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Drinking Water Standards Preservation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1540
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Gary G. [R-CA-42]
Introduced: 2005-04-08 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Environmental Protection
Evidence (Law)
Law
Liability (Law)
Potable water
Pretrial procedure
Public utilities
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-08
text: Drinking Water Standards Preservation Act of 2005 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to establish liability standards for a public water system for damages arising from injury (including personal injury, death, or property damage) allegedly caused by delivery of contaminated water containing either regulated or unregulated contaminants. 
Requires for both regulated and unregulated contaminants that the plaintiff establish that there is substantial scientific evidence that the kind of injury alleged could be caused by such substance in the amounts present and that the substance did, in fact, cause the injury. 
Requires proof: (1) in the case of regulated contaminants, that the water system violated the regulation, was negligent and that the violation caused the injury; and (2) in the case of unregulated contaminants, that the water system knew or should have known that the substance at that level was likely to cause such injury and that it was feasible to remove the contaminant to a safe level. 
Directs the court to make determinations regarding proof requirements in a special pretrial proceeding and to give binding effect to any findings of fact, conclusions of law, or determinations of State agencies exercising primary enforcement authority.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2005-04-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2005-04-08
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: 2005-04-08
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: 2005-04-08
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: 2005-04-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-08
text: Introduced in House
Dietary Supplement and Healthy Meal Replacement Tax Parity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1545
Sponsor: Rep. Cannon, Chris [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2005-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Dietary supplements
Health
Income tax
Labeling
Medical economics
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: 
Dietary Supplement and Healthy Meal Replacement Tax Parity Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to qualify dietary supplements and meal replacement products that are authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make certain health claims as tax deductible medical expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Medical Liability Procedural Reform Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1546
Sponsor: Rep. Thornberry, Mac [R-TX-13]
Introduced: 2005-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Compensation (Law)
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Courts of special jurisdiction
Economics and Public Finance
Expert witnesses
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Health
Judges
Liability (Law)
Medical malpractice
Peer review organizations (Medicine)
Performance measurement
Quality of care

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: 
Medical Liability Procedural Reform Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants to States to develop, implement, and evaluate health care tribunals. Defines &quot;health care tribunal&quot; to mean a trial court or administrative tribunal: (1) the sole function of which is to adjudicate disputes over injuries allegedly caused by health care providers; (2) to which all or a portion of such disputes within a jurisdiction are assigned; and (3) the judges for which have health care expertise and render decisions about the standard of care in dispute adjudication, with reliance on independent expert witnesses commissioned by the court.
 
Permits the Attorney General to provide technical assistance to States to: (1) develop common definition, formats, and data collection infrastructure for States to use in reporting in order to facilitate aggregation and analysis of data both within and between States; and (2) provide guidance about the identification and selection of heath care tribunal judges and independent expert witnesses, compensation of injured patients, and clinical resources relating to the standard of care. 
 
Requires the Attorney General to contract with a research organization to evaluate and report on the effectiveness of grants awarded, to include an analysis of the effect of such grants on: (1) the number, nature, and costs of health care liability claims; (2) the liability environment; (3) health care quality; and (4) patient safety.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Math and Science Incentive Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1547
Sponsor: Rep. Wolf, Frank R. [R-VA-10]
Introduced: 2005-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Armed Forces and National Security
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economic security
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Engineering
Engineers
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Higher education
Interest
Labor and Employment
Mathematics
Rating of employees
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Scientists
Secondary education
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers
Technical education
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: 
Math and Science Incentive Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Education to carry out a program of assuming the obligation to pay up to $10,000 of interest on certain student loans under the Higher Education Act of 1965, for certain borrowers who agree to serve for five years as: (1) teachers of science, technology, engineering or mathematics at an elementary or secondary school; or (2) mathematics, science or engineering professionals.
 
Requires that selection of program participants from among eligible applicants be based on: (1) U.S. national security, homeland security, and economic security needs; and (2) the applicant's academic record or job performance. Allows other factors to be considered in such selection.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1220)
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1595-1596)
action_date: 2005-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E660)
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. (text of measure as introduced: CR E660-661)
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1548
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Paul [R-WI-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charitable contributions
Charities
Colleges
Education
Educational facilities
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Student activities
Student housing
Students
Tax deductions
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: 
Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax-exempt charitable or educational organizations to make collegiate housing and infrastructure improvement grants to certain tax-exempt social clubs (e.g., college fraternities and sororities) so long as all of the active members of such clubs are full-time students at the college or university with which such clubs are associated. Defines &quot;collegiate housing and infrastructure grants&quot; to include grants to provide, improve, operate, or maintain collegiate housing. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Renewing the Dream Tax Credit Act

Bill: 109-hr-1549
Sponsor: Rep. Reynolds, Thomas M. [R-NY-26]
Introduced: 2005-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Community development
Cost of living adjustments
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Housing authorities
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Indian housing
Infrastructure
Liens
Low-income housing
Minorities
Nonprofit organizations
Rental housing
Residential rehabilitation
Rural housing
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax returns
Tax-exempt organizations
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: 
Renewing the Dream Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow homebuilders and investors a general business tax credit for building or substantially rehabilitating residences for low and moderate-income individuals in certain areas, including a rural area, an Indian reservation, or an area of chronic economic distress. Sets forth rules for the calculation of such credit and its administration and allocation by the States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Domestic Offshore Energy Reinvestment Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1551
Sponsor: Rep. Jindal, Bobby [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Animals
Coastal engineering
Coastal zone
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continental shelf
Disasters
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental technology
Fishery management
Flood damage prevention
Gas in submerged lands
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Habitat conservation
Historic sites
History
Land subsidence
Land transfers
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Petroleum in submerged lands
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Revenue sharing
Science, Technology, Communications
Shore protection
Submarine oil well drilling
Technological innovations
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Wetlands
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: 
Domestic Offshore Energy Reinvestment Act of 2005 - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to establish the Secure Energy Reinvestment Fund, consisting of outer Continental Shelf revenues attributable to royalties received by the United States in excess of prescribed amounts.
 

 
Instructs the Secretary to pay to each coastal energy State (including its coastal political subdivision) certain amounts remaining in the Fund after payment for: (1) administrative expenses; and (2) the Coastal Restoration and Enhancement through Science and Technology program.
 
Sets forth the uses of the Coastal Restoration and Enhancement through Science and Technology program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Disaster Relief Equity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1552
Sponsor: Rep. Jindal, Bobby [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2005-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Building construction
Church and state
Church property
Disaster relief
Government Operations and Politics
Maintenance and repair
Nonprofit organizations
Religion
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: 
Disaster Relief Equity Act of 2005 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to state that the religious status of a private nonprofit facility, or of the owner or operator of such a facility, shall not preclude its eligibility for Federal contributions to repair, restore, reconstruct, or replace the facility following damage or destruction by a major disaster.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Pakistan Proliferation Accountability Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1553
Sponsor: Rep. Ackerman, Gary L. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2005-04-12 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Arms sales
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Congressional oversight
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
International cooperation
Military assistance
Nuclear exports
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear weapons
Pakistan
President and foreign policy
Sanctions (International law)
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists
South Asia
Technology transfer
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: 
Pakistan Proliferation Accountability Act of 2005 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the U.S. Government has an interest in knowing the full extent of the illegal international nuclear proliferation network established and operated by the Pakistani nuclear scientist, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan; and (2) Dr. Khan should give the U.S. Government a full accounting of such network. 
 
Prohibits U.S. military assistance to Pakistan until the President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that: (1) the Government of Pakistan has provided the United States with unrestricted opportunities to interview Dr. Khan, and has complied with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) requests regarding such network; and (2) the U.S. Government has determined such network's full scope of activities and participants, determined the nature of its connection to al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, and, in conjunction with the IAEA, has confirmed its dismantling.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Insular Areas Tax Credit Act

Bill: 109-hr-1555
Sponsor: Del. Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [D-GU-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Earned income tax credit
Families
Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
Guam
Income tax
Intergovernmental tax relations
Local taxation
Social Welfare
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: 
Insular Areas Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the United States to pay an estimate of the portion of the applicable earned income and child tax credit to Guam and the Virgin Islands during the first three and one half months of calendar year 2006 and each calendar year thereafter. Provides for adjustments to and supplemental payments of such tax credit payments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E607-608)
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Tax Flexibility Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1557
Sponsor: Rep. Cubin, Barbara [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Commerce
Corporate reorganizations
Corporation taxes
Income tax
Partnerships
Small business
Tax exclusion
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: 
Small Business Tax Flexibility Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain S corporations a one-time election to transfer money or property to a partnership without recognition of gain or loss by the shareholders of such corporation. Treats all distributions of the money or property of an electing S corporation as a distribution in part or full payment in exchange for the stock of such corporation. 
 
Requires transferee partnerships to maintain the continuity of the S corporation's business for five years after the conversion to partnership form or pay a recapture tax in the year in which failure to maintain such continuity first occurs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E612)
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Computer-Assisted Remote Hunting Act

Bill: 109-hr-1558
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Tom [R-VA-11]
Introduced: 2005-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Animals
Computer crimes
Computer software
Fines (Penalties)
Hunting
Interactive media
Science, Technology, Communications
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: 
Computer-Assisted Remote Hunting Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit and to establish penalties for knowingly making available a computer-assisted remote hunt (i.e., using a computer or other device, equipment, or software to allow a person remotely to control the aiming and discharge of a weapon to kill or injure an animal while not in the targeted animal's physical presence). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Character Education Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1559
Sponsor: Rep. Ford, Harold E., Jr. [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2005-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Authorization
Civics education
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Ethics
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: 
Character Education Act of 2005 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to increase amounts authorized to be appropriated in FY 2006 and 2007 for the Fund for the Improvement of Education. Directs the Secretary of Education to reserve a specified amount of appropriations for such Fund in each of FY 2006, 2007, and 2008 to carry out the Partnerships in Character Education program.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to: (1) study best practices in the field of character education; and (2) develop a model State character education curriculum for kindergarten through grade 12, embodying specified principles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the exclusion equivalent of the unified credit allowed against the estate tax to $7,500,000 and to establish a flat estate tax rate.

Bill: 109-hr-1560
Sponsor: Rep. Ford, Harold E., Jr. [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2005-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Estate tax
Gift tax
Inheritance tax
Tax credits
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the estate tax exclusion to $7.5 million; and (2) establish a single estate tax rate of 27.5 percent.
 
Repeals certain provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA) relating to estate, gift, and generation-skpping transfer taxes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
Childhood Adoption Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1561
Sponsor: Rep. Ford, Harold E., Jr. [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2005-04-12 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adoption
Authorization
Child welfare
Cost of living adjustments
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Employee benefit plans
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Labor and Employment
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax refunds
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: 
Childhood Adoption Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the tax credit for adoption expenses from $10,000 to $15,000; (2) make such tax credit refundable; and (3) increase the exclusion from gross income for employer-paid adoption expenses from $10,000 to $15,000. 
 
Amends title IV, part E (Federal Payments for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of the Social Security Act to increase: (1) levels of adoption incentive payments payable to States under the adoption assistance program; and (2) funding for adoption incentive payments for FY 2006 through 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Introduced in House