Balancing Act of 2005
Latest action · May 6, 2005 Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedApr 13, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Family and Workplace Balancing Act of 2005 - Balancing Act of 2005 - Provides assistance for working families through: (1) family and medical care leave; (2) expanded child care for young children and incentives for child care providers; (3) preschool, in-school, and afterschool nutrition and education; (4) temporary and part-time workers pension and health plan benefits; and (5) encouragement of business use of employee telecommuting.
Family Income to Respond to Significant Transitions Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to make five-year grants to a State or local government to pay for the Federal share of the cost of carrying out projects that assist families by providing wage replacement for eligible individuals responding to caregiving needs resulting from the birth or adoption of a son or daughter or other family caregiving needs.
Family and Medical Leave Enhancement Act of 2005 - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) to allow employees covered by FMLA to take up to four hours during any 30-day period, and up to 24 hours during any 12-month period, of parental involvement leave to participate in or attend their children's or grandchildren's educational and extracurricular activities. Amends Federal civil service law to apply the same parental involvement leave allowance to Federal employees.
Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to authorize additional funds for expanding child care activities for young children less than three years of age.
Establishes: (1) the Child Care Provider Development and Retention Grant Program; and (2) the Child Care Provider Scholarship Program.
Healthy Early Education Workforce Grant Program Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to allot funds to eligible States (and Indian tribes and tribal organizations) to pay for the Federal share of the cost of providing access to affordable health benefits coverage for: (1) eligible child care providers; and (2) at State option, the spouses, domestic partners, and dependents of such providers.
Child Care Construction and Renovation Incentive Grants Act - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to provide for use of community development block grants to establish child care facilities. Amends the National Housing Act to provide for insurance for mortgages: (1) on new and rehabilitated child care facilities; and (2) for acquisition of or the refinancing of debt on existing child care facilities. Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make technical and financial assistance grants to acquire or improve child care facilities or equipment.
Directs the Secretary of HHS to establish a business child care incentive grant program.
Universal Prekindergarten Act - Directs the Secretary of HHS to make grants to State agencies to develop full-day, full-year universal prekindergarten programs for all children three, four, and five years old.
Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (CNA) to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out a universal free school breakfast program without regard to family incomes.
Amends the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (NSLA) to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program of healthy school nutrition environment incentive grants.
Afterschool Education Enhancement Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to require State educational agencies to give priority to 21st century community learning centers program applications submitted jointly by eligible entities.
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide for treatment of employees working at less than full-time under participation, vesting, and accrual rules governing pension plans and under group health plans.
United States Business Telework Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to conduct, in not more than five States, a pilot program to raise awareness about telework among employers, and encourage them to offer telework options to employees.
Cosponsors 59
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 13, 2005 to Jun 21, 2006; 40 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-CA | Bob Filner | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-MI | Carolyn C. Kilpatrick | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-NY | Carolyn McCarthy | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-FL | Corrine Brown | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-GA | Cynthia A. McKinney | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-MI | Dale E. Kildee | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-FL | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-CA | Diane E. Watson | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-VI | Donna M. Christensen | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-CA | Doris O. Matsui | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-CA | George Miller | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-CA | Henry A. Waxman | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-CA | Hilda L. Solis | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-IL | Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-WA | Jim McDermott | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-GA | John Lewis | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-CA | Juanita Millender-McDonald | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-IN | Julia Carson | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-CA | Linda T. Sánchez | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-TX | Lloyd Doggett | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-CA | Lois Capps | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-NY | Major R. Owens | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-CA | Nancy Pelosi | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-FL | Robert Wexler | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-CT | Rosa L. DeLauro | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-TX | Ruben Hinojosa | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-CA | Sam Farr | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-OH | Stephanie Tubbs Jones | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-CA | Susan A. Davis | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-CA | Tom Lantos | Original | Apr 13, 2005 |
| D-NY | Maurice D. Hinchey | Apr 18, 2005 | |
| D-MD | Elijah E. Cummings | Apr 28, 2005 | |
| D-CA | Fortney Pete Stark | May 11, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Gregory W. Meeks | May 11, 2005 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | May 11, 2005 | |
| D-PA | Chaka Fattah | May 23, 2005 | |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | May 23, 2005 | |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Jun 28, 2005 | |
| D-MD | C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger | Jul 11, 2005 | |
| D-LA | William J. Jefferson | Jul 11, 2005 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Jul 19, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | May 3, 2006 | |
| D-NJ | Steven R. Rothman | May 3, 2006 | |
| D-MO | Wm. Lacy Clay | May 3, 2006 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | May 17, 2006 | |
| D-CA | Michael M. Honda | May 17, 2006 | |
| D-NY | Michael R. McNulty | May 19, 2006 | |
| D-MA | Barney Frank | May 25, 2006 | |
| D-NY | Nita M. Lowey | Jun 21, 2006 |
Committees 4
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Apr 13, 2005 |
| Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee | Referred Apr 29, 2005 | |
| Workforce Protections Subcommittee | Referred Apr 29, 2005 | |
| Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee | Referred Apr 29, 2005 | |
| Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee | Referred Apr 29, 2005 | |
| House | Committee on House Administration | Referred Apr 13, 2005 |
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Apr 13, 2005 |
| House | Financial Services Committee | Referred Apr 13, 2005 |
| Housing and Insurance Subcommittee | Referred May 6, 2005 |
Actions 7
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 6, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
- Apr 29, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
- Apr 29, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
- Apr 29, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
- Apr 29, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
Titles 10
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To improve the lives of working families by providing family and medical need assistance, child care assistance, in-school and afterschool assistance, family care assistance, and encouraging the establishment of family-friendly workplaces.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Family and Workplace Balancing Act of 2005
- Balancing Act of 2005
- Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill
- United States Business Telework Act
- Afterschool Education Enhancement Act
- Universal Prekindergarten Act
- Child Care Construction and Renovation Incentive Grants Act
- Healthy Early Education Workforce Grant Program Act
- Family and Medical Leave Enhancement Act of 2005
- Family Income to Respond to Significant Transitions Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Families.
- Access to health care
- Accreditation (Education)
- Administrative procedure
- Adoption
- Agriculture and Food
- Auditing
- Authorization
- Block grants
- Building construction
- Caregivers
- Child care workers
- Child development
- Child health
- Child nutrition
- Class size
- Commerce
- Community and school
- Community development
- Community organization
- Compensatory education
- Competition
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Construction industries
- Construction workers
- Continuing education
- Contractors
- Curricula
- Day care
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Diet
- Disability insurance
- Disabled
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Educational accountability
- Educational planning
- Elementary and secondary education
- Elementary education
- Employee benefit plans
- Employee health benefits
- Employee training
- Energy
- Energy conservation
- Equipment and supplies
- Evaluation research (Social action programs)
- Exercise
- Families
- Family day care
- Family leave
- Federal aid to child health services
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to Indians
- Federal employees
- Federally-guaranteed loans
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fire prevention
- Food service
- Fruit
- Geriatrics
- Government contractors
- Government employees' health insurance
- Government lending
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government ownership
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Governmental investigations
- Grandparents
- Grants-in-aid
- Health
- Health insurance
- Higher education
- Housing and Community Development
- Indian children
- Infants
- Infrastructure
- Insurance premiums
- Intergovernmental fiscal relations
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Leave of absence
- Licenses
- Maintenance and repair
- Married people
- Medicaid
- Medical economics
- Medically uninsured
- Minimum wages
- Minorities
- Mortgage banks
- Mortgage guaranty insurance
- Mortgages
- Mothers
- Native Americans
- Nonprofit organizations
- Obesity
- Parent-school relationships
- Parents
- Part-time employment
- Pension funds
- Poor children
- Pregnant women
- Preschool education
- Revolving funds
- Safety appliances
- Salaries
- Scholarships
- School lunch program
- School-age child care
- Secondary education
- Secondary mortgage market
- Sick leave
- Social Welfare
- Solar energy
- Sports and Recreation
- Stocks
- Student activities
- Tax-exempt organizations
- Taxation
- Teacher education
- Teacher salaries
- Teacher supply and demand
- Teaching materials
- Telecommuting
- Temporary employment
- Transportation and Public Works
- Unemployment insurance
- Vegetables
- Wages
- Women
- Youth services
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 13, 2005Introduced in House
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