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DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1606
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Arrest
Court records
Criminal justice information
DNA
Detention of persons
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Identification of criminals
Law
Limitation of actions
Sex offenders

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005 - Amends the DNA Identification Act of 1994 to repeal provisions prohibiting the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) profiles from arrestees who have not been charged in an indictment or information with a crime, and DNA samples that are voluntarily submitted solely for elimination purposes, from being included in the National DNA Index System.
 
 Requires, for the expungement by a state from such System of the DNA analysis of a person who has not been convicted of an offense, that the responsible state agency or official receive a certified copy of a final court order establishing that each charge serving as the basis for the analysis has been dismissed or resulted in an acquittal. 
 
Repeals a provision granting authority for a one-time keyboard search of such System by any person authorized to access it. 
 
Permits states or local governments to use grant funds to include within such System DNA samples collected under applicable legal authority (currently, samples taken from individuals convicted of a qualifying state offense).
 
Amends the DNA Analysis Background Elimination Act of 2000 to authorize the Attorney General to: (1) collect DNA samples from individuals who are arrested or detained under U.S. authority; and (2) authorize any other federal agency that arrests or detains individuals or supervises individuals facing charges to so collect DNA samples.
 
Eliminates the exception for sexual abuse offenses to the tolling of the statute of limitations in cases where DNA testing implicates a person in the commission of a felony.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Solid Waste Environmental Regulation Clarification Affecting Railroads Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1607
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Department of Transportation
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Jurisdiction
Law
Railroads
Refuse and refuse disposal
Surface Transportation Board

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
Solid Waste Environmental Regulation Clarification Affecting Railroads Act of 2005 - Excludes solid waste management facilities and the processing or sorting of solid waste from the jurisdiction of the Surface Transportation Board. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9532)
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9531-9532)
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
20/20 Biofuels Challenge Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1609
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2005-07-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural conservation
Agricultural machinery
Agricultural research
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Cellulose
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Department of Transportation
Diesel motor
Energy crops
Energy research
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Farm manure
Feeds
Food supply
Forest products
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Grain
Landfills
Law
Motor vehicle pollution control
Municipal solid waste
Oils and fats
Oilseeds
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Refuse as fuel
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Sewage treatment
Soil erosion
Transportation and Public Works
Trees
Wood

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: 
20/20 Biofuels Challenge Act of 2005 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate regulations ensuring that motor vehicle fuel sold or dispensed to consumers in the contiguous United States, on an annual average basis, contains specified volumes of renewable fuel for calendar years 2006-2020.
 
Amends federal transportation law to require that personal and commercial land and water transportation and shipping vehicles and vessels, as well as large farm equipment manufactured after model year 2010, and capable of operating on either gasoline or diesel fuel, also be capable of operating on a flexible fuel mixture.
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe regulations requiring a vehicle or vessel manufacturer to include certain consumer information concerning a vehicle's capability of operating on a flexible fuel mixture (alternative biofuels).
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) support development of cellulosic feedstock by directing that erosion-preventing, renewable fuel-producing crops be grown on certain arable land in a specified conservation reserve program established under the Food Security Act of 1985; and (2) implement an integrated 10-year research program to improve crop productivity and cost for cellulosic-based ethanol and biodiesel feedstock.
 
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to implement an eight-year research and development plan to improve significantly processes for converting: (1) cellulosic feedstock into ethanol production; and (2) biodiesel feedstock into biodiesel fuel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Federal Trade Commission to conduct an inquiry into the retail price of gasoline.

Bill: 109-s-1610
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Ben [D-NE]
Introduced: 2005-09-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alabama
Alcohol as fuel
Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Emergency Management
Energy prices
Energy supplies
Floods
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Louisiana
Market manipulation
Mississippi
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Petroleum reserves
Profit
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public meetings
Strategic materials
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: 
Directs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to: (1) initiate an inquiry and report to Congress on whether the retail price of gasoline both before and after Hurricane Katrina, including the price of gasoline containing ethanol, is being artificially manipulated by reducing refinery capacity, by speculation in oil market, or by any other form of manipulation; and (2) hold a public hearing to present the inquiry results.
 
Instructs the FTC to take appropriate action in cooperation with the attorney general of any affected state if it determines that the increase in gasoline prices, including gasoline containing ethanol, is a result of market manipulation.
 
