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United Nations Management, Personnel, and Policy Reform Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1383
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2005-07-12 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Armed Forces and National Security
Auditing
Bribery
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil War
Conferences
Conflict of interests
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Cost control
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crimes against humanity
Data banks
Democracy
Democratic Republic of Congo
Dismissal of employees
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Europe
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial disclosure
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fraud
Genocide
Government Operations and Politics
Government ethics
Government liability
Government procurement
Government publicity
Human rights
International employees
International military forces
Internet
Iraq compilation
Israel
Law
Legal fees
Middle East and North Africa
Military command and control
Military law
Military training
Misconduct in office
Nongovernmental organizations
Palestinians
Peacekeeping forces
Performance measurement
Personnel management
Planning-programming-budgeting
Public corruption
Regionalism (International organization)
Sanctions (International law)
Science, Technology, Communications
Sudan
Terrorism
Translating and interpreting
United Nations
United Nations delegations
United Nations economic assistance
United Nations finances
United Nations membership
United Nations officials
United Nations structure
Waste in government spending
Western Europe
Whistle blowing

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-12
text: 
United Nations Management, Personnel, and Policy Reform Act of 2005 - Expresses the sense of Congress and sets forth congressional findings concerning the United Nations' need to: (1) institute effective management techniques and procurement procedures; (2) develop a uniformly professional international civil service; (3) improve budgeting procedures; (4) improve peacekeeping forces; (5) reorient and streamline human rights mechanisms; and (6) strengthen the independence of the Office of Internal Oversight Services, protect whistleblowers, and create a mechanism to oversee auditing and to track management and personnel reforms. 
 
Requires the President to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees on U.N. reforms. Authorizes the President to withhold 50% of U.S. annual contributions if the United Nations is not making sufficient progress in implementing such reforms. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8210-8211)
action_date: 2005-07-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2005-07-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Affordable Books for College Act

Bill: 109-s-1384
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2005-07-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Colleges
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government publications
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Lease and rental services
Recruiting of employees
Retail trade
Storage
Student employment
Textbooks

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-12
text: 
Affordable Books for College Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a demonstration program of loans to expand college bookstore services to provide students with the option to rent course materials.

Directs the Secretary of Education to make such loans to a limited number of eligible entities, as well as feasibility study grants prior to loan applications. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-07-12
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Treatment and Due Process Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1385
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2005-07-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Agriculture and Food
Aid to dependent children
Caregivers
Cash welfare block grants
Child health
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Day care
Demography
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
Drug abuse
Due process of law
Earned income tax credit
Earnings
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employee training
English language
Ethnic groups
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Family violence
Food relief
Food stamps
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government statistics
Governmental investigations
Health
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Illiteracy
Income
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Law
Learning disabilities
Medicaid
Mentally disabled
Poverty
Right of privacy
Sex crimes
Shelters for the homeless
Social work
Taxation
Translating and interpreting
Unemployment insurance
Wages
Welfare eligibility
Welfare work participation
Wife abuse
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-12
text: 
 Fair Treatment and Due Process Protection Act of 2005 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require a state to which a family assistance grant is made to provide appropriate interpretation and translation services to individuals who lack English proficiency if the number or percentage of persons lacking English proficiency meets certain standards. Provides for a reduced family assistance grant as a penalty for states failing to provide such services.
 
Requires a pre-sanction review process. Provides for a similar penalty for states not following such process.

Revises data collection and reporting requirements.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) conduct longitudinal studies of a representative sample of families that receive TANF assistance; and (2) ensure that public disclosure with respect to any information concerning TANF recipients or applicants is made in a manner that protects their privacy. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8140-8142)
action_date: 2005-07-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8139-8140)
action_date: 2005-07-12
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to exclude from consideration as income certain payments under the national flood insurance program.

Bill: 109-s-1386
Sponsor: Sen. Martinez, Mel [R-FL]
Introduced: 2005-07-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster insurance
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid programs
Finance and Financial Sector
Floods
Social Welfare
Water Resources Development
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: 
Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to declare that assistance provided under a program for flood mitigation activities with respect to a property shall not be considered income or a resource of the owner (or any lessee or user) of the property when determining eligibility for or benefit levels under any income assistance or resource-tested program that is funded in whole or in part by a federal agency or by appropriated federal funds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Introduced in Senate
John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Reauthorization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1387
Sponsor: Sen. Chafee, Lincoln [R-RI]
Introduced: 2005-07-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts
Arts, Culture, Religion
Authorization
Commemorations
Commerce
Community development
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural property
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Massachusetts
National parks
Outdoor recreation
Recreation
Regional economic development
Rhode Island
Rivers
Sports and Recreation
State parks
Tourism
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: 
John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Reauthorization Act of 2005 - Requires the John. H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission to update the Cultural Heritage and Land Management Plan for the John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor.
 
