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Part-time Student Assistance Act

Bill: 109-hr-1390
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Authorization
Compensatory education
Day care
Department of Education
Earned income tax credit
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Higher education
Income
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Married people
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student aid
Student employment
Student loan funds
Taxation
Year round schools

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Part-time Student Assistance Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide access and assistance to increase college attendance and completion by part-time students.
 
Exempts from student aid need formula determinations earnings up to: (1) $9,000 by dependent students; (2) $12,000 by independent students with no dependents (other than spouse); and (3) $12,000 by independent students with dependents (other than spouse). Provides for a formula for a revised table of income protection allowances. Exempts earned income credits from the calculation of income.
 
Revises and expands a program (child care access means parents in school) which provides grants to institutions of higher education for child care assistance for low-income students.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a year-round Pell grant pilot program. 
 
Authorizes a demonstration program to create a holistic approach to addressing the needs of part-time students. Allows such program to: (1) be at up to 150 associates and bachelors degree-granting institutions; and (2) include grants, leveraging funds from non-Federal sources, comprehensive child care, and better tailored remedial course programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on allyl ureido monomer.

Bill: 109-hr-1391
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2007, the duty on allyl ureido monomer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on methacrylamido etheleneurae monomer.

Bill: 109-hr-1392
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Chemicals
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2007, the duty on methacrylamido etheleneurae monomer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Civil Air Patrol Homeland Security Benefits Act

Bill: 109-hr-1393
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Air force
Aircraft pilots
Armed Forces and National Security
Emergency Management
Families
Military civic action
Rescue work
Survivors' benefits
Transportation and Public Works
Volunteer forces

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Civil Air Patrol Homeland Security Benefits Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include as a "public safety officer" for purposes of provisions governing death benefits a volunteer civilian member of the Civil Air Patrol engaged in: (1) active service rendered in performance or support of operational missions of the Patrol under the direction of the Department of the Air Force and performed consistent with written authorization that specifies a finite assignment; or (2) travel to or from such service. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Administration Drought Assistance Act

Bill: 109-hr-1394
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Agricultural cooperatives
Agricultural credit
Agriculture and Food
Disaster loans
Droughts
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Small business
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Small Business Administration Drought Assistance Act - Amends the Small Business Act to specify that the Administrator of the Small Business Administration may make economic injury disaster loans in response to drought disasters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Counterfeit Drug Enforcement Act

Bill: 109-hr-1396
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Consumer protection
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Defective products
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug adulteration
Drug industry
Drugs
Fines (Penalties)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Informers
Intellectual property
Labeling
Law
Medical personnel
Product counterfeiting

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Counterfeit Drug Enforcement Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, upon a finding of reasonable probability that a drug intended for human use would cause serious health consequences or death, to issue an order requiring the appropriate person (including the manufacturers, importers, distributors, or retailers of the drug) to: (1) cease distribution of the drug; (2) notify health professionals of the order and instruct such professionals to cease administering or prescribing the drug; and (3) amend the order to include a recall if necessary.
 
Establishes a criminal fine and/or imprisonment for a person who: (1) knowingly causes a prescription drug to be adulterated or misbranded and sells or trades the drug; or (2) purchases or trades for such drug knowing or having reason to know that the drug was knowingly adulterated or misbranded. Requires a manufacturer of a drug to notify the Secretary within 48 hours after first receiving or becoming aware of information that reasonably suggests that such a violation may have occurred. 
 
Increases funding for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspections, examinations, and investigations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a credit against income tax for certain energy-efficient property.

Bill: 109-hr-1397
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Nancy L. [R-CT-5]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Condominium (Housing)
Construction costs
Cooperative housing
Electric power production
Energy
Fuel cells
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for qualified fuel cell property. Limits the amount of such credit to 30 percent (10 percent for other energy property) of the basis of such fuel cell property up to a maximum of $500 for each 0.5 kilowatt of capacity of such property. Defines &quot;qualified fuel cell property&quot; as a fuel cell power plant which generates at least 0.5 kilowatt of electricity using an electrochemical process. 
 
Allows a similar tax credit for the installation of qualified fuel cell property in a principal residence. Terminates both tax credits after December 31, 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Clean Air Act to require that, after the year 2010, all gasoline sold in the United States for motor vehicles contain not less than 10 percent ethanol and that all diesel fuel sold in the United States for motor vehicles contain not less than 5 percent biodiesel, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-1398
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Cellulose
Diesel motor
Energy
Energy crops
Environmental Protection Agency
Fibers
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Motor vehicle pollution control
Municipal solid waste
Oils and fats
Plants
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Refuse as fuel
Transportation and Public Works
Trees
Wood

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Amends the Clean Air Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate regulations ensuring that after December 31, 2010, all gasoline or diesel motor vehicle fuel sold or dispensed in the contiguous United States contains not less than ten percent ethanol (in the case of gasoline) and not less than five percent biodiesel (in the case of diesel fuel). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-04-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1823)
action_date: 2005-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Colorectal Cancer Mortality Prevention Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1401
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Colon cancer
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Federal employees
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Health education
Health planning
Health surveys
Higher education
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Law
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical fees
Medical records
Medical screening
Medical tests
Preventive medicine
Public service advertising
Quality of care
Social Welfare
Transfer of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Colorectal Cancer Mortality Prevention Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide matching grants to States to carry out programs to: (1) screen for colorectal cancer as a preventive health measure; (2) provide referrals for medical treatment to individuals screened and ensure appropriate follow-up services; (3) develop and disseminate information and education programs for the detection and control of colorectal cancer; (4) improve the education, training, and skills of health professions in the detection and control of colorectal cancer; (5) establish mechanisms to monitor the quality of screening procedures for colorectal cancer; and (6) evaluate such activities through surveillance or program-monitoring.
 
Requires States to meet specified matching fund requirements and other criteria to receive a grant, including ensuring that 60 percent of grant money is spent on screening and medical treatment, assuring the quality of screening procedures, giving priority to low-income individuals, and limiting the fees charged.
 
Allows the Secretary to provide training, technical assistance, supplies, equipment, and services to aid the State in carrying out such a program. Requires the Secretary to: (1) issue guidelines for assuring the quality of any colorectal screening procedures carried out under this Act; and (2) evaluate the programs annually.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Department of Defense Office of the Victim Advocate Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1403
Sponsor: Rep. Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Department of Defense
Education
Executive reorganization
Families
Family services
Family violence
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal education
Medical education
Military and naval offenses
Military command and control
Military dependents
Military medicine
Military personnel
Military training
Police training
Rape
Science, Technology, Communications
Sex crimes
Telephone
Victims of crimes
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Department of Defense Office of the Victim Advocate Act of 2005 - Establishes an Office of the Victim Advocate within the Office of the Secretary of Defense to assist victims of sexual misconduct and interpersonal violence occurring among members of the Armed Forces or between members of the Armed Forces and family members and partners.
 
Requires the Director of the Office to carry out specified coordination, evaluation and review, policy, and education and training functions, and to submit to the Secretary an annual report assessing the current state of affairs within military departments relative to interpersonal violence and sexual misconduct. Requires the Secretary to transmit the Director's report to Congress with additional comments. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To posthumously award a congressional gold medal to Wilma G. Rudolph.

Bill: 109-hr-1404
Sponsor: Rep. Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Blacks
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Minorities
Olympic games
Sports and Recreation
Women
Women athletes

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
 Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation of a congressional gold medal honoring Wilma G. Rudolph (three-time gold medal winner in the 1960 Olympics) in recognition of her outstanding and enduring contributions to humanity and to women's athletics.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Volunteer Responder Incentive Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1405
Sponsor: Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Fire fighters
Health
Income tax
Medical personnel
Paramedical personnel
Property tax
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Tax exclusion
Tax rebates
Volunteer workers
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Volunteer Responder Incentive Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income and to exempt from social security, unemployment taxes, and withholding of tax requirements rebates of real or personal property taxes or any other benefit provided by a State or local government to a member of a volunteer emergency response organization providing firefighting or emergency medical services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Senior NCO Household Goods Shipment Equity Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1406
Sponsor: Rep. Latham, Tom [R-IA-4]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Military pay
Military transportation
Officer personnel
Property
Relocation
Transportation and Public Works
Weights and measures

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Senior NCO Household Goods Shipment Equity Act of 2005 - Increases the authorized weight allowances for the shipment of baggage and household effects of senior noncommissioned officers of the uniformed services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-04-06
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To provide that certain wire rods shall not be subject to any antidumping duty or countervailing duty order.

Bill: 109-hr-1407
Sponsor: Rep. LaTourette, Steven C. [R-OH-14]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Countervailing duties
Dumping
Iron and steel industry
Metal trade
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Steel

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Exempts specified wire rods from antidumping or countervailing duties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To provide assistance to combat HIV/AIDS in India, and for other purposes.

Bill: 109-hr-1408
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Economic assistance
Health
Human immunodeficiency viruses
India
South Asia
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to provide assistance to combat HIV/AIDS in India.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to clarify that a convention or association of churches includes individuals (with or without voting rights) as well as churches.

Bill: 109-hr-1411
Sponsor: Rep. Linder, John [R-GA-7]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Associations, institutions, etc.
Churches
Income tax
Religion
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue to define a convention or association of churches to include individuals (with or without voting rights) as well as churches. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Diabetic Footwear Quality Restoration Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-1416
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Diabetes
Medical fees
Medicare
Prosthesis
Shoe industry
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: 
Medicare Diabetic Footwear Quality Restoration Act of 2005 - Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to terminate the reduction in Medicare payment for orthopedic shoes and inserts furnished to individuals with diabetes after December 31, 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the subpart F exemption for active financing income.

Bill: 109-hr-1417
Sponsor: Rep. McCrery, Jim [R-LA-4]
Introduced: 2005-03-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: American investments
Bank holding companies
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial services
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign banks and banking
Foreign corporations
Holding companies
Income tax
Insurance
Insurance companies
Stockholders
Tax deferral
Tax exclusion
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to taxation of U.S. shareholders of controlled foreign corporations, to permanently extend the subpart F exemption (which excludes such income from the shareholder's foreign personal holding company income) for active financing (insurance, banking, financing, or similar businesses) income earned on business operations overseas.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-03-17
text: Introduced in House