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Youth Financial Education Act

Bill: 109-s-925
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Business education
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Curricula
Economic theory
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational innovations
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Nonprofit organizations
Personal budgets
Saving and investment
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Teachers
Teaching
Teaching materials
Youth

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: 
Youth Financial Education Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to allot grants to state educational agencies to provide funds to local educational agencies and public schools for personal financial literacy education programs for students in kindergarten through grade 12, and for professional development programs to prepare teachers and administrators for such financial education.
 
Directs the Secretary to make a grant to or contract with an entity with substantial financial education experience for a national clearinghouse for instructional materials and information on model financial education programs and best practices.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4420-4421)
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4420)
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Natural Gas Production Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-926
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2005-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Commerce
Energy
Gas industry
Income tax
Natural gas
Tax credits
Wells

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: 
Natural Gas Production Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to qualify an onshore well from a formation more than 15,000 feet deep for the tax credit for producing fuel from a nonconventional source.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4422)
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4421-4422)
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Mental Health Modernization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-927
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alzheimer's disease
Ambulatory care
Brain diseases
Case management
Child health
Clinics
Community health services
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to health facilities
Governmental investigations
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Marriage counseling
Medical statistics
Medicare
Mental health services
Nursing homes
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Physicians
Psychologists
Psychotherapy
Rural health
Social Welfare
Social work

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: 
Medicare Mental Health Modernization Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to provide for: (1) elimination of the lifetime limit on inpatient mental health services; (2) parity in treatment for outpatient mental health services; (3) coverage of intensive residential services under Medicare part A (Hospital Insurance) and of intensive outpatient services under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance); (4) exclusion of clinical social worker services from coverage under the Medicare skilled nursing facility prospective payment system; and (5) coverage of marriage and family therapist services and mental health counselor services under Medicare. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study and report to Congress on whether the criteria for coverage of any therapy service or any oupatient mental health care service under Medicare unduly restricts the access to such a service of any Medicare beneficiary with Alzheimer's disease or a related mental illness because the coverage criteria requires the Medicare beneficiary to display continuing clinicial improvement to continue to receive the service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4422)
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Estate Tax Repeal Acceleration (ExTRA) for Family-Owned Businesses and Farms Act

Bill: 109-s-928
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2005-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Estate tax
Families
Family enterprises
Family farms
Finance and Financial Sector
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: 
Estate Tax Repeal Acceleration (ExTRA) for Family-Owned Businesses and Farms Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the estate tax exclusion provisions applicable to family-owned business interests. 
 
Allows an exclusion from the gross estate for the adjusted value of certain family business interests acquired from a decedent (carryover business interests). Defines &quot;carryover business interests&quot; and revises ownership requirements and material participation rules applicable to such interests. 
 
Provides that carryover business interests acquired from a decedent shall be treated as transferred by gift and that the basis of such property shall be the lesser of the adjusted basis of the decedent, or the fair market value of such property at the date of the decedent's death (thus eliminating the estate tax on such property). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4423-4425)
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4422-4423)
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Volunteer Pilot Organization Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-929
Sponsor: Sen. Allen, George [R-VA]
Introduced: 2005-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Aircraft pilots
Aviation insurance
Aviation safety
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Finance and Financial Sector
Governmental investigations
Liability (Law)
Licenses
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare
Torts
Transportation and Public Works
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: 
Volunteer Pilot Organization Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the Volunteer Protection Act of 1997 to exempt from liability a nonprofit volunteer pilot organization that flies for public benefit, its staff members, and its volunteers for harm caused by a volunteer while flying, in furtherance of the purpose of the organization, an aircraft for which the volunteer was properly licensed and insured. 
 
