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Federal Stimulus of Commercial Application of Energy Technology Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5659
Sponsor: Rep. Gordon, Bart [D-TN-6]
Introduced: 2006-06-21 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Building construction
Commercialization
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Economics and Public Finance
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Federal office buildings
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Revolving funds
Science, Technology, Communications
Technological innovations
Water Resources Development
Water conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: 
Federal Stimulus of Commercial Application of Energy Technology Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish the Innovative Energy Technologies Fund for Federal Buildings (the Fund) and to administer the Fund to enable federal agencies to demonstrate innovative energy technologies for retrofit or new construction of federal buildings and facilities. 
 
Allows federal agencies to apply to the Secretary for a loan for financing the demonstration of innovative energy technology projects and requires such agencies to repay the Fund from savings in energy, water, and other costs attributable to actions taken as a result of the project undertaken with the loan. Permits a federal agency, in addition to financing an innovative energy technology project, to use the loan amount to pay the costs of administration and proposal development and to acquire and operate equipment necessary to monitor and verify associated energy savings. Requires a federal agency to repay to the Fund the principal amount of the loan, plus interest at a rate determined by the Secretary. 
 
Requires a federal agency to submit specified annual reports to the Secretary with respect to the installation of an innovative energy technology project for which a loan is provided under this Act in an amount greater than $1 million until the date that final repayment of the loan is due. 
 
Requires the Secretary to transmit to Congress a report on the operations of the Fund and the total expenditures from the Fund to each federal agency. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Introduced in House
Empowerment Zone and Renewal Community Enhancement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5660
Sponsor: Rep. Alexander, Rodney [R-LA-5]
Introduced: 2006-06-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bonds
Boundaries
Building construction
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Depreciation and amortization
Economics and Public Finance
Enterprise zones
Federally-assisted loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Maintenance and repair
Office buildings
Poverty
Residence requirements
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax-exempt securities
Urban affairs
Urban renewal

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: 
Empowerment Zone and Renewal Community Enhancement Act of 2006 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to tax-preferred empowerment zones, enterprise communities, and renewal communities to: (1) extend the period of designation for empowerment zones and renewal communities through 2015; (2) provide a safe harbor standard for employee residency requirements in empowerment zones; (3) eliminate certain residency requirements for the empowerment zone employment tax credit; (4) grant authority to expand the boundaries of empowerment zones and enterprise communities; (5) allow carryovers of unused expensing allowances for enterprise zone businesses; (6) allow certain empowerment zone businesses to elect to receive payments in lieu of tax benefits; and (7) allow federal guarantees and tax exemptions for enterprise zone facility bonds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Introduced in House
Data Theft Prevention Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5661
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Corrine [D-FL-3]
Introduced: 2006-06-21 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Computer crimes
Data banks
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health information systems
Identification devices
Identity theft
Larceny
Medical records
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: 
Data Theft Prevention Act of 2006 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit: (1) the unauthorized viewing, use, downloading, or removal of any means of identification or individually identifiable health information contained in a federal database or the transfer of such information to another database; and (2) the use of such information to violate federal or state criminal law. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Introduced in House
Reduce Individuals' Dependence on Energy Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5662
Sponsor: Rep. Fitzpatrick, Michael G. [R-PA-8]
Introduced: 2006-06-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Mass rapid transit
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: 
Reduce Individuals' Dependence on Energy Act of 2006 or the RIDE Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a deduction from gross income for transportation expenses on federal, state, or local government mass transit facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Introduced in House
To penalize States that prohibit oil and gas exploration within their borders by denying them the use of any oil or natural gas produced domestically elsewhere.

Bill: 109-hr-5663
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2006-06-21 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Coastal zone
Energy development
Gas in submerged lands
Government Operations and Politics
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Natural gas
Petroleum
Petroleum engineering
Petroleum in submerged lands
Prospecting
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: 
Prohibits any state that does not allow exploration or production of oil or gas within its boundaries or within its contiguous coastal zones from receiving oil or gas produced in any other state in the United States or its contiguous coastal zone. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Introduced in House
American Falls Reservoir District Number 2 Conveyance Act

Bill: 109-hr-5665
Sponsor: Rep. Simpson, Michael K. [R-ID-2]
Introduced: 2006-06-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Concentration camps
Economics and Public Finance
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Idaho
Infrastructure
Japanese Americans
Land transfers
National monuments
Reservoirs
Water Resources Development
Water districts
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: 
American Falls Reservoir District Number 2 Conveyance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to convey all right, title, and interest in specified land to the: (1) American Falls Reservoir District No. 2 (District) located in Jerome, Lincoln, and Gooding Counties, Idaho; (2) city of Gooding; and (3) Idaho Department of Fish and Game. Requires the District to pay fair market value for the land. 
 
