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Medicare Prescription Drug Simplification Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2665
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2006-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative remedies
Coinsurance
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Drug therapy
Drug utilization
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Generic drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Health care fraud
Health counseling
Health insurance
Law
Licenses
Marketing
Medicare
Performance measurement
Pharmacies
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: 
Medicare Prescription Drug Simplification Act of 2006 - Revises the Medicare prescription drug program under part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish five national uniform benefit packages consisting of three basic and two supplemental packages.
 
Limits removal or change of coverage of covered part D drugs under a formulary under a prescription drug plan (PDP) or an Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug (MA-PD) plan.
 
Provides for: (1) additional funding for enrollment assistance; (2) comparative plan information; (3) a standardized definition for cost and utilization management tools, and nomenclature for distinguishing between excluded and nonformulary drugs; (4) standardized enrollee notice regarding coverage determinations; (5) standardized forms and processes for reconsiderations and exceptions; and (6) authority to waive late the enrollment penalty in certain circumstances.
 
Directs the Secretary, jointly with the Commissioner of Social Security, to work to integrate processes and beneficiary information for applying for a premium and cost-sharing subsidy and enrolling in a PDP or an MA-PD plan in order to simplify steps for part D eligible individuals who wish to participate in both.

Outlines requirements for comparative information regarding performance of plans under Medicare part D.
 
Specifies factors the Secretary shall use in determining whether, for plan approval purposes, a PDP and its sponsor demonstrate a satisfactory quality of performance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3710-3711)
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Aviation Fuel Tax Simplification Act

Bill: 109-s-2666
Sponsor: Sen. Burns, Conrad R. [R-MT]
Introduced: 2006-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aviation fuels
Energy
Excise tax
Tax rates
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: 
Aviation Fuel Tax Simplification Act - Amends the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users to suspend until after September 30, 2007, certain provisions relating to the taxation of aviation kerosene.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Los Angeles River Revitalization Act

Bill: 109-s-2667
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2006-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: California
Congressional reporting requirements
Dams
Dredging
Easements
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal-city relations
Flood control
Government Operations and Politics
Habitat conservation
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Land transfers
Outdoor recreation
Planning
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Refuse and refuse disposal
Relocation
Restoration ecology
Right-of-way
Riparian ecology
Rivers
Sports and Recreation
Urban affairs
Urban economic development
Water conservation
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: 
Los Angeles River Revitalization Act - Directs the Secretary of the Army, in coordination with the City of Los Angeles, to submit a project-specific plan for the revitalization of the Los Angeles River that is consistent with the goals of the Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan. Directs the Secretary to offer to enter into a binding agreement with the City and any other non-federal sponsor to carry out the plan and to pay at least 50% of the costs.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to recommend any locally-preferred project as an alternative to a measure proposed in the plan. Requires each such project to be included in the feasibility report or in an environmental impact statement or analysis.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to construct a pilot project to provide information to develop the plan. Directs the Secretary to: (1) offer to enter into a binding agreement with the City and any other non-federal sponsor to carry out each such pilot project and to pay at least 35% of the costs; and (2) assign a priority to each project.
 
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 to authorize appropriations for a Los Angeles River water reuse project, including measures for environmental restoration and revitalization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7732)
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Reducing Fraudulent and Imitation Drugs Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2668
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2006-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Drug advertising
Drug industry
Drugs
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Identification devices
Intellectual property
Labeling
Law
Packaging
Product counterfeiting
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: 
Reducing Fraudulent and Imitation Drugs Act of 2006 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to require prescription drug packaging to incorporate: (1) radio frequency tagging technology or similar trace and track technologies; (2) tamper-indicating technologies; and (3) blister security packaging when possible.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) require that such technologies be used exclusively to authenticate the pedigree of prescription drugs; and (2) prohibit such technologies from containing or transmitting any identifying information of a health care practitioner or consumer, or any advertisement or information about indications or off-label uses.
 Requires the Secretary to encourage prescription drug manufacturers and distributors to incorporate: (1) overt optically variable counterfeit-resistant technologies into packaging; and (2) required prescription drug packaging technologies into multiple elements of the physical packaging of the drugs. Requires prescription drug shipments to include a label on the shipping container that incorporates packaging technologies. 
Deems a prescription drug to be misbranded if the packaging or labeling of the drug is in violation of a requirement or prohibition of this Act.
 
