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College Literacy in Finance and Economics (College LIFE) Act

Bill: 109-s-468
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2005-02-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Business education
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Counseling
Curricula
Debtor and creditor
Economic theory
Economics and Public Finance
Educational innovations
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Nonprofit organizations
Personal budgets
Saving and investment
Social Welfare
Students
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: 
College Literacy in Finance and Economics (College LIFE) Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to direct the Secretary of Education, in carrying out HEA activities related to improving financial and economic literacy, education, and counseling, to emphasize, among other elements, basic personal income and household money management and financial planning skills, and basic economic decision making skills.
 

 
Requires with respect to minority-serving institutions and to student assistance: (1) educational or counseling services to improve the financial and economic literacy of students and their parents; and (2) personal finance courses and skills. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a HEA pilot program to enable institutions of higher education (IHEs) to provide annual personal finance counseling for their students.
 
Directs the Secretary to make competitive grants to IHEs or other eligible entities under new programs for: (1) developing or sponsoring experimental, innovative delivery systems for financial literacy; (2) creating or sharing personal finance courses (with priority given to eligible entities that ban or discourage credit card proliferation and abusive credit marketing practices on campus); (3) studying and making recommendations on best ways to integrate personal finance and economics into basic educational subjects; and (4) training in economics and personal finance instruction or advising for elementary and secondary school teachers or secondary school counselors.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to evaluate and report to specified congressional committees on the range and effectiveness of financial and economic education and financial aid counseling activities of IHEs, lenders, servicers, and guaranty agencies as emphasized by the Secretary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1796-1797)
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income the gain from the sale of a principal residence by certain employees of the intelligence community.

Bill: 109-s-469
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2005-02-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Capital gains tax
Central Intelligence Agency
Coast guard
Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Department of Homeland Security
Department of State
Department of the Treasury
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal law enforcement officers
Government Operations and Politics
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Income tax
Intelligence officers
Military intelligence
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax refunds
Transfer of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain employees of the intelligence community to exclude from their gross income the gain from the sale of their principal residences without regard to otherwise applicable five-year residential use and holding requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1797)
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: Introduced in Senate
FACT Act

Bill: 109-s-470
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2005-02-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Auditing
Cancer
Chemotherapy
Child health
Clinical trials
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug advertising
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Health information systems
Identification devices
Law
Medical research
Medical supplies
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Nonprofit organizations
Periodicals
Product safety
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: 
Fair Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2005 or the FACT Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to establish and operate a data bank of information on clinical trials, to include: (1) a clinical trials registry of health-related interventions conducted to test the safety or effectiveness of any drug, biological product, or device intended to treat serious or life-threatening diseases and conditions; and (2) a clinical trials results database of health-related interventions to test the safety or effectiveness of any drug, biological product, or device.
 
Requires the Commissioner of Food and Drugs to make available to the public: (1) the full reviews conducted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of new or supplemental new drug applications; and (2) copies of written consultations on a drug's safety conducted by the Office of Drug Safety.
 
Requires the Secretary to assess civil monetary penalties for failure to comply with the reporting requirements of this Act.
 
Allows the Secretary to correct any information included in the registry or database that is factually and substantively inaccurate, false, or misleading.
 
Extends requirements of this Act to clinical trials conducted outside of the United States under certain circumstances.
 
Prohibits a responsible person or a manufacturer from performing any act that prohibits, limits, or imposes unreasonable delays on the ability of an individual to discuss or publish the results of a clinical trial.
 
Requires the Secretary to enter into a contract with the Institute of Medicine to study the extent to which data submitted to the registry has impacted the public health.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1798-1803)
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1797-1798)
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: Introduced in Senate
action_date: 2005-01-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S538-539)
Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-471
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-02-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cytology
Department of Health and Human Services
Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to research
Genetic research
Genetics
Government Operations and Politics
Human embryology
In vitro fertilization
Informed consent (Medical law)
Law
Medical ethics
Medical research
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: 
Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct and support research that utilizes human embryonic stem cells, regardless of the date on which the stem cells were derived from a human embryo. Limits such research to stem cells that meet the following ethical requirements: (1) the stem cells were derived from human embryos donated from in vitro fertilization clinics for the purpose of fertility treatment and were in excess of the needs of the individuals seeking such treatment; (2) the embryos would never be implanted in a woman and would otherwise be discarded; and (3) such individuals donate the embryos with written informed consent and receive no financial or other inducements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Anti-phishing Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-472
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2005-02-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Commerce
Electronic commerce
Electronic mail systems
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Identity theft
Internet
Science, Technology, Communications
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: 
Anti-phishing Act of 2005 - Amends the Federal criminal code to criminalize Internet scams involving fraudulently obtaining personal information (phishing). 
 
Imposes a fine or imprisonment for up to five years, or both, for a person who knowingly and with the intent to engage in an activity constituting fraud or identity theft under Federal or State law: (1) creates or procures the creation of a website or domain name that represents itself as a legitimate online business without the authority or approval of the registered owner of such business; and (2) uses that website or domain name to solicit means of identification from any person.
 
Imposes a fine or imprisonment for up to five years, or both, for a person who knowingly and with the intent to engage in activity constituting fraud or identity theft under Federal or State law sends an electronic mail message that: (1) falsely represents itself as being sent by a legitimate online business; (2) includes an Internet location tool referring or linking users to an online location on the World Wide Web that falsely purports to belong to or be associated with a legitimate online business; and (3) solicits means of identification from the recipient.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1804)
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Native American Housing Enhancement Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-475
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2005-02-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Affordable housing
Block grants
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to housing
Federal-Indian relations
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Housing discrimination
Housing finance
Housing subsidies
Indian children
Indian housing
Labor and Employment
Low-income housing
Minorities
Rental housing
Residential rehabilitation
Social Welfare
Youth employment

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: 
Native American Housing Enhancement Act of 2005 - Amends the Native American Housing Assistance Act of 1996 to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from restricting access to a Native American affordable housing grant based solely on one of four specified factors.
 
