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More Border Patrol Agents Now Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6116
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike D. [R-AL-3]
Introduced: 2006-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Annuities
Border patrols
Civil service retirement
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Homeland Security
Federal employees
Fringe benefits
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Labor contracts
Morale
Planning
Recruiting of employees
Salaries
Transfer of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: More Border Patrol Agents Now Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit to the House Committees on Homeland Security and Government Reform and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs a plan to determine how the Border Patrol can better recruit and retain agents with the appropriate skills and training. 
Requires such plan to include: (1) recruitment and retention strategies; and (2) assessments of the impact of pay levels and duty station transfer opportunities upon recruitment and retention.
 
Amends federal law to authorize the Secretary (for five years) to pay a: (1) bonus to an individual to recruit Border Patrol agents; and (2) retention bonus to Border Patrol agents. 
 Authorizes the Secretary (for five years) to appoint annuitants to Border Patrol positions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2006-09-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2006-09-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Contact Lens Consumer Health Protection Act

Bill: 109-hr-6117
Sponsor: Rep. Whitfield, Ed [R-KY-1]
Introduced: 2006-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Communication in medicine
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer protection
Contact lenses
Deceptive advertising
Eye care
Facsimile transmission
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Internet
Law
Product safety
Retail trade
Science, Technology, Communications
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: 
Contact Lens Consumer Health Protection Act - Amends the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act to require the seller to provide the prescriber with a toll-free telephone number and email address for questions relating to a contact lens prescription verification request.
 
Revises the verification event in which a prescription is verified if the prescriber fails to communicate with the seller within eight business hours, or a similar time as defined by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), after receiving required patient and prescription information from the seller. States that if a prescriber communicates a question or concern to a seller through such toll-free telephone service or dedicated email address before such eight-hour period has ended, the seller must obtain affirmative confirmation of the accuracy of the prescription from the prescriber before the prescription is considered verified.
 
Authorizes a prescriber to make a written request to a seller that all contact lens prescription verification requests be communicated by a preferred method of communication, including telephone, facsimile, or email.
 
Authorizes fines for violations of this Act in amount up to $100,000 per violation.
 
Directs the FTC to examine and report to Congress on the potential and actual adverse effects on consumers of seller violations of the requirements of this Act.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Physician Assistant Continuity of Care Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6118
Sponsor: Rep. Hayworth, J. D. [R-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2006-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Home care services
Long-term care
Medicare
Mental health services
Physicians' assistants
Social Welfare
Terminal care
Terminally ill

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: 
Medicare Physician Assistant Continuity of Care Act of 2006 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permit a physician assistant, when delegated by a physician, to: (1) certify that inpatient psychiatric hospital services or post-hospital extended care services are required; (2) establish and review a plan for home health services; and (3) certify a terminal illness with respect to hospice care.
 
Covers as hospice care any legally authorized services of a physician assistant performed under a physician's supervision.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman .
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Puget Sound Regional Shellfish Settlement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6119
Sponsor: Rep. Dicks, Norman D. [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2006-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Civil actions and liability
Compensation (Law)
Damages
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-Indian relations
Fish culture
Fisheries
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Indian claims
Law
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Minorities
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Shellfish
State government-Indian relations
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: 
Puget Sound Regional Shellfish Settlement Act of 2006 - Approves, ratifies, and confirms the Settlement Agreement entered into by and between specified Indian tribes in the region of Puget Sound, Washington, commercial shellfish growers, the state of Washington, and the United States to resolve certain disputes regarding implementation of tribal treaty rights to take shellfish from certain covered tidelands owned, leased or otherwise subject to harvest by the growers.
 
Establishes in the Treasury the Puget Sound Regional Shellfish Settlement Trust Fund and the Puget Sound Regional Shellfish Settlement Special Holding Account.
 

 

 
Declares that the Secretary of the Interior shall not be accountable for nor incur any liability for the collection, deposit, management, or nonpayment of a specified state of Washington payment to the tribes pursuant to the Settlement Agreement.
 
