) Bars amounts deposited or available in the Crime Victims Fund in any fiscal year in excess of $625 million from being available for obligation until the following fiscal year. 
 
(Sec. 514) Makes a specified amount available under the heading &quot;Small Business Administration, Salaries and Expenses&quot; for programs described in the statement accompanying this Act.
 
(Sec. 516) Requires all disaster loans issued in Alaska to be administered by the SBA and to not be sold during FY2006.
 
(Sec. 518) Declares that the Secretary of Commerce shall represent the U.S. Government in negotiating and monitoring international agreements regarding fisheries, marine mammals, or sea turtles. Makes such Secretary responsible for the development and interdepartmental coordination of U.S. policies with respect to such negotiations and agreements.
 
(Sec. 519) Provides that, any funds provided in this Act used to implement E-Government initiatives shall be subject to the procedures set forth in sec. 505 of this Act. 
 
(Sec. 520) Prohibits any of the funds appropriated by this Act from being used by the FCC to modify, amend, or change its rules or regulations for universal service support payments to implement the February 27, 2004, recommendations of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service regarding single connection or primary line restrictions on such payments.
 
(Sec. 521) Requires the ATFE Bureau to include certain disclaimers in data releases on the limitations of data in firearms tracing studies with respect to firearms-related crime. 
 

Title VI: Rescissions 
- Rescinds certain unobligated balances available to the Department of Justice for: (1) General Administration (Counterterrorism Fund); (2) legal activities (Assets Forfeiture Fund) and (3) the the FBI (Salaries and Expenses).

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Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 for science-related programs, the Departments of Justice and of Commerce, and related agencies. 
 

Title I: Department of Justice 
- Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Justice for FY2006 for: (1) general administration, including for Department information sharing technology, conversion to narrowband communications, administration of pardon and clemency petitions and immigration-related activities, the Federal Detention Trustee, and the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General; (2) the U.S. Parole Commission; (3) legal activities, including reimbursement from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund for processing cases under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, for antitrust enforcement, the Offices of the U.S. Attorneys (including for training personnel in debt collection, locating debtors and their property, paying the net costs of selling property, and tracking debts owed to the U.S. Government),the U.S. Trustee Program, and the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission; (4) the U.S. Marshals Service (including for courthouse security equipment, and construction in space controlled, occupied, or utilized by the U.S. Marshals Service in U.S. courthouses and federal buildings), fees and expenses of witnesses, the Community Relations Service, and for certain uses of the Assets Forfeiture Fund; (5) interagency crime and drug enforcement; (6) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); (7) the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); (8) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATFE); (9) the federal prison system, including for the construction of new buildings and facilities and for the Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated (subject to certain limitations on administrative expenses); (10) the Office on Violence Against Women for violence against women prevention and prosecution programs; and (11) Office of Justice Programs, including state and local law enforcement assistance, the Weed and Seed Program Fund, community-oriented policing services, juvenile justice programs, and public safety officers benefits. 
 
Specifies certain uses and limits on, or prohibitions against, the use of funds appropriated by this Act. 
 
(Sec. 102) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this title to: (1) pay for an abortion, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or in the case of rape; or (2) require any person to perform or facilitate an abortion. 
 
(Sec. 104) Declares that nothing in the prohibition against the use of funds for abortions shall remove the obligation of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to provide escort services necessary for a female inmate to receive an abortion outside of a federal facility. 
 
(Sec. 105) Prohibits more than 5% of any appropriation made available for the current fiscal year for the Department of Justice in this Act from being transferred between such appropriations, but no such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall be increased by more than 10% by any such transfers.
 
Prohibits the transfer of any of the funds appropriated to &quot;Buildings and Facilities, Federal Prison System&quot; in this or any other Act to &quot;Salaries and Expenses, Federal Prison System&quot;, or any other Department of Justice account, unless the President certifies that such a transfer is necessary to U.S. national security interests. Bars such authority from being delegated and subjects that authority to section 505 of this Act. 
 
(Sec. 106) Authorizes the Attorney General to make permanent the Personnel Management Demonstration Project for certain positions of the ATFE Bureau without limitation on the number of employees or the positions covered. 
 
(Sec. 107) Extends certain authorities for FBI and DEA undercover investigative operations to the ATFE Bureau in the conduct of undercover investigative operations and makes such authorities applicable with respect to any such operation initiated by the ATFE Bureau that is necessary for the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States. 
 
(Sec. 108) Requires funds appropriated by this Act for the federal prisons system to be in the amounts and accounts specified in the report accompanying this Act. Mandates that the Bureau of Prisons will submit a comprehensive financial plan for the federal prison system to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. Bars any funds appropriated for the federal prison system in this or any other Appropriations Act for the construction of new facilities from being rescinded, canceled, or used for any other purpose.
 
(Sec. 109) Prohibits the use of funds made available to the Department of Justice in this Act for the purpose of transporting an individual who is a prisoner pursuant to conviction for crime under state or federal law and is classified as a maximum or high security prisoner, other than to a prison or other facility certified by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure for housing such a prisoner.
 
(Sec. 110) Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act from being used by federal prisons to purchase cable television services, to rent or purchase videocassettes, videocassette recorders, or other audiovisual or electronic equipment used primarily for recreational purposes. Excludes from such prohibition the renting, maintaining, or purchasing of audiovisual or electronic equipment for inmate training, religious, or educational programs. 
 
(Sec. 111) Directs the Attorney General, within the funds provided under &quot;Justice Information Sharing Technology&quot;, to establish an investment review board, which the Deputy Attorney General shall head. Requires the Department of Justice to submit: (1) a plan outlining the governance structure and membership of the board; and (2) to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, the project criteria that will trigger the board's oversight, including a listing of all projects to be reviewed during FY2006. 
 
(Sec. 112) Repeals the prohibition limiting the selection of individuals for the FBI-DEA Senior Executive Service to career civil service employees.
 
(Sec. 113) Directs the Attorney General, within funds provided for the DEA, to establish a Methamphetamine Task Force within the DEA, which shall be responsible for improving and targeting the federal government's policies respecting the production and trafficking of methamphetamine. 
 
(Sec. 114) Amends the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 to extend, by one year, the deadline for the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission to submit a report on its study on the impacts of prison rape in the United States.
 
(Sec. 115) Allows the Attorney General to waive the matching requirement for the purchase of bulletproof vests under the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 1998 for any law enforcement agency that purchased defective Zylon-based body armor with federal funds pursuant to such Act between October 1, 1998, and September 30, 2005, and seeks to replace such body armor, provided that the law enforcement agency can present documentation to prove the purchase of Zylon-based body armor with funds provided to it under such Act. 
 

Title II: Department of Commerce and Related Agencies 
- Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 for: (1) the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; (2) the International Trade Commission; (3) the International Trade Administration (ITA); (4) the Bureau of Industry and Security; (5) the Economic Development Administration; (6) the Minority Business Development Agency; (7) economic and statistical analysis programs; (8) the Bureau of the Census; (9) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; (10) public telecommunications facilities planning and construction grants; (11) information infrastructure grants; (12) the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; (13) departmental management ; (14) the U.S. Travel and Tourism Promotion Program; and (15) the Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General. 
 
Declares that, with regard to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the ITA, negotiations shall be conducted within the World Trade Organization (WTO) to recognize the right of members to distribute monies collected from antidumping and countervailing duties. Instructs that the negotiations be conducted within the WTO consistent with the negotiating objectives contained in the Trade Act of 2002. 
 
Exempts the ITA from the requirements of Circular A-25 (or any successor administrative regulation or policy) issued by the Office of Management and Budget. 
 
Specifies certain uses and limits on, or prohibitions against, the use of funds appropriated by this Act. 
 
(Sec. 204) States that, funds made available for salaries and expenses to administer the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Program under Public Law 108-199 (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004) shall remain available until expended. Amends the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Act of 1999 to extend the Emergency Loan Guarantee Board's authority from December 31, 2005, until December 31, 2007. 
 
(Sec. 205) Prohibits more than 5% of any appropriation made available for the current fiscal year for the Department of Commerce in this Act from being transferred between such appropriations, but no such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall be increased by more than 10% by any such transfers. Provides that, for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), this section shall provide for transfers among appropriations made only to NOAA. Prohibits such appropriations from being transferred and reprogrammed to other Department of Commerce bureaus and appropriation accounts. 
 
(Sec. 206) Prohibits the use of any funds under this Act to register, issue, transfer, or enforce any trademark of the phrase &quot;Last Best Place.&quot;
 
(Sec. 207) Provides that, of the total amount appropriated in this Act for the Technology and Opportunities Program, such amount shall be increased by $5 million, which shall be made available for grants authorized under the ENHANCE 911 Act of 2004. 
 
Reduces amounts appropriated under this Act for departmental management of the Department of Commerce by $5 million.
 

Title III: Science 
- Science Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 for: (1) the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), including for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership of NIST, the Advanced Technology Program of NIST, and construction of new research facilities; (2) the NOAA, including for grants to states pursuant to the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, the National Ocean Service, the National Marine Fisheries Service, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, the National Weather Service, the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, program support, and an amount for procurement, acquisition, and construction of capital assets; (3) the restoration of Pacific salmon populations; (4) the Coastal Zone Management Fund; (5) the fisheries finance program account; (6) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), including for science, aeronautics, and exploration (including for a Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, for the Webb Space Telescope to be launched no later than 2013, for Constellation systems, and for other related exploration, science, and aeronautics activities), and the NASA Office of Inspector General; (7) the National Science Foundation (NSF), including for research and related activities, major research equipment and facilities, education and human resources, the Office of the National Science Board, and the NSF Office of Inspector General; and (8) the Executive Office of the President for the Office of Science and Technology Policy. 
 
Prohibits any of the funds in this Act from being used for NOAA to implement the Department of Commerce's E-Government initiatives.
 
Requires the Secretary of Commerce, annually, to include in the budget justification materials that such Secretary submits to Congress in support of the Department of Commerce budget, an estimate for each NOAA procurement, acquisition, and construction program having a total multiyear program cost of more than $5 million and an estimate of the budgetary requirements for each such program for each of the five subsequent fiscal years. 
 
Specifies certain uses and limits on, or prohibitions against, the use of funds appropriated by this Act.
 
Sec. (301) Provides, from the amounts made available elsewhere in this title to the &quot;National Institute of Standards and Technology, Construction of Research Facilities&quot;, specified amounts for: (1) a cooperative agreement with the Medical University of South Carolina; (2) the National Formulation Science Laboratory at the University of Southern Mississippi; (3) the University of Mississippi Research Park; (4) the Alabama State University Science and Education Building; (5) Tuscaloosa, Alabama, revitalization; (6) the Biomedical Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham; and (7) the University of Alabama for the design and construction of the Science and Engineering Center.
 
