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Quality Nursing Care Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1372
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Consumer complaints
Consumer education
Damages
Department of Health and Human Services
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Discrimination in medical care
Dismissal of employees
Electronic government information
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Grievance procedures
Hospital care
Hospital personnel
Hospitals
Internet
Labor and Employment
Labor unions
Law
Legal fees
Licenses
Limitation of actions
Medical records
Medicare
Nurses
Nursing
Patient satisfaction
Patients' rights
Promotions
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Wage restitution
Web sites
Whistle blowing

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Quality Nursing Care Act of 2005 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require that each participating hospital adopt and implement a staffing system that ensures a number of registered nurses on each shift and in each unit of the hospital to ensure appropriate staffing levels for patient care. Outlines whistle-blower protections.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-03-17
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: 2005-03-17
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: 2005-03-17
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: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide leave for members of the Armed Forces in connection with adoptions of children, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-1373
Sponsor: Rep. Cardoza, Dennis A. [D-CA-18]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Adoption
Department of Defense
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Military dependents
Military leave

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Entitles a member of the Armed Forces who is adopting a child in a qualifying child adoption to 21 days of leave, to be used in connection with such adoption. Allows only one member per family to such leave.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Independent Living Assistance Access Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1374
Sponsor: Rep. Cooper, Jim [D-TN-5]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Aliens
Caregivers
Disabled
Labor and Employment
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Independent Living Assistance Access Act of 2005 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide J (exchange visitor) nonimmigrant status to aliens working as independent living assistants (defined as individuals who provide in-home living and home support services to adults with disabilities).
 
Requires aliens accorded such status to receive appropriate training prior to placement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To award a congressional gold medal to Michael Ellis DeBakey, M.D.

Bill: 109-hr-1375
Sponsor: Rep. Culberson, John Abney [R-TX-7]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Cardiovascular diseases
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Health
Physicians
Surgeons

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation of a congressional gold medal to Michael Ellis DeBakey, M.D. (who performed the first successful coronary bypass, pioneered the field of telemedicine, was elected the first President of Baylor College of Medicine, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction and the National Medal of Science) in recognition of his many outstanding contributions to the Nation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Ephedrine Alkaloids Regulation Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1378
Sponsor: Rep. Emerson, Jo Ann [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Chemicals
Commerce
Drug abuse
Drug industry
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Drugs
Health
Methamphetamine
Retail trade

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Ephedrine Alkaloids Regulation Act of 2005 - Requires ephedrine alkaloids (including ephedrine and pseudoephedrine) and phenylpropanolamine to be listed in schedule V of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) (drugs or other substances that have a low potential for abuse and that have a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, abuse of which may lead to limited physical or psychological dependence). Excepts pseudoephedrine and phenylpropanolamine when contained in a drug that is in liquid or gel form marketed or distributed lawfully in the United States under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA), which shall be considered a listed chemical. Makes such requirement and exception subject to the Attorney General's authority to designate substances as controlled or listed chemicals.
 
 Amends CSA to revise the definition of &quot;regulated transaction&quot; to: (1) provide that the threshold for any distributor sale of products containing pseudoephedrine products in liquid or gel form, or containing phenylpropanolamine products, shall be nine grams of pseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine; and (2) specify as a &quot;chemical mixture&quot; a transaction in which is excluded from such definition a mixture that may be marketed or distributed lawfully in the United States under FDCA.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat electric transmission property as 15-year property for depreciation purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-1379
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Electric power transmission
Energy
Equipment and supplies
Income tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a 15-year recovery period for the depreciation of certain property used in the transmission at 69 or more kilovolts of electricity for sale.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Nursing Facility Pay-for-Performance Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1381
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Case mix (Medical care)
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Demography
Electronic government information
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health care industry
Hospital rates
Long-term care
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medical personnel
Medicare
Nursing homes
Performance measurement
Profit
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Medicare Nursing Facility Pay-for-Performance Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through a contract with a qualified independent party (such as the National Quality Forum), to provide for identification of: (1) between ten and 15 quality measures for the performance of skilled nursing facilities under Medicare; and (2) the data to be reported, including their collection and formatting, on a calendar quarter basis for each such quality measure. 
 
Requires the values obtained for quality measures to be appropriately risk-adjusted as applied to individual skilled nursing facilities in order to increase the likelihood that any differences in such values reflect differences in the care provided by the facilities and not differences in the characteristics of their residents. 
 
Provides for: (1) adjusting payments for skilled nursing facilities based on quality performance, including an increase of two percent for facilities in the top ten percent in quality as well as a decrease of one percent for facilities below the quality threshold; (2) limiting market basket increases to facilities that voluntarily report information; and (3) using FY 2005 payment rates as a floor for subsequent updates.
 
