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Inland Northwest Revitalization Act

Bill: 108-s-2162
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2004-03-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Auditing
Citizen participation
Commerce
Commercialization
Community development
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Depressed areas
Education
Electronic commerce
Entrepreneurs
Federal employees
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government and business
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Idaho
Indian economic development
Industry-university relations
Information technology
Infrastructure
Interstate relations
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Laboratories
Location of industries
Minorities
Montana
Native Americans
Northwestern States
Oregon
Performance measurement
Public-private partnerships
Regional economic development
Regional planning
Rural economic development
Science, Technology, Communications
Strategic planning
Technical education
Technology transfer
Transfer of employees
Unemployment
Urban affairs
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-03
text: 
Inland Northwest Revitalization Act - Establishes an Inland Northwest Regional Partnership to promote, coordinate, implement, and monitor economic and rural development projects and programs for the Inland Northwest Region (all of Idaho and Montana and specified inland counties of Oregon and Washington). Requires the Partnership to meet at least once a year and to include and encourage public participation.
 
Authorizes the Partnership to make grants to qualified Region organizations to implement an Inland Northwest economic adjustment strategy.
 
Authorizes the Partnership to provide technical assistance and grants, enter into contracts, or otherwise provide amounts to persons or entities in the Region for: (1) business cluster development; (2) entrepreneurial development; (3) technology commercialization; (4) community capacity-building; and (5) projects to improve job skills of workers for a specified industry.
 
Provides for administration of Partnership economic and rural development projects, programs, and activities. Encourages each State and tribe to submit to the Partnership a development plan which reflects goals, objectives, and priorities for the regional development of the area.
 
Directs the Partnership to annually designate distressed counties and economically strong counties for purposes of Partnership projects, programs, and activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2004-03-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Employers Health Benefits Program Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2163
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2004-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Catastrophic health insurance
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Employee health benefits
Federal employees
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government employees' health insurance
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health insurance
Health insurance continuation
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Internet
Labor and Employment
Law
Medical economics
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Nonprofit organizations
Office of Personnel Management
Rebates
Reinsurance
Science, Technology, Communications
Self-employed
Small business
Social Welfare
Subsidies
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: 
Small Employers Health Benefits Program Act of 2004 - Directs the Office of Personnel Management to administer a separate health insurance program for non-Federal employees who are either self-employed or employees of a small business with fewer than 100 employees.
 
Allows the Office to contract with carriers to provide health insurance under this Act. Requires rates charged to reasonably and equitably reflect the costs of the benefits provided. Permits rates and premiums to vary based on age but not on health status factors.
 
Permits the Office to reimburse a carrier for costs that exceed premiums received by a specified percentage. Requires a carrier to make payments to a contingency reserve fund established by the Office if the carrier's costs are lower than expected by a specified percentage. Allows the Office to use such funds to provide assistance to carriers that experience unanticipated financial hardships.
 
 Requires the Office to establish a reinsurance fund to provide payments to carriers that experience a catastrophic claim (a claim over $50,000) for benefits provided to an individual enrolled under this Act.
 
Authorizes the Office to contract with entities to administer this health program regionally.
 
Allows certain benefits to be offered to Medicare beneficiaries.
 
Requires the Office to implement a public education campaign regarding this health insurance program.
 
 Allows a refundable tax credit for health insurance expenses of small employers who pay a specific percentage of employee expenses under such a health plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3278-3279)
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2224-2225)
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Assisting America's Rural Schools Act

Bill: 108-s-2164
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2004-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Education
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Law
Rating of teachers
Rural education
Secondary education
Teacher education
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to permit rural local educational agencies to defer the application of certain requirements relating to the employment of highly qualified teachers. 
 
Allows such deferral for a one-year period beginning with: (1) their employment as middle or secondary school teachers, for teachers new to the profession; or (2) their teaching an academic subject they have not previously taught, for middle or secondary school not new to the profession.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2226-2227)
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2226)
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to specify the end strength for active duty personnel of the Army as of September 30, 2005.

