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A bill to extend the special postage stamp for breast cancer research for 2 years.

Bill: 108-s-2000
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-12-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Breast cancer
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to research
Health
Medical research
Postage stamps
Science, Technology, Communications
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-12-09
text: 
Amends Federal postal law to extend the U.S. Postal Service's authority to issue special postage stamps to help provide funding for breast cancer research through December 31, 2005.

action_date: 2003-12-09
text: 

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

 
Amends Federal postal law to extend the U.S. Postal Service's authority to issue special postage stamps to help provide funding for breast cancer research through December 31, 2005. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2004-01-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-01-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-01-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-01-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-01-20
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2004-01-20
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2003-12-09
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S16159; text as passed Senate: CR S16159)
action_date: 2003-12-09
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S16159; text as passed Senate: CR S16159)
action_date: 2003-12-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize an additional permanent judgeship for the district of Hawaii, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-2001
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2003-12-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: District courts
Hawaii
Judges
Judicial districts

Summary:
action_date: 2003-12-09
text: 
Directs the President to appoint one additional permanent district judge for the district of Hawaii.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-12-09
text: Introduced in Senate
United States-Cuba Trademark Protection Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-2002
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2003-12-09 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alcoholic beverages
Caribbean area
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cuba
Diplomacy
Directories
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Fees
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Industrial property
Intellectual property
Internet
Jurisdiction
Latin America
Law
Names
Parties to actions
Restrictive trade practices
Sanctions (International law)
Science, Technology, Communications
Trade agreements
Trademark agreements
Trademarks
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2003-12-09
text: 
United States-Cuba Trademark Protection Act of 2003 - Requires the President to direct the Secretary of State to obtain assurances that the Republic of Cuba will: (1) adhere to specified international agreements for the protection of intellectual property; (2) implement the Joint Recommendation Concerning Provisions on the Protection of Well-Known Marks; and (3) subscribe to dispute resolution procedures approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
 
Repeals provisions of the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 prohibiting certain transactions, payments, or U.S. court recognition with respect to confiscated marks, trade names, or commercial names.
 
Requires the Director of the Patent and Trademark Office to establish an electronic and publicly accessible registry of U.S. trademarks and well-known marks in Cuba.
 
Amends the Cuban Assets Control Regulations to authorize: (1) specified transactions and proceedings regarding blocked foreign domain and trade names by any person who is not a designated national; (2) the transfer or receipt of any trademark, trade name, or domain name subject to U.S. law in which a designated national has an interest, as well as related proceedings; and (3) the payment of fees to foreign governments for research with respect to blocked foreign trademarks, trade names, and domain names, and related enforcement.
 
Makes conforming amendments to the Trademark Act of 1946. 
 
Gives U.S. courts authority to validate any assertion by a designated national of rights in any mark or trade name based on common law rights or registration under specified provisions of the Trademark Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-12-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Information for Quality Improvement Act

Bill: 108-s-2003
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2003-12-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Biomedical engineering
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Clinical trials
Communication in medicine
Computer software
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic data interchange
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Health information systems
Health planning
Hospital care
Hospitals
Human engineering
Identification devices
Information technology
Licenses
Life sciences
Medical economics
Medical fees
Medical malpractice
Medical records
Medical research
Medical technology
Medicare
Physicians
Quality of care
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Standards
Strategic planning
Technology assessment
Telemedicine
Transfer of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-12-09
text: 
Health Information for Quality Improvement Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish: (1) an Office of National Healthcare Information Infrastructure to develop a strategic plan to create such an infrastructure; and (2) a Medical Systems Safety Initiative to conduct research on improving and advancing medical care. Requires efforts to increase information technology usage and efficiency in health care to improve the quality of patient care and safety, while protecting privacy and security of information.
 
Prohibits health insurers from denying and preventing individuals with serious illnesses participation in approved clinical trials. Supports research on: (1) how best to care for older patients with multiple chronic conditions; and (2) the effectiveness and safety of prescription drugs with a high level of use in federally funded health programs.
 
Requires the development and use of standardized indicators of health care quality. Supports data collection and analysis to assess health care quality in communities and among people of different backgrounds.
 
Requires a study on approaches to developing and disseminating practice guidelines that synthesize the scientific evidence to support clinical practice.
 
