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Adoption Tax Relief Guarantee Act

Bill: 109-s-246
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adoption
Congress
Families
Income tax
Sunset legislation
Tax credits
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Adoption Tax Relief Guarantee Act - Exempts provisions expanding the adoption tax credit and adoption assistance programs enacted by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 from the general terminating (sunset) provisions of that Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S752)
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Tumalo Water Conservation Project Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-247
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to water resources development
Irrigation districts
Oregon
Water conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Tumalo Water Conservation Project Act of 2005 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the Tumalo Irrigation District, to participate in the planning, design, and construction of the Tumalo Irrigation District Water Conservation Project in Deschutes County, Oregon. Sets the Federal share of the cost of the Project at 50 percent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-12
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-138.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Surface Transportation Adaptability to Ensure Safety (STATES) Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-248
Sponsor: Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Highway finance
Highway maintenance
Infrastructure
Road construction
Roads and highways
Traffic accidents and safety

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Surface Transportation Adaptability to Ensure Safety (STATES) Act of 2005 - Amends Federal highway law to authorize a State to undertake a surface transportation program project on any State-maintained public road, including a road functionally classified as a local or rural minor collector, if the State determines that the project is necessary to address high fatality rates or other safety concerns. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S753)
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S752-753)
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 to provide assistance for residential properties designated as Superfund sites.

Bill: 109-s-255
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Hazardous wastes
Home repair and improvement
Housing and Community Development
Lead
Low-income housing
Paints and varnishes
Residential rehabilitation
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Amends the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 to require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to give priority, when awarding grants for lead-based paint hazard reduction under that Act, to residential properties included on the National Priorities List established by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in Senate
John's Law of 2005

Bill: 109-s-257
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Drunk driving
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Highway finance
Searches and seizures
State laws
Traffic accidents and safety

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: 
John's Law of 2005 - Amends Federal highway law to revise eligibility requirements for grants to States that adopt and implement programs to reduce alcohol-related traffic safety accidents. Makes eligible for such a grant a program to impound for no less than 12 hours a vehicle operated by a person arrested for operating the vehicle while under the influence of alcohol.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S887)
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S887)
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Training and Research in Urology Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-258
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2005-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Federal employees
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health education
Higher education
Medical education
Medical research
Medical residents
Recruiting of employees
Research centers
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists
Student loan funds
Urology

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: 
Training and Research in Urology Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to separate the research and training on urologic diseases from that of kidney and hematologic diseases. 
 
Replaces the Division Director for Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases with a Division Director for Urologic Diseases and a Division Director for Kidney and Hematologic Diseases. Requires the Director of the Institute to: (1) give particular attention to supporting research and training programs geared to the needs of urology residents and fellows; and (2) submit to Congress a national urologic research plan and review such plan every three years.
 
Replaces the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Data System, the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse, and the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Advisory Board with separate data systems, information clearinghouses, and advisory boards for kidney diseases and urologic diseases. Replaces the Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases Interagency Coordinating Committee and the Institute's advisory panel subcommittee on kidney, urologic, and hematologic diseases with separate coordinating committees and subcommittees for: (1) kidney and hematologic diseases; and (2) urologic diseases. 
Requires at least 15 of the centers developed for research in kidney and urologic diseases under the Public Health Service Act to focus exclusively on urologic diseases. 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a loan repayment program for urology research. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S888-889)
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S887-888)
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Emergency Meth Lab Cleanup Funding Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-259
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2005-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Consultants
Criminal justice information
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to law enforcement
Forfeiture
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Hazardous wastes
Indian law enforcement
Informers
Laboratories
Landowners
Methamphetamine
Minorities
Native Americans

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: 
Federal Emergency Meth Lab Cleanup Funding Act of 2005 - Makes funding available from the Department of the Treasury Forfeiture Fund for payment to designated State, local, or tribal law enforcement, environmental, or health entities for experts and consultants needed to clean up areas formerly used as methamphetamine laboratories.
 
Provides that if a methamphetamine laboratory is located on private property not more than 90 percent of the costs may be paid only if the property owner: (1) did not have knowledge of the existence or operation of such laboratory before the law enforcement action to close it; or (2) notifies law enforcement not later than 24 hours after discovering the existence of such laboratory.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness.

Bill: 109-s-261
Sponsor: Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2005-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Animals
Arctic and polar regions
Wilderness areas
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Amends the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 to designate a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System under the Wilderness Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Angel Island Immigration Station Restoration and Preservation Act

Bill: 109-s-262
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2005-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Commemorations
Federal installations
Health
Historic sites
History
Hospitals
Immigration
Islands
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: 
Angel Island Immigration Station Restoration and Preservation Act - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of the Interior for restoring the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay, in coordination with the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation and the California Department of Parks and Recreation. Limits Federal funding to 50 percent of the total funds spent for restoration. Requires funds appropriated by this Act to be used first for restoration of the Immigration Station Hospital on Angel Island.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-74.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S890-891)
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S890)
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Trauma Care Systems Planning and Development Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-265
Sponsor: Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN]
Introduced: 2005-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Biological warfare
Child health
Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic data interchange
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Families
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Health planning
Health services administration
Higher education
Hospital care
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Medical education
Medical records
Medical research
Medical residents
Medical statistics
Mortality
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Terrorism
Trauma care

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: 
Trauma Care Systems Planning and Development Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to promote the collection and categorization of trauma data in a consistent and standardized manner.
 