(Sec. 302) Provides, from the amount made available from the fund entitled &quot;Promote and Develop Fishery Products and Research Pertaining to American Fisheries&quot;, specified amounts to be provided to: (1) the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board; and (2) the Southern Shrimp Alliance for its &quot;Wild American Shrimp Marketing Program.&quot;
 
(Sec. 303) Transfers, from amounts made available under the heading &quot;Procurement, Acquisition, and Construction, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration&quot;, a specified amount to NASA for the planning, design, and construction of Building 3203, and for the planning and design of Buildings 3205 and 3216.
 
(Sec. 304) Provides that, of the amounts made available in this title under the heading &quot;National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration&quot; and under the subheading &quot;Operations, Research, and Facilities&quot;: (1) not less than $5.8 million shall be made available for the National Hurricane Center and permits such amount to be used to employ individuals in 43 full-time equivalent positions at the National Hurricane Center; and (2) sufficient funds may be provided to implement the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Amendments Act of 2004. 
 
(Sec. 306) Expresses the sense of Congress that the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force should join with its federal and state partners to provide an appropriate level of financial and technical support to make the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium a successful event.
 
(Sec. 307) Makes available, of the amounts appropriated or otherwise made available by this title under the heading &quot;National Aeronautics and Space Administration&quot;, a specified amount for NASA aeronautics research and development programs. Permits, of the amount available under this section in excess of $852.3 million not more than 50% of such excess amount to be derived from any particular NASA account.
 

Title IV: Related Agencies 
- Makes appropriations for FY2006 for: (1) the Commission on Civil Rights; (2) the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); (3) the Federal Communications Commission (FCC); (4) the Federal Trade Commission (FTC); (5) the Legal Services Corporation, including for basic field programs providing legal assistance to victims of Hurricane Katrina; (6) the Marine Mammal Commission; (7) the National Veterans Business Development Corporation; (8) the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); (9) the Small Business Administration (SBA), including the Office of Inspector General; (10) the Surety Bond Guarantees Revolving Fund, the Business Loans Program Account, and the Disaster Loans Program Account; and (11) the State Justice Institute. 
 
Reduces sums appropriated for the Department of Justice by a specified amount. Requires such reduction to be taken by the Attorney General from accounts receiving an increase in travel and transportation of persons as specified in the President's Fiscal Year 2006 Budget Submittal to Congress and which exceed the FY2005 level. 
 
Prohibits any appropriations from being expended to remove the FTC from its headquarters building, the Federal Trade Commission Building, to render such building appropriate for occupation by another federal agency or other organization or division thereof, or to locate any such agency, organization, or division in that building.
 
Authorizes the SBA to award grants under the Women's Business Center Sustainability Pilot Program. Requires that, of amounts provided for Women's Business Centers, not less than 48% shall be available to continue such Centers in sustainability status. 
 

Title V: General Provisions 
- Specifies certain uses and limits on, or prohibitions against, the use of funds appropriated by this Act.
 
(Sec. 501) Requires the Departments of Commerce and Justice, NASA, the FCC, the SEC, and the SBA to provide the House and Senate Appropriations Committees with a quarterly accounting of the cumulative balances of any unobligated funds that were made available to any such agency in any previous appropriations Act.
 
(Sec. 502) Prohibits any part of any appropriation contained in this Act from remaining available for obligation or expenditure beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
 
(Sec. 505) Prohibits the reprogramming of funds as specified, including any reprogramming that either creates a new program or eliminates an existing program, unless the Appropriations Committees of the House and Senate are notified 15 days in advance.
 
(Sec. 506) Prohibits, thereafter, the use of any of the funds made available in this Act or any other Act for the construction, repair (other than emergency repair), overhaul, conversion, or modernization of vessels for NOAA in shipyards located outside of the United States.
 
(Sec. 507) Provides that, if it has been finally determined by a court of federal agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bearing a &quot;Made in America&quot; inscription, or any inscription with the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that is not made in the United States, such person shall be ineligible to receive any contract or subcontract made with funds made available in this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility procedures described in the Code of Federal Regulations. 
 
(Sec. 508) Prohibits the use of any of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act or any other Act to implement, enforce, or otherwise abide by the Memorandum of Agreement signed by the FTC and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice on March 5, 2002. 
 
(Sec. 509) Waives the requirement under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 that not less than $27 million be made available for grants for economic development planning and grants for administrative expenses. 
 
(Sec. 510) Requires any costs incurred by a department or agency funded under this Act resulting from personnel actions taken in response to funding reductions included in this Act to be absorbed within the total budgetary resources available to such department or agency. 
 
(Sec. 511) Limits to 90% the availability of any award of a Local Law Enforcement Block Grant to an entity employing a public safety officer if the entity does not provide an officer who retires or is separated from service due to injury suffered as the result of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty while responding to an emergency situation or a hot pursuit with the same or better level of health insurance benefits at the time of retirement or separation as that officer received while on duty.
 
 (Sec. 512) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products or to seek the reduction or removal by any foreign country of restrictions on the marketing of tobacco or tobacco products (except for the reduction or removal of restrictions which are not applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco products of the same type).
 
(Sec. 513) Bars amounts deposited or available in the Crime Victims Fund in any fiscal year in excess of $625 million from being available for obligation until the following fiscal year. 
 
(Sec. 514) Makes a specified amount available under the heading &quot;Small Business Administration, Salaries and Expenses&quot; for programs described in the statement accompanying this Act.
 
(Sec. 516) Requires all disaster loans issued in Alaska or North Dakota to be administered by the SBA and to not be sold during FY2006.
 
(Sec. 518) Declares that the Secretary of Commerce shall represent the U.S. Government in negotiating and monitoring international agreements regarding fisheries, marine mammals, or sea turtles. Makes such Secretary responsible for the development and interdepartmental coordination of U.S. policies with respect to such negotiations and agreements.
 
(Sec. 519) Provides that, any funds provided in this Act used to implement E-Government initiatives shall be subject to the procedures set forth in sec. 505 of this Act. 
 
(Sec. 520) Prohibits any of the funds appropriated by this Act from being used by the FCC to modify, amend, or change its rules or regulations for universal service support payments to implement the February 27, 2004, recommendations of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service regarding single connection or primary line restrictions on such payments.
 
(Sec. 521) Requires the ATFE Bureau to include certain disclaimers in data releases on the limitations of data in firearms tracing studies with respect to firearms-related crime. 
 
(Sec. 522) Prohibits, for the period beginning on October 1, 2005, and ending on April 1, 2006, the use of any funds to pay the salaries or expenses of any employee of any agency or office to implement any change to regulations relating to the implementation of, and regulatory revision, under the Economic Development Reauthorization Act.
 
(Sec. 523) Expresses the sense of the Senate concerning federal funding with respect to recovery efforts related to the impact of Hurricane Katrina. 
 
(Sec. 524) Expresses the sense of Congress that all authorities with jurisdiction, including the FBI and other entities within the Department of Justice, should: (1) expeditiously investigate unsolved civil rights murders, due to the amount of time that has passed since the murders and the age of potential witnesses; and (2) provide all the resources necessary to ensure timely and thorough investigations in the cases involved. 
 
Establishes in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice an Unsolved Crimes Section to investigate and prosecute violations of criminal civil rights statutes, in each case in which a complaint alleges that such a violation: (1) occurred not later than December 31, 1969; and (2) resulted in a death.
 
Authorizes appropriations. Requires that such funds consist of additional appropriations for the activities described under this section, rather than funds made available through reductions in appropriations authorized for other enforcement activities of the Department of Justice. 
 
(Sec. 525) Requires that, of the funds appropriated to the FTC, at least than $1 million shall be used by the FTC to conduct an immediate investigation into nationwide gasoline prices in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
 
(Sec. 526) Helping to House the Victims of Hurricane Katrina Act of 2005 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide temporary rental assistance vouchers to individuals and families who reside or resided in any area subject to a declaration of a major disaster or emergency in connection with Hurricane Katrina. Allows the Secretary to contract with state or local government agencies or public housing agencies, or with other entities to ensure that assistance payments under this section are provided efficiently and expeditiously. Provides for the waiver of certain eligibility requirements under the Act.
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense, the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA), the Secretary of Agriculture, and other agency heads to compile and report to the Secretary an inventory of federal civilian and defense facilities that can be used to: (1) provide emergency housing; or (2) as locations for the construction or deployment of temporary housing units.
 
Authorizes appropriations.
 
(Sec. 527) Prohibits the use of funds in a manner that is inconsistent with the principle negotiating objective of the United States with respect to trade remedy laws to preserve the ability of the United States to: (1) enforce vigorously its trade laws; (2) avoid agreements that lessen the effectiveness of domestic and international disciplines on unfair trade or lessen the effectiveness of domestic and international safeguard provisions; and (3) address and remedy market distortions that lead to dumping and subsidization. 
 
(Sec. 528) Permits eligible health professionals to provide health-related services under the Medicare, Medicaid, or SCHIP program and under Indian Health Service programs, regardless of the licensing or certification laws of the state of Louisiana or Mississippi in which such services are being provided, during a single, 90-day period beginning on the date on which eligibility is determined by the state licensing board of the state in which such professional will provide health-related services.
 
(Sec. 529) Amends the Small Business Act to allow the Administrator of the SBA (the Administrator) to make disaster loans to: (1) a small business or a small agricultural cooperative that demonstrates a direct adverse economic impact caused by Hurricane Katrina; and (2) a nonprofit organization for repairing damage caused by Hurricane Katrina or performing other hurricane relief services in an area designated as a disaster area as a result of Hurricane Katrina (damaged area). 
 
Amends the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to allow the Administrator to guarantee timely payment of principal and interest on any debenture issued by a qualified state or local development company for rebuilding or resuming operations in a damaged area. Instructs the Administrator to establish a fee for such a guarantee that is lower than that for other guarantees under such Act. Allows the Administrator to: (1) temporarily defer payments on existing guarantees to a small business in a damaged area in any case in which the payments are owed to the SBA; and (2) temporarily make payments on an existing loan made under such Act to a small business in a damaged area, in any case in which the payments are owed to a person other than the SBA. 
 
Increases the program levels authorized for FY2006 for certain business loan programs. 
 
Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Commerce to provide, through appropriate government agencies in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and Florida, bridge grants and loans to small businesses located in the area designated as resulting from Hurricane Katrina to assist in covering costs of such businesses until they are able to obtain loans through SBA assistance programs or other sources. Authorizes appropriations to the SBA for making disaster loans under the Small Business Act. 
 
Allows the refinancing of: (1) any disaster loan made under the Small Business Act that was outstanding on August 24, 2005, by a small business that is located in an area designated as a disaster area as result of Hurricane Katrina; and (2) any business debt of a small business that was outstanding on such date, if it is located in the disaster area. Prohibits any loan made under this Act as a result of Hurricane Katrina from being sold. 
 
Authorizes appropriations to the SBA for FY2006 for aiding and assisting the following activities adversely affected by Hurricane Katrina: (1) activities of small business development centers; (2) the SCORE program for certain activities; (3) activities of women's business centers and for recipients of a grant under the sustainability pilot program; (4) activities of the office of veteran's business development; and (5) activities of the microloan program. 
 
