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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to suspend the running of periods of limitation for credit or refund of overpayment of Federal income tax by veterans while their service-connected compensation determinations are pending with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 108-hr-4582
Sponsor: Rep. Platts, Todd Russell [R-PA-19]
Introduced: 2004-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Income tax
Limitation of actions
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to suspend the limitation period for filing refund claims for overpayments of tax for any veteran whose overpayment relates to a determination by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs that such veteran was entitled to service-connected disability compensation. Provides that the suspension period begins on the date a veteran submits a claim for compensation and ends on the date the Secretary makes a determination. Permits a veteran to file a refund claim for overpayment of tax (relating to benefit determinations made by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs after 1995) even if the claim is barred by law, if the claim is filed before the end of one year after enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to base the counter-cyclical payment rate for the 2003 crop year for producers whose farming operations are located in certain declared disaster areas on the total of the partial payments for that crop year.

Bill: 108-hr-4583
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Dennis R. [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2004-06-15 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices
Agricultural subsidies
Disaster relief
Emergency Management

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: 
Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to base the counter-cyclical payment rate for the 2003 crop year for producers whose farming operations are in certain disaster areas on the total of the partial payments, rather than the final payment rate, for that crop year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-08
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in House
Directing Community Integration Act

Bill: 108-hr-4584
Sponsor: Rep. Goss, Porter J. [R-FL-14]
Introduced: 2004-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Appropriations
Arms control
Central Intelligence Agency
Counterintelligence
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Executive reorganization
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Government attorneys
Information technology
Inspectors general
Intelligence community staff
International Affairs
Language and languages
Law
Military intelligence
Nuclear nonproliferation
Science, Technology, Communications
Space activities
Terrorism
Weapons of mass destruction

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: 
Directing Community Integration Act - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to require the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) to serve as head of the U.S. intelligence community (IC) &quot;acting through the Central Intelligence Agency&quot; (CIA), while continuing to head the CIA and serve as principal adviser to the President for national security-related intelligence matters. (Currently, requires the DCI to serve as head of the IC, head of the CIA, and serve as principal adviser to the President for national security-related intelligence matters.)
 
Eliminates the position of Deputy Director of Central Intelligence for Community Management.
 
Creates eight associate directorships and five assistant directorships to assist the DCI with IC responsibilities and lists their duties. Gives certain directors overlapping CIA or cross-agency duties.
 
Establishes the positions of General Counsel of the IC, Inspector General of the IC, and Executive Director of the CIA.
 
Strikes a statutory provision that allows the National Security Council and the President to circumscribe the DCI's access to national security-related intelligence.
 
Requires the DCI to prepare budgets of IC elements within the National Foreign Intelligence Program and to guide budget development for other IC elements.
 
Removes time limits applicable to personnel transfers among IC elements.
 
Makes the DCI responsible to the President for ensuring positive IC relationships with the intelligence or security services of foreign governments.
 
Authorizes the DCI to exercise his or her CIA authority with respect to any IC element upon written request of the element head.
 
Requires: (1) greater coordination between the Secretary of Defense and the DCI; and (2) the DCI's concurrence in additional agency appointments.
 
Repeals the sunset provision applicable to limits on the establishment or operation of diplomatic intelligence support centers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select).
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Full-Service Community Schools Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4585
Sponsor: Rep. Hoyer, Steny H. [D-MD-5]
Introduced: 2004-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Adult education
Agriculture and Food
Child development
Child nutrition
Commerce
Community and school
Community health services
Community schools
Compensatory education
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Day care
Dental care
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational planning
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Higher education
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Literacy programs
Mental health services
Nonprofit organizations
Nutrition
Parent and child
Parent-school relationships
Performance measurement
Preschool education
Preventive medicine
Problem children
Public-private partnerships
School health programs
School personnel
Secondary education
Service learning
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Vocational guidance

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: 
Full-Service Community Schools Act of 2004 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants to: (1) eligible entities to assist public elementary or secondary schools to function as full-service community schools; and (2) State collaboratives to support development of full-service community school programs. 
 
