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Discretionary Spending Control Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4649
Sponsor: Rep. Nussle, Jim [R-IA-1]
Introduced: 2004-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations
Authorization
Budget reconciliation
Congress
Congressional budget
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Emergency Management
Federal aid to transportation
Federal budgets
Fire prevention
Forest fires
Government spending reductions
Government trust funds
Highway finance
Highway use tax
Infrastructure
International Affairs
Legislation
Legislative resolutions
Mass rapid transit
Off-budget expenditures
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Road construction
Taxation
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation engineering

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: 
Discretionary Spending Control Act of 2004 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to: (1) revise for FY 2004 discretionary spending limits (spending caps) for the highway and mass transit categories; (2) set forth for FY 2005 and 2006 new budget authority and outlays for the general purpose discretionary category, outlays for the highway category and new budget authority and outlays for the mass transit category; and (3) set forth for FY 2007 through 2009 outlays for the highway category and new budget authority and outlays for the mass transit category.
 
Revises the requirement that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) make adjustments to the highway category to conform to estimated levels of highway receipts. 
 
Sets forth the level of obligation limitations (sum of budget authority and obligation limitations) for the highway and mass transit categories for FY 2004 through 2009.
 
Provides that, in any of FY 2005 through 2006, discretionary advance appropriations provided in appropriation Acts in excess of $23,558 billion shall be counted against the discretionary spending limits for the fiscal year for which the appropriation Act containing the advance appropriation is enacted. 
 
Provides, under specified conditions, for additional new budget authority in FY 2005 or 2005 for fire suppression and for an adjustment in the discretionary spending limit for FY 2005 for supplemental appropriations for the global war on terrorism. 
 
Requires the estimates set forth in the discretionary sequestration preview and final reports issued by OMB and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to include the current year and each subsequent year through FY 2006 (or FY 2009 solely to enforce the discretionary spending limits for the highway and mass transit categories). 
 
Extends certain budget enforcement requirements through FY 2006 (or 2009 for enforcing the spending caps for the highway and mass transit categories).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Introduced in House
To establish a Federal interagency task force to promote the benefits, safety, and potential uses of agricultural biotechnology outside the United States to improve human and animal nutrition, increase crop productivity, and improve agricultural sustainability while ensuring the safety of food and the environment, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-4651
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Nick [R-MI-7]
Introduced: 2004-06-23 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Agricultural production
Agriculture and Food
Agriculture in foreign trade
Animals
Biotechnology
Communication in science
Developing countries
Environmental Protection
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Food safety
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign trade promotion
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Nutrition
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Science, Technology, Communications
Sustainable agriculture
Transgenic animals
Transgenic plants

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: 
Establishes the Federal Interagency Task Force to Promote the Benefits, Safety, and Potential Uses of Agricultural Biotechnology Overseas to improve interagency cooperation and to develop and disseminate scientific information outside the United States on the benefits, safety, and potential uses of agricultural biotechnology. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Compassionate Assistance for Parents with Children with Special Needs Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4653
Sponsor: Rep. Tancredo, Thomas G. [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2004-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Child health
Costs
Disabled
Families
Health
Income tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: 
Compassionate Assistance for Parents with Children with Special Needs Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the medical expenses of disabled children under the age of 18 shall be tax deductible without regard to the 7.5 percent adjusted gross income threshold .


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Patriotic Employers of Guard and Reservists Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4655
Sponsor: Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-3]
Introduced: 2004-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Employee health benefits
Employee rights
Fire fighters
Health
Income tax
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Law enforcement officers
Manufacturing industries
Medical personnel
National Guard
Paramedical personnel
Police
Self-employed
Small business
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Temporary employment
Wages
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: 
Patriotic Employers of Guard and Reservists Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a business tax credit for 50 percent of the lesser of: (1) actual compensation paid to each Ready Reserve-National Guard employee while on active duty; or (2) $30,000. Allows employers a refundable credit against payroll taxes for wages paid to employees who are first responders (i.e., law enforcement officials, firefighters, paramedics, and Ready Reserve-National Guard employees).
 
