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A bill to amend chapter 83 and 84 of title 5, United States Code, to authorize payments to certain trusts under the Social Security Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-2418
Sponsor: Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO]
Introduced: 2004-05-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Annuities
Civil service retirement
Disability retirement
Disabled
Families
Federal employees
Health
Labor and Employment
Law
Medicaid
Mentally disabled
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: 
Amends Federal law concerning the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees Retirement System to allow a payment due a minor or an individual mentally incompetent or under other legal disability to be made to the person who is a trustee under a trust meeting specified trust requirements of title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act that contains the assets of an individual who is disabled if: (1) in the case of a minor, the minor is a child of the person upon whom the benefit for payment due is based or a dependent (who is a child) of the person upon whom the benefit for payment due is based; or (2) in the case of an individual mentally incompetent or under legal disability, the incompetency or disability occurred during the period that the individual was a child or a dependent (who was a child) of the person upon whom the benefit for payment due is based and that incompetency or disability has been continuous since that occurrence through the date of the payment due. 
 
Provides for the assignability of payments under such Systems to a trustee under such a trust.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Financial Management, the Budget, and International Security.
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5474)
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Tax Relief for Americans in Combat Act

Bill: 108-s-2419
Sponsor: Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2004-05-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Earned income tax credit
Families
Income tax
Military pay
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: 
Tax Relief for Americans in Combat Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat nontaxable combat zone compensation as earned income for purposes of calculating the refundable portion of the child tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5477)
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5475-5477)
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: Introduced in Senate
SCHIP Expansion Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2420
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL]
Introduced: 2004-05-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Coinsurance
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Insurance premiums
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare
State laws
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: 
SCHIP Expansion Act of 2004 - Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) make all uninsured children eligible for SCHIP; (2) prohibit the State from excluding a child who has access to high cost coverage under a group health plan or health insurance coverage from being treated as a targeted vulnerable child under SCHIP; (3) increase Federal financial participation under SCHIP and Medicaid for States with simplified enrollment and renewal procedures for children, regardless of their family income; (4) provide for an increase in funds under SCHIP and Medicaid for outreach strategies for children; (5) increase funding for SCHIP; (6) prohibit payments to a State with an enrollment cap (or related procedures) which has not exhausted its available allotments; and (7) provide for the application of Medicaid managed care requirements to States under SCHIP. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5477-5479)
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow certain modifications to be made to qualified mortgages held by a REMIC or a grantor trust.

Bill: 108-s-2422
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2004-05-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government securities
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Law
Loan defaults
Mortgages
Secondary mortgage market
Tax penalties
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit certain amendments, waivers, or other modifications to mortgages held by a Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit (REMIC) or a Grantor Trust without disqualifying such mortgages as REMIC or Grantor Trust mortgages. Permits amendments, waivers, or modifications that do not: (1) extend the final maturity date of a mortgage; (2) increase the outstanding balance of the mortgage; (3) result in the release of an interest in real property securing the mortgage; or (4) result in an instrument or property right which is not debt for Federal income tax purposes. Exempts such amendments, waivers, or modifications from the penalty for prohibited transactions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5481)
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5480-5481)
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to repeal the reduction in the tax rate for the top tax bracket and to express the sense of the Senate that revenue savings from the repeal should be used to improve benefits under the Montgomery GI Bill by $6,000,000,000 over 10 years, to fund Federal Pell grants at the full amounts authorized for fiscal year 2004, and to double the fiscal year 2004 funding for Perkins loans, Federal work-study programs, and Federal supplemental educational opportunity grants (SEOG).

Bill: 108-s-2423
Sponsor: Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN]
Introduced: 2004-05-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Government lending
Higher education
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Scholarships
Student employment
Student loan funds
Tax rates
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the reduction in the top tax rate for individual taxpayers for taxable years beginning in 2003 and thereafter (increasing the rate from 35 to 39.6 percent). 
 
