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U.S.A. Jobs Protection Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2148
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2004-03-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Buy American
Economics and Public Finance
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government service contracts
Grants-in-aid
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Subcontractors

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-01
text: 
U.S.A. Jobs Protection Act of 2004 - Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to prohibit a contract that is entered into by the head of an executive agency from being performed outside the United States except to meet a requirement of that agency for the contract to be performed specifically at a location abroad.
 
Prohibits funds appropriated for financial assistance for a State from being disbursed to or for such State during a fiscal year unless that State's chief executive has transmitted to the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, by April 1 of the preceding fiscal year, a written certification that (except as provided above) none of those funds will be expended for the performance of State contracts outside the United States. Makes an exception where the State's chief executive certifies in advance to the Administrator that such expenditure is for a contract that cannot be performed within the United States.
 
Makes this Act inapplicable to disbursements of funds to a State during the first two fiscal years of its enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2004-03-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide customs services after hours at certain airports.

Bill: 108-s-2149
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2004-03-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Airline passenger traffic
Airlines
Airports
Commerce
Customs administration
Department of Homeland Security
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Hours of labor
Labor and Employment
Salaries
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-01
text: 
Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to provide that if an air carrier specifically requests that customs services for passengers and their baggage be provided after normal operating hours at a customs serviced airport, and overtime funds for those services are not available, the appropriate customs officer shall assign sufficient customs employees (if available) to perform any such services, which could lawfully be performed during regular hours of operation. Requires the air carrier to pay any overtime fees incurred in connection with such service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-03-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to promote better health for young people through Federal matching awards for physical education programs of excellence, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-2150
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2004-03-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child health
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Medical research
Obesity
Physical education and training
Physical fitness
School health programs
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-01
text: 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to provide matching awards to maintain eligible schools' high quality physical education programs.
 
 Requires the Secretary and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study and report to Congress on the effectiveness of school-based physical education programs in promoting health and well-being, and in preventing obesity, in children.
 
Requires State report cards to include the numbers and percentages of elementary schools, middle schools, and secondary schools in the State that provide physical education programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2004-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1935)
action_date: 2004-03-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Remote Sensing Applications Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2151
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2004-03-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Colleges
Commercialization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Emergency Management
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Fire prevention
Forest fires
Geographic information systems
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Internet
Land use
Minorities
Planning
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Remote sensing
Space activities
Urban affairs
Urban growth

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-01
text: 
Remote Sensing Applications Act of 2004 - Requires the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey to: (1) establish a program of grants for pilot projects to explore the integrated use of sources of remote sensing and other geospatial information to address State, local, regional, and tribal agency needs; (2) establish an advisory committee to monitor the program; (3) transmit to Congress an independent evaluation of program effectiveness; and (4) ensure that project results are retrievable through an Internet-accessible database.
 
 Requires the Director to seek opportunities to assist: (1) in the development of commercial applications potentially available from the remote sensing industry; and (2) State, local, regional, and tribal agencies in applying remote sensing and geospatial information technologies for growth management. 
 
Requires the Director to: (1) establish an educational outreach program to increase awareness at institutions of higher education and such agencies of the potential applications of remote sensing and geospatial information; and (2) study the effect of remote sensing imagery costs on potential State, local, regional, and tribal agency applications.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2004-03-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1935)
action_date: 2004-03-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Guard and Reserve Retirement Retainer Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2152
Sponsor: Sen. Miller, Zell [D-GA]
Introduced: 2004-03-02 in the Senate
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: 2004-03-02
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 percent, 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: 2004-03-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 223 South Main Street in Roxboro, North Carolina, as the "Oscar Scott Woody Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-s-2153
Sponsor: Sen. Edwards, John [D-NC]
Introduced: 2004-03-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Names
North Carolina
Postal facilities
United States Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: 
Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility located at 223 South Main Street in Roxboro, North Carolina, as the Oscar Scott Woody Post Office Building.

action_date: 2004-06-07
text: 

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

 
Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility located at 223 South Main Street in Roxboro, North Carolina, as the Oscar Scott Woody Post Office Building.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-07
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 575.
action_date: 2004-06-07
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Collins without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2004-06-07
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Collins without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Committee on Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Growing Our Manufacturing Employment (GoME) Act

