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INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS -- (Senate - April 14, 2005)

The following bills and joint resolutions were introduced, read the first and second times by unanimous consent, and referred as indicated:

By Mr. ENSIGN (for himself, Mr. AKAKA, and Mr. VOINOVICH):

S. 780. A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to establish the position of Deputy Secretary of Defense for Management, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Armed Services.

By Mr. CRAPO:

S. 781. A bill to preserve the use and access of pack and saddle stock animals on land administered by the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, or the Forest Service on which there is a historical tradition of the use of pack and saddle stock animals, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

By Mr. FEINGOLD:

S. 782. A bill to amend title 37, United States Code, to authorize travel and transportation for family members of members of the Armed Forces hospitalized in the United States in connection with non-serious illnesses or injuries incurred or aggravated in a contingency operation, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Armed Services.

By Mr. KYL (for himself, Mr. CORNYN, and Mr. COBURN):

S. 783. A bill to repeal the sunset on the 2004 material-support enhancements, to increase penalties for providing material support to terrorist groups, to bar from the United States aliens who have received terrorist training, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. THOMAS (for himself and Mrs. LINCOLN):

S. 784. A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of marriage and family therapist services and mental health counselor services under part B of the medicare program, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Finance.

By Mr. LOTT (for himself and Mrs. LINCOLN):

S. 785. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the small refiner exception to the oil depletion deduction; to the Committee on Finance.

By Mr. SANTORUM:

S. 786. A bill to clarify the duties and responsibilities of the National Weather Service, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

By Mr. SCHUMER (for himself, Mr. KENNEDY, Mrs. CLINTON, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. KERRY, Mr. CARPER, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Ms. MIKULSKI, Mr. LAUTENBERG, and Mr. SALAZAR):

S . 787 . A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to equalize the exclusion from gross income of parking and transportation fringe benefits and to provide for a common cost-of-living adjustment, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Finance.

By Mr. SANTORUM:

S. 788. A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Liquid Crystal Device panel assemblies for use in Liquid Crystal Device direct view televisions; to the Committee on Finance.

By Mr. SANTORUM:

S. 789. A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on Liquid Crystal Device panel assemblies for use in Liquid Crystal Device projection type televisions; to the Committee on Finance.

By Mr. SANTORUM:

S. 790. A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on electron guns for high definition cathode ray tubes; to the Committee on Finance.

By Mr. SANTORUM:

S. 791. A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on flat panel screen assemblies for use in televisions; to the Committee on Finance.

By Mr. DORGAN (for himself, Mr. SPECTER, Mr. DAYTON, Mr. COLEMAN, Mr. CONRAD, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. LUGAR, and Mr. DURBIN):

S. 792. A bill to establish a National sex offender registration database, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. DURBIN:

S. 793. A bill to establish national standards for discharges from cruise vessels into the waters of the United States, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

By Mr. HARKIN:

S. 794. A bill to amend title 23, United States Code, to improve the safety of nonmotorized transportation, including bicycle and pedestrian safety; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

By Mr. DODD (for himself and Mr. WARNER):

S. 795. A bill to provide driver safety grants to States with graduated driver licensing laws that meet certain minimum requirements; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

By Ms. MURKOWSKI:

S. 796. A bill to amend the National Aquaculture Act of 1980 to prohibit the issuance of permits for marine aquaculture facilities until requirements for such permits are enacted into law; to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

By Ms. MURKOWSKI (for herself and Mr. STEVENS):

S. 797. A bill to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to clarify the status of certain communities in the western Alaska community development quota program; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

By Mr. FEINGOLD (for himself, Mr. CORZINE, Mr. DAYTON, Mr. DURBIN,

[Page: S3653] GPO's PDFMr. LAUTENBERG, Ms. MIKULSKI, and Mrs. MURRAY):
S. 798. A bill to amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 and title 5, United States Code, to provide entitlement to leave to eligible employees whose spouse, son, daughter, or parent is a member of the Armed Forces who is serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation or who is notified of an impending call or order to active duty in support of a contingency operation, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

By Mr. KENNEDY:

S. 799. A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the coordination of Federal Government policies and activities to prevent obesity in childhood, to provide for State childhood obesity prevention and control, and to establish grant programs to prevent childhood obesity within homes, schools, and communities; to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

By Ms. COLLINS (for herself, Mr. LIEBERMAN, Mr. VOINOVICH, Mr. AKAKA, Ms. LANDRIEU, and Mr. DURBIN):

S. 800. A bill to amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to provide the District of Columbia with autonomy over its budgets, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

By Mr. NELSON of Florida:

S. 801. A bill to designate the United States courthouse located at 300 North Hogan Street, Jacksonville, Florida, as the ``John Milton Bryan Simpson United States Courthouse''; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

By Mr. DOMENICI (for himself, Mr. BAUCUS, Mr. BURNS, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. BINGAMAN, Mr. ALLARD, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. SMITH, Mr. HAGEL, and Mr. BROWNBACK):

S. 802. A bill to establish a National Drought Council within the Department of Agriculture, to improve national drought preparedness, mitigation, and response efforts, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry .

By Mr. COLEMAN (for himself and Mrs. CLINTON):

S. 803. A bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide parity with respect to substance abuse treatment benefits under group health plans and health insurance coverage; to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

By Mr. VITTER:

S. 804. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain coins to be acquired by individual retirement accounts and other individually directed pension plan accounts, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Finance.

By Mr. VITTER:

S. 805. A bill to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to allow the area of a Presidentially declared disaster to include the outer Continental Shelf; to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

By Mr. CRAIG (for himself and Mr. AKAKA):

S. 806. A bil to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide a traumatic injury protection rider to servicemembers insured under section 1967(a)(1) of such title; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

By Mr. CRAIG (for himself, Mr. CRAPO, and Mr. SMITH):

S. 807. A bill to amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to provide owners of non-Federal lands with a reliable method of receiving compensation for damages resulting from the spread of wildfire from nearby forested National Forest System lands or Bureau of Land Management lands, when those forested Federal lands are not maintained in the forest health status known as condition class 1; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

By Mr. DURBIN (for himself and Ms. COLLINS):

S. 808. A bill to encourage energy conservation through bicycling; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

By Mr. LAUTENBERG (for himself, Mr. CORZINE, and Mrs. BOXER):

S. 809. A bill to establish certain duties for pharmacies when pharmacists employed by the pharmacies refuse to fill valid prescriptions for drugs or devices on the basis of personal beliefs, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

By Mrs. CLINTON:

S. 810. A bill to regulate the transmission of personally identifiable information to foreign affiliates and subcontractors; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. HATCH (for himself, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mr. THUNE, Mr. TALENT, Mr. ALEXANDER, Mr. ALLARD, Mr. ALLEN, Mr. BAUCUS, Mr. BROWNBACK, Mr. BURNS, Mr. BURR, Mr. CHAMBLISS, Mr. COBURN, Mr. COLEMAN, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. CORNYN, Mr. CRAIG, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. DEWINE, Mr. DOMENICI, Mr. ENSIGN, Mr. ENZI, Mr. FRIST, Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. GRASSLEY, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. KYL, Mrs. LINCOLN, Mr. LOTT, Mr. LUGAR, Mr. MCCAIN, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. SANTORUM, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. SHELBY, Mr. THOMAS, Mr. VITTER, Mr. WARNER, Mr. BOND, Mr. BUNNING, Mr. DEMINT, Mrs. DOLE, Mr. GREGG, Mr. HAGEL, Mrs. HUTCHISON, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. MARTINEZ, Mr. NELSON of Nebraska, Ms. SNOWE, Mr. SPECTER, and Mr. STEVENS):

S.J. Res. 12. A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. BROWNBACK (for himself and Mr. INHOFE):

S.J. Res. 13. A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to marriage; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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