Expresses the sense of the Senate that any increase in Federal revenue resulting from the repeal of tax rate reductions by this Act should be used to improve benefits under the Montgomery GI Bill by $6 billion over ten years, to fund Federal Pell grants at the full amount authorized for FY 2004, and to double to FY 2004 funding for Perkins loans, Federal work-study programs, and Federal supplemental educational opportunity grants (SEOG).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-05-13
text: Introduced in Senate
New Shipper Review Amendment Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2425
Sponsor: Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS]
Introduced: 2004-05-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Countervailing duties
Department of Commerce
Dumping
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Imports
Law
Surety and fidelity

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-14
text: 
New Shipper Review Amendment Act of 2004 - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 with respect to reviews by the administering authority to establish an individual weighted average dumping margin or an individual countervailing duty rate (as the case may be) for a new exporter or producer that: (1) did not export the merchandise that was the subject of an antidumping duty or countervailing duty order to the United States during the period of investigation; and (2) was not affiliated with any exporter or producer who did.
 
Repeals the requirement that the administering authority direct the Customs Service to allow, at the option of the importer of such merchandise, the posting, until completion of the review, of a bond or security in lieu of a cash deposit for each entry of the subject merchandise (bonding privileges).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5499)
action_date: 2004-05-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Critical Access to Clinical Lab Services Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2426
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Ben [D-NE]
Introduced: 2004-05-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Hospital rates
Medical laboratories
Medical tests
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-17
text: 
Critical Access to Clinical Lab Services Act of 2004 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide that clinical diagnostic laboratory services furnished by a critical access hospital shall be treated as being furnished as part of outpatient critical access services without regard to whether: (1) the individual for whom the services are furnished is physically present in the critical access hospital at the time the specimen is collected; (2) such individual is registered as an outpatient on the records of, and receives such services directly from, the critical access hospital; or (3) payment is available for such services under the fee schedule established for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-05-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5536)
action_date: 2004-05-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Pactola Reservoir Reallocation Authorization Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2429
Sponsor: Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD]
Introduced: 2004-05-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Construction costs
Dams
Fishery management
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reservoirs
South Dakota
Water supply
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-17
text: 
Pactola Reservoir Reallocation Authorization Act of 2004 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to reallocate, in a manner consistent with specified Federal reclamation law, the construction costs of Pactola Dam and Reservoir, Rapid Valley Unit, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, South Dakota, from irrigation purposes to municipal, industrial, and fish and wildlife purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5545)
action_date: 2004-05-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Diabetes Self-Management Training Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2431
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Ben [D-NE]
Introduced: 2004-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Accreditation (Medical care)
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Diabetes
Health education
Medical fees
Medical personnel
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: 
Diabetes Self-Management Training Act of 2004 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for recognition of certified diabetes educators as Medicare providers by a nationally recognized certifying body for diabetes educators for purposes of diabetes outpatient self-management training services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5609)
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Boundary Adjustment Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2432
Sponsor: Sen. Talent, Jim [R-MO]
Introduced: 2004-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boundaries
Civil War
Commemorations
History
Land transfers
Military parks
Missouri

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: 
Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Boundary Adjustment Act of 2004 - Revises the boundaries of Wilson's Creek National Battlefield to include land and interests consisting of six parcels totaling 615 acres and identified as parcels one through six on the map entitled &quot;Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Proposed Boundary&quot; and dated January 27, 2004.

action_date: 2004-09-28
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Boundary Adjustment Act of 2004 - Revises the boundaries of Wilson's Creek National Battlefield to include land and interests consisting of six parcels totaling 615 acres and identified as parcels one through six on the map entitled &quot;Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Proposed Boundary&quot; and dated January 27, 2004.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 730.
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici without amendment and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 108-371.
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici without amendment and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 108-371.
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-704.
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Equity for Our Nation's Self-Employed Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2433
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2004-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Self-employed
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: 
Equity for Our Nation's Self Employed Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow self-employed individuals to deduct health insurance costs in computing the tax on self-employment income. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5610)
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of the American Latino Community Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2434
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2004-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
District of Columbia
Federal advisory bodies
Fund raising
Government Operations and Politics
Hispanic Americans
Legislation
Minorities
Museums
Planning
Smithsonian Institution