Requires such schools to: (1) participate in community-based efforts to coordinate educational, developmental, family, health, and other comprehensive services through community-based organizations and public and private partnerships; and (2) provide access to such services to students, families, and the community.
 
Gives local grant priority to entities that: (1) will serve at least one school eligible for schoolwide programs under specified provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and more than one full-service community school as part of a community or districtwide strategy; and (2) demonstrate a record of effectiveness in integrating at least three of various qualified services.
 
Establishes a Full-Service Community Schools Advisory Committee.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Department of Defense Office of the Victim Advocate Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4587
Sponsor: Rep. Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2004-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Department of Defense
Education
Executive reorganization
Families
Family services
Family violence
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal education
Medical education
Military and naval offenses
Military command and control
Military dependents
Military medicine
Military personnel
Military training
Police training
Rape
Science, Technology, Communications
Sex crimes
Telephone
Victims of crimes
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: 
Department of Defense Office of the Victim Advocate Act of 2004 - Establishes an Office of the Victim Advocate within the Office of the Secretary of Defense to assist victims of sexual misconduct and interpersonal violence occurring among members of the Armed Forces or between members of the Armed Forces and family members and partners.
 
Requires the Director of the Office to carry out specified coordination, evaluation and review, policy, and education and training functions, and to submit to the Secretary an annual report assessing the current state of affairs within military departments relative to interpersonal violence and sexual misconduct. Requires the Secretary to transmit the Director's report to Congress with additional comments. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1139)
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in House
To require that reimbursement provided to members of the Armed Forces who purchased their own protective body armor when military-issue body armor was unavailable include reimbursement for the cost to deliver the body armor to the member.

Bill: 108-hr-4590
Sponsor: Rep. Ackerman, Gary L. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2004-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Armed forces abroad
Costs
Crime and Law Enforcement
Freight
International Affairs
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military and naval supplies
Military operations
Military pay
Military personnel
South Asia
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
War

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: 
States that the cost of delivering protective body armor to a member of the Armed Forces for use in connection with Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom, or Operation Iraqi Freedom shall be included in any reimbursement for such body armor that is provided by the Secretary of Defense to the member or to another person on the member's behalf.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Friends of the Children National Demonstration Act

Bill: 108-hr-4592
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2004-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: California
Charities
Child abuse
Child welfare
Commerce
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Delaware
Dropouts
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Gangs
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Health
Juvenile delinquency
Massachusetts
Mental illness
Mentoring
New York City
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Performance measurement
Poor children
Public-private partnerships
Social Welfare
Teenage pregnancy
Washington State
Women
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: 
Friends of the Children National Demonstration Act - Directs the Attorney General to establish a national demonstration project regarding early and sustained intervention programs for disadvantaged children and youth, through a project grant to Friends of the Children, National Office, which shall make subgrants to its local chapters in specified cities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1137-1138)
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in House
New Markets Tax Credit Enhancement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4594
Sponsor: Rep. Jefferson, William J. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2004-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Community development
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Infrastructure
Investments
Tax credits
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: 
New Markets Tax Credit Enhancement Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase for 2004 through 2007 the limitation on the investment amounts for the new markets tax credit; and (2) direct the Secretary of the Treasury to issue regulations for the designation of low-income communities for purposes of the tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in House
To amend Public Law 97-435 to extend the authorization for the Secretary of the Interior to release certain conditions contained in a patent concerning certain land conveyed by the United States to Eastern Washington University until December 31, 2009.

Bill: 108-hr-4596
Sponsor: Rep. Nethercutt, George R., Jr. [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2004-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colleges
Education
Educational facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Land transfers
Land use
Recreation
Sports and Recreation
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: 
Extends the authorization for the Secretary of the Interior to release certain land reversion conditions contained in a patent concerning certain land conveyed by the United States to Eastern Washington University, Washington, until December 31, 2009.

action_date: 2004-09-28
text: 
Extends the authorization for the Secretary of the Interior to release certain land reversion conditions contained in a patent concerning certain land conveyed by the United States to Eastern Washington University, Washington, until December 31, 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-01
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 755.
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7666)
action_date: 2004-09-28
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 H7666)
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4596.
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7666)
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Mr. Radanovich moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Accutane Safety and Risk Management Act

Bill: 108-hr-4598
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2004-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accreditation (Medical care)
Administrative remedies
Chemicals
Clinics
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Health and Human Services
Directories
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Drugs
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health counseling
Health education
Health surveys
Law
Medical tests
Mental depression
Nervous system
Pharmacies
Pregnancy
Pregnant women
Risk
Skin diseases
Suicide
Violence
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: 
Accutane Safety and Risk Management Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to withdraw approval within 30 days for the sale of drugs that contain isotretinoin as an active ingredient, including Accutane. Allows the Secretary to approve subsequent supplemental applications for such drugs subject to certain restrictions, including safety reporting.
 
Requires that distribution of such drugs be limited, including by: (1) allowing distribution only directly from manufacturers to pharmacists; (2) requiring pharmacists to register, receive education on side effects, dispense only those prescriptions from physicians at certified treatment centers, and file a statement of compliance; (3) developing educational materials for patients, including monthly questionnaires for patients to monitor the development of adverse side effects; (4) requiring patients to register, receive counseling on the drug, sign a statement providing informed consent for treatment, and undergo appropriate tests; and (5) limiting prescriptions to a 30-day supply with no refills.
 
Specifies conditions for a clinic to be certified as a treatment center for a drug containing isotretinoin, including requiring each practitioner to meet certain conditions, such as requirements for registration, an agreement to prescribe in accordance with this Act, and reporting of adverse events.
 
Requires the Secretary to monitor the distribution of such drugs to determine whether the drug is being distributed in accordance with this Act.
 
Requires manufacturers and distributors of isotretinoin to report any information on adverse events associated with the drug to the Secretary.
 
Requires the Secretary to conduct and support studies to explore the effects of isotretinoin on the central nervous system and behavior, including depression, suicide, and violent behavior.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7821-7822)
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in House
Guard and Reserve Retirement Retainer Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4599
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2004-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Health
Labor and Employment
Military medicine
Military pensions
Retiree health benefits
Retirement age
Social Welfare
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: 
Guard and Reserve Retirement Retainer Act of 2004 - Provides that, in the case of a person to whom the payment of military retired pay for non-regular (reserve) service commences after the person attains 55 years of age and before the person attains 60 years of age, the amount of such pay shall be reduced by: (1) 12.5 percent for age 55; (2) 9 percent for age 56; (3) 6 percent for age 57; (4) 3.5 percents for age 58; and (5) 1.5 percent for age 59.
 
Prohibits any such person from receiving medical and dental care through facilities of the Department of Defense until the person has attained 60 years of age.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in House
To amend that Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to recognize Alexander Creek as Native village, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-4601
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2004-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska
Federal-Indian relations
Indian claims
Indian lands
Indigenous peoples
Land transfers
Law
Legal fees
Minorities
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Real estate appraisal

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: 
Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to recognize Alexander Creek in Seward Meridian, Alaska, as a Native village.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to establish the Alexander Creek account in the Treasury to be available to Alexander Creek Incorporated (an Alaska Native Group corporation) for bidding on and purchasing property sold at public sale, subject to this Act.
 
Requires the: (1) Secretary of the Interior to enter into negotiations to attempt to conclude a land exchange to acquire the surface estate in lands not within any conservation system unit from the State of Alaska or the Matanuska-Susitna Borough to enable Alexander Creek to select additional public lands within its original withdrawal area; and (2) conveyance, without consideration, of the subsurface estate to such conveyed lands to the Cook Inlet Region Incorporated (the Regional Corporation for Alexander Creek).
 
Provides that: (1) upon certification by the Secretary of the appraisal of lands selected for purchase, the Alexander Creek Incorporated shall be deemed to have accepted the terms of this Act in lieu of any other land entitlement it could have received pursuant to this Act; and (2) the acceptance shall satisfy all claims such Corporation had or may have had against the United States on the enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in House