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To prohibit entities owned or controlled by foreign governments from conducting certain operations at seaports in the United States, and from entering into agreements to conduct such operations.

Bill: 109-hr-4839
Sponsor: Rep. Shaw, E. Clay, Jr. [R-FL-22]
Introduced: 2006-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Corporate mergers
Crime and Law Enforcement
Dubai Ports World aftermath legislation
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign corporations
Foreign investments
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Government ownership
Infrastructure
International Affairs
Law
Leases
Marine safety
Marine terminals
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-01
text: 
Prohibits an entity owned or controlled by a foreign government from: (1) conducting operations relating to the import or export of cargo by vessel, or the arrival or departure of crew or passengers on a cargo vessel, at a U.S. seaport; or (2) entering into a contract to conduct such operations. Subjects a person to certain civil penalties for violating such requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2006-03-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-03-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-03-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Ojito Wilderness Act to make a technical correction.

Bill: 109-hr-4841
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Tom [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2006-03-01 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Maps
New Mexico
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-01
text: 
Amends the Ojito Wilderness Act to change the date of the Ojito Wilderness map from October 1, 2004, to January 24, 2006.

action_date: 2006-03-14
text: 

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

 
Amends the Ojito Wilderness Act to change the date of the Ojito Wilderness map from October 1, 2004, to January 24, 2006.

action_date: 2006-10-06
text: 

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

 
Amends the Ojito Wilderness Act to change the date of the Ojito Wilderness map from October 1, 2004, to January 24, 2006. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-10-06
text: Became Public Law No: 109-309.
action_date: 2006-10-06
text: Became Public Law No: 109-309.
action_date: 2006-10-06
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2006-10-06
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2006-10-02
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S10539)
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S10539)
action_date: 2006-03-15
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-03-14
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2006-03-14
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H879)
action_date: 2006-03-14
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H879)
action_date: 2006-03-14
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4841.
action_date: 2006-03-14
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H879-880)
action_date: 2006-03-14
text: Mr. Renzi moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2006-03-06
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2006-03-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-03-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-01
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 109-309
Worker Amnesty and Opportunity Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4847
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, Major R. [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2006-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Alien labor
Aliens
Deportation
Education
Families
Foreign students
Higher education
Illegal aliens
Immigrant education
Immigrants
Injunctions
Labor and Employment
Labor supply
Labor unions
Law
Residence requirements
Social Welfare
Students
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Worker Amnesty and Opportunity Act of 2006 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for legal permanent resident status for certain undocumented or nonimmigrant aliens who are: (1) alien workers in an employee-shortage occupation and sponsored by a labor organization; (2) eligible for admission at a U.S. institution of higher education; or (3) at least 65 years old.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Alien Child Protection and Deferred Enforced Departure Family Unity Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4848
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, Major R. [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2006-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alien labor
Aliens
Department of Justice
Deportation
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Immigrants
Injunctions
Labor and Employment
Law
Orphans
Parents
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Alien Child Protection and Deferred Enforced Departure Family Unity Act of 2006 - Provides for the permanent resident status adjustment (and stay of removal if applicable) of an alien orphan who is physically present in the United States and under 12 years old. 
Provides for deferred enforced departure (and stay of removal if applicable) of an alien who is the natural and legal parent of a U.S.-born child under 18 years old.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 49, United States Code, to provide that individuals who are eligible to join the Armed Forces of the United States are also eligible to be security screening personnel.

Bill: 109-hr-4849
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, Major R. [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2006-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Airports
Armed Forces and National Security
Citizenship
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Transportation
Employee selection
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Immigration
Labor and Employment
Security measures
Terrorism
Transportation safety
Transportation workers

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: 
Amends federal aviation safety and security law to replace language requiring airport security screeners to be U.S. citizens with a provision that any individual eligible to join the U.S. armed forces is eligible to become a security screener. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity.
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Pharmaceutical Products Price Equity Act

Bill: 109-hr-4850
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, Major R. [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2006-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Civil actions and liability
Class actions (Civil procedure)
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Drug industry
Economics and Public Finance
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Injunctions
Law
Legal fees
Prescription pricing
Price discrimination
Price regulation
Punitive damages

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: 
Pharmaceutical Products Price Equity Act - Directs the President to issue orders and regulations, and establish procedures and reporting requirements, to ensure that no pharmaceutical product is sold to any consumer in the United States at a price that is more than six percent above the average retail price at which such pharmaceutical product is sold in the five most industrialized, free-market countries, other than the United States. Sets forth enforcement and civil liability provisions. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-03-02
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: 2006-03-02
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: 2006-03-02
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: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Targeted Revenue Sharing Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4851
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, Major R. [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2006-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Block grants
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Local finance
Revenue sharing
Secondary education
State finance

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: 
Emergency Targeted Revenue Sharing Act of 2006 - Authorizes and makes appropriations for FY2007-2009 for financial assistance to states and their local governments for: (1) assistance for education; and (2) general revenue sharing.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make allotments of such funds to states, with 50% of such allotments to be distributed by states among their local governments. Bases the amount of a state's allotment and of a local government's share upon relative: (1) school-age population, in the case of education assistance; and (2) general population, in the case of general revenue sharing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2006-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2006-03-02
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Moratorium Testing Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4852
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, Major R. [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2006-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Language arts
Mathematics
Reading
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: 
Emergency Moratorium Testing Act of 2006 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) (as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001) to extend deadlines for implementing certain academic assessments.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to encourage states, during the three-year period beginning upon enactment of this Act, to place a moratorium on the administration of all standardized tests. Requires each state desiring to receive a grant under ESEA title I part A, beginning after such three-year period, to report annually to the Secretary on all standardized tests administered to elementary or secondary students in the state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Excess War Profits Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4853
Sponsor: Rep. Owens, Major R. [D-NY-11]
Introduced: 2006-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Income tax
International Affairs
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military occupation
Military operations
Minimum tax
Tax credits
Tax rates
War
War relief

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: 
Excess War Profits Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an additional tax of 15% of taxable income attributable to contracts with the United States specifically for goods or services for the war in Iraq. Exempts amounts received by members of the U.S. Armed Forces or federal employees for their services from such tax.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Rural Communities Investment Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4854
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, Ron [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2006-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural credit
Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Farm lands
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Interest
Mortgages
Rural housing
Savings and loan associations
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: 
Rural Communities Investment Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income interest received by a bank or savings association insured under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act on a loan acquired to purchase or improve rural housing and secured by rural housing or by a leasehold mortgage on such housing. Defines &quot;rural housing&quot; as any single family principal residence located in a rural area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
To amend the District of Columbia College Access Act of 1999 to reauthorize for 5 additional years the public and private school tuition assistance programs established under the Act.

Bill: 109-hr-4855
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Tom [R-VA-11]
Introduced: 2006-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Authorization
Black colleges
College costs
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Federal-city relations
Higher education
Local budgets
Maryland
Minorities
Private schools
Public schools
Scholarships
Urban affairs
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: 
Amends the District of Columbia Access Act of 1999 to authorize the public school and private school tuition assistance programs established under the Act through FY2012.

action_date: 2006-07-11
text: 

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

 
Amends the District of Columbia Access Act of 1999 to authorize the public school and private school tuition assistance programs established under the Act through FY2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-11
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 310.
action_date: 2006-07-11
text: Reported by the Committee on Government Reform. H. Rept. 109-553.
action_date: 2006-07-11
text: Reported by the Committee on Government Reform. H. Rept. 109-553.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2006-03-09
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Energy Star Homes Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4856
Sponsor: Rep. Bean, Melissa L. [D-IL-8]
Introduced: 2006-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Energy
Energy conservation
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: 
Energy Star Homes Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow homeowners a $10,000 tax credit for the purchase of an energy star qualified home (a home meeting certain energy saving requirements established by the Environmental Protection Agency). Terminates such credit after 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H648)
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
Endangered Species Compliance and Transparency Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-4857
Sponsor: Rep. McMorris, Cathy [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2006-03-02 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Cost accounting
Electric utilities
Electric utility rates
Endangered species
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Finance and Financial Sector
Power marketing administrations
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: 
Endangered Species Compliance and Transparency Act of 2006 - Requires the Administrators of the Bonneville Power Administration, the Western Area Power Administration, the Southwestern Power Administration, and the Southeastern Power Administration to provide: (1) estimates of each customer's share of each Administration's direct and indirect costs for compliance with the Endangered Species Act of 1973 in monthly billing statements; and (2) an annual report estimating such costs (on a project-by-project basis for the Western Area Power Administration and on a system-wide basis for the other Administrations) to the House Committee on Resources and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

action_date: 2006-09-28
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Endangered Species Compliance and Transparency Act of 2006 - Requires the Administrators of the Bonneville Power Administration, the Western Area Power Administration, the Southwestern Power Administration, and the Southeastern Power Administration to provide: (1) estimates of each customer's share of each Administration's direct and indirect costs for compliance with the Endangered Species Act of 1973 in monthly billing statements; and (2) an annual report estimating such costs (on a project-by-project basis for the Western Area Power Administration and on a system-wide basis for the other Administrations) to the House Committee on Resources and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
 
Defines: (1) direct costs to include federal agency obligations related to study-related costs, capital, operation, maintenance, and replacement costs, and staffing costs; and (2) indirect costs to include foregone generation and replacement power costs, including the net costs of any transmission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 418.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 109-693.
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 109-693.
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 17 - 10.
action_date: 2006-07-19
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2006-03-16
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2006-03-07
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-03-02
text: Introduced in House