hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
True Competition Act

Bill: 109-s-1425
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2005-07-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Airline passenger traffic
Airports
Infrastructure
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: 
True Competition Act - Makes Love Field airport, in Dallas, Texas, ineligible to hold an airport operating certificate (effectively, terminating scheduled passenger air service to such airport).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8489-8490)
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Drinking Water Security Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1426
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2005-07-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Biological warfare
Chemical warfare
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental monitoring
Environmental technology
Federal aid to water pollution control
Infrastructure
Nuclear terrorism
Potable water
Radioactive pollution
Science, Technology, Communications
Technology assessment
Terrorism
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: 
Drinking Water Security Act of 2005 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to report to Congress on progress in and impediments to implementing methods to prevent, detect, and respond to the intentional introduction of chemical, biological or radiological contaminants into community water systems. Directs the Administrator to develop and carry out an implementation plan for FY2006-FY2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8490)
action_date: 2005-07-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Marcela Silva do Nascimento.

Bill: 109-s-1427
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2005-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: 
Declares Marcela Silva do Nascimento eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of a lawful permanent resident under the Immigration and Nationality Act, upon payment of the required visa fees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Business With Terrorists Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1428
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Affiliated corporations
Alien property
Aliens
American investments
Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporate divestiture
Crime and Law Enforcement
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Independent regulatory commissions
Information disclosure (Securities law)
International Affairs
Investments
Law
Sanctions (International law)
Securities and Exchange Commission
Securities regulation
State-sponsored terrorism
Subsidiary corporations
Terrorism
Trading with the enemy

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: 
Stop Business With Terrorists Act of 2005 - States that, in the case of a person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States that is prohibited from engaging in a transaction with a foreign person, such prohibition shall also apply to: (1) each subsidiary or affiliate of the person so prohibited; and (2) any other entity that is controlled in fact by that person. Prohibits such a person from controlling in fact any foreign person who is engaged in such a transaction whether or not the foreign person is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Defines as a person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States: (1) a citizen or resident of the United States; (2) a person actually within the United States; (3) a corporation, partnership, or other organization or entity organized under the laws of the United States or any state, territory, or possession thereof; (4) a corporation, partnership, or other organization owned or controlled in fact by a person or entity described in (1) or (3).
 
Makes the prohibition applicable in any case in which: (1) the President takes action under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act or the Trading With the Enemy Act to prohibit a person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States from engaging in a transaction with a foreign person; or (2) the Secretary of State has determined that the government of a country that has jurisdiction over a foreign person has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism. Allows a subject person 90 days to divest or terminate the prohibited business with the foreign person. Requires the President to publish a list of foreign persons under sanction.
 
Requires the Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control to notify Congress if any sanction is imposed by such Office as a result of an investigation.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that investors and the public should be informed of activities engaged in by a person that may threaten the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Access to Education for Students Who Are Homeless or in Foster Care Act

Bill: 109-s-1429
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2005-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Arts, Culture, Religion
Child abuse
Child welfare
Community organization
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Educational counseling
Electronic data interchange
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Mentoring
Runaway children
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student aid
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: 
Improving Access to Education for Students Who Are Homeless or in Foster Care Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to include as independent students, for purposes of student financial assistance need analysis, students who: (1) are (or were until age 18) in foster care; or (2) are homeless and unaccompanied. Revises the dependency override process, and applications for independence determinations for students in special circumstances. 

 Includes students who are homeless or in foster care as eligible for certain HEA early outreach and student services programs.

Directs the Secretary of Education to award grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements, to partnerships of specified entities, for demonstration projects for highly mobile students to increase their secondary school success and graduation rate and their higher education enrollment and success.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8560-8562)
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8560)
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide loan forgiveness to social workers who work for child protective agencies.

