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Stop Tuberculosis (TB) Now Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5022
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH-13]
Introduced: 2006-03-28 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Chemotherapy
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Drug resistance in microorganisms
Drugs
Economic assistance
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Human immunodeficiency viruses
International agencies
Medical records
Medical research
Medical tests
Pharmaceutical research
President and foreign policy
Public health
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Tuberculosis
Vaccines
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: 
Stop Tuberculosis (TB) Now Act of 2006 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require (currently, authorizes) the President to furnish assistance for tuberculosis (TB) prevention, treatment, and elimination.
 
Gives priority to activities described in the Stop TB Strategy (as defined by this Act). Revises related fund use provisions.
 
Authorizes the President, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to provide increased resources to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Stop Tuberculosis Partnership to improve the capacity of countries with high TB rates and other affected countries to implement the Stop TB Strategy.
 
Authorizes appropriations for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) TB activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman .
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2006-03-28
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2006-03-28
text: Referred to the Committee on International Relations, 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: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to repeal the amendments made by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 requiring documentation evidencing citizenship or nationality as a condition for receipt of medical assistance under the Medicaid Program.

Bill: 109-hr-5023
Sponsor: Del. Christensen, Donna M. [D-VI-At Large]
Introduced: 2006-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Citizenship
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Immigration
Medicaid
Passports
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to repeal the amendments made by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 requiring documentation evidencing citizenship or nationality as a condition for receipt of medical assistance under the Medicaid program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in House
Landfill Gas Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5027
Sponsor: Rep. Jindal, Bobby [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2006-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Biomass energy
Commerce
Energy
Energy prices
Environmental Protection
Gas industry
Income tax
Landfills
Methane
Natural gas
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: 
Landfill Gas Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business-related tax credit for the production of natural gas at a high Btu fuel facility (a facility that produces high Btu biomass fuel).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in House
Project Bioshield Material Threats Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5028
Sponsor: Rep. Linder, John [R-GA-7]
Introduced: 2006-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Antibiotics
Authorization
Biological warfare
Chemical warfare
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency medicine
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Nuclear terrorism
Public health
Risk
Terrorism
Vaccines

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: 
Project Bioshield Material Threats Act of 2006 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Homeland Security (the Secretary) to utilize existing risk assessments to assess current and emerging threats of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear agents and determine which of such agents present a material threat against the U.S. population sufficient to affect national security. Requires the Secretary to group such assessments to facilitate assessments by the Secretary of Health and Human Services on the availability and appropriateness of specific countermeasures to address more than one such agent or address adverse health consequences that are common to exposure to different agents. Requires the Secretary to complete assessments by December 31, 2007, for those agents known to the Secretary by the date of enactment of this Act that are capable of significantly affecting national security.
 
Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to reauthorize appropriations through FY2009 for the Secretary to carry out such terror threat assessments. Authorizes additional appropriations to enable the Secretary to meet the deadlines established under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman .
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2006-03-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2006-03-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in House
Prevention of Nuclear Terrorism Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5029
Sponsor: Rep. Linder, John [R-GA-7]
Introduced: 2006-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Environmental Protection
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal officials
Fissionable materials
Government Operations and Politics
Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear weapons
Performance measurement
Presidential appointments
Radioactivity
Research and development
Risk
Science, Technology, Communications
Smuggling
Technological innovations
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: 
Prevention of Nuclear Terrorism Act of 2006 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide for the establishment within the Department of Homeland Security of a Domestic Nuclear Detection Office. Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to vest in the Office's Director the primary responsibility for: (1) administering the Department's nuclear and radiological detection and prevention functions and assets; and (2) coordinating such administration with other federal detection and prevention activities.
 
Requires the Director to: (1) coordinate the government's implementation of a global nuclear detection architecture; (2) carry out a research and development program and a program to test and evaluate technology; (3) develop and execute a strategy for the acquisition and deployment of detection systems; (4) continuously monitor detection information received from foreign and domestic detection systems to maintain a situational awareness of all nuclear threats; (5) gather and archive detection data measurements taken of benign activities; (6) coordinate with other agencies to ensure that the detection of unauthorized nuclear explosive devices or radiological material is promptly reported; (7) assess nuclear threats communicated by federal, state, tribal, or local officials and provide adequate capability for swift and effective incident resolution; (8) develop and implement security standards for the protection of classified or sensitive information; (9) perform research, development, and acquisition activities pertaining to forensic analysis and attribution of nuclear and radiological attacks; and (10) utilize classified and unclassified threat assessments in designing the architecture.
 
Establishes within the Office an Advisory Council on Nuclear Detection. Requires the Director to establish an interagency coordination council.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in House
To extend Corridor O of the Appalachian Development Highway System from its current southern terminus at I-68 near Cumberland to Corridor H, which stretches from Weston, West Virginia, to Strasburg, Virginia.

Bill: 109-hr-5031
Sponsor: Rep. Mollohan, Alan B. [D-WV-1]
Introduced: 2006-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Appalachia
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Highway finance
Infrastructure
Interstate highway system
Limited access highways
Maryland
Road construction
Virginia
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: 
Amends the Appalachian Development Highway System program to revise the requirements for construction of an Appalachian Development Highway System and local access roads. Designates as an addition to Corridor O of the System a segment from Interstate Route 68 (near Cumberland, Maryland) to Corridor H (which stretches from Weston, West Virginia, to Strasburg, Virginia).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in House
Fallen Heroes Tax Fairness Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5032
Sponsor: Rep. Ney, Robert W. [R-OH-18]
Introduced: 2006-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Income tax
Limitation of actions
Military personnel
Tax credits
Tax exemption
Tax refunds
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: 
Fallen Heroes Tax Fairness Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise provisions exempting deceased members of the Armed Forces who die from wounds, disease, or injury incurred while serving in a combat zone from income tax to extend the tax exemption to the last taxable year ending before such wounds, disease, or injury were incurred.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in House
To permit access to certain information in the Firearms Trace System database.