Bill: 108-s-2165
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2004-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Army
Military personnel
Military readiness

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: 
Places at 512,400 the authorized end strength for active-duty Army personnel as of September 30, 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2227-2229)
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to exempt abortions of pregnancies in cases of rape and incest from a limitation on use of Department of Defense funds.

Bill: 108-s-2166
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2004-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Abortion
Crime and Law Enforcement
Families
Health
Incest
Military medicine
Rape

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: 
Includes as an exception to the prohibition on the use of Department of Defense funds to perform abortions a case in which the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2229-2230)
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Lewis and Clark National Historical Park Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2167
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2004-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Federal-state relations
Forest management
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
Jefferson Administration
Land transfers
Monuments and memorials
National parks
Oregon
Sports and Recreation
State parks
Trails
Washington State
West (U.S.)

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: 
Lewis and Clark National Historical Park Act of 2004 - Establishes the Lewis and Clark National Historical Park in the States of Washington and Oregon as a unit of the National Park System.

action_date: 2004-09-15
text: 
Lewis and Clark National Historical Park Act of 2004 - Establishes the Lewis and Clark National Historical Park in the States of Washington and Oregon as a unit of the National Park System.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior, subject to valid rights (including withdrawals), to transfer to the Director of the National Park Service management of any Federal land at Cape Disappointment, Washington, that is within the boundary of the Park.
 
Revokes withdrawals of the 20-acre parcel depicted on the map as &quot;Memorial to Thomas Jefferson.&quot; Directs the Secretary to establish a memorial to Thomas Jefferson.
 
Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-17
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2004-09-17
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2004-09-17
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S9351; text as passed Senate: CR 9/20/2004 S9390-9391)
action_date: 2004-09-15
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S9351; text as passed Senate: CR 9/20/2004 S9390-9391)
action_date: 2004-08-25
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 678.
action_date: 2004-08-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici under authority of the order of the Senate of 07/22/04 with amendments. With written report No. 108-322.
action_date: 2004-08-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici under authority of the order of the Senate of 07/22/04 with amendments. With written report No. 108-322.
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-626.
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Equity in Law Enforcement Act

Bill: 108-s-2168
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2004-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Equipment and supplies
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal aid to transportation
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Private police
Railroad employees
Railroads
Safety measures
School personnel
School security
Survivors' benefits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: 
Equity in Law Enforcement Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include within the definition of &quot;public safety officer&quot; (thus qualifying for line-of-duty death and disability benefits) individuals serving private institutions of higher education in an official capacity as law enforcement officers, or employed by a rail carrier as police officers, who are sworn, licensed, or certified under State law for purposes of law enforcement and trained to meet training standards for law enforcement officers established by the relevant governmental appointing authority.
 
Qualifies such officers serving private institutions of higher education and rail carriers under that Act's programs of matching grants for law enforcement armor vests and technical assistance to States and local governments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2231)
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2230-2231)
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
RARE Act

Bill: 108-s-2169
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL]
Introduced: 2004-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Alabama
Animals
Biological diversity
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dredging
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Environmental Protection
Environmental monitoring
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal-state relations
Florida
Georgia
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Habitat conservation
Navigation
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Riparian ecology
Rivers
Transportation and Public Works
Watersheds
Waterways

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Restore the Apalachicola River Ecosystem Act or the RARE Act - Modifies the project for navigation, Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, and Flint Rivers, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama, and the project for the West Point Reservoir, Chattahoochee River, Georgia, to: (1) deauthorize the channel between the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway near Apalachicola to Jim Woodruff Dam near Chattahoochee; and (2) authorize the Secretary of the Army to develop a comprehensive plan to restore the Apalachicola River basin with the goal of reestablishing the ecological integrity of the Apalachicola River basin ecosystem.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2232)
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2231-2232)
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act

Bill: 108-s-2170
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2004-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Computer software
Computers
Decision making
Department of Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Meteorological research
Rain and rainfall
Remote sensing
Research and development
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Weather control
Weather forecasting

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: 
Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act - Establishes in the Department of Commerce the Weather Modification Advisory and Research Board to promote and fund research and development (R&D), studies, and investigations with respect to: (1) improved forecast and decision-making technologies for weather modification operations, including tailored computer workstations and software and new observation systems with remote sensors; and (2) assessments and evaluations of the efficacy of weather modification, both purposeful (including cloud-seeding operations) and inadvertent (including downwind effects and anthropogenic effects).
 