Requires an evaluation of options to align health care performance with payment, including Medicare payments.
 
Supports projects to assess the feasibility of using different organizations to disseminate information about health care quality to consumers.
 
Awards grants for research on patient experiences. Requires the development of standardized materials to assist non-English speaking or functionally illiterate patients in the safe and appropriate use of prescription drugs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2003-12-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S16138-16140)
action_date: 2003-12-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Protection of Family Farmers and Family Fisherman Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-2004
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2003-12-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Agricultural credit
Agriculture and Food
Aquaculture
Bankruptcy
Commerce
Debt
Debtor and creditor
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family enterprises
Family farms
Farm income
Farmers
Fisheries
Fishing boats
Government lending
Indexing (Economic policy)
Law
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2003-12-09
text: Protection of Family Farmers and Family Fishermen Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal bankruptcy code to reenact Chapter 12, Adjustment of Debts of a Family Farmer with Regular Annual Income (thus reinstating permanently family farmer bankruptcy relief). 
 
Cites circumstances under which the claim of a governmental unit that arises from the disposition of a farm asset used in the debtor's farming operation shall be treated as an unsecured claim not entitled to priority.
Increases from $1.5 million to $3.237 million the maximum aggregate debt that permits a farming operation to qualify as a family farming operation for debt adjustment purposes. Decreases from 80 percent to 50 percent the minimum percentage of aggregate, noncontingent liquidated debts arising out of such a farming operation. 
Modifies the requirement that a family farmer and spouse receive over 50 percent of income from farming operations in the year before a bankruptcy petition is filed. Allows the family farmer to meet the over-50-percent requirement in either the preceding taxable year or each of the second and third preceding taxable years. 
Prohibits: (1) retroactive assessment of disposable income; and (2) post-confirmation modification of a bankruptcy plan that would increase the amount of payments that were due before such modification. Requires debtor's consent for post-confirmation increase in payments. 
Extends Chapter 12 coverage to family fishermen whose aggregate debts do not exceed $1.5 million, of which at least 80 percent of aggregate noncontingent, liquidated debts arise out of a commercial fishing operation.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2003-12-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Pension Stability Act

Bill: 108-s-2005
Sponsor: Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH]
Introduced: 2004-01-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Accounting
Administrative procedure
Bonds
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporate finance
Defined benefit pension plans
Department of the Treasury
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government securities
Governmental investigations
Insurance premiums
Interest rates
Investments
Law
Legislation
Pension funds
Pension trust guaranty insurance
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-01-09
text: 
Pension Stability Act - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to temporarily replace (for plan years 2004 and 2005) the 30-year treasury bond interest rate with a rate based on conservatively invested long-term corporate bonds, for certain pension plan funding requirements. 
 
Establishes the Commission on Defined Benefit Pension Plans. Requires Congress to act on the legislative proposal contained in the Commission's report within a certain period after receiving it.

action_date: 2004-01-09
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Pension Stability Act - (Sec. 2) Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code to temporarily replace (for plan years 2004 and 2005) the 30-year treasury bond interest rate with a rate based on conservatively invested long-term corporate bonds, for certain pension plan funding requirements. 
 
(Sec. 3) Establishes the Commission on Defined Benefit Pension Plans to study and report to Congress on specified issues relating to such plan.
 
(Sec. 4) Requires Congress to act on any legislative proposal contained in the Commission's report within a certain period after receiving it.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-01-09
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 425.
action_date: 2004-01-09
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Gregg under authority of the order of the Senate of 12/9/2003. With written report No. 108-221.
action_date: 2004-01-09
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Gregg under authority of the order of the Senate of 12/9/2003. With written report No. 108-221.
action_date: 2004-01-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2006
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2004-01-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Labor statistics
State laws
Unemployment
Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2004-01-20
text: 
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 2004 - Amends the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (TEUCA) to extend the TEUC program through weeks of unemployment ending before June 30, 2004. Terminates individual payments for weeks beginning after September 30, 2004.
 
Revises trigger requirements for determining high-unemployment States (TEUC-X), where individuals are eligible to receive additional weeks of program payments.
 