Bill: 108-s-2155
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2004-03-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Administrative procedure
Affiliated corporations
Capital gains tax
Commerce
Corporate finance
Corporate mergers
Corporation taxes
Department of the Treasury
Depreciation and amortization
Dislocated workers
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Leases
Limitation of actions
Location of industries
Lumber trade
Manufacturing industries
Minimum tax
Mutual funds
Partnerships
Profit
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reforestation
Stockholders
Stocks
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax evasion
Tax penalties
Tax shelters
Taxation of foreign income
Timber sales
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: 
Growing Our Manufacturing Employment (GoME) Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish as a general business tax credit a manufacturer's jobs credit equal to a certain percentage of wages paid to the employees (including employees eligible for a trade readjustment allowance) of a taxpayer that has a certain level of domestic production gross receipts in the current and preceding taxable years and that is not disqualified as an inverted domestic corporation (a foreign corporation that manipulates its structure to evade U.S. taxes). 
 
Allows an income tax deduction for: (1) nine percent of income allocable to domestic production activities; (2) up to $10,000 of reforestation expenditures in the current taxable year. 
 
Permits a taxpayer to revoke a prior election to treat the cutting of timber as a sale or exchange. Qualifies the outright sale of timber for capital gains tax treatment. Repeals the investment tax credit for reforestation expenditures. 
 
Sets forth requirements for transactions to qualify for tax benefits under the economic substance doctrine, including special rules for transactions with tax-indifferent parties.
 
 Sets forth rules for the tax treatment of inverted domestic corporations (a foreign incorporated entity that acquires substantially all of the properties of a domestic corporation or partnership, that retains 80 percent of stock ownership identity, and that does not have substantial business activities in the foreign country under whose law the entity is created, for the purpose of avoiding U.S. taxation). Treats a foreign corporation deemed to be an inverted domestic corporation as a domestic corporation for U.S. tax purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2024-2025)
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Community College Teacher Preparation Enhancement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2156
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2004-03-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Colleges
Community and school
Community colleges
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Curricula
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Paraprofessional school personnel
Secondary education
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: 
Community College Teacher Preparation Enhancement Act of 2004 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a teacher training enhancement program. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award matching grants to eligible entities for teacher training or preparation.
 
Includes among eligible entities: (1) statewide boards with jurisdiction over community colleges and four-year institutions of higher education (IHEs); (2) partnerships between statewide boards with jurisdiction over community colleges and statewide boards with jurisdiction over four-year IHEs; (3) partnerships between community colleges and four-year IHEs; or (4) community colleges offering teacher preparation programs that provide all, or a significant portion of, teacher training, postbaccalaureate certification, and professional development.
 
Gives priority to proposals for using grants for: (1) teacher preparation in geographic areas with shortages of highly qualified teachers; (2) preparing teachers in kindergarten through grade 12 subject content areas that have a shortage of highly qualified teachers; (3) innovative programs to address teacher training or teacher preparation; (4) outreach into secondary schools; or (5) plans to disseminate information. Requires grantees to use grant funds for at least one of specified mandatory uses. Sets forth permissive uses of grants.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2002-2003)
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Trade Adjustment Assistance Equity for Service Workers Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2157
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2004-03-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Authorization
Commerce
Department of Labor
Dislocated workers
Economics and Public Finance
Federal employees
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Imports
Labor statistics
Local employees
Location of industries
Occupational retraining
Service industries
State employees
Surveys
Trade adjustment assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: 
Trade Adjustment Assistance Equity for Service Workers Act of 2004 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to extend trade adjustment assistance (TAA) to workers in a service sector firm or its subdivision or public agency.
 
 Revises group eligibility requirements for TAA to include: (1) a shift, by a public agency to a foreign country in provision of services, like or directly competitive with services which are provided by the workers' firm, subdivision, or public agency; and (2) the situation where the workers' firm, subdivision, or public agency obtains or is likely to obtain such services from a foreign country.
 
Requires the Secretary of Labor to certify as eligible to apply for TAA any adversely affected secondary workers in a service sector firm or its subdivision or public agency.
 
Specifies criteria for determination of the existence of increased imports of like or directly competitive articles or services. 
 
Increases from $220 million to $440 million the amount of fiscal year payments for training of adversely affected workers under the Act.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance for the establishment of industrywide programs for new service development.
 
Modifies the trade monitoring system to include imports of services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2004)
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2003-2004)
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Pancreatic Islet Cell Transplantation Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2158
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2004-03-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Accreditation (Medical care)
Administrative procedure
Clinical trials
Communication in medicine
Communication in science
Congress
Diabetes
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government regulation
Health information systems
Insulin
Law
Legislation
Medical records
Medical research
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) allow pancreases procured for use in islet cell transplantation or research to be counted for certification purposes for qualified organ procurement organization grants; and (2) require the Diabetes Mellitus Interagency Coordinating Committee to include in its annual report an assessment of the Federal activities and programs related to pancreatic islet cell transplantation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2005)
action_date: 2004-03-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Freedom From Union Violence Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-2159
Sponsor: Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL]
Introduced: 2004-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault
Commerce
Conspiracy
Extortion
Interstate commerce
Labor and Employment
Labor disputes
Larceny
Picketing
Prosecution
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Transportation and Public Works
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-03
text: Freedom From Union Violence Act of 2003 - Amends the Hobbs Act to authorize imposition of a fine of up to $100,000, 20 years imprisonment, or both for: (1) obstructing, delaying, or affecting commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce by robbery or extortion (or attempting or conspiring to do so); and (2) threatening physical violence to any person or property in furtherance of a plan or purpose to interfere with commerce by threats or violence.
Makes provisions regarding any such interference inapplicable to conduct that: (1) is incidental to otherwise peaceful picketing during the course of a labor dispute; (2) consists solely of minor bodily injury, or minor damage to property, or threat or fear of such minor injury or damage; and (3) is not part of a pattern of violent conduct or of coordinated violent activity. Subjects such conduct to prosecution only by the appropriate State and local authorities.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Children's Listbroker Privacy Act

Bill: 108-s-2160
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2004-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Bank records
Business records
Child welfare
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Damages
Directories
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Injunctions
Law
Marketing
Names
Parent and child
Parties to actions
Restrictive trade practices
Right of privacy
Sales promotion
Social Welfare
Social security numbers

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-03
text: 
Children's Listbroker Privacy Act - Makes it unlawful: (1) to sell personal information about an individual the seller knows to be a child (under age 16); (2) to purchase personal information about an individual identified by the seller as a child for the purpose of marketing to that child; or (3) for a purchaser who has provided a certification limiting the use of such information to engage in any practice that violates the certification terms. Makes an exception with respect to express parental consent to such sale, purchase, or use. Provides for violation enforcement through the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and certain other Federal agencies.
 
Authorizes enforcement actions by States acting on behalf of its residents (allowing FTC intervention).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2107-2108)
action_date: 2004-03-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2106-2107)
action_date: 2004-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Universal Access to Affordable Insurance for all Americans Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2161
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2004-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Employee health benefits
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Health insurance
Health planning
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
National health insurance
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-03
text: 
Universal Access to Affordable Health Insurance for all Americans Act of 2004 - Directs the Office of Personnel Management to: (1) administer a health insurance program for non-Federal employees; and (2) enter into contracts with carriers to make health benefits plans available to eligible individuals. Allows the Office to require carriers to offer such a plan to be eligible to enter into a contract for a Federal Employees Health Benefit (FEHB) plan.
 
Prohibits individuals from joining the plan that are: (1) 65 years of age or older; (2) eligible to enroll for coverage under a public health insurance program; (3) eligible to enroll in a FEHB plan; or (4) members of the uniformed services.
 
Allows rates charged and premiums paid for such a plan to differ among geographic regions.
 
Prohibits any Government contribution to such plans.
 
Requires the Office to keep individuals under such plans in a separate risk pool from individuals covered under a FEHB plan.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for refundable credits for payments made to such plans. Provides for full credit for those below the poverty line, and gradually decreasing credit based on individual income. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make advance payments to such a plan on behalf of an enrollee equal to the Secretary's estimate of the amount of credit allowable for the enrollee. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-03-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2109)
action_date: 2004-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate