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A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent dividends received from corporations in tax havens from receiving a reduced tax rate.

Bill: 109-s-1363
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Dividends
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Income tax
Stocks
Tax havens
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the definition of qualified foreign corporation for purposes of qualifying dividends paid by such corporations for preferential tax rates to require that such corporations be created or organized in a foreign country that has a comprehensive tax system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 7/1/2005 S7858)
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Preparing, Recruiting, and Retaining Education Professionals Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1364
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Business and social problems
Child development
College costs
College graduates
Colleges
Commerce
Community and school
Continuing education
Curricula
Department of Education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational research
Educational statistics
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Interstate relations
Labor and Employment
Law
Leadership
Learning
Licenses
Mentoring
Parent-school relationships
Preschool education
Rating of teachers
Recruiting of employees
Retired military personnel
Scholarships
School administration
School districts
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
State laws
Teacher education
Teacher salaries
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers
Teaching

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Preparing, Recruiting, and Retaining Education Professionals Act of 2005 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to reauthorize and revise title II part A requirements for teacher quality enhancement grants for states and partnerships (II-A). 

Revises state grant, partnership grant, and recruitment grant requirements to include requirements relating to: (1) early childhood education; (2) exemplary, highly competent, and highly qualified teachers as these are defined under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; (3) teacher mentoring; (4) professional development; (5) parental involvement; and (6) high-need schools and local educational agencies. Revises requirements for peer review panel grant evaluation and for teacher preparation program accountability.

Requires states to submit teacher quality plans.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants to institutions of higher education that are II-A partner institutions to create Academies for Faculty Excellence.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR 7/1/2005 S7859-7865)
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 7/1/2005 S7858-7859)
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in Senate
TAA Health Coverage Improvement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1365
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Appropriations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Death
Divorce
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Families
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health insurance
Health insurance continuation
Income tax
Insurance companies
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medicare
Risk
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Trade adjustment assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
TAA Health Coverage Improvement Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the tax credit for the health insurance costs of trade adjustment assistance (TAA) workers to, among other things: (1) increase the amount of such credit from 65 to 95 percent; (2) allow for the full amount of such credit and for full payment of TAA worker health insurance premiums for months prior to the issuance of a qualified health insurance costs credit eligibility certificate; and (3) set forth new tax credit eligibility rules for TAA workers and their family members.
 
 Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to establish a program to offer TAA workers enrollment in the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program (FEHBP).
 
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to: (1) prevent a lapse of health care coverage for TAA workers; and (2) align coverage periods under such Act with eligibility periods for TAA workers. 
 
Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require a state or entity to use national emergency grant funds to provide TAA workers and their family members with health insurance coverage for periods prior to their first eligibility month. 
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to extend: (1) through FY2007 funding for the creation and initial operation of state high risk health insurance pools; and (2) through FY2010 funding for allotments for the operation of existing state pools. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8379)
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Public Good IRA Rollover Act

Bill: 109-s-1366
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Charitable contributions
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Law
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Public Good IRA Rollover Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income distributions from individual retirement accounts for certain charitable purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 7/1/2005 S7865)
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for recruiting, selecting, training, and supporting a national teacher corps in underserved communities.

Bill: 109-s-1367
Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational research
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Rating of teachers
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award a grant to Teach For America, Inc. to implement and expand its program of recruiting, selecting, training, and supporting new teachers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 7/1/2005 S7865-7866)
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act

Bill: 109-s-1369
Sponsor: Sen. Talent, Jim [R-MO]
Introduced: 2005-07-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights enforcement
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Conspiracy
Criminal investigation
Department of Justice
Evidence (Law)
Executive reorganization
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Housing and Community Development
Housing discrimination
Kidnapping
Murder
Prosecution
Prostitution
Sex crimes
Sex-oriented businesses
Slavery

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: 
Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act - Establishes an Unsolved Crimes Section in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. Requires the Chief of the Section to be responsible for investigating and prosecuting violations of criminal civil rights statutes in which the complaint alleges that such a violation occurred not later than December 31, 1969, and resulted in a death.
 
