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Flu Vaccine Incentive Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-96
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Commerce
Construction costs
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug industry
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Industrial buildings
Influenza
Investment tax credit
Medicaid
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Pharmaceutical research
Prices
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Taxation
Technological innovations
Vaccines

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Flu Vaccine Incentive Act of 2005 or FLU-VIA - Rescinds the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005, to make certain purchases of inflluenza vaccine.
 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to exempt contracts entered into by the Secretary for the purchase of a pediatric influenza vaccine and other vaccines from certain price restrictions otherwise applicable to such contracts. Extends such exemption to any other Federal agency that purchases an influenza vaccine.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for investment in influenza vaccine manufacturing facilities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8051)
action_date: 2006-04-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2844-2845)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S261-262)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Choice in Real Estate Act

Bill: 109-s-98
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Bank holding companies
Commerce
Housing and Community Development
Real estate business
Subsidiary corporations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Community Choice in Real Estate Act - Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, and the Revised Statutes of the United States, to prohibit the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Secretary of the Treasury, respectively, from determining that real estate brokerage activity or real estate management activity is financial in nature, is incidental to any financial activity, or is complementary to a financial activity. (In effect, prohibits financial holding companies and national banks from engaging, directly or indirectly, in real estate brokerage or real estate management activities.) 
Exempts from such prohibition activities of a bank holding company (or any affiliate) that directly relate to managing any real property owned by national banks or their affiliates. 
States that activities that were authorized for financial holding companies and national banks on December 6, 2001, are not affected by the prohibitions of this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Pitkin County Land Exchange Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-100
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Boundaries
Charities
Colorado
Conservation easements
Easements
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Land transfers
Law
Maps
National forests
Open space lands
Outdoor recreation
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Trails
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Pitkin County Land Exchange Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) and the Secretary of the Interior, upon receipt of title to certain lands located in Pitkin County, Colorado, and certain lands located on Smuggler Mountain in the County, to convey to the County or to the Aspen Valley Land Trust, if the County so requests, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to certain National Forest and Bureau of Land Management lands located in the County. 
 
Prohibits the conveyance of a specified parcel to the County unless and until specified conditions are met, including that the County grants to the Aspen Valley Land Trust, the Roaring Fork Conservancy, or to another entity mutually agreeable to the County and the Secretary of the Interior, a permanent conservation easement which provides public access to the parcel and limits future use of the parcel to recreational, fish, and wildlife conservation, and open space purposes. 
 
States that lands acquired by the Secretary pursuant to this Act shall become part of White River National Forest. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-11
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-104.
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Exile Meth Act

Bill: 109-s-102
Sponsor: Sen. Talent, Jim [R-MO]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Life imprisonment
Mandatory sentences
Methamphetamine
Parole
Probation
Recidivists
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Exile Meth Act - Directs the Attorney General to: (1) establish a program that provides grants to qualified States for combating methamphetamine abuse, with a specific focus on the prosecution of repeat offenders; and (2) distribute such grants to two States. Defines as &quot;qualified&quot; a State that: (1) had more than 200 methamphetamine lab seizures in 2004; and (2) has a law that provides that a person who possesses or distributes five grams or more of methamphetamine, or 50 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine, qualifies for a mandatory minimum sentence, without the possibility of probation or parole, of five to 40 years for a first offense, ten years to life for a second offense, and life for a third offense.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S262)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax-exempt financing of highway projects and rail-truck transfer facilities.

Bill: 109-s-104
Sponsor: Sen. Talent, Jim [R-MO]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bridges
Finance and Financial Sector
Freight
Highway finance
Income tax
Infrastructure
Intermodal transportation
Railroad terminals
Road construction
Tax-exempt securities
Terminals (Transportation)
Transportation and Public Works
Trucking
Tunnels

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the issuance of tax-exempt facility bonds for certain highway and surface freight transfer facilities. Limits the amount of bonds that may be issued to $15 billion. Exempts such bonds from certain volume caps applicable to State issuers of private activity bonds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3491-3492)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S263-264)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the reliquidation of certain entries of candles.

Bill: 109-s-106
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Directs the Customs Service to: (1) liquidate or reliquidate certain entries of candles without assessment of antidumping duties and interest; and (2) refund any amounts owed. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the reliquidation of certain entries of clock radios.

Bill: 109-s-107
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Directs the Customs Service to liquidate or reliquidate certain entries of clock radios and to refund any amounts owed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the operation during a calendar year of the final rule issued by the Secretary of Agriculture to establish standards for the designation of minimal-risk regions for the introduction of bovine spongiform encephalopathy into the United States, including designation of Canada as a minimal-risk region, and the importation into the United States from Canada of certain bovine ruminant products during that calendar year, unless country of origin labeling is required for the retail sale of a covered commodity during that calendar year.

Bill: 109-s-108
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture in foreign trade
Animals
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Canada
Cattle
Commerce
Department of Agriculture
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Import restrictions
Labeling
Law
Meat
Retail trade
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Prohibits the operation during a calendar year of the January 4, 2005, final rule issued by the Secretary of Agriculture to establish standards for the designation of minimal-risk regions for the introduction of bovine spongiform encephalopathy into the United States, including designation of Canada as a minimal-risk region, and the importation into the United States from Canada of certain bovine ruminant products unless country of origin labeling is required for the retail sale of a covered commodity during that calendar year.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Pharmaceutical Market Access Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-109
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Business records
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Damages
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Evidence (Law)
Federal Trade Commission
Federal-state relations
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Identification devices
Import restrictions
Imports
Independent regulatory commissions
Injunctions
Intellectual property
Internet
Labeling
Law
Licenses
Limitation of actions
Packaging
Parties to actions
Patent infringement
Patents
Pharmacies
Pharmacists
Prescription pricing
Price discrimination
Product counterfeiting
Product safety
Punitive damages
Restrictive trade practices
Science, Technology, Communications
Telephone
Web sites
Wholesale trade

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Pharmaceutical Market Access Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate regulations permitting pharmacists, pharmacies, wholesalers, and individuals to import qualifying drugs from certain countries into the United States.
 
