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Damaged Vehicle Information Act

Bill: 109-hr-6093
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2006-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Automobile industry
Automobile theft
Business records
Consumer education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Transportation
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Fires
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Insurance companies
Law
Motor vehicle safety
Motor vehicles
Traffic accidents and safety
Transportation and Public Works
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: 
Damaged Vehicle Information Act - Amends federal transportation law to direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue a regulation to require persons who terminate a motor vehicle contract due to flood or water damage, collision, fire damage, theft and recovery, or any circumstance that adversely affects the fair market value of the vehicle to disclose information of such vehicle damage to the public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
Disabled Warriors' Family Education Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6096
Sponsor: Rep. Buyer, Steve [R-IN-4]
Introduced: 2006-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Married people
Secondary education
Veterans' benefits
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: 
Disabled Warriors' Family Education Act of 2006 - Allows spouses and dependent children of permanently disabled members of the Armed Forces to access benefits under the Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance program while such members are still on active duty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1762)
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
Transit System Flexibility Protection Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6097
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2006-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Mass rapid transit
Motor buses
Urban affairs
Urban areas
Urban transportation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: 
Transit System Flexibility Protection Act of 2006 - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make public transportation formula grants for operating costs of equipment and facilities for use in public transportation in an urbanized area with a population of more than 200,000 if the transit system operates fewer than 100 buses on fixed route service during peak hours.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
Keep Kids Covered Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6098
Sponsor: Rep. Barrow, John [D-GA-12]
Introduced: 2006-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: 
Keep Kids Covered Act of 2006 - Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) to: (1) establish a special rule for redistribution of unspent FY2004 allotments; (2) provide for additional allotments to eliminate FY2007 funding shortfalls remaining after redistribution of unspent FY2004 allotments; and (3) extend authority through FY2006 for qualifying states to use certain SCHIP funds for Medicaid expenditures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
Military Education Enhancement Opportunities Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6100
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Michael [R-FL-9]
Introduced: 2006-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Education
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Military discharges
Military pay
Military pensions
Military personnel
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: 
Military Education Enhancement Opportunities Act of 2006 - Allows certain active duty members of the Armed Forces to elect to receive basic educational assistance benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2006-09-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2006-09-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
Legal Services Corporation Improvement Act

Bill: 109-hr-6101
Sponsor: Rep. Cannon, Chris [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2006-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation directors
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Inspectors general
Legal Services Corporation
Removal of officials

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: 
Legal Services Corporation Improvement Act - Amends the Legal Services Corporation Act to give the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) the power to appoint and remove an LSC Inspector General in accordance with the Inspector General Act of 1978.
 
Allows the Inspector General to be removed at any time upon the written concurrence of at least nine members of the Board.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Act establishing the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area in order to include Butler County, Pennsylvania, within the boundaries of that heritage area.

Bill: 109-hr-6103
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2006-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boundaries
Commemorations
Commerce
Historic sites
History
Iron and steel industry
Pennsylvania
Steel

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: 
Amends the Steel Industry American Heritage Area Act of 1996 to add Butler County to the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to help ensure that no Service hospital or outpatient health facility is closed unless Congressional reporting requirements regarding the hospital or facility are current.

Bill: 109-hr-6105
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2006-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Access to health care
Ambulatory care
Clinics
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Economics and Public Finance
Health
Hospitals
Indian medical care
Minorities
Quality of care

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: 
Amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to prohibit the closure of any Indian Health Service hospital or outpatient health care facility if the Secretary of Health and Human Services has not reported to Congress at least one year (as under current law) but not longer than two years before the proposed closure date an evaluation of the closure's expected impact.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman .
action_date: 2006-09-22
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2006-09-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2006-09-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, 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: 2006-09-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1762)
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
To authorize appropriations for the purpose of establishing an office within the Internal Revenue Service to focus on violations of the internal revenue laws by persons who are under investigation for conduct relating to commercial sex acts, to establish a Whistleblower Office within the Internal Revenue Service, and to increase the criminal monetary penalty limitations for the underpayment or overpayment of tax due to fraud.

Bill: 109-hr-6107
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2006-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Child labor
Child pornography
Child sexual abuse
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Department of the Treasury
Executive reorganization
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Forced labor
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Income tax
Informers
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal fees
Prosecution
Prostitution
Slavery
Tax deductions
Tax evasion
Tax penalties
Tax returns
Whistle blowing

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: 
Authorizes appropriations to establish an office in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to focus on violations of tax law by individuals under investigation for criminal commercial sex activity. 

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) revise requirements for making awards to individuals who disclose tax law violations to the IRS (whistleblowers); and (2) increase criminal monetary and other penalties for attempts to evade or defeat tax, willful failure to file a tax return, supply information, or pay tax, aggravated failure to file tax returns, fraud and false statements, and underpayment or overpayment of tax due to fraud.

Establishes in the IRS a Whitleblower Office to analyze whistleblower information and manage the whistleblower awards program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1766-1767)
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
Flood Insurance Community Outreach Grant Program Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6108
Sponsor: Rep. Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-5]
Introduced: 2006-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Cost effectiveness
Disaster insurance
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Flood damage prevention
Floodplains
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Risk
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: 
Flood Insurance Community Outreach Grant Program Act of 2006 - Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to authorize the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to make grants to local governmental agencies responsible for floodplain management activities in communities that participate in the national flood insurance program for: (1) outreach activities to encourage and facilitate the purchase of flood insurance protection by owners and renters of properties in such communities; and (2) educational activities that increase awareness of flood risk reduction.
 
Permits grant funds to be used to: (1) identify such property owners and renters; (2) notify them when their properties become included in, or are excluded from, an area having special flood hazards about the effect of such inclusion or exclusion on the applicability of the mandatory flood insurance purchase requirement; (3) educate them regarding the flood risk and reduction of risk in their community and regarding the benefits and costs of flood insurance; and (4) encourage them to maintain or acquire coverage.
 
Sets forth requirements regarding cost-sharing and limits on administrative costs. 
 
Requires the Director to provide for such agencies to submit applications for grants and for competitive selection, based on criteria established by the Director. Lists selection considerations. Authorizes the Director to use up to 50% of amounts available for grants in each fiscal year in areas determined to have the most immediate need for such activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1767-1768)
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
Stop Endangering the Records of Veterans (SERVE) Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6109
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Tim [R-PA-18]
Introduced: 2006-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Bank accounts
Compensation (Law)
Computer security measures
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Driver licenses
Encryption
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Identification devices
Identity theft
Law
Names
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: 
Stop Endangering the Records of Veterans (SERVE) Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) physically secure all sensitive personal information processed or maintained by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and all equipment containing such information; (2) encrypt all sensitive personal information; and (3) require VA contractors with access to sensitive personal information to encrypt or encode such information and physically secure all equipment containing such information. Defines &quot;sensitive personal information&quot; to include social security numbers, dates of birth, and individual financial information.

Imposes criminal penalties for the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive personal information.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7475-7476)
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
To require persons seeking Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval for a liquefied natural gas facility to identify employees and agents engaged in activities to persuade communities of the benefits of such approval.

Bill: 109-hr-6110
Sponsor: Rep. Ruppersberger, C. A. Dutch [D-MD-2]
Introduced: 2006-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Business records
Commerce
Data banks
Energy facilities
Gas industry
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Law
Licenses
Liquefied natural gas
Lobbying
Public relations
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: 
Instructs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to require an applicant for approval under the Natural Gas Act of the siting, construction, expansion, or operation of a liquefied natural gas facility to identify each employee or agent engaged in activities to persuade communities of the benefits of such approval. 
 
Requires the Commission to maintain a publicly available database listing all such employees and agents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
Denali National Park and Alaska Railroad Land Exchange Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6112
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2006-09-19 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Easements
Land transfers
Law
National parks
Railroads
Transportation and Public Works
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: 
Denali National Park and Alaska Railroad Land Exchange Act of 2006 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to exchange land within Denali National Park with the Alaska Railroad for the purpose of turning railroad trains around near Denali Park Station.
 
Requires the Alaska Railroad to pay the costs of any such land exchange, including the costs of compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the costs of land surveys, and other reasonable costs to accomplish the exchange.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-22
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-09-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-19
text: Introduced in House
Truth in Video Game Rating Act

Bill: 109-hr-6113
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2006-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Cable television
Child welfare
Computer software
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer protection
Families
Federal Trade Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Interactive media
Internet
Labeling
Law
Marketing
Motion pictures
Pornography
Science, Technology, Communications
Television programs
Video games
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: 
Truth in Video Game Rating Act - Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to prescribe rules that prohibit as an unfair and deceptive act or practice: (1) any rating organization from assigning a content rating to any video or computer game unless it has reviewed its playable content; and (2) any producer, seller, or distributor of such games from withholding or hiding any playable content of the game from a rating organization with the intent of obtaining a less-restrictive content rating than the game would likely receive if such rating organization were to review the withheld or hidden content.
 
Requires the FTC rules also to require any person submitting to a rating organization a video or computer game with hidden content to accompany it with the codes or methods necessary to access such hidden content.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the efficacy of the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) ratings system in assigning appropriate content ratings to video and computer games, and related questions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Universal Prekindergarten Act

Bill: 109-hr-6114
Sponsor: Rep. Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10]
Introduced: 2006-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Accreditation (Education)
Child development
Class size
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Curricula
Day care
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Fringe benefits
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Parent-school relationships
Preschool education
Salaries
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Special education
Student aid
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: 
Universal Prekindergarten Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide grants to a designated state agency for development of universal prekindergaten programs for all children three, four, and five years old in the state. 
 
Requires the state to: (1) match federal funds by at least 20%; and (2) submit with its grant application a plan to establish, coordinate, and implement a statewide universal prekindergarten program. 
Authorizes state agencies to set aside up to 5% of a grant for ongoing professional development activities for teachers and staff of prekindergarten programs that wish to participate.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House