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Secure Travel and Counterterrorism Partnership Act

Bill: 109-s-4100
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Admission of nonimmigrants
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Counterfeiting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic data interchange
Fraud
Identification devices
International Affairs
International cooperation
Law
Passports
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Strategic planning
Technical assistance
Terrorism
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: 
 Secure Travel and Counterterrorism Partnership Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should expand the visa waiver program to nationals of foreign countries that are allies in the war on terrorism.
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a pilot program to expand the visa waiver program for up to five new countries that are are cooperating with the United States on security and counterterrorism matters. 
 
Requires a country, prior to participation, to conclude a counterterrorism and security information sharing agreement with the United States.
 
Authorizes: (1) a country to participate for an initial three-year period, with an additional two-year extension; and (2) the Secretary to terminate a country's participation for program noncompliance.
 
Directs the Secretary to develop and implement procedures to improve the manner of calculating visa overstay rates.
 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11501-11502)
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11500-11501)
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Stormwater Enforcement and Permitting Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-4101
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Building construction
Commerce
Construction industries
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental law enforcement
Federal-state relations
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Housing and Community Development
Law
Licenses
Soil erosion
Storm drains
Transboundary pollution
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: 
Stormwater Enforcement and Permitting Act of 2006 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide an operator a reasonable opportunity to correct a violation of a permit condition for a site with residential construction activity before initiation of an enforcement action, if such violation may be rectified by modifying, revising, or supplementing records or paperwork. Prohibits such an opportunity from being provided: (1) to the operator of any residential construction site that failed to obtain coverage under a national pollutant discharge elimination system permit; or (2) for a record or paperwork violation that resulted in a violation of a water quality standard.
 
Prohibits more than one opportunity to correct violations of the same condition. 
 
Prohibits the Administrator from requiring a permit for stormwater runoff from such a site if: (1) the runoff enters a municipal separate storm sewer system that is covered by a permit and the operator is in compliance with runoff requirements; and (2) such site has minimal potential for soil erosion.
 
Requires the Administrator to coordinate enforcement of stormwater discharge permits with states.
 
Prohibits the Administrator from paying any state penalty for a violation of a permit for such a discharge.
 
Requires the Administrator to establish a program that will develop and distribute to site operators a pamphlet that explains permitting requirements for stormwater discharges.
 
Authorizes the Administrator or the state to issue a general permit for no more than five years on a state, regional, or nationwide basis to cover any category of discharges, sludge use, disposal practices, or facilities.
 
Declares that the Administrator or state is not required to review, approve, or provide an opportunity for public comment on any application for a discharge under a general permit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Election Jamming Prevention Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-4102
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Congress
Congressional elections
Crime and Law Enforcement
Election fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Injunctions
Law
Political advertising
Presidential elections
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: 
Election Jamming Prevention Act of 2006 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the use of telecommunications devices to: (1) prevent or obstruct the broadcast or exchange of election-related information; or (2) impair or obstruct any other telecommunications device from being used to engage in communications containing election-related information.
 
Defines &quot;election-related information.&quot;
 
Provides a private right of action for injunctive or declarative relief against such violations (including a violation of the existing prohibition on annoying, abusing, threatening, or harassing any person at the called number or who receives the communications).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11502-11503)
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11502)
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Nuclear Terrorism Prevention Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-4103
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Arms control agreements
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Energy
Executive Office of the President
Fissionable materials
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
International control of nuclear power
Larceny
Legislation
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear security measures
Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear weapons
Presidential appointments
Smuggling
Standards
Terrorism
Uranium enrichment

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: 
Nuclear Terrorism Prevention Act of 2006 - Expresses the sense of Congress with respect to recognition of the threat to the United States of nuclear terrorism, as well as appropriate steps to be taken to prevent such terrorism.
 
Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to establish a Senior Advisor to the President for the Prevention of Nuclear Terrorism.
 
Requires an annual report from the President to Congress on the security of formula quantities of strategic special nuclear material.
 
States as the policy of the United States that all possible steps be taken as rapidly as possible to ensure that all nuclear weapons and formula quantities of strategic special nuclear materials are secure and accounted for. Directs the President to seek an international agreement on a global standard that implements such policy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide credit rate parity for all renewable resources under the electricity production credit.

Bill: 109-s-4104
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Coal
Electric power production
Energy
Environmental Protection
Income tax
Indian lands
Irrigation
Minorities
Municipal solid waste
Refuse as fuel
Tax credits
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate after 2006 the reduction in the rate of the tax credit for electricity produced from open-loop biomass, small irrigation power, landfill gas, trash combustion, and hydropower facilities (thus allowing the same credit rate for all renewable resource facilities).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11503)
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the project for hurricane and storm damage reduction, Morganza to the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana.

Bill: 109-s-4105
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Canals
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal aid to water resources development
Flood damage prevention
Gulf of Mexico
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Intracoastal waterways
Louisiana
Maintenance and repair
Navigation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Army to carry out the hurricane and storm damage reduction project, Morganza to the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, in accordance with the Chief of Engineers' reports of August 23, 2002, and July 22, 2003, at specified federal and non-federal costs. Makes the operation, maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, and replacement of the Houma Navigation Canal lock complex and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway floodgate features of the project that provide for inland waterway transportation a federal responsibility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in Senate
National Energy Efficiency Development Act

Bill: 109-s-4106
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Automobile tires
Biomass energy
Coal
Cogeneration of electric power and heat
Commerce
Commercialization
Computer software
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Energy
Electric power transmission
Electronics
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Energy industries
Energy research
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Hydrogen
Imports
Legislation
Methane
Petroleum
Presidential appointments
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Superconductivity
Technological innovations
Transportation and Public Works
Venture capital

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: 
National Energy Efficiency Development Act - Establishes the National Energy Efficiency Development Administration, headed by an Administrator who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the consent of the Senate, to develop energy-efficient technologies and reduce U.S. imports of oil by 50% by 2015.
 
Establishes in the Administration: (1) a Policy Advisory Committee; (2) an Office of Administration (to include an Energy Efficiency Economics Division, an Education Division, and the position of General Counsel); (3) an Office of Policy, Research, and Development; and (4) an Office of Venture Capital.
 
Authorizes the Administrator to solicit the development of energy-effcient technologies. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in Senate
College Opportunity Tax Credit Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-4107
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Graduate education
Higher education
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Minimum tax
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: 
College Opportunity Tax Credit Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to replace the Hope Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Tax Credits with an increased, partially refundable college opportunity tax credit to cover up to four years (currently, limited to two years) of the tuition and related expenses of full or part-time postsecondary and graduate students.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11503-11504)
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11503)
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act

Bill: 109-s-4108
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Arizona
Colorado River development
Construction costs
Contracts
Dams
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal aid to water resources development
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government trust funds
Groundwater
Habitat conservation
Hydroelectric power
Hydrology
Indian lands
Indian water rights
Infrastructure
Interstate compacts
Irrigation
Land transfers
Law
Leases
Maintenance and repair
Minorities
New Mexico
Pipelines
Power marketing administrations
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reservoirs
Restoration ecology
Rivers
Subcontractors
Transportation and Public Works
Water allocation (Policy)
Water conservation
Water storage
Water supply
Water treatment plants
Water use
Watersheds
Wells

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: 
Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act - Amends the Colorado River Storage Project Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Supply Project. 
 
Establishes in the Treasury a Reclamation Water Settlements Fund. Authorizes the Secretary to request a transfer from the Fund to implement a congressionally approved settlement agreement that requires the Bureau of Reclamation to plan, design, and construct: (1) water supply infrastructure; or (2) a project to rehabilitate a water delivery system to conserve water or a project to improve environmental conditions associated with or affected by an existing reclamation project.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to design, construct, operate, and maintain the Project in substantial accordance with the draft environmental impact statement prepared by the Bureau for the Project. Authorizes the Secretary to construct, operate, and maintain specified Project facilities to provide for the delivery of San Juan River water to the city of Gallup, New Mexico, the Navajo Nation, and the Jicarilla Apache Nation.
 
