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A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the rate of the excise tax on certain wooden arrows.

Bill: 109-s-4085
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Equipment and supplies
Excise tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Sports and Recreation
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue to impose a separate excise tax on wooden shafts used in the manufacture of arrows of specified dimensions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Maternal Motor Vehicle Crash Safety Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-4086
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Air bag restraint systems
Commerce
Computer simulation
Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Data banks
Driver licenses
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Federal aid to transportation
Fetus
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Government statistics
Health
Hospital care
Medical records
Medical research
Motor vehicle safety
Pregnant women
Preventive medicine
Science, Technology, Communications
Seat belts
Technology assessment
Transportation research
Vital statistics
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Maternal Motor Vehicle Crash Safety Act of 2006 - Expresses the sense of Congress with respect to the National Automotive Sampling System Crashworthiness Data System.
 
Directs the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to: (1) provide grants and other incentives to eligible entities to promote the development of data linkage systems that improve the tracking of adverse health effects and birth outcomes for pregnant women involved in motor vehicle crashes; (2) conduct a research program to promote the health and safety of such women and their unborn children; and (3) conduct a public outreach and education program to increase awareness of safety risks associated with motor vehicle crashes for such women and children and methods to reduce such risks.
 
Directs the Administrator to include data regarding the safety of pregnant women and their unborn children who are involved in motor vehicle crashes in the NHTSA's Annual Assessment of Motor Vehicle Crashes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11330-11331)
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11329-11330)
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-4087
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Conservation easements
Economics and Public Finance
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Grants-in-aid
Habitat conservation
Income tax
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Real estate appraisal
Restoration ecology
Soil conservation
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain landowners whose property contains the habitat of an endangered or threatened species and who enter into a habitat protection agreement a tax credit for costs relating to habitat protection easements and restoration. Places limits on the amount of such credit for calendar years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.

Allows a tax deduction for expenditures related to recovery plans approved by the Endangered Species Act of 1973. 

Excludes from gross income certain payments under: (1) the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program authorized by the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Act; and (2) the Landowner Incentive Program, the State Wildlife Grants Program, and the Private Stewardship Grants Program authorized by the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11332-11334)
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11331-11332)
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Nevada Cancer Institute Expansion Act

Bill: 109-s-4088
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Cancer
Emergency Management
Flood control
Health
Health facilities
Infrastructure
Land transfers
Nevada
Parks
Real estate development
Water Resources Development
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Nevada Cancer Institute Expansion Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to convey to the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, all interest of the United States in and to the Alta-Hualapai Site for use by the City for the development of: (1) a nonprofit cancer treatment facility; (2) ancillary commercial projects; (3) an adjacent park; (4) a flood control project; and (5) a water pumping facility. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop the Online Exploitation of Our Children Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-4089
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Business records
Child pornography
Commerce
Criminal justice information
Electronic mail systems
Evidence (Law)
Ex-offenders
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Informers
International Affairs
International cooperation
Internet
Law
Liability (Law)
Missing children
Prosecution
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sex offenders
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Stop the Online Exploitation of Our Children Act of 2006 - Amends the federal criminal code to expand the reporting requirements of any online service (as redefined by this Act) with respect to violations of child sexual exploitation and pornography laws. Requires such services to: (1) report any facts or circumstances indicating a violation of federal child sexual exploitation or pornography laws to the CyberTipline of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; and (2) provide information on the Internet identity and location of any individual who appears to have violated any child sexual exploitation or pornography law. Requires the Center to forward each report which it receives from an online service to an appropriate law enforcement agency. 
 
Imposes increased fines on online services for intentional and negligent failures to comply with reporting requirements under this Act.
 
Requires the U.S. Trade Representative, the Attorney General, and other relevant federal officials to encourage foreign governments to combat child pornography.
 
Authorizes appropriations for grants to Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. 
 
Amends the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act to require registered sex offenders to disclose and update their e-mail addresses, instant message addresses, and other similar Internet identifiers. Imposes a fine and/or prison term of up to 10 years for failure to provide such information.
 
Increases criminal penalties on sex offenders who use the Internet to violate child pornography laws.
 
Requires online services to remove web pages linked to sex offenders from social networking sites.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11334-11335)
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to reimburse State and local law enforcement agencies for any expenditures or compensation of personnel and use or consumption of materials and facilities, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-4090
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Justice
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Police
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
 Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to reimburse the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) for payments made to state or local law enforcement agencies for expenditures for personnel, materials, and facilities in an area in which the President declared a major disaster. 
 
Replaces references to the Director of FEMA with references to the Administrator.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to clarify certain land use in Jefferson County, Colorado.

Bill: 109-s-4092
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Antennas
Colorado
Land use
Law
Licenses
Science, Technology, Communications
Television broadcasting

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Allows any person that holds an approved Federal Communications Commission (FCC) permit to construct or install on Lookout Mountain in Jefferson County, Colorado, either a digital television broadcast station antenna or tower, or both, to proceed with such construction, and all associated facilities and services, if such antenna or tower is of the same height or lower than the tallest existing analog broadcast antenna or tower at that location.

action_date: 2006-12-22
text: 

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

 
Allows any person that holds an approved Federal Communications Commission (FCC) permit to construct or install on Lookout Mountain in Jefferson County, Colorado, either a digital television broadcast station antenna or tower, or both, to proceed with such construction, and all associated facilities and services, if such antenna or tower is of the same height or lower than the tallest existing analog broadcast antenna or tower at that location. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-22
text: Became Public Law No: 109-466.
action_date: 2006-12-22
text: Became Public Law No: 109-466.
action_date: 2006-12-22
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2006-12-22
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2006-12-20
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2006-12-20
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2006-12-09
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2006-12-09
text: On passage Passed without objection. (text: CR 12/8/2006 H9259)
action_date: 2006-12-09
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.(text: CR 12/8/2006 H9259)
action_date: 2006-12-09
text: Mr. Barton (TX) asked unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table and consider.
action_date: 2006-12-09
text: Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR 12/8/2006 H9258-9259)
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR 12/7/2006 S11382; text as passed Senate: CR 12/7/2006 S11382)
action_date: 2006-12-06
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 12/7/2006 S11382; text as passed Senate: CR 12/7/2006 S11382)
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate

Enacted as: number: 109-466
A bill to extend the period in which States may spend funds from the additional allotments provided to States under the Social Services Block Grant program for necessary expenses related to the consequences of Hurricane Katrina and other hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005.

Bill: 109-s-4094
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Alabama
Block grants
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Government Operations and Politics
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Louisiana
Mississippi

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Extends through September 30, 2008, the period in which states may spend funds from the additional allotments provided to them under title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services) of the Social Security Act under the Department of Defense, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations to Address Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and Pandemic Influenza Act, 2006 for necessary expenses related to the consequences of Hurricane Katrina and other hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the period in which the State of Louisiana may spend funds from the additional allotment provided to the State under the Social Services Block Grant program for necessary expenses related to the consequences of Hurricane Katrina and other hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005.

Bill: 109-s-4095
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Block grants
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Government Operations and Politics
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Louisiana

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Extends through September 30, 2008, the period in which Louisiana may spend funds from the additional allotment provided to it under title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services) of the Social Security Act under the Department of Defense, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations to Address Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and Pandemic Influenza Act, 2006 for necessary expenses related to the consequences of Hurricane Katrina and other hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Barrier Project Consolidation and Construction Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-4096
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Animals
Aquatic ecology
Canals
Economics and Public Finance
Exotic animals
Exotic plants
Federal aid to water resources development
Governmental investigations
Great Lakes
Illinois
Lakes
Mississippi River
New York State
Non-native species
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Transportation and Public Works
Vermont