Amends title V (Farm Housing) of the Housing Act of 1949 to state that federally recognized Indian tribes who exercise powers of self-government (or their instrumentalities) shall comply with the Indian Civil Rights Act (title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1968) when receiving assistance under title V. 
 
States that title VI (Federally Assisted Programs) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and title VIII (Fair Housing) of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 shall not apply to tribes: (1) covered by Federal law commonly known as the Indian Civil Rights Act; or (2) tribes acting under affordable housing provisions of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996.
 
Amends the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act to make Indian tribes, tribally designated housing entities, or other agencies primarily serving Indians eligible for Youthbuild grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2005-02-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Tribal Government Amendments to the Homeland Security Act of 2002

Bill: 109-s-477
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2005-03-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Border patrols
Boundaries
Charities
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Computer security measures
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic surveillance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Evidence (Law)
Families
Federal aid to Indians
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
Immigration
Indian courts
Indian education
Indian lands
Indian law enforcement
Indian medical care
Indigenous peoples
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Law
Military dependents
Military pensions
Minorities
Police training
Public health
Research and development facilities
Research centers
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Searches and seizures
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits
Technological innovations
Technology assessment
Terrorism
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: 
Tribal Government Amendments to the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (sic) - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002, as amended by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, to include the participation of Indian tribes with respect to specified activities of the Secretary of Homeland Security.
 
Amends the Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2002, the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA Patriot Act), and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to include Indian tribes among the participating entities.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide for funds made available under the Homeland Security Act of 2002 directly to any Indian tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community located in the continental United States that is recognized as being eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1869-1870)
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1868-1869)
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the annex to the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Building and United States Courthouse located at 333 Constitution Avenue Northwest in the District of Columbia as the "William B. Bryant Annex".

Bill: 109-s-478
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2005-03-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Courthouses
District of Columbia
Federal office buildings
Judges
Law
Names

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: 
Designates the annex to E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse located at Constitution Avenue Northwest in the District of Columbia as the &quot;William B. Bryant Annex.&quot; Makes this Act effective on the date on which Senior Judge William B. Bryant ceases to hold a position as an Article III judge.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1872)
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1870-1872)
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Nonresident Income Tax Freedom Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-479
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2005-03-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Interstate compacts
Local taxation
Residence requirements
State taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: 
Nonresident Income Tax Freedom Act of 2005 - Prohibits a State from imposing a tax on income earned within such State by a nonresident.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1873)
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1872-1873)
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-480
Sponsor: Sen. Allen, George [R-VA]
Introduced: 2005-03-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands
Land transfers
Minorities
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tribes and tribal system
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: 
Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2005 - Extends Federal recognition to: (1) the Chickahominy Indian Tribe; (2) the Chickahominy Indian Tribe - Eastern Division; (3) the Upper Mattaponi Tribe; (4) the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc.; (5) the Monacan Indian Nation; and (6) the Nansemond Indian Tribe.
 
Sets forth the service areas of the various Tribes and requirements for the Tribes with respect to submission of a membership roll, adoption of a constitution, and election of officials. 
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior, upon certain land transfers, to take specified lands into trust for the various Tribes' benefit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 109-576.
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the period of eligibility for health care for combat service in the Persian Gulf War or future hostilities from two years to five years after discharge or release.

Bill: 109-s-481
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2005-03-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Environmental Protection
Health
Hospital care
Radiation victims
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: 
Extends from two years to five years following discharge or release the eligibility period for veterans who served in combat during or after the Persian Gulf War to receive hospital care, medical services, or nursing home care provided by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, notwithstanding a lack of evidence to conclude that their condition is attributable to such service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-09
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 109-217.
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Water Infrastructure Revitalization Act

Bill: 109-s-482
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2005-03-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
North Dakota
Planning
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Waste water treatment
Water rates
Water supply
Water treatment plants

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: 
Water Infrastructure Revitalization Act - Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to establish a program to provide environmental assistance to non-Federal interests in North Dakota, which may be provided in the form of design and construction assistance for water-related environmental infrastructure and resource protection and development projects. 
 
Requires projects to be publicly owned as a prerequisite for assistance.
 
Directs the Secretary to enter into local cooperation agreements with non-Federal interests for project design and construction. Sets the Federal share of project costs under local cooperation agreements at 75 percent.
 
Requires a reduction in the non-Federal share of the cost of constructing projects under this Act, using a Federal formula for water rate affordability, where the rate for affordability relating to the project area exceeds the average State-wide rate by a specified percentage.
 
Sets the non-Federal share of operation and maintenance costs for projects constructed with assistance under this Act at 100 percent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1873)
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to strengthen religious liberty and combat government hostility to expressions of faith, by extending the reach of The Equal Access Act to elementary schools.

Bill: 109-s-483
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2005-03-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Discrimination in education
Economics and Public Finance
Educational facilities
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Freedom of speech
Religion
Religion in the public schools
Religious liberty
Student activities

Summary:
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: 
Amends the Equal Access Act to include coverage of public elementary schools. (The Act currently prohibits public secondary schools, if they receive Federal funds and if they offer a limited public forum, from denying equal access or a fair opportunity to, or discriminating against, any students who wish to conduct a meeting within that limited open forum on the basis of the religious, political, philosophical, or other content of the speech at such meetings.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1875)
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1873-1875)
action_date: 2005-03-01
text: Introduced in Senate