Directs the Attorney General to study and report to Congress on the availability of insurance to nonprofit volunteer pilot organizations that fly for public benefit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4425-4426)
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Food and Drug Administration Safety Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-930
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2005-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Advertising
Biomedical engineering
Clinical trials
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Cost effectiveness
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug adulteration
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Epidemiology
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health information systems
Law
Licenses
Medical supplies
Pharmaceutical research
Product safety
Risk
Sales promotion
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: 
Food and Drug Administration Safety Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish the Center for Postmarket Drug Evaluation and Research within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
 
Requires the Director of the Center to conduct activities to ensure the safety and effectiveness of FDA-approved drugs and licensed biological products, including by: (1) conducting postmarket risk assessment and surveillance of such drugs and products; (2) determining whether a postmarket study is required; (3) contracting, or requiring the sponsor of such a drug or product to contract, with the holders of domestic and international surveillance databases to conduct epidemiologic and other observational studies; (4) determining whether a drug or product may present an unreasonable risk to the health of patients or the general public; (5) taking corrective action if such an unreasonable risk may exist; and (6) making information about the safety and effectiveness of such drugs and biological products available to the public and health care providers in a timely manner.
 
Requires the Drug Safety and Risk Management Drug Advisory Committee to make recommendations to the Director on postmarket studies, drugs and biological products that may present an unreasonable risk, and appropriate corrective actions.
 
Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to assess civil penalties for violations of this Act.
 
Allows the Director to withdraw or suspend approval of a drug or license for a biological product using expedited procedures under certain circumstances.
 
Transfers to the Center the functions and duties of the Office of Drug Safety.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4426-4427)
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to reduce temporarily the duty on certain articles of natural cork.

Bill: 109-s-931
Sponsor: Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]
Introduced: 2005-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tariff
Wood

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce, through December 31, 2008, the duty on certain articles of natural cork.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4428)
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4427-4428)
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Healthy Families Act

Bill: 109-s-932
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Business records
Caregivers
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Collective bargaining
Commerce
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional employees
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Department of Labor
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Dismissal of employees
Employee rights
Employers' liability
Families
Family leave
Family violence
Federal employees
Fines (Penalties)
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Grievance procedures
Health
Informers
Injunctions
Labor contracts
Labor productivity
Labor statistics
Law
Leave of absence
Legal fees
Library of Congress
Limitation of actions
Married people
Medical records
Medical tests
Parents
Part-time employment
Personnel records
Preventive medicine
Right of privacy
Sick leave
Signs and signboards
Social Welfare
State employees
Wage restitution
Whistle blowing

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: 
Healthy Families Act - Requires certain employers, who employ 15 or more employees for each working day during 20 or more workweeks a year, to provide a minimum paid sick leave of: (1) seven days annually for those who work at least 30 hours per week; and (2) a prorated annual amount for those who work less than 30 but at least 20 hours a week, or less than 1,500 but at least 1,000 hours per year. 
 
Allows employees to use such leave to meet their own medical needs or to care for the medical needs of certain family members.
 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to exercise certain investigative and enforcement authority with respect to this Act's provisions regarding employees covered by title I of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 or the Government Employee Rights Act of 1991. Provides that, for employees under their jurisdiction, such authority shall be exercised by the Librarian of Congress, the Comptroller General, the Board of Directors of the congressional Office of Compliance, or the Merit Systems Protection Board.
 
Declares that the requirements under this Act are minimum requirements, and are not to be construed to discourage employers from adopting or retaining more generous leave policies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4428)
action_date: 2005-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Community Hospital Assistance Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-933
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Ambulances
Ambulatory care
Coinsurance
Debt
Disabled
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Finance and Financial Sector
Home care services
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Long-term care
Medical economics
Medical fees
Medicare
Mental health services
Nursing homes
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
Rural Community Hospital Assistance Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) provide for establishment of a rural community hospital (RCH) program; (2) remove certain barriers to establishment of distinct part units by RCH and Medicare critical access hospital (CAH) facilities; and (3) revise the CAH program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4549)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Reform Health Care Now Act

Bill: 109-s-934
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Access to health care
Expedited congressional procedure
Health
Health insurance
House rules and procedure
Legislation
Medically uninsured
Senate rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
Reform Health Care Now Act - Requires the chairs of specified congressional committees, within 30 calendar days after the commencement of the session of Congress following the enactment of this Act, each to introduce a bill to provide a significant increase in access to health care coverage for the people of the United States.
 
Authorizes the ranking minority party member of a committee, if the chair fails to introduce the bill within the 30-day period, to introduce one that will qualify for the expedited procedure provided in this Act.
 
