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National Mathematics and Science Consistency Act

Bill: 109-s-3790
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Educational technology
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Mathematics
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Standards
Teacher education
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
National Mathematics and Science Consistency Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to convene a panel to produce, for kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12), voluntary national expectations for science and mathematics education, sample assessment questions based on them, and a model mathematics and science curriculum. Requires such expectations to be based on core ideas in mathematics and science common to all states, and the model curriculum to be taken or adapted from effective state mathematics and science teaching materials. Requires the panel also to develop and coordinate professional development criteria that would prepare teachers to incorporate such expectations.
 
Requires the Secretary to award competitive grants to states to: (1) develop instructional materials based on the voluntary national mathematics and science curriculum; (2) ensure that the infrastructure and technical assistance to provide such instructional materials online and free of charge to school personnel is available; and (3) train K-12 mathematics and science teachers to use the instructional materials and assessment questions in teaching.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8808-8809)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Meningitis Immunization Awareness Act

Bill: 109-s-3791
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Bacterial diseases
Brain diseases
Camping
Child health
Crime and Law Enforcement
Day care
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health education
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Juvenile delinquency
Preventive medicine
Prisoners
School health programs
Secondary education
Sports and Recreation
Students
Vaccination
Vaccines

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Meningitis Immunization Awareness Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and make available to day care centers, camps, educational entities, prisons, and other entities that provide dorm-like housing, information concerning bacterial meningitis and the meningitis vaccine. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Tax and Education Assistance for Children (TEACH) Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3792
Sponsor: Sen. Martinez, Mel [R-FL]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Income tax
Parent and child
Private schools
Religion
Religious education
Secondary education
Tuition tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Tax and Education Assistance for Children (TEACH) Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish a tax credit for the tuition paid by taxpayers to send their dependents to private or religious elementary or secondary schools. Sets the annual credit limit at $4,500 for single individuals and taxpayers filing a joint return, and $2,250 for a married individual filing a separate return.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8809-8810)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8809)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Restoring Trust in Public Service Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3793
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Government ethics
Life imprisonment
Local officials
Mandatory sentences
Misconduct in office
Public corruption
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
State officials

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Restoring Trust in Public Service Act of 2006 - Amends the federal criminal code to prescribe mandatory minimum penalties, based on the amount of unjust enrichment, to be imposed on a public official convicted of an offense arising out of conduct in the course of his or her official duty that results in that official's unjust enrichment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Owyhee Initiative Implementation Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3794
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Cultural property
Environmental Protection
Grazing
Habitat conservation
Historic sites
History
Horses
Idaho
Land transfers
Minorities
Native Americans
Nature conservation
Outdoor recreation
Research centers
Restoration ecology
Science, Technology, Communications
Sheep
Sports and Recreation
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation planning
Water Resources Development
Wild rivers
Wilderness areas
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Owyhee Initiative Implementation Act of 2006 - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to coordinate with the Board of Directors of the Owyhee Initiative Project: (1) in conducting the science review process as described in the Owyhee Initiative Agreement, as amended on May 10, 2006; and (2) with respect to the conservation and research center program.
 
Designates specified land in Idaho as wilderness components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. 
 
Designates specified creek and river segments within Owyhee County, Idaho, as components of the national and wild and scenic rivers system. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to acquire any land or property interest identified as eligible for exchange in a specified document, if offered by the owner, and subject to conditions described in this Act. 
 
Directs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to: (1) implement transportation plans for land it manages outside wilderness areas in the county; and (2) offer to enter into cooperative agreements with the county to establish a cooperative search and rescue program, and to implement and enforce such plans. 
 
Directs the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation to implement the Shoshone-Paiute Tribal Cultural Resource Protection Plan approved by such Tribes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-778.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8810-8811)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Access to Medicare Imaging Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3795
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Government spending reductions
Imaging systems in medicine
Medical fees
Medicare
Physicians
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Access to Medicare Imaging Act of 2006 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for a two-year moratorium on certain Medicare physician payment reductions for imaging services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8812)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Salah Naji Sujaa.