Sets forth registration requirements for exporters.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) educate consumers with regard to the availability of qualifying drugs for import for personal use; (2) inspect the facilities and records of importers and registered exporters to ensure compliance with this Act; and (3) establish a registration fee program to collect an annual fee from registered exporters.
 
Deems a prescription drug to be misbranded unless the packaging of such drug complies with the requirements for counterfeit-resistant technologies.
 
Prohibits: (1) failing to register in accordance with this Act; and (2) importing or offering to import a prescription drug in violation of a suspension order.
 
Declares that selling or importing a patented drug in the United States that was first sold abroad by or under authority of the owner or licensee of the patent is not patent infringement.
 
Prohibits drug manufacturers from discriminating against a person that engages in the importation of a prescription drug, including by charging higher prices or denying supplies of the drug.
 
Allows the Secretary to suspend or terminate the registration of an exporter for failing to maintain substantial compliance with all registration conditions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S278-282)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Robert Liang and Alice Liang.

Bill: 109-s-110
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Declares Robert Liang and Alice Liang each to have been lawfully admitted to, and remained in, the United States, and to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence under of the Immigration and Nationality Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S283)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S282-283)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Shigeru Yamada.

Bill: 109-s-111
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Declares Shigeru Yamada to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S284)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S283-284, S284-285)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Denes Fulop and Gyorgyi Fulop.

Bill: 109-s-112
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Declares Denes Fulop and Gyorgyi Fulop each to have been lawfully admitted to, and remained in, the United States and to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status under provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act providing for the adjustment of status of a nonimmigrant to that of a person admitted for permanent residence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S286)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S285-286)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to modify the date as of which certain tribal land of the Lytton Rancheria of California is deemed to be held in trust.

Bill: 109-s-113
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: California
Indian lands
Law
Minorities
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Amends the Omnibus Indian Advancement Act to repeal the declaration that specified lands accepted by the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of the Lytton Rancheria in California shall be deemed to have been held in trust and part of the reservation before October 17, 1988. (The date on the recorded deed is October 16, 2000.)

action_date: 2005-09-12
text: 

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

Amends the Omnibus Indian Advancement Act to repeal the declaration that specified lands accepted by the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of the Lytton Rancheria in California shall be deemed to have been held in trust and part of the reservation before October 17, 1988. (The date on the recorded deed is October 16, 2000.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-12
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 204.
action_date: 2005-09-12
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator McCain without amendment. With written report No. 109-136.
action_date: 2005-09-12
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator McCain without amendment. With written report No. 109-136.
action_date: 2005-06-29
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2005-04-05
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 109-18.
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S287)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S286-287)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Kids Come First Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-114
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aliens
Appropriations
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health insurance
Immigrant health
Immigration
Income
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Medicaid
Medical savings accounts
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare
State employees
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Taxation
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Kids Come First Act of 2005 - Amends title XIX of the Social Security Act (SSA) to give states the option to receive 100% Federal Medicaid Assistance Percentages (FMAPs) for medical assistance for children in poverty in exchange for expanded coverage of children in working poor families under Medicaid (SSA title XIX) or SCHIP (SSA title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance). 
 
Eliminates the cap on SCHIP funding for states that expand eligibility for children.
 
Gives states the option to: (1) provide wrap-around SCHIP coverage to children who have other health coverage; (2) enroll low-income children of state employees in SCHIP; (3) provide optional coverage of legal immigrant children under Medicaid and SCHIP; and (4) provide for passive renewal of eligibility for children under Medicaid and SCHIP. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for: (1) a refundable income tax credit for health insurance coverage of children; and (2) forfeiture of the personal tax exemption for any child not covered by health insurance. 
 
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Public Health Service Act to require group market health insurers to offer a dependent coverage option for workers and other individuals with children.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for partial repeal of rate reduction in the highest income tax bracket. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act

Bill: 109-s-115
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Bank accounts
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Damages
Data banks
Driver licenses
Electronic government information
Electronic mail systems
Encryption
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Identification devices
Identity theft
Injunctions
Internet
Local laws
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
State laws
Transportation and Public Works
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act - Requires any agency or person that owns or licenses electronic data containing personal information, following the discovery of a breach of security of the system containing such data, to notify any U.S. resident whose personal information was, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired by an unauthorized person. Requires any agency or person who possesses but does not own or license such data, to notify the information owner or licensee about such an unauthorized acquisition. Allows delay of notification in connection with authorized law enforcement purposes. Provides authorized methods of notification and alternative notification procedures.
 
Provides: (1) civil penalties and rights and remedies in connections with violations; and (2) for enforcement by State attorneys general.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S288-289)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S287-288)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Loan Forgiveness for Head Start Teachers Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-117
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child development
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Preschool education
Reading
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Loan Forgiveness for Head Start Teachers Act of 2005 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend to certain Head Start teachers eligibility for cancellation of repayment obligations for specified types of student loans. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S301-302)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S301)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Maria Cristina DeGrassi.

Bill: 109-s-118
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Declares Maria Cristina DeGrassi to have been lawfully admitted to, and remained in, the United States, and to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence under of the Immigration and Nationality Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S303)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S302-303)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate