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Strengthening American Citizenship Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1815
Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN]
Introduced: 2005-10-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Allegiance
Awards, medals, prizes
Citizenship
Civics education
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Embassies
English language
Federal aid to education
Foundations
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
History
Immigrant education
Immigrants
International Affairs
Law
Naturalization
Oaths
Residence requirements
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: 
Strengthening American Citizenship Act of 2005 - Directs the Chief of the Office of Citizenship of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide grants (not to exceed $500) to assist legal U.S. residents who declare an intent to apply for citizenship in the United States to meet naturalization requirements. 
 
Provides such grants to an accredited institution of higher education or other qualified educational institution for tuition, fees, books, and other educational resources required by the English language course in which the legal resident is enrolled. 
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to provide that a legal U.S. resident who demonstrates English fluency will satisfy the residency requirement upon the completion of four (currently, five years) years of continuous U.S. legal residency.
 
Directs the Secretary of DHS to: (1) establish an American citizenship grant program for qualified entities to provide civics, history, and English classes to promote the patriotic integration of prospective citizens; (2) establish the United States Citizenship Foundation to support the functions of the Office of Citizenship; and (3) implement a strategy to enhance public awareness of naturalization ceremonies. 
 
Amends INA to set forth a new oath of allegiance. Directs the Secretary to: (1) incorporate a knowledge and understanding of the oath of allegiance into the history and government citizenship test; and (2) notify the embassy of the country of which a new citizen was a citizen or subject that such citizen has renounced allegiance to that foreign country, and sworn allegiance to the United States. 
 
Establishes a new citizens award program to recognize citizens who: (1) have made an outstanding contribution to the United States; and (2) were naturalized during the ten-year period ending on the date of such recognition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13467-13468)
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10974-10975)
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the manufacturing deduction provided by the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 with respect to income attributable to domestic production activities in Puerto Rico.

Bill: 109-s-1816
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-10-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Manufacturing industries
Puerto Rico
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers engaged in domestic production activities in Puerto Rico the tax deduction for income attributable to domestic production activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-11-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13152)
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10975)
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: Introduced in Senate
CARE Act

Bill: 109-s-1817
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2005-10-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Commerce
Construction industries
Construction workers
Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Government Operations and Politics
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Minimum wages
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: 
Cleanup and Reconstruction Enhancement Act - CARE Act - Suspends Davis-Bacon Act wage rate requirements for federal contracts in areas declared national disasters, for a one-year period after such declaration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10976)
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10975-10976)
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the manufacturing deduction provided by the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 with respect to income attributable to domestic production activities in any possession of the United States, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-1818
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-10-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Americans in foreign countries
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax deductions
Taxation of foreign income
Territories (U.S.)
Wages
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the tax deduction for income related to domestic production activities for production activities in possessions of the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10976)
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: Introduced in Senate
401(k) Enhancement Act: Encouraging Retirement Savings

Bill: 109-s-1819
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-10-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Annuities
Defined contribution plans
Department of the Treasury
Employee rights
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Hours of labor
Income tax
Investments
Labor and Employment
Law
Pension funds
Salaries
State laws
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: 
401(k) Enhancement Act: Encouraging Retirement Savings - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow 401(k) retirement plans to adopt automatic employee contribution arrangements. Provides for: (1) employer matching contributions; (2) employee elections to opt out of automatic contribution plans; (3) notice to employees of their rights under automatic contribution plans; and (4) default investment arrangements for employees who do not make investment decisions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-10-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare HEALS Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1822
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2005-10-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Insurance premiums
Medicaid
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-05
text: 
Medicare Help for Every beneficiary And Low income Senior Act of 2005 or Medicare HEALS Act of 2005 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA), as amended by the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, to repeal the prohibition on the use of Medicaid funds to provide wrap-around prescription drug coverage for individuals dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. Provides for a reduction in clawback payments by the amount of wrap-around payments.
 
Amends SSA title XVIII (Medicare) to provide that a part D eligible individual who enrolls for the first time in a prescription drug plan or a MedicareAdvantage-Prescription Drug (MA-PD) plan prior to January 1, 2008, shall not be subject to a penalty increase in the monthly beneficiary premium established with respect to months occurring prior to such date.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11853)
action_date: 2005-10-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-10-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11139-11140)
action_date: 2005-10-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Illegal Immigration Enforcement and Empowerment Act

Bill: 109-s-1823
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2005-10-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Arrest
Border patrols
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Detention of persons
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Illegal aliens
Police
Prosecution
Smuggling
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-05
text: 
Illegal Immigration Enforcement and Empowerment Act - Authorizes a state or unit of local government to investigate, identify, apprehend, arrest, detain, prosecute, and impose criminal or civil penalties upon any individual who violates a: (1) federal immigration law; or (2) state law that is based in part upon the violation of federal immigration law.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a pilot Volunteer Border Marshal Program (limited to state-licensed peace officers) to assist the Department of Homeland Security in securing U.S. borders.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11141)
action_date: 2005-10-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11140-11141)
action_date: 2005-10-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Strengthen the Earned Income Tax Credit Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1824
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-10-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Earned income tax credit
Families
Income tax
Married people
Military pay
Social Welfare
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-05
text: 
Strengthen the Earned Income Tax Credit Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the reduction in the marriage penalty applicable to the earned income tax credit; (2) increase the percentage of such credit for families with three or more children; (3) reduce the phase-out of such credit for individuals without children; and (4) make permanent provisions treating combat pay as earned income for purposes of calculating such credit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-10-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11141-11142)
action_date: 2005-10-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Multiemployer Plan Funding and Deduction Reform Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1825
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-10-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Defined benefit pension plans
Defined contribution plans
Disabled
Electronic data interchange
Excise tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Interest rates
Internet
Pension funds
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Tax deductions
Tax penalties
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Taxation
Valuation
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-05
text: 
Multiemployer Plan Funding and Deduction Reform Act of 2005 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to revise rules for funding, disclosure, and deduction for multiemployer defined benefit plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-10-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Older Worker Opportunity Act