Grants, for FY2005-FY2006, the Administrator the authority to waive the maximum amount of $100,000 for grants for small business development centers assisting small businesses adversely affected by Hurricane Katrina. 
 
Amends the Small Business Act to make the Hurricane Katrina disaster area, as designated by the Administrator, an historically underutilized business zone. 
 
Directs the Administrator to establish a contracting outreach and technical assistance program for small businesses which have had a primary place of business or other significant presence in the Hurricane Katrina disaster area at any time following the 60 days prior to the designation of such area by the Administrator. 
 
Authorizes the Administrator, for all procurements related to Hurricane Katrina, to guarantee and enter into commitments to guarantee any surety against loss resulting from a breach of the terms of a bid bond, payment bond, performance bond, or bonds ancillary thereto, by a principal on any total work order or contract amount at the time of bond execution that does not exceed $10 million. 
 
Authorizes the Administrator to make supplemental emergency loans to small businesses adversely affected by Hurricane Katrina, subject to specified oversight protections. Requires collection of, in lieu of the yearly fee, an annual fee of 0.25% of the outstanding balance of deferred participation loans made to qualified borrowers for a one-year period. Modifies the guarantee fee collected with respect to each loan guaranteed for a one-year period. Authorizes appropriations. 
 
Requires the Administrator and any federal agency making procurements related to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, in order to facilitate the maximum practicable participation of small businesses in activities related to relief and recovery from Hurricane Katrina, to set a goal of awarding to small businesses not less than 30% of amounts expended for prime contracts and not less than 40% of amounts expended for subcontracts on procurements of such agency related to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. 
 
 Authorizes the SBA to make disaster loans to assist a small business that has suffered or that is likely to suffer substantial economic injury on or after January 1, 2005, as a result of a significant increase in the price of heating oil, natural gas, gasoline, propane, or kerosene occurring on or after such date. Prohibits any loan from being made if the total amount outstanding and committed to the borrower would exceed $1.5 million, unless such borrower constitutes a major source of employment in its surrounding area. Permits the use of such loans by a small business to convert from the use of such an energy source described in this paragraph to a renewable or alternative energy source. Requires the Administrator to submit annual reports on the effectiveness of such assistance. 
 
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to make eligible for emergency loans under such Act farming, ranching, or aquaculture operations that are owned and operated by an established farmer, rancher, or person engaged in aquaculture or an entity that is engaged primarily in farming, ranching, or aquaculture that is also a small business and has suffered or is likely to suffer substantial economic injury on or after January 1, 2005, as a result of a significant increase in energy costs or input costs from energy sources occurring on or after such date in connection with an energy emergency declared by the President or the Secretary. Provides for submission of annual reports on the effectiveness of such assistance. 
 
(Sec. 530) Amends the Universal Service Antideficiency Temporary Suspension Act to extend the prohibition on applying certain provisions relating to limitations on expending and obligating appropriations amounts and the apportionment of appropriations to the collection or receipt of federal universal service contributions and the expenditure or obligation of amounts attributable to such contributions for universal service support programs. 
 
(Sec. 531) Amends the Small Business Act to revise requirements for the lowering of borrower fees.
 
(Sec. 532) Prohibits the use of any of the funds under this Act to include in any bilateral or multilateral trade agreement specified text of the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement, the United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement, or the United States-Morocco Free Trade Agreement.
 

Title VI: Rescissions 
- Rescinds certain unobligated balances available to the Department of Justice for: (1) General Administration (Counterterrorism Fund); (2) legal activities (Assets Forfeiture Fund) and (3) the the FBI (Salaries and Expenses).
 

Title VII: Methamphetamines 
- Combat Meth Act of 2005 - 
Subtitle A: Amendments to Controlled Substances Act 
- (Sec. 710) Amends the Controlled Substances Act to add to Schedule V under such Act any detectable quantity of psuedoephedrine or ephedrine, their salts or optical isomers, or salts of optical isomers. 
 
Requires, if such a controlled substance of Schedule V is dispensed or sold at retail by a retail distributor or a pharmacy, the retail distributor or pharmacy to ensure that specified conditions are met. Allows the Attorney General, by rule, to: (1) exempt such a product from Schedule V if the product cannot be used in the illegal manufacture of methamphetamine or any other controlled dangerous substance; and (2) upon the application of a manufacturer of a drug product, exempt such a product from Schedule V if the product has been formulated to effectively prevent the conversion of the active ingredient into methamphetamine. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Health and Human Services should consider such a differently formulated product to be subject to the performance goals established by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs for priority drugs. 
 
Permits the Attorney General, by rule, to authorize the sale of such a controlled substance of Schedule V by persons other than a practitioner, and at a location other than a pharmacy under specified conditions. Prohibits applying such limitation to any quantity of such substance dispensed under a valid prescription. Shields a retailer who in good faith releases such information to a law enforcement or regulatory authority from civil liability unless the release constitutes gross negligence or intentional, wanton, or willful misconduct. 
 
Requires the Attorney General to register an applicant to dispense such a controlled substance of Schedule V at a location other than a pharmacy if such registration is consistent with the public interest. Prohibits the registration of an applicant who does not have a valid state license. 
 
Requires the Attorney General to register an applicant, other than a practitioner, to dispense such a controlled substance of Schedule V at a location other than a pharmacy if such registration is consistent with the public interest. Prohibits the registration of such an applicant who does not have a valid state license. 
 
Requires persons registered with the DEA to manufacture or distribute controlled substances to maintain adequate security and provide effective controls and procedures to guard against theft and diversion, but to not otherwise be required to meet storage, reporting, recordkeeping, or physical security control requirements for controlled substances in Schedule V containing psuedoephedrine or ephedrine.
 
(Sec. 711) Requires persons registered with the DEA to manufacture, deliver, distribute, or dispense controlled substances to guard against hiring persons who may, as a result of their employment, have access to, and become involved in, the theft and diversion of controlled substances. 
 

Subtitle B: Education, Prevention, and Treatment 
- (Sec. 721) Amends the Public Health Service Act to include as a service under grants for services to children of substance abusers the development of drug endangered children rapid response teams that will intervene on behalf of children exposed to methamphetamine as a result of residing or being present in a home-based clandestine drug laboratory. Authorizes appropriations. 
 
(Sec. 722) Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to states, their political subdivisions, American Indian tribes, and private, nonprofit entities to provide treatment for methamphetamine abuse. Requires that priority be given to entities that will serve rural or urban areas experiencing an increase in methamphetamine abuse in states with addiction rates exceeding the national rate. Authorizes appropriations. 
 
Authorizes such Secretary to award grants to and enter into contracts with public or private nonprofit entities to establish a research, training, and technical assistance center to carry out specified activities related to the treatment of methamphetamine abuse. Authorizes appropriations.
 
(Sec. 723) Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants to states to establish methamphetamine precursor monitoring programs. Authorizes appropriations. 
 
(Sec. 724) Authorizes funds to provide training to state and local prosecutors and law enforcement agents for investigation and prosecution of methamphetamine offenses, including a set-aside for prosecutors and law enforcement agents for rural communities. 
 
(Sec. 725) Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to expand the public safety and community policing grant program to authorize the use of grant funds to hire personnel and purchase equipment to assist in enforcing and prosecuting methamphetamine offenses and in cleaning up methamphetamine-affected areas. 
 
(Sec. 726) Directs the Attorney General to allocate funds for the hiring and training of special assistant U.S. attorneys. Authorizes appropriations. 

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Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 for science-related programs, the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, and related agencies. 
 

Title I: Department of Justice 
- Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Justice for FY2006 for: (1) general administration, including for Department information sharing technology, conversion to narrowband communications, administration of pardon and clemency petitions and immigration-related activities, the Federal Detention Trustee, and the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General; (2) the U.S. Parole Commission; (3) legal activities, including reimbursement from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund for processing cases under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, for antitrust enforcement, the Offices of the U.S. Attorneys,the U.S. Trustee Program, and the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission; (4) the U.S. Marshals Service (including for courthouse security equipment, and construction in space controlled, occupied, or utilized by the U.S. Marshals Service in U.S. courthouses and federal buildings), fees and expenses of witnesses, the Community Relations Service, and for certain uses of the Assets Forfeiture Fund; (5) interagency crime and drug enforcement; (6) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); (7) the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); (8) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATFE); (9) the federal prison system, including for the construction of new buildings and facilities and for the Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated (subject to certain limitations on administrative expenses); (10) the Office on Violence Against Women for violence against women prevention and prosecution programs; and (11) Office of Justice Programs, including state and local law enforcement assistance, the Weed and Seed Program Fund, community-oriented policing services (including a transfer of funds), juvenile justice programs, and public safety officers benefits. 
 
Specifies certain uses and limits on, or prohibitions against, the use of funds appropriated by this Act. 
 
(Sec. 102) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this title to: (1) pay for an abortion, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or in the case of rape; or (2) require any person to perform or facilitate an abortion. 
 
(Sec. 104) Declares that nothing in the prohibition against the use of funds for abortions shall remove the obligation of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to provide escort services necessary for a female inmate to receive an abortion outside of a federal facility. 
 
(Sec. 105) Prohibits more than 5% of any appropriation made available for the current fiscal year for the Department of Justice in this Act from being transferred between such appropriations, but no such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall be increased by more than 10% by any such transfers.
 
Prohibits the transfer of any of the funds appropriated to &quot;Buildings and Facilities, Federal Prison System&quot; in this or any other Act to &quot;Salaries and Expenses, Federal Prison System&quot;, or any other Department of Justice account, unless the President certifies that such a transfer is necessary to U.S. national security interests. Bars such authority from being delegated and subjects that authority to section 605 of this Act. 
 
(Sec. 106) Authorizes the Attorney General to extend through FY2007 the Personnel Management Demonstration Project for certain positions of the ATFE Bureau without limitation on the number of employees or the positions covered. 
 
(Sec. 107) Extends certain authorities for FBI and DEA undercover investigative operations to the ATFE Bureau in the conduct of undercover investigative operations and makes such authorities applicable with respect to any such operation initiated by the ATFE Bureau that is necessary for the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States. 
 
 (Sec. 108) Prohibits the use of funds made available to the Department of Justice in this Act for the purpose of transporting an individual who is a prisoner pursuant to conviction for crime under state or federal law and is classified as a maximum or high security prisoner, other than to a prison or other facility certified by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure for housing such a prisoner. 
 
 (Sec. 109) Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act from being used by federal prisons to purchase cable television services, to rent or purchase videocassettes, videocassette recorders, or other audiovisual or electronic equipment used primarily for recreational purposes. Excludes from such prohibition the renting, maintaining, or purchasing of audiovisual or electronic equipment for inmate training, religious, or educational programs. 
 
