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Niagara Falls National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 109-hr-6019
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Cultural property
Department of the Interior
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
New York State
Outdoor recreation
Rivers
Sports and Recreation
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Niagara Falls National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Niagara Fall National Heritage Area in New York. 
 
Designates as the local coordinating entity for the Area: (1) the Niagara Falls National Heritage Area Commission (established by this Act) for a five-year period beginning on the enactment of this Act; and (2) a private nonprofit or governmental organization designated by the Commission on the expiration of such period. 
 
Requires the Commission to submit a management plan for the Area. Prohibits the Commission from using federal funds made available to the Commission under this Act to acquire any real property or interest in real property. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide technical and financial assistance to the Area for the development and implementation of the management plan. 
 
Requires the Secretary to submit a report that includes: (1) an evaluation of the accomplishments and sustainability of the Area; and (2) any recommendations of the Secretary with respect to the future management of the Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2006-08-14
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Linking Educators and Developing Entrepreneurs for Reaching Success (LEADERS) Act

Bill: 109-hr-6020
Sponsor: Rep. Tierney, John F. [D-MA-6]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Business education
Capital
Commerce
Commercialization
Community development
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Depressed areas
Diversification in industry
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Educational innovations
Entrepreneurs
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Indian economic development
Industry-university relations
Infrastructure
Leases
Minorities
Native Americans
Nonprofit organizations
Office equipment and supplies
Rural economic development
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Social Welfare
Strategic planning
Urban affairs
Urban economic development

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Linking Educators and Developing Entrepreneurs for Reaching Success (LEADERS) Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to support business incubation at institutions of higher education that award associate or baccalaureate degrees. 
Directs the Secretary to make competitive, matching awards to: (1) a nonprofit entity that manages or provides technical assistance to a degree-granting institution's affiliated incubator (or to the institution that manages in the absence of such an entity), for helping acquire or renovate space for incubators, and for developing curricula, providing services, or providing programming for entrepreneurs housed in an incubator; and (2) a degree-granting institution or a nonprofit local government or community development organization, for feasibility studies to determine the need for or siting of incubators. Requires the Secretary to reserve certain amounts for research regarding best practices for incubator programs, including the development of a benchmarking system based on uniform measures, and for dissemination of information regarding such practices. Authorizes contracts for such purposes with organizations with expertise in business incubation practices.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
To permit the proceeds of certain agriculture grants to be used for a revolving loan fund, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-6021
Sponsor: Rep. Walden, Greg [R-OR-2]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Commerce
Diversification in industry
Economics and Public Finance
Housing and Community Development
National forests
Nonprofit organizations
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Revolving funds
Rural economic development
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Permits any nonprofit corporation incorporated on March 14, 1995, to: (1) use the proceeds from certain grants awarded to it under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act and the National Forest-Dependent Rural Communities Economic Diversification Act of 1990 to establish and operate a revolving loan fund; and (2) on dissolution of such fund, retain fund amounts.
 
States that such a fund shall remain in operation for a period ending not earlier than five years after the date of enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Lower PRICED Drugs Act

Bill: 109-hr-6022
Sponsor: Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Antibiotics
Child health
Civil actions and liability
Clinical trials
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Department of Health and Human Services
Discovery (Law)
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Drug utilization
Drugs
Evidence (Law)
Families
Generic drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Injunctions
Intellectual property
Labeling
Law
Marketing
Patent infringement
Patents
Pharmaceutical research
Prescription pricing
Public health
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Lower Prices Reduced with Increased Competition and Efficient Development of Drugs Act or the Lower PRICED Drugs Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require an abbreviated application for a new drug containing certain antibiotics, the approved labeling for which includes a method of use that is claimed by a patent, to include a statement: (1) that identifies the relevant patent and the approved use covered by the patent; and (2) that the applicant is not seeking approval of such use.
 
 Requires the court to consider the totality of circumstances and the public interest in deciding whether to shorten the 30-month period that delays the approval of an abbreviated drug application when a patent infringement case is filed against the applicant.
 
Limits market exclusivity provided for conducting pediatric studies of new or already approved drugs to only those drugs for which the Secretary of Health and Human Services approves labeling that provides specific, therapeutically meaningful information about the use of the drug in pediatric patients.
 
Sets forth provisions governing petitions seeking any action relating to the approval of certain new drug or abbreviated new drug applications, including the delay of such approval. Allows the Secretary to approve a petition to delay approval only when necessary to protect the public health. Requires the Secretary to take final agency action on a petition within 180 days of receipt, with no extensions allowed. 
 