Approves the agreement among New Mexico, the Navajo Nation, and the United States setting forth a stipulated and binding agreement signed on April 19, 2005. Directs the Secretary to: (1) enter into that agreement to the extent that it does not conflict with this Act; and (2) prepare a hydrographic survey to identify and quantify any historic or existing diversion or use of water by the Navajo Nation from the San Juan River Basin. Establishes in the Treasury the Navajo Nation Water Resources Development Trust Fund. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Aircraft Noise Reduction Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-4109
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Airports
Environmental Protection
Infrastructure
Noise

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: 
Aircraft Noise Reduction Act of 2006 - Prohibits the operation of any civil subsonic turbojet of 75,000 pounds or less operating out of airports in the continental United States unless such aircraft complies with stage three noise levels as determined by the Secretary of Transportation. Allows an opt-out of such requirement for any aircraft operator at an airport who notifies the Secretary of intent to continue the operation of noncompliant aircraft. Requires notices of such opt-outs to be made accessible to the public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11505)
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11504-11505)
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Fallen Firefighters Assistance Tax Clarification Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-4112
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2006-12-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: California
Charities
Excise tax
Families
Fire fighters
Foundations
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits
Tax exclusion
Tax exemption
Tax penalties
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: 
Fallen Firefighters Assistance Tax Clarification Act of 2006 - Treats payments made before June 1, 2007, by a charitable organization by reason of the death, injury, wounding, or illness of any firefighter in the October 2006 Esperanza Incident in southern California as related to such organization&#146;s exempt function (and thus tax-exempt) if such payments are made in good faith using a reasonable and objective formula which is consistently applied. Protects private foundation making such payments from the penalty tax on self-dealing.
 
Excludes payments for firefighters made by charities or foundations under this Act (or by federal, state, or local governments) from the gross income of the recipient.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11742)
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11742)
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to clarify that territories and Indian tribes are eligible to receive grants for confronting the use of methamphetamine.

Bill: 109-s-4113
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2006-12-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child safety
Child welfare
Drug abuse
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to law enforcement
Indian children
Indian law enforcement
Methamphetamine
Minorities
Pregnant women
Prisoners
Rehabilitation of criminals
Social Welfare
Territories (U.S.)
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: 
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include territories and Indian tribes as eligible grant recipients (or reaffirm such eligibility) under the programs to: (1) address the manufacture, sale, and use of methamphetamine; (2) aid children in homes in which methamphetamine or other drugs are unlawfully manufactured, distributed, dispensed, or used; and (3) address methamphetamine use by pregnant and parenting women offenders. 

action_date: 2006-12-08
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include territories and Indian tribes as eligible grant recipients (or reaffirm such eligibility) under the programs to: (1) address the manufacture, sale, and use of methamphetamine; (2) aid children in homes in which methamphetamine or other drugs are unlawfully manufactured, distributed, dispensed, or used; and (3) address methamphetamine use by pregnant and parenting women offenders. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S11572-11573; text as passed Senate: CR S11572-11573)
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S11572-11573; text as passed Senate: CR S11572-11573)
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11742-11743)
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Generics First Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-4114
Sponsor: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI]
Introduced: 2006-12-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drugs
Generic drugs
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: 
Generics First Act of 2006 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to exclude from coverage under the Medicare part D prescription drug program all nongeneric (brand name) drugs unless no generic drug has been approved, and the brand name drug is determined to be medically necessary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Effective Physician Assistance for Drug Treatment Act

Bill: 109-s-4115
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2006-12-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drug law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Physicians

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: 
Effective Physician Assistance for Drug Treatment Act - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to allow a medical practitioner who dispenses narcotic drugs to individuals for maintenance or detoxification treatment to treat up to 100 patients at any one time (currently, limited to 30) after submitting a notification of need and intent to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

action_date: 2006-12-08
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Effective Physician Assistance for Drug Treatment Act - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to allow a medical practitioner who dispenses narcotic drugs to individuals for maintenance or detoxification treatment to treat up to 100 patients at any one time (currently, limited to 30) after submitting a notification of need and intent to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S11606; text as passed Senate: CR S11606)
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S11606; text as passed Senate: CR S11606)
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Introduced in Senate