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Disabled Veterans Fairness Act

Bill: 109-hr-4025
Sponsor: Rep. Barrow, John [D-GA-12]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Disabled
Government Operations and Politics
Government travel
Health
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Disabled Veterans Fairness Act - Eliminates a $3 per round trip deductible charged by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in connection with the veterans beneficiary travel program (a program authorizing a travel allowance or reimbursement for beneficiaries providing transportation for veterans to obtain medical care).
 
Directs the Secretary, in determining the amount of such allowance or reimbursement, to use the mileage reimbursement rates for the use of privately owned vehicles by government employees traveling on official business.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Middle Class Energy Initiative Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4026
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Costs
Depreciation and amortization
Diesel motor
Energy
Energy prices
Gas industry
Gasoline
Heating
Income tax
Natural gas
Oil well drilling
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Prospecting
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Middle Class Energy Initiative Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals a $500 tax credit for: (1) gasoline and diesel fuel expenses; and (2) home energy consumption expenses. Denies the credit for taxpayers whose adjusted gross income is twice the state median adjusted gross income. 
 
Limits the amortization of geological and geophysical expenses to 90 percent of such expenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Hurricane Disaster Mortgage Moratorium Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4027
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Alabama
Commerce
Consumer credit
Emergency Management
Floods
Florida
Foreclosure
Housing and Community Development
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Loan defaults
Louisiana
Mississippi
Mortgages
Texas
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Hurricane Disaster Mortgage Moratorium Act of 2005 - Establishes a moratorium, for the six-month period beginning on August 28, 2005, on any loan or other extension of credit that is secured by residential or commercial real estate that is located within an area in which the President has declared a major disaster area due to Hurricane Katrina or Rita. Prohibits: (1) any such loan from being found or declared delinquent or in default during such period; and (2) the moratorium period from being included within the length of time that a loan was otherwise in default.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2070)
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To require employers of temporary H-2A workers to pay such workers at least the greater of the Federal or State minimum wage rate.

Bill: 109-hr-4028
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Lincoln [D-TN-4]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Agricultural labor
Agriculture and Food
Alien labor
Labor and Employment
Minimum wages
Temporary employment
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require employers of temporary H-2A workers to pay them at least the greater of the federal or state minimum wage rate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Fuel Price Fairness Act

Bill: 109-hr-4029
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Diesel motor
Emergency Management
Energy prices
Energy shortages
Federal Trade Commission
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Futures trading
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Heating
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Profit
Restrictive trade practices
Service stations
Transportation and Public Works
Wholesale trade

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Fuel Price Fairness Act - Authorizes the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to declare a national or regional energy price emergency if it finds that the health, safety, welfare, or economic well-being of U.S. citizens, or a region of the United States, is at risk because of a shortage or imminent shortage of adequate supplies of crude oil, gasoline, diesel fuel, or home heating oil due to a disruption of distribution systems for crude oil, gasoline, natural gas, or petroleum distillates, or significant pricing anomalies in national or regional energy markets for those products are more than temporary.
 
Requires an integrated oil company or refinery to disclose to the FTC during such emergency: (1) the prevailing price of crude oil and wholesale price of refined gasoline, diesel, home heating oil, based on invoices, for each week during the period of 60 days immediately preceding the declaration of an energy emergency; and (2) the prevailing price of crude oil and wholesale price of refined gasoline, diesel, home heating oil, based on invoices, for each week of the period in which a national price emergency is in effect.
 
Declares unlawful during such a national energy price emergency: (1) for any person to sell at retail gasoline, diesel fuel, or home heating oil at an unreasonable price; and (2) for any integrated oil company or refinery to sell those products at an unreasonable price.
 
Subjects such integrated oil company or refinery to criminal penalties for violations of this Act.
 
Grants the FTC enforcement powers under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the inflation adjustment of the earned income threshold used in determining the refundable portion of the child tax credit and to restore the threshold to its original amount.

Bill: 109-hr-4030
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the annual inflation adjustment to the $10,000 earned income threshold amount used to determine the refundable portion of the child tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to remove the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to expedited removal under section 235(b)(1)(A)(iii)(I) of such Act and to amend the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit issuance of residential mortgages to illegal aliens.

Bill: 109-hr-4032
Sponsor: Rep. Doolittle, John T. [R-CA-4]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Deportation
Detention of persons
Federal preemption
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Illegal aliens
Imprisonment
Mortgages
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the Secretary of Homeland Security's discretionary authority to order expedited removal, except that if the Secretary determines after consulting with appropriate federal, state, or local law enforcement agencies that the alien will be detained under the authority of such an agency, the Secretary may not remove the alien until such detention terminates.
 
Amends the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit residential mortgages for aliens residing unlawfully in the United States. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2006-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Financial 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: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
ALS Registry Act

Bill: 109-hr-4033
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Epidemiology
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Health information systems
Health surveys
Medical statistics
Nervous system diseases
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
ALS Registry Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to: (1) develop a system to collect data on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); and (2) establish a national registry for the collection and storage of ALS data.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director, to establish the Advisory Committee on the National ALS Registry to study and make recommendations to the Secretary concerning: (1) the development and maintenance of the registry; (2) the type of information to be included; (3) the manner in which data is to be collected; (4) the use and availability of such data; and (5) the collection of information about diseases and disorders that primarily affect motor neurons that are considered essential to furthering the study and cure of ALS.
 