Bill: 109-hr-5033
Sponsor: Rep. Rothman, Steven R. [D-NJ-9]
Introduced: 2006-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Firearms
Freedom of information
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: 
Amends the Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 2006 to repeal restrictions on disclosure of the content of the Firearms Trace System database.
 
 Directs the Attorney General to provide public access to the Crime Gun Trace Report from the Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative, which is generated using information in such System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in House
To redesignate the White Rocks National Recreation Area in the State of Vermont as the "Robert T. Stafford White Rocks National Recreation Area".

Bill: 109-hr-5034
Sponsor: Rep. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT-At Large]
Introduced: 2006-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
Names
National recreation areas
Senate
Vermont

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: 
Redesignates the White Rocks National Recreation Area in Vermont as the &quot;Robert T. Stafford White Rocks National Recreation Area&quot;.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in House
To provide discretionary authority to an immigration judge to determine that an alien parent of a United States citizen child should not be ordered removed from the United States.

Bill: 109-hr-5035
Sponsor: Rep. Serrano, Jose E. [D-NY-16]
Introduced: 2006-03-28 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Child welfare
Citizenship
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Deportation
Families
Illegal aliens
Judges
Law
Parent and child

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize an immigration judge to not order the removal of a deportable alien parent of a U.S. citizen if the judge determines that such removal is against the best interests of the child, except that such discretionary authority shall not apply to an alien deportable on grounds of: (1) security; or (2) sex trafficking or severe forms of trafficking in persons.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-28
text: Introduced in House
Full Disclosure in Lobbying Act

Bill: 109-hr-5036
Sponsor: Del. Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [D-GU-At Large]
Introduced: 2006-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Government paperwork
Lobbying
Subcontractors

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: 
Full Disclosure in Lobbying Act - Amends the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to require a registered lobbyist's semiannual disclosure report, in the case of a registrant (subcontractor) retained by another person or entity to engage in lobbying activities on behalf of a third person or entity, to include: (1) the name, address, and principal place of business of the other person or entity that retained the subcontractor; (2) the name, address, and principal place of business of the third person or entity on whose behalf the lobbying activities were performed; and (3) the amount of funds paid, during such reporting period, to the subcontractor as well as to the other person or entity who retained the subcontractor for such lobbying activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E459)
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Veterans' Memorial Marker Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5038
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Jeff [R-FL-1]
Introduced: 2006-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Commemorations
Disabled
Education
Families
Higher education
Monuments and memorials
Students
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: 
Veterans' Memorial Marker Act of 2006 - Amends: (1) federal veterans' benefits provisions to extend through 2007 the authority for the provision by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs of government markers or memorial headstones for the marked graves of veterans buried in private cemeteries; and (2) the Veterans Education and Benefits Expansion Act of 2001 to make eligible for such markers or headstones certain veterans dying on or after November 1, 1990 (currently, September 11, 2001).
 
Requires the Secretary to furnish such markers or headstones for certain dependent children of veterans whose remains are unavailable for burial. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-12
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee in the Nature of a Substitute by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2006-07-12
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2006-04-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E445-446)
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Introduced in House
Death Penalty Reform Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5040
Sponsor: Rep. Gohmert, Louie [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2006-03-29 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Airports
Capital punishment
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights enforcement
Conspiracy
Correctional personnel
Criminal procedure
Department of Justice
Disabled
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Evidence (Law)
Federal employees
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
Habeas corpus
Health
Homicide
Informers
Juries
Kidnapping
Law
Life imprisonment
Medical tests
Mentally disabled
Obstruction of justice
Pretrial procedure
Public defenders
Recidivists
Religion
Religious liberty
Right of privacy
Right to counsel
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
State employees
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Victims of crimes
Violence
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: 
Death Penalty Reform Act of 2006 - Amends the federal criminal code to modify substantive law and procedures relating to the death penalty.
 
 Adds certain crimes that result in death, including obstruction of justice, as aggravating factors in death penalty deliberations.
 
Defines &quot;mentally retarded&quot; for death penalty purposes. Requires a defendant to give notice to the government of any mitigating factors, including mental retardation, which the defendant intends to present in a death penalty proceeding. Grants the government the right to an independent mental health examination of a defendant claiming mental retardation.
 
 Grants the Attorney General regulatory authority over the implementation of the death penalty. Repeals the prohibition against executing a person who is mentally retarded. Grants the government an unlimited right to rehearings of a finding of mental incapacity in death penalty cases.
 
 Requires a court in a death penalty case to: (1) assign a second attorney for the defendant when the government files a notice of intent to seek a sentence of death (currently, assignment is required upon indictment); and (2) permit the government to strike for cause jurors who oppose the death penalty.
 
 Modifies criteria relating to mitigating and aggravating factors in death penalty cases. 
 
Authorizes a court in the sentencing phase of a death penalty case to impanel a jury of less than 12 members upon a finding of good cause.
 
Amends the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to increase the number of alternative jurors and peremptory challenges to such jurors in criminal proceedings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-30
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-29
text: Introduced in House