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To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act to provide for criminal liability for willful safety standard violations resulting in the death of contract employees.

Bill: 109-hr-3165
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Commerce
Contractors
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal liability
Death
Employee leasing
Employers' liability
Fines (Penalties)
Health
Law
Occupational health and safety

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act to specifically include contract employees among employees whose deaths resulting from employers' willful violations of standards under the Act subject such employers to criminal penalties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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 Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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 Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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
Right-to-Know National Payroll Act

Bill: 109-hr-3167
Sponsor: Rep. Hoekstra, Peter [R-MI-2]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Income tax
Medicare
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Small business
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Right-To-Know National Payroll Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require that each employer of more than 100 employees show on the W-2 form of each employee the employer's share of taxes for old-age, survivors, and disability insurance (OASDI) and for hospital insurance (Medicare) for the employee, as well as the total amount of such taxes for such employee. Requires a W-2 also to show any tier 1 railroad retirement tax with respect to OASDI and Medicare the employer has paid.

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 Public Health Service Act to provide for Centers for Clinical Discovery through grants from the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Bill: 109-hr-3168
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Clinical trials
Cytology
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Genetic research
Genetics
Human experimentation in medicine
Imaging systems in medicine
Medical centers
Medical research
Medical technology
Medical tests
Pharmaceutical research
Physiology
Research and development
Research and development facilities
Research centers
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to make grants for research centers (each to be known as a Center for Clinical Discovery) to accelerate next-generation approaches to the development of new therapies and diagnostics by: (1) bringing together patients, researchers with specialized expertise, and sophisticated technologies; and (2) basing such development on individual genotypes and individual variations in cell and molecular physiology.


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
Passenger Security Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3172
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Air cargo
Airline passenger traffic
Airports
Aviation safety
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government procurement
Labor and Employment
Security measures
Transportation workers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Passenger Security Act of 2005 - Amends federal transportation law to repeal the security screening opt-out program (under which an airport operator may apply to the Under Secretary of Transportation for Security of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to have the screening of passengers and property at the airport be carried out by the screening personnel of a qualified private screening company).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
Nurse Faculty Higher Education Act

Bill: 109-hr-3173
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Colleges
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Graduate education
Health
Higher education
Hospitals
Hours of labor
Labor and Employment
Leave of absence
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing education
Salaries
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Teacher education
Teacher salaries
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Nurse Faculty Higher Education Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to allow the Secretary of Education to award grants to, and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with, partnerships composed of an accredited school of nursing at an institution of higher education and a hospital or other health facility to establish pilot projects to enable such a facility to retain its staff of experienced nurses while providing a mechanism to have these individuals become faculty members of such a school. Requires such individuals to teach for two years for each year of support received under the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
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
To direct the Secretary of the Army to carry out without delay a thorough review of the cases of all 28 individuals convicted in the court-martial arising from a disturbance at Fort Lawton, Seattle, Washington, on August 14, 1944, and to require the Secretary to correct the military records (including the record of the court-martial in such case) of any individual as necessary to rectify error or injustice.

Bill: 109-hr-3174
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Blacks
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Crime and Law Enforcement
Governmental investigations
History
Homicide
Law
Military and naval offenses
Military discharges
Military history
Minorities
Personnel records
Racial discrimination
Riots
Washington State
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Army to carry out without delay a thorough review of the cases of all 28 individuals convicted in the court-martial arising from a disturbance at Fort Lawton, Seattle, Washington, on August 14, 1944, in order to determine the validity of the original findings and sentences and the extent, if any, to which racial prejudice or other improper factors may have tainted the original investigation and trials. Requires the Secretary: (1) to report to Congress on the review's results; and (2) if it is determined that there was error or an injustice, to correct the individual's military records as necessary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act to provide preferential treatment for certain apparel articles that are both cut (or knit to shape) and sewn or otherwise assembled in one or more beneficiary countries under that Act from fabrics or yarn not widely available in commercial quantities.

Bill: 109-hr-3176
Sponsor: Rep. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ-13]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Caribbean area
Clothing
Commerce
Developing countries
Latin America
Tariff
Tariff preferences
Textile fabrics

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Amends the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act to provide preferential treatment for certain apparel articles that are both cut (or knit to shape) and sewn or otherwise assembled in one or more Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA) beneficiary countries from certain fabrics or yarn not widely available in commercial quantities. 
 
Provides for the liquidation or reliquidation of any duty or lower rate of duty paid with respect to such articles on or after January 3, 2005, and before enactment of this Act.


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
Lobby Gift Ban Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3177
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional employees
Congressional ethics
Congressional officers
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
House of Representatives
House rules and procedure
Law
Lobbying
Members of Congress
Politicians' families

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Lobby Gift Ban Act of 2005 - Prohibits a registered lobbyist from knowingly making a gift to a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of Congress, with the exception of certain: (1) lawful political fundraising activities; (2) gifts from relatives; (3) employee benefits; (4) informational materials; (5) items of nominal value; (6) gifts on a personal basis, under specified circumstances; (7) outside business or employment activities provided to his or her spouse; (8) opportunities and benefits unrelated to congressional employment; and (9) foods or refreshments of nominal value offered other than as part of a meal.
 
Considers a gift to a family member of a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of Congress, or a gift to any other individual based on that individual's relationship with the Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee, to be a prohibited gift if it was given because of the individual's official position.
 
 
Imposes a civil fine of $50,000 for violation of this Act, depending on the extent and gravity of the violation.
 
Amends the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner from accepting a gift from a registered lobbyist prohibited by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 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 allow a deduction for qualified attorney fees in computing minimum tax.

Bill: 109-hr-3180
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Law
Legal fees
Minimum tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat attorney fees and court costs incurred in connection with a civil lawsuit as deductible expenses for purposes of computing regular and alternative minium tax liability.


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 Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income qualified attorney fees.

Bill: 109-hr-3181
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Law
Legal fees
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income attorney fees and court costs paid by an individual taxpayer in connection with a civil lawsuit. 


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
Assistant United States Attorney Retirement Benefit Equity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3183
Sponsor: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-18]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil service retirement
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Justice
Federal employees
Government attorneys
Government paperwork
Labor and Employment
Law
Public prosecutors

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Assistant United States Attorney Retirement Benefit Equity Act of 2005 - Grants an assistant United States attorney the same civil service retirement benefits as a law enforcement officer, except as specified. 
 
Includes within the definition of &quot;assistant United States attorney&quot; any other attorney employed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) occupying a position designated by the Attorney General upon finding that the position: (1) involves routine employee responsibilities that are substantially similar to those of assistant U.S. attorneys; and (2) is critical to DOJ's successful accomplishment of an important mission.
 
Sets forth provisions regarding the designation of attorneys as assistant U.S. attorneys. Requires DOJ to take measures reasonably designed to provide notice to incumbent assistant U.S. attorneys on their election rights and on the effects of making or not making a timely election.
 
Allows an incumbent to elect, for all purposes, to be treated in accordance with this Act or to be treated as if this Act had never been enacted. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) time limits for making an election; (2) retroactive effects; and (3) individual contributions for prior service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
To ensure that countries that have signed a Small Quantities Protocol also sign, ratify, and implement the Additional Protocol and provide access by IAEA inspectors to their nuclear-related facilities and to direct the United States Permanent Representative to the IAEA to make every effort to rescind and eliminate the Small Quantities Protocol and ensure compliance by all Member States of the IAEA with IAEA obligations and the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

Bill: 109-hr-3184
Sponsor: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-18]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Arms control agreements
Arms control verification
Arms sales
Conferences
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Diplomacy
Economic assistance
Energy
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign loans
Government Operations and Politics
International agencies
Military assistance
Nuclear exports
Nuclear facilities
Nuclear nonproliferation
President and foreign policy
Sanctions (International law)
Science, Technology, Communications
Technical assistance
Technology transfer
United Nations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Directs the President to use all available political, economic, and diplomatic tools to ensure that each U.S. ally or recipient of certain U.S. assistance that has signed a Small Quantities Protocol with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) also signs and implements the Additional Protocol and provides immediate access for IAEA inspectors to its nuclear-related facilities. 
 
Prohibits certain defense and dual use assistance to a country that has signed a Small Quantities Protocol but does not satisfy such implementation and inspection requirements. Authorizes the President to waive such prohibitions for up to one fiscal year for reasons of national security.
 
 Directs the President to require the U.S. Permanent Representative to the IAEA to use U.S. influence to change IAEA policy regarding the Small Quantities Protocol in order to: (1) eliminate the Small Quantities Protocol; (2) require that any IAEA member state that has signed a Small Quantities Protocol sign and implement the Additional Protocol, and provide IAEA inspectors with access to its nuclear-related facilities; and (3) require that any IAEA member state that does not comply with such implementation and inspection requirements be ineligible to receive nuclear material, technology, equipment, or assistance from any IAEA member state, and be subject to penalties as provided for by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-15
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2005-09-15
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
Build HOMES Act

Bill: 109-hr-3186
Sponsor: Rep. Ryun, Jim [R-KS-2]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Housing subsidies
Income
Low-income housing
Military dependents
Military housing
Military pay
Military personnel
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgages
Public housing
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Build Houses for Our Military's Enlisted Servicemembers Act or the Build HOMES Act - Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to exclude basic housing assistance amounts received by a member of the Armed Forces from consideration as income for any federal housing assistance program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-08
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program Act

Bill: 109-hr-3187
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Coastal zone
Commerce
Conservation easements
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Estuaries
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Forest conservation
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Habitat conservation
Housing and Community Development
Land banking
Land transfers
Landscape protection
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine parks and reserves
Natural areas
Nonprofit organizations
Outdoor recreation
Performance measurement
Public-private partnerships
Real estate development
Regional planning
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water quality
Watersheds
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program Act - Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to direct the Secretary of Commerce to establish a Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program to ascertain and protect the environmental integrity of important coastal and estuarine areas. Directs the Secretary to make program grants to coastal states with approved coastal zone management plans to assist such states to acquire coastal and estuarine property. Limits grant funding from federal sources to 75 percent, unless the Secretary waives such limitation. 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide $5 million for a regional watershed protection demonstration project that: (1) leverages land acquisition funding from other federal conservation or acquisition programs; (2) involves partnerships with federal, state, and non-governmental entities; (3) creates conservation corridors; (4) protects habitats under imminent threat of development or conversion; (5) enhances protected areas under the National Estuarine Research Reserve program; and (6) provides a model for future regional watershed protection projects. 
Reserves 15 percent of program funds for acquisitions benefitting the National Estuarine Research Reserve. 
 
 Allows the Secretary to enter into contracts or other arrangements with other federal agencies (including interagency financing of Coastal America activities) as well as any other qualified person for the purposes of carrying out technical assistance and research to support coastal zone management.

Legislative actions:
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