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Higher Education Affordability, Access, and Opportunity Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2795
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2004-09-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Accreditation (Education)
Charities
College administration
College costs
Commerce
Community development banking
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dislocated workers
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Educational technology
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Industry-university relations
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Public-private partnerships
Recruiting of employees
Rural education
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Social Welfare
Standards
Student aid
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-13
text: 
Higher Education Affordability, Access, and Opportunity Act of 2004 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to carry out a student loan program for workforce development for high-growth occupations or industries.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for: (1) job skill training in high-growth occupations or industries, to partnerships of community colleges and workforce investment boards; and (2) training and job skills for small business owners or operators, to partnerships of institutions of higher education (IHEs) and entities that help small business development.
 
Prohibits, under the student loan program, IHEs and accrediting agencies and associations from restricting transfer of credits in specified ways.
 
Requires studies and dissemination of comparative data on college costs and related matters. 
 
Revises teacher quality enhancement grants, with respect to high-need local educational agencies and eligible partnerships.
 
Allows States to submit applications, under the leveraging educational assistance partnership program, with philanthropic organizations and public or private IHEs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9138-9140)
action_date: 2004-09-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9137-9138)
action_date: 2004-09-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to clarify that service marks, collective marks, and certification marks are entitled to the same protections, rights, and privileges of trademarks.

Bill: 108-s-2796
Sponsor: Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2004-09-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advertising
Government Operations and Politics
Intellectual property
Marketing
Quality of products
Service industries
Signs and symbols
Trade associations
Trademarks

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-13
text: 
Amends the Trademark Act of 1946 to provide registered service marks, collective marks, and certification marks with the same protections, rights, and privileges as registered trademarks.

action_date: 2004-10-06
text: 

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

 
Amends the Trademark Act of 1946 to provide registered service marks, collective marks, and certification marks with the same protections, rights, and privileges as registered trademarks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S10488)
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S10488)
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S10488)
action_date: 2004-10-06
text: Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S10488)
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9518-9519)
action_date: 2004-09-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9141)
action_date: 2004-09-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9140-9141)
action_date: 2004-09-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Textbook Affordability Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2797
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2004-09-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Higher education
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Tax deductions
Textbooks

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-14
text: 
Textbook Affordability Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include the cost of books required for enrollment or attendance at an institution of higher education in the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses. Limits the amount of such deduction to $1,000 with a prorated reduction for taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes over $65,000 (adjusted for inflation). Makes the tax deduction for such books permanent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9222)
action_date: 2004-09-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 18 of the United States Code to increase the penalties for smuggling goods into the United States.

Bill: 108-s-2799
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2004-09-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Homicide
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sentencing guidelines
Smuggling

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-14
text: 
Amends the Federal criminal code to increase the maximum term of imprisonment from five to 20 years for smuggling goods into the United States. Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to amend the Federal sentencing guidelines to provide sentencing enhancements for any such offense that results in a person's death, while ensuring that there is reasonable consistency with other Federal sentencing guidelines and avoiding duplicative punishments for substantially the same offense.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-09-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9223)
action_date: 2004-09-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 36, United States Code, to grant a Federal charter to the Pulaski Cadets, Ltd.

Bill: 108-s-2800
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2004-09-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: American Revolution
Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Europe
European American ethnic groups
Europeans
Federal incorporation
History
Military history
Military personnel
Officer personnel
Poland
Recruiting and enlistment

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-14
text: 
 Grants a Federal charter to the Pulaski Cadets, Ltd. (a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9223-9224)
action_date: 2004-09-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9223)
action_date: 2004-09-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Congerssional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to limit the implementation, phase-in, or phase-out of revenue measures to 1 year.

