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Ease Our Soldiers' Minds Act

Bill: 109-hr-3719
Sponsor: Rep. Ryan, Tim [D-OH-17]
Introduced: 2005-09-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Consumer credit
Debtor and creditor
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Military personnel
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: 
Ease Our Soldiers' Minds Act - Amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to direct the Secretary of the military department concerned to notify creditors of individuals entering into or serving in military service of the rights and benefits afforded to such individuals by such Act. Requires the same notification to consumer reporting agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Introduced in House
Repeal of Federal Reserve Board Term Limitation Act

Bill: 109-hr-3720
Sponsor: Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-27]
Introduced: 2005-09-08 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal Reserve System
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Term limits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: 
Repeal of Federal Reserve Board Term Limitation Act - Amends the Federal Reserve Act to repeal the term limitation on Federal Reserve Board membership.
 
Provides that any member of the Board who has served a full term of 14 years is eligible for reappointment to a five-year term.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to allow certain commercial vehicles to continue to use Route 209 within Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and to allow the National Park Service to continue to collect fees from those vehicles, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-3721
Sponsor: Rep. Sherwood, Don [R-PA-10]
Introduced: 2005-09-08 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
National recreation areas
Pennsylvania
Roads and highways
Transportation and Public Works
Trucking
Trucks
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: 
Amends the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to: (1) delay until September 30, 2015 (currently, September 30, 2005), the prohibition against the use by commercial vehicles of Highway 209 within Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area; (2) increase from $25 to $40 the maximum authorized per-trip commercial vehicle use fee; and (3) direct the Secretary of the Interior to ensure that any proposal adopted by the National Park Service to maintain or reconstruct River Road within the Area provides for that road to be open to two-way traffic.

action_date: 2005-11-15
text: 
Amends the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to delay until September 30, 2015 (currently, September 30, 2005) or whenever a feasible alternative exists, whichever comes first, the prohibition against the use by commercial vehicles of Highway 209 within Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area; and (2) change the maximum authorized per-trip commercial vehicle use fee from $25 to an amount that fully covers the cost of operation of the road, but not to exceed $40 per trip.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-12-19
text: Provisions of Measure Incorporated into S.1310.
action_date: 2005-11-16
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H10171)
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H10171)
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3721.
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H10171)
action_date: 2005-11-15
text: Mrs. Musgrave moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Introduced in House
To authorize and require the President of the United States to allocate crude oil, residual fuel oil, and refined petroleum products to deal with existing or imminent shortages and dislocations in the national distribution system, which jeopardize the national economy, and public health, safety, and welfare.

Bill: 109-hr-3722
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2005-09-08 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Air conditioning
Armed Forces and National Security
Business cycles
Commerce
Competition
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Energy
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Energy conservation
Energy prices
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection
Executive Office of the President
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Heating
Law
Mass rapid transit
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Presidential powers
Public health
Public utilities
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: 
 Directs the President to promulgate a regulation providing for the temporary mandatory allocation of crude oil, including a provision that the retail sale of gasoline may not exceed $2.50 per gallon.
 
Prescribes additional provisions for: (1) protection of public health, safety, and welfare (including maintenance of residential heating and cooling), and the national defense and homeland security; and (2) maintenance of all public services (including municipal, cooperative, or investor-owned utilities and mass transportation facilities and services).
 
Instructs the President to direct the Secretary of Energy to develop criteria for determining the length of the mandatory allocation of crude oil, residual oil, and refined petroleum products under this Act, not to exceed one year.
 
Instructs the Secretary of Energy to develop criteria for declaring a fuel emergency in the future. Requires revival, in the event of such an emergency, of the authority under this Act for mandatory allocation of crude oil, residual oil, and refined petroleum products.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Introduced in House
To require the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide certain individuals or households affected by Hurricane Katrina in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, Florida, with financial assistance and direct services under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster and Emergency Assistance Act.