 (Sec. 110) Directs the Attorney General, within the funds provided under &quot;Justice Information Sharing Technology&quot;, to establish an investment review board, which the Deputy Attorney General shall head. Requires the Department of Justice to submit: (1) a plan outlining the governance structure and membership of the board; and (2) to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, the project criteria that will initiate the board's oversight, including a listing of all projects to be reviewed during FY2006. 
 
 (Sec. 111) Repeals the prohibition limiting the selection of individuals for the FBI-DEA Senior Executive Service to career civil service employees. 
 
 (Sec. 112) Directs the Attorney General, within funds provided for the DEA, to establish a Methamphetamine Task Force within the DEA, which shall be responsible for improving and targeting the federal government's policies respecting the production and trafficking of methamphetamine. 
 
 (Sec. 113) Amends the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 to: (1) provide that nothing in the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 or any other provision of law shall prevent the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the Department of Justice, in carrying out the annual statistical review and analysis of the incidence and effects of prison rape required by that Act, from reporting to the designated public officials such information regarding child abuse or child neglect with respect to which the statutes or regulations of a state require prompt reporting; and (2) extend, by one year, the deadline for the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission to submit a report on its study on the impacts of prison rape in the United States.
 
 (Sec. 114) Requires the Attorney General to waive the matching requirement for the purchase of bulletproof vests under the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 1998 for any law enforcement agency that purchased defective Zylon-based body armor with federal funds pursuant to such Act between October 1, 1998, and September 30, 2005, and seeks to replace such body armor, provided that the law enforcement agency can present documentation to prove the purchase of Zylon-based body armor with funds provided to it under such Act. 
 

Title II: Department of Commerce and Related Agencies 
- Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 for: (1) the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; (2) the International Trade Commission; (3) the International Trade Administration (ITA); (4) the Bureau of Industry and Security; (5) the Economic Development Administration; (6) the Minority Business Development Agency; (7) economic and statistical analysis programs; (8) the Bureau of the Census; (9) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; (10) public telecommunications facilities planning and construction grants; (11) the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; (12) the Under Secretary for Technology/Office of Technology Policy; (13) the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), including amounts for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership of NIST, the Advanced Technology Program of NIST, and construction of new research facilities; (14) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including transfers of funds and an amount for procurement, acquisition, and construction of capital assets; (15) restoration of Pacific salmon populations; (16) the Coastal Zone Management Fund; (17) the fisheries finance program account; (18) departmental management; (19) the U.S. Travel and Tourism Promotion Program; and (20) the Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General. 
 
Declares that, with regard to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the ITA, negotiations shall be conducted within the World Trade Organization (WTO) to recognize the right of members to distribute monies collected from antidumping and countervailing duties. Instructs that the negotiations be conducted within the WTO consistent with the negotiating objectives contained in the Trade Act of 2002. 
 
Exempts the ITA from the requirements of Circular A-25 (or any successor administrative regulation or policy) issued by the Office of Management and Budget. 
 
Specifies certain uses and limits on, or prohibitions against, the use of funds appropriated by this Act. 
 
(Sec. 203) Prohibits more than 5% of any appropriation made available for the current fiscal year for the Department of Commerce in this Act from being transferred between such appropriations, but no such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall be increased by more than 10% by any such transfers. Provides that, for NOAA, this section shall provide for transfers among appropriations made only to NOAA. Prohibits such appropriations from being transferred and reprogrammed to other Department of Commerce bureaus and appropriation accounts. 
 
 (Sec. 205) States that, funds made available for salaries and expenses to administer the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Program under Public Law 108-199 (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004) shall remain available until expended. Amends the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Act of 1999 to extend the Emergency Loan Guarantee Board's authority from December 31, 2005, until December 31, 2007. 
 
(Sec. 206) Prohibits the use of any funds under this Act to register, issue, transfer, or enforce any trademark of the phrase &quot;Last Best Place.&quot; 
 
(Sec. 207) Provides, from the amounts made available elsewhere in this title to the &quot;National Institute of Standards and Technology, Construction of Research Facilities&quot;, specified amounts for: (1) a cooperative agreement with the Medical University of South Carolina; (2) the National Formulation Science Laboratory at the University of Southern Mississippi; (3) the University of Mississippi Research Park; (4) the Alabama State University Science and Education Building; (5) Tuscaloosa, Alabama, revitalization; (6) the Biomedical Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham; (7) the Institute for Security Technology Studies; (8) Thayer School of Engineering; (9) WVHTCF Research Facility; and (10) the University of Alabama for the design and construction of the Science and Engineering Center. 
 
 (Sec. 208) Provides, from the amount made available from the fund entitled &quot;Promote and Develop Fishery Products and Research Pertaining to American Fisheries&quot;, specified amounts to be provided to: (1) the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board; and (2) the Southern Shrimp Alliance for its &quot;Wild American Shrimp Marketing Program.&quot;
 
 (Sec. 209) Transfers, from amounts made available under the heading &quot;Procurement, Acquisition, and Construction, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,&quot; a specified amount to NASA for the planning, design, and construction of Building 3203, for the planning and design of Buildings 3205 and 3216, and for certain infrastructure improvements. 
 

Title III: Science 
- Science Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 for: (1) the Office of Science and Technology Policy; (2) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), including a transfer of funds and for science, aeronautics, and exploration , exploration capabilities (including a transfer of funds), and the NASA Office of Inspector General; and (3) the National Science Foundation (NSF), including for research and related activities, major research equipment and facilities, education and human resources, the Office of the National Science Board, and the NSF Office of Inspector General. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Commerce, annually, to include in the budget justification materials that such Secretary submits to Congress in support of the Department of Commerce budget, an estimate for each NOAA procurement, acquisition, and construction program having a total multiyear program cost of more than $5 million and an estimate of the budgetary requirements for each such program for each of the five subsequent fiscal years. 
 
Specifies certain uses and limits on, or prohibitions against, the use of funds appropriated by this Act.
 

Title IV: Department of State and Related Agency
 - Department of State and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for the Department of State for FY2006 for: (1) administration of foreign affairs, diplomatic and consular programs (including a transfer of funds); (2) the Capital Investment Fund; (3) the expenses relating to the modernization of the information technology systems and networks of the Department of State; (4) the Office of Inspector General; (5) educational and cultural exchange programs; (6) representation allowances; (7) protection of foreign missions and officials; (8) U.S. embassy security, construction, and maintenance; (9) emergencies in the diplomatic and consular service (including a transfer of funds); (10) the repatriation loans program account (including a transfer of funds); (11) the American Institute in Taiwan; (12) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (13) international organizations, peacekeeping, and commissions; (14) the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico; (15) plan preparation and construction of authorized projects; (16) the International Joint Commission and the International Boundary Commission, United States and Canada; (17) international fisheries commissions; (18) the Asia Foundation; (19) the Center for Middle Eastern-Western Dialogue Trust Fund; (20) the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Incorporated; (21) the Israeli Arab Scholarship Program; (22) the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West in the State of Hawaii; (23) the National Endowment for Democracy; and (24) the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
 
Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act. 
 
(Sec. 403) Bars the use of funds under in this Act by the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors to provide assistance to the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation. 
 
(Sec. 404) Directs the Senior Policy Operating Group on Trafficking in Persons to coordinate policies related to international trafficking in persons, including traffickers and victims of severe forms of trafficking. 
 
(Sec. 405) Requires the Secretary of State, for purposes of registration of birth, certification of nationality, or issuance of a passport of a U.S. citizen born in the City of Jerusalem, upon request of the citizen, to record the place of birth as Israel. 
 
(Sec. 406) Provides, from the funds appropriated by this Act under the heading &quot;Diplomatic and Consular Programs&quot; specified amounts for: (1) an endowment for the Center for Asian Democracy; (2) a grant to the Center for the Study of the Presidency for a public diplomacy initiative; (3) a grant to Operation Smile for a public diplomacy program; and (4) a grant to MiraMed for programs to combat human trafficking. 
 
(Sec. 407) Makes funds appropriated under this title for the Broadcasting Board of Governors and the Department of State available for obligation and expenditure notwithstanding certain sections of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956, the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995, and the National Security Act of 1947.
 
(Sec. 408) Makes funds provided in this title for Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs, National Endowment for Democracy, International Broadcasting Operations, and Broadcasting Capital Improvements available in the amounts contained in the respective tables included in the report accompanying this Act. 
 
(Sec. 409) Provides from the funds appropriated or otherwise made available in this title, not more than $1.0355 billion to be available for payment to the United Nations (UN) for assessed and other expenses of international peacekeeping activities. 
 
(Sec. 410) Amends the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 to extend the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy to October 1, 2006. 
 
(Sec. 411) Prohibits any of the funds appropriated under this title from being made available to pay any contribution of the United States to the U.N. if the U.N. implements or imposes any taxation on any U.S. persons. 
 
(Sec. 412) Expresses the sense of Congress that the amount of any loan for the renovation of the U.N. headquarters building located in New York, New York, should not exceed $600 million. Requires the Secretary of State, if any loan exceeds such amount, to notify Congress of the current cost of the renovation and cost containment measures.
 
(Sec. 413) Prohibits the use of any of the funds by this title for any U.N. undertaking when it is made known to the federal official having authority to obligate or expend such funds that: (1) the U.N. undertaking is a peacekeeping mission; (2) such undertaking will involve U.S. armed forces under the command or operational control of a foreign national; and (3) the President's military advisors have not submitted to the President a recommendation that such involvement is in U.S. national security interests and the President has not submitted to Congress such a recommendation. 
 
(Sec. 414) Prohibits the expenditure of any of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available under this title for any purpose for which appropriations are prohibited by the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 for: (1) opening, operating, or expanding any U.S. diplomatic or consular post in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam that was not operating on July 11, 1995 or increasing the number of personnel assigned in that country; and (2) the issuance of visas to any individuals named or implicated in certain killings or murders in Haiti. 
 
 (Sec. 416) Prohibits a project to construct a U.S. diplomatic facility from including office space or other accommodations for an employee of a federal agency or department if the Secretary of State determines that such department or agency has not provided to the Department of State the full amount of advanced funding for its share of the costs for such facility. Excludes the Marine Corps from such prohibition.
 
(Sec. 417) Bars ceilings and earmarks contained in this title from being applicable to funds or authorities appropriated or otherwise made available by any subsequent Act unless such Act specifically so directs. Provides that earmarks or minimum funding requirements contained in any other Act shall not be applicable to funds appropriated by this title. 
 

Title V: Related Agencies 
- Makes appropriations for FY2006 for the : (1) Antitrust Modernization Commission; (2) Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad; (3) Commission on Civil Rights; (4) Commission on International Religious Freedom; (5) Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; (6) Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China; (7) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); (8) Federal Communications Commission (FCC); (9) Federal Trade Commission (FTC); (10) Legal Services Corporation, including for basic field programs and required independent audits; (11) Marine Mammal Commission; (12) National Veterans Business Development Corporation; (13) Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); (14) Small Business Administration (SBA), including the Office of Inspector General; (15) Surety Bond Guarantees Revolving Fund, the Business Loans Program Account, and the Disaster Loans Program Account; (16) State Justice Institute; (17) United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission; (18) United States Institute of Peace; and (19) United States Senate-China Interparliamentary Group. 
 
Authorizes the SBA to award grants under the Women's Business Center Sustainability Pilot Program. Requires that, of amounts provided for Women's Business Centers, not less than 41% shall be available to continue such Centers in sustainability status. 
 

Title VI: General Provisions 
- Specifies certain uses and limits on, or prohibitions against, the use of funds appropriated by this Act.
 
(Sec. 601) Prohibits the use of any part of any appropriation contained in this Act for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by Congress. 
 
 (Sec. 602) Prohibits any part of any appropriation contained in this Act from remaining available for obligation or expenditure beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
 
 (Sec. 605) Prohibits the reprogramming of funds as specified, including any reprogramming that either creates a new program or eliminates an existing program, unless the Appropriations Committees of the House and Senate are notified 15 days in advance. 
 
(Sec. 606) Prohibits, hereafter, the use of any of the funds made available in this Act to implement, administer, or enforce any guidelines of the EEOC covering harassment based on religion, when it is made known to the federal entity or official to which such funds are made available that such guidelines do not differ in any respect from the proposed guidelines published by the EEOC on October 1, 1993.
 
 (Sec. 607) Provides that, if it has been finally determined by a court of federal agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bearing a &quot;Made in America&quot; inscription, or any inscription with the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that is not made in the United States, such person shall be ineligible to receive any contract or subcontract made with funds made available in this Act, pursuant to prescribed debarment, suspension, and ineligibility procedures. 
 
 (Sec. 608) Requires the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, Broadcasting Board of Governors, NSF, NASA, FCC, SEC, and SBA to provide the House and Senate Appropriations Committees with a quarterly accounting of the cumulative balances of any unobligated funds that were received by such agency during any previous fiscal year. 
 
 (Sec. 609) Requires any costs incurred by a department or agency funded under this Act resulting from personnel actions taken in response to funding reductions included in this Act to be absorbed within the total budgetary resources available to such department or agency. 
 
 (Sec. 610) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products or to seek the reduction or removal by any foreign country of restrictions on the marketing of tobacco or tobacco products (except for the reduction or removal of restrictions which are not applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco products of the same type). 
 
 (Sec. 612) Bars amounts deposited or available in the Crime Victims Fund in any fiscal year in excess of $625 million from being available for obligation until the following fiscal year. 
 
 (Sec. 613) Earmarks specified additional SBA funds for certain entities. 
 
(Sec. 614) Prohibits any of the funds made available to the Department of Justice in this Act from being used to discriminate against or denigrate the religious or moral beliefs of students who participate in programs for which financial assistance is provided from those funds, or of the parents or legal guardians of such students. 
 
 (Sec. 615) Requires all disaster loans issued in Alaska or North Dakota to be administered by the SBA and to not be sold during FY2006. 
 
(Sec. 617) Requires the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the SEC, and the SBA to certify that telecommuting opportunities have increased over levels certified to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees for FY 2005, to make quarterly reports on the status of telecommuting programs, and to maintain a Telework Coordinator. 
 
 (Sec. 618) Declares that the Secretary of Commerce, with the consent of the President, shall represent the U.S. Government in negotiating and monitoring international agreements regarding fisheries, marine mammals, or sea turtles. Makes such Secretary responsible for the development and interdepartmental coordination of U.S. policies with respect to such negotiations and agreements. 
 
 (Sec. 619) Requires NASA and the NSF to certify that telecommuting opportunities are available to 100 percent of their eligible workforce, to make quarterly reports on the status of telecommuting programs, and to designate a Telework Coordinator. 
 
 (Sec. 620) Provides that, any funds provided in this Act used to implement E-Government initiatives shall be subject to the procedures set forth in sec. 605 of this Act. 
 
 (Sec. 621) Requires the ATFE Bureau to include certain disclaimers in data releases on the limitations of data in firearms tracing studies with respect to firearms-related crime. 
 
 (Sec. 622) Prohibits any of the funds appropriated by this Act from being used by the FCC to modify, amend, or change its rules or regulations for universal service support payments to implement the February 27, 2004, recommendations of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service regarding single connection or primary line restrictions on such payments. 
 
(Sec. 623) Prohibits the use of any of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available under this Act to issue patents on claims directed to or encompassing a human organism. 
 
 (Sec. 624) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the support or justification of the use of torture by any official or contract employee of the United States. 
 
 (Sec. 625) Earmarks (out of amounts made available in this Act for the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the U.S. Trade Representative, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, NASA, and the NSF) funds to implement the Capital Security Cost Sharing Program. 
 
 (Sec. 626) Prohibits funds made available to NASA in this Act from being used for voluntary separation incentive payments unless the Administrator of NASA has first certified to Congress that such payments would not result in the loss of skills related to the safety of the Space Shuttle or the International Space Station or to the conduct of independent safety oversight in NASA. 
 
 (Sec. 627) Authorizes the NASA Administrator to sell NASA-owned property on the Camp Parks Military Reservation, Alameda County, California, and to credit the net proceeds of such sales as offsetting collections to its Exploration, science, and aeronautics account. Requires such funds to be used to replace the facilities at Camp Parks that are still required, and/or to improve other NASA-owned facilities. 
 
 (Sec. 628) Directs the President, through his designee the NASA Administrator and in consultation with other Federal agencies, to develop a national aeronautics policy to guide NASA aeronautics programs through 2020, which includes a description of the priority areas of research for aeronautics through FY2011. Instructs the NASA Administrator, in developing the policy, to consider specified questions which shall be discussed in the policy statement. Permits the NASA Administrator to enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences to help develop the policy. Requires such Administrator to submit the new national aeronautics policy to specified congressional committees and to make available to Congress any study done by a non-governmental entity that was used in the development of the national aeronautics policy. 
 
 (Sec. 629) Prohibits any funds made available under this Act or any other Act from being spent to pay administrative expenses or to compensate a U.S. officer or employee in connection with requiring an export license for the export to Canada of components, parts, accessories, or attachments for certain firearms with a total value not exceeding $500 wholesale in any transaction, provided that specified conditions are met by the exporting party. Requires the District Director of Customs and postmasters to permit the export without a license of any such unclassified articles to Canada for end use in Canada or return to the United States, or temporary import of Canadian-origin items from Canada for end use in the United States or return to Canada for a Canadian citizen. Allows the President to require export licenses on a temporary basis under this section if, the Government of Canada has inadequate import controls for the articles specified in this section, such that a significant diversion of such articles has and continues to take place for use in international terrorism or in the escalation of a conflict in another nation. 
 
 (Sec. 630) Bars any department, agency, or U.S. instrumentality receiving appropriated funds under this Act or any other Act from obligating or spending such funds to pay administrative expenses or the compensation of any U.S. officer or employee to deny any application for a permit to import U.S. origin &quot;curios or relics&quot; firearms, parts, or ammunition. 
 
 (Sec. 631) Prohibits the use of any of the funds under this Act to include in any bilateral or multilateral trade agreement specified text of the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement, the United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement, or the United States-Morocco Free Trade Agreement. 
 
 (Sec. 632) Requires that, of the funds appropriated to the FTC, at least than $1 million shall be used by the FTC to conduct an immediate investigation into nationwide gasoline prices in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. 
 
 (Sec. 633) Amends the Universal Service Antideficiency Temporary Suspension Act to extend the prohibition on applying certain provisions relating to limitations on expending and obligating appropriations amounts and the apportionment of appropriations to the collection or receipt of federal universal service contributions and the expenditure or obligation of amounts attributable to such contributions for universal service support programs. 
 
(Sec. 634) Prohibits the use of any of the funds made available in this Act to send or otherwise pay for the attendance of more than 50 employees of agencies or departments of the U.S. government who are stationed in the United States, at any single international conference occurring outside the United States, unless the Secretary of State determines that such attendance is in the national interest. 
 
(Sec. 635) Directs the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission to investigate and report exclusively on each of the following areas: (1) the role of the People's Republic of China (China) in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and other weapons, including actions the United States might take to encourage China to cease such practices; (2) the qualitative and quantitative nature of the transfer of U.S. production activities to China; (3) the effect of China's economy on world energy supplies and the role the United States can play in influencing China's energy policy; (4) the extent of access to and use of U.S. capital markets by China; (5) the economic and security relationship among the United States, Taipei, and China, China's national budget, and the fiscal strength of China in relation to internal instability in China and the likelihood of externalization of problems arising from such internal instability; (6) science and technology programs, the degree of non-compliance by China with agreements between the United States and China on prison labor imports and intellectual property rights, and U.S. enforcement policies respecting such agreements; (7) China's compliance with its accession agreement to the WTO; and (8) the implications of restrictions on speech and access to information in China for its relations with the United States in the areas of economic and security policy. 
 
(Sec. 636) Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005 to permit the unexpended balances (currently, the unobligated balance) appropriated by title V of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 for necessary expenses of the United States-Canada Alaska Rail Commission to be transferred as a direct lump-sum payment to the University of Alaska. 
 
(Sec. 637) Prohibits the use of any of the funds made available in this Act to pay expenses for any U.S. delegation to any specialized agency, body, or UN commission if such commission is chaired or presided over by a country the government of which the Secretary of State has determined, for purposes of the exercise of certain foreign policy controls on the export of goods or technology to countries that have repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism, has provided support for such acts. 
 
(Sec. 638) Rescinds, as provided in this section, 0.28% of the budget authority provided for in FY2006 for any discretionary account in this Act. 
 

Title VII: Rescissions 
- Rescinds certain unobligated balances available to the Department of Justice for: (1) General Administration (Working Capital Fund); (2) legal activities (Assets Forfeiture Fund) (3) the FBI (Salaries and Expenses); and (4) the Office of Justice Programs (Community Oriented Policing Services). 
 
Rescinds certain unobligated balances available to the Department of Commerce for NOAA. 
 
Rescinds certain unobligated balances available to related agencies for the: (1) FCC (Salaries and Expenses); (2) FTC (Salaries and Expenses); (3) Marine Mammal Commission (Salaries and Expenses); and (4) SBA (Salaries and Expenses and Business Loans Program Account).

action_date: 2005-11-22
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(This measure has not been amended since the Conference Report was filed in the House on November 7, 2005. The summary of that version is repeated here.) 

 
Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 for science-related programs, the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, and related agencies. 
 