Bill: 109-s-3796
Sponsor: Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Provides for the relief of Salah Naji Sujaa.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Choices in Child Care Act

Bill: 109-s-3797
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Block grants
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Government Operations and Politics
Infants
Labor and Employment
Poor children
Social Welfare
Working poor

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Choices in Child Care Act - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to five to seven states for demonstration projects to provide at-home infant care benefits to low-income families. Allows grants to Indian tribes. Requires the Secretary to seek to ensure geographic diversity among participants and to give priority to states that demonstrate a commitment to improving the quality of infant care and the choices available to parents of infants, that have relevant experience, and that have a shortage of infant care.
 
Requires states, to participate in the demonstration project, to certify to the Secretary that the state: (1) will not reduce expenditures for child care services while carrying out the project; (2) will not give priority or preference to low-income families seeking to receive at-home infant care benefits over other families on a waiting list for child care assistance through other state programs, but will select a combination of such families; and (3) will ensure that applicants are permitted to choose between receipt of at-home care subsidies and certificates for child care needed for employment.
 
Sets forth eligibility requirements for families seeking assistance, including having a parent who had a recent work history prior to the application for benefits. Requires states to permit two-parent families to participate in the project, but prohibits states from limiting participation in the project to such families.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8812)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to exclude and defer from the pooled reimbursable costs of the Central Valley Project the reimbursable capital costs of the unused capacity of the Folsom South Canal, Auburn-Folsom South Unit, Central Valley Project, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-3798
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
California
Canals
Central Valley Reclamation Project (California)
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Irrigation
Transportation and Public Works
Water rates

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) exclude and defer from the pooled reimbursable costs of the Central Valley Project the reimbursable capital costs of the unused capacity of the Folsom South Canal, Auburn-Folsom South Unit, of such Project; and (2) calculate the amount to be assigned to deferred use, which shall be reflected in future years' water rates. Sets forth a formula for calculating such excluded reimbursable cost.
 
Provides that as long as an entity that is allocated and that pays capital, interest, and operation and maintenance costs associated with an amount of Project water historically assigned to the Canal does not use the Canal for the conveyance of Project water, that entity shall be entitled to convey an equivalent amount of non-Project water through the Canal without additional cost.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-781.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8813)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8812-8813)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Cyanide Safety Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3799
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Chemical industries
Chemicals
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Laboratories
Law
Licenses
Manufacturing industries
Poisons
Research
Retail trade
Science, Technology, Communications
Storage
Terrorism
Wholesale trade

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Cyanide Safety Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to require any person who sells or otherwise transfers, at a retail level, hydrogen cyanide and its salts, to: (1) obtain a license for such sale from the Secretary; and (2) record such sale or transfer, including the identity and address of the recipient and the intended use.
 
Directs the Secretary and the Attorney General to conduct a study of the manufacturing and distribution process of cyanide to determine actions to safeguard the public from its wrongful use, particularly by terrorists, including a determination as to the feasibility and desirability of establishing a central registry of all lot specifications of cyanide to provide quick access to investigative and law enforcement agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Assistance to Counterfeiters Act

Bill: 109-s-3800
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economic assistance
Government Operations and Politics
Intellectual property
International agencies
President and foreign policy
Product counterfeiting
Trademarks

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Stop Assistance to Counterfeiters Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require U.S. foreign assistance recipients to certify that such assistance will not be used to intentionally traffic in goods or services that contain counterfeit marks or for other purposes that promote the improper use of intellectual property.
 
Exempts from such requirement direct assistance to a foreign government (or its entity) or to an international organization that is an association of representatives of national governments, including the United Nations.
 
Directs the President to suspend or terminate assistance to a recipient who is in violation of this Act. Authorizes a national security waiver.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to expand the county organized health insuring organizations authorized to enroll Medicaid beneficiaries.