Allows the Secretary, acting through the Director, to award grants to, and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with, public or private nonprofit entities for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data on ALS.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director, to: (1) identify, build upon, expand, and coordinate among existing data and surveillance systems, surveys, registries, and other federal public health and environmental infrastructure wherever possible; and (2) provide for public access to an electronic national database that accepts data from state registries, health care professionals, and others as recommended by the Advisory Committee in a manner that protects personal privacy.
 
Requires the Secretary to ensure that epidemiological and other types of information is made available to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Veterans Affairs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2078)
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Keep Gulf Coast Families Healthy Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4034
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alabama
Coinsurance
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Floods
Health
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Louisiana
Medical economics
Mississippi
Tax deductions
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Keep Gulf Coast Families Healthy Act of 2005 - Waives until December 31, 2010, the limitation on the tax deduction for medical expenses (i.e., only expenses exceeding 7.5% of adjusted gross income are deductible) for taxpayers residing in the Hurricane Katrina disaster area on August 28, 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Economic Relief for Gulf Coast Families and Businesses Act

Bill: 109-hr-4035
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alabama
Capital gains tax
Commerce
Emergency Management
Estate tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Floods
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Income tax
Louisiana
Mississippi
Partnerships
Small business
Stocks
Tax exclusion
Tax rates
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Economic Relief for Gulf Coast Families and Businesses Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exclude from gross income gain from the sale or exchange of Hurricane Katrina Zone assets held for more than five years; and (2) allow reduced estate tax rates for Hurricane Katrina victims. Includes as such assets: (1) Katrina Zone business stock or principal interests issued after August 28, 2005, and acquired by the taxpayer before January 1, 2007; and (2) Katrina Zone business property acquired between such dates, provided its original use in the Zone commences with the taxpayer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Public Health Service Act to allow qualifying children's hospitals to participate in the 340B drug discount program.

Bill: 109-hr-4036
Sponsor: Rep. Gillmor, Paul E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Commerce
Drug industry
Drugs
Families
Hospitals
Prescription pricing
Rebates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to include certain children's hospitals under the definition of &quot;covered entity&quot; to allow such hospitals to participate in the drug discount program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
American Homebuyers Protection Act

Bill: 109-hr-4037
Sponsor: Rep. Gonzalez, Charles A. [D-TX-20]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Building construction
Commerce
Commercial arbitration
Consumer education
Contracts
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Law
Real estate business

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
American Homebuyers Protection Act - Prohibits a person engaged in the construction of new homes from: (1) requiring a home purchaser to enter into a mandatory arbitration agreement as a condition precedent to entering into a purchase contract; and (2) offering a home purchaser a contract which includes a mandatory arbitration agreement unless such agreement is a separate agreement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-01-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
Unlawful Employers Accountability Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-4038
Sponsor: Rep. Gonzalez, Charles A. [D-TX-20]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Agricultural credit
Agricultural labor
Agricultural subsidies
Agriculture and Food
Alien labor
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Costs
Deportation
Disaster relief
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Dismissal of employees
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Emergency Management
Employee selection
Employers' liability
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government publicity
Illegal aliens
Labor and Employment
Local finance
Municipal services
Recruiting of employees
Revenue sharing
Science, Technology, Communications
State finance
Web sites
Whistle blowing

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Unlawful Employers Accountability Act of 2005 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act respecting unlawful employment of alien provisions to: (1) require the Secretary of Homeland Security to issue a cease and desist order, replace the tiered civil penalty provisions with a single, increased-maximum civil penalty, and require an employer to pay the costs incurred in any related removal of an alien from the United States; (2) provide for penalty distribution to state, county, and municipal governments, which shall be used to provide illegal aliens with public services; (3) deny specified agricultural assistance for up to five years to an agricultural employer, contractor, or association in violation of such provisions; (4) eliminate specified good faith defenses; (4) provide whistleblower protection; and (5) direct the Secretary to establish and update a publicly accessible website containing specified information on violators of such provisions in the preceding five years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for an exception to the reduction in unused medical residency positions for small family practice residency programs under the Medicare Program.

Bill: 109-hr-4039
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Mark [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education
Family medicine
Higher education
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Medical education
Medical residents
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the reduction in unusued medical residency positions as a component of the Secretary of Health and Human Services' payment of direct graduate medical education costs under the Medicare program. Makes an exception from this reduction for small family practice residency programs in hospitals located in rural areas or small urban areas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the deduction for certain attorney fees shall be fully allowable in computing both taxable income and alternative minimum taxable income.

Bill: 109-hr-4040
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Damages
Income tax
Law
Legal fees
Minimum tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the limitation on miscellaneous itemized tax deductions (i.e., only expenses in excess of two percent of adjusted gross income are deductible) any deduction for attorney fees paid by or on behalf of a taxpayer in connection with damages from a lawsuit or settlement agreement received by such taxpayer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2054-2055)
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the deduction for certain flood-related attorney fees shall be fully allowable in computing both taxable income and alternative minimum taxable income.

Bill: 109-hr-4041
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2005-10-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Damages
Emergency Management
Floods
Income tax
Law
Legal fees
Minimum tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the limitation on miscellaneous itemized tax deductions (i.e., only expenses in excess of two percent of adjusted gross income are deductible) any deduction for attorney fees paid in connection with flood-related damages from a natural disaster.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2054-2055)
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-10-07
text: Introduced in House