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Legislative Line Item Veto Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2381
Sponsor: Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN]
Introduced: 2006-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Authorization
Budget deficits
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic impact statements
Expedited congressional procedure
Government Operations and Politics
Government spending reductions
House rules and procedure
Income tax
Item veto
Legislation
Presidential messages
Rescission of appropriated funds
Senate rules and procedure
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax expenditures
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: 
Legislative Line Item Veto Act of 2006 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to authorize the President to propose the rescission of any dollar amount of discretionary budget authority or the rescission, in whole or in part, of any item of direct spending.
 
Sets forth requirements for the President's transmittal to Congress of a special message regarding a proposed rescission.
 
Requires any rescinded budget authority or items of direct spending to be dedicated only to deficit reduction, and not to be used as an offset for other spending increases.
 
Provides for adjustment of: (1) committee allocations resulting from such rescission; and (3) applicable limits, as appropriate, under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act).
 
Sets forth procedures for expedited congressional consideration of a proposed rescission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-02
text: Committee on the Budget. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 109-650.
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1838-1840)
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1838)
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act:  A Legacy for Users to make a technical correction.

Bill: 109-s-2383
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2006-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Authorization
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Highway maintenance
Infrastructure
Montana
National parks
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Road construction

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: 
Amends the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users to make funds to resurface, repair, and reconstruct the Going-to-the-Sun Road at Glacier National Park, Montana for FY2005-FY2009 available for obligation in the same manner as if such funds were apportioned for federal-aid highway systems.
 
Rescinds $50 million of the unobligated balances of federal-aid highway funds apportioned to the states.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Gulf Coast Protection and Restoration Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2384
Sponsor: Sen. Lott, Trent [R-MS]
Introduced: 2006-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alabama
Coastal zone
Continental shelf
Economics and Public Finance
Energy conservation
Florida
Gas in submerged lands
Government Operations and Politics
Gulf of Mexico
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Louisiana
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas leases
Petroleum in submerged lands
Revenue sharing
Submarine oil well drilling

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: 
Gulf Coast Protection and Restoration Act of 2006 - Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to offer the 181 Area of the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas leasing no later than one year after enactment of this Act.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from offering for oil and gas leasing: (1) any area east of the Military Mission Line, unless the Secretary of Defense agrees in writing before the area is offered for lease that it can be developed in a manner that will not interfere with military activities; or (2) any area that is within 100 miles of the coastline of Florida.
 
Requires the 181 Area to be offered for lease in spite of its omission from a specified leasing program under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act 
 
Requires the Secretary, without further appropriation, to disburse to producing states and coastal political subdivisions, 50% of the qualified outer Continental Shelf revenues generated from leases from the 181 Area during each fiscal year.
 
Prescribes guidelines for allocation and authorized uses consistent with the coastal impact assistance program under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Combat-Related Special Compensation Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2385
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2006-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Military pensions
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: 
Combat-Related Special Compensation Act of 2006 - Authorizes monthly combat-related special compensation pay to any military retiree who is entitled to retired pay and has a combat-related disability. (Currently, a retiree must meet those requirements and also have completed at least 20 years of retirement-creditable military service.)
 
Provides a special compensation rule with respect to retirees with less than 20 years of service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1895)
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S 1894-1895)
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on 1-Flouro-2-nitrobenzene.

Bill: 109-s-2386
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2006-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2009, the duty on 1-Flouro-2-nitrobenzene.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a national cemetery for veterans in the Pikes Peak Region of Colorado.

Bill: 109-s-2387
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2006-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Colorado
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Gifts
Land transfers
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a national cemetery for veterans in the Pikes Peak region of Colorado.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
National Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2388
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2006-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Airports
Bridges
Commerce
Construction industries
Economic development
Economic growth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational facilities
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection
Federal advisory bodies
Governmental investigations
Harbors
Highway finance
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Maintenance and repair
Marine terminals
Mass rapid transit
Railroad engineering
Railroad finance
Railroad freight operations
Railroad passenger traffic
Road construction
Waste water treatment
Water Resources Development
Water supply
Water treatment plants
Waterways

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: 
National Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2006 - Establishes the National Commission on the Infrastructure of the United States to ensure that U.S. infrastructure meets current and future demand and facilitates economic growth.
 
Requires the Commission to study the state of U.S. infrastructure, including such matters as: (1) the capacity of infrastructure improvements to sustain economic development and competitiveness; (2) the age and condition of public infrastructure; (3) the methods used to finance the construction, acquisition, rehabilitation, and maintenance of public works improvements; (4) investment requirements needed to maintain and to improve facilities and the projected share of investment requirements and expenditures on infrastructure facility improvements by federal, state, and local governments; and (5) estimates of the return to the economy from public works investment.
 
Establishes an advisory group to provide assistance and advice on request of the Commission.
 
Directs the Commission to develop recommendations regarding: (1) a federal infrastructure plan that will detail national infrastructure program priorities; (2) public works improvements and methods of delivering and providing for public work facilities; (3) analysis or criteria and procedures that may be used by federal agencies and state and local governments in inventorying existing and needed public works improvements, assessing the condition of improvements, and developing uniform criteria and procedures; and (4) proposed guidelines for the uniform reporting by federal agencies of data regarding infrastructure improvements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Afghan Women Empowerment Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2392
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2006-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Administration of justice
Afghanistan
Authorization
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Curricula
Democracy
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Heads of households
Health
Human rights
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Law
Literacy programs
Married people
Maternal health services
Mathematics
Nongovernmental organizations
Nonprofit organizations
Orphans
Police training
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Social Welfare
South Asia
Technical education
Vocational and technical education
Voting rights
Widows
Women
Women in government
Women in public life
Women's education
Women's employment
Women's health
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: 
Afghan Women Empowerment Act of 2006 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the protection of the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan and their full participation in the reestablishment of democracy are essential to Afghanistan's reconstruction, and to achieve such reconstruction the U.S. government must commit resources to advance the rights of women throughout Afghanistan. 
 
Amends the Afghan Freedom Support Act of 2002 to revise the provisions respecting assistance to women and girls in Afghanistan. Extends funding authority. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should: (1) condition the provision of such assistance on the recipient adhering to international standards for women's rights and human rights; and (2) ensure that Afghan women-led nongovernmental organizations with demonstrated experience in delivering services to Afghan women and children receive grants without ethnic, religious, or any other discrimination. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1900-1901)
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Conquer Childhood Cancer Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2393
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2006-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Child health
Clinical trials
Communication in medicine
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Health education
Health information systems
Medical research
Preventive medicine
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: 
Conquer Childhood Cancer Act of 2006 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), acting through the National Cancer Institute, to establish special programs of research excellence in the area of pediatric cancers. 
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a grant mechanism for the establishment of Research Fellowships in Pediatric Cancer to support adequate numbers of pediatric focused clinical and translational investigators.
 
Requires the Director to award a grant for the operation of a population-based national childhood cancer database, the Childhood Cancer Research Network.
 
Requires the Secretary to award grants to recognized childhood cancer professional and advocacy organizations to raise public awareness of currently available information, treatment, and research with intent to ensure access to best available therapies for pediatric cancers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1966-1967)
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 39, United States Code, to require that air carriers accept as mail shipments certain live animals.

Bill: 109-s-2395
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2006-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Air cargo
Animals
Bees
Government Operations and Politics
Postal service
Poultry

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: 
Directs the U.S. Postal Service, in the exercise of its authority to contract with an air carrier for the transportation of mail by aircraft, to require an air carrier to accept as mail shipments of live animals that postal regulations allow to be transmitted as mail. 
 
Requires an air carrier to accept and carry such cargo when the outside temperature is between 0 and 100 degrees Fahrenheit from the point of origin through the point of destination.
 