Declares that all right of any other tribe, within 20 years after the deposit of funds in the Special Holding Account, to bring an action to enforce or exercise its treaty rights to take shellfish from public and private tidelands in Washington, including from some lands owned, leased, or otherwise subject to harvest by any and all commercial growers, shall be determined in accordance with the decisions of federal courts in 
United States v. Washington
.
 
Provides that if any payment by the United States is not paid in the amount or manner specified by this Act, or is not paid within six months after the date specified by the Settlement Agreement, such failure shall give rise to a cause of action by the tribes against the United States. Authorizes the tribes to bring such an action in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Video Game Decency Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6120
Sponsor: Rep. Upton, Fred [R-MI-6]
Introduced: 2006-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Child welfare
Consumer protection
Crime and Law Enforcement
Families
Federal preemption
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Labeling
Law
Local laws
Pornography
Restrictive trade practices
Science, Technology, Communications
State laws
Video games
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: 
Video Game Decency Act of 2006 - Makes it unlawful for any person to distribute any video game whose label contains an age-based content rating if, with the intent of obtaining a less restrictive age-based rating, that person fails to disclose game content to an independent ratings organization, with the result that the video game receives a less-restrictive age-based content rating.
 
Treats any violation of this Act as an unfair or deceptive act or practice.
 
Preempts state or local law or regulation related to video game content rating.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Nonitemizer Real Property Tax Deduction Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6122
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2006-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Property tax
Tax deductions
Tax evasion
Tax penalties
Tax returns
Tax shelters
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: 
Nonitemizer Real Property Tax Deduction Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the standard tax deduction for taxpayers who do not itemize tax deductions by $500 ($1,000 for joint returns) of the real property taxes paid or accrued by such taxpayers in a taxable year; (2) define economic substance for purposes of evaluating tax shelter transactions; and (3) impose a penalty for understatements of tax liability resulting from transactions lacking economic substance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Helping Fill the Medicare Rx Gap Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6123
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2006-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Bribery
Coinsurance
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug industry
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Hospitals
Indian medical care
Managed care
Medical economics
Medicare
Minorities
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: 
Helping Fill the Medicare Rx Gap Act of 2006 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA), with respect to the annual out of pocket threshold, to count costs incurred in providing prescription drugs by the Indian Health Service, a federally-qualified health center, an AIDS drug assistance program, certain hospitals, or a pharmaceutical manufacturer patient assistance program.
 
Amends SSA title XI, with respect to criminal penalties for certain illegal remunerations, to exclude from prohibited remunerations (provide safe harbor for) any remuneration paid by a pharmaceutical manufacturer patient assistance program, either in cash or through the distribution or donation of covered Part D drugs, to an individual enrolled in a Part D plan or a Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug (MA-PD) plan under SSA title XVIII part C.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-09-20
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: 2006-09-20
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: 2006-09-20
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: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain structures, parts, and components for use in an isotopic separation facility.

Bill: 109-hr-6126
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2006-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Energy
Equipment and supplies
Law
Licenses
New Mexico
Nuclear facilities
Tariff
Uranium enrichment

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: 
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Treasury, subject to the National Enrichment Facility in southern New Mexico obtaining a license to operate an isotopic separation facility from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to admit free of duty after December 31, 2006, certain structures, parts, and components for use in an isotopic separation facility. Requires, if the liquidation of an entry of any such article has become final before December 31, 2011, the entry to be reliquidated on December 31, 2011.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on certain structures, parts, and components for use in an isotopic separation facility.

Bill: 109-hr-6127
Sponsor: Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2]
Introduced: 2006-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Energy
Equipment and supplies
New Mexico
Nuclear facilities
Tariff
Uranium enrichment

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on certain structures, parts, and components for use in an isotopic separation facility.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the distribution of excess manufactured housing units located at Hope Municipal Airport, Arkansas, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-6128
Sponsor: Rep. Ross, Mike [D-AR-4]
Introduced: 2006-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Affordable housing
Airports
Arkansas
Depressed areas
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency housing
Mobile homes
Prefabricated buildings
Relocation
Rental housing
Surplus government property
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: 
Directs the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to establish and carry out a program to designate and distribute excess manufactured housing units located at Hope Municipal Airport, Arkansas, to eligible government entities to provide affordable rental housing.
 
Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to to revise procedures for the disposal of temporary housing units purchased by the President for housing disaster victims to require, as an alternative method of disposal, the transfer of such units to the General Services Administration (GSA) for disposal as excess property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
Credit Monitoring Clarification Act

Bill: 109-hr-6129
Sponsor: Rep. Royce, Edward R. [R-CA-40]
Introduced: 2006-09-20 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer complaints
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Contracts
Crime and Law Enforcement
Fees
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identity theft

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: 
Credit Monitoring Clarification Act - Amends the Credit Repair Organizations Act to cite conditions under which provision to a consumer of credit reports, credit score analysis, and assistance in a case of identity theft shall not be considered as an activity to improve a consumer's credit status, which is subject to regulation under such Act.
 
Exempts from regulation under such Act any person (credit repair organization, or CRO) representing that it can modify or remove, or assist the consumer in modifying or removing, any information in the consumer's credit report if the CRO gives clear and conspicuous notice, before the consumer pays or agrees to pay it, that: (1) neither the consumer nor anyone else has the right to have accurate and current information removed from a credit report; and (2) the consumer has the right to dispute any inaccurate information by contacting the credit bureau directly. Requires a CRO, to qualify for this exemption from regulation, also to give the consumer, before payment or agreement to pay, a specified disclosure entitled &quot;Your Rights Concerning Your Consumer Credit File.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-20
text: Introduced in House
New Markets for State-Inspected Meat and Poultry Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6130
Sponsor: Rep. Blunt, Roy [R-MO-7]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Agriculture
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-state relations
Food safety
Food service
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Grocery trade
Labeling
Law
Meat inspection
Poultry
Restaurants
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
New Markets for State-Inspected Meat and Poultry Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to review each state's meat and poultry inspection program, which shall include: (1) a determination of plan effectiveness; and (2) identification of changes necessary for future transition to a state program as provided for by this Act.
 
Rewrites and renames title III (currently titled,&quot;Federal and State Cooperation&quot;) of the Federal Meat Inspection Act as &quot;State Meat Inspection Programs.&quot;
 
Authorizes the Secretary to approve a qualifying state meat inspection program and allow the shipment in commerce of carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, and meat food products so inspected. Requires the Secretary to review approved plans annually.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) enter into a cooperative agreement to establish the relationship between a state program and the Secretary; (2) provide partial reimbursement for state costs to meet federal requirements; and (3) appoint advisory committees.
 
Prohibits from state inspection plan participation establishments that have more than 50 employees, except for those subject to state inspection as of 90 days after the effective date of this Act.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to temporarily suspend or take over a noncomplying state program (or an establishment).
 
States that: (1) an establishment in a state with an approved state program may apply for either state or federal inspection; and (2) a state or local government shall not prohibit or restrict the movement or sale of meat or meat food products that have been inspected and passed in accordance with this Act for interstate commerce.
 
Exempts from such inspection provisions retail stores and restaurants (including specified central kitchen facilities) if the operations are conducted for sale of such prepared articles in normal retail quantities or for service of the articles to consumers at such establishment. 
 
Makes similar amendments to the Poultry Products Inspection Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture .
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
Securing Effective and Necessary Individual Outpatient Rehabilitation Services (SENIORS) Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-6132
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2006-09-21 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Medicare
Physical therapy
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: 
Securing Effective and Necessary Individual Outpatient Rehabilitation Services (SENIORS) Act of 2006 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the temporary process for obtaining an exception from the uniform dollar limitation on Medicare payment for medically necessary physical therapy services (Medicare therapy cap exceptions process).
 
Extends the exceptions process period from the beginning of calendar 2006 through calendar 2007. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-21
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: 2006-09-21
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: 2006-09-21
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: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Introduced in House