Establishes within the U.S. Treasury the Weather Modification Research and Development Fund. Directs the Board, unless the use of the money is restricted or subject to any limitations provided by law, to use amounts in the Fund to: (1) pay its expenses in the administration of this Act; and (2) provide for R&D with respect to weather modifications by grants to, or contracts or cooperative arrangements with, public or private agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2232-2233)
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2232)
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
First Responders Homeland Defense Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2171
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2004-03-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Emergency medicine
Equipment and supplies
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to law enforcement
Fire departments
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health
Labor and Employment
Law enforcement officers
Medical personnel
Medical supplies
Nonprofit organizations
Paramedical personnel
Police
Police communication systems
Police training
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Telephone
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: 
First Responders Homeland Defense Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a toll-free hotline through which local governments and nonprofit organizations may obtain information regarding all Federal grant programs that make funds available for the assistance of first responders and for terrorism preparedness.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to: (1) nonprofit organizations for training and equipping first responders; and (2) States, local governments, local law enforcement agencies, and local fire departments to assist in improving or purchasing communication systems to permit real-time, interoperable communication between State and local first responders.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2233)
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Tribal Contract Support Cost Technical Amendments of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2172
Sponsor: Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO]
Introduced: 2004-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Authorization
Collection of accounts
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Minorities
Overhead costs

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-08
text: 
Tribal Contract Support Cost Technical Amendments of 2004 - Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to entitle Indian tribes or tribal organizations to receive, and use at their own discretion, Federal payments for certain contract support costs. 
 
Applies such contract support cost entitlement requirements to tribal agreements with: (1) the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Indian Affairs; and (2) the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Indian Health Service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2004-04-28
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 108-540.
action_date: 2004-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2303-2304)
action_date: 2004-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2303)
action_date: 2004-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to include podiatrists as physicians for purposes of covering physicians services under the medicaid program.

Bill: 108-s-2174
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2004-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medicaid
Medical fees
Physicians
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-08
text: 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to include podiatrists as physicians in order to cover their services under the Medicaid program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2304-2305)
action_date: 2004-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
High-End Computing Revitalization Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2176
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2004-03-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Computer programming
Computer software
Computers
Department of Energy
Economics and Public Finance
Engineering
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Laboratories
Research and development
Research grants
Semiconductors
Supercomputers
Technological innovations
Technology transfer

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-08
text: 
High-End Computing Revitalization Act of 2004 - Instructs the Secretary of Energy to implement a research and development program to advance high-end computing systems, including establishment of a coordinated set of facilities for investigators to develop ultrascale scientific computing capability for: (1) scientific research and development using high-end computing systems; and (2) development of potential advancements in high-end computing system architecture and software. 
 
Requires such program to include establishment of at least one High-End Software Development Center.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-674.
action_date: 2004-05-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4729-4732)
action_date: 2004-03-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of  measure as introduced: CR S2308-2309)
action_date: 2004-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2308)
action_date: 2004-03-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Military Survivors' Fairness Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2177
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2004-03-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Families
Labor and Employment
Military pensions
Retired military personnel
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2004-03-09
text: Military Survivors' Fairness Act of 2004 - Amends Federal provisions relating to the military Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) to change from October 1, 2008, to October 1, 2004, the effective date on or after which no reduction may be made in the retired pay of an SBP participant for any month after the later of: (1) the 360th month for which such pay was so reduced; and (2) the month during which the participant attains 70 years of age.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2442)
action_date: 2004-03-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 2441-2442)
action_date: 2004-03-09
text: Introduced in Senate