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Accelerating the Creation of Teachers of Influence for Our Nation Act

Bill: 109-hr-5141
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
College costs
Commerce
Community and school
Continuing education
Corporate philanthropy
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Engineering
Engineers
Federal aid to education
Government trust funds
Graduate education
Higher education
Industry-university relations
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Law
Learning
Libraries
Licenses
Mathematics
Mentoring
Minorities
Minority education
Museums
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Scientists
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Summer employment
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers
Technical education
Women
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Accelerating the Creation of Teachers of Influence for Our Nation Act - Directs the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish a program providing competitive scholarships to undergraduate students who study science, engineering, or mathematics and earn their elementary or secondary teaching certificate. Requires such students to serve as elementary or secondary school science or mathematics teachers for five years, if they have received at least three years of assistance, and three years, if the assistance was of shorter duration. Subtracts one year from such service requirements if the student teaches at a school serving a high proportion of disadvantaged students. 
 
Allows students who have received at least one year of assistance to apply for up to two years of additional assistance in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics Master's degree program. Increases the teaching service obligation by one year for each additional year of assistance.
 
Establishes a government trust fund for donations to the NSF scholarship program.
 
Requires the NSF Director to establish a program awarding competitive annual $1 million grants to institutions of higher education for the development and implementation of programs providing: (1) undergraduate science, mathematics, and engineering degrees; (2) elementary or secondary teacher certification; and (3) professional development and mentoring activities. Requires recipients to kick in an additional $200,000 for the grants. Includes within a list of factors winning preference for applicants, proposals to: (1) provide students with summer internships with researchers in their field; and (2) enter into partnerships with private sector entities and other institutions of higher education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E551)
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
National Science Foundation Scholars Program Act

Bill: 109-hr-5142
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Commerce
Communication in science
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Educational statistics
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Engineering
Engineers
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Higher education
Industry-university relations
Infrastructure
Mathematics
Mentoring
Museums
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Scientists
Secondary education
Teachers
Technical education
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
National Science Foundation Scholars Program Act - Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to provide competitive scholarships to students in undergraduate science, engineering, technology, or mathematics programs. 
 
Requires the Director to award annual $5,000 grants to institutions of higher education attended by at least 10 such scholarship recipients to develop programs which provide: (1) such recipients with interaction, on a monthly basis, with speakers in the science, engineering, technology, or mathematics disciplines who work in business, industry, elementary or secondary education, museums, or other informal educational settings; (2) annual poster sessions through which recipients present their research efforts; (3) outreach to middle and high school students; and (4) recipient mentoring.
 
Requires the Director to establish a website where current, former, and potential scholarship recipients can share ideas, present work, and learn of research opportunities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E546)
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
To provide for supply chain security cooperation between Department of Homeland Security and the private sector, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-5144
Sponsor: Rep. Jindal, Bobby [R-LA-1]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Business records
Commerce
Confidential communications
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publicity
Law
Private police
Public-private partnerships
Risk
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Terrorism
Trade secrets

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) develop a secure electronic data interchange system to collect from and share risk information related to securing the supply chain with appropriate private sector entities; (2) establish uniform procedures for the receipt, care, and storage of supply chain security information that is voluntarily submitted to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through the system; and (3) develop protocols for determining appropriate private sector personnel who shall have access to the system, including designated security officers within companies determined to be low risk through participation in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program. 
 
 Restricts the use and disclosure of such voluntarily submitted information and sets penalties for unauthorized disclosure by federal officers or employees. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide warnings to relevant companies, targeted sectors, other governmental entities, or the general public regarding potential risks to the supply chain.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the National War Dogs Monument, Inc. to establish a national monument in honor of military working dog teams.

Bill: 109-hr-5145
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Animals
Armed Forces and National Security
District of Columbia
Dogs
National monuments
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Authorizes the National War Dogs Monument, Inc. to establish in the District of Columbia a monument to honor the sacrifice and service of United States Armed Forces working dog teams.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-28
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Job Creation Incentive Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5146
Sponsor: Rep. Knollenberg, Joe [R-MI-9]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Income tax
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Small business
Tax credits
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Job Creation Incentive Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain small employers (i.e., employers of not more than 100 employees) a business-related tax credit for 5% of wages paid to non-replacement employees whose employment results in an increase in the employer's workforce. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E543)
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the income-related increase in part B premiums that was enacted as part of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173).

Bill: 109-hr-5147
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal the income-related increase in Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) premiums that was enacted as part of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, as amended by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5148
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Adoption
Childbirth
Families
Family leave
Federal employees
Foster home care
Health
Leave of absence
Sick leave
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2006 - Allows federal employees to substitute any available paid leave for any leave without pay available for either the: (1) birth of a child; (2) placement of a child with the employee for either adoption or foster care; (3) care of a seriously ill family member; or (4) employee's own serious health condition. 
 