Bill: 108-s-2802
Sponsor: Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN]
Introduced: 2004-09-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional voting
House rules and procedure
Income tax
Legislation
Legislative amendments
Legislative resolutions
Senate rules and procedure
Sunset legislation
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax exemption
Tax rates
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-14
text: 
Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to make it out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that: (1) delays implementation of a revenue measure for more than one year after its date of enactment; (2) phases in a revenue measure over a period of taxable years greater than one taxable year; or (3) provides for the repeal of, or a modification in the revenue effect of, a revenue measure if the elimination or modification does not fully take effect before the date which is one year after its enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-14
text: Read twice and referred jointly to the Committees on the Budget; Governmental Affairs pursuant to August 4, 1977, with instructions that if one Committee reports, the other Committee have thirty days to report or be discharged.
action_date: 2004-09-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill 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.

Bill: 108-s-2805
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2004-09-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colleges
Education
Educational facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Land transfers
Recreation
Sports and Recreation
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: 
Reinstates 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, and extends such authorization until December 31, 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt containers used primarily in potato farming from the excise tax on heavy trucks and trailers.

Bill: 108-s-2807
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2004-09-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural machinery
Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Excise tax
Potatoes
Retail trade
Tax exemption
Transportation and Public Works
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the excise tax on heavy trucks and trailers boxes, containers, receptacles, bins, or similar articles used by a potato farmer for hauling potatoes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Celebrate the United States Constitution Day Act

Bill: 108-s-2808
Sponsor: Sen. Byrd, Robert C. [D-WV]
Introduced: 2004-09-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Holidays
Labor and Employment
Law
Leave of absence

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: 
Celebrate the United States Constitution Day Act - Establishes as an annual legal public holiday Constitution Day, September 17, the date of the signing of the United States Constitution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 19504 Linden Boulevard in St. Albans, New York, as the "Archie Spigner Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-s-2813
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2004-09-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Local officials
Names
New York City
New York State
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-20
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 19504 Linden Boulevard in St. Albans, New York, as the "Archie Spigner Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2004-09-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Bank Examiner Postemployment Protection Act

Bill: 108-s-2814
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2004-09-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Bank employees
Bank examination
Conflict of interests
Consultants
Department of the Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Government ethics
Labor and Employment
National Credit Union Administration

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-20
text: 
Bank Examiner Postemployment Protection Act - Amends Federal criminal law to subject to criminal penalties any person who: (1) has served as senior Federal bank examiner of a particular financial institution during the final 12 months of Federal employment; and (2) knowingly accepts compensation as an employee, officer, director, or consultant from that institution (including its holding company, a subsidiary, or an affiliate) within one year after departure from such Federal service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-09-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Montserrat Immigration Fairness Act

Bill: 108-s-2816
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2004-09-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alien labor
Aliens
Caribbean area
Department of Homeland Security
Deportation
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Illegal aliens
Immigrants
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Law
Married people
Montserrat
Parents
Refugees
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-20
text: 
Montserrat Immigration Fairness Act - Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) to grant lawful permanent resident status to certain nationals of Montserrat previously granted temporary protected status in the United States (and specified family members).
 
Authorizes aliens previously ordered excluded, deported, or removed, or ordered to depart voluntarily, to apply for adjustment of status under this Act.
 
Requires the Secretary to provide work authorization and related documentation to principal aliens seeking the benefits of this Act.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide specified administrative review procedures for such aliens and their qualifying family members.
 
States that the granting of adjustment of status for principal aliens under this Act shall not reduce the number of available immigrant visas.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-09-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial 1-Cent Coin Redesign Act

Bill: 108-s-2817
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2004-09-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Anniversaries
Coins and coinage
Commemorations
Copper
Ex-presidents
Government Operations and Politics
History
Lincoln Administration
Money
Zinc

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: 
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial 1-Cent Coin Redesign Act - Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue 1-cent coins during 2009, in accordance with the following design specifications: (1) the obverse of the 1-cent coin shall continue to bear the Victor David Brenner likeness of President Abraham Lincoln; and (2) the reverse of the coins shall bear four different designs each representing a different aspect of the life of Abraham Lincoln..
 