Terminates the Commission ten years after this Act's enactment.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of sites and associated landscape features within the boundaries of the Corridor that contribute to the understanding of the Corridor as the birthplace of the industrial revolution in the United States, and evaluate the possibility of: (1) designating one or more site or landscape feature as a unit of the National Park System; and (2) coordinating and complementing actions by the Commission, local governments, and state and federal agencies in the preservation and interpretation of significant resources within the Corridor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-22
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-663.
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Regulatory Flexibility Reform Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1388
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2005-07-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Business records
Commerce
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Internet
Law
Regulatory impact statements
Science, Technology, Communications
Small Business Administration
Small business
Standards
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: 
Regulatory Flexibility Reform Act of 2005 - Revises the Regulatory Flexibility Act. Defines the &quot;economic impact&quot; of a rule to include any economic effects on small entities. 
 
Requires initial regulatory flexibility analyses of a proposed rule to contain a detailed statement estimating the additional cumulative economic impact of the proposed rule on small entities beyond that already imposed on the class of small entities by the agency or explaining why such an estimate is not available. Requires an agency to notify the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration of any draft rules that may have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities either: (1) when the agency submits a draft rule to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget under Executive Order 12866, if that order requires such submission; or (2) if no submission to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs is so required, at a reasonable time before publication of the rule by the agency.
 
Requires that final regulatory flexibility analyses include the agency's response to any comments filed on a rule by the Chief Counsel and a detailed statement of any changes made as a result. Requires publication of analyses on agency websites.
 
Revises provisions requiring the publication by each agency of a plan for the periodic review of its rules that have a significant impact on a substantial number of small entities to determine whether such rules should be continued, changed, or rescinded.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8221-8222)
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8220-8221)
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Kid Safe Chemicals Act

Bill: 109-s-1391
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-07-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Animals
Bioaccumulation
Biodegradation
Business records
Chemical industries
Chemical research
Chemicals
Chemistry
Child health
Child safety
Commerce
Consumer education
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental estrogens
Environmental health
Environmental monitoring
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Fetus
Food safety
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health
Health surveys
Higher education
Immune system
Infants
International Affairs
International environmental cooperation
Laboratory animals
Law
Neurology
Potable water
Product safety
Reproduction
Research centers
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Technological innovations
Toxicology
Trade secrets
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: 
Child, Worker, and Consumer-Safe Chemicals Act of 2005 or the Kid Safe Chemicals Act - Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to require each manufacturer of a chemical substance distributed in commerce to submit to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): (1) a statement certifying that the manufacturer's chemical substance meets required safety standards or there is insufficient data to make such determination; and (2) all reasonably available information concerning the chemical substance not previously submitted. Requires manufacturers to update such information at least every three years or at any time new information becomes available on the toxicity of a chemical substance. 
 
Prohibits the manufacture of a chemical substance if the Administrator: (1) determines that the manufacturer has failed to comply with this Act or that the substance does not meet applicable safety standards; or (2) has not made a safety determination for such substance within a specified time period. 
 
Requires the Administrator to: (1) develop a priority list for making safety determinations of at least 300 chemical substances, giving highest priority to substances posing the greatest risk to humans; (2) determine whether a manufacturer has established that its priority list substances meet applicable safety standards; (3) implement animal testing alternatives; (4) create market incentives for the development of safer alternatives to existing chemical substances; (5) establish an Interagency Science Advisory Board on Children's Health and Toxic Substances; (6) cooperate with international efforts to monitor chemical substances; and (7) create a database to share information on the toxicity and use of chemical substances and provide public access to such data.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8235-8236)
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Introduced in Senate
FTC Reauthorization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1392
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2005-07-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Authorization
Economics and Public Finance
Federal Trade Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: 
FTC Reauthorization Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal Trade Commission Act to authorize appropriations for the Federal Trade Commission for FY2006-FY2010.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8237)
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8236-8237)
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Hospital Emergency Assistance Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1393
Sponsor: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2005-07-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Health
Hospitals

