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Catalyst to Better Diabetes Care Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6231
Sponsor: Rep. Fitzpatrick, Michael G. [R-PA-8]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Case management
Chronically ill
Communication in medicine
Congressional reporting requirements
Death
Diabetes
Education
Employee health benefits
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Health information systems
Health surveys
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Medical education
Medical records
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Medicare
Quality of life
Social Welfare
Vital statistics

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Catalyst to Better Diabetes Care Act of 2006 - Requires the Secretary of Commerce to establish an advisory group to examine and recommend best practices of chronic illness employee wellness incentivization and disease management programs.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prepare, biennially, a diabetes report card for the nation and for each state that: (1) is adaptable by state and local agencies in order to rate or report local diabetes care, costs, and prevalence; and (2) includes trend analysis in order to track progress in meeting established national goals and objectives and to inform policy and program development.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) identify existing efforts to increase awareness of the diabetes and screening benefit among Medicare beneficiaries and providers; and (2) maximize economies of scale, cost-effectiveness, and resource allocation in increasing utilization of the Medicare diabetes screening program.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to conduct, support, and promote the collection, analysis, and publication of data on the prevalence and incidence of type 1 and 2 diabetes and of pre-diabetes. Requires such activities to include an assessment of diabetes as a primary or underlying cause of death. Allows the Secretary to promote the addition to death certificates of language to improve the collection of diabetes mortality data.
 
Requires the Secretary to conduct a study of the impact of diabetes on the practice of medicine in the United Sates and the level of diabetes medical education that should be required prior to licensure, board certification, and board recertification.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Practicality in Education Act

Bill: 109-hr-6232
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Disabled
Distance education
Educational accountability
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Illiteracy
Language and languages
Law
Licenses
Mathematics
Rating of teachers
Reading
Rural education
School administration
Secondary education
Special education
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Practicality in Education Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow states to exclude the results of limited English proficient students, during their first two school years in this country, from adequate yearly progress (AYP) assessments, when such students are assessed in reading or mathematics in a language other than their native tongue.
 
Requires that state determinations of AYP pursuant to state academic achievement standards employ a growth model, measuring the achievement of the same students and subgroups from year to year.
 
Requires that 4% of disabled students taking modified assessments be counted in measuring student proficiency pursuant to such standards.
 
Gives schools which are identified as needing improvement, due to having failed for two consecutive years to make AYP pursuant to such standards, a full new school year to meet the standards before its students must be given the option to transfer to another public school. (Currently, such transfers must be allowed at the beginning of the school year following such identification.)
 
Provides that, in determining AYP, a student in more than one group subject to measurable annual objectives shall be counted only toward one such group.
 
Allows states to consider new middle and secondary school special education and rural teachers to be highly qualified even if they do not pass a rigorous state academic subject test in every subject they teach, provided they pass such a test for one subject they teach and, with respect to each other subject they teach, work in close consultation with another teacher who is highly qualified in such other subject.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Get Information on Financial Transactions Act

Bill: 109-hr-6234
Sponsor: Rep. Burton, Dan [R-IN-5]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Colleges
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
International Affairs
International education
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Get Information on Financial Transactions Act - Amends title VI (International Education Programs) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to require, as part of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) annual data collection, that each institution of higher education receiving federal funds for its international education programs include data concerning: (1) the total cost such a program or center; (2) state and private contributors whose total aggregate contributions exceed $100,000 for the fiscal year; and (3) the use of such contributions.
 
Directs the Secretary to prepare an annual report summarizing such data.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
FDA Scientific Fairness for Women Act

Bill: 109-hr-6235
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Commerce
Conflict of interests
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Contraceptives
Department of Health and Human Services
Drugs
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Government publicity
Labeling
Medical ethics
Medical research
Pharmaceutical research
Platinum
Product safety
Prosthesis
Science, Technology, Communications
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
FDA Scientific Fairness for Women Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish the Office of Women's Health within the Office of the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
 
Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from finding that a reasonable assurance of safety has been shown for an application for premarket approval for a class III device for a breast implant unless the applicant involved has established the lifetime of the implant and demonstrates that safety has been demonstrated for the life of the implant. Requires the Secretary to determine appropriate clinical care and removal and replacement requirements for the implant, including appropriate coverage by government health care systems.
 