Mandates that: (1) beginning at the start of each calendar quarter of 2009, the redesigned Lincoln cents bear one of such four designs; and (2) the design on the reverse of the 1-cent coins issued after 2009, bear an image emblematic of President Lincoln's preservation of the United States of America as a single and united country.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the original Victor David Brenner design for the 1-cent coin was a dramatic departure from previous American coinage that should be reproduced, using the original form and relief of the likeness of Abraham Lincoln, on the 1-cent coins issued in 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9443)
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to ensure the same requirements that apply to voters who register by mail also apply to voters who do not register in person with an officer or employee of a State or local government entity, and to provide for increased penalties for fraudulent registration in cases involving 10 or more violations.

Bill: 108-s-2818
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2004-09-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress
Congressional elections
Crime and Law Enforcement
Election fraud
Fines (Penalties)
Identification devices
Presidential elections
Voter registration
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: 
Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require a State to apply the same self-identification requirements currently applicable to voters who register by mail also to those voters who do not register in person with an officer or employee of a State or local government entity. 
 
Amends the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the National Voter Registration Act to provide for increased penalties relating to fraudulent voter registration in cases involving ten or more violations.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S9444)
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9443-9444)
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Higher Education Preparation Program Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2819
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2004-09-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: College entrance requirements
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational counseling
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Nonprofit organizations
Secondary education
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: 
Higher Education Preparation Program Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Education to award: (1) a competitive grant to a nonprofit organization to develop a curriculum-based higher education preparation program curriculum for students in grades eight, nine, and ten; and (2) competitive grants to up to five State educational agencies to use such curriculum in a demonstration project for providing higher education preparation programs to students in such grades in middle and secondary schools. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9444-9445)
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to exclude from income certain wages of spouses of members of the Armed Forces serving in combat zones.

Bill: 108-s-2824
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2004-09-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Families
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Married people
Military dependents
Tax exclusion
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income the wages and self-employment income of spouses of members of the Armed Forces serving in a combat zone or hospitalized while serving in a combat zone.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-09-21
text: Introduced in Senate
Patients' Privacy Protection Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2827
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2004-09-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil procedure
Confidential communications
Criminal procedure
Evidence (Law)
Health
Medical records
Patients' rights
Physician-patient privilege
Right of privacy

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: 
Patients' Privacy Protection Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal Rules of Evidence to declare that a patient has a privilege with respect to any evidence consisting of a confidential communication or record made in the course of medical treatment by a duly licensed health care provider.
 
 Authorizes a court to order the disclosure of such a communication or record to the extent the court determines that the public interest in disclosure significantly outweighs the patient's privacy interests. Requires the court to ensure that personally identifiable information is redacted and that the patient's communications and records remain under seal.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9526)
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Introduced in Senate
527 Reform Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2828
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2004-09-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Accounting
Campaign funds
Congress
Congressional elections
Election candidates
Finance and Financial Sector
Fund raising
Government paperwork
Political action committees
Political advertising
Political parties
Presidential elections
Voter registration
Voting

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: 
527 Reform Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to revise the definition of political committee to include any committee, club, association, or other group of persons that has as its major purpose the nomination or election of one or more candidates (&quot;Section 527 Organizations&quot; or major purpose organizations).
 
Treats certain expenses by major purpose organizations as expenditures subject to the limitations and reporting requirements of such Act.
 
Provides that any disbursement by separate segregated fund or nonconnected committee shall be allocated between Federal and non-Federal accounts in accordance with this Act and regulations prescribed by the Federal Election Commission. States that disbursements allocated to non-Federal accounts may be paid only from a qualified non-Federal account.
 
Prohibits a separate segregated fund or nonconnected committee from accepting more than $25,000 in funds for its qualified non-Federal account from any one individual in any calendar year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S9527-9529)
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9527)
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Introduced in Senate