Title I: Department of Justice 
- Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Justice for FY2006 for: (1) general administration, including for Department information sharing technology, conversion to narrowband communications, administration of pardon and clemency petitions and immigration-related activities, the Federal Detention Trustee, and the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General; (2) the U.S. Parole Commission; (3) legal activities, including reimbursement from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund for processing cases under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, for antitrust enforcement, the Offices of the U.S. Attorneys,the U.S. Trustee Program, and the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission; (4) the U.S. Marshals Service (including for courthouse security equipment, and construction in space controlled, occupied, or utilized by the U.S. Marshals Service in U.S. courthouses and federal buildings), fees and expenses of witnesses, the Community Relations Service, and for certain uses of the Assets Forfeiture Fund; (5) interagency crime and drug enforcement; (6) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); (7) the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); (8) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATFE); (9) the federal prison system, including for the construction of new buildings and facilities and for the Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated (subject to certain limitations on administrative expenses); (10) the Office on Violence Against Women for violence against women prevention and prosecution programs; and (11) Office of Justice Programs, including state and local law enforcement assistance, the Weed and Seed Program Fund, community-oriented policing services (including a transfer of funds), juvenile justice programs, and public safety officers benefits. 
 
Specifies certain uses and limits on, or prohibitions against, the use of funds appropriated by this Act. 
 
(Sec. 102) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this title to: (1) pay for an abortion, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or in the case of rape; or (2) require any person to perform or facilitate an abortion. 
 
(Sec. 104) Declares that nothing in the prohibition against the use of funds for abortions shall remove the obligation of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to provide escort services necessary for a female inmate to receive an abortion outside of a federal facility. 
 
(Sec. 105) Prohibits more than 5% of any appropriation made available for the current fiscal year for the Department of Justice in this Act from being transferred between such appropriations, but no such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall be increased by more than 10% by any such transfers.
 
Prohibits the transfer of any of the funds appropriated to &quot;Buildings and Facilities, Federal Prison System&quot; in this or any other Act to &quot;Salaries and Expenses, Federal Prison System&quot;, or any other Department of Justice account, unless the President certifies that such a transfer is necessary to U.S. national security interests. Bars such authority from being delegated and subjects that authority to section 605 of this Act. 
 
(Sec. 106) Authorizes the Attorney General to extend through FY2007 the Personnel Management Demonstration Project for certain positions of the ATFE Bureau without limitation on the number of employees or the positions covered. 
 
(Sec. 107) Extends certain authorities for FBI and DEA undercover investigative operations to the ATFE Bureau in the conduct of undercover investigative operations and makes such authorities applicable with respect to any such operation initiated by the ATFE Bureau that is necessary for the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States. 
 
 (Sec. 108) Prohibits the use of funds made available to the Department of Justice in this Act for the purpose of transporting an individual who is a prisoner pursuant to conviction for crime under state or federal law and is classified as a maximum or high security prisoner, other than to a prison or other facility certified by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure for housing such a prisoner. 
 
 (Sec. 109) Prohibits funds appropriated by this Act from being used by federal prisons to purchase cable television services, to rent or purchase videocassettes, videocassette recorders, or other audiovisual or electronic equipment used primarily for recreational purposes. Excludes from such prohibition the renting, maintaining, or purchasing of audiovisual or electronic equipment for inmate training, religious, or educational programs. 
 
 (Sec. 110) Directs the Attorney General, within the funds provided under &quot;Justice Information Sharing Technology&quot;, to establish an investment review board, which the Deputy Attorney General shall head. Requires the Department of Justice to submit: (1) a plan outlining the governance structure and membership of the board; and (2) to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, the project criteria that will initiate the board's oversight, including a listing of all projects to be reviewed during FY2006. 
 
 (Sec. 111) Repeals the prohibition limiting the selection of individuals for the FBI-DEA Senior Executive Service to career civil service employees. 
 
 (Sec. 112) Directs the Attorney General, within funds provided for the DEA, to establish a Methamphetamine Task Force within the DEA, which shall be responsible for improving and targeting the federal government's policies respecting the production and trafficking of methamphetamine. 
 
 (Sec. 113) Amends the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 to: (1) provide that nothing in the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 or any other provision of law shall prevent the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the Department of Justice, in carrying out the annual statistical review and analysis of the incidence and effects of prison rape required by that Act, from reporting to the designated public officials such information regarding child abuse or child neglect with respect to which the statutes or regulations of a state require prompt reporting; and (2) extend, by one year, the deadline for the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission to submit a report on its study on the impacts of prison rape in the United States.
 
 (Sec. 114) Requires the Attorney General to waive the matching requirement for the purchase of bulletproof vests under the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 1998 for any law enforcement agency that purchased defective Zylon-based body armor with federal funds pursuant to such Act between October 1, 1998, and September 30, 2005, and seeks to replace such body armor, provided that the law enforcement agency can present documentation to prove the purchase of Zylon-based body armor with funds provided to it under such Act. 
 

Title II: Department of Commerce and Related Agencies 
- Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 for: (1) the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; (2) the International Trade Commission; (3) the International Trade Administration (ITA); (4) the Bureau of Industry and Security; (5) the Economic Development Administration; (6) the Minority Business Development Agency; (7) economic and statistical analysis programs; (8) the Bureau of the Census; (9) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; (10) public telecommunications facilities planning and construction grants; (11) the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; (12) the Under Secretary for Technology/Office of Technology Policy; (13) the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), including amounts for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership of NIST, the Advanced Technology Program of NIST, and construction of new research facilities; (14) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including transfers of funds and an amount for procurement, acquisition, and construction of capital assets; (15) restoration of Pacific salmon populations; (16) the Coastal Zone Management Fund; (17) the fisheries finance program account; (18) departmental management; (19) the U.S. Travel and Tourism Promotion Program; and (20) the Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General. 
 
Declares that, with regard to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the ITA, negotiations shall be conducted within the World Trade Organization (WTO) to recognize the right of members to distribute monies collected from antidumping and countervailing duties. Instructs that the negotiations be conducted within the WTO consistent with the negotiating objectives contained in the Trade Act of 2002. 
 
Exempts the ITA from the requirements of Circular A-25 (or any successor administrative regulation or policy) issued by the Office of Management and Budget. 
 
Specifies certain uses and limits on, or prohibitions against, the use of funds appropriated by this Act. 
 
(Sec. 203) Prohibits more than 5% of any appropriation made available for the current fiscal year for the Department of Commerce in this Act from being transferred between such appropriations, but no such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall be increased by more than 10% by any such transfers. Provides that, for NOAA, this section shall provide for transfers among appropriations made only to NOAA. Prohibits such appropriations from being transferred and reprogrammed to other Department of Commerce bureaus and appropriation accounts. 
 
 (Sec. 205) States that, funds made available for salaries and expenses to administer the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Program under Public Law 108-199 (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004) shall remain available until expended. Amends the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Act of 1999 to extend the Emergency Loan Guarantee Board's authority from December 31, 2005, until December 31, 2007. 
 
(Sec. 206) Prohibits the use of any funds under this Act to register, issue, transfer, or enforce any trademark of the phrase &quot;Last Best Place.&quot; 
 
(Sec. 207) Provides, from the amounts made available elsewhere in this title to the &quot;National Institute of Standards and Technology, Construction of Research Facilities&quot;, specified amounts for: (1) a cooperative agreement with the Medical University of South Carolina; (2) the National Formulation Science Laboratory at the University of Southern Mississippi; (3) the University of Mississippi Research Park; (4) the Alabama State University Science and Education Building; (5) Tuscaloosa, Alabama, revitalization; (6) the Biomedical Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham; (7) the Institute for Security Technology Studies; (8) Thayer School of Engineering; (9) WVHTCF Research Facility; and (10) the University of Alabama for the design and construction of the Science and Engineering Center. 
 
 (Sec. 208) Provides, from the amount made available from the fund entitled &quot;Promote and Develop Fishery Products and Research Pertaining to American Fisheries&quot;, specified amounts to be provided to: (1) the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board; and (2) the Southern Shrimp Alliance for its &quot;Wild American Shrimp Marketing Program.&quot;
 
 (Sec. 209) Transfers, from amounts made available under the heading &quot;Procurement, Acquisition, and Construction, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,&quot; a specified amount to NASA for the planning, design, and construction of Building 3203, for the planning and design of Buildings 3205 and 3216, and for certain infrastructure improvements. 
 

Title III: Science 
- Science Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for FY2006 for: (1) the Office of Science and Technology Policy; (2) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), including a transfer of funds and for science, aeronautics, and exploration , exploration capabilities (including a transfer of funds), and the NASA Office of Inspector General; and (3) the National Science Foundation (NSF), including for research and related activities, major research equipment and facilities, education and human resources, the Office of the National Science Board, and the NSF Office of Inspector General. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Commerce, annually, to include in the budget justification materials that such Secretary submits to Congress in support of the Department of Commerce budget, an estimate for each NOAA procurement, acquisition, and construction program having a total multiyear program cost of more than $5 million and an estimate of the budgetary requirements for each such program for each of the five subsequent fiscal years. 
 
Specifies certain uses and limits on, or prohibitions against, the use of funds appropriated by this Act.
 

Title IV: Department of State and Related Agency
 - Department of State and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2006 - Makes appropriations for the Department of State for FY2006 for: (1) administration of foreign affairs, diplomatic and consular programs (including a transfer of funds); (2) the Capital Investment Fund; (3) the expenses relating to the modernization of the information technology systems and networks of the Department of State; (4) the Office of Inspector General; (5) educational and cultural exchange programs; (6) representation allowances; (7) protection of foreign missions and officials; (8) U.S. embassy security, construction, and maintenance; (9) emergencies in the diplomatic and consular service (including a transfer of funds); (10) the repatriation loans program account (including a transfer of funds); (11) the American Institute in Taiwan; (12) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (13) international organizations, peacekeeping, and commissions; (14) the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico; (15) plan preparation and construction of authorized projects; (16) the International Joint Commission and the International Boundary Commission, United States and Canada; (17) international fisheries commissions; (18) the Asia Foundation; (19) the Center for Middle Eastern-Western Dialogue Trust Fund; (20) the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Incorporated; (21) the Israeli Arab Scholarship Program; (22) the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West in the State of Hawaii; (23) the National Endowment for Democracy; and (24) the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
 
Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act. 
 
(Sec. 403) Bars the use of funds under in this Act by the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors to provide assistance to the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation. 
 
(Sec. 404) Directs the Senior Policy Operating Group on Trafficking in Persons to coordinate policies related to international trafficking in persons, including traffickers and victims of severe forms of trafficking. 
 
(Sec. 405) Requires the Secretary of State, for purposes of registration of birth, certification of nationality, or issuance of a passport of a U.S. citizen born in the City of Jerusalem, upon request of the citizen, to record the place of birth as Israel. 
 
(Sec. 406) Provides, from the funds appropriated by this Act under the heading &quot;Diplomatic and Consular Programs&quot; specified amounts for: (1) an endowment for the Center for Asian Democracy; (2) a grant to the Center for the Study of the Presidency for a public diplomacy initiative; (3) a grant to Operation Smile for a public diplomacy program; and (4) a grant to MiraMed for programs to combat human trafficking. 
 
(Sec. 407) Makes funds appropriated under this title for the Broadcasting Board of Governors and the Department of State available for obligation and expenditure notwithstanding certain sections of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956, the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995, and the National Security Act of 1947.
 
(Sec. 408) Makes funds provided in this title for Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs, National Endowment for Democracy, International Broadcasting Operations, and Broadcasting Capital Improvements available in the amounts contained in the respective tables included in the report accompanying this Act. 
 
(Sec. 409) Provides from the funds appropriated or otherwise made available in this title, not more than $1.0355 billion to be available for payment to the United Nations (UN) for assessed and other expenses of international peacekeeping activities. 
 
(Sec. 410) Amends the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 to extend the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy to October 1, 2006. 
 
(Sec. 411) Prohibits any of the funds appropriated under this title from being made available to pay any contribution of the United States to the U.N. if the U.N. implements or imposes any taxation on any U.S. persons. 
 
(Sec. 412) Expresses the sense of Congress that the amount of any loan for the renovation of the U.N. headquarters building located in New York, New York, should not exceed $600 million. Requires the Secretary of State, if any loan exceeds such amount, to notify Congress of the current cost of the renovation and cost containment measures.
 
(Sec. 413) Prohibits the use of any of the funds by this title for any U.N. undertaking when it is made known to the federal official having authority to obligate or expend such funds that: (1) the U.N. undertaking is a peacekeeping mission; (2) such undertaking will involve U.S. armed forces under the command or operational control of a foreign national; and (3) the President's military advisors have not submitted to the President a recommendation that such involvement is in U.S. national security interests and the President has not submitted to Congress such a recommendation. 
 
(Sec. 414) Prohibits the expenditure of any of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available under this title for any purpose for which appropriations are prohibited by the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 for: (1) opening, operating, or expanding any U.S. diplomatic or consular post in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam that was not operating on July 11, 1995 or increasing the number of personnel assigned in that country; and (2) the issuance of visas to any individuals named or implicated in certain killings or murders in Haiti. 
 
 (Sec. 416) Prohibits a project to construct a U.S. diplomatic facility from including office space or other accommodations for an employee of a federal agency or department if the Secretary of State determines that such department or agency has not provided to the Department of State the full amount of advanced funding for its share of the costs for such facility. Excludes the Marine Corps from such prohibition.
 
(Sec. 417) Bars ceilings and earmarks contained in this title from being applicable to funds or authorities appropriated or otherwise made available by any subsequent Act unless such Act specifically so directs. Provides that earmarks or minimum funding requirements contained in any other Act shall not be applicable to funds appropriated by this title. 
 

Title V: Related Agencies 
- Makes appropriations for FY2006 for the : (1) Antitrust Modernization Commission; (2) Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad; (3) Commission on Civil Rights; (4) Commission on International Religious Freedom; (5) Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; (6) Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China; (7) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); (8) Federal Communications Commission (FCC); (9) Federal Trade Commission (FTC); (10) Legal Services Corporation, including for basic field programs and required independent audits; (11) Marine Mammal Commission; (12) National Veterans Business Development Corporation; (13) Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); (14) Small Business Administration (SBA), including the Office of Inspector General; (15) Surety Bond Guarantees Revolving Fund, the Business Loans Program Account, and the Disaster Loans Program Account; (16) State Justice Institute; (17) United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission; (18) United States Institute of Peace; and (19) United States Senate-China Interparliamentary Group. 
 
Authorizes the SBA to award grants under the Women's Business Center Sustainability Pilot Program. Requires that, of amounts provided for Women's Business Centers, not less than 41% shall be available to continue such Centers in sustainability status. 
 

Title VI: General Provisions 
- Specifies certain uses and limits on, or prohibitions against, the use of funds appropriated by this Act.
 
(Sec. 601) Prohibits the use of any part of any appropriation contained in this Act for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by Congress. 
 
 (Sec. 602) Prohibits any part of any appropriation contained in this Act from remaining available for obligation or expenditure beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
 
 (Sec. 605) Prohibits the reprogramming of funds as specified, including any reprogramming that either creates a new program or eliminates an existing program, unless the Appropriations Committees of the House and Senate are notified 15 days in advance. 
 
(Sec. 606) Prohibits, hereafter, the use of any of the funds made available in this Act to implement, administer, or enforce any guidelines of the EEOC covering harassment based on religion, when it is made known to the federal entity or official to which such funds are made available that such guidelines do not differ in any respect from the proposed guidelines published by the EEOC on October 1, 1993.
 
 (Sec. 607) Provides that, if it has been finally determined by a court of federal agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bearing a &quot;Made in America&quot; inscription, or any inscription with the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that is not made in the United States, such person shall be ineligible to receive any contract or subcontract made with funds made available in this Act, pursuant to prescribed debarment, suspension, and ineligibility procedures. 
 
 (Sec. 608) Requires the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, Broadcasting Board of Governors, NSF, NASA, FCC, SEC, and SBA to provide the House and Senate Appropriations Committees with a quarterly accounting of the cumulative balances of any unobligated funds that were received by such agency during any previous fiscal year. 
 
 (Sec. 609) Requires any costs incurred by a department or agency funded under this Act resulting from personnel actions taken in response to funding reductions included in this Act to be absorbed within the total budgetary resources available to such department or agency. 
 
 (Sec. 610) Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products or to seek the reduction or removal by any foreign country of restrictions on the marketing of tobacco or tobacco products (except for the reduction or removal of restrictions which are not applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco products of the same type). 
 
 (Sec. 612) Bars amounts deposited or available in the Crime Victims Fund in any fiscal year in excess of $625 million from being available for obligation until the following fiscal year. 
 
 (Sec. 613) Earmarks specified additional SBA funds for certain entities. 
 
(Sec. 614) Prohibits any of the funds made available to the Department of Justice in this Act from being used to discriminate against or denigrate the religious or moral beliefs of students who participate in programs for which financial assistance is provided from those funds, or of the parents or legal guardians of such students. 
 
 (Sec. 615) Requires all disaster loans issued in Alaska or North Dakota to be administered by the SBA and to not be sold during FY2006. 
 
(Sec. 617) Requires the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the SEC, and the SBA to certify that telecommuting opportunities have increased over levels certified to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees for FY 2005, to make quarterly reports on the status of telecommuting programs, and to maintain a Telework Coordinator. 
 
 (Sec. 618) Declares that the Secretary of Commerce, with the consent of the President, shall represent the U.S. Government in negotiating and monitoring international agreements regarding fisheries, marine mammals, or sea turtles. Makes such Secretary responsible for the development and interdepartmental coordination of U.S. policies with respect to such negotiations and agreements. 
 
 (Sec. 619) Requires NASA and the NSF to certify that telecommuting opportunities are available to 100 percent of their eligible workforce, to make quarterly reports on the status of telecommuting programs, and to designate a Telework Coordinator. 
 
 (Sec. 620) Provides that, any funds provided in this Act used to implement E-Government initiatives shall be subject to the procedures set forth in sec. 605 of this Act. 
 
 (Sec. 621) Requires the ATFE Bureau to include certain disclaimers in data releases on the limitations of data in firearms tracing studies with respect to firearms-related crime. 
 
 (Sec. 622) Prohibits any of the funds appropriated by this Act from being used by the FCC to modify, amend, or change its rules or regulations for universal service support payments to implement the February 27, 2004, recommendations of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service regarding single connection or primary line restrictions on such payments. 
 
(Sec. 623) Prohibits the use of any of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available under this Act to issue patents on claims directed to or encompassing a human organism. 
 
 (Sec. 624) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for the support or justification of the use of torture by any official or contract employee of the United States. 
 
 (Sec. 625) Earmarks (out of amounts made available in this Act for the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the U.S. Trade Representative, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, NASA, and the NSF) funds to implement the Capital Security Cost Sharing Program. 
 
 (Sec. 626) Prohibits funds made available to NASA in this Act from being used for voluntary separation incentive payments unless the Administrator of NASA has first certified to Congress that such payments would not result in the loss of skills related to the safety of the Space Shuttle or the International Space Station or to the conduct of independent safety oversight in NASA. 
 
 (Sec. 627) Authorizes the NASA Administrator to sell NASA-owned property on the Camp Parks Military Reservation, Alameda County, California, and to credit the net proceeds of such sales as offsetting collections to its Exploration, science, and aeronautics account. Requires such funds to be used to replace the facilities at Camp Parks that are still required, and/or to improve other NASA-owned facilities. 
 
 (Sec. 628) Directs the President, through his designee the NASA Administrator and in consultation with other Federal agencies, to develop a national aeronautics policy to guide NASA aeronautics programs through 2020, which includes a description of the priority areas of research for aeronautics through FY2011. Instructs the NASA Administrator, in developing the policy, to consider specified questions which shall be discussed in the policy statement. Permits the NASA Administrator to enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences to help develop the policy. Requires such Administrator to submit the new national aeronautics policy to specified congressional committees and to make available to Congress any study done by a non-governmental entity that was used in the development of the national aeronautics policy. 
 
 (Sec. 629) Prohibits any funds made available under this Act or any other Act from being spent to pay administrative expenses or to compensate a U.S. officer or employee in connection with requiring an export license for the export to Canada of components, parts, accessories, or attachments for certain firearms with a total value not exceeding $500 wholesale in any transaction, provided that specified conditions are met by the exporting party. Requires the District Director of Customs and postmasters to permit the export without a license of any such unclassified articles to Canada for end use in Canada or return to the United States, or temporary import of Canadian-origin items from Canada for end use in the United States or return to Canada for a Canadian citizen. Allows the President to require export licenses on a temporary basis under this section if, the Government of Canada has inadequate import controls for the articles specified in this section, such that a significant diversion of such articles has and continues to take place for use in international terrorism or in the escalation of a conflict in another nation. 
 
 (Sec. 630) Bars any department, agency, or U.S. instrumentality receiving appropriated funds under this Act or any other Act from obligating or spending such funds to pay administrative expenses or the compensation of any U.S. officer or employee to deny any application for a permit to import U.S. origin &quot;curios or relics&quot; firearms, parts, or ammunition. 
 
 (Sec. 631) Prohibits the use of any of the funds under this Act to include in any bilateral or multilateral trade agreement specified text of the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement, the United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement, or the United States-Morocco Free Trade Agreement. 
 
 (Sec. 632) Requires that, of the funds appropriated to the FTC, at least than $1 million shall be used by the FTC to conduct an immediate investigation into nationwide gasoline prices in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. 
 
 (Sec. 633) Amends the Universal Service Antideficiency Temporary Suspension Act to extend the prohibition on applying certain provisions relating to limitations on expending and obligating appropriations amounts and the apportionment of appropriations to the collection or receipt of federal universal service contributions and the expenditure or obligation of amounts attributable to such contributions for universal service support programs. 
 
(Sec. 634) Prohibits the use of any of the funds made available in this Act to send or otherwise pay for the attendance of more than 50 employees of agencies or departments of the U.S. government who are stationed in the United States, at any single international conference occurring outside the United States, unless the Secretary of State determines that such attendance is in the national interest. 
 
(Sec. 635) Directs the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission to investigate and report exclusively on each of the following areas: (1) the role of the People's Republic of China (China) in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and other weapons, including actions the United States might take to encourage China to cease such practices; (2) the qualitative and quantitative nature of the transfer of U.S. production activities to China; (3) the effect of China's economy on world energy supplies and the role the United States can play in influencing China's energy policy; (4) the extent of access to and use of U.S. capital markets by China; (5) the economic and security relationship among the United States, Taipei, and China, China's national budget, and the fiscal strength of China in relation to internal instability in China and the likelihood of externalization of problems arising from such internal instability; (6) science and technology programs, the degree of non-compliance by China with agreements between the United States and China on prison labor imports and intellectual property rights, and U.S. enforcement policies respecting such agreements; (7) China's compliance with its accession agreement to the WTO; and (8) the implications of restrictions on speech and access to information in China for its relations with the United States in the areas of economic and security policy. 
 
(Sec. 636) Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005 to permit the unexpended balances (currently, the unobligated balance) appropriated by title V of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 for necessary expenses of the United States-Canada Alaska Rail Commission to be transferred as a direct lump-sum payment to the University of Alaska. 
 
(Sec. 637) Prohibits the use of any of the funds made available in this Act to pay expenses for any U.S. delegation to any specialized agency, body, or UN commission if such commission is chaired or presided over by a country the government of which the Secretary of State has determined, for purposes of the exercise of certain foreign policy controls on the export of goods or technology to countries that have repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism, has provided support for such acts. 
 
(Sec. 638) Rescinds, as provided in this section, 0.28% of the budget authority provided for in FY2006 for any discretionary account in this Act. 
 

Title VII: Rescissions 
- Rescinds certain unobligated balances available to the Department of Justice for: (1) General Administration (Working Capital Fund); (2) legal activities (Assets Forfeiture Fund) (3) the FBI (Salaries and Expenses); and (4) the Office of Justice Programs (Community Oriented Policing Services). 
 
Rescinds certain unobligated balances available to the Department of Commerce for NOAA. 
 
Rescinds certain unobligated balances available to related agencies for the: (1) FCC (Salaries and Expenses); (2) FTC (Salaries and Expenses); (3) Marine Mammal Commission (Salaries and Expenses); and (4) SBA (Salaries and Expenses and Business Loans Program Account).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-22
text: Became Public Law No: 109-108.
action_date: 2005-11-22
text: Became Public Law No: 109-108.
action_date: 2005-11-22
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2005-11-22
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Cleared for White House.
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 94 - 5. Record Vote Number: 329. (consideration: CR S12921-12923)
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 94 - 5. Record Vote Number: 329.(consideration: CR S12921-12923)
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: Conference report considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S12812-12824)
action_date: 2005-11-09
text: Conference papers: message on House action held at the desk in Senate.
action_date: 2005-11-09
text: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 397 - 19 (Roll no. 581).
action_date: 2005-11-09
text: Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-11-09
text: Conference report agreed to in House: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 397 - 19 (Roll no. 581).
action_date: 2005-11-09
text: The House proceeded to consider the conference report H.Rept. 109-272 as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H10082-10083)
action_date: 2005-11-09
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the conference report to accompany H.R. 2862, the Chair announced that pursuant to the rule, the Yeas and Nays were ordered. The Chair postponed further proceedings on the adoption of the conference report until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-11-09
text: The previous question was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H10074)
action_date: 2005-11-09
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the conference report to accompany H.R. 2862.
action_date: 2005-11-09
text: Mr. Wolf brought up conference report H. Rept. 109-272 for consideration under the provisions of H. Res. 538. (consideration: CR H10065-10074)
action_date: 2005-11-09
text: Rule H. Res. 538 passed House.
action_date: 2005-11-08
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 538 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of the conference report to H.R. 2862.
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Conference report H. Rept. 109-272 filed. (text of conference report: CR H9713-9811)
action_date: 2005-11-07
text: Conference report filed: Conference report H. Rept. 109-272 filed.(text of conference report: CR H9713-9811)
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Conference held.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Conference committee actions: Conference held.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: The Speaker appointed conferees: Wolf, Taylor (NC), Kirk, Weldon (FL), Goode, LaHood, Culberson, Alexander, Lewis (CA), Mollohan, Serrano, Cramer, Kennedy (RI), Fattah, and Obey.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: POSTPONED APPOINTMENT OF CONFEREES - The Chair announced that the appointment of the managers on the part of the House would be postponed until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: On motion that the House instruct conferees Agreed to by voice vote.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: The previous question was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H9496)
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Schwartz (PA) motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 2862. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the managers on the part of the House to insist on the House level for the Small Business Administration's Business Loan Program Account and recede to the Senate on Section 525 of the Senate amendment.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Ms. Schwartz (PA) moved that the House instruct conferees. (consideration: CR H9492-9496; text: CR H9492)
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendments, and agree to a conference Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-11-02
text: Mr. Wolf asked unanimous consent that the House disagree to the Senate amendments, and agree to a conference.
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-09-15
text: Senate insists on its amendments, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Shelby; Gregg; Stevens; Domenici; McConnell; Hutchison; Brownback; Bond; Cochran; Mikulski; Inouye; Leahy; Kohl; Murray; Harkin; Dorgan; Byrd.
action_date: 2005-09-15
text: Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Yea-Nay Vote. 91 - 4. Record Vote Number: 235.
action_date: 2005-09-15
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Yea-Nay Vote. 91 - 4. Record Vote Number: 235.
action_date: 2005-09-15
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S10058, S10059-10066, S10070-10080)
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S10002-10016, S10018-10028, S10031-10032)
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S9947-9949, S9953-9955, S9962-9980)
action_date: 2005-09-12
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S9898-9908)
action_date: 2005-09-09
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S9865, S9867, S9872-9874, S9887-9888)
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: The committee substitute agreed to by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S9745-9770, S9776-9802; text of measure as reported in Senate: CR S9745-9768)
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 137.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Senator Shelby with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 109-88.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Senator Shelby with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 109-88.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Committee on Appropriations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2005-06-21
text: Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies. Approved for full committee consideration without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 418 - 7 (Roll no. 268).
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 418 - 7 (Roll no. 268).
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: The House adopted the remaining amendments en gross as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. (consideration: CR H4605-4606; text: CR H4605)
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H4605)
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 2862.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of specified amendments which had been debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Maloney amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mrs. Maloney demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Maloney amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Moran (VA) amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Moran (VA) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Moran (VA) amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Jackson-Lee amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Ms. Jackson-Lee (TX) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Jackson-Lee amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Tancredo amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Tancredo demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the Tancredo amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Tancredo amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 15 minutes of debate on the Cleaver amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Tancredo amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Tancredo demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the Tancredo amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Tancredo amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Markey amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Markey demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the Markey amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 15 minutes of debate on the Markey amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Hefley amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Hefley demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the Hefley amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Hefley amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Paul amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Paul demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the Paul amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Paul amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4580-4606)
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 2862 as unfinished business.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: On motion that the Committee rise Agreed to by voice vote.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: Mr. Wolf moved that the Committee rise.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of amendments which had been debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Jackson-Lee amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Stearns amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 15 minutes of debate on the Nadler amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the King (IA) amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Sanders amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Sanders demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 40 minutes of debate on the Sanders amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Jackson-Lee (TX) amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Hostettler amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Hostettler demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 15 minutes of debate on the Hostettler amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Jones (OH) amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mrs. Jones (OH) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Jones (OH) amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 15 minutes of debate on the Chocola amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of amendments which had been debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Otter amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Schiff amendment pending reservation of a point of order.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Hinchey amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Hinchey demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 15 minutes of debate on the Hinchey amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 15 minutes of debate on the Paul amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: POSTPONED - At the conclusion of debate on the Flake amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Flake demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Flake amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the McDermott amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: Mr. Porter raised a point of order against the content of the measure. Mr. Porter stated that section 607 of the bill sought to change existing law and constituted legislation in an appropriations bill. The Chair sustained the point of order.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Moore (WI) amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Reyes amendment pending reservation of a point of order.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Hayworth amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Hayworth demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the Hayworth amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Hayworth amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Inslee amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Inslee demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the Inslee amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Inslee amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Mica amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Weiner amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Weiner demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the Weiner amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Weiner amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Wolf amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4494-4553; text of Title II as reported in House: CR H4498-4500; text of Title III as reported in House: CR H4503-4504; text of Title IV as reported in House: CR H4504-4505, H4507-4508; text of Title V as reported in House: CR H4509-4511; text of Title VI as reported in House: CR H4512-4514; text of Title VII as reported in House: CR H4515)
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: ORDER OF PROCEDURE - Mr. Wolf asked unanimous consent that, during further proceedings of H.R. 2862 in the Committee of the Whole and pursuant to H. Res. 314, the list of eligible amendments be limited to a list submitted to the desk. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 2862 as unfinished business.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: On motion that the Committee rise Agreed to by voice vote.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Mr. Wolf moved that the Committee rise.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Garrett (NJ) amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of amendments which had been debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Dreier amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Mollohan demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: EXTENSION OF DEBATE - By unanimous consent, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with an additional 8 minutes of debate on the Dreier amendment to be equally divided and controlled.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: DEBATE - By unanimous consent, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Dreier amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Stearns amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Stearns demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: DEBATE - By unanimous consent, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Stearns amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: DEBATE - By unanimous consent, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Jackson-Lee (TX) amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Baird amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Baird demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: DEBATE - By unanimous consent, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Baird amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Reichert amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Reichert demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: DEBATE - By unanimous consent, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 15 minutes of debate on the Reichert amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Velazquez amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Ms. Velazquez demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: DEBATE - By unanimous consent, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Velazquez amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Jackson-Lee amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Davis (IL) amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Issa amendment under the five-minute rule, pending reservation of a point of order.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Boswell amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Terry amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Terry demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: DEBATE - By unanimous consent, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 15 minutes of debate on the Terry amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Obey amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Obey demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: DEBATE - By unanimous consent, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 20 minutes of debate on the Obey amendment.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Obey amendment under the five-minute rule, pending reservation of a point of order.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 2862.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: The Speaker designated the Honorable Doc Hastings to act as Chairman of the Committee.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 314 and Rule XVIII.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2862 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. Measure will be read by paragraph. Bill is open to amendments.
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 314. (consideration: CR H4415-4472; text of Title I as reported in House: CR  H4437, H4449, H4455, H4457-4458, H4459-4460, H4461, H4463, CR 6/15/2005 H4494-4495)
action_date: 2005-06-14
text: Rule H. Res. 314 passed House.
action_date: 2005-06-13
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 314 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2862 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. Measure will be read by paragraph. Bill is open to amendments.
action_date: 2005-06-10
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 66.
action_date: 2005-06-10
text: The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 109-118, by Mr. Wolf.
action_date: 2005-06-10
text: The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 109-118, by Mr. Wolf.
action_date: 2005-06-10
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 109-108