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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit to employers for the value of the service not performed during the period employees are performing service as members of the Ready Reserve or the National Guard.

Bill: 109-hr-443
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Michael [R-FL-9]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Commerce
Income tax
Labor and Employment
National Guard
Tax credits
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide employers a business tax credit for up to ten percent of compensation not paid to their employees who were members of the Ready Reserve or National Guard absent from work to perform active duty. Limits such credit to $2,000 for any one Ready Reserve-National Guard employee per year.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Hybrid Vehicle HOV Access Act

Bill: 109-hr-444
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Economics and Public Finance
Electric batteries
Electric vehicles
Energy
Energy storage
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to transportation
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Limited access highways
Motor vehicle pollution control
Traffic engineering

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Hybrid Vehicle HOV Access Act - Amends Federal highway law to authorize a State to permit a hybrid vehicle with fewer than two occupants to operate in high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes. Defines "hybrid vehicle" as a motor vehicle: (1) that draws propulsion energy from onboard sources of stored energy which are both an internal combustion or heat engine using combustible fuel and a rechargeable energy storage system; and (2) which (in the case of a passenger automobile or light truck) for 2002 and later models meets certain clean air requirements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 304 of the Tariff Act of 1930 with respect to the marking of imported home furniture.

Bill: 109-hr-445
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Furniture industry
Imports
Labeling
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 with respect to the requirement that every article of foreign origin (or its container) imported into the United States be marked conspicuously, legibly, indelibly, and permanently in a manner to indicate to an ultimate purchaser in the United States the English name of the article's country of origin.
 
Prohibits any exception to such marking requirement for imported home furniture.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide to employers a tax credit for compensation paid during the period employees are performing service as members of the Ready Reserve or the National Guard.

Bill: 109-hr-446
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Michael [R-FL-9]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Commerce
Income tax
Labor and Employment
National Guard
Tax credits
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a business tax credit for up to 50 percent of the actual compensation paid to employees who were members of the Ready Reserve or National Guard and who were absent from work to perform active duty. Limits such credit to $2,000 for any one Ready Reserve-National Guard employee.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Honoring Our Fallen Soldiers and Families Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-447
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Families
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Military dependents
Military pensions
Survivors' benefits
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Honoring Our Fallen Soldiers and Families Act of 2005 - Increases from $12,000 to $100,000 the death gratuity payable to the survivors of members of the Armed Forces who die: (1) while on active duty or inactive duty training; or (2) within 120 days after discharge or release from such duty or training, if the death resulted from an injury or disease incurred or aggravated during such duty or training. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H447)
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make inapplicable the 10 percent additional tax on early distributions from certain pension plans of public safety employees.

Bill: 109-hr-448
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil service retirement
Crime and Law Enforcement
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Local employees
Medical personnel
Paramedical personnel
Police
State employees
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit certain public service employees (i.e., police, firefighters, or emergency medical workers) to take distributions from defined employee benefit plans at age 50 (currently, 55) without incurring the ten percent penalty on early distributions from such plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
American Job Retention and Creation Act

Bill: 109-hr-449
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Congress
Department of Commerce
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal aid programs
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Internet
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Presidential appointments
Salaries
Science, Technology, Communications
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
American Job Retention and Creation Act - Establishes the position of Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Job Retention and Creation.
 
Directs such Assistant Secretary to: (1) gather information about economic development assistance; and (2) make the information available to the public, including through an Internet site.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
National Science Education Incentive Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-450
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Charitable contributions
College costs
Commerce
Community and school
Computer literacy
Corporate philanthropy
Curricula
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational facilities
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Engineering
Engineers
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Income tax
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Mathematics
School administration
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax refunds
Taxation
Teacher education
Teachers
Teaching materials
Technical education
Tuition tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
National Science Education Incentive Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow: (1) certain science, engineering, math, or technology teachers who teach in elementary or secondary schools a refundable tax credit for ten percent of their undergraduate tuition costs, up to $1,000 ($1,500 for teachers in high-needs school districts); and (2) a general business tax credit for certain contributions of property or services to elementary and secondary schools and for teacher training to promote instruction in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM contributions).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
To allow a period in which members of the clergy may revoke their exemption from Social Security coverage.

Bill: 109-hr-451
Sponsor: Rep. Camp, Dave [R-MI-4]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Clergy
Income tax
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Religion
Social security beneficiaries
Social security eligibility
Social security taxes
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Provides for a two-year open season for members of the clergy who wish to revoke their exemption from Social Security coverage. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Home Lead Safety Tax Credit Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-453
Sponsor: Rep. Clay, Wm. Lacy [D-MO-1]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Costs
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Home repair and improvement
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Lead
Paints and varnishes
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Home Lead Safety Tax Credit Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide owners of residential properties built in the United States before 1978 a tax credit for lead-based paint abatement costs performed by a certified lead abatement contractor. Limits the amount of such credit to 50 percent of the cost of the abatement, not to exceed $1,500 per dwelling unit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Natural Gas Production Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-454
Sponsor: Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Commerce
Energy
Gas industry
Income tax
Natural gas
Tax credits
Wells