Applies the authority of the Postal Service under this Act to any air carrier that commonly and regularly carries live animals as cargo.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1967)
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1967)
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Second-Stage Small Business Development Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2396
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2006-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Armed Forces and National Security
Associations, institutions, etc.
Black colleges
Business education
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Community colleges
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Disabled
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Law
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Minority education
Performance measurement
Right of privacy
Small Business Administration
Small business
Women
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: 
Second-Stage Small Business Development Act of 2006 - Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to carry out a four-year pilot program to make grants to eligible entities for the development of peer learning opportunities for second-stage small businesses. Defines a &quot;second-stage small business concern&quot; as one that: (1) has experienced high growth in specified demonstrable ways; and (2) does not exceed the size standard for the North American Industrial Classification System code of such concern. Provides a minimum grant amount of $50,000. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Long-Term Care Trust Account Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2397
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2006-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts
Chronically ill
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Long-term care
Long-term care insurance
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax exemption
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: 
Long-Term Care Trust Account Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish tax-exempt long-term care trust accounts; (2) allow cash contributions to such accounts up to $5,000 annually; (3) allow an exclusion from gross income for certain distributions, including for long-term care services for chronically-ill individuals; (4) impose penalties for excess contributions to such accounts and for failure to provide required reports on such accounts; and (5) allow a refundable tax credit for 10% of the annual contributions to such accounts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1967-1968)
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Energy Competitiveness Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2398
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2006-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Awards, medals, prizes
Biomass energy
Bonds
Coal
Commemorations
Commerce
Commercialization
Depreciation and amortization
Diesel motor
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power production
Electric vehicles
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Environmental engineering
Excise tax
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to research
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fuel cells
Government Operations and Politics
Heating
High technology
Housing and Community Development
Hydrogen
Imports
Income tax
International competitiveness
Investment tax credit
Laboratories
Liquefied natural gas
Liquefied petroleum gas
Natural gas
Oils and fats
Petroleum refineries
Presidential appointments
Research and development
Research and development facilities
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Service stations
Small business
Solar energy
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Taxation
Technological innovations
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: 
Energy Competitiveness Act of 2006 - Establishes the Advanced Research Projects Administration - Energy (ARPA-E) to reduce the quantity of foreign energy imports and improve the competitiveness of the U.S. economy by funding projects to accelerate energy-related research and develop new energy-related technologies.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2010: (1) the tax credit for electricity produced from certain renewable resources; (2) the tax credit for holders of clean renewable energy bonds and the national volume cap for such bonds; (3) the tax deduction for energy efficient commercial buildings; (4) the tax credit for energy efficient new homes; (5) the tax credit for residential energy efficient property; (6) the tax credits for investment in qualified fuel cells, stationary microturbine power plants, and solar energy property; and (7) the income and excise tax credits for biodiesel and alternative fuels.
 
Increases the maximum tax credit amounts for the advanced coal and gasification project programs.
 
Extends through 2012 the taxpayer election to expense certain crude oil refinery property.
 
Exempts certain alternative motor vehicles and qualified electric vehicles eligible for tax credits from the depreciation limitations applicable to luxury vehicles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9638)
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1969-1971)
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1968-1969)
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Volunteer Firefighter and EMS Personnel Job Protection Act

Bill: 109-s-2399
Sponsor: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2006-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Disaster relief
Discrimination in employment
Dismissal of employees
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Fire fighters
Fringe benefits
Governmental investigations
Health
Leave of absence
Medical personnel
Seniority in employment
Social Welfare
Volunteer workers
Wage restitution

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: 
Volunteer Firefighter and EMS Personnel Job Protection Act - Prohibits any employee from being terminated, demoted, or discriminated against in the terms or conditions of employment because the employee is absent or late as a result of serving as a volunteer firefighter or providing volunteer emergency medical services as part of a response to an emergency or major disaster. Excludes absences for which the employee: (1) is absent for more than 14 days per calendar year; (2) responds to an emergency or major disaster without being official deployed in accordance with a coordinator national deployment system; or (3) fails to provide written verification within a reasonable period of time. 
 
Allows employers to: (1) reduce the employee's regular pay for such time as the employee is absent; and (2) require the employee to provide written verification from the supervising Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), state, or local official that such employee responded in an official capacity at a specified time and date. 
 
Requires such an employee to make a reasonable effort to notify his or her employer that he or she may be absent or late. 
 
Gives such an employee a private cause of action for discrimination which violates this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate