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To amend part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove the exclusion of benzodiazepines from required coverage under the Medicare prescription drug program.

Bill: 109-hr-3151
Sponsor: Rep. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD-3]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug abuse
Drugs
Education
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Higher education
Medical education
Medicare
Medication abuse
Physicians
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare
Tranquilizing drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to remove the exclusion of benzodiazepines from required coverage under the Medicare prescription drug program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-06-30
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: 2005-06-30
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: 2005-06-30
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: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for the production of qualified hybrid motor vehicles.

Bill: 109-hr-3152
Sponsor: Rep. Carnahan, Russ [D-MO-3]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Automobile industry
Commerce
Consumer education
Electric vehicles
Energy
Energy conservation
Environmental Protection
Fuel consumption
Income tax
Labeling
Motor vehicle pollution control
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax credits for purchasers and manufacturers of qualified hybrid motor vehicles. Defines &quot;qualified hybrid motor vehicle&quot; as a motor vehicle which: (1) operates on an internal combustion or heat engine using consumable fuel and a rechargeable energy storage system; (2) meets specified emission standards under the Clean Air Act; (3) is a passenger vehicle or light truck with a gross weight rating of not more than 8,500 pounds; (4) has a maximum available power (defined as the maximum power available from the rechargeable energy storage system during a standard 10-second pulse power or equivalent test, divided by such maximum power and the SAE net power of the heat engine) of at least four percent; and (5) is acquired for use or lease by a taxpayer and not for resale. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
Upper Colorado and San Juan Basin Endangered Fish Recovery Implementation Programs Reauthorization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3153
Sponsor: Rep. Cubin, Barbara [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Animals
Authorization
Colorado
Colorado River development
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to water resources development
Fishery management
Fishes
Government Operations and Politics
Habitat conservation
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
New Mexico
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reservoirs
Utah
Watersheds
Wildlife conservation
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Upper Colorado and San Juan Basin Endangered Fish Recovery Implementation Programs Reauthorization Act of 2005 - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to undertake capital projects for the Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Fish Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin and the San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program through FY2010. Limits to $126 million the total costs of such projects.

action_date: 2005-12-13
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Upper Colorado and San Juan Basin Endangered Fish Recovery Implementation Programs Reauthorization Act of 2005 - Reauthorizes appropriations to the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to undertake capital projects for the Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Fish Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin and the San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program through FY2010. Increases: (1) the amount authorized for federal participation in such projects (from $46 million to $61 million); and (2) the limitation on the total costs of such projects (from $100 million to $126 million).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-13
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 189.
action_date: 2005-12-13
text: Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 109-340.
action_date: 2005-12-13
text: Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 109-340.
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Subcommittee on Water and Power Discharged.
action_date: 2005-11-03
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-07-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
National Board-Certified Teachers in Low-Performing Schools Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3155
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Recruiting of employees
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher salaries
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
National Board-Certified Teachers in Low-Performing Schools Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a pilot program of stipends for teachers in low-income, low-performing schools who: (1) are certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; and (2) serve as resident facilitators at their schools and as liaisons with the Board to help encourage other teachers to become Board-certified. Authorizes base stipends and potential bonuses for up to 100 teachers annually under such five-year program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
Dietary Supplement Access and Awareness Act

Bill: 109-hr-3156
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Business records
Child health
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Consumer education
Department of Health and Human Services
Dietary supplements
Evidence (Law)
Families
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Food industry
Food safety
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health
Herbs
Judicial review
Labeling
Law
Medical personnel
Medical records
Product safety
Risk
Toxicology
Trade secrets

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Dietary Supplement Access and Awareness Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require manufacturers and processors of dietary supplements to report certain information to the Secretary of Health and Human Services annually, including a list of supplements manufactured and the labeling and major ingredients for such supplements. 
 
Requires manufacturers and distributors to report to the Secretary any serious adverse experiences regarding a supplement. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to require a manufacturer to: (1) conduct postmarket surveillance if there is a reasonable possibility of a supplement causing adverse health consequences; and (2) demonstrate that a supplement is not adulterated.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish criteria for making a determination that a dietary supplement may pose a significant risk to minors. Deems the act of selling a dietary supplement to a minor after the Secretary has made such a determination to be an act which results in a supplement being misbranded while held for sale.
 
Deems a dietary supplement to be adulterated if the manufacturer fails to comply with the Secretary's order to demonstrate the drug's safety.
 
Requires the Secretary to consider a dietary supplement or ingredient as presenting an unreasonable risk of injury or illness if the Secretary determines that the risks of such product outweighs its benefits. Allows the Secretary to consider even a relatively small risk of a serious adverse health effect to be unreasonable.
 
Directs the Secretary, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to carry out dietary supplement education programs for health care professionals and consumers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
Currency Manipulation Prevention Act

Bill: 109-hr-3157
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-15]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Currency devaluation
Damages
Development credit institutions
Economics and Public Finance
Foreign exchange
Government liability (International law)
International Affairs
International agencies
International competitiveness
Law
Manufacturing industries
Monetary policy
Nontariff trade barriers
Trade agreements
Trade negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Currency Manipulation Prevention Act - Amends the Trade Act of 2002 to state that the principal negotiating objective of the United States with respect to currency exchange rates is to ensure that governmental intervention in currency markets is of limited duration and is carried out in consultation with countries with major trading partners.
 