Establishes the Long-Term Care Financing Commission to analyse and report to Congress on the financing of long-term care.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-03-17
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: 2005-03-17
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: 2005-03-17
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: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Prescription Drug COST (Control Overspending to Save Taxpayers) Containment Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1382
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer discounts
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Managed care
Medicaid
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Prescription Drug COST (Control Overspending to Save Taxpayers) Containment Act of 2005 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) provide for a one-year delay in the enrollment of individuals in the Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program under Medicare part D; (2) continue to provide for the Medicare prescription drug discount card and transitional assistance program under Medicare part D during 2006 under the same terms and conditions that apply during 2005; and (3) continue to provide for coverage of prescription drugs under the Medicaid program during 2006 under the same terms and conditions that apply during 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-03-17
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: 2005-03-17
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: 2005-03-17
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: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Homeland Security Strategy Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1383
Sponsor: Rep. Ford, Harold E., Jr. [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Diplomacy
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Military readiness
Planning-programming-budgeting
President and foreign policy
Presidential messages
Risk
Strategic planning
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Homeland Security Strategy Act of 2005 - Requires the President to annually transmit to Congress a comprehensive report on the homeland security strategy of the United States (the strategy), which shall include a description and discussion of: (1) worldwide interests, goals, and objectives of the United States that are vital to national homeland security; (2) foreign policy, worldwide commitments, and national defense, economic, diplomatic, and information capabilities of the United States necessary to deter aggression and implement the strategy; (3) proposed short-term and long-term uses of such capabilities and other elements of U.S. national power to protect or promote the interests of, and achieve the goals and objectives vital to, national homeland security; and (4) the adequacy of U.S. capabilities to carry out the strategy.
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, to comprehensively examine the strategy, force structure, resources, threat assessment, infrastructure, budget plan, and other elements of the U.S. homeland security program and policies every four years in order to determine and express the strategy for the next 20 years.
 
Establishes the National Commission on Quadrennial Homeland Security Reviews to: (1) make recommendations relative to the Secretary's examination; and (2) submit required reports to the President and Congress.
 
Requires the Commission to submit its final report no later than June 30, 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Firearm Commerce Modernization Act

Bill: 109-hr-1384
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Commerce
Firearms
Firearms control
Government Operations and Politics
Interstate commerce
Law
Licenses
Local laws
State laws
Trade fairs

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Firearm Commerce Modernization Act - Amends Federal firearms provisions to permit a licensed importer, manufacturer, dealer, or collector to: (1) sell or deliver a firearm (currently, a rifle or shotgun) to a resident of a State other than a State in which the licensee's place of business is located or temporarily located if the transferee meets in person with the transferor to accomplish the transfer; and (2) conduct business temporarily at any gun show or event sponsored by any national, State, or local organization, or any affiliate devoted to the collection, competitive use, or other sporting use of firearms (currently, only at such a location in the State specified on the person's license).
 
Provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to diminish the right of a licensee to conduct firearms transfers (currently, &quot;curios or relics&quot; firearms transfers) with another licensee away from the transferor's business premises.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2006-05-18
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2006-05-11
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2006-05-03
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To include Nelson County, Virginia, in the Appalachian region for purposes of the programs of the Appalachian Regional Commission.

Bill: 109-hr-1385
Sponsor: Rep. Goode, Virgil H., Jr. [R-VA-5]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Appalachia
County politics and government
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Regional economic development
Rural economic development
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Includes Nelson County, Virginia, in the Appalachian region for purposes of provisions regarding Appalachian regional development.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify the excise tax exemptions for aerial applicators of fertilizers or other substances.

Bill: 109-hr-1387
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural machinery
Agriculture and Food
Aircraft
Aviation fuels
Environmental Protection
Excise tax
Farmers
Fertilizers
Forestry
Pest control
Pesticides
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tax credits
Tax exemption
Tax refunds
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that an aerial applicator of agricultural fertilizer or other substances who is the ultimate purchaser of gasoline used on farms may qualify for an excise tax exemption for such gasoline without the necessity of a waiver by farm owners, operators, or tenants of their right to be treated as users and ultimate purchasers of such gasoline. Includes within such tax exemption gasoline used for the direct flight between the airfield and one or more farms. 
 
Exempts fixed-wing aircraft used for forestry purposes from the passenger air transportation excise tax.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Expensing Permanency Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1388
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Economics and Public Finance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Small business
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Small Business Expensing Permanency Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the increased expensing allowance ($100,000) for depreciable business assets and related provisions pertaining to phaseout amounts, inflation adjustments, and the period for revocation of an election.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E507-508)
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Ammonium Nitrate Security Act

Bill: 109-hr-1389
Sponsor: Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Department of Justice
Economics and Public Finance
Explosives
Fertilizers
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Import restrictions
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Nitrates
Nitrogen compounds
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Storage

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Ammonium Nitrate Security Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to redefine explosives to include ammonium nitrate compound.
 
Makes it unlawful for any person to engage in the business of importing, manufacturing, or dealing in ammonium nitrate compound materials without a license.
 
Requires the Attorney General to promulgate regulations specifically related to the storage of such compounds.
 
Modifies requirements for explosive material licenses and user permits to exempt an applicant from the fee for a license or user permit for ammonium nitrate compound. Excludes employees who will be authorized to possess ammonium nitrate compounds from the requirement that they be checked for convictions of certain felonies.
 
Sets forth fines and penalties for violation of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House