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Responsible Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act

Bill: 109-s-3983
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Americans in foreign countries
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Biological warfare
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Damages
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug industry
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Epidemics
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government trust funds
Health surveys
Indemnity
Influenza
Informed consent (Medical law)
Law
Liability (Law)
Limitation of actions
Local laws
Medical malpractice
Negligence
Smallpox
State laws
Terrorism
Vaccines

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Responsible Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act - Repeals the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (Division C of the Department of Defense, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations to Address Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and Pandemic Influenza Act, 2006).
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish the Biodefense Injury Compensation Program to provide compensation for death or any injury, illness, disability, or condition that is likely to have been caused by the administration of a covered countermeasure pursuant to a declaration by the Secretary of Health and Human Services that an actual or potential bioterrorist incident or public health emergency makes such administration to a category of individuals advisable.
 
Requires the Secretary: (1) after making such a declaration, to enter into a contract for the Institute of Medicine to provide its recommendations on the injuries, disabilities, illnesses, and conditions likely to have been caused by the countermeasure; and (2) after receiving such recommendations, to specify those injuries, disabilities, illnesses, and conditions deemed to be included in the Vaccine Injury Table. 
 
Sets the effective date for such Program as November 25, 2002.
 
Extends liability protection for health professionals administering small pox countermeasures to covered countermeasures under this Act. Excludes from such protection the administration by a qualified person of a covered countermeasure to an individual who was not within a category of individuals covered by the declaration where such qualified person did not have reasonable grounds to believe such individual was within such a category.
 
Makes the United States liable for any claims arising out of the manufacture, distribution, or administration of a covered countermeasure, including claims brought by U.S. military personnel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-30
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 658.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Outer Continental Shelf Royalty Reform and Enhancement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3985
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Budget deficits
Coastal zone
Continental shelf
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Energy prices
Environmental Protection
Gas in submerged lands
Government Operations and Politics
Government securities
Government trust funds
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Land transfers
Louisiana
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Open space lands
Outdoor recreation
Petroleum in submerged lands
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Revenue sharing
Sports and Recreation
Storms
Submarine oil well drilling
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Outer Continental Shelf Royalty Reform and Enhancement Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to place limitations based on market price on the royalty relief granted under any lease for the production of oil or natural gas entered into on or after enactment of this Act.
 
Declares that Congress reaffirms the authority of the Secretary to vary, based on the price of production from a lease, the suspension of royalties under any lease subject to specified requirements of the Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act.
 
Instructs the Secretary to offer to enter into written agreements to amend the payment responsibilities under each lease that: (1) authorizes the production of oil or natural gas on the Outer Continental Shelf; (2) provides for relief from the payment of royalties; and (3) does not provide for suspension of royalty relief based on an increase in the price of oil or natural gas, respectively, above specified thresholds.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to increase royalty rates on leases for oil or natural gas production on the Outer Continental Shelf.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to deposit certain percentages of Outer Continental Shelf revenues for: (1) disbursement to Gulf producing states; (2) financial assistance to states for land and water conservation as well as outdoor recreation purposes; and (3) deficit reduction.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to guarantee the repayment of 100% of the outstanding principal of a bond issued by the state of Louisiana for coastal wetland restoration projects and related storm protection infrastructure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10604-10605)
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness Act

Bill: 109-s-3986
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Colorado River development
Commerce
Land use
Leases
Mountains
National parks
Sports and Recreation
Trails
Water Resources Development
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness Act - Designates certain lands in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, as the Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish an alignment line and identify the boundaries for the East Shore Trail within the East Shore Trail Area. Authorizes necessary adjustments in such boundaries, except any that would place any portion of the Trail in such Wilderness.
 

 

 
Sets forth provisions concerning permitted and prohibited activities, water rights, and mineral resources within such Wilderness. Permits the Secretary to acquire private land within the Wilderness with the owner's consent. Allows water project development if authorized by the Secretary or President.
 
Sets forth provisions governing continued operations at the Grand River Ditch.
 
Applies provisions governing leases of National Park System buildings and property to property known as the Leiffer tract near the Park's eastern boundary in Larimer County, Colorado, as if such property was part of the Park.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act Amendments of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3987
Sponsor: Sen. Isakson, Johnny [R-GA]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Cemeteries and funerals
Collection of accounts
Debtor and creditor
Department of Labor
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Evidence (Law)
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Guardian and ward
Health
Hearing disorders
Insurance premiums
Law
Liability (Law)
Limitation of actions
Longshoremen
Medical records
Medical tests
Physicians
Survivors' benefits
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act Amendments of 2006 - Amends the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act to declare that it is the intent of Congress that: (1) in a claim brought under such Act, the facts are not to be given a broad liberal construction in favor of the employee or of the employer; (2) the laws pertaining to the claim are to be construed in accordance with the basic principles of statutory construction and not liberally in favor of either the employee or employer; and (3) the system established under the Act shall be efficient and self-executing, but not an economic or administrative burden.
 
Makes compensation under the Act payable regardless of fault as a cause of an injury (no-fault). 
 

 

 
Specifies requirements for proportional payment of compensation, the last employer doctrine, intervening employment, and noncontributing employment exposure.
 

 
Prescribes criteria for the preemption of state law providing additional or alternative remedies for an injured employee, the employee's legal representative, spouse, next of kin, or anyone otherwise entitled to recover from an employer on account of an employee's injury or death.
 

 

 
Revises requirements for physician selection. Allows a carrier to designate one or more participating networks or one or more health care panels, or both, to provide medical services to employees.
 
Modifies the formula used to determine disability compensation, including for loss of hearing.
 
Increases allowed funeral expenses.
 Revises requirements for: (1) determination of death compensation to survivors; (2) timing and recipients of a notice of such injury or death; (3) filing of claims; (4) date of payment of compensation; (5) assignment and exemption from the claims of creditors; (6) presumptions, burdens, and rules of evidence; (7) review of compensation orders; (8) modification of compensation awards for fraud or overpayment; (9) reports of fraud; and (10) payments into the special fund in the absence of an entitled survivor of an employee.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Lane Evans Veterans Health and Benefits Improvement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3988
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Anthrax
Armed forces reserves
Brain
Cemeteries and funerals
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Disabled
Drugs
Education
Electronic government information
Families
Family services
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Flags
Government Operations and Politics
Government life insurance
Government publicity
Head injuries
Health
Health counseling
Higher education
Hospital care
Housing and Community Development
Housing for the disabled
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Marriage counseling
Medical screening
Mental health services
Middle East and North Africa
Military discharges
Military medals, decorations, etc.
Military operations
Mortgages
National Guard
Nursing homes
Physical examinations
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Recruiting and enlistment
Right of privacy
Small business
Social Welfare
South Asia
Survivors' benefits
Terrorism
Vaccination
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' education
Veterans' employment
Veterans' loans
Veterans' pensions
Veterans' rehabilitation
Vocational rehabilitation
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Lane Evans Veterans Health and Benefits Improvement Act of 2006 - Makes a veteran who served on active duty during a period of war eligible for a mental health evaluation and hospital care, medical services, nursing home care, and family and marital counseling for any identified mental health condition, notwithstanding insufficient medical evidence to conclude that the condition is attributable to such service.
 
Requires: (1) post-deployment medical and mental health screenings to be conducted within 30 days after a deployment; (2) each member, upon discharge, to be provided an electronic copy of all military records of such member; and (3) the Secretary of Defense to ensure appropriate outreach to members of the National Guard and reserves concerning benefits and services available upon discharge or deactivation.
 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish and maintain a Global War on Terrorism Veterans Information System.
 
Requires quarterly reports from the Secretaries of Veterans Affairs, Labor, and Defense on the effects on veterans and on each such department of participation in the Global War on Terrorism.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10484-10485)
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 216 Oak Street in Farmington, Minnesota, as the "Hamilton H. Judson Post Office".

Bill: 109-s-3990
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Minnesota
Names
Postal facilities
United States Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 216 Oak Street in Farmington, Minnesota, as the "Hamilton H. Judson Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Ordered placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 672.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Emergency Farm Relief Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3991
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural conservation
Agricultural cooperatives
Agricultural credit
Agricultural industries
Agricultural subsidies
Animal diseases
Animals
Anthrax
Cattle
Commerce
Dairy industry
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Droughts
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Farm lands
Farm produce
Finance and Financial Sector
Flood damage
Forest fires
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Grazing
Habitat conservation
Hawaii
Health
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Indemnity
Land use
Law
Livestock
Montana
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Sheep
Small business
Soil conservation
Soil erosion
Sugar
Texas
Tuberculosis
Water Resources Development
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Emergency Farm Relief Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial assistance for: (1) crop disaster assistance for qualifying quantity or quality losses for the 2005 or 2006 crop due to weather or related conditions (including disease, insects, and delayed harvest; (2) livestock assistance for 2005 and 2006 disaster-caused losses; (3) livestock indemnity payments for 2005 and 2006 disaster-caused losses (including wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and anthrax); (4) ewe lamb replacement and retention; (5) sugar beet disaster assistance for crop year 2005; (6) sugarcane growers in Hawaii through a payment to an agricultural transportation cooperative in Hawaii; (7) flooded crop and grazing land in the Devils Lake basin, the McHugh, Lake Laretta, and Rose Lake closed drainage areas, North Dakota; and (8) bovine tuberculosis indemnification.
 
Directs the Secretary to make grants to state agriculture departments or comparable agencies in qualified states for direct economic loss payments to eligible small businesses.
 
Directs the Secretary to use specified funds to carry out emergency measures under: (1) the emergency watershed protection program; (2) the emergency conservation program, including wildfire recovery efforts; and (3) the environmental quality incentives program, including wildfire recovery efforts.
 
Directs the Secretary to use specified funds to hire additional state and county Farm Service Agency personnel to expedite the delivery of agricultural disaster and economic assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10565, S10568, S10568-10569, S10569)
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
United States Fair Currency Practices Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3992
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Balance of payments
Canada
China
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Countervailing duties
Defense procurement
East Asia
Export subsidies
Foreign exchange
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Import relief
International Affairs
International monetary system
Latin America
Mexico
Trade negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
United States Fair Currency Practices Act of 2006 - Amends the Exchange Rates and International Economic Policy Coordination Act of 1988 to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to consider in the annual analysis of foreign exchange rate policies whether countries have a currency that is in fundamental misalignment (as defined by this Act), and if so, to initiate bilateral corrective negotiations.
 
Directs the Secretary, prior to U.S. approval of a change in an international financial institution's governance, to determine whether a member who would benefit from such change has a currency that is manipulated or in fundamental misalignment, and if so, oppose such change.
 
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930, in determining a nonmarket economy country, to consider whether such country's manipulation or fundamental misalignment of its currency adversely affects the U.S. economy.
 
Includes exchange rate misalignment (as defined by this Act) as a countervailable subsidy.
 
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to include exchange rate misalignment by the People's Republic of China (PRC) as a condition in determining market disruption.
 
Prohibits the Department of Defense (DOD) from procuring defense articles imported from the PRC if such articles are competitive with domestic industry articles critical to the defense industrial base of the United States.
 
Applies provisions of this Act respecting countervailable subsidies and nonmarket economy status to goods from Canada and Mexico.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-30
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 656.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10486-10489)
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Securing Aircraft Cockpits Against Lasers Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3993
Sponsor: Sen. Martinez, Mel [R-FL]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Aviation safety
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Justice
Government Operations and Politics
Lasers
Law
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Securing Aircraft Cockpits Against Lasers Act of 2006 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit the aiming of the beam of a laser pointer at an aircraft or in its flight path. Imposes a fine and/or prison term of up to five years.

Exempts from such prohibition: (1) individuals conducting research and development or flight test operations for an aircraft manufacturer or the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); (2) Department of Defense or Department of Homeland Security personnel conducting research, development, operations, testing or training; or (3) an individual using a laser emergency signaling device to send a distress signal.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-30
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 657.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996.

Bill: 109-s-3994
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: American investments
Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Energy
Export controls
Export finance
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign loans
Government Operations and Politics
Iran
Middle East and North Africa
Petroleum industry
President and foreign policy
Sanctions (International law)
State-sponsored terrorism
Terrorism
Weapons of mass destruction

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Amends the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996 to extend the authorities provided in such Act until November 17, 2006. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-13
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 661.
action_date: 2006-09-30
text: Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S10682)
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in the Senate.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Education Opportunity Act

Bill: 109-s-3995
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: College costs
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Education Opportunity Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to low-income secondary school juniors and seniors for the cost of taking nonremedial courses offered by institutions of higher education which award such students transferable postsecondary credits for such courses.
 
States the sense of the Senate that funding for this program should not affect funding for the Pell Grant program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10682-10683)
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow section 1031 treatment for exchanges involving certain mutual ditch, reservoir, or irrigation company stock.

Bill: 109-s-3996
Sponsor: Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]
Introduced: 2006-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Capital gains tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Land transfers
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reservoirs
Stocks
Tax exclusion
Tax-exempt organizations
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax-free exchanges of shares in certain mutual ditch, reservoir, or irrigation companies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate