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Commission on Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4619
Sponsor: Rep. Fossella, Vito [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2005-12-17 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Casualty insurance
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Insurance companies
Law
Losses
Property insurance
Real estate development
Reinsurance
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: 
Commission on Terrorism Risk Insurance Act - Amends the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 to establish the Commission on Terrorism Risk Insurance.
 
Directs the Commission to identify and make recommendations regarding actions to: (1) encourage, facilitate, and sustain provision by the private domestic insurance industry of affordable coverage for losses due to acts of terrorism; (2) sustain or supplement the ability of the domestic insurance industry to cover losses resulting from acts of terrorism; (3) reduce the federal role over time in any continuing federal terrorism risk insurance program; and (4) evaluate whether coverage under the Terrorism Insurance Program is necessary to permit redevelopment at sites of previous acts of terrorism. 
 
Instructs the Commission to evaluate and makes recommendations on the need for a federal terrorism risk insurance program.
 
Requires the Terrorism Insurance Program to remain in effect, but only to cover insured losses under property and casualty insurance issued on or before December 31, 2008, if the Commission determines that the market will not provide for renewal or generation of new insurance contracts necessary to permit redevelopment at the site of a previous act of terrorism.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
Homeowner's Tax Relief Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4620
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Sue W. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2005-12-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Local taxation
Property tax
State taxation
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: 
Homeowner's Tax Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers an additional tax deduction (whether or not such taxpayers itemize deductions) for state and local real property taxes paid for a principal residence that exceed the national average, as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury. Denies such deduction for taxpayers whose adjusted gross income exceeds $80,000 ($160,000 for joint returns).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5494-5495)
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
No Parole for Sex Offenders Act

Bill: 109-hr-4621
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Mark R. [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2005-12-17 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Block grants
Child abuse
Child sexual abuse
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Parole
Rape
Sex offenders
State laws
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: 
No Parole for Sex Offenders Act - Requires a state, in order not to reduce the funds available for Local Law Enforcement Block Grants by 10%, to have in effect a law that disallows parole for a sexually violent predator or an individual convicted of a criminal offense against a minor. Provides for the redistribution of withheld funds to participating states that are in compliance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
Teachers for Tomorrow's Careers Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4622
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Mark R. [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2005-12-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Education
Engineering
Engineers
Fees
Higher education
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Mathematics
Recruiting of employees
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Scientists
Tax deductions
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: 
Teachers for Tomorrow's Careers Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2006 the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses; and (2) allow an unlimited deduction for the expenses of certified science, technology, engineering, or math teachers and professionals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
Clean Alternatives for Energy Independence Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4623
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Mark R. [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2005-12-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Capital investments
Commerce
Depletion allowances
Depreciation and amortization
Electric power production
Electric vehicles
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy development
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Finance and Financial Sector
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Gas industry
Gas pipelines
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Motor vehicle pollution control
Natural gas vehicles
Oil well drilling
Petroleum engineering
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Prospecting
Science, Technology, Communications
Service stations
Small business
Sulphur
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Technological innovations
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: 
Clean Alternatives for Energy Independence Act of 2005 - Repeals certain tax benefits relating to oil and natural gas enacted by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase: (1) the tax credit for investment in residential and business fuel cell property; (2) the tax credit for investment in fuel cell motor and advanced lean burn technology motor vehicles; (3) the number of hybrid and advanced lean burn technology vehicles eligible for the alternative motor vehicle tax credit; and (4) the tax credit for investment in commercial and residential alternative fuel vehicle refueling property. Extends through 2012 the tax credit for business fuel cell property.
 
Extends through 2019 the tax credits for: (1) investment in qualified fuel cell motor vehicles; (2) investment in alternative fuel vehicle refueling hydrogen-related property (through 2011 for other fuel-related property).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1956)
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
Special Care Dentistry Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4624
Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-7]
Introduced: 2005-12-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Child health
Collection of accounts
Dental care
Disabled
Families
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Medicaid
Medical fees
Medical statistics
Nursing homes
Social Welfare
Transportation and Public Works
Welfare waivers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: 
Special Care Denistry Act of 2005 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require the provision to children and aged, blind, or disabled individuals of specified oral health services under the Medicaid program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Freedom of Choice Act

Bill: 109-hr-4625
Sponsor: Rep. Chocola, Chris [R-IN-2]
Introduced: 2005-12-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Coinsurance
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: 
Health Care Freedom of Choice Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the tax deduction for medical expenses without the gross income percentage limitation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
Re-Channelization of Public Safety Spectrum Act

Bill: 109-hr-4626
Sponsor: Rep. Ferguson, Mike [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2005-12-17 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Broadband
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Licenses
Radio spectrum allocation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: 
Re-Channelization of Public Safety Spectrum Act - Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to initiate a rulemaking to rechannelize the public safety spectrum (located in the upper 700 megahertz band) to accommodate commercially available broadband applications.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
To validate certain conveyances made by the Union Pacific Railroad Company of lands located in Reno, Nevada, that were originally conveyed by the United States to facilitate construction of transcontinental railroads, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-4627
Sponsor: Rep. Gibbons, Jim [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2005-12-17 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Nevada
Railroad land grants
Railroads
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: 
Validates the conveyance made by: (1) the Union Pacific Railroad Company pursuant to the Memorandum of Understanding for Reno Rail Corridor, entered into on December 1, 1998, to the City of Reno, Nevada, of land originally granted by the United States to the predecessor of the Union Pacific Railroad Company to facilitate construction of transcontinental railroads; and (2) CTB Inc., a Nevada Corporation, to the City of Reno, Nevada, of certain land deeded dated October 22, 2002. Releases all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to such lands to the City of Reno, Nevada, without consideration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
Student Loan Marketplace Equity Act

Bill: 109-hr-4628
Sponsor: Rep. Holden, Tim [D-PA-17]
Introduced: 2005-12-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial institutions
Government lending
Higher education
Student loan funds
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: 
Student Loan Marketplace Equity Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to impose a special fee on the entity whose portfolio of interests in student loans has the greatest value (dominant lender), as determined annually by the Secretary of Education.

Requires the dominant lender to pay the fee to the Secretary monthly, calculated annually in an amount equal to 0.25% of such portfolio value.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
K-16 Critical Foreign Language Pipeline Act

Bill: 109-hr-4629
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2005-12-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Language and languages
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: 
K-16 Critical Foreign Language Pipeline Act - Amends the David L. Boren National Security Education Act of 1991 to create a Critical Foreign Language Program.
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide grants to five institutions of higher education to establish such program to collaborate with elementary schools and secondary schools for language learning pipelines to train students from kindergarten through college to be proficient in those foreign languages that the Secretary identifies as being the most critical in the interests of U.S. national security.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Armed Services, 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: 2005-12-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Armed Services, 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: 2005-12-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Armed Services, 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: 2005-12-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Armed Services, 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: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
Chief Medical Officer Authorization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4632
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2005-12-17 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Access to health care
Biological warfare
Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Disasters
Drugs
Education
Emergency communication systems
Emergency medicine
Executive reorganization
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health education
Health information systems
Health planning
Health surveys
Higher education
Hospitals
Industrial accidents
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Labor and Employment
Medical education
Medical personnel
Medical research
Medical statistics
Medical supplies
Paramedical personnel
Regional planning
Research and development
Risk
Science, Technology, Communications
Terrorism
Traffic accidents and safety
Transportation and Public Works
Vaccines

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: 
Chief Medical Officer Authorization Act of 2005 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide for a Chief Medical Officer in the Office of the Secretary of Homeland Security.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Management, Integration, and Oversight.
action_date: 2006-01-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science, and Technology.
action_date: 2006-01-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-12-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-12-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
HIV/AIDS Emergency Hurricane Relief Act

Bill: 109-hr-4633
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2005-12-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Affordable housing
Alabama
Case management
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dental care
Department of Health and Human Services
Disaster relief
Displaced persons
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to housing
Federal officials
Floods
Florida
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Housing and Community Development
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Louisiana
Mental health services
Mississippi
Presidential appointments
Psychotherapy
Public service advertising
Social Welfare
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: 
HIV/AIDS Emergency Hurricane Relief Act - Requires the President to appoint an HIV/AIDS Emergency Response Coordinator to coordinate the provision of services under federal programs to individuals who: (1) are living with HIV; (2) are residents or were residents of a declared major disaster area at the time of Hurricane Katrina, Rita, or Wilma; and (3) have been displaced by such hurricane or have been unable to access comprehensive medical care and treatment, including housing, case management, drug and alcohol treatment, and other supportive services.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Coordinator, to award grants or cooperative agreements to public and nonprofit private entities that: (1) have experience in providing services to eligible individuals; and (2) have received or are eligible to receive funding from the federal government through the HIV health care services program or the Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS program.
 
Allows the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to waive matching requirements and any other appropriate conditions for grants under the HIV health care services program.
 
Allows the Coordinator to award grants or cooperative agreements to public and nonprofit private entities that provide covered services to eligible individuals in order to provide such entities with emergency infrastructure support.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, to conduct a public awareness campaign directed toward eligible individuals who were receiving services through the federal HIV health care services program and for whom the hurricanes caused the disruption or termination of such services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
To require that the Secretary of the Interior hold at least one public hearing in the surrounding community where land requested to be taken into trust for an Indian tribe is located in order to ascertain the needs and interests of that surrounding community.

Bill: 109-hr-4634
Sponsor: Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2005-12-17 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Indian lands
Minorities
Public meetings

Summary:
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior, at least six months before approving any application to take land into trust for an Indian tribe, to hold at least one public hearing in the surrounding community where the land in question is located in order to ascertain the community's needs and interests.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-12-17
text: Introduced in House