Relieves the United States of liability for damages of any kind relating to the land, unless they result from injury caused by negligence of the United States.
 
Requires the Director of the National Park Service to manage specified land as part of the Minidoka Internment National Monument.
 
Revokes the Department of Interior's previous orders that withdrew specified land from the Gooding Division of the Minidoka project and requires the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to manage the land. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2006-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2006-06-27
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Introduced in House
Southern Idaho Bureau of Reclamation Repayment Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5666
Sponsor: Rep. Simpson, Michael K. [R-ID-2]
Introduced: 2006-06-21 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Collection of accounts
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Idaho
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Irrigation districts
Landowners

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: 
Southern Idaho Bureau of Reclamation Repayment Act of 2006 - Authorizes any owner of land within the A&B Irrigation District in Idaho to repay at any time the construction costs of District project facilities that are allocated to such land. Provides that, upon full payment of such costs, the parcels shall not be subject to specified ownership and full-cost pricing limitations under federal reclamation law, for which the Secretary shall, upon request, provide the landowner a certificate.

action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Southern Idaho Bureau of Reclamation Repayment Act of 2006 - Authorizes any owner of land within the A&B Irrigation District in Idaho to repay at any time the construction costs of District project facilities that are allocated to such land. Provides that, upon full payment of such costs, the parcels shall not be subject to specified ownership and full-cost pricing limitations under federal reclamation law, for which the Secretary shall, upon request, provide the landowner a certificate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H8693)
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H8693)
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5666.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8693-9694)
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Mr. Radanovich moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Amadou Heinz Ly.

Bill: 109-hr-5668
Sponsor: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]
Introduced: 2006-06-21 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Provides for the relief of Amadou Heinz Ly.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase to $2,000 the amount of the Medal of Honor special pension under that title and to provide for payment of that pension to the surviving spouse of a deceased Medal of Honor recipient.

Bill: 109-hr-5669
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2006-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Commemorations
Congress
Congressional Medal of Honor
Families
Labor and Employment
Married people
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: 
Increases from $1,000 to $2,000 the monthly special pension paid to Medal of Honor recipients.
 
Provides for payment of such pension to the surviving spouse of a deceased recipient as long as the surviving spouse was married to the recipient: (1) for one year or more; or (2) for any period of time if a child was born of the marriage or was born to them before the marriage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the Cuban Adjustment Act, Public Law 89-732.

Bill: 109-hr-5670
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2006-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Caribbean area
Cuba
Immigrants
Latin America
Refugees
Right of asylum

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: 
Repeals the Cuban Adjustment Act (P.L. 89-732).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Long Term Care Security Act

Bill: 109-hr-5671
Sponsor: Rep. Bradley, Jeb [R-NH-1]
Introduced: 2006-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Health
Long-term care
Medical fees
Nursing homes
Soldiers' homes
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: 
Veterans Long Term Care Security Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay for nursing home care furnished in a non-Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) nursing home to any veteran in need of such care: (1) for a service-connected disability; or (2) who has a service-connected disability rated at 70 percent or more.
 
Directs the Secretary to furnish such drugs and medicines as ordered by a duly licensed physician for any veteran in need of such drugs and medicines: (1) for a service-connected disability; or (2) who has a service-connected disability rated at 50 percent or more.
 