Sets forth provisions governing any FDA advisory committee that considers issues concerning breast implants, including that the Secretary may not grant any exemption for conflicts related to personal financial interests.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) provide for a study on the ionization and levels of platinum in silicone breast implants; and (2) establish a panel of independent scientists for the purpose of designing and conducting the study.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to convene a scientific workshop to review and evaluate current scientific data on the use of emergency contraception by females of childbearing potential under the age of 18, including scientific questions identified in the recent limited approval of Plan B emergency contraception.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Long-Term Care Hospital Improvement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6236
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Case management
Case mix (Medical care)
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Health insurance
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Labor and Employment
Law
Long-term care
Medicaid
Medical records
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Performance measurement
Physicians
Poor children
Quality of care
Social Welfare
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Medicare Long-Term Care Hospital Improvement Act of 2006 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prescribe requirements for a long-term care hospital (LTCH) and patient criteria for prospective payment to an LTCH.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) determine the LTCH diagnosis related groups (LTCH-DRGs) associated with a high severity of illness for specified medical conditions; and (2) study and report to Congress on appropriate quality measures for Medicare patients receiving care in LTCHs.
 
Directs the Secretary to choose three quality measures from the study for LTCHs to report.
 

 

 
Amends the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 to require annual updates of LTCH base rates and wage indices and the reweighting of LTCH-DRGs. 
 

 
Prohibits the Secretary from extending application of the 25% (or applicable percentage) patient threshold payment adjustment to freestanding LTCHs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
H1B SAFE Act

Bill: 109-hr-6238
Sponsor: Rep. Feeney, Tom [R-FL-24]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Identification devices
Labor and Employment
Law
Skilled labor

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
H1B Strengthening Anti-Fraud Effectiveness Act or H1B SAFE Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security, if the Secretary has specific information concerning an employer's improper hiring of a nonimmigrant H-1B alien (temporary employment in a specialty occupation or as a fashion model), to provide the Secretary of Labor with such information which may be used to initiate a Department of Labor compliance investigation.
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to require an employer filing an H-1B labor condition application with the Department of Labor to include the application number on the subsequent H-1B petition filed with the Department of Homeland Security.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
To require the President to prepare a thorough report of all United States contributions to the United Nations.

Bill: 109-hr-6239
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Congressional reporting requirements
Economic assistance
International agencies
United Nations
United Nations finances

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Directs the President to report annually to Congress respecting all assessed and voluntary U.S. government contributions to the United Nations and affiliated agencies and related bodies. 
 
Sets forth report contents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1155 Seminole Trail in Charlottesville, Virginia, as the "Corporal Bradley T. Arms Post Office Building".

Bill: 109-hr-6240
Sponsor: Rep. Goode, Virgil H., Jr. [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Names
Officer personnel
Postal facilities
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1155 Seminole Trail in Charlottesville, Virginia, as the "Corporal Bradley T. Arms Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Endangered Salmon Predation Prevention Act

Bill: 109-hr-6241
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Doc [R-WA-4]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Endangered species
Fishery management
Hunting
Law
Legislation
Licenses
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine mammals
Minorities
Native Americans
Oregon
Rivers
Salmon
Seals (Animals)
Sports and Recreation
Washington State
Water Resources Development
Wildlife management

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Endangered Salmon Predation Prevention Act - Amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to issue one-year permits for the lethal taking of up to 10 California sea lions if the Secretary determines that alternative measures to reduce sea lion predation on threatened or endangered salmonid stocks in the Columbia River do not adequately protect the salmonid stocks from such predation. Limits the cumulative annual taking of California sea lions to one percent of the annual potential biological removal level of such sea lions. Requires the Secretary to determine whether alternative measures to reduce sea lion predation on salmonid stocks will adequately protect such stocks.

Expresses the sense of Congress that nonlethal means of preventing sea lion predation of salmonid stocks in the Columbia River is preferable to lethal means.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans.
action_date: 2006-10-04
text: Executive Comment Requested from Commerce.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Withholding Tax Relief Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6242
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government service contracts
Income tax
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Withholding Tax Relief Act of 2006 - Repeals provisions of the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 requiring federal, state, and local governmental entities to withhold 3% of payments due to vendors providing goods and services to such entities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1912-1913)
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Contractors Accountability Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6243
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Evidence (Law)
Federal aid programs
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Freedom of information
Government contractors
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Law
Loan defaults
Recidivists
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Contractors Accountability Act of 2006 - Directs the Administrator of General Services to establish and maintain a database of information regarding integrity and performance of federal contracts and assistance recipients for use by federal procurement award officials and federal officials having authority to debar or suspend persons from federal contracts or assistance. Includes within required database information all judicial and administrative proceedings against such contractors or assistance recipients. Requires such information to be available to all federal agencies and the public. 
Requires federal agency suspension and debarment regulations to be amended to provide that an entity shall be presumed to be nonresponsible with respect to the award of a federal contract or assistance if a judgment or conviction for the same offense constituting a cause for federal debarment has been rendered against the entity twice within any three-year period. 
Requires an entity to disclose in any contract or assistance solicitation, bid, or offer all debarments or suspensions, judicial and administrative proceedings against the entity, and agreements that the entity is performing to avoid suspension or debarment within the last five years. 
Requires the Interagency Committee on Debarment and Suspension to take certain actions with respect to federal suspension or debarment proceedings, including resolving issues and coordinating actions among federal agencies. 
Allows: (1) federal agencies, commissions, or organizations not currently participating in the federal suspension and debarment system to do so; and (2) payments received under administrative agreements to avoid suspension or debarment to be used for costs associated with the database.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Hobby Protection Act to require that imitation Civil War items be clearly marked as copies.

Bill: 109-hr-6244
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Civil War
Consumer protection
Cultural property
Federal Trade Commission
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
History
Hobbies
Independent regulatory commissions
Labeling
Law
Military history
Restrictive trade practices
Weapons

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Amends the Hobby Protection Act to declare as an unlawful, unfair, and deceptive act the manufacture in the United States, or the importation into the United States, for introduction or distribution into commerce of any imitation Civil War item which is not plainly and permanently marked &quot;copy&quot; or &quot;facsimile.&quot;
 
Requires the Federal Trade Commission to prescribe rules relating to such items that are substantially similar to the rules prescribed by the Commission relating to imitation numismatic items.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness Act

Bill: 109-hr-6245
Sponsor: Rep. Musgrave, Marilyn N. [R-CO-4]
Introduced: 2006-09-28 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Colorado River development
Commerce
Land use
Leases
Mountains
National parks
Sports and Recreation
Trails
Water Resources Development
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 
Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness Act - Designates certain lands in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, as the Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish an alignment line and identify the boundaries for the East Shore Trail within the East Shore Trail Area. Authorizes necessary adjustments in such boundaries, except any that would place any portion of the Trail in such Wilderness.
 

 

 
Sets forth provisions concerning permitted and prohibited activities, water rights, and mineral resources within such Wilderness. Permits the Secretary to acquire private land within the Wilderness with the owner's consent. Allows water project development if authorized by the Secretary or President.
 
Sets forth provisions governing continued operations at the Grand River Ditch.
 
Applies provisions governing leases of National Park System buildings and property to property known as the Leiffer tract near the Park's eastern boundary in Larimer County, Colorado, as if such property was part of the Park.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Introduced in House