 Sets a deadline for the Secretary of Energy to decide whether to implement expanded use of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in order to assure adequate gasoline supplies, if the FTC determines that the increase in gasoline prices is not the result of market manipulation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Denver Federal Center Redevelopment Act

Bill: 109-s-1611
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2005-09-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Building construction
Colorado
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal installations
Federal office buildings
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Hazardous wastes
Housing and Community Development
Land transfers
Leases
Maintenance and repair
Real estate development
Storage

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: 
Denver Federal Center Redevelopment Act - Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to enter into leases of Federal real property, including improvements thereon, with totally nonfederal entities to provide for the construction, rehabilitation, operation, maintenance, or use of all, or portions of, the Denver Federal Center. 
 
Lists terms and conditions for such a lease (master lease), including that it: (1) have as its primary purpose enhancing the value of the Center; (2) be negotiated pursuant to such procedures as the Administrator considers necessary to ensure the integrity of the selection process and to protect U.S. interests; (3) be for a term not to exceed 50 years; and (4) provide that all development risk remain with the nonfederal entity. Directs that a master lease be for fair consideration. 
 
Requires that net proceeds from a master lease be deposited into, administered, and expended, subject to appropriations Acts, as part of the Federal Building Fund. Authorizes the Administrator to retain from the proceeds of a master lease amounts necessary to recover the expenses incurred by the Administrator with respect to such lease.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Under Secretary for Emergency Preparedness and Qualifications Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1612
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2005-09-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Department of Homeland Security
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Presidential appointments

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: 
Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish the office of the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Emergency Preparedness and Response.
 
Requires the President to select as Under Secretary an individual with broad background, professional knowledge, and substantial experience in emergency training, planning, and preparedness, including work experience relating to emergency preparedness, at least four years of which must be experience in management of emergency personnel or assets.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999 to extend the termination date for mandatory price reporting.

Bill: 109-s-1613
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2005-09-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural estimating and reporting
Agricultural prices
Agriculture in foreign trade
Animals
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Livestock
Meat

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: 
Amends the Livestock Mandatory Price Reporting Act of 1999 to extend the termination date of such Act's mandatory beef and swine reporting and related authorities to September 30, 2006.

action_date: 2005-09-13
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Amends the Livestock Mandatory Price Reporting Act of 1999 to extend the termination date of such Act's mandatory beef and swine reporting and related authorities to September 30, 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S9995)
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S9995)
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9995)
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S9995)
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9648)
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Emergency Management Agency Restoration Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1615
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2005-09-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Congress
Department of Homeland Security
Disaster relief
Executive reorganization
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Legislation
Planning
Presidential appointments

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: 
Federal Emergency Management Agency Restoration Act of 2005 - Reestablishes the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as an independent establishment in the executive branch. Requires FEMA to be headed by a Director appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
 
Requires FEMA to: (1) include all functions and authorities prescribed by the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act; and (2) carry out its mission to reduce the loss of life and property and protect the Nation from all hazards with a comprehensive, risk-based emergency management program.
 
Requires FEMA to remain the lead agency for the Federal Response Plan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Lowell National Historical Park Boundary Adjustment Act

Bill: 109-s-1616
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-09-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boundaries
Commemorations
Commerce
Historic sites
History
Industrialization
Land transfers
Massachusetts
National parks

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: 
Lowell National Historical Park Boundary Adjustment Act - Modifies the boundary of the Lowell National Historical Park to include certain properties in the City of Lowell, Massachusetts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on gemifloxacin, gemifloxacin mesylate, and gemifloxacin mesylate sesquihydrate.

Bill: 109-s-1617
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-09-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Antibiotics
Drugs
Health
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on gemifloxacin, gemifloxacin mesylate, and gemifloxacin mesylate sesquihydrate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-09-06
text: Introduced in Senate
International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1618
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2005-09-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Aliens
Arrest
Assault
Child abuse
Child support
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Damages
Department of Homeland Security
Divorce
Drug abuse
Drunk driving
Families
Family violence
Fines (Penalties)
Forced labor
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Homicide
Identification of criminals
Immigrants
Incest
Injunctions
International Affairs
Kidnapping
Labor and Employment
Law
Mandatory sentences
Marriage
Murder
Prostitution
Rape
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sex crimes
Sex offenders
Slavery
Stalking
Torture
Translating and interpreting
Transportation and Public Works
Victims of crimes
Visas
Wife abuse
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: 
 International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005 - Prohibits an international marriage broker from providing any U.S. client with any personal contact information of any individual under the age of 18.
 