Bill: 109-hr-3723
Sponsor: Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D-FL-20]
Introduced: 2005-09-08 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief
Florida
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: 
Requires the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide financial assistance and direct services under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to individuals or households in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, Florida, who suffered home destruction or severe damage from Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8328-8329)
action_date: 2005-09-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8065-8066)
action_date: 2005-09-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7796-7797)
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Introduced in House
Charitable Donation Relief Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3724
Sponsor: Rep. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS-1]
Introduced: 2005-09-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alabama
Charitable contributions
Emergency Management
Floods
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Income tax
Louisiana
Mississippi
Tax deductions
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: 
Charitable Donation Relief Act of 2005 - Waives limitations under the Internal Revenue Code on income tax deductions for individual and corporate charitable contributions made after August 28, 2005, and before January 1, 2006, for the relief of victims of Hurricane Katrina.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-08
text: Introduced in House
To prohibit the Secretary of Transportation from issuing and enforcing certain requirements relating to commercial motor vehicle drivers.

Bill: 109-hr-3725
Sponsor: Rep. Abercrombie, Neil [D-HI-1]
Introduced: 2005-09-12 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Transportation
Driver education
Driver licenses
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Law
State laws
Traffic accidents and safety
Truck drivers
Trucking

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-12
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of Transportation from issuing or enforcing requirements that directly or indirectly: (1) prohibit a commercial motor vehicle driver from participating in a driving school in the disposition of a traffic violation; (2) prohibit a state from issuing a provisional driver's license to a commercial motor vehicle driver in the disposition of a traffic violation; or (3) require a traffic violation by a commercial motor vehicle driver in a state (other than the driver's licensing state) to be automatically considered a violation for purposes of commercial driver's license disqualification in the driver's licensing state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2005-09-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-09-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-12
text: Introduced in House
Child Pornography Prevention Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3726
Sponsor: Rep. Pence, Mike [R-IN-6]
Introduced: 2005-09-12 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Business records
Child pornography
Commerce
Computer software
Computers
Copying processes
Criminal investigation
Criminal procedure
Discovery (Law)
Electronic commerce
Evidence (Law)
Families
Forfeiture
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Internet
Law
Organized crime
Pornography
Science, Technology, Communications
Subpoena
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-12
text: 
Child Pornography Prevention Act of 2005 - Amends federal criminal code provisions regarding the sexual exploitation of children to: (1) prohibit producers of visual depictions of sexually explicit conduct from refusing to permit the Attorney General to inspect records at business premises; and (2) modify the definition of &quot;produces&quot; to include actually filming, videotaping, photographing, or digitally manipulating an image of an actual human being that contains a visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct.
 
Requires, in any criminal proceeding: (1) any material that constitutes child pornography to remain in the care, custody, and control of either the government or the court; and (2) a court to deny any request by the defendant to reproduce material that constitutes child pornography, provided the government makes the material reasonably available to the defendant.
 
Makes specified provisions of the Controlled Substances Act applicable to the criminal forfeiture of obscene property. Authorizes criminal and civil asset forfeiture in specified child exploitation and obscenity cases, such as cases involving: (1) the use of interstate facilities to transmit information about a minor with intent to solicit sexual activity; and (2) the use of misleading domain names on the Internet with intent to deceive a person into viewing obscene material. Makes the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act applicable to activities relating to material involving the sexual exploitation of minors.
 
Authorizes administrative subpoenas for investigations of federal offenses involving the distribution of obscenity.
 
Prohibits the production of obscene matter.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7823)
action_date: 2005-09-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-09-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H849)
Emergency Relief Personnel Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3728
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2005-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Assault
Capital punishment
Disaster relief
Disasters
Emergency Management
Federal employees
Federal officials
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Homicide
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Life imprisonment
Mandatory sentences
Military civic action
Military personnel
Protection of officials
Sentences (Criminal procedure)

