3.0.0 2357 2023-01-13T04:48:52Z 2023-01-13T04:48:52Z Senate S S 2006-03-02 109 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2006-03-02T21:04:37Z 2006-03-02 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2006-03-02 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1648-1651) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2006-03-02 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000105 Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] EDWARD KENNEDY D MA MOORE N Labor and Employment Academic performance Aeronautics Alternative energy sources Armed Forces and National Security Arts, Culture, Religion Astronautics Authorization Awards, medals, prizes Bonds Broadband Building construction Coinsurance Collective bargaining Commemorations Commerce Congress Congressional reporting requirements Construction industries Construction workers Consumer education Defense budgets Department of Commerce Department of Defense Department of Energy Department of Health and Human Services Dislocated workers Distance education Drug industry Economic development Economics and Public Finance Education Educational accountability Educational tests Electric power production Electric utility rates Electronic government information Elementary and secondary education Employee health benefits Employee rights Employment subsidies Energy Energy conservation Energy efficiency Energy research Engineering Engineers Executive reorganization Federal advisory bodies Federal aid to education Federal aid to research Federal aid to transportation Finance and Financial Sector Fines (Penalties) Foreign Trade and International Finance Foreign corporations Foreign exchange Geothermal resources Government Operations and Politics Government and business Government contractors Government corporations Government procurement Health Health care fraud Health information systems Health insurance Health insurance continuation High technology Higher education Hospitals Housing and Community Development Hydroelectric power Imports Income tax Indian education Infrastructure Injunctions Insurance companies Insurance premiums International Affairs International corporations International education Internet Investment tax credit Job creation Labor unions Language and languages Leases Libraries Literacy programs Maintenance and repair Manufacturing industries Mathematics Medical research Military research Minimum wages Minorities Nanotechnology National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) National Science Foundation Northern Mariana Islands Part-time employment Plant shutdowns Presidential commissions Railroad finance Railroad passenger traffic Research and development Research and development tax credit Research grants Scholarships School buildings Science, Technology, Communications Scientific education Scientists Service industries Small business Solar energy Space activities Space flight State laws Stocks Student loan funds Tax credits Taxation Taxation of foreign income Teacher education Teacher supply and demand Technical education Telecommuting Trade adjustment assistance Trade negotiations Transportation and Public Works Unemployment insurance Unfair labor practices Vaccines Water Resources Development Wind power Wireless communication Labor and Employment 00 2006-03-02 Introduced in Senate 2006-04-19T19:28:13Z Makes permanent the extension of a research and development (R&D) tax credit.

Authorizes appropriations for FY2007-FY2013 to increase funding of R&D activities of certain federal agencies.

Allows a tax credit for the purchase of nanotechnology developer stocks.

Establishes a national broadband policy for improving and expanding broadband access in the United States by 2010.

Sets forth reauthorizations for Amtrak.

America's Better Classroom Act of 2005 - Allows a tax credit to holders of qualified public school modernization bonds.

New National Defense Education Act - Requires a biennial national assessment of student achievement and grade 12 student preparedness in reading, mathematics, and science.

Authorizes prekindergarten through grade 16 student preparedness council grants to states to ensure a state's academic content and student academic achievement standards and assessments meet certain benchmarks.

Makes competitive grants to institutions of higher education to improve the recruitment of teachers from students majoring in mathematics, science, engineering, technology, or a critical-need foreign language.

Requires an eligible state to provide contract for educational opportunity (CEO) grants to low-income students who complete CEO requirements and enroll in a two-or four-year degree-granting institution of higher education.

Provides for grants to: (1) improve mathematics, science, and engineering and technology education infrastructure in public elementary schools and secondary schools and to provide scholarships to make higher education tuition free for low-income and middle-income undergraduate and graduate students to earn degrees in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and critical-need foreign languages; and (2) develop programs that expose public elementary and secondary school, undergraduate, and graduate students to foreign languages and cultures.

Requires an employer to give 90-day notice before ordering the offshoring of jobs.

Defines as foreign base company income and taxable as subpart F income any imported property income derived by a foreign corporation in a taxable year.

United States Workers Protection Act of 2006 - Prohibits: (1) outsourced federal government work or a contract for the procurement of goods or services from being performed outside the United States unless certain requirements are met; and (2) the disbursement of federal funds to a state if any of the funds will be spent for goods or services performed outside the United States.

Limits the application of certain trade authorities procedures implementing bilateral or regional trade agreements unless such agreements prohibit forced and compulsory labor and child labor.

Imposes an additional duty on any article from a country that manipulates the rate of exchange between its currency and the U.S. dollar unless the President certifies to Congress that such country is no longer manipulating the rate to gain an unfair competitive advantage in international trade.

Global Worker Fairness Act - Establishes a wage insurance program for workers displaced due to unfair trade competition.

Trade Adjustment Assistance Equity for Service Workers Act of 2006 - Extends trade adjustment assistance (TAA) to workers in a service sector firm or a public agency. Authorizes the payment of amounts for training of adversely affected workers due to unfair trade competition through FY2012.

Workers Equity Act - Permits TAA where an employer has shifted production of like articles to a foreign country that has been extended permanent normal trade relations by the United States.

Establishes an Office of Community Trade Adjustment in the Department of Commerce to coordinate the federal response to economic dislocation.

Employee Free Choice Act - Certifies a bargaining representative without directing an election if a majority of the bargaining unit employees have authorized designation of the representative and there is no other currently certified or recognized exclusive employee representative.

Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2006 - Sets forth graduated increases of the federal minimum wage up to $7.25 an hour.

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