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Ninth Circuit Judgeship and Reorganization Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2278
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2004-04-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Alaska
Appellate courts
Appellate procedure
Arizona
California
Congress
Government Operations and Politics
Guam
Hawaii
Idaho
Judges
Judicial districts
Judicial reform
Judicial tenure
Montana
Nevada
Northern Mariana Islands
Oregon
Presidential appointments
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-01
text: 
Ninth Circuit Judgeship and Reorganization Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal judicial code to divide the Ninth Judicial Circuit into the Ninth Circuit (to be composed of California, Guam, Hawaii, and the Northern Marianas Islands), the Twelfth Circuit (to be composed of Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, and Montana), and Thirteenth Circuit (to be composed of Alaska, Oregon, and Washington State).
 
Requires the President to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, five additional circuit judges for the new Ninth Circuit (not before January 21, 2005) and two temporary judges for the former Ninth Circuit.
 
Specifies the locations where the new circuits are to hold regular sessions.
 
Assigns active circuit judges of the former Ninth Circuit to the new circuits based on their current duty station. Allows senior circuit judges of the former Ninth Circuit to elect assignment to any of the three new circuits.
 
Specifies the disposition of cases pending in the former Ninth Circuit before the effective date of this Act as follows: (1) proceedings in matters that have been submitted for decision shall continue without regard to this Act; (2) matters not yet submitted for decision must be transferred to the court to which they would have been submitted under this Act; and (3) proceedings on petitions for rehearing or rehearing en banc that have been submitted or decided shall continue without regard to this Act.
 
Authorizes the temporary assignment of the circuit and district judges of the former Ninth Circuit among the new circuits. Authorizes administrative coordination among any two contiguous circuits among the new circuits.
 
Directs that the former Ninth Circuit shall cease to exist for administrative purposes two years after enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-07
text: Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts. Hearings held.
action_date: 2004-04-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-04-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Fairness in Pension Stability Act

Bill: 108-s-2282
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2004-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Accounting
Agriculture and Food
Airline employees
Airlines
Annuities
Antitrust law
Bankruptcy
Bonds
Casualty insurance
Civil actions and liability
Civil service retirement
Commerce
Corporate finance
Defined benefit pension plans
Depreciation and amortization
Dividends
Education
Evidence (Law)
Excise tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Government paperwork
Government securities
Health
Higher education
Horticulture
Income tax
Industrial arbitration
Insurance companies
Interest
Interest rates
Iron and steel industry
Labor unions
Law
Liability (Law)
Life insurance
Losses
Medical education
Medical residents
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Pension funds
Pension trust guaranty insurance
Property insurance
Retiree health benefits
Small business
Subsidiary corporations
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Tax penalties
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-05
text: 
 Fairness in Pension Stability Act - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code (Code) to temporarily replace (for plan years 2004 and 2005) the 30-year Treasury rate with a rate based on long-term corporate bonds for certain pension plan funding requirements.
 
Sets forth ERISA and Code provisions for: (1) election by certain plans of an alternative deficit reduction contribution; (2) multiemployer defined benefit plan funding notices; (3) an amortization hiatus for net experience losses in multiemployer plans; (3) procedures applicable to disputes involving pension plan withdrawal liability; and (4) an extension of transfers of excess pension assets to retiree health accounts.
 
Revises Code provisions relating to a tax exemption for small property and casualty insurance companies. Repeals Code provisions relating to reductions of certain tax deductions for mutual life insurance companies.
 
Amends the Retirement Protection Act of 1994 to set forth special transition rules relating to pension funding requirements under ERISA and the Code.
 
Confirms the antitrust status of graduate medical resident matching programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
State High Risk Pool Funding Extension Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2283
Sponsor: Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH]
Introduced: 2004-04-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Authorization
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government insurance
Grants-in-aid
Health insurance
Insurance premiums
Medically uninsured
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-05
text: 
State High Risk Pool Funding Extension Act of 2004 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize funds for States to create high risk health insurance pools and to operate existing State high risk pools. Amends the formula for appropriating funds to States to operate such pools to give one-half of the funds to eligible States equally and apportion the other half based on the number of uninsured individuals in each State and the number of enrollees in the State's qualified high risk pool. (Currently, all funds are allotted based solely on the number of uninsured individuals in the State.) Authorizes appropriations for the program through FY 2009.

action_date: 2004-11-16
text: 

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

 
State High Risk Pool Funding Extension Act of 2004 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize funds for States to create high risk health insurance pools and to operate existing State high risk pools. Amends the formula for appropriating funds to States to operate such pools to give one-half of the funds to eligible States equally and apportion the other half based on the number of uninsured individuals in each State and the number of enrollees in the State's qualified high risk pool. (Currently, all funds are allotted based solely on the number of uninsured individuals in the State.) Authorizes appropriations for the program through FY 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-12-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S11386)
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S11386)
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S11386)
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S11386)
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2004-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2004-04-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Project Expansion Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2284
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Ben [D-NE]
Introduced: 2004-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Coinsurance
Finance and Financial Sector
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Medical economics
Medicare
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-06
text: 
Medicare Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Project Expansion Act of 2004 - Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to expand the Medicare rural community hospital demonstration program to include covered outpatient hospital services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-04-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3792-3793)
action_date: 2004-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the Orville Wright Federal Building and the Wilbur Wright Federal Building in Washington, District of Columbia.

Bill: 108-s-2286
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2004-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Aircraft
Congress
Congressional tributes
District of Columbia
Federal office buildings
Intellectual property
Inventors
Names
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-06
text: 
Designates the Federal buildings located at 800 Independence Avenue and at 600 Independence Avenue, Southwest, Washington, D.C., as the Orville Wright Federal Building and Wilbur Wright Federal Building, respectively.

action_date: 2004-05-11
text: 

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

 
Designates the Federal buildings located at 800 Independence Avenue and at 600 Independence Avenue, Southwest, Washington, D.C., as the Orville Wright Federal Building and Wilbur Wright Federal Building, respectively.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-11
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 510.
action_date: 2004-05-11
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Inhofe without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2004-05-11
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Inhofe without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2004-04-07
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2004-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2004-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Prescription Drug Stewardship Act

Bill: 108-s-2288
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2004-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Curricula
Data banks
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic commerce
Electronic data interchange
Federal aid to education
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health education
Health information systems
Higher education
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Interstate relations
Law
Licenses
Medical associations
Medical education
Medical records
Medication abuse
Mentoring
Patients' rights
Performance measurement
Pharmacies
Public service advertising
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-06
text: 
Prescription Drug Stewardship Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to establish a program to award matching grants for three years to States to establish, maintain, and improve systems to: (1) track the distribution of prescription drugs from the prescribing health care providers to the pharmacy and to the patient; (2) provide education and training to health care providers concerning prescription drug diversion and abuse by patients and colleagues; and (3) increase public awareness of the problem of prescription drug diversion and abuse.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2004-04-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3793-3794)
action_date: 2004-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Railroad Carriers and Mass Transportation Protection Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2289
Sponsor: Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL]
Introduced: 2004-04-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Arson
Biological warfare
Bombings
Bridges
Bus drivers
Capital punishment
Chemical warfare
Conspiracy
Destruction of property
EBB Terrorism
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection
Explosives
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Life imprisonment
Mandatory sentences
Marine safety
Marine transportation
Mass rapid transit
Motor buses
Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear weapons
Passenger ships
Radioactive wastes
Railroad employees
Railroad equipment
Railroad freight operations
Railroad passenger traffic
Railroad safety
Railroad terminals
Railroads
School buses
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Subways
Terminals (Transportation)
Terrorism
Traffic accidents and safety
Traffic signs and signals
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances
Transportation safety
Transportation workers
Tunnels
Weapons

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-06
text: 
Railroad Carriers and Mass Transportation Protection Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal criminal code to rewrite provisions prohibiting acts of destruction and violence against trains, railroad equipment and structures, and the mass transportation system to: (1) correspond with current prohibitions against acts of violence against the mass transportation system; (2) apply such provisions to acts committed knowingly (currently, willfully); and (3) add as an aggravated offense the commission of such prohibited act under circumstances in which the railroad on-track equipment or mass transportation vehicle was carrying high-level radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel, or specified hazardous material. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced in Senate:  CR S3794-3795)
action_date: 2004-04-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 14-24 Abbott Road in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, as the "Mary Ann Collura Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-s-2291
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2004-04-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Crime and Law Enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Names
New Jersey
Police
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-07
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 14-24 Abbott Road in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, as the "Mary Ann Collura 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 14-24 Abbott Road in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, as the Mary Ann Collura Post Office Building.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-07
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 578.
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: 2004-04-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S3924)
action_date: 2004-04-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3924)
action_date: 2004-04-07
text: Introduced in Senate
United States Court of Federal Claims Termination Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2293
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2004-04-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Claims
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Courts of special jurisdiction
District courts
Government liability
Judicial reform
Legislation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-07
text: 
United States Court of Federal Claims Termination Act of 2004 - Prohibits the filing of claims in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (the Court) upon enactment of this Act and terminates the Court effective one year