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to submit biannual reports: (1) describing actions by foreign governments to manipulate their currencies to increase their exports and to limit imports from the United States; (2) analyzing the impact of such currency manipulation on the U.S. manufacturing sector and on U.S. monetary policy; and (3) setting forth remedies against such currency manipulation. 
 
Directs the President to: (1) negotiate with any country identified by the Secretary of Commerce as engaging in currency manipulation to end such practice; and (2) seek compensation from such country (if in the national interest) for the damages incurred by U.S. manufacturers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
To designate the Cherokee Overhill Territory in Polk, McMinn, Monroe, and Meigs Counties in Tennessee as a National Heritage Area.

Bill: 109-hr-3158
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Architecture
Arts, Culture, Religion
Citizen participation
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Cultural property
Economics and Public Finance
Exhibitions
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Landowners
Natural areas
Outdoor recreation
Planning
Right of property
Signs and signboards
Sports and Recreation
Sunset legislation
Tennessee
Tourism
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Establishes the Cherokee Overhill Territory National Heritage Area in Tennessee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
Community Restoration and Revitalization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3159
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Building construction
Collection of accounts
Commemorations
Commerce
Condominium (Housing)
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Historic sites
History
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Investment tax credit
Leases
Low-income housing
Maintenance and repair
Office buildings
Rental housing
Residential rehabilitation
Tax credits
Tax-exempt organizations
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Community Restoration and Revitalization Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow an increased rehabilitation tax credit for certain low-income buildings; (2) allow a basis reduction adjustment for property eligible for the credit; (3) increase the credit for certain smaller buildings; (4) allow property eligible for the credit to be used for lodging purposes; (5) modify placed-in-service rules for credit property; (6) modify qualification rules for credit property that is tax-exempt use property; (7) increase the credit for buildings in high cost areas; and (8) exempt certain condominium transactions from rehabilitation tax credit recapture requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
Meat and Poultry Pathogen Reduction and Enforcement Act

Bill: 109-hr-3160
Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Animals
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Agriculture
Federal advisory bodies
Food safety
Foodborne diseases
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Health surveys
Labeling
Law
Meat
Meat inspection
Meat packing industry
Performance measurement
Poultry
Public health
Standards
Surveys

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Meat and Poultry Pathogen Reduction and Enforcement Act - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act, respectively, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe: (1) surveys to determine foodborne pathogen contamination levels for raw meat and raw poultry, and meat and poultry products processed in establishments inspected under such Acts; (2) public health goals; and (3) initial and final pathogen reduction performance standards to reduce pathogen contamination and achieve public health goals.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) identify, and publish a list of, such pathogens; (2) initiate pathogen surveys to determine existing levels of meat and poultry contamination; (3) establish public health goals and objectives to achieve foodborne illness reduction; and (4) report on the scientific feasibility of establishing health-based performance standards for pathogens. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a National Advisory Committee for Microbiology Criteria for Foods.
Directs the Secretary to enforce Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) System requirements and other sanitation requirements in any official establishment. Authorizes the Secretary to prohibit non-complying establishments from labeling any meat or meat product, or poultry or poultry product, as "inspected and passed."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Medically Necessary Dental Care Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3161
Sponsor: Rep. Ferguson, Mike [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Cardiovascular diseases
Dental care
Leukemia
Medicare
Prosthesis
Social Welfare
Surgery
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Medicare Medically Necessary Dental Care Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of medically necessary dental procedures. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-06-30
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: 2005-06-30
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: 2005-06-30
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: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the 80-percent deduction for meal and entertainment expenses.

Bill: 109-hr-3162
Sponsor: Rep. Foley, Mark [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Costs
Expense accounts
Income tax
Recreation
Sports and Recreation
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the tax deduction for meal and entertainment expenses to 80 percent (currently 50 percent) of such expenses.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to delay for 48 months the deadlines by which States must comply with the election administration requirements of title III of such Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-3163
Sponsor: Rep. Goode, Virgil H., Jr. [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Ballots
Congress
Congressional elections
Data banks
Directories
Election administration
Electronic government information
Federal-state relations
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Identification devices
Postal service
Presidential elections
Science, Technology, Communications
Signs and signboards
Standards
Voter registration
Voting
Voting machines
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to delay for 48 months the deadlines by which states must comply with election administration requirements, including those concerning provisional voting and voting information.
 
Extends the availability and the period of waiver of deadline for replacement of punch card and lever voting machines.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make geothermal heat pump systems eligible for the energy credit.

Bill: 109-hr-3164
Sponsor: Rep. Gordon, Bart [D-TN-6]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Energy
Geothermal resources
Heat pumps
Income tax
Investment tax credit
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat geothermal heating and cooling equipment as energy property for purposes of the energy tax credit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House