Bill: 109-s-3802
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: California
County politics and government
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government insurance
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Medicaid
Social Welfare
Welfare waivers

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as added by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 and as amended by the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000, to add health insuring organizations operated by public entities established by Ventura and Merced Counties, California, to the number of county-organized health insuring organizations in California authorized to enroll Medicaid beneficiaries under title XIX of the Social Security Act.
 
Increases from 14% to 16% the maximum percentage of California Medicaid beneficiaries which may be enrolled with such organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S8817)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8817)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Rights of Unknowing Dads and Fostering Access To Help Encourage Responsibility (Proud Father) Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3803
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Abandonment of family
Adoption
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Crime and Law Enforcement
Custody of children
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Fathers
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Law
Limitation of actions
Mothers
Nonmarital births
Paternity
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
State laws
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Protecting Rights of Unknowing Dads and Fostering Access To Help Encourage Responsibility (Proud Father) Act of 2006 - Amends part B (Child and Family Services) of title IV of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish and maintain an automated National Putative Father Registry; and (2) only accept authentic requests to search the registry. Prohibits the disclosure of information from the registry if it would contravene a national security interest or if such disclosure would compromise the confidentiality of census data.
 
States that a certificate of search or registration issued by the Secretary serves as rebuttable evidence of efforts to locate a putative father and provide him with notice concerning paternity issues. Requires each putative father to be given notice of: (1) a proceeding concerning a child he has or may have fathered being adopted or entered into state custody; (2) the termination of paternal rights; and (3) the establishment of paternity.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a nationwide responsible fatherhood and putative father registry educational campaign.
 
Requires the Secretary to make grants to states for assistance in programs concerning: (1) improving the protection of the rights of responsible unwed fathers in legal proceedings; (2) improving the laws involving the abandonment of a child by the biological father; (3) assisting mothers in making plans for their children's future; and (4) protecting the privacy and safety of birth parents. Sets forth state eligibility requirements for the grant program, including providing assurances that the state will put into effect a law that defines what constitutes prebirth abandonment and abandonment subsequent to birth.
 
Provides that any person who knowingly submits false information to a state registry shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, be subject to a fine. Requires the state to establish procedures to ensure that the information maintained in the registry is subject to established privacy safeguards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Hawaiian Sacred Sites Noise Reduction Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-3804
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Airspace (Law)
Commemorations
Commerce
Hawaii
Historic sites
History
National parks
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Hawaiian Sacred Sites Noise Reduction Act of 2006 - Amends the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century to prohibit any commercial air tour operation from being conducted in airspace over: (1) the Kalaupapa National Historical Park; (2) the Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park; (2) the Pu`uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park; or (4) the Pu`ukohola Heiau National Historic Site. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8817)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
River Raisin National Battlefield Study Act

Bill: 109-s-3805
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Europe
Governmental investigations
History
Michigan
Military parks
National parks
United Kingdom
War

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
River Raisin National Battlefield Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of sites in Monroe County, Michigan, relating to the Battles of the River Raisin on January 18 and 22, 1813, and their aftermath to determine: (1) the national significance of the sites; and (2) the suitability and feasibility of including them in the National Park System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a shorter recovery period for the depreciation of certain improvements to retail space.

Bill: 109-s-3806
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2006-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Capital investments
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Retail trade
Shopping centers
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow qualified retail improvement property a 15-year recovery period for purposes of the tax deduction for depreciation. Defines such property as any improvement to an interior portion of a building which is nonresidential real property, if: (1) such portion is open to the general public and is used in the trade or business of selling tangible personal property or services to the general public; and (2) such improvement is placed in service more than three years after the date the building was first placed in service. Excludes specified improvements, including the enlargement of a building, any elevator or escalator, or the internal structural framework of a building.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S8818)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8817-8818)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate