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Methamphetamine Trafficking Prevention Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3825
Sponsor: Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aerial photography
Authorization
Border patrols
Chemicals
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Criminal investigation
Department of Justice
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Exchange of persons programs
Explosives
Federal aid to law enforcement
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Immigration
Indian lands
Indian law enforcement
International Affairs
Methamphetamine
Minorities
Police training
Public prosecutors
Trade negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Methamphetamine Trafficking Prevention Act of 2006 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to states and private entities to use technology or aerial surveillance to detect methamphetamine (and its chemical precursors) on the U.S. border (Border Technology Grants Program).
 
Authorizes appropriations to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in FY2007-FY2011 to deploy trace chemical detectors for detecting narcotics and explosive devices along the U.S. border. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the U.S. Trade Representative should consider ways to curb illicit use and shipment of pseudoephedrine, ephedrine, and similar chemicals in any multilateral or bilateral negotiations. 
 
Directs the DEA Administrator to establish an exchange program with foreign law enforcement officers from countries that traffic methamphetamine into the United States. 
 
Directs the Attorney General to report to Congress on methamphetamine trafficking and abuse on Indian reservations on or near the U.S. border. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8844-8845)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Citizen Soldier Relief Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3826
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Income tax
Iraq compilation
Military pay
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Citizen Soldier Relief Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income military pay received by a member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces who is called or ordered to active duty for a period of more than 180 days or for an indefinite period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S8845)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8845)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Empowerment Zone and Renewal Community Enhancement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3827
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bonds
Boundaries
Building construction
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Depreciation and amortization
Economics and Public Finance
Enterprise zones
Federally-assisted loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Maintenance and repair
Office buildings
Poverty
Residence requirements
Rural economic development
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax-exempt securities
Urban affairs
Urban renewal

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Empowerment Zone and Renewal Community Enhancement Act of 2006 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to tax-preferred empowerment zones, enterprise communities, and renewal communities to: (1) extend the period of designation for empowerment zones and renewal communities through 2015; (2) provide a safe harbor standard for employee residency requirements in empowerment zones; (3) eliminate certain residency requirements for the empowerment zone employment tax credit; (4) grant authority to expand the boundaries of empowerment zones, enterprise communities, and renewal communities (requires expansion of such communities located in rural areas upon the request of a local government if specified conditions exist); (5) allow carryovers of unused expensing allowances for enterprise zone businesses; (6) allow certain empowerment zone businesses to elect to receive payments in lieu of tax benefits; and (7) allow federal guarantees and tax exemptions for enterprise zone facility bonds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
National Language Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3828
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Allegiance
Bilingualism
Citizenship
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Discrimination
Economics and Public Finance
English language
Entitlements
Federal preemption
Government publications
Immigration
Income tax
Local laws
Loyalty oaths
Minorities
Naturalization
Social Welfare
State laws
Tax returns
Taxation
Translating and interpreting
Voting
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: National Language Act of 2006 - Makes English the official language of the U.S. government. Requires the government to: (1) conduct its official business in English, including publications, income tax forms, and informational materials; and (2) preserve and enhance the role of English as the official language of the United States of America. Provides that no person has a right, entitlement, or claim to have the government act, communicate, perform, or provide services or materials in any other language, unless specifically stated in applicable law. 
Provides that this Act shall not apply to the use of a language other than English for religious purposes, for training in foreign languages for international communication, or in school programs designed to encourage students to learn foreign languages. States that this does not prevent the U.S. government from providing interpreters for persons over age 62. 
Repeals provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 regarding bilingual election requirements and regarding congressional findings of voting discrimination against language minorities, prohibition of English-only elections, and other remedial measures. 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require that all public ceremonies in which the oath of allegiance is administered pursuant to such Act be conducted solely in English. 
Specifies that this Act shall not preempt any state law.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8845-8846)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
South Korean Fair Trade Act

Bill: 109-s-3830
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Automobile industry
Automobiles
Commerce
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
East Asia
Exports
Motor vehicles
South Korea
Tariff
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
South Korean Fair Trade Act - Declares that the duty in effect on July 31, 2006, on motor cars and motor vehicles imported from South Korea into the United States shall remain in effect until 15 days after the date the Secretary of Commerce certifies to Congress that at least 20% of the total number of motor cars and motor vehicles sold in South Korea each year are made in a country other than South Korea.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to reduce temporarily the duty on benzoyl chloride.

Bill: 109-s-3831
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce temporarily the duty on benzoyl chloride.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Reclamation Facility Title Transfer Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3832
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Canals
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal installations
Infrastructure
Land transfers
Reservoirs
Standards
Transportation and Public Works
Water storage
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Reclamation Facility Title Transfer Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, to: (1) establish criteria for the transfer of title to reclamation facilities from the United States to project beneficiaries (or an entity approved by such beneficiaries); and (2) recommend facilities that may be appropriate for transfer in accordance with such criteria.
 
Requires that such criteria include: (1) requirements that beneficiaries be willing to have title transferred to them, be capable of assuming facility operations, maintenance, and rehabilitation, and be willing to assume liability for such facilities; (2) a requirement for an assessment by the Secretary of effects of the transfer on the government's ability to carry out its Indian tribal trust responsibility, costs savings to the United States, legal and environmental considerations, adverse impacts on stakeholders, and the beneficiaries' interest in owning the facility, ability to meet financial obligations, and willingness and ability to fulfill legal obligations; (3) procedures for soliciting stakeholder involvement and for involving appropriate federal, state, and local entities in evaluating and carrying out the transfer; (4) a requirement that the Secretary prepare a comprehensive list of items that need to be accomplished before the transfer; and (5) procedures to allow the Secretary to address real property and cultural and historic preservation issues in a more efficient manner. Directs the Secretary to incorporate any existing applicable criteria.


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: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S8847)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8846-8847)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Armed Forces Employment Support Act

Bill: 109-s-3833
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Aerospace industries
Armed forces reserves
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy industries
Foundations
Grants-in-aid
Labor and Employment
Military personnel
National Guard
Recruiting of employees
Social Welfare
Transportation and Public Works
Veterans' employment

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Armed Forces Employment Support Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that the federal government should support private sector employment initiatives for military personnel.
 
Authorizes the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to make grants to the Armed Forces Support Foundation to support Foundation activities in assisting members of the National Guard and reserves and former members of the Armed Forces in securing employment in the private sector.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Foundation should enter into agreements with entities involved in energy, transportation, aerospace, domestic security, and other areas in which the employment of individuals with past military experience would be of particular utility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8847-8848)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3834
Sponsor: Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Consumer education
Damages
Department of Justice
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Drugs
Electronic commerce
Forfeiture
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Injunctions
Internet
Law
Licenses
Pharmacies
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentencing guidelines
State laws
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2006 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to impose registration and reporting requirements on pharmacies that seek to deliver, distribute, or dispense over the Internet a controlled substance or prescription drug (online pharmacies). Exempts pharmacies that merely advertise on the Internet. Prohibits the delivery, distribution, or dispensing of a controlled substance or prescription drug over the Internet without a valid prescription issued pursuant to a medical evaluation conducted in the presence of a registered medical practitioner. 
 
Requires an online pharmacy to include on its website: (1) a statement that it complies with the requirements of this Act; (2) identifying information, including its physical address, phone numbers, and email address; (3) the qualifications of its pharmacist-in-charge and the practitioners who prescribe controlled substances or prescription drugs; and (4) a list of states in which it is licensed.
 
Increases criminal penalties for certain controlled substances offenses. Imposes criminal penalties for the unlawful delivery, distribution, or dispensing of controlled substances or prescription drugs over the Internet.
 
Authorizes a state attorney general to apply for injunctions or obtain damages and other civil remedies against an online pharmacy that poses a threat to the residents of such state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8848)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Court and Law Enforcement Officers Protection Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3835
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Assault
Conspiracy
Damages
Department of Justice
Families
Federal employees
Federal law enforcement officers
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
Government attorneys
Habeas corpus
Homicide
Judges
Kidnapping
Law
Legal fees
Mandatory sentences
Murder
Police
Protection of officials
Public prosecutors
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Court and Law Enforcement Officers Protection Act of 2006 - Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) impose mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment for homicide, manslaughter, and kidnapping crimes against federal judges and law enforcement officers; (2) allow federal judges, U.S. attorneys, and Justice Department employees to carry firearms; (3) increase penalties for assaults against U.S. employees and officers and impose mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment for assaults against federal judges or law enforcement officers; and (4) impose mandatory minimum penalties for retaliating against a federal judge or law enforcement officer on account of the performance of official duties by murdering, kidnapping, assaulting, or threatening a family member.
 
Places limits on the award of civil damages and attorney's fees against judicial officers for injuries incurred by an individual during the commission of a felony or crime of violence.
 
Police Officer Daniel Faulkner Act of 2006 - Amends the federal judicial code to place limits on habeas corpus petitions for review of a state conviction for the murder of a public safety officer or judge engaged in the performance of official duties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8849-8850)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy Reauthorization Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3836
Sponsor: Sen. Martinez, Mel [R-FL]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Cultural relations
Diplomacy
Education
Educational exchanges
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy Reauthorization Act of 2006 - Amends the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998, as amended by the Department of State and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2006, to extend the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy through October 1, 2009.

action_date: 2006-08-04
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy Reauthorization Act of 2006 - Amends the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998, as amended by the Department of State and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2006 to extend the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy through October 1, 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-13
text: Committee Agreed to Seek Consideration Under Suspension of the Rules, by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2006-09-13
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2006-08-04
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2006-08-04
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR 8/3/2006 S8900-3901; text as passed Senate: CR 8/3/2006 S8901)
action_date: 2006-08-04
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR 8/3/2006 S8900-3901; text as passed Senate: CR 8/3/2006 S8901)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the establishment of the Henry Kuualoha Giugni Kupuna Memorial Archives at the University of Hawaii.

Bill: 109-s-3837
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Alaska
Archives
Computers
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational facilities
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Hawaii
Hawaiians
Higher education
History
Indian education
Indigenous peoples
Minorities
Minority education
Native Americans
Personal budgets
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award a grant to the University of Hawaii Academy for Creative Media for the establishment, maintenance, and periodic modernization of the Henry Kuualoha Giugni Kupuna Memorial Archives at the University of Hawaii. 
 
Requires the Archives to use grant funds for: (1) facilities and equipment to house and provide computer and web access to a repository of Native Hawaiian historical data; (2) scholarships to assist disadvantaged students in attending college; (3) the creation of educational materials from the archives that are applicable to a broad range of indigenous students; (4) outreach to elementary and secondary school students; (5) teacher training, so that the teaching of kindergarten through grade 12 students is culturally congruent with the learning modalities of such students, particularly indigenous students; and (6) the enhancement of the economic and financial literacy of college students.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8850-8851)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
S Corporation Reform Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3838
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Aliens
Bank holding companies
Bank loans
Charitable contributions
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Interest
Investments
Labor and Employment
Loans
Losses
Securities
Small business
Stockholders
Stocks
Subsidiary corporations
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax rates
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
S Corporation Reform Act of 2006 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to S corporations to: (1) allow nonresident aliens and individual retirement accounts to be S corporation shareholders; (2) revise S corporation eligibility rules to permit the issuance of preferred stock, remove certain restrictions on the issuance of convertible debt and S corporation passive investment income, and allow for adjustments to the stock basis resulting from S corporation charitable contributions; (3) revise tax treatment of certain S corporation stock losses and allow a tax deduction for loan interest incurred by an electing small business trust (ESBT) to acquire S corporation stock; (4) permit certain banks to qualify for an S corporation election; (5) set forth a rule for the tax treatment of the sale of an interest in a qualified S corporation subsidiary; (6) repeal the LIFO recapture tax with respect to S corporations; (7) extend the post-termination transition period for S corporations; (8) reduce tax rates on S corporation excess passive income; and (9) increase the cap on small issue bonds applicable to certain S corporation banks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S8852-8855)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8851-8852)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Claire Collier Social Security Disability Insurance Fairness Act

Bill: 109-s-3839
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disabled
Health
Nervous system diseases
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Terminally ill

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Claire Collier Social Security Disability Insurance Fairness Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide that the eligibility requirement for disability insurance benefits under which an individual must have 20 quarters of Social Security coverage in the 40 quarters preceding a disability shall not apply in the case of a disabled individual suffering from a covered terminal disease.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S8857)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate