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To provide for the establishment of a Katrina Assistance Program through the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-3826
Sponsor: Rep. Melancon, Charlie [D-LA-3]
Introduced: 2005-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Alabama
Building construction
Building laws
Capital investments
Conferences
Data banks
Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Energy
Engineering
Finance and Financial Sector
Flood control
Flood damage prevention
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Harbors
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Infrastructure
Location of industries
Louisiana
Machinery
Manufacturing industries
Marine terminals
Mississippi
Public meetings
Public utilities
Raw materials
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Technology transfer
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: 
Requires the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to: (1) establish within the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program a Katrina Assistance Program to provide assistance to impacted small and medium-sized manufacturers in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina; and (2) carry out an engineering performance study of the effects of Hurricane Katrina in the areas of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi covered by the President's major disaster declarations of August 29, 2005. Requires the study to examine physical structures damaged due to excessive wind, storm surge, and flooding.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Gasoline Price Relief Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3828
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2005-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Diesel motor
Energy
Energy prices
Gasoline
Income tax
Motor vehicles
Petroleum
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: 
Gasoline Price Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers who own a highway vehicle fueled in whole or in part by gasoline or diesel fuel a nonrefundable income tax credit of $500 ($1,000 if filing jointly). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Household Employee Flexible Savings Plan Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3831
Sponsor: Rep. Gerlach, Jim [R-PA-6]
Introduced: 2005-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Excise tax
Household workers
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Pension funds
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: 
Household Employee Flexible Savings Plan Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to qualify certain pension plan cash or deferred arrangements for the waiver of the tax on nondeductible contributions to qualified employer plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Introduced in House
AID for America Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3832
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2005-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Disaster relief
Disasters
Emergency Management
Employee benefit plans
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Volunteer workers
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: 
Assistance to Individuals Delivering for America Act of 2005 or the AID for America Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a business tax credit for 50 percent of the wages paid to employees serving as disaster relief volunteers. Limits the amount of such credit to $100 per day per employee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Introduced in House
National Guard Emergency Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3833
Sponsor: Rep. Mica, John L. [R-FL-7]
Introduced: 2005-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Assault
Disaster relief
Disasters
Emergency Management
Fines (Penalties)
Homicide
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Military civic action
National Guard

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: 
National Guard Emergency Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the federal criminal code to establish penalties for violent crimes against members of the Army National Guard or Air National Guard performing duties during an emergency declared by the President under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2329)
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the authority of the President to suspend the prevailing wage requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act during times of national emergency and to reinstate the application of such requirements to Federal contracts in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Bill: 109-hr-3834
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2005-09-20 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

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: 
Repeals the President's authority to suspend the prevailing wage requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act during times of national emergency.
 
Reinstates the application of such requirements to 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: 2005-11-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Military Victims of Violence Confidentiality Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3837
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2005-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Communication in medicine
Confidential communications
Counseling
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Crime and Law Enforcement
Families
Family violence
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Identification devices
Law
Mental health services
Physician-patient privilege
Right of privacy
Social Welfare
Social life and customs
Stalking
Victims of crimes
Violence
Wife abuse
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: 
Military Victims of Violence Confidentiality Act of 2005 - Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) to provide that a client has a privilege to refuse to disclose, and to prevent any other person from disclosing, a confidential communication made between the client and a victim service organization, or between the client and a health care professional, in a case arising under the UCMJ, if such communication was made for securing advice, counseling, treatment, or assistance concerning the client's mental, physical, or emotional condition caused by domestic violence, family violence, dating violence, stalking, or sexual assault. Provides privilege exceptions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1902)
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to repeal the long-term goal for reducing to zero the incidental mortality and serious injury of marine mammals in commercial fishing operations, and to modify the goal of take reduction plans for reducing such takings.

Bill: 109-hr-3839
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Fisheries
Fishery management
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine mammals
Marine resources conservation
Planning
Protection of animals

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: 
Amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to repeal the long-term goal of reducing to zero the incidental mortality and serious injury of marine mammals in commercial fishing operations. Modifies the long-term goal of take reduction plans the reduction of such incidental mortality and serious injury (but not to any specified percentage).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans.
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of David Adekoya.

Bill: 109-hr-3840
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2005-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: 
Prohibits David Adekoya from being removed from, or denied admission to, the United States by reason of any act of his which is grounds for such removal or denial that is reflected in the records of the Department of Homeland Security or the Visa Office of the Department of State.
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to rescind any outstanding order of removal or deportation or any finding of deportability that has been entered against David Adekoya by reason of any such act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Small Employer Tax Relief Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3841
Sponsor: Rep. Manzullo, Donald A. [R-IL-16]
Introduced: 2005-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Agriculture and Food
Apprenticeship
Automobiles
Bank employees
Building construction
Commerce
Computer software
Computers
Corporation directors
Corporation taxes
Cost of living adjustments
Costs
Depreciation and amortization
Earnings
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Expense accounts
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Home offices
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Individual retirement accounts
Insurance premiums
Joint ventures
Labor and Employment
Married people
Medical economics
Minimum tax
Partnerships
Pension funds
Recreation
Restaurants
Science, Technology, Communications
Self-employed
Skilled labor
Small business
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Sports and Recreation
Stocks
Tax administration
Tax auditing
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Tax penalties
Tax rates
Tax returns
Tax simplification
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Taxpayers
Transportation and Public Works
Unemployment insurance
Vocational and technical education
Welfare recipients
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: 
Small Employer Tax Relief Act of 2005 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to small business, including to: (1) allow the deduction from self-employment income of self-employed health insurance costs; (2) reduce in 2006 the federal unemployment tax rate; (3) increase permanently the expensing allowance for small business assets; (4) repeal the alternative minimum tax on individuals after 2009; (5) allow certain small business employers a tax credit for the training of highly-skilled employees; (6) make permanent the work opportunity and the welfare-to-work tax credits; (7) increase depreciation and expensing allowances for certain business assets; (8) allow a standard tax deduction for home office expenses; (9) revise certain S corporation requirements; and (10) waive certain tax penalties for noncompliant tax deposits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Gas Price Relief Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3842
Sponsor: Rep. Kuhl, John R. "Randy", Jr. [R-NY-29]
Introduced: 2005-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Diesel motor
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy prices
Excise tax
Gasoline
Government trust funds
Petroleum
Tax credits
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: 
Emergency Gas Price Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce highway motor fuel excise taxes by 10 cents per gallon, beginning on the date when the retail price for gasoline is greater than $3.00 per gallon and ending when such price is less than $2.50 per gallon (reduction period). Provides for adjustments to such excise tax for floor stocks of highway motor fuels held by dealers prior to the reduction period (credits or refunds) or after the reduction period (floor stocks tax).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the South Carolina National Heritage Corridor Act of 1996 to expand the boundaries of the heritage corridor to include Georgetown, Berkeley, and Saluda Counties, South Carolina.

Bill: 109-hr-3843
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2005-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Historic sites
History
South Carolina

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: 
Amends the South Carolina National Heritage Corridor Act of 1996 to expand the boundaries of the Corridor to include the counties of Georgetown, Berkeley, and Saluda.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Hurricane Katrina Fast-Track Refunds for Working Families Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3844
Sponsor: Rep. Emanuel, Rahm [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2005-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alabama
Disaster relief
Earned income tax credit
Emergency Management
Families
Floods
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Income tax
Louisiana
Mississippi
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: 
Hurricane Katrina Fast-Track Refunds for Working Families Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an advance payment of the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit in 2005 for taxpayers in a Hurricane Katrina disaster area who received such credits for a taxable year ending in 2004. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
To set at 90 percent the Federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) and the enhanced FMAP for medical and child health assistance provided in States highly impacted by Hurricane Katrina and to Katrina Hurricane evacuees in other States during fiscal year 2006 under the Medicaid Program and SCHIP.

Bill: 109-hr-3845
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2005-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alabama
Displaced persons
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal budgets
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Louisiana
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Mississippi
Off-budget expenditures
Poor children
Social Welfare
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: 
Sets at 90% the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) and the enhanced FMAP for medical and child health assistance provided in Louisiana and Mississippi and to Hurricane Katrina evacuees in other states during FY2006 under Medicaid (title XIX) and SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program) under SSA title XXI.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2005-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2005-09-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend the Milk Income Loss Contract Program through the end of calendar year 2005.

Bill: 109-hr-3846
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Mark [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2005-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural subsidies
Commerce
Dairy industry
Government Operations and Politics
Marketing of farm produce
Milk

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: 
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend the sign-up date and contract duration for national dairy market loss payments through December 31, 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend the Milk Income Loss Contract Program through the end of fiscal year 2007.

Bill: 109-hr-3847
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Mark [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2005-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural subsidies
Commerce
Dairy industry
Government Operations and Politics
Marketing of farm produce
Milk

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: 
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend the sign-up date and contract duration for national dairy market loss payments through September 30, 2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend the Milk Income Loss Contract Program for an additional month.

Bill: 109-hr-3848
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Mark [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2005-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural subsidies
Commerce
Dairy industry
Government Operations and Politics
Marketing of farm produce
Milk

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: 
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend the sign-up date and contract duration for national dairy market loss payments through October 31, 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
PIC and POPs Conventions and the LRTAP POPs Protocol Implementation Act

Bill: 109-hr-3849
Sponsor: Rep. Lucas, Frank D. [R-OK-3]
Introduced: 2005-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Agriculture in foreign trade
Air pollution control
Bioaccumulation
Business records
Commerce
Cost effectiveness
Department of the Treasury
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental health
Environmental monitoring
Export controls
Exports
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health
Import restrictions
Imports
International Affairs
International agencies
International environmental cooperation
Labeling
Law
Pesticide pollution
Pesticide regulation
Pesticides
Pollution control
Polychlorinated biphenyls
Risk
Toxicology
Trade agreements
Transboundary pollution

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: 
PIC and POPs Conventions and the LRTAP POPs Protocol Implementation Act - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to provide for the implementation of three international environmental agreements: (1) the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs Convention); (2) the Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP POPs Protocol); and (3) the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade (PIC Convention).

action_date: 2006-09-19
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
PIC and POPs Conventions and the LRTAP POPs Protocol Implementation Act - Defines specified terms.
 
Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to provide for the implementation of three international environmental agreements: (1) the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs Convention); (2) the Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP POPs Protocol); and (3) the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade (PIC Convention).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 399.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Reported by the Committee on Agriculture. H. Rept. 109-668.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Reported by the Committee on Agriculture. H. Rept. 109-668.
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: Executive Comment Requested from EPA.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Introduced in House