Requires the Chief to consult with state or local officials regarding the appropriate venue for a case where there has been a violation of a criminal civil rights statute that is also a violation of a state or local law.
 
Directs the Chief to refer cases to the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division if the Chief determines that the subject of the complaint has violated a criminal civil rights statute but the violation does not meet the requirements for the Unsolved Crimes Section.
 
Requires the Chief, annually, to determine the cases under his or her jurisdiction for which there is sufficient evidence to prosecute violations of criminal civil rights statutes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Flag Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1370
Sponsor: Sen. Bennett, Robert F. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2005-07-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Commemorations
Destruction of property
Fines (Penalties)
Flags
Government Operations and Politics
Government property
Larceny
Public Lands and Natural Resources
State laws
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: 
Flag Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the federal criminal code to revise provisions regarding desecration of the flag to prohibit: (1) destroying or damaging a U.S. flag with the primary purpose and intent to incite or produce imminent violence or a breach of the peace; or (2) stealing or knowingly converting the use of a U.S. flag either belonging to the United States or on lands reserved for the United States and intentionally destroying or damaging that flag.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7911, S7912)
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Ongoing Oversight of Iraq Reconstruction Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1371
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2005-07-01 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Auditing
Authorization
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Inspectors general
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Rescission of appropriated funds
War relief

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: 
Ongoing Oversight of Iraq Reconstruction Act of 2005 - Amends the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense and for the Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004, as amended by the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005, to: (1) change the termination date for the Office of the Inspector General of the Coalition Provisional Authority from ten months after certain Iraq relief funds have been obligated to ten months after such funds have been expended; and (2) authorize additional FY2006 appropriations for such Office.
 
Rescinds specified Iraqi relief and reconstruction fund amounts under the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense and for the Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Introduced in Senate
FAIR Ratings Act

Bill: 109-s-1372
Sponsor: Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]
Introduced: 2005-07-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Associations, institutions, etc.
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Demography
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grievance procedures
Information services
Law
Licenses
Standards
Statistics
Telecommunication rates
Television advertising
Television industry
Television programs
Television viewers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: 
Fairness, Accuracy, Inclusivity, and Responsiveness in Ratings Act of 2005 or FAIR Ratings Act - Prohibits a person from selling, offering to sell, or otherwise providing data from a television ratings measurement system (system) that produces data to be used commercially as currency ratings unless that system is accredited by the Media Ratings Council. Requires such Council to: (1) accredit such systems on the basis of audits; and (2) preapprove any change made to a current system. Provides accreditation standards.
 
Requires any dispute between an operator of a system and the Council to be resolved through dispute resolution procedures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 109-1127.
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7912-7913)
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Human Chimera Prohibition Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1373
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2005-07-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Cloning
Fetus
Fines (Penalties)
Health
Human embryology
Law
Medical ethics

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: 
Human Chimera Prohibition Act of 2005 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit and to set penalties for: (1) creating or attempting to create a human chimera (a being with human and non-human tissue as specified in this Act); (2) transferring or attempting to transfer a human embryo into a non-human womb, or a non-human embryo into a human womb; or (3) transporting or receiving a human chimera.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide for a border preparedness pilot program on Indian land.

Bill: 109-s-1374
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2005-07-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border patrols
Boundaries
Canada
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to law enforcement
Illegal aliens
Indian lands
Indian law enforcement
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Mexico
Minorities

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: 
Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Office of Domestic Preparedness, to establish a border preparedness pilot program of direct grants to up to six eligible tribal governments on Indian land located on or near the border of the United States with Canada or Mexico.
 
Requires recipients to use grant funds to: (1) facilitate coordination with federal, state, and local governments of the tribe's response to a security threat to an international border of the United States; (2) enhance the tribe's capability as a first responder to an illegal crossing by an immigrant over such a border; (3) provide training and technical assistance in the use of effective surveillance technologies and integrated communication systems and equipment; and (4) provide technical advice and assistance to plan and implement strategies to detect and prevent any illegal entry into tribal land, and the transportation of any illegal substance within or near its boundaries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-12
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 159.
action_date: 2005-07-11
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 S7989-7990)
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7989)
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Teaching Geography is Fundamental Act

Bill: 109-s-1376
Sponsor: Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS]
Introduced: 2005-07-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Conferences
Curricula
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational innovations
Educational research
Educational technology
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Geographic information systems
Geography and mapping
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
International Affairs
International education
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: 
Teaching Geography is Fundamental Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a geography education grant program under title II, Teacher Quality Enhancement.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award a grant to a national nonprofit education organization or consortium, with 75% to be used for subgrants to institutions of higher education associated with state geographic alliances, nonprofit educational organizations, or state or local educational agencies. 

Requires various grantee and subgrantee activities designed to expand geographic literacy among kindergarten through grade 12 students by improving their teachers' professional development programs offered through institutions of higher education. Includes among such activities state-based conferences to assess geographic literacy and identify improvement strategies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7991-7992)
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Hyang Dong Joo.

Bill: 109-s-1377
Sponsor: Sen. Allen, George [R-VA]
Introduced: 2005-07-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: 
Declares Hyang Dong Joo to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Railroad Safety Improvement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1380
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2005-07-11 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Emergency Management
Federal aid to transportation
Federal-local relations
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Railroad safety
Science, Technology, Communications
Traffic accidents and safety
Traffic congestion
Traffic signs and signals
Transportation planning
Vandalism
Video tape recording

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: 
Railroad Safety Improvement Act of 2005 - Amends federal transportation law to direct the Secretary of Transportation to establish an automated video image analysis pilot program in states with the highest rates of accidents at highway-rail grade crossings to record motorist violations at crossings equipped with automatic warning devices. Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress a plan to eliminate highway-rail grade crossings, with priority given to crossings where the number of accidents are high or there is insufficient or outdated protective equipment.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) review the safety of all public railway-highway grade crossings in the United States; and (2) compile and submit to Congress, based on such review, a list of the 5,000 railway-highway grade crossings most in need of safety improvements.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to states to make necessary improvements to crossings identified for elimination and improvement. Requires the Secretary, in awarding such grants, to: (1) give priority to projects to install automated warning systems at crossings in states with the highest number of accidents; and (2) strive to reduce the number of crossings without automated warning systems by not less than 50%.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) analyze all laws for preventing trespassing and vandalism on railroad property; and (2) develop model legislation providing for civil and criminal penalties for individuals who violate grade crossing signs, signals, or gates.
 
Requires the Secretary to inspect annually at least 2% of all highway-rail grade crossings in the 10 states with the highest rates of collisions at such crossings.
 
Requires the Secretary to investigate, and report to Congress, all fatal accidents in the United States (including fatal railroad accidents) that occur on or after enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2005-07-11
text: Introduced in Senate
Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station Relicensing Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1381
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-07-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Evacuation of civilians
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Licenses
New Jersey
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nuclear power plants
Nuclear security measures
Radioactive wastes
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-12
text: 
Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station Relicensing Act of 2005 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to condition relicensing of nuclear facilities upon an evaluation of: (1) health risks, vulnerability to terrorist attack, evacuation plans, surrounding population increases, ability to store nuclear waste, and safety and security record of the facility; and (2) the impact of a nuclear accident at the facility.
 
Prohibits the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from relicensing the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station until it has considered a report to Congress by the National Academy of Sciences that provides: (1) an independent assessment of safety performance; and (2) recommendations whether the Station should be relicensed and the conditions for such relicensing.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8137-8138)
action_date: 2005-07-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8137)
action_date: 2005-07-12
text: Introduced in Senate