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Barrier Project Consolidation and Construction Act of 2006 - Considers the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal Dispersal Barrier Project (Barrier I) and the project related to the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal Dispersal Barrier (Barrier II) to constitute a single project to prevent the spread of aquatic nuisance species. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Army, through the Chief of Engineers, to: (1) upgrade and make permanent Barrier I; (2) construct Barrier II; (3) operate and maintain Barriers I and II as a system; (4) study options and technologies for reducing the impacts of hazards that may reduce the Barriers' efficacy; and (5) provide each state with a credit equal to the amount of funds contributed by the state toward Barrier II.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) study options and technologies to prevent the spread of aquatic nuisance species between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Basins through the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal and other aquatic pathways; and (2) determine the the feasibility of, and construct and maintain if found feasible, a dispersal barrier project at the Lake Champlain Canal. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Disaster Response and Loan Improvements Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-4097
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural credit
Agriculture and Food
Alabama
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Agriculture
Disaster loans
Disaster relief
Displaced persons
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Energy
Energy prices
Evacuation of civilians
Federal employees
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government downsizing
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Heating
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Labor and Employment
Law
Layoffs
Louisiana
Mississippi
Nonprofit organizations
Petroleum
Propane
Small Business Administration
Small business
Social Welfare
Surety and fidelity

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Small Business Disaster Response and Loan Improvements Act of 2006 - Amends the Small Business Act to authorize the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to: (1) guarantee the payment of principal and interest on private lender loans to small businesses located in a disaster area; and (2) make disaster loans to private nonprofit organizations located or operating in a disaster area. Increases disaster loan caps.
 
Authorizes the Administrator to: (1) allow small business development centers (SBDCs) to provide assistance to a small business located outside the state of the SBDC if the business is in a disaster area; (2) establish a contracting outreach and technical assistance program for small businesses having a significant presence in a disaster area; (3) declare a disaster area as an area of concentrated unemployment or underemployment, or a labor surplus area, for purposes of a contracting priority for local small businesses; and (4) establish and implement a disaster assistance business loan program.
 
Provides for increased public notice of disaster declaration and application periods and deadlines. Authorizes the Administrator to enter into agreements with private contractors to process disaster loans. Requires the Administrator to amend the 2006 hurricane season disaster response plan to apply to major disasters and catastrophic national disasters. Provides for increased congressional oversight of the SBA disaster loan program with respect to presidentially declared disasters.
 
Authorizes the Administrator to make loans to assist small businesses that have or are likely to suffer substantial economic injury as the result of significant increases in the price of heating fuel due to a disaster-related energy emergency.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11336-113341)
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11335-11336)
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Pediatric Medical Device Safety and Improvement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-4098
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2006-12-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Business records
Child health
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic data interchange
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health information systems
Health surveys
Identification devices
Medical research
Medical supplies
Nonprofit organizations
Product coding
Product development
Product safety
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: 
Pediatric Medical Device Safety and Improvement Act of 2006 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require an application for the approval of a medical device or a product development protocol to include: (1) a description of any pediatric subpopulations that suffer from the disease or condition that the device is intended to treat, diagnose, or cure; and (2) the number of affected pediatric patients.
 
Excludes a medical device distributed pursuant to the humanitarian device exemption from the prohibition that no device be sold for an amount that exceeds the cost of the device if: (1) the device is intended for the treatment or diagnosis of a disease or condition that occurs in pediatric patients; and (2) other specified requirements are met.
 
Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to designate a contact point to help innovators and physicians access funding for pediatric medical device development.
 
 Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants for demonstration projects to promote pediatric device development.
 
Includes as a duty of the Office of Pediatric Therapeutics increasing pediatric access to medical devices.
 
Allows the Secretary to require: (1) postmarket surveillance on certain devices that are expected to have significant use in pediatric populations; and (2) a prospective surveillance period of more than 36 months for such devices, as necessary.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to establish a publicly accessible database of all studies and surveillance of medical devices.
 
Requires the Secretary to adopt voluntary national standards for medical device coding.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11346-11348)
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11343-11346)
action_date: 2006-12-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Perlat Binaj, Almida Binaj, Erina Binaj, and Anxhela Binaj.

Bill: 109-s-4099
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2006-12-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Provides for the relief of Perlat Binaj, Almida Binaj, Erina Binaj, and Anxhela Binaj.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-12-07
text: Introduced in Senate