Makes available as paid leave for any of the 12 weeks of leave an employee is entitled to for the above purposes: (1) six weeks of paid leave and any accumulated annual or sick leave for either the birth of a child or the placement of a child with the employee for adoption or foster care; and (2) any accumulated annual or sick leave for the care of a family member or the employee's own serious health condition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Eastern Sierra Rural Heritage and Economic Enhancement Act

Bill: 109-hr-5149
Sponsor: Rep. McKeon, Howard P. "Buck" [R-CA-25]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
California
Climate
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Fire prevention
Forest fires
Grazing
Habitat conservation
Hydrology
Insect control
Land use
Meteorology
National forests
Snowmobiles
Transportation and Public Works
Tree diseases
Water Resources Development
Wild rivers
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Eastern Sierra Rural Heritage and Economic Enhancement Act - Designates as wilderness areas and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System certain lands in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, which shall be deemed part of the Hoover Wilderness and Emigrant Wilderness. Authorizes appropriations for management and enforcement of snowmobile use on such lands.
 
Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate specified segments of the the Amargosa River, California, as a component of the national wild and scenic rivers system.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-27
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior, USDA.
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E543-544)
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Reverse the Raid on Student Aid Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5150
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Higher education
Interest rates
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Reverse the Raid on Student Aid Act of 2006 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to cut student loan interest rates to 3.4% for student borrowers and 4.25% for parent borrowers under the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) and William D. Ford Direct Loan programs for loans whose first disbursement is made on or after July 1, 2006. Maintains the current 6.8% interest rate, however, for unsubsidized Stafford loans for middle-income borrowers under such programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Freedom of Choice Act

Bill: 109-hr-5151
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Abortion
Civil actions and liability
Communication in medicine
Discrimination in medical care
Discrimination in public facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Health
Law
Patients' rights
Reproduction
Sex discrimination
Women
Women's health
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Freedom of Choice Act - Declares that it is the policy of the United States that every woman has the fundamental right to choose to: (1) bear a child; (2) terminate a pregnancy prior to fetal viability; or (3) terminate a pregnancy after fetal viability when necessary to protect her life or her health. 
 
Prohibits a governmental entity from: (1) denying or interfering with a woman's right to exercise such choices; or (2) discriminating against the exercise of those rights in the regulation or provision of benefits, facilities, services, or information. Provides that such prohibition shall apply retroactively. 
 
Authorizes an individual aggrieved by a violation of this Act to obtain appropriate relief, including relief against a governmental entity, in a civil action.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Equal Access to Social Security Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5152
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Domestic partners
Families
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Equal Access to Social Security Act of 2006 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to provide for entitlement to dependents' and survivors' benefits under the OASDI program based on permanent partnership as well as marriage.

Provides for: (1) determination of permanent partner status; and (2) lump sum death payments for surviving permanent partners. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
To revise the number of associate judges of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

Bill: 109-hr-5153
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
District of Columbia
Government Operations and Politics
Judges
State courts

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Amends the District of Columbia Code to increase from 58 to 61 the number of associate judges on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia..


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E547)
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Traffic Reduction Through Technology Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5154
Sponsor: Rep. Pombo, Richard W. [R-CA-11]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax credits
Telecommuting

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Traffic Reduction Through Technology Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain employers and employees a tax credit for teleworking. Bases the amount of the tax credit for employers on the number of days during the week their employees telework. Limits the annual credit amount for employers to $15,000 and for employees to $250.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Orchard Detention Basin Flood Control Act

Bill: 109-hr-5155
Sponsor: Rep. Porter, Jon C. [R-NV-3]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Emergency Management
Flood control
Land use
Nevada
Right-of-way
Water Resources Development
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Orchard Detention Basin Flood Control Act - Provides for the release of approximately 65 acres of land known as the Orchard Detention Basin in the Sunrise Mountain Instant Study Area, Clark County, Nevada, from wilderness designation. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to grant the County a right-of-way for the construction and maintenance of the Orchard Detention Basin Project on that land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
Counterfeit Drug Prevention Act of 2006

Bill: 109-hr-5156
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike J. [R-MI-8]
Introduced: 2006-04-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Death
Drug adulteration
Drugs
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Labeling
Product counterfeiting
Sentences (Criminal procedure)

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: 
Counterfeit Drug Prevention Act of 2006 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish criminal penalties of a fine and imprisonment for not more than 20 years, or both, for any person who commits a prohibited act relating to counterfeiting knowing that: (1) the conduct concerns the rendering of a drug as a counterfeit drug; (2) the conduct will cause a drug to be a counterfeit drug; or (3) a drug, held, sold, or dispensed is a counterfeit drug. Increases the term of imprisonment to any term of years or for life if the use of a counterfeit drug is the proximate cause of a consumer's death.
 
Modifies provisions pertaining to criminal fines for committing certain prohibited acts involving food, drugs, devices, or cosmetics.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2006-04-06
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: 2006-04-06
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: 2006-04-06
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: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-04-06
text: Introduced in House