Bill: 109-s-1430
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2005-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child safety
Child welfare
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Higher education
Interest
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Social work
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to carry out a demonstration program of student loan forgiveness for child welfare workers employed by child protection agencies. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8562-8564)
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide loan forgiveness for attorneys who represent low-income families or individuals involved in the family or domestic relations court system.

Bill: 109-s-1431
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2005-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Adoption
Child abuse
Crime and Law Enforcement
Families
Family courts
Government attorneys
Higher education
Juvenile delinquency
Law
Lawyers
Legal aid
Legal education
Nonprofit organizations
Paternity
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a demonstration program of student loan forgiveness for highly qualified attorneys who: (1) work for state or local government, or nonprofit private, entities on behalf of low-income families or individuals in the family or domestic relations court system; and (2) have trained and worked in areas including juvenile justice, truancy, child abuse or neglect, adoption, domestic relations, child support, paternity, or others which state law determines to be in the field of family or domestic relations law. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8562-8564)
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Paul Wellstone Early Educator Loan Forgiveness Act

Bill: 109-s-1432
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2005-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Higher education
Licenses
Preschool education
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: 
Paul Wellstone Early Educator Loan Forgiveness Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise the student loan forgiveness program for child care providers to include preschool teachers. Requires such teachers to: (1) have received at least an associate's degree, and be working toward or have already received a bachelor's degree, in early childhood education; and (2) work for an eligible preschool program provider. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8562-8564)
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Ready To Educate All Children Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1433
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2005-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: College teachers
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational innovations
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Mentoring
Nonprofit organizations
Rural education
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher salaries
Teacher supply and demand
Teaching
Urban affairs
Urban education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: 
Ready to Educate All Children Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award competitive matching grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) to establish partnerships with high poverty local educational agencies or high poverty schools (local partners) to establish or enhance a clinically-based elementary or secondary school teacher training program. 
 
Requires grant priority to be given to an IHE, which is in partnership with a nonprofit organization that is a teacher union or group representing teachers in a school, and that proposes to establish a track for hiring teachers in urban or rural high need schools participating in the partnership prior to July 1 of an academic year.
 
Requires an IHE receiving such a grant to: (1) establish a partnership with a local partner to establish or enhance such a program; (2) facilitate a partnership among the IHE's departments to ensure that future teachers are prepared to teach; and (3) implement a project-based assessment. Requires such IHE also to use grant funds for at least three activities listed.
Makes a student who participates in a program funded under this Act eligible for student assistance under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 during the student's fifth year of study for a teaching degree (if such clinically-based program is a teaching-degree study requirement).

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8562-8564)
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Master Teacher Scholarship Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1434
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2005-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Disabled
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Graduate education
Higher education
Language and languages
Mathematics
Mentoring
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Special education
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: 
Master Teacher Scholarship Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to teacher preparation programs (schools of education at institutions of higher education) to award scholarships to assist eligible teachers in obtaining a graduate level degree from such programs.
 
Makes eligible for such scholarships any teachers who: (1) teach elementary or secondary school special education or teach middle or secondary school mathematics, science, or foreign languages; (2) are employed by a local education agency (LEA) that serves a school qualifying for teacher Perkins loan cancellation, and that is in partnership with the teacher preparation program; and (3) agree to teach, for five years after receiving the degree, at the school they previously taught or one designated by the LEA, and to mentor a novice teacher in the LEA for two years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8562-8564)
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Collaborative Agreements to Recruit Educators (CARE) Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1435
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2005-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational counseling
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Indian education
Mentoring
Minorities
Rural education
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student aid
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Urban affairs
Urban education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: 
Collaborative Agreements to Recruit Educators (CARE) Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) to establish partnerships with low-income schools to establish programs that promote students' graduation from secondary school and completion of postsecondary education degrees.

Includes among required uses of grant funds: (1) mentoring or tutoring; (2) scholarships; (3) counseling and information on college admissions and student aid; and (4) lessons and workshops at the IHE or the low-income school.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8562-8564)
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Campus-Based Underage Alcohol Use Reduction Act

Bill: 109-s-1436
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2005-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Alcohol and youth
Alcoholism
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Social Welfare
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: 
Campus-Based Underage Alcohol Use Reduction Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award grants to reduce the rate of underage alcohol use and binge drinking among students at institutions of higher education (IHEs).

Makes states, IHEs, or nonprofit entities eligible for such grants. Requires grantees to: (1) enhance or build a statewide coalition; (2) target underage students in the state; (3) ensure statewide coalition movement toward program achievement indicators; (4) work with state agencies on substance abuse prevention and education; and (5) engage in outreach.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8562-8564)
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Bioterror and Pandemic Preparedness Protection Act

Bill: 109-s-1437
Sponsor: Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH]
Introduced: 2005-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Antibiotics
Biological warfare
Chemical warfare
Civil actions and liability
Claims
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Justice
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Drugs
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Epidemics
Evidence (Law)
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Governmental investigations
Judicial review
Law
Medical malpractice
Nuclear terrorism
Products liability
Terrorism
Vaccines

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: 
Bioterror and Pandemic Preparedness Protection Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish an exclusive federal cause of action for all claims relating to a qualified pandemic or epidemic product or a security countermeasure. 
 
Restricts all causes of action for such claims against a manufacturer, distributor, or health care provider and instead provides for sole and exclusive action against the United States. Gives jurisdiction over such an action to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
 
Establishes a rebuttable presumption of immunity for the federal government in any such action concerning: (1) a security countermeasure that has been procured for the National Strategic Stockpile; (2) a qualified pandemic or epidemic product that has been procured by the Secretary of Health and Human Services; or (3) a security countermeasure or designated qualified pandemic or epidemic product relating to an actual or potential public health emergency.
 
Allows a party to petition the Secretary to investigate claims against a manufacturer, distributor, dispenser, or heath care provider. Disallows judicial review of the Secretary's decision as to whether to undertake such an investigation.
 
Declares that the immunity presumption shall be overcome by a determination by the Secretary, by finding clear and convincing evidence, that the manufacturer, distributor, or health care provider intentionally or with willful disregard violated the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act or this Act and that such violation: (1) caused the product to present a significant health risk; and (2) proximately caused the injury alleged by the petitioner.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Comprehensive Enforcement and Immigration Reform Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1438
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2005-07-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Agricultural labor
Agriculture and Food
Alien labor
Arrest
Auditing
Autopsy
Border patrols
Canada
Citizenship
Community organization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Counterfeiting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Deportation
Detention of persons
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic data interchange
Federal advisory bodies
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Gangs
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Health
Identification devices
Illegal aliens
Immigrants
Indian lands
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Law
Legal services
Legislation
Mexico
Minorities
Nonprofit organizations
Prosecution
Saving and investment
Science, Technology, Communications
Smuggling
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Social security taxes
Standards
Taxation
Temporary employment
Terrorism
Translating and interpreting
Violence
Visas
Vital statistics

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: 
Comprehensive Enforcement and Immigration Reform Act of 2005 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act, and sets forth other immigration-related provisions with respect to increases in funding, personnel, and technology at the federal, state, and local level for border enforcement and visa security, worksite enforcement, document integrity, immigration fraud, and detention and removal of illegal aliens.
 
 Increases criminal penalties for alien smuggling, document fraud, gang violence, and drug trafficking. 
 
Makes alien street gang members inadmissible.
 
Extends the institutional removal program (IRP) to all States. 
 
Establishes in the Department of Justice of a position of Assistant Attorney General for Immigration Enforcement. 
 
Authorizes state and local authorities to assist in immigration enforcement.
 
 Provides: (1) penalties for false work-related citizenship claims, and for social security number misuse; (2) for mandatory electronic employment verification of U.S. workers; and (3) a new W-visa temporary worker category (and elimination of the H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visa category).
 
 Terminates the diversity visa program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Introduced in Senate