Allows employers a tax credit for 50 percent of the lesser of: (1) the wages paid to each employee hired to replace a Ready Reserve-National Guard employee or self-employed Reservist while on active duty; or (2) $12,000. Increases the amount of the credit for certain U.S. manufacturers.
 
Disqualifies an employer for the tax credit if the employer has failed to comply with employment or reemployment rights of military personnel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 6/25/04 H5067-5068)
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Nanomanufacturing Investment Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4656
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2004-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Commerce
Commercialization
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Industrial research
Investment of public funds
Investments
Manufacturing industries
Nanotechnology
Public-private partnerships
Research and development

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: 
Nanomanufacturing Investment Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish: (1) the Nanomanufacturing Investment Partnership, in partnership with private sector investors, if $250 million is made available for such purposes from the private sector within two years after this Act's enactment; and (2) an advisory board.
 
 Directs that: (1) the Partnership provide funding for precommercial nanomanufacturing research and development (but not for basic research) projects, through specified funding mechanisms in a manner that advances the commercialization of nanomanufacturing technologies to address critical scientific and engineering needs of national importance, especially regarding projects that would not be adequately funded or pursued by the private sector or pursuant to other law, and to increase the commercial application of federally supported research results; and (2) to the extent that a sufficient number of viable applications have been submitted, at least 85 percent of the funding provided by the Partnership be provided to startup companies.
 
Authorizes the Partnership to provide funding through direct investment in nanomanufacturing firms, contracts, loans or loan guarantees, unsecured subordinated debt, or any other mechanism designed to advance nanomanufacuring technologies. Requires that each transaction through which the Partnership provides such funding provide for the return of fair and reasonable amounts resulting from the commercialization of technologies developed with the funding provided by the Partnership, and be distributed as specified. Directs that: (1) each applicant for funding assistance be required to provide a portion of the cost; and (2) each application be peer reviewed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
USERRA Health Care Coverage Extension Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4659
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2004-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Employee health benefits
Employee rights
Health
Health insurance continuation
Labor and Employment
Veterans' employment
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: 
USERRA Health Care Coverage Extension Act of 2004 - Extends from 18 to 24 months the maximum period of employer-sponsored health care coverage that a person covered by the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) may elect to receive while absent from employment due to service in the uniformed services.
 
Reinstates reporting requirements for the Secretary of Labor relative to USERRA cases. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-21
text: -Provision incorporated. See S. 2486, as amended, Title II, Sections 201 and 202.
action_date: 2004-07-21
text: Provision incorporated. See H. R. 4658, as amended, Title II, Sections 201 and 202.
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1228-1229)
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 to extend the authority to provide assistance to countries seeking to become eligible countries for purposes of that Act.

Bill: 108-hr-4660
Sponsor: Rep. Lantos, Tom [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2004-06-23 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Child health
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Democracy
Developing countries
Disabled
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary education
Employee rights
Equality before the law
Families
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Free enterprise
Government Operations and Politics
Government ethics
Health
Human rights
Infant mortality
Labor and Employment
Labor unions
Law
Pluralism (Social sciences)
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public corruption
Public health
Right of property
Rule of law
Sustainable development

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: 
Amends the Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 to repeal the FY 2004 funding limitation for the &quot;threshold program&quot; which assists a candidate low-income country to become eligible to enter into an economic development Millennium Challenge Compact with the United States. (Matches &quot;threshold program&quot; duration with the Compact program.)

action_date: 2004-07-21
text: 
Amends the Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 to repeal the FY 2004 funding limitation for the &quot;threshold program,&quot; which assists a candidate low-income country to become eligible to enter into an economic development Millennium Challenge Compact with the United States. (Matches &quot;threshold program&quot; duration with the Compact program.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2004-07-21
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2004-07-21
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6518)
action_date: 2004-07-21
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H6518)
action_date: 2004-07-21
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4660.
action_date: 2004-07-21
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6518-6519)
action_date: 2004-07-21
text: Mr. Leach moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Committee Agreed to Seek Consideration Under Suspension of the Rules, by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Choice Act

