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Reimbursing Our American Drivers (ROAD) Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3750
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2005-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Access to health care
Automobiles
Charitable contributions
Commerce
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government travel
Health
Income tax
Relocation
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: 
Reimbursing Our American Drivers (ROAD) Act of 2005 - Increases to 60 cents per mile, for the period after August 31, 2005, and before January 1, 2007: (1) the standard mileage rate for calculating the tax deduction for business, medical, moving, and charitable use of an automobile; and (2) the standard mileage rate for reimbursement of federal employee automobile expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2005-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2005-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Retirement Account Emergency Access Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3751
Sponsor: Rep. McHenry, Patrick T. [R-NC-10]
Introduced: 2005-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Disaster relief
Disasters
Emergency Management
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax administration
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: 
Retirement Account Emergency Access Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income distributions from certain tax-qualified retirement plans to individuals residing in federally-declared disaster areas. Allows such distributions to be recontributed to retirement plans within five years of an initial distribution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Gas Price Relief Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3752
Sponsor: Rep. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ-13]
Introduced: 2005-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy prices
Excess profits tax
Gasoline
Government trust funds
Highway finance
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Tax credits
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: 
Gas Price Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax, for a one-year period, on oil companies for a percentage of the windfall profit from all barrels of taxable crude oil; (2) allow a tax deduction for the payment of any windfall profit tax; (3) reduce by 10 percent the excise tax on highway motor fuels for a period of one year after the enactment of this Act; (4) provide for transfers of windfall profit tax receipts and amounts from the general fund to the Highway Trust Fund; and (5) make adjustments to highway motor fuel taxes for floor stocks of such fuels held by dealers prior to, or after, the effective date of reduction in such taxes under this Act. Defines &quot;windfall profit&quot; as the excess of the removal (sales) price of a barrel of taxable crude oil over the base price ($40 per barrel) of such barrel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Increased Penalties for Methamphetamine Traffickers Act

Bill: 109-hr-3755
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2005-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Fines (Penalties)
Life imprisonment
Mandatory sentences
Methamphetamine
Organized crime

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: 
Increased Penalties for Methamphetamine Traffickers Act - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to reduce the dollar amount received in gross receipts by an enterprise in which a defendant was a principal administrator, organizer, or leader during any 12-month period of its existence for the manufacture, importation, or distribution of, and to reduce the threshold amount of, methamphetamine necessary to qualify for life imprisonment for engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise involving methamphetamine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Increased Penalties for Environmental Crimes Related to Methamphetamine Act

Bill: 109-hr-3756
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2005-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Chemicals
Drug abuse
Drug paraphernalia
Drug traffic
Environmental Protection
Environmental law enforcement
Mandatory sentences
Methamphetamine
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Sentences (Criminal procedure)

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: 
Increased Penalties for Environmental Crimes Related to Methamphetamine Act - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to: (1) prohibit cultivating or manufacturing (currently, cultivating) a controlled substance on federal property; and (2) increase the term of imprisonment to be imposed on anyone who, in committing a controlled substances violation, knowingly or intentionally uses a poison, chemical, or other hazardous substance on federal land and thereby creates a serious hazard to humans, wildlife, or domestic animals, degrades or harms the environment or natural resources, or pollutes an aquifer, spring, stream, river, or body of water.
 
Amends the federal criminal code to include within the definition of &quot;hazardous or injurious device&quot; equipment and chemicals used in the illegal manufacture of a controlled substance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-09-13
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Health Opportunity Account Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3757
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike J. [R-MI-8]
Introduced: 2005-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Coinsurance
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic funds transfers
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Hospital rates
Indexing (Economic policy)
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medical fees
Medical savings accounts
Preventive medicine
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
State laws
Welfare eligibility
Welfare waivers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: 
Medicaid Health Opportunity Account Act of 2005 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a demonstration program under which states may provide alternative benefits, including health opportunity accounts, for eligible population groups in one or more geographic areas. 
 
Prohibits the Secretary from approving a state demonstration program unless it provides for transactions involving health opportunity accounts to be conducted electronically and without cash.
 
Limits contributions into a health opportunity account to those by: (1) the state under Medicaid; and (2) other persons and entities, such as charitable organizations.
 
Requires a state to specify the contribution amount that shall be deposited into a health opportunity account.
 
Allows a state to: (1) impose limitations on the maximum contributions that may be deposited into a health opportunity account in a year; and (2) limit contributions into such an account once the balance reaches a specified level. 
 
Prohibits a state from contributing annually to a health opportunity account, on behalf of an individual or family, more than $2,500 per adult and $1,000 per child.
 
Allows the use of amounts in a health opportunity account for payment of such health care expenditures as the state specifies. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow withdrawals from qualified retirement plans without penalty by individuals within areas determined by the President to be disaster areas by reason of Hurricane Katrina.

Bill: 109-hr-3759
Sponsor: Rep. Wynn, Albert Russell [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2005-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alabama
Annuities
Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Floods
Florida
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Louisiana
Mississippi
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow distributions from tax-qualified retirement plans made before December 31, 2006, to individuals who reside within, or own real property located in, a Hurricane Katrina disaster area, without incurring the 10 percent penalty for premature distributions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
To require higher standards of automobile fuel efficiency in order to reduce the amount of oil used for fuel by automobiles in the United States by 10 percent beginning in 2016, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-3762
Sponsor: Rep. Boehlert, Sherwood [R-NY-24]
Introduced: 2005-09-14 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Automobile industry
Commerce
Department of Transportation
Energy efficiency
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Law
Motor vehicle safety
Standards
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: 
Amends federal transportation law to direct the Secretary of Transportation by regulation to prescribe (corporate) average fuel economy (CAFE) standards for automobiles manufactured after 2008 that ensure that the CAFE achieved by automobiles manufactured after 2015 is at least 33 miles per gallon, and meets other specified criteria. Authorizes the Secretary to establish separate standards for different classes of automobiles according to size.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to establish a CAFE credit trading program to allow a manufacturer that exceeds fuel economy standards to sell credits to another manufacturer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Introduced in House
Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims Act

Bill: 109-hr-3763
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2005-09-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Alabama
Commerce
Construction industries
Construction workers
Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Floods
Government contractors
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Labor and Employment
Louisiana
Minimum wages
Mississippi
Wages
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: 
Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims Act - Reinstates the application of the wage requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act to all federal contracts in counties affected by Hurricane Katrina, notwithstanding the President's proclamation dated September 8, 2005, or any other provision of law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1845)
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Introduced in House
To establish a congressional commission to examine the Federal, State, and local response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Region of the United States especially in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and other areas impacted in the aftermath and make immediate corrective measures to improve such responses in the future.

Bill: 109-hr-3764
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2005-09-14 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Alabama
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional oversight
Congressional reorganization
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency communication systems
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federal budgets
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Louisiana
Mississippi
Planning
Science, Technology, Communications
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: 
Establishes in the legislative branch a bipartisan Katrina Commission to: (1) examine and report upon the federal, state, and local response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Region of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and other affected areas; (2) evaluate and report on the information developed by all relevant governmental agencies related to Hurricane Katrina before it struck the United States and in the days and weeks following; (3) make a complete accounting of the circumstances surrounding the approach of Hurricane Katrina to the Gulf states, and the extent of the Government's preparedness for and response to it; (4) examine planning necessary for future cataclysmic events that will require a significant marshaling of federal resources, mitigation, response, and recovery to avoid significant loss of life; (5) analyze whether any decisions differed with respect to response and recovery for different communities and what problems occurred as a result of a lack of a common plan, communication structure, and centralized command structure; and (6) investigate and report to the President and Congress on immediate corrective measures that can be taken to prevent problems with federal response to future cataclysmic events.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1846)
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Introduced in House
To simplify Federal procurement procedures for emergency and disaster relief, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-3766
Sponsor: Rep. Marchant, Kenny [R-TX-24]
Introduced: 2005-09-14 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Competitive bidding
Defense contracts
Defense procurement
Disaster relief
Disasters
Emergency Management
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Government procurement
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Social Welfare
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: 
Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to authorize the head of an executive agency, during a national emergency or major disaster, to use procurement procedures other than competitive procedures when necessary to facilitate the response to, or recovery from, the national emergency or major disaster. Allows such agency head to apply specified provisions of law as if the property or services to be acquired are commercial items.
 
Authorizes the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to accept the services of volunteers and provide for their incidental expenses in carrying out FEMA activities other than policymaking or law or regulatory enforcement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2005-09-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2005-09-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2005-09-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2005-09-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2600 Oak Street in St. Charles, Illinois, as the "Jacob L. Frazier Post Office Building".

Bill: 109-hr-3767
Sponsor: Rep. Hastert, J. Dennis [R-IL-14]
Introduced: 2005-09-14 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Illinois
Names
National Guard
Officer personnel
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2600 Oak Street in St. Charles, Illinois, as the "Jacob L. Frazier Post Office Building."
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: 

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

 
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2600 Oak Street in St. Charles, Illinois, as the "Jacob L. Frazier Post Office Building." 

action_date: 2005-10-04
text: 

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

 
Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2600 Oak Street in St. Charles, Illinois, as the "Jacob L. Frazier Post Office Building." 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: Became Public Law No: 109-85.
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: Became Public Law No: 109-85.
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2005-09-29
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Cleared for White House.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S10480)
action_date: 2005-09-27
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S10480)
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Received in the Senate, read twice.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H8177)
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H8177)
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3767.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8177-8178)
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Mr. Gutknecht moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2005-09-15
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-09-15
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 109-85