Requires the Secretary to publish the National Specified List of Susceptible Prescription Drugs, consisting of not less than 30 of the most frequently counterfeited prescription drugs in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with any of the management partners of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-s-2669
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2006-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Building construction
Commerce
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Harbors
Islands
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Massachusetts
National recreation areas
Public-private partnerships
Tourism
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: 
Amends the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 relating to the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area to permit the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, or any member of the Boston Harbor Islands Partnership for the management of the Recreation Area, construction of recreation area facilities, or any other purpose consistent with the purposes of the Recreation Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Energy Fairness for America Act

Bill: 109-s-2670
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2006-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alaska
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Depletion allowances
Electric power transmission
Energy
Foreign tax credit
Gas in submerged lands
Gas pipelines
Geology
Geophysical prediction
Gulf of Mexico
Income tax
Inventories
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Natural gas
Oil and gas royalties
Oil well drilling
Petroleum in submerged lands
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Submarine oil well drilling
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax deferral
Taxation of foreign income
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: 
Energy Fairness for America Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to terminate: (1) the tax deduction for oil and gas intangible drilling and development costs; (2) the percentage depletion allowance for oil and gas wells; and (3) the tax credit for enhanced oil recovery costs.
 
Repeals provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 relating to: (1) oil and gas royalties in-kind; (2) marginal property production incentives; (3) incentives for natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico; (4) royalty suspension for deep water production; (5) the inventory of Outer Continental Shelf oil and natural gas resources; (6) the ultra-deepwater and unconventional natural gas and other petroleum resources program; (7) Alaska offshore royalty suspension; (8) accelerated depreciation of electric transmission property, natural gas distribution lines, and natural gas gathering lines and expensing of liquid fuel refinery property; (9) the exemption of small oil refiners from limitations on the oil depletion allowance; and (10) two-year amortization of geological and geophysical expenditures.
 
Requires certain large integrated oil companies to revalue their LIFO inventories of crude oil, natural gas, or other petroleum productions using a specified formula. 
 
Limits or denies the foreign tax credit and tax deferrals for dual capacity taxpayers (taxpayers receiving economic and tax benefits from certain foreign jurisdictions), foreign oil and gas income, and foreign oil and gas extraction income. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3712-3714)
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3711-3712)
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Mynesha's Law

Bill: 109-s-2671
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2006-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Block grants
Community development
Community policing
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime prevention
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to law enforcement
Gangs
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Literacy programs
Preschool education
Youth employment
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: 
Mynesha's Law - Authorizes any local or tribal government to submit an application to the Attorney General for designation as a High-Intensity Gang Activity Area. 

Directs the Attorney General to: (1) establish criteria for reviewing such applications; and (2) establish an Interagency Gang Prevention Task Force to coordinate federal assistance to High-Intensity Gang Activity Areas. Directs the Task Force to prioritize the needs of High-Intensity Gang Activity Areas for funding under specified federal community assistance and grant programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3715)
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3714-3715)
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Restore a Rational Tax Rate on Petroleum Production Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2672
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2006-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Corporation taxes
Energy
Gas companies
Gas industry
Income tax
Petroleum industry
Tax deductions
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: 
Restore a Rational Tax Rate on Petroleum Production Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny a tax deduction for income attributable to the domestic production, refining, processing, transportation, or distribution of oil, natural gas, or any primary product thereof.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3714)
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3712)
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Gas Price Reduction Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2673
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2006-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Aviation fuels
Biomass energy
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Diesel motor
Energy
Energy prices
Excise tax
Gas in submerged lands
Gasoline
Government trust funds
Highway finance
Income tax
Mines and mineral resources
Natural gas
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Oil shales
Oil well drilling
Petroleum
Petroleum in submerged lands
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Submarine oil well drilling
Synthetic fuel
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: 
Gas Price Reduction Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to suspend the excise tax on gasoline, diesel fuel, and kerosene from enactment of this Act until October 1, 2006 (suspension period). Requires reimbursement to the Highway Trust Funds for revenues lost during the suspension period. 

Expresses the sense of Congress that consumers should immediately benefit from the tax reductions under this Act. 

Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) suspend exemptions from payment of oil and natural gas royalties under federal leases (royalty relief) during any four-week period in which the average price of crude oil exceeds $50.00 per barrel and the average wellhead price of natural gas exceeds $6.25 per 1,000 cubic feet; and (2) renegotiate such leases to provide for a suspension of royalty relief when crude oil and natural gas prices exceed a certain level.

Suspends provisions of the Internal Revenue Code granting tax deductions for oil and gas development, mining exploration, and intangible drilling and development expenditures and a tax credit for producing fuel from nonconventional sources until the Highway Trust Fund has been reimbursed for revenues lost during the suspension period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3637-3638)
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Native American Languages Act Amendments Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2674
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2006-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Academic performance
Adult education
Archives
Building construction
College costs
Colleges
Commerce
Conferences
Construction costs
Curricula
Data banks
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Educational facilities
Educational research
Educational statistics
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Indian education
Language and languages
Language arts
Law
Leases
Licenses
Maintenance and repair
Minorities
Paraprofessional school personnel
Parent-school relationships
Performance measurement
Preschool education
Private schools
Public-private partnerships
Rating of teachers
Scholarships
School buildings
School personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: 
Native American Languages Amendments Act of 2006 - Amends the Native American Languages Act to authorize the Secretary of Education to provide funds to Native American Language Educational Organizations (Organizations) (or organizations demonstrating potential to become one), Native American Language Colleges, Indian tribal governments, or a consortia of such entities to establish Native American Language Nest programs (site-based education programs conducted through a Native American language) for students under age seven and their families.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to or enter into contracts with such entities to operate Native American Language Survival Schools for Native American children and Native American language-speaking children. Permits the use of grant and contract funds to provide full or partial higher education scholarships and fellowships for the professional development of faculty and staff.
 
Requires the Secretary to make grants or enter into contracts with eligible entities to establish at least four demonstration programs in geographically diverse locations to: (1) provide assistance to schools and nests; and (2) participate in a national study of the linguistic, cultural, and academic effects of schools and nests.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide nests and schools with alternative methods of achieving national education standards with respect to Native American language education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3715-3716)
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Fuel-Efficient Fleets Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2675
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2006-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Buy American
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Federal aid to transportation
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Government vehicles
Governmental investigations
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: 
Fuel-Efficient Fleets Act of 2006 - Amends federal transportation law to set forth certain phased-in minimum fuel economy standards for new federal fleet vehicles.
 
Authorizes the award of grants to assist states in purchasing vans, trucks, sport utility vehicles, minivans, or passenger automobiles that meet the new federal fleet vehicle fuel economy standards. 
 
Subjects federal agencies to Buy American requirements requiring not less than 50% of newly purchased or leased federal fleet vehicles to be U.S. manufactured.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3716)
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Forest Service Partnership Enhancement Act of 2006

Bill: 109-s-2676
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2006-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Arts, Culture, Religion
Biological diversity
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Concessions
Disasters
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Equipment and supplies
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fishes
Government Operations and Politics
Government publications
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Habitat conservation
Indian lands
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Minorities
National forests
Native Americans
Nonprofit organizations
Photography
Public-private partnerships
Restoration ecology
Social Welfare
Tourism
Volunteer workers
Water Resources Development
Watersheds
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: 
Forest Service Partnership Enhancement Act of 2006 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, in connection with the administration of Forest Service activities on and near National Forest System (NFS) lands, to enter into agreements with cooperators for the mutual benefit of parties to the agreement for specified activities, including for: (1) developing, conducting, producing, or selling education and interpretive materials, products, programs, and services; (2) constructing, maintaining, and operating facilities; (3) selling health and safety convenience products and photography supplies; (4) collecting funds from the sale of materials, products, programs, and services; (5) activities to restore and maintain ecological integrity and biodiversity of NFS lands; (6) watershed restoration and enhancement activities on NFS lands, or on other lands that benefit resources on NFS land within the same watershed for protecting, restoring, and enhancing resources or reducing risk from natural disaster where public safety is threatened; and (7) such other cooperative activities as the Secretary considers to be appropriate. 
 
Amends the National Forest Foundation Act to: (1) double the number of members who shall serve on the Board of Directors of the National Forest Foundation; (2) extend to October 1, 2006, the provision of matching funds for administrative and project expenses incurred by the Foundation; and (3) extend for the five-year period beginning on October 1, 2006, the authorization of appropriations for the Foundation to match private contributions made to it. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3716)
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Securing America's Energy Independence Act

Bill: 109-s-2677
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2006-04-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Fuel cells
Heating
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Investment tax credit
Minimum tax
Solar energy
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: 
Securing America's Energy Independence Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2015: (1) the investment tax credit for solar energy property and qualified fuel cell property; and (2) the tax credit for residential photovoltaic, solar water heating, and fuel cell property expenditures. Modifies the maximum amounts for such residential credits based upon kilowatt of capacity. 
 
Allows such credits to be taken against the alternative minimum tax. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3699-3700)
action_date: 2006-04-27
text: Introduced in Senate