Prohibits a marriage broker from providing any U.S. client with the personal contact information of any foreign national client 18 years of age or older until the marriage broker has: (1) collected certain background information from the U.S. client; (2) provided a copy of such background information to the foreign national client; (3) provided the foreign national client information about legal rights; (4) received consent from the foreign national client to release personal contact information; and (5) informed the U.S. client that he or she will be subject to a criminal background check.
 
Requires a marriage broker to collect specified background information from each U.S. client.
 
Sets forth penalties for marriage broker violations. 
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to repeal the mail-order bride provision.
 
Provides for the dissemination of a pamphlet about the resources available for immigrant victims of domestic violence to: (1) foreign national clients of marriage brokers; and (2) beneficiaries of K-visa petitions.
 
Amends INA to set forth new K-visa processing provisions.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Introduced in Senate
School Environment Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1619
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-09-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Agriculture and Food
Child health
Child safety
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection Agency
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Fines (Penalties)
Freedom of information
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Health
Health warnings
Integrated pest management
Judicial review
Law
Legal fees
Licenses
Parent-school relationships
Pesticide regulation
Pesticides
Playgrounds
Product safety
Public schools
School administration
School boards
School buildings
School districts
School personnel
Secondary education
Signs and signboards
Students
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: 
School Environment Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) establish a National School Integrated Pest Management Advisory System to develop and update uniform standards and criteria for implementing integrated pest management systems in schools; (2) establish a National School Integrated Pest Management Advisory Board; (3) provide grants to local educational agencies to develop such systems. 
Prohibits: (1) the application of a pesticide when a school or school ground is occupied or in use; or (2) the use of an area or room treated by a pesticide, other than a least toxic pesticide, during the 24-hour period beginning at the end of the treatment. 
Requires each local educational agency or school to provide notice of the integrated pest management system of the school district at the beginning of each school year and to give prior notice of any use of a pesticide (other than a least toxic pesticide) to parents, guardians, and school staff members. 
Prescribes procedures to be followed if a pest cannot be controlled after having used an integrated pest management system and least toxic pesticides. 
Prescribes civil penalties for violations of this Act. 
Establishes the Integrated Pest Management Trust Fund to carry out education, training, propagation, and development activities under school integrated pest management systems.
Prohibits, no later than six years after this Act's enactment, the use of any pesticide other than a least toxic pesticide in schools unless the Administrator has met the requirements of this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9729-9734)
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9729)
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Introduced in Senate
September 11 Family Humanitarian Relief and Patriotism Act

Bill: 109-s-1620
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-09-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Alien labor
Aliens
Crime and Law Enforcement
Death
Department of Homeland Security
Deportation
Evidence (Law)
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Illegal aliens
Immigrants
Injunctions
International Affairs
Law
Limitation of actions
Married people
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: 
September 11 Family Humanitarian Relief and Patriotism Act - Provides permanent resident status adjustment for a requesting alien who was on September 10, 2001, the wife, child, or dependent son or daughter of a lawful nonimmigrant alien who died as a result of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States.
 
Authorizes an alien who has been ordered excluded, deported, removed, or ordered to depart voluntarily from the United States to apply for such status adjustment.
 
Provides for cancellation of removal and permanent resident status adjustment for a requesting alien who was: (1) on September 10, 2001, the wife, child, or dependent son or daughter of an alien who died as a result of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States; and (2) deemed to be a beneficiary of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001.
 
Makes the provisions of this Act inapplicable to an alien who is: (1) inadmissible or deportable under criminal or security grounds, including September 11, 2001, terrorist activity; or (2) a family member of such an alien.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9734)
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Teacher Tax Relief Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1621
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2005-09-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Books
College costs
Computer software
Computers
Curricula
Education
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Higher education
Income tax
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax deductions
Teacher education
Teachers
Teaching materials
Textbooks

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: 
Teacher Tax Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the allowable tax deduction for the expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers to $400; (2) allow the deduction of professional development expenses; and (3) make such deduction permanent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9734-9735)
action_date: 2005-09-07
text: Introduced in Senate