Provides for temporary State authority to waive application of certain look-back provisions under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-01-21
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 427.
action_date: 2004-01-20
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2004-01-20
text: Introduced in Senate
National Farm Animal Identification and Records Act

Bill: 108-s-2008
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2004-01-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural subsidies
Animal diseases
Animals
Data banks
Electronic government information
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Identification devices
International Affairs
International cooperation
Livestock
Performance measurement
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists
Veterinary medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2004-01-20
text: 
National Farm Animal Identification and Records Act - Amends the Animal Health Protection Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish an electronic nationwide livestock identification system (for individual animal identification) to enhance the Department of Agriculture's response to outbreaks of livestock disease. Requires that such system: (1) be capable of tracing, within 48 hours, an individual animal from birth to slaughter; and (2) provide for access by States and inclusion of State information.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide producer participation assistance; and (2) appoint an international panel of scientific experts to review the Department's response to an outbreak of livestock disease.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-01-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S55)
action_date: 2004-01-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S55)
action_date: 2004-01-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Sound Science for Endangered Species Act Planning Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2009
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2004-01-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Biological research
Decision making
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2004-01-20
text: Sound Science for Endangered Species Act Planning Act of 2004 - Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to direct the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) give greater weight to scientific and commercial data that is empirical or that has been field-tested or peer-reviewed in determining that a species is an endangered or threatened species; and (2) promulgate regulations that establish criteria for data to be used as the basis of such a determination. 
Prohibits the Secretary from determining that a species is endangered or threatened unless the determination is supported by field data. Requires the Secretary to include in the rule-making record of such a determination data collected by landowners. 
Requires the Secretary to publish a description of additional scientific and commercial data that would assist in the preparation of a recovery plan. 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) solicit recommendations from the National Academy of Sciences and develop a list of qualified reviewers to participate in independent scientific review actions; and (2) appoint from such list three individuals who shall report on the scientific information and analyses on which final action is based. 
Requires the Secretary, when consulting with a Federal agency to determine whether agency action will jeopardize an endangered or threatened species or destroy the critical habitat of such species, to: (1) consider information provided by affected States; and (2) allow any person who has sought agency authorization or funding for an action to participate in related consultations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-01-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2004-01-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S56)
action_date: 2004-01-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Immigration Reform Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2010
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2004-01-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Alien labor
Armed Forces and National Security
Citizenship
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Homeland Security
Discrimination in employment
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Employee rights
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Illegal aliens
Immigrants
Labor and Employment
Labor disputes
Labor unions
Law
Married people
Recruiting of employees
Temporary employment
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2004-01-21
text: 
Immigration Reform Act of 2004 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt immediate relatives from the family-sponsored immigration cap. Expands the definition of immediate relatives to include spouses and children of lawful permanent residents. 
 
Amends the definition of H-2B nonimmigrant worker. Adds a new H-2C nonimmigrant worker category.
 
Requires employers seeking to hire H-2B or H-2C workers to undertake specified recruitment efforts for U.S. workers, and to submit specified labor attestations. Provides worker protections. Addresses portability. Provides derivative status for spouses and children of H-2B and H-2C workers. Establishes annual numerical limitations on the number of aliens who may receive H-2B and H-2C status. Specifies authorized periods of admission for each category.
 
Provides for stays of removal for aliens involved in workplace claims. 
 
Prohibits the disclosure by a Federal or State agency of information concerning the immigration status of any worker.
 
Creates an earned adjustment program for aliens who meet continuous physical presence, employment, and other specified requirements. Provides for derivative status for the spouses and children of such aliens. Excludes aliens granted earned adjustment from numerical visa limitations. Provides for administrative and judicial review of earned adjustment determinations. Establishes fines and fees for aliens applying for earned adjustment.
 
Creates transitional worker status for certain aliens who do not satisfy the continuous physical presence and employment requirements of the earned adjustment program. 
 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to allow aliens granted adjustment of status under this Act to correct social security records without criminal prosecution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S109-117)
action_date: 2004-01-21
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to convert certain temporary Federal district judgeships to permanent judgeships, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-2011
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2004-01-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: California
District courts
Hawaii
Judges
Judicial tenure
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska

Summary:
action_date: 2004-01-21
text: 
Converts temporary Federal district judgeships for the eastern district of California, the district of Hawaii, the district of Kansas, the eastern district of Missouri, and the district of Nebraska to permanent judgeships 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S118)
action_date: 2004-01-21
text: Introduced in Senate