Authorizes the Secretary, for three years after the enactment of this Act, to treat certain health facilities as state homes for purposes of eligibility for payments for care provided to veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Introduced in House
Criminal Restitution Improvement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5673
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2006-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Child sexual abuse
Civil actions and liability
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Compensation for victims of crime
Court records
Damages
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Evidence (Law)
Families
Financial statements
Forfeiture
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Health
Law
Liability (Law)
Liens
Losses
Medical fees
Probation
Profit
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Victims of crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: 
Criminal Restitution Improvement Act of 2006 - Amends federal criminal code restitution provisions to: (1) make restitution mandatory for federal crimes resulting in pecuniary loss to identifiable victims, including loss proximately resulting from such crimes; (2) expand the extent of such restitution to include the victim's cost of seeking and collecting restitution; (3) permit disclosure of presentence reports to victims of crime; (4) require courts to order immediate payment of restitution; (5) prohibit termination of probation for convicts with unsatisfied orders of restitution; (6) expand provisions ordering the forfeiture of profits from an offense to require the forfeiture of any profits made possible by the offense; and (7) expand the rights of victims of sexual offenses against children to recover civil damages.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Introduced in House
Protection Against Transmission of HIV for Women and Youth Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5674
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2006-06-22 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Condoms
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crimes against women
Criminal statistics
Economic assistance
Education
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Equality before the law
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Family planning and birth control
Health
Health education
Health surveys
Higher education
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Human rights
International cooperation
Labor and Employment
Law
Marriage
Maternal health services
Medical statistics
Nongovernmental organizations
Performance measurement
Preventive medicine
Rape
Right of property
Sexual abstinence
Small business
Social Welfare
Surveys
Women
Women's education
Women's employment
Women's health
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: 
Protection Against Transmission of HIV for Women and Youth Act of 2006 - States that it shall be U.S. policy to: (1) pursue a global HIV prevention strategy that emphasizes the needs of married and unmarried women and girls and addresses the factors that lead to gender disparities in HIV infection rates; and (2) balance funding for HIV prevention methods.
 
Directs the President to: (1) formulate and submit to the appropriate congressional committees, and make available to the public, a comprehensive and culturally appropriate global HIV prevention strategy that addresses the HIV vulnerability of married and unmarried women and girls and seeks to reduce the factors that lead to gender disparities in HIV infection rates; (2) ensure that the United States coordinates its overall HIV/AIDS policy and programs with foreign governments, international organizations, other donor countries, and indigenous organizations; (3) provide clear guidance to U.S. field missions; and (4) implement a monitoring and evaluation system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Introduced in House
To authorize appropriate action if negotiations with Japan to allow the resumption of United States beef exports are not successful, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-5675
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Dennis R. [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2006-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
East Asia
Exports
Import restrictions
Imports
Japan
Meat
Tariff
Trade negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: 
Directs: (1) the U.S. Trade Representative to certify to Congress by August 31, 2006, that Japan is no longer prohibiting the importation of U.S. beef; (2) the Secretary of the Treasury, if such certification is not made, to impose additional tariffs (which shall continue until the certification is submitted to Congress) on Japan by September 30, 2006; and (3) the Secretary of Agriculture to begin negotiations with Japan to end such beef import prohibitions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Introduced in House
Federal Election Administration Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5676
Sponsor: Rep. Shays, Christopher [R-CT-4]
Introduced: 2006-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Advice and consent of the Senate
Authorization
Campaign funds
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Collection of accounts
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional elections
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Directories
Economics and Public Finance
Election administration
Election candidates
Election fraud
Evidence (Law)
Executive reorganization
Federal Election Commission
Federal budgets
Federal employees
Federal officials
Fines (Penalties)
Freedom of association
Freedom of speech
Government attorneys
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Grievance procedures
Independent regulatory commissions
Injunctions
Inspectors general
Judicial review
Law
Legislation
Liability (Law)
Limitation of actions
Presidential appointments
Presidential elections
Public records
Right of privacy
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Subpoena
Transfer of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: 
Federal Election Administration Act of 2006 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to replace the Federal Election Commission with the Federal Election Administration (FEA) as an independent establishment to enforce federal campaign finance laws.
 
Requires enforcement proceedings for violations of campaign finance laws to be conducted before administrative law judges. Allows any final determination made by an administrative law judge to be appealed to the FEA for final agency action, subject to judicial review. Authorizes the FEA to impose civil penalties, issue cease-and-desist orders, and report apparent criminal violations to the appropriate law enforcement authorities. Allows the FEA to conduct audits and field examinations of campaign committees. Prescribes criminal penalties for violations.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to examine and report to Congress on the Attorney General's enforcement of the criminal provisions of federal campaign finance laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Introduced in House