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Mohawk River Hydroelectric Projects Licensing Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2070
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2005-11-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Hydroelectric power
Law
Licenses
New York State
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: 
Mohawk River Hydroelectric Projects Licensing Act of 2005 - Prohibits the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) from issuing a new license for a hydroelectric project on the Mohawk River in New York if the project has been operating under annual licenses for 10 or more years, unless FERC: (1) issues a public notice that it will accept other valid license applications to develop the project works or water resource; and (2) approves a license application, according to the requirements of this Act, if other valid license applications are submitted.
 
Sets forth processing and approval procedures.
 
Requires any new power license issued for such project to include the same license conditions relating to the use of affected waters as provided in the license for a specified Potomac Light & Power Company Project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-781.
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Community and Rural Medical Residency Preservation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2071
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2005-11-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Education
Higher education
Hospital rates
Medical education
Medical residents
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: 
Community and Rural Medical Residency Preservation Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the counting of time spent in outpatient settings by full-time-equivalent residents in approved medical residency training programs, for purposes of indirect medical education and direct graduate medical education payments. Defines all, or substantially all, of the costs for the training program in that nonhospital setting as the residents' stipends and benefits and other costs, if any, as determined by the training hospital and the entity (wholly owned or operated by the hospital) operating the nonhospital setting. Declares that the hospital is not required to pay the entity any amounts other than those determined by the hospital and the entity in order for the hospital to be considered to have incurred all, or substantially all, of the costs for the training program in that setting.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13377)
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13377, S13377-13378)
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Nevada Mining Townsite Conveyance Act

Bill: 109-s-2072
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2005-11-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Claims
Commemorations
Historic sites
History
Land transfers
Law
Mining claims
Nevada
Residence requirements

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: 
Nevada Mining Townsite Conveyance Act - Sets forth procedures for the conveyance of certain mining townsites. Defines a mining townsite as real property in the counties of Esmeralda and Nye, Nevada, that is owned by the federal government but upon which improvements were constructed because of a mining operation on or near the property, if such improvements were undertaken based on the belief that: (1) the property had been or would be acquired by the entity operating the mine; or (2) the person who made the improvement had a valid claim for acquiring the property.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Land Management, to convey, without consideration, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to certain mining townsites to the county in which each site is located. Directs, if a valid interest is proven in a site under Nevada law, the county receiving such site to reconvey the property to the person or persons with such interest. 
Provides for the protection of historic and cultural resources on conveyed townsites. Subjects conveyances under this Act to valid existing rights.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13379)
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 13378-13379)
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Home Lead Safety Tax Credit Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2073
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2005-11-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Child safety
Costs
Environmental Protection
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Home repair and improvement
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Lead
Paints and varnishes
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tax credits
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: 
Home Lead Safety Tax Credit Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 50 percent of the costs of reducing lead hazards in U.S. homes built before 1960 in which certain low-income children less than six years of age and women of child-bearing age reside. Allows a maximum credit of $3,000 for lead abatement costs and $1,000 for the cost of interim lead control measures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13380-13381)
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13379-13380)
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicaid Indian Health Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2074
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2005-11-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Coinsurance
Collection of accounts
Economics and Public Finance
Estates (Law)
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health maintenance organizations
Indian medical care
Insurance premiums
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medical fees
Minorities
Native Americans
Social Welfare
State government-Indian relations
Welfare eligibility
Welfare waivers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: 
Medicaid Indian Health Act of 2005 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to: (1) apply 100% of the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) to services furnished to an Indian by an urban Indian health program; (2) prohibit the imposition of premiums, deductibles, copayments, and other cost-sharing on Indians; (3) prohibit recovery against estates of Indians; (4) require consultation with Indian tribes prior to approval of &quot;Section 115&quot; waivers; (5) provide for the treatment of medical expenses paid by or on behalf of an Indian by an Indian health program as medical care costs for purposes of determining medically needy eligibility; and (6) give states the option to exempt Indians from reductions in eligibility or benefits.
 
Requires a Medicaid managed care organization contracting with an Indian Health Service (IHS) facility or program that is not a federally-qualified health center or a rural health clinic to provide payment at the highest level and amount that it would make for the services if they were furnished by a provider that is not an IHS facility or program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13384-13385)
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13381-13384, S13385-13386)
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Introduced in Senate
DREAM Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2075
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-11-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional investigations
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Deportation
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Federal aid to education
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Illegal aliens
Immigrant education
Labor and Employment
Law
Naturalization
Residence requirements
Student employment
Student loan funds
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: 
Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act of 2005 or the DREAM Act of 2005 - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to repeal the denial of an unlawful alien's eligibility for higher education benefits based on state residence unless a U.S. national is similarly eligible without regard to such state residence.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to cancel the removal of, and adjust to conditional permanent resident status, an alien who: (1) entered the United States prior to his or her sixteenth birthday, and has been present in the United States for at least five years immediately preceding enactment of this Act; (2) is a person of good moral character; (3) is not inadmissible or deportable under specified grounds of the Immigration and Nationality Act; (4) at the time of application, has been admitted to an institution of higher education, or has earned a high school or equivalent diploma; and (5) from the age of 16 and older, has never been under a final order of exclusion, deportation, or removal.
 
Sets forth the conditions for conditional permanent resident status, including: (1) termination of status for violation of this Act; and (2) removal of conditional status to permanent status.
 
Authorizes an alien who has satisfied the appropriate requirements prior to enactment of this Act to petition the Secretary for conditional permanent resident status. 
 
Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) exclusive jurisdiction; (2) penalties for false application statements; (3) confidentiality; (4) fee prohibitions; (5) higher education assistance; and (6) a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report respecting the number of aliens adjusted under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13386-13388)
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Assistant United States Attorney Retirement Benefit Equity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2076
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2005-11-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil service retirement
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Justice
Federal employees
Government attorneys
Government paperwork
Labor and Employment
Law
Public prosecutors

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: 
Assistant United States Attorney Retirement Benefit Equity Act of 2005 - Grants an assistant United States attorney the same civil service retirement benefits as a law enforcement officer, except as specified. 
 
Includes within the definition of &quot;assistant United States attorney&quot; any other attorney employed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) occupying a position designated by the Attorney General upon finding that the position: (1) involves routine employee responsibilities that are substantially similar to those of assistant U.S. attorneys; and (2) is critical to DOJ's successful accomplishment of an important mission.
 
Sets forth provisions regarding the designation of attorneys as assistant U.S. attorneys. Requires DOJ to take measures reasonably designed to provide notice to incumbent assistant U.S. attorneys on their election rights and on the effects of making or not making a timely election.
 
Allows an incumbent to elect, for all purposes, to be treated in accordance with this Act or to be treated as if this Act had never been enacted. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) time limits for making an election; (2) retroactive effects; and (3) individual contributions for prior service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-27
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce,  and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13388-13389)
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13388)
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Tax Relief for Private Forest Landowners Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2077
Sponsor: Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL]
Introduced: 2005-11-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Farm income
Income tax
Private forests
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tax administration
Timber sales

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: 
Tax Relief for Private Forest Landowners Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow income averaging for individuals who sell or exchange timber, on the same basis as is currently allowed for individuals engaged in a farming or fishing business.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Forests for Future Generations Act

Bill: 109-s-2079
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2005-11-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Disaster relief
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Emergency Management
Employee training
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental research
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fire prevention
Forest conservation
Forest ecology
Forest fires
Forest health
Forest management
Forest products
Forest roads
Forestry research
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Indian lands
Judicial review
Labor and Employment
Land use
Landscape protection
Law
Maintenance and repair
Mediation
Minorities
National forests
Public meetings
Reforestation
Science, Technology, Communications
Timber sales
Trees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: 
 Forests for Future Generations Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to develop research protocols for collecting and analyzing scientific information about the effectiveness and ecological impacts of catastrophic event recovery projects and emergency stabilization treatments undertaken as part of a burned area emergency response to increase the long-term benefits of management activities and to decrease short-term impacts. Requires such Secretaries to enter into at least one cooperative agreement with one land-grant college or university in each Forest Service Region to form forest health partnerships to utilize the education, research, and outreach capacity of land-grant colleges and universities to address the recovery of forested land after a catastrophic event. 
 
Requires such Secretaries to conduct catastrophic event recovery evaluations of damaged federal lands. 
 
Directs such Secretaries to prepare a list of pre-approved management practices that may be immediately implemented as part of catastrophic event recovery projects or catastrophic event research projects. 
 
 Requires determinations of whether or not to: (1) use any pre-approved management practices that can be immediately implemented; and (2) develop and carry out a recovery or research project or part of such a project using the alternative arrangements authorized by this Act. 
 
Directs such Secretaries to clarify agency-wide guidance regarding reforestation in response to catastrophic events. 
 
Provides for assistance to restore landscapes and communities affected by catastrophic events. 
 
Directs such Secretaries to establish a community protection and recovery fund for each recovery project. 
 
Provides for the availability and use of pre-approved management practices and alternative arrangements on National Forest experimental forests.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-11-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Equal Access to Medicare Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2080
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2005-12-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Commerce
Consumer protection
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Law
Medical fees
Medical personnel
Medicare
Midwives
Nurse practitioners
Nurses
Physicians
Physicians' assistants
Psychologists
Restrictive trade practices
Social Welfare
Social work
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-12
text: 
Equal Access to Medicare Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prohibit charging membership or other incidental fees, or requiring purchase of items or services not covered by Medicare as a prerequisite for provision of a Medicare-covered item or service to a Medicare beneficiary. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13453)
action_date: 2005-12-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13453)
action_date: 2005-12-12
text: Introduced in Senate
ATV Safety Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-2081
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2005-12-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
All terrain vehicles
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Consumer protection
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Motor vehicle safety
Product safety
Standards
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-12
text: 
ATV Safety Act of 2005 - Makes it unlawful, until the effective date of any Consumer Product Safety Commission mandatory rule applicable to all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), for a manufacturer or distributor to distribute in commerce certain new assembled or unassembled ATVs unless they comply with certain ATV product safety standards.
 
Deems a violation of this Act to be a failure to comply with a consumer product safety rule under the Consumer Product Safety Act, subject to all of the penalties and remedies of that Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2005-12-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the USA PATRIOT ACT to extend the sunset of certain provisions of that Act and the lone wolf provision of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to March 31, 2006.

Bill: 109-s-2082
Sponsor: Sen. Sununu, John E. [R-NH]
Introduced: 2005-12-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Electronic surveillance
Foreign agents
International Affairs
Law
Sunset legislation
Terrorism
Warrants (Law)

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-12
text: 
Amends the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001 to extend from December 31, 2005, to March 31, 2006, provisions of that Act and the &quot;lone wolf&quot; provision of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. (The lone wolf provision redefined &quot;agent of a foreign power&quot; to permit issuance of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) orders targeting terrorists without a showing that they are members of a terrorist group or agents of such a group or of any other foreign power.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13454)
action_date: 2005-12-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration) from removing any item from the current list of items prohibited from being carried aboard a passenger aircraft.

Bill: 109-s-2083
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2005-12-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Airline passenger traffic
Aviation safety
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-12
text: 
Prohibits the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration) from modifying the list of items prohibited from being carried aboard a passenger aircraft operated by a domestic or foreign air carrier in order to permit any item on the list as of December 1, 2005, to be carried aboard such an aircraft.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2005-12-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Portable Generator Safety Act

Bill: 109-s-2084
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2005-12-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Carbon monoxide
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Electric power production
Energy
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health warnings
Independent regulatory commissions
Labeling
Law
Product safety
Signs and symbols
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-13
text: 
Portable Generator Safety Act - Instructs the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate regulations requiring that every portable generator sold to the public for purposes other than resale be equipped with an interlock safety device that detects the level of carbon monoxide in the areas surrounding the generator and automatically turns off power to it before the level of carbon monoxide is capable of causing serious bodily injury or death to people.
 
Requries such regulations also to require that every such portable generator: (1) prominently display a permanently affixed warning label regarding the carbon monoxide hazard posed by its incorrect use, including the word &quot;DANGER&quot; printed in a large font; and (2) have affixed to it a large pictogram which clearly states &quot;POISONOUS GAS&quot; and visually depicts the harmful effects of breathing carbon monoxide.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S13503-13504)
action_date: 2005-12-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13503)
action_date: 2005-12-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide a supplemental payment to assist agricultural producers in mitigating increasing input costs, including energy and fertilizer costs.

Bill: 109-s-2085
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2005-12-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural economics
Agricultural subsidies
Energy
Energy prices
Fertilizers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-13
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make a supplemental payment (equal to the direct payment that the producer received for a 2005 crop) to assist agricultural producers in mitigating increasing input costs, including energy and fertilizer costs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-12-13
text: Introduced in Senate