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Student Fairness Act

Bill: 109-hr-2927
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2005-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Income tax
Rebates
Scholarships
State taxation
Student aid
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: 
Student Fairness Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to rebate the amount of aid lost to students whose Pell Grants were reduced or eliminated for academic year 2005-2006 as a result of the update to the tables for state and other taxes in the student aid need analysis determination of expected family contribution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-06-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-06-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2005-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act

Bill: 109-hr-2928
Sponsor: Rep. Rothman, Steven R. [D-NJ-9]
Introduced: 2005-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Communication in medicine
Contraceptives
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Hospitals
Rape
Victims of crimes
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: 
Compassionate Assistance for Rape Emergencies Act - Prohibits any federal funds from being provided to a hospital unless the hospital meets certain conditions related to a woman who is a victim of sexual assault, including that the hospital: (1) provides the woman with accurate and unbiased information about emergency contraception; (2) offers emergency contraception to the woman; (3) provides the woman such contraception at the hospital on her request; and (4) does not deny any such services because of the inability of the woman or her family to pay.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-06-15
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: 2005-06-15
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: 2005-06-15
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: 2005-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide the same type of vocational rehabilitation benefits and services under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for certain children with spina bifida as are currently available to veterans with service-connected disabilities.

Bill: 109-hr-2929
Sponsor: Rep. Walsh, James T. [R-NY-25]
Introduced: 2005-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Birth defects
Child health
Disabled
Families
Health
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
Vietnam veterans
Vocational rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide to a child of a Vietnam veteran who is suffering from spina bifida the same vocational training and rehabilitation services currently authorized for veterans with service-connected disabilities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-15
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the issuance of any Federal or State permit or lease for new oil and gas slant, directional, or offshore drilling in or under one or more of the Great Lakes.

Bill: 109-hr-2930
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2005-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Environmental Protection
Gas in submerged lands
Great Lakes
Law
Licenses
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas leases
Petroleum in submerged lands
Submarine oil well drilling
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: 
Prohibits the issuance of any federal or state permit or lease for new oil and gas slant, directional, or offshore drilling in or under one or more of the Great Lakes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Introduced in House
HBCU Expansion Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2931
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, Major R. [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2005-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Black colleges
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Minorities
Minority education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: 
HBCU Expansion Act of 2005 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs) as eligible under title III part B provisions for strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
 
Defines a PBI as any institution of higher education that: (1) offers a bachelor's degree program, and meets title III eligibility requirements including a certain enrollment of needy students; and (2) at the time of application, has a student enrollment of at least 500 full-time students, at least 51 percent of whom are African Americans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Introduced in House
To amend the International Air Transportation Competition Act of 1979 to modify restrictions on the provisions of air transportation to and from Love Field, Texas.

Bill: 109-hr-2932
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2005-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Access to airports
Air routes
Airline passenger traffic
Airlines
Airports
Commerce
Infrastructure
Tennessee
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: 
Amends the International Air Transportation Competition Act of 1979 to add Tennessee to the number of States outside Texas between which and Love Field, Texas, flights are authorized, if the air carrier: (1) does not offer or provide any through service or ticketing with another air carrier or foreign air carrier; and (2) does not offer for sale transportation to or from, and the flight or aircraft does not serve, any point which is outside Tennessee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Alien Gang Removal Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2933
Sponsor: Rep. Forbes, J. Randy [R-VA-4]
Introduced: 2005-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Aliens
Automobile theft
Burglary
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Criminal statistics
Department of Justice
Deportation
Detention of persons
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Evidence (Law)
Explosives
Finance and Financial Sector
Firearms
Fraud
Gangs
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Informers
Judicial review
Larceny
Law
Legislation
Money laundering
Obstruction of justice
Organized crime
Right of asylum
Smuggling
Transportation and Public Works
Victims of crimes
Violence
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: 
Alien Gang Removal Act of 2005 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make an alien inadmissible for U.S. entry if: (1) such alien has been deported for criminal street gang participation; or (2) the consular officer or the Secretary of Homeland Security knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that such alien is a member of a criminal street gang seeking U.S. entry in furtherance of gang-related crimes or activities, or is a member of a designated criminal street gang.
 
Defines: (1) criminal street gang; and (2) gang crime.
 
Makes an alien deportable who: (1) is a street gang member convicted of committing or attempting to commit a gang crime; or (2) is determined by the Secretary to be a member of a designated criminal street gang.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to designate a group or association as a criminal street gang. Requires the Attorney General to provide specified congressional leaders with prior notice of, and the factual basis for, such designation. 
 
Provides for revocation of such designation by: (1) an Act of Congress; (2) the Attorney General's review based upon changed circumstances or national security; or (3) judicial appeal or petition to the Attorney General by a gang or association so designated.
 
Requires mandatory detention of aliens subject to removal based upon criminal street gang membership.
 
Makes such aliens ineligible for asylum and protection from removal to certain countries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-28
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Pay for All Your Undocumented Procedures (PAY UP!) Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2934
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2005-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aliens
Ambulances
Border patrols
Compensation (Law)
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency medicine
Federal aid to health facilities
Immigration
International Affairs
Law
Medical economics
Medically uninsured
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: 
Pay for All Your Undocumented Procedures (PAY UP!) Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to pay emergency ambulance and medical service providers for the cost of uncompensated care of aliens aided by a border patrol officer or other Federal immigration official.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Long-Term Care Support and Incentive Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2935
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2005-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Caregivers
Case management
Commerce
Consumer protection
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Excise tax
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Flexible benefit plans
Health
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Long-term care
Long-term care insurance
Medical economics
Social Welfare
Standards
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax penalties
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: 
Long-Term Care Support and Incentive Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a tax deduction from gross income for 50 percent of the long-term care premiums paid under a qualified long-term care insurance contract for individuals under age 65 (increases the deduction percentage to 75 percent for premiums paid for individuals age 65 or older); (2) permit qualified long-term care insurance contracts to be offered in a cafeteria plan and flexible spending arrangements under certain conditions; (3) allow a nonrefundable tax credit of $4,000, subject to a phase-out for incomes exceeding $150,000 (joint returns) or $75,000 (individuals), for each individual age 65 or older who has been certified as having long-term care needs for at least 180 consecutive days in a taxable year and for whom the taxpayer is acting as a caregiver; and (4) mandate certain consumer protections for long-term care insurance contracts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-06-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1264-1265)
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Environmentally Responsible Windpower Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2938
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2005-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Animals
Armed Forces and National Security
Birds
Coastal zone
Commemorations
Electric utility rates
Energy facilities
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Historic sites
History
Landscape protection
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Migratory bird conservation
Military parks
National lakeshores
National parks
National seashores
Offshore structures
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Sea birds
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife refuges
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: 
Environmentally Responsible Windpower Act of 2005 - States that a wind turbine project must complete its Local Notification Process as a prerequisite to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issuance of its Exempt-Wholesale Generator Status, Market-Based Rate Authority, or Qualified Facility rate schedule.
 
Requires the lead agency to conduct and complete an environmental impact statement prior to FERC issuance of its Exempt-Wholesale Generator Status, Market-Based Rate Authority, or Qualified Facility rate schedule to a Qualified Wind Project in or near a Highly Scenic Area (or within 20 miles off the coast of a National Wildlife Refuge).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, and 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: 2005-06-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, and 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: 2005-06-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, and 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: 2005-06-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, and 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: 2005-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that certain settlement funds established under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 are beneficially owned by the United States and are not subject to tax.

Bill: 109-hr-2940
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2005-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts
Collection of accounts
Consent decrees
Environmental Protection
Finance and Financial Sector
Hazardous wastes
Income tax
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Refuse and refuse disposal
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from income taxation certain settlement funds established under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Bond Financing Renewal Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-2941
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2005-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bonds
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial institutions
Income tax
Interest
Tax deductions
Tax-exempt securities

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: 
Bond Financing Renewal Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) accelerate to FY2007 (from FY2010) the $10 million issuance increase for qualified small-issue bonds; and (2) allow a tax deduction for interest expense on qualified small-issue bonds with an aggregate authorized face amount of less than $2 million.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Sexual Predator Sentencing Act

Bill: 109-hr-2942
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2005-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child sexual abuse
Families
Guardian and ward
Homicide
Life imprisonment
Mandatory sentences
Prostitution
Rape
Recidivists
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sex crimes
Sex offenders
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: 
Sexual Predator Sentencing Act - Amends the federal criminal code to increase penalties, and set mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment, for aggravated sexual abuse, sexual abuse, sexual abuse of a minor or ward, abusive sexual contact, and sexual abuse resulting in death. Increases the mandatory minimum term of imprisonment for repeat sex offenses to life imprisonment unless the death penalty is imposed. Prohibits a term of imprisonment imposed for sex offenses from running concurrently with any other term of imprisonment for such an offense.
 
Increases penalties, and sets a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment, for coercing or enticing any individual to travel in interstate or foreign commerce to engage in prostitution or in any sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense. Doubles the minimum and maximum terms of imprisonment for subsequent offenses. Prohibits a term of imprisonment imposed for sex offenses from running concurrently with any other term of imprisonment for such an offense.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Introduced in House
SABIR Act

Bill: 109-hr-2943
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2005-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commercialization
Employee stock options
Entrepreneurs
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Industrial research
Joint ventures
Labor and Employment
Law
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Small Business Administration
Small business
Technological innovations
Venture capital

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: 
Save Biotechnology Innovative Research Act of 2005 or SABIR Act - Amends provisions of the Small Business Act relating to the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (a program under which a portion of a Federal agency's research or research and development funds are reserved for award to small businesses) to require a small business, in order to be SBIR-eligible, to have no more than 500 employees and be one of the following; (1) at least 51 percent owned and controlled by individuals or eligible venture capital companies who are U.S. citizens or permanent resident aliens; (2) not more than 49 percent owned and controlled by a single eligible venture capital company; (3) at least 51 percent owned and controlled by another business that is itself at least 51 percent owned and controlled by U.S. Citizens or permanent resident aliens; or (4) a joint venture in which each entity meets one of these ownership requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Science, 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: 2005-06-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Science, 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: 2005-06-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Small Business, and in addition to the Committee on Science, 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: 2005-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-16
text: Introduced in House