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Natural Gas Production Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to qualify an onshore well from a formation more than 15,000 feet deep for the tax credit for producing fuel from a nonconventional source.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Airport Noise Curfew Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-455
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Air routes
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Environmental Protection
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Noise
Private aviation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Airport Noise Curfew Act of 2005 - Establishes the Airport Noise Curfew Commission to study and make recommendations to Congress regarding the establishment of curfews on nonmilitary aircraft operations over populated areas of the United States during normal sleeping hours. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Restoration of State Sovereignty Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-456
Sponsor: Rep. Culberson, John Abney [R-TX-7]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid programs
Federal mandates
Federal-state relations
Grants-in-aid
State laws
States' rights

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Restoration of State Sovereignty Act of 2005 - Provides that no officer, employee, or other authority of the Federal Government shall enforce against an authority of a State, nor shall any authority of a State have any obligation to obey, any requirement imposed as a condition of receiving Federal financial assistance under a grant program established under Federal law, nor shall such program operate within a State, unless the legislature of that State shall have by law expressly approved that program and, in doing so, have waived the State's rights and authorities to act inconsistently with any requirement that might be imposed by the Federal Government as a condition of receiving that assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Men's Health Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-457
Sponsor: Rep. Cunningham, Randy (Duke) [R-CA-50]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Men

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Men's Health Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the Office of Men's Health to coordinate and promote the status of men's health in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E115)
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Marine One Made in America Act

Bill: 109-hr-459
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Buy American
Defense contracts
Defense procurement
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Military helicopters
Military transportation
Navy
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Marine One Made in America Act - Prohibits the Secretary of the Navy from entering into a contract for the procurement of a helicopter under the VH-3D presidential helicopter replacement program unless the contract requires the helicopter to be wholly manufactured in the United States from parts wholly manufactured in the United States.
 
Provides that if a contract entered into after December 31, 2004, and before the date of enactment of this Act does not meet such requirements, the Secretary shall terminate such contract.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-18
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the maximum coverage under the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance and Veterans' Group Life Insurance programs from $250,000 to $500,000.

Bill: 109-hr-460
Sponsor: Rep. Edwards, Chet [D-TX-17]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Government life insurance
Military personnel
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Increases the maximum coverage for members under the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance and Veterans' Group Life Insurance programs from $250,000 to $500,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Corporate Accountability Act of 2004

Bill: 109-hr-462
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Excise tax
Government trust funds
Health
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Retiree health benefits
Social Welfare
Tax penalties
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Medicare Corporate Accountability Act of 2004 (sic) - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose upon employers an excise tax on the termination of prescription drug benefits to retirees who attained age 65 before the termination of benefits and whose employment terminated before the enactment of this Act. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer tax revenues raised by this Act to the Medicare Prescription Drug Account.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to permit the use of education benefits under the Reserve Montgomery GI Bill for licensing or certification tests.

Bill: 109-hr-463
Sponsor: Rep. Evans, Lane [D-IL-17]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Education
Educational tests
Employment tests
Fees
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Permits members of the Selected Reserve to use up to $2,000 of Reserve Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance benefits for payment for licensing or certification tests. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-02-18
text: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
Indian Tribal Federal Recognition Administrative Procedures Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-464
Sponsor: Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Advice and consent of the Senate
Archives
Arts, Culture, Religion
Civil actions and liability
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Evidence (Law)
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to Indians
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
History
Independent regulatory commissions
Indian claims
Indian lands
Judicial review
Law
Legal fees
Library of Congress
Minorities
Planning-programming-budgeting
Presidential appointments
State government-Indian relations

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Indian Tribal Federal Recognition Administrative Procedures Act of 2005 - Establishes the Commission on Indian Recognition. Sets forth procedures for an Indian group to submit letters of intent and a petition to the Commission requesting Federal recognition as an Indian tribe (effectively transferring the Federal recognition process from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Commission).
 
Specifies the requirements of a petition for recognition.
 
Requires the Commission upon receiving a petition to: (1) send acknowledgment of receipt in writing to the petitioner; and (2) conduct a review to determine whether the petitioner is entitled to be recognized as an Indian tribe.
 
Authorizes the petitioner to seek judicial review of a final determination with respect to a petition in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
 
Makes an Indian tribe upon recognition by the Commission: (1) eligible for services and benefits from the Federal Government that are available to other federally recognized Indian tribes by virtue of their status as Indian tribes with a government-to-government relationship with the United States; and (2) have responsibilities, obligations, privileges, and immunities of those Indian tribes.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to award grants to Indian groups seeking Federal recognition as Indian tribes to enable them to conduct research to substantiate, and prepare documentation necessary for submission of, documented petitions under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the establishment of a tsunami hazard mitigation program for all United States insular areas.

Bill: 109-hr-465
Sponsor: Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]
Introduced: 2005-02-01 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: American Samoa
Emergency communication systems
Evacuation of civilians
Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
Guam
International Affairs
International cooperation
Northern Mariana Islands
Planning
Puerto Rico
Risk
Science, Technology, Communications
Tsunamis
Virgin Islands

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: 
Directs the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration to establish a tsunami hazard mitigation program for all U.S. insular areas to perform hazard assessment, monitoring and warning, and public education functions. 
 
Requires the program to be designed for the benefit of all such areas, including American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-01
text: Introduced in House