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Domestic Violence Courts Assistance Act

Bill: 109-hr-3920
Sponsor: Rep. Solis, Hilda L. [D-CA-32]
Introduced: 2005-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Courts of special jurisdiction
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Family violence
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Judges
Judicial officers
Lawyers
Legal education
Public prosecutors
Social Welfare
Translating and interpreting
Wife abuse
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: 
Domestic Violence Courts Assistance Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (relating to grants to combat violent crimes against women) to allow such grants to be used to provide the resources to establish and maintain a court system dedicated to the adjudication of domestic violence cases.
 
Requires a state to certify that at least 5% of grant funds shall be allocated for specialized domestic violence courts. 
Amends the State Justice Institute Act of 1984 to allow funds available pursuant to grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts awarded under the Act to be used to: (1) implement and evaluate court-based approaches to adjudicating domestic violence cases in state courts; and (2) provide technical assistance to state courts to facilitate the development and adoption of improved practices in such adjudication.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Domestic Violence Prevention, Education, and Awareness Act

Bill: 109-hr-3921
Sponsor: Rep. Solis, Hilda L. [D-CA-32]
Introduced: 2005-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crime prevention
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family violence
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Minorities
Public service advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: 
Domestic Violence Prevention, Education, and Awareness Act - Requires the Attorney General, acting through the Violence Against Women Office, to make grants to public or private nonprofit entities, states, and Indian tribes and tribal organizations to carry out public information campaigns to educate racial and ethnic minority communities and immigrant communities about domestic violence, including its effects, methods of preventing or reducing it, and available services to such victims.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Flood Insurance Buy-In Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3922
Sponsor: Rep. Taylor, Gene [D-MS-4]
Introduced: 2005-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Alabama
Claims
Disaster insurance
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Flood damage prevention
Floods
Florida
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Insurance premiums
Losses
Louisiana
Mississippi
Texas
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: 
 Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Flood Insurance Buy-In Act of 2005 - Establishes a temporary flood insurance buy-in program. Instructs the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to make flood insurance coverage available under such program for eligible structures (but not their contents) for flooding resulting from Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita. Limits eligibility to structures located in an area not subject to the mandatory purchase requirements of the national flood insurance program, and which were not covered by such insurance at the time of the hurricanes. Prescribes a formula for determination of premiums, which may be paid by deduction from the amount of any claims payable under coverage by the buy-in program.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4502-4503)
action_date: 2006-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-12-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H11242)
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Refinery Streamlined Permitting Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3923
Sponsor: Rep. Tiahrt, Todd [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2005-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Delegation of powers
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Licenses
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Regulatory impact statements

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: 
Refinery Streamlined Permitting Act of 2005 - Instructs the Secretary of Energy to offer assistance to enable states to assign responsibilities delegated to them regarding construction or expansion of a petroleum refining facility in a coordinated and expeditious manner.
 
Requires all federal and state agencies, to which permitting responsibilities for petroleum refining facilities have been delegated, to enter into a memorandum of understanding about facility construction or expansion.
 
Requires an agency to: (1) prepare and submit a Statement of Energy Effects to the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, for each proposed significant energy action; and (2) publish such Statement, or a summary of it, in each related Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and in any resulting Final Rule.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Refinery Expansion Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3924
Sponsor: Rep. Tiahrt, Todd [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2005-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Energy
Energy supplies
Gas pipelines
Income tax
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Petroleum pipelines
Petroleum refineries
Petroleum storage
Tax administration
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: 
Refinery Expansion Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) revise the tax deduction for certain liquid fuels refinery property to allow expensing of the entire cost of such property if the property allows for a production capacity increase of five percent or more on an average daily basis; (2) allow, in lieu of such expensing deduction, a five-year recovery period for the depreciation of such refinery property; (3) allow a seven-year recovery period for the depreciation of certain oil and gas distribution lines; and (4) allow a five-year recovery period for the depreciation of certain petroleum storage facilities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Anti-Cronyism and Public Safety Act

Bill: 109-hr-3925
Sponsor: Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2005-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Conflict of interests
Crime and Law Enforcement
Customs administration
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Employee selection
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federal officials
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government ethics
Hazardous wastes
Health
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Immigration
Labor and Employment
Leadership
Lobbying
Presidential appointments
Public health
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: 
Anti-Cronyism and Public Safety Act - Prohibits specified public safety positions from being held by any political appointee unless such individual: (1) has academic, management, and leadership credentials relevant to the position; (2) has a superior record of achievement in one or more areas relevant to the position; (3) has training and expertise in one or more areas relevant to the position; and (4) has not, within the prior two-year period, been a lobbyist for any entity or other client that is subject to the authority of the agency within which such individual would serve.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit certain transfers or assignments of franchises, and to prohibit certain fixing or maintaining of motor fuel prices, under the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act.

Bill: 109-hr-3926
Sponsor: Rep. Wynn, Albert Russell [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2005-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Contracts
Energy
Energy prices
Franchises (Retail trade)
Landlord and tenant
Law
Leases
Legal fees
Motor vehicles
Petroleum industry
Price fixing
Service stations
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Amends the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act to prohibit a franchisor of leased marketing premises from transferring or assigning its interest in the franchise during the term of the franchise unless the franchisor, at least 45 days before the proposed transfer or assignment, has first: (1) made a bona fide offer to the franchisee to sell, transfer, or assign to the franchisee the franchisor's interests in the premises; or (2) offered the right of first refusal (of at least 45 days' duration) to the franchisee regarding an offer made by another to acquire the franchisor's interests in the premises. 
Declares null, void, and unenforceable a franchise or marketing agreement that, in the event of litigation, calls for payment by either party of the prevailing party's legal expenses.
States that it shall be a violation of the Act for a refiner or distributor to fix or maintain motor fuel retail prices at a retail outlet supplied by that refiner or distributor, unless the refiner or distributor also operates such outlet.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Sung Hee Kim.

Bill: 109-hr-3927
Sponsor: Rep. Linder, John [R-GA-7]
Introduced: 2005-09-27 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: 
Makes Sung Hee Kim eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of a lawful permanent resident of the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act, upon payment of the required visa fees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Introduced in House
Wood Stove Replacement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3928
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Tim [R-PA-18]
Introduced: 2005-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air pollution control
Energy
Environmental Protection
Heating
Home repair and improvement
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Smog
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: 
The Wood Stove Replacement Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers a tax credit, up to $500, for the cost of replacing a residential wood stove with one that complies with current Environmental Protection Agency standards. Terminates such credit after 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1975)
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Universal Education Act

Bill: 109-hr-3930
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2005-09-28 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Child health
Child nutrition
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Collective bargaining
Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural relations
Curricula
Democracy
Developing countries
Disabled
Economic assistance
Economic growth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee rights
Environmental Protection
Equality before the law
Ethnic relations
European Union
Executive reorganization
Families
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Free enterprise
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Government ethics
Health
Human rights
Infant mortality
Inspectors general
International cooperation
Labor and Employment
Labor unions
Law
Minorities
Misconduct in office
Pluralism (Social sciences)
Poverty
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public corruption
Public health
Religion
Religious liberty
Right of property
Rule of law
Social Welfare
Special education
Sustainable development
Tax exemption
Taxation
Treaties
Women
Women's education
Women's health
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: 
Universal Education Act - Establishes the Universal Education Corporation to promote global education reform.
 
Authorizes the Corporation's Board of Directors, through its Chief Executive Officer, to provide assistance for eligible countries that enter into Universal Education Compacts with the United States. Allows such assistance to be in the form of grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts to or with national, regional, or local governments or nongovernmental organizations or private entities; but prohibits loan assistance.
 
Sets forth criteria for: (1) low-income countries or lower-middle-income countries to be candidate countries; (2) the Board's determination that a candidate country is an eligible country; and (3) elements of Compacts.
 
Requires the U.S. government, in entering into a Compact, to seek to ensure that the eligible country's government: (1) considers local perspectives of that country's rural and urban poor, including women; and (2) consults with private and voluntary organizations, the business community, and other donors in that country.