Removes authorization for the National Clearinghouse on Trauma Care and Emergency Medical Services. 
Allows the Secretary to make grants to entities to carry out demonstration projects to improve emergency medical services in rural areas by increasing communication and coordination with State trauma systems. 
 Revises the matching requirements for States to be eligible for grants to improve emergency medical services in rural areas. 
Prohibits the Secretary from making trauma care grants to a State unless the State's emergency medical services plan coordinates planning for trauma systems with State disaster emergency planning and bioterrorism hospital preparedness planning. Requires the Secretary to update the model plan for the designation of trauma centers and for triage, transfer, and transportation policies. 
 
Directs the Secretary to enter into a contract with the Institute of Medicine or another appropriate entity to conduct a study on trauma care and trauma systems research.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-02-02
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 359.
action_date: 2006-02-02
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Enzi without amendment. With written report No. 109-215.
action_date: 2006-02-02
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Reported by Senator Enzi without amendment. With written report No. 109-215.
action_date: 2005-02-09
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S894-895)
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S894)
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Government Propaganda Act

Bill: 109-s-266
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2005-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Appropriations
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Congress
Congressional investigations
Damages
Discrimination in employment
Dismissal of employees
Economics and Public Finance
Election candidates
Evidence (Law)
Federal officials
Fines (Penalties)
Government and the press
Government ethics
Government liability
Government publications
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
House rules and procedure
Internet
Journalistic ethics
Law
Legal fees
Legislation
Lobbying
Misconduct in office
Parties to actions
Political parties
Press and politics
Reporters and reporting
Salaries
Science, Technology, Communications
Senate rules and procedure
State legislatures
Wage restitution
Whistle blowing
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: 
Stop Government Propaganda Act - Imposes a civil penalty on a senior official of an Executive branch agency who authorizes or directs funds appropriated to such agency for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United States.
 
Instructs the Attorney General to diligently investigate such a violation, and if the Attorney General finds that a person has committed such a violation or is committing such a violation, authorizes the Attorney General to bring a civil action against that person.
 
Allows a private person to bring a civil action for such a violation for the person and for the U.S. Government in the name of the Government. Permits the dismissal of such an action only if the court and the Attorney General give written consent to the dismissal and their reasons for consenting. Prohibits any person other than the Government from intervening or bringing a related action based on the facts underlying the pending action. 
 
Specifies the rights of the parties with regard to such an action. Allows the Government to elect to pursue its claim through any alternate remedy available to it.
 
Sets forth requirements for whistleblower protections.
 
States that the U.S. courts shall take cognizance and notice of any legal decision of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) interpreting the application of this Act. 
 
Prohibits a point of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider legislation providing an appropriation for an agency that the GAO has found in violation of this Act, unless the appropriations for salary and expenses for the head of the relevant agency contains a provision reducing the salary of the head by an amount equal to the illegal expenditure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S896-898)
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S895-896)
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-267
Sponsor: Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2005-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Authorization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
County politics and government
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational facilities
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Fire prevention
Fishery management
Forest conservation
Forest ecology
Forest fires
Forest management
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Habitat conservation
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Land use
National forests
Performance measurement
Restoration ecology
Revenue sharing
Road construction
Rural education
Transportation and Public Works
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: 
Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2005 - Amends the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 to extend the Act through FY2013.
 
Revises requirements regarding the merchantable material contracting pilot program.
 
Requires counties participating in county projects to submit a specified notification for each project for which the participating county obligated county funds. Provides for the review of such notifications.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-12-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11688-11689)
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10661)
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-19.
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S899)
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S898-899)
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business and Farm Energy Emergency Relief Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-269
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2005-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural credit
Agriculture and Food
Alternative energy sources
Cogeneration of electric power and heat
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Agriculture
Disaster loans
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Energy
Energy prices
Environmental Protection
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Fuel cells
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Heating
Law
Natural gas
Petroleum
Price indexes
Propane
Refuse as fuel
Small Business Administration
Small business
Solar energy
Wind power

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: 
Small Business and Farm Energy Emergency Relief Act of 2005 - Amends the Small Business Act to authorize the Small Business Administration to make disaster loans to assist small businesses that have suffered or are likely to suffer substantial economic injury as the result of a significant increase in the price of heating fuel. Prohibits such loan from being made if the total amount outstanding and committed to the borrower would exceed $1.5 million, unless the borrower is a major source of employment in its surrounding area.
 
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make loans to farm operations that qualify as a small business and that have or are likely to suffer substantial economic injury on or after October 1, 2004, as the result of a significant increase in energy costs in connection with an energy emergency declared by the President or the Secretary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S903-904)
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S902-903)
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate
527 Reform Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-271
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2005-02-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting
Campaign funds
Civil actions and liability
Congress
Congressional elections
Constitutional law
Election candidates
Finance and Financial Sector
Fund raising
Government paperwork
Injunctions
Judicial review
Law
Members of Congress
Parties to actions
Political action committees
Political advertising
Political parties
Presidential elections
Voter registration
Voting

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: 
527 Reform Act of 2006 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to subject to its requirements as a political committee any applicable 527 organization.
 
Excludes from the meaning of 527 organization for these purposes any committee, club, association, or other group of persons organized to influence: (1) the selection, nomination, election, appointment, or confirmation of one or more candidates to non-federal or non-elected office; or (2) any state or local ballot measure.
 
Denies exception from treatment as an applicable 527 organization to any such a committee, club, association, or other groups of persons which makes disbursements aggregating more than $1,000 for: (1) a public communication that promotes, supports, attacks, or opposes a clearly identified candidate for federal office during the one year period ending on the date of the general election for the office sought by the clearly identified candidate; or (2) certain voter drive activity.
 
Sets forth rules for allocation and funding by a political committee for certain expenses relating to federal and non-federal activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-08
text: Committee on Rules and Administration. Hearings held.
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S905-906)
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Introduced in Senate