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To extend the educational flexibility program under section 4 of the Education Flexibility Partnership Act of 1999.

Bill: 109-hr-4919
Sponsor: Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2006-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to carry out the educational flexibility (Ed-Flex) program to allow states that were in the program on September 30, 2004, to continue to waive statutory and regulatory requirements applicable to certain federally-funded education programs until the reauthorization of part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Act popularly known as the Death on the High Seas Act to limit application of that Act to maritime accidents, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-4921
Sponsor: Rep. Doggett, Lloyd [D-TX-25]
Introduced: 2006-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Jurisdiction
Marine safety
Transportation and Public Works
Wrongful death

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: 
Amends the Death on the High Seas Act (the Act) to provide that a cause of action for a maritime accident (currently, commercial aviation accident) that results in the death of a person due to a wrongful act, neglect, or default occurring on the high seas 12 nautical miles or closer to the shore of any state, or the District of Columbia, or the U.S. Territories shall be brought under federal, state, and other appropriate law and not under the provisions of the Act (where actions for such accidents occurring on the high seas beyond a marine league from the shore of such places can be brought in U.S. district courts, in admiralty).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Korean War Veterans Recognition Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4922
Sponsor: Rep. Kelly, Sue W. [R-NY-19]
Introduced: 2006-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armistices
Flags
History
Korean War, 1950-1953
Military history
Special days

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Korean War Veterans Recognition Act of 2006 - Adds National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, July 27, to the list of days on which the flag of the United States should be displayed.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act

Bill: 109-hr-4923
Sponsor: Rep. Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10]
Introduced: 2006-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Air piracy
Aircraft
Airports
Aliens
Americans in foreign countries
Armed Forces and National Security
Assassination
Automobile theft
Capital punishment
Child pornography
Child sexual abuse
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Conspiracy
Correctional personnel
Criminal investigation
Destruction of property
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Election candidates
Emergency Management
Espionage
Explosives
Families
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal officials
Firearms
Genocide
Government Operations and Politics
Hostages
Immigration
Informers
International Affairs
Kidnapping
Larceny
Law
Law enforcement officers
Life imprisonment
Mandatory sentences
Marine safety
Members of Congress
Motor vehicles
Murder
Offshore structures
Organized crime
Parole
Police
Postal service
Presidential protection
Prison violence
Prisoners
Protection of officials
Racial discrimination
Railroads
Rape
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sex crimes
Smuggling
State employees
Supreme Court justices
Terrorism
Torture
Transportation and Public Works
Treason
Vice Presidents
Victims of crimes
Violence
Weapons of mass destruction
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: 
Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act - Repeals death penalty provisions for a wide range of specified offenses under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the federal criminal code, the Controlled Substances Act, and other statutes, including for murder relating to the smuggling of aliens, murder during a hostage-taking, and certain non-homicide-related offenses (espionage and treason). Repeals procedural provisions relating to the imposition of the death sentence.
 
Prohibits sentencing to death or putting to death any person for any violation of federal law. Commutes death penalty sentences imposed prior to the enactment of this Act to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Congressional Tribute to Dr. Norman E. Borlaug Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4924
Sponsor: Rep. Latham, Tom [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2006-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Agricultural innovations
Agricultural production
Agriculture and Food
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: 
Congressional Tribute to Dr. Norman E. Borlaug Act of 2006 - Authorizes The President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to make appropriate arrangements for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal of appropriate design, to Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, in recognition of his enduring contributions to the United States and the world. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
District of Columbia Legislative Autonomy Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4926
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2006-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional veto
District of Columbia
House rules and procedure
Legislative resolutions
Local laws
Municipal home rule
Senate rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: 
District of Columbia Legislative Autonomy Act of 2006 - Amends the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to eliminate congressional review of newly-passed District laws. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E337-338)
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Conquer Childhood Cancer Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4927
Sponsor: Rep. Pryce, Deborah [R-OH-15]
Introduced: 2006-03-09 in the House
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: 2006-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Doughnut Hole Assistance Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4928
Sponsor: Rep. Ross, Mike [D-AR-4]
Introduced: 2006-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Coinsurance
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Managed care
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: 
Medicare Doughnut Hole Assistance Act of 2006 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program ) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to count expenses for nonformulary covered part D drugs against the Medicare annual out-of-pocket threshold for costs for such drugs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 49, United States Code, to clarify that State and local permitting requirements relating to the processing, sorting, or transporting of solid waste apply to rail carriers.