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: 
 Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of the American Latino Community Act of 2004 - Establishes the Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of the American Latino Community to develop a plan of action for the establishment and maintenance of a National Museum of the American Latino Community in Washington, D.C.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5610)
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Missing Child Cold Case Review Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2435
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2004-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Inspectors general
Missing children
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: 
Missing Child Cold Case Review Act of 2004 - Amends the Crime Control Act of 1990 to permit an Inspector General (IG) to authorize staff to assist the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children by conducting reviews of inactive case files to develop recommendations for further investigations and by engaging in similar activities, as long as such activities will not interfere with the IG's duties. 

action_date: 2004-10-01
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Missing Child Cold Case Review Act of 2004 - Amends the Crime Control Act of 1990 to permit an Inspector General (IG) to authorize staff to assist the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children by conducting reviews of inactive case files to develop recommendations for further investigations and by engaging in similar activities, as long as such activities will not interfere with the IG's duties. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Efficiency and Financial Management.
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2004-10-01
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S10277)
action_date: 2004-10-01
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S10277)
action_date: 2004-10-01
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S10277)
action_date: 2004-10-01
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S10277)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8668)
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5611)
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5610-5611)
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Voting Integrity and Verification Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2437
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2004-05-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Ballots
Congress
Congressional elections
Data banks
Election administration
Government paperwork
Paper and paper products
Presidential elections
Printing
Public records
Science, Technology, Communications
Voting
Voting machines
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: 
Voting Integrity and Verification Act of 2004 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require the voting system to permit a voter to verify the accuracy of his or her ballot by allowing the voter to review an individual paper version of the ballot before it is cast and counted.
 
Provides the voter with the opportunity to change the ballot or correct any error discovered on the individual paper version. Requires the voting system to preserve: (1) the individual paper version of the voter's ballot, after the voter has certified that it accurately reflects the voter's intent, as the individual permanent paper record; and (2) such permanent record at the polling place.
 
Requires the voting system to produce an individual permanent paper record for each ballot that is cast which provides for voter verification of the record and which will serve as the official record for purposes of any recount.
 
Provides that, in the event of any inconsistencies or irregularities between any electronic records and the individual permanent paper records, the individual permanent paper records shall be the true and correct record of the votes cast.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5611-5612)
action_date: 2004-05-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 31, United States  Code, to provide Federal Government employees with bid protest rights in actions under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-2438
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2004-05-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Congress
Congressional agencies
Federal employees
Federal officials
General Accounting Office
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Government procurement
Government service contracts
Law
Parties to actions
Privatization

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: 
Amends Federal law relating to the procurement protest system to modify the term &quot;interested party&quot; to mean, with respect to a public private competition conducted under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 regarding performance of an activity or function of a Federal agency, that such term includes: (1) any official who submitted the agency tender in such competition; and (2) any one person who, for the purpose of representing them in a protest that relates to such competition, has been designated as their agent by a majority of the employees of such agency who are engaged in the performance of such activity or function.
 
Directs the Comptroller General, for protests in cases of public-private competitions under such Circular regarding performance of an activity or function of a Federal agency, to administer provisions relating to such system in a manner best suited for expediting final resolution of such protests and final action in such competitions. 
 
States that, if a private sector interested party commences an action objecting to a solicitation by a Federal agency for bids or proposals for a proposed contract or to a proposed award or the award of a contract or any alleged violation of statute or regulation in connection with a procurement or a proposed procurement, in a public-private competition conducted under such Circular regarding performance of an activity or function of a Federal agency, then an official or person described as an interested party under this Act shall be entitled to intervene in that action. 
 
Applies paragraphs one and three to: (1) protests and civil actions that challenge final selections of sources of performance of an activity or function of a Federal agency that are made pursuant to studies initiated under such Circular on or after January 2004; and (2) any other protests and civil actions that relate to public-private competitions initiated under such Circular on or after this Act's enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5800-5801)
action_date: 2004-05-19
text: Introduced in Senate