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: 
Emergency Relief Personnel Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit, during a presidentially-declared major disaster or emergency, forcibly assaulting, resisting, or interfering with: (1) any U.S. officer or employee performing official duties relating to the emergency or any person assisting such officer; and (2) any person providing services in support of disaster relief efforts in coordination with a federal coordinating officer. Provides for enhanced penalties for using or possessing a deadly or dangerous weapon or inflicting bodily injury in the commission of such a violation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
To extend the statute of limitations pursuant to state of emergency, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-3730
Sponsor: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2005-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Administration of justice
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal procedure
Disasters
District courts
Emergency Management
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Limitation of actions
Prosecution
Punishment
Trials

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: 
Amends the federal criminal code to require the tolling of any statutory limitation period for the prosecution, trial, or punishment of an offense in any district in which presidentially-declared major disaster or emergency authority is invoked: (1) during the period courts are closed pursuant to the emergency; and (2) for one year after court operations resume. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Enhance and Protect Local Community Radio Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3731
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2005-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Broadband
Building construction
Commerce
Competition
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Licenses
Public broadcasting
Public interest
Radio broadcasting
Radio programs
Radio spectrum allocation
Radio stations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: 
Enhance and Protect Local Community Radio Act of 2005 - Repeals provisions in the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, that required the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to: (1) modify rules authorizing the operation of low-power FM radio stations to prescribe minimum distance separations for third-adjacent channels; (2) prohibit applicants who have engaged in the unlicensed operation of any station from obtaining a low-power FM license; and (3) conduct a program to test whether low-power FM radio stations will result in harmful interference to existing FM radio stations if minimum distance separations for third-adjacent channels are not required.
 
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the FCC to modify its rules to eliminate third-adjacent minimum distance separation requirements between: (1) low-power FM stations; and (2) full-service FM stations, FM translator stations, and FM booster stations. Directs the FCC to: (1) ensure the availability of spectrum for low-power FM stations; (2) establish a schedule for low-power station licensing opportunities; (3) explore the public interest obligations of FM and AM digital terrestrial radio licenses; (4) ensure that low-power FM stations will not be displaced by the granting of licenses to full-power FM stations; and (5) prohibit the future voluntary transfers of construction permits for FM translator stations or FM booster stations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Minimum Wage Fairness Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3732
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2005-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Local laws
Minimum wages
State laws
Tipping

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: 
Minimum Wage Fairness Act of 2005 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exclude tips in determining an employee's minimum wage to the extent that tips are excluded from that employee's wage under the terms of an applicable collective bargaining agreement.
 
Requires states and localities to permit a tip credit meeting certain criteria if, after enactment of this Act, they prohibit any portion of a tipped employee's tips from being considered as wages in determining if such employee has been paid the minimum wage rate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-10-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Savings Relief Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3733
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Artur [D-AL-7]
Introduced: 2005-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alabama
Annuities
Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Floods
Florida
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Louisiana
Mississippi
Tax administration
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: 
Emergency Savings Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt a qualified Katrina-relief distribution from the 10 percent penalty for premature retirement plan distributions. Defines &quot;qualified Katrina-relief distribution&quot; as one made after August 24, 2005, and before the end of six months after enactment of this Act from a tax-qualified retirement plan for an individual who encounters hardship by reason of Hurricane Katrina.
 
Permits repayments of qualified Katrina-relief distributions to an individual retirement plan within five years of the initial distribution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
Displaced Citizens Voter Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3734
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Artur [D-AL-7]
Introduced: 2005-09-13 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Absentee voting
Alabama
Congress
Congressional elections
Displaced persons
Election administration
Emergency Management
Floods
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Hurricane aftermath legislation
Hurricanes
Louisiana
Mississippi
Presidential elections
Voter registration
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: 
Displaced Citizens Voter Protection Act of 2005 - Extends to individuals evacuated from their residences as a result of Hurricane Katrina the right to use the absentee balloting and registration procedures available to military and overseas voters under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act.
 
Requires each motor vehicle authority and each designated voter registration agency in a state to take necessary steps to notify individuals to whom services are provided of the protections provided by this Act and of the requirements for obtaining them, including the requirement to submit an affidavit stating that the individual intends to return to the place of residence where he or she is otherwise qualified to vote. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-09-13
text: Introduced in House