Qualifies a bill if: (1) its title reads &quot;to reform the health care system of the United States and to provide insurance coverage for Americans;&quot; (2) it reaches the goal of providing health care coverage to 95 % of Americans within 10 years; and (3) it is deficit neutral. 
 
Sets forth procedures for expedited consideration of such legislation in both chambers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4550-4551)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4549-4550)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Fifty Caliber Sniper Weapons Regulation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-935
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Firearms control

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
Fifty Caliber Sniper Weapons Regulation Act of 2005 - Amends the National Firearms Act to include a 50 caliber sniper weapon (defined as a rifle capable of firing a center-fire 50 caliber cartridge) within the definition of a &quot;firearm&quot; regulated under that Act. Modifies the definition of &quot;rifle&quot; under the Act to include a weapon intended to be fired from a bipod or other support.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4552-4553)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4551-4552)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
E-Mail Privacy Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-936
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Electronic mail systems
Electronic surveillance
Law
Science, Technology, Communications
Warrants (Law)

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
E-Mail Privacy Act of 2005 - Amends wiretap provisions of the Federal criminal code to revise the definition of &quot;intercept&quot; to mean the aural or other acquisition of the contents of any wire, electronic, or oral communication contemporaneous with transit, or on an ongoing basis during transit, through the use of any electronic, mechanical, or other device or process, notwithstanding that the communication may simultaneously be in electronic storage (thus covering e-mail communications).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4553)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4553)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
End Demand for Sex Trafficking Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-937
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Arrest
Assault
Child sexual abuse
Compensation for victims of crime
Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Criminal investigation
Criminal statistics
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Imprisonment
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Nonprofit organizations
Performance measurement
Police training
Prosecution
Prostitution
Rape
Recidivists
Rehabilitation of criminals
Social Welfare
Tax evasion
Taxation
Tourism
Transportation and Public Works
Travel
Victims of crimes
Women
Women's shelters

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
End Demand for Sex Trafficking Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants to states and political subdivisions to: (1) establish model law enforcement programs that promote the effective prosecution of persons who solicit an unlawful commercial sex act, persons who purvey others to engage in such an act, and sex traffickers; and (2) assist victims of such an act.
 
Amends the federal criminal code to modify prohibitions against transportation for illegal sexual activity and related crimes (generally) and for coercion and enticement to engage in prostitution or criminal sexual activity to explicitly cover purchasers of commercial sexual activities and acts. 
 
Directs federal agencies involved in combating sex trafficking and providing services to victims of commercial sex acts inside the United States to coordinate their activities with the Senior Policy Operating Group established by the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000. 
 
Directs the Attorney General to: (1) report annually to the Senate and House Judiciary Committees regarding grants and evaluating success in enhancing the prosecution and conviction of purchasers, sex traffickers, and exploiters and in reducing demand for commercial sexual activity; (2) disseminate best methods and practices for training state and local law enforcement personnel involved in enforcing laws prohibiting commercial sexual acts at each annual conference conducted by the Department of Justice; and (3) carry out a biennial comprehensive statistical review and analysis of commercial sexual acts in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4553-4558)
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
National Guard and Reserves Housing Equity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-938
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Military housing
National Guard

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
National Guard and Reserves Housing Equity Act of 2005 - Requires that National Guard and Reserve members called or ordered to active duty for a period of more than 30 days receive a basic housing allowance at the same rate as similarly situated members of the regular components of the uniformed services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Friends of the Children National Demonstration Act

Bill: 109-s-940
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2005-04-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: California
Charities
Child abuse
Child welfare
Commerce
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Delaware
Dropouts
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Gangs
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Health
Juvenile delinquency
Massachusetts
Mental illness
Mentoring
New York City
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Performance measurement
Poor children
Public-private partnerships
Social Welfare
Teenage pregnancy
Washington State
Women
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: 
Friends of the Children National Demonstration Act - Directs the Attorney General to establish a national demonstration project regarding early and sustained intervention programs for disadvantaged children and youth, through a project grant to Friends of the Children, National Office, which shall make subgrants to its local chapters in specified cities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Introduced in Senate