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American National Red Cross Governance Modernization Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6343
Sponsor: Rep. Radanovich, George [R-CA-19]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Auditing
Charities
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporate governance
Corporation directors
Disaster relief
Electronic data interchange
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
International relief
Law
Nongovernmental organizations
Ombudsman
Presidential appointments
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Term limits
Trusts and trustees
Voting

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
The American National Red Cross Governance Modernization Act of 2006 - Amends federal law concerning the American National Red Cross to: (1) revise its governance structure; (2) authorize the Comptroller General to review its involvement in any federal program or activity; and (3) establish an Office of the Ombudsman which shall report annually to Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2121)
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the protection of health and safety during certain disasters.

Bill: 109-hr-6347
Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Chemicals
Child care workers
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Directories
Disaster relief
Disasters
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency medicine
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Environmental monitoring
Epidemiology
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health
Health counseling
Health education
Health facilities
Health information systems
Health surveys
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Law enforcement officers
Medical personnel
Medical records
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical tests
Mental health services
Occupational health and safety
Paramedical personnel
Physical examinations
Police
Rescue work
Right of privacy
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Students
Teachers
Terrorism
Toxicology
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Authorizes the President (acting through the Secretary of Health and Human Substances), upon determining that a substance of concern has been released in an area declared to be a disaster area and has disrupted the transportation system of the United States, to carry out a program for the coordination, protection, assessment, monitoring and study of the health and safety of responding or affected individuals with high exposure levels. Requires that such a program: (1) apply to workers or volunteers, clean up workers, residents of the area, and persons who are employed in or who attend school in the area; (2) ensure that such individuals are informed about and protected against potential health impacts of any such substance in a timely manner, are monitored and studied for any health impacts, and receive health care referrals; and (3) ensure that information from any such monitoring and studies is used to prevent or protect against similar health impacts. 
 
Requires the President to take appropriate measures to protect the privacy of any participant in a registry or study. Gives priority in any registry or study to the protection, monitoring, and study of the heath and safety of individuals with the highest level of exposure to a substance of concern.
 
 Allows the President to carry out such a program through a cooperative agreement with a medical institution.
 
Requires the Secretary, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to jointly enter into a contract with the National Academy of Sciences to study disaster area health and environmental protection and monitoring.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide for enhanced security of chemical facilities, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-6348
Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Chemical industries
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Law
Performance measurement
Risk
Security measures
Standards
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to issue interim final regulations establishing risk-based performance standards for the security of high-risk chemical facilities and requiring vulnerability assessments and the development and implementation of site security plans for such facilities. 
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) review and approve each vulnerability assessment and site security plan required by this Act; (2) audit and inspect chemical facilities to determine compliance with such regulations; (3) provide the owner or operator of a facility not in compliance with written notification and opportunity for consultation; and (4) issue an order to comply by an appropriate date. Authorizes the Secretary to issue an order for the facility to cease operation until the owner or operator complies.
 
Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) the protection of vulnerability or security information under this Act from public disclosure; and (2) civil penalties for violation of an order issued under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the continuing operation of the Metropolitan Medical Response Program.

Bill: 109-hr-6350
Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency medicine
Federal aid to health facilities
Health
Metropolitan areas
Terrorism
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Provides that there is a Metropolitan Medical Response Program that shall include each purpose of the program as it existed on June 1, 2006. Authorizes appropriation of an additional $30 million for FY2008 over the amount appropriated for FY2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science, and Technology.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 with respect to the position of Chief Medical Officer.

Bill: 109-hr-6352
Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Biological warfare
Congress
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Disasters
Executive reorganization
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health planning
Physicians
Presidential appointments
Public health
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
 Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 regarding the establishment and responsibilities of the position of Chief Medical Officer in the Department of Homeland Security.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Science, and Technology.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
To extend the suspension of the limitation on the period for which certain borrowers are eligible for guaranteed farm operating loans.

Bill: 109-hr-6353
Sponsor: Rep. Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [R-LA-7]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural credit
Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend through September 30, 2007, a suspension of limitation on the period for which certain borrowers are eligible for guaranteed assistance under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development, and Research.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the credit for biodiesel used as a fuel.

Bill: 109-hr-6354
Sponsor: Rep. Burgess, Michael C. [R-TX-26]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Diesel motor
Energy
Energy crops
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Income tax
Oils and fats
Refuse as fuel
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the amount of the income and excise tax credits for biodiesel used as fuel. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
To make funds available for program integrity purposes, including the data mining project, under the Federal Crop Insurance Act.

Bill: 109-hr-6355
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, John R. [R-TX-31]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Computer matching
Crop insurance
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Science, Technology, Communications
Waste in government spending

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to use up to a specified amount of Federal Crop Insurance Act funds in FY2007 for program integrity purposes, including the data mining project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
America's Domestic Fuels Act

Bill: 109-hr-6356
Sponsor: Rep. Costello, Jerry F. [D-IL-12]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Biomass energy
Carbon dioxide
Coal
Economics and Public Finance
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to research
Research and development
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Sulphur

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
America's Domestic Fuels Act - Instructs the Secretary of Energy to provide grants to states to conduct research to expedite the use of coal gasification as an energy source in ethanol production. 
 
Requires at least one pilot project receiving such assistance to be fueled by coal gasification and to be located in an area with high sulfur bituminous coal reserves.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to limit the monthly amount of prescription drug cost-sharing for full-benefit dual eligible individuals and other lowest-income individuals under the Medicare Prescription Drug Program.

Bill: 109-hr-6357
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Coinsurance
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Law
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare
Welfare recipients

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to limit to $10, adjusted for inflation, the monthly amount of prescription drug cost-sharing for full-benefit dual eligible individuals (eligible for both part D and Medicaid under SSA title XIX) and other lowest-income individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
Summer of Service Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6358
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Community and school
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Ethics
Federal aid to education
Fees
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Indian education
Labor and Employment
Leadership
Minorities
National service
Native Americans
Performance measurement
Scholarships
Service learning
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Summer of Service Act of 2006 - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to create Summer of Service programs providing at least 100 hours of summer community service learning opportunities to youth who will subsequently enroll in grades six through nine. 
 
Requires the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service to provide competitive three-year grants to: (1) states under a State Grant program; and (2) public or private organizations under a National Direct Grant program, when a state does not apply for funding or the community service program includes multiple states. 
 
Requires states and organizations, in making project subgrants, to favor entities with established track records that: (1) have leadership positions in the communities from which participating youth will be drawn; (2) focus on youth service during the transition year before high school; (3) encourage or enable youth to continue providing community service throughout the school year; (4) involve youth in the design and operation of the community service project; and (5) include youth of diverse backgrounds, at least 50% of which are from low-income families. Permits such entities to charge the parents of participants an income-based fee to contribute to the nonfederal share of project costs.
 
Makes each youth serving at least 100 hours in a service-learning project eligible for an educational award of up to $500.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
To require the establishment of a Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic at the Olympic Medical Center, Port Angeles, Washington.

Bill: 109-hr-6359
Sponsor: Rep. Dicks, Norman D. [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Clinics
Health
Medical centers
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into an agreement with Clallam County, Washington, for the establishment of a veterans' outpatient clinic at the Olympic Medical Center, Port Angeles, Washington.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the establishment of a Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Clallam County, Washington.

Bill: 109-hr-6360
Sponsor: Rep. Dicks, Norman D. [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Clinics
Community health services
Health
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish in Clallam County, Washington, a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) community-based outpatient clinic for the provision of outpatient services to veterans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
Tule Lake Segregation Center Special Resources Study Act

Bill: 109-hr-6361
Sponsor: Rep. Doolittle, John T. [R-CA-4]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
California
Concentration camps
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Japanese Americans
National parks
World War I
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Tule Lake Segregation Center Special Resources Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resources study of the national significance, suitability, and feasibility of including the Tule Lake Segregation Center in Modoc County, California, in the National Park System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Clean Air Act to exclude agricultural particulates from the national ambient air quality standards for particulate matter, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-6362
Sponsor: Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural pollution
Agriculture and Food
Air pollution control
Environmental Protection Agency
Law
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Soils
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit any national ambient air quality standard prescribed after January 1, 2006, for particulate matter other than fine particulate matter from applying to any ambient mix of particulate matter the majority of which is rural windblown dust and soils and particulate matter generated by agricultural sources.
 
Defines &quot;agricultural sources&quot; to mean crop production and animal production within the meaning of the U.S. Bureau of Census North American Industry Classification System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
To provide for an additional requirements payment under the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to ensure that Puerto Rico is treated in the same manner as other States for purposes of determining the amount of the requirements payment made under such Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-6363
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Fortuno, Luis G. [R-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2006-12-05 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress
Congressional elections
Economics and Public Finance
Election administration
Federal-territorial relations
Grants-in-aid
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Presidential elections
Puerto Rico

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: 
Directs the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to make an additional payment to the State Election Commission of Puerto Rico to assist it to meet federal election administration requirements under the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA).
 
Requires the EAC to make such a requirements payment in an amount that would treat Puerto Rico in the same manner as each of the several states and the District of Columbia.
 
Amends HAVA to revise the formula for determining the minimum amount of requirements payments to Puerto Rico.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-12-05
text: Introduced in House