Bill: 109-s-1826
Sponsor: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Adult day care
Agricultural labor
Agriculture and Food
Conferences
Defined benefit pension plans
Defined contribution plans
Dislocated workers
Displaced homemakers
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Employee health benefits
Employment of the disabled
Employment of the disadvantaged
English language
Ex-offenders
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health insurance
Health insurance continuation
Hours of labor
Income tax
Law
Legislation
Medically uninsured
Migrant labor
Minorities
Minority employment
Older workers
Performance measurement
Personnel records
Seasonal labor
Single-parent families
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Taxation
Vocational and technical education
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Older Worker Opportunity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish a tax credit equal to 40% of annual wages for older workers in flexible and phased work programs; and (2) extend the dependent care credit to eldercare expenses.
 
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to extend COBRA continuation coverage for certain older workers.

Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to revise: (1) statewide employment and training activities, adding developing strategies for serving hard-to-serve populations and coordinating programs among one-stop partners; (2) local employment and training activities, with respect to intensive services and training services, and adding customer support for members of hard-to-serve populations, including individuals with disabilities; (3) performance measures, data, and reporting; (4) uses of funds for statewide activities, adding incentive grants for local areas; and (5) incentive grants for states.

Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a Federal Task Force on Older Workers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR 10/7/2005 S11215-11218)
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 10/07/2005 S11214-11215)
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Hospital Price Reporting and Disclosure Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1827
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Ambulatory care
Commerce
Consumer education
Department of Health and Human Services
Drugs
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Law
Medical records
Medical statistics
Prescription pricing
Surgery

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Hospital Price Reporting and Disclosure Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require a hospital to: (1) report data to the Secretary of Health and Human Services regarding the frequency of performing certain services and administering certain drugs and the charge by the hospital for such services or drugs; and (2) prominently post such information at each admission site. Requires the Secretary to: (1) publicly post such information in a manner that promotes charge comparisons among hospitals; and (2) select which services or drugs are to be reported based on how frequently each service is performed or each drug is administered.
 
Allows the Secretary to impose a civil monetary penalty for violations of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR 10/7/2005 S11220)
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 10/07/2005 S11219-11220)
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Influenza Vaccine Security Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1828
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Business records
Child health
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Conferences
Damages
Data banks
Drug industry
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Families
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government liability
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publicity
Health education
Health information systems
Health surveys
Home care services
Hospital care
Influenza
Law
Medical malpractice
Medical research
Medical technology
Military medicine
Negligence
Nursing homes
Parties to actions
Pharmaceutical research
Preventive medicine
Products liability
Public health personnel
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Vaccination
Vaccines
Virus diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Influenza Vaccine Security Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) determine an annual production target for influenza vaccine; (2) coordinate with the private market to encourage the production of such vaccine in amounts that will meet the annual target; and (3) establish an influenza vaccine buyback protocol to purchase excess stock of influenza vaccine.
 
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Secretary to award technical assistance grants to entities seeking to enter the U.S. influenza vaccine market, expand their vaccine production capacity, or improve their ability to remain within such market. Requires the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to develop a regulatory roadmap to address issues surrounding emergency use authorization of influenza vaccine. 
 
Requires the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to solicit proposals for research to improve technologies for influenza vaccine development. Requires the Director of the Institute to review current vaccine development research.
 
Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to: (1) establish an electronic tracking system for the influenza vaccine; and (2) revise and expand influenza-related education materials.
 
Allows the Secretary to designate a qualified pandemic influenza technology during a public health emergency. Deems a covered person, such as a manufacturer, distributer, or licensed health care professional, to be an employee of the Public Health Service with respect to liability for personal injury or death related to such a qualified technology. Provides for an exclusive federal cause of action for such claims.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 10/07/2005 S11220-11221)
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to convey certain submerged land to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-1831
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Claims
Government liability
Land transfers
Law
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Northern Mariana Islands
Submerged lands

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Conveys to the government of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands submerged lands surrounding such Islands and extending three geographical miles outward from their coastlines.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to resolve certain claims of the Commonwealth arising pursuant to the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 109-291.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR 10/7/2005 S11223)
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 10/07/2005 S11222)
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Fort Reno Mineral Leasing Act

Bill: 109-s-1832
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2005-10-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
Infrastructure
Land transfers
Leases
Legislation
Oil and gas leases
Oklahoma
Parks
Public debt
Revolving funds
Surplus government property

Summary:
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: 
Fort Reno Mineral Leasing Act - Requires a specific authorization by Congress as prerequisite to the Fort Reno Management Area being: (1) declared to be excess or surplus federal property; (2) conveyed; or (3) transferred to the administrative jurisdiction of any other federal agency.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide for mineral leasing at the Fort Reno Management Area.
 
States that no further administrative or environmental analyses shall be required for the leasing and development of minerals at the Fort Reno Management Area after enactment of this Act.
 
Establishes the Fort Reno Management Fund as a revolving fund in the Treasury. Transfers to it proceeds received in the Treasury from the leasing of mineral resources at the Fort Reno Management Area.
 
Requires the Administrator of the Agricultural Research Service, when making expenditures from the Fund, to consult with the Historic Fort Reno, Inc., and the Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Officer.
 
 Ratifies the Fort Reno Science Park Instrument.
 
Sets forth the leasing authority of the Secretary of Agriculture with regard to the Area, including lease conversion and extension.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-444.
action_date: 2005-10-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11817)
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 10/07/2005 S11224-11226)
action_date: 2005-10-06
text: Introduced in Senate