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: 
Hospital Emergency Assistance Act of 2005 - Authorizes the President to provide reimbursement to a for-profit hospital for damages to, or an expense incurred by, it during a major disaster or emergency.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8237)
action_date: 2005-07-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Increased Capital Access for Growing Business Act

Bill: 109-s-1396
Sponsor: Sen. Allen, George [R-VA]
Introduced: 2005-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Commerce
Mutual funds
Securities
Securities regulation
Small business
Stock exchanges

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: 
Increased Capital Access for Growing Business Act - Amends the Investment Company Act of 1940 to include as an &quot;eligible portfolio company,&quot; for purposes of eligibility for investment in small- and medium-sized businesses, an issuer of securities that: (1) does not have any class of equity securities listed for trading on a national securities exchange or traded through the facilities of a national securities association; or (2) has an aggregate value of outstanding publicly traded equity securities of not more than $250 million. Allows the Securities and Exchange Commission to adjust such amount consistent with the public interest, protection of investors, and the public purpose.
 
Includes as an eligible business development company, also for such purposes, an investment company: (1) without any such class of equity securities; or (2) that is not an eligible portfolio company because the aggregate value of its outstanding publicly traded equity securities is more than $250 million but not more than $500 million, as long as such securities represent no more than ten percent of the total invested assets of the company.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8304)
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
United States Army Relief Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1397
Sponsor: Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2005-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Army
Iraq compilation
Military personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: 
United States Army Relief Act of 2005 - Sets forth the following minimum end-strength levels for active-duty Army personnel (502,400 for FY2005): (1) 522,400 for FY2006; (2) 542,400 for FY2007; (3) 562,400 for FY2008; and (4) 582,400 for FY2009 and thereafter. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8305)
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Government Reorganization and Program Performance Improvement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1399
Sponsor: Sen. Thomas, Craig [R-WY]
Introduced: 2005-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress
Congressional Research Service
Congressional agencies
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Directories
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Expedited congressional procedure
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government paperwork
House rules and procedure
Legislation
Legislative resolutions
Productivity in government
Senate rules and procedure
Waste in government spending

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: 
Government Reorganization and Program Performance Improvement Act of 2005 - Authorizes the President to propose establishment in the executive branch of one or more Results Commissions to improve the overall effectiveness, efficiency, or accountability of executive branch operations through reorganization. Requires an Act of Congress for such establishments.
 
Authorizes the President to submit to Congress for its consideration a proposed schedule for reviewing the performance of, and need for, executive branch agencies and programs at least once every 10 years. Establishes a Sunset Commission to review them.
 

 
Specifies procedures for expedited congressional consideration of any reorganization proposal.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Uniformed Services Differential Pay Protection Act

Bill: 109-s-1401
Sponsor: Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH]
Introduced: 2005-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Payroll deductions
Pension funds
Tax administration
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Wages
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: 
Uniformed Services Differential Pay Protection Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat differential wage payments as a payment of wages by an employer to an employee for income tax purposes. Defines &quot;differential wage payment&quot; as any employer payment to an individual serving on active duty in the uniformed services for more than 30 days which represents wages such individual would have received if such individual were performing services for the employer.
 
Treats an individual receiving differential wage payments as an employee and treats differential wage payments as compensation for retirement plan purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Asian Carp Prevention and Control Act

Bill: 109-s-1402
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2005-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Animals
Fines (Penalties)
Fishes
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Import restrictions
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Non-native species
Pest control
Pests
Wild animal trade

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: 
Asian Carp Prevention and Control Act - Amends the Lacey Act to add specified species of black, bighead, and silver carp to the list of injurious species that are prohibited from being shipped or imported into the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Cost Contract Extension and Refinement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-1403
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2005-07-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Coinsurance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Managed care
Medical economics
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: 
Medicare Cost Contract Extension and Refinement Act of 2005 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) extend the period reasonable cost reimbursement contracts under Medicare can remain in the market, and the period during which they can be modified to expand their service area; and (2) apply to extended or renewed reasonable cost contracts certain requirements under Medicare part C (Medicare Advantage).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8318)
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8317-8318)
action_date: 2005-07-14
text: Introduced in Senate