Bill: 109-hr-4930
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2006-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Licenses
Local laws
Railroad freight operations
Railroads
Refuse and refuse disposal
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: 
Amends the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995 to provide that specified provisions of such Act shall not be construed to exempt a rail carrier from state and local permitting requirements relating to the processing, sorting, or transporting of solid waste.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Stop the Automated Calls Act

Bill: 109-hr-4931
Sponsor: Rep. Shaw, E. Clay, Jr. [R-FL-22]
Introduced: 2006-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Campaign funds
Commerce
Consumer protection
Directories
Federal Trade Commission
Fund raising
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Political advertising
Telemarketing
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: 
 Stop the Automated Calls Act - Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to revise the do-not-call registry provisions of the Telemarketing Sales Rule to prohibit politically-oriented recorded message telephone calls to listed telephone numbers. 
 
Defines politically-oriented recorded message telephone call.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Call Center Consumer Right to Know Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4932
Sponsor: Rep. Strickland, Ted [D-OH-6]
Introduced: 2006-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Customer service
Federal Trade Commission
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Independent regulatory commissions
Internet
Law
Science, Technology, Communications
Telemarketing
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: 
Call Center Consumer Right to Know Act of 2006 - Directs each U.S. corporation or subsidiary that utilizes a call center to initiate telephone calls to, or receive calls from, individuals located in the United States to disclose the location, including the city and state or county, of the employee initiating or receiving each call at the beginning of such call.
 
Requires such corporation or subsidiary to annually certify to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) their compliance with such requirement. Subjects noncomplying corporations or subsidiaries to such civil penalties as the FTC may prescribe.
 
Directs the FTC to prescribe rules for effective monitoring and compliance with such requirement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
To prevent acid mine drainage from sulfide mining into the Great Lakes.

Bill: 109-hr-4933
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2006-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Drainage
Great Lakes
Law
Licenses
Mine wastes
Mine water
Mines and mineral resources
Mining engineering
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: 
Prohibits issuance of a federal permit to operate a sulfide mine within five miles of any of the Great Lakes unless the permit applicant demonstrates that there will be no acid mine drainage into any of them as a result of such mining.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998 to modify the definition of "Indian student count".

Bill: 109-hr-4934
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2006-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Continuing education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Indian education
Labor and Employment
Minorities
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: 
Amends the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998 with respect to grants to tribally controlled postsecondary vocational and technical institutions that are not receiving federal support under the Tribally Controlled College or University Assistance Act of 1978 or the Navajo Community College Act to provide basic support for the education and training of Indian students.
 
Revises the definition of &quot;Indian student count&quot; (essential to the formula for the determination of grant amounts).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness and Indian Peaks Wilderness Expansion Act

Bill: 109-hr-4935
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2006-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Bicycles
Bikeways
Boundaries
Colorado
Colorado River development
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Land use
Leases
Maps
National parks
National recreation areas
Sports and Recreation
Trails
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Water supply
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: 
Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness and Indian Peaks Wilderness Expansion Act- Designates certain lands in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, as wilderness and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System, which shall be known as the Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish an alignment line for a trail, which shall be known as the East Shore Trail, located within the East Shore Trail Area and, after establishing the alignment line, to identify the boundaries of such Trail. Provides for the inclusion of the East Shore Trail in the Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness if such Trail has not been constructed and authorized for use by motorized bicycles 25 years after enactment of this Act. 
 
Bars, until 25 years after this Act's enactment, the use of motorized vehicles or other motorized machinery not permitted on March 1, 2006, from being allowed in the East Shore Trail Area, except for constructing or maintaining the East Shore Trail, if such construction is authorized by the Secretary. 
 
Amends the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area, Arapaho National Recreation Area and the Oregon Islands Wilderness Area Act to provide for a boundary adjustment of the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area and the Arapaho National Recreation Area by: (1) increasing the acreage of the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area; and (2) decreasing the acreage of the Arapaho National Recreation Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-13
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA, Interior.
action_date: 2006-03-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2006-03-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E334-335)
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
National Fund for Excellence in American Indian Education Amendments Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4936
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2006-03-09 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Authorization
Cabinet officers
Chief executive officers
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Foundations
Government Operations and Politics
Indian education
Minorities
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: 
National Fund for Excellence in American Indian Education Amendments Act of 2006 - Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act with respect to the National Fund for Excellence in American Indian Education (Foundation). Requires the Foundation Board to appoint a chief operating officer for the Foundation separate from the Secretary of the Interior (who currently acts as chief operating officer).

Places limitations on the administrative costs of the Foundation. Authorizes appropriations for FY2007-FY2009. Authorizes the Secretary to provide funds to pay the operating expenses of the Foundation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-03-27
text: Executive Comment Requested from Education.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Introduced in House