Extends the 30-month period that the Secretary has to approve or disapprove an abbreviated application for a new drug by the amount of time that lapses from the date the Secretary receives a petition and the date of the final agency action on the petition, without regard to whether the Secretary grants or denies the petition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the owner of a foreign vessel having the capacity to transport more than 100 passengers from using a United States port if the owner does not notify the Federal Bureau of Investigation within 24 hours of a crime against the person of a United States citizen on the vessel, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-6023
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Curt [R-PA-7]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Armed Forces and National Security
Assault
Coast guard
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Criminal statistics
Department of Homeland Security
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Homicide
Law
Marine terminals
Passenger ships
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Prohibits the owner of a foreign vessel (other than a ferry) having the capacity to transport more than 100 passengers from using a U.S. port if the owner does not notify the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) within 24 hours of a crime against a U.S. citizen while aboard such vessel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Alternative Liquid Transportation Fuel Promotion Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6025
Sponsor: Rep. Whitfield, Ed [R-KY-1]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Armed Forces and National Security
Biomass energy
Coal
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Energy facilities
Federally-guaranteed loans
Government lending
Governmental investigations
Leases
Military bases
Petroleum pipelines
Petroleum reserves
Petroleum storage
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Strategic materials
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Alternative Liquid Transportation Fuel Promotion Act of 2006 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to declare eligible for a federal loan guarantee commitment large-scale coal-to-liquid facilities that use coal resources of the United States to produce at least 5,000 barrels a day of liquid transportation fuel. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a federal loan program to pay the federal share of the cost of obtaining any services necessary for the planning, permitting, and construction of a coal-to-liquid facility.
 
Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to direct the Secretary to study and report to certain congressional committees on the feasibility and suitability of maintaining coal-to-liquid products in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to construct or lease storage facilities in the vicinity of pipeline infrastructure and at least one military base, but outside the boundaries of any state on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science, 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: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science, 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: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science, 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: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Administrator of General Services to convey a parcel of real property to the Alaska Railroad Corporation in exchange for replacement property and other consideration.

Bill: 109-hr-6026
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2006-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Government Operations and Politics
Land transfers
Railroads
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: 
Requires the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) to convey all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the GSA Fleet Management Center to the Alaska Railroad Corporation in exchange for suitable replacement property and such other consideration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-07-28
text: Introduced in House
Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6027
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2006-08-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Administrative procedure
Cost of living adjustments
Department of Labor
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Labor and Employment
Law
Paramedical personnel
Social Welfare
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-02
text: 
Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow sponsors of certain deferred compensation plans to elect to include length of service award plans for bona fide volunteers providing fire fighting and prevention services, emergency medical services, and emergency rescue services.
 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to issue regulations exempting a length of service award program from treatment as an employee pension benefit plan under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2006-08-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2006-08-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2006-08-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2006-08-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-08-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide grants to improve the infrastructure of elementary and secondary schools.

Bill: 109-hr-6028
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, Major R. [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2006-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Building construction
Charter schools
Commerce
Computers
Construction industries
Construction workers
Economics and Public Finance
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Hours of labor
Information technology
Labor and Employment
Minimum wages
School buildings
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: 
Amends of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a new title X, School Construction, Modernization, And Infrastructure Improvement. Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to state educational agencies for elementary and secondary school construction, reconstruction, renovation, or modernization for information technology. 
 
Sets forth wage requirements for such projects, including Davis-Bacon Act compliance and overtime; but allows exceptions for certain workers who voluntarily donate their services without full compensation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978 to authorize improvements for the security of dams and other facilities, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-6029
Sponsor: Rep. Radanovich, George [R-CA-19]
Introduced: 2006-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
California
Central Valley Reclamation Project (California)
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Cost control
Crime and Law Enforcement
Dams
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal aid to water resources development
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Hydrology
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Planning
Safety measures
Security measures
Seismology
Terrorism
Water rates

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: 
Amends the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make modifications that are reasonably required to preserve the site security of Bureau of Reclamation dams and related facilities. Provides for specified reimbursement for costs incurred for building and site security activities.
 
Requires dam safety and site security costs allocated to irrigation, municipal, and industrial water service for the Central Valley Project, California, to be collected by the Secretary exclusively through inclusion of such costs in operation and maintenance rates, capital water rates, or both, not segregated from other project costs for separate allocation or repayment. Directs the Secretary, during site security-related construction, to consider cost containment measures.
 
 Prohibits the obligation of funds exceeding a specified amount for carrying out actual construction to modify an existing dam, the cause of which results from new hydrologic or seismic data or changes in the state-of-the-art criteria deemed necessary for site security or structural safety purposes, prior to 30 calendar days after the Secretary has transmitted a report on such existing dam to Congress.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) report annually to Congress on building and site measures undertaken (including a summary of expenditures and information relating to a five-year plan for security measures detailed to show pre- and post-September 11, 2001 costs); (2) provide written notice to project beneficiaries upon identifying a Bureau facility for a site security measure; and (3) include in required reports the Secretary's response when a modification is the result of new data deemed necessary for structural safety purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to waive reporting requirements that could adversely impact site security.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in House
September 11 Survivors Student Loan Relief Act

Bill: 109-hr-6031
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2006-09-06 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Armed Forces and National Security
Crime and Law Enforcement
Debtor and creditor
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Families
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government publicity
Health
Higher education
Law
Law enforcement officers
Married people
Military dependents
Military personnel
Paramedical personnel
Parents
Police
September 11, 2001
Student loan funds
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: 
September 11 Survivors Student Loan Relief Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to discharge or cancel the federal student loan indebtedness of spouses and parents of individuals who died (or die) or who became (or become) permanently and totally disabled from injuries suffered in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
 
States that, in the case of a consolidation loan used jointly by a victim of such attacks and his or her spouse, the discharge or cancellation shall apply only to that portion of debt incurred on behalf of the victim; except that, where the victim served as a police officer, firefighter, other safety or rescue personnel, or member of the Armed Forces, all of the debt on such loan shall be discharged or canceled.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Introduced in House