Bill: 108-hr-4662
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2004-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Bankruptcy
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Consumer education
Corporate finance
Crime and Law Enforcement
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government regulation
Health care industry
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Injunctions
Insurance agents
Insurance companies
Interstate commerce
Interstate relations
Jurisdiction
Law
Licenses
State laws
State taxation
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: 
Health Care Choice Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide that the laws of the primary State (as designated by the health insurance issuer) apply to individual health insurance coverage offered by that issuer both in the primary State and in any secondary State. Exempts health insurance issuers from any State law or regulation that would: (1) regulate the operation of the health insurance issuer in the secondary State, except for certain activities, including paying taxes and registering with the State insurance commissioner; (2) require any individual health insurance coverage issued by the issuer to be countersigned by an agent or broker residing in the secondary State; or (3) discriminate against the issuer issuing insurance in both primary and secondary States.
 
Allows States to require brokers to obtain a license from that State, but not to impose any requirements that discriminate against nonresident brokers.
 
Requires health insurance issuers offering coverage in more than one State to submit to the insurance commissioner of each State a copy of a plan of operation or a feasibility study, written notice of any change in designation of its primary State, and an annual financial statement.
 
Declares that this Act does not affect the authority of Federal or State courts to enjoin the sale of health insurance coverage to any person or group who is not eligible for such insurance or by a health insurance issuer that is in hazardous financial conditions.
 
Sets forth requirements for primary States.
 
Gives sole jurisdiction to primary States to enforce the covered laws in primary and secondary States. Sets forth procedures for resolving disputes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Higher Education Sustainability Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4664
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2004-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Building materials
Community and school
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Environmental education
Environmental research
Environmental technology
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Green products
Higher education
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Recycling of waste products
Refuse and refuse disposal
Research grants
School administration
Science, Technology, Communications
Sustainable development
Transportation and Public Works
Waste reduction

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: 
Higher Education Sustainability Act of 2004 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to make grants to eligible institutions of higher education to establish university sustainability centers to develop and implement integrated environmental, economic, and social sustainability programs through administrative and operational practices as well as multidisciplinary research, education, and outreach.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1228)
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Importation of Safe Food Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4665
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2004-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Agriculture in foreign trade
Business records
Commerce
Customs administration
Department of Health and Human Services
Exports
Food industry
Food safety
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Imports
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: 
Importation of Safe Food Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require food facilities engaged in manufacturing, processing, packing, or holding food for export from the United States to register with the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
 
Provides that if the Secretary is unable to verify that an article of food is from a registered foreign facility then such article shall be held at its point of entry and prohibited from being delivered to the appropriate importer, owner, or consignee until such foreign facility is registered.
 
Modifies the content of the prior notice of imported food shipments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1217)
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
To provide for and approve the settlement of certain land claims of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.

Bill: 108-hr-4666
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-15]
Introduced: 2004-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Federal-Indian relations
Gambling
Government Operations and Politics
Indian claims
Indian lands
Michigan
Minorities
Sports and Recreation
State government-Indian relations

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: 
Provides for and approves the settlement of certain land claims of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to take certain alternative lands into trust for the Tribe's benefit, upon fulfillment of a specified condition, as part of the settlement and extinguishment of the Tribe's Charlotte Beach land claims. Extinguishes such claims.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-06
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
To designate the third floor of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, located on Ellis Island in New York Harbor, as the "Bob Hope Memorial Library".

Bill: 108-hr-4668
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2004-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Congress
Congressional tributes
Entertainers
Immigration
Libraries
Museums
Names
New York State

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: 
Designates the third floor of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, located on Ellis Island in New York Harbor, as the Bob Hope Memorial Library.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-08-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Rereferred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Ronald Reagan Commemorative Coin Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4669
Sponsor: Rep. Hefley, Joel [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2004-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Alzheimer's disease
Charities
Coins and coinage
Economics and Public Finance
Ex-presidents
Federal aid to health facilities
Finance and Financial Sector
Gold
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health education
History
Home care services
Reagan Administration
Silver
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Ronald Reagan Commemorative Coin Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue five-dollar gold coins, one-dollar silver coins, and ten-dollar bimetallic coins emblematic of the presidency and life of former President Ronald Wilson Reagan.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Introduced in House