Requires the Corporation to coordinate its activities with those of the Agency for International Development (AID). Directs the AID Administrator to seek to ensure that appropriate AID programs play a primary role in preparing candidate countries to become eligible countries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Downed Animal Protection Act

Bill: 109-hr-3931
Sponsor: Rep. Ackerman, Gary L. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2005-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural industries
Animal diseases
Animals
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Agriculture
Euthanasia
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Labeling
Law
Livestock
Meat inspection
Meat packing industry
Protection of animals
Veterinary medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: 
Downed Animal Protection Act - States that it is U.S. policy that all nonambulatory livestock in interstate and foreign commerce be immediately and humanely euthanized when such livestock become nonambulatory. 
 
Amends the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act of 1958 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate regulations providing for the humane treatment, handling, and disposition of nonambulatory livestock by a covered entity, including a requirement that nonambulatory livestock be humanely euthanized. 
 
Requires an entity to: (1) humanely euthanize nonambulatory livestock (while not limiting the Secretary's ability to test nonambulatory livestock for disease, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy); and (2) not move nonambulatory livestock while such livestock is conscious, and ensure that such livestock remains unconscious until death.
 
Prohibits an inspector at an establishment covered by the Federal Meat Inspection Act to pass nonambulatory livestock, carcass, or carcass parts through inspection. Requires an inspector or other employee at such establishment to label such material as &quot;inspected and condemned.&quot;
 
Defines "covered entity," &quot;nonambulatory livestock,&quot; and "humanely euthanize." 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Human Cloning Ban Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3932
Sponsor: Rep. Bono, Mary [R-CA-45]
Introduced: 2005-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cloning
Crime and Law Enforcement
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Genetic research
Genetics
Human embryology
Import restrictions
Law
Medical ethics
Medical research
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: 
Human Cloning Ban Act of 2005 - Prohibits any person or private or public legal entity from: (1) conducting or attempting to conduct human cloning; (2) shipping the product of nuclear transplantation in interstate or foreign commerce for the purpose of human cloning; or (3) exporting to a foreign country an unfertilized blastocyst if such country does not prohibit human cloning. Sets forth criminal and civil penalties for violations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Suburban and Community Forestry and Open Space Program Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3933
Sponsor: Rep. Fitzpatrick, Michael G. [R-PA-8]
Introduced: 2005-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Citizen participation
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Conservation easements
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental protection groups
Federal-state relations
Forest conservation
Forest products
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Labor and Employment
Land banking
Land transfers
Land use
Landscape protection
Nonprofit organizations
Open space lands
Outdoor recreation
Private forests
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Suburbs
Sustainable forestry
Urban affairs
Urban growth
Water Resources Development
Watersheds
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Suburban and Community Forestry and Open Space Program Act of 2005 - Amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to establish in the Forest Service the Suburban and Community Forestry and Open Space Program, which shall provide cost-share grants to preserve private forest land, contain suburban sprawl, and support value-added forest product industries in States in which less than 25 percent of the land is owned by the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Hurricane Relief Bonds Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3935
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Harold [R-KY-5]
Introduced: 2005-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Alabama
Disaster relief
Displaced persons
Emergency Management
Floods
Florida
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Louisiana
Mississippi
Savings bonds
Texas
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: 
Hurricane Relief Bonds Act of 2005 - Amends federal money and finance law to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to designate one or more series of savings bonds or certificates issued as Hurricane Relief Bonds in response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 and the subsequent flooding and displacement of residents along the Gulf Coast.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Introduced in House
To include dehydroepiandrosterone as an anabolic steroid.

Bill: 109-hr-3937
Sponsor: Rep. Sweeney, John E. [R-NY-20]
Introduced: 2005-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Sports and Recreation
Steroids

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: 
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to include dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) within the definition of &quot;anabolic steroid.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Entrepreneur Soldiers Empowerment Act

Bill: 109-hr-3939
Sponsor: Rep. Akin, W. Todd [R-MO-2]
Introduced: 2005-09-29 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Business education
Disabled
Entrepreneurs
Executive reorganization
Families
Family services
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Mentoring
National Guard
Small Business Administration
Small business
Social Welfare
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' employment
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: 
Entrepreneur Soldiers Empowerment Act - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, acting through the Associate Administrator for Veterans Business Development, to establish: (1) at least one Veterans Business Outreach Center in each geographic region; and (2) a Technical and Mentoring Assistance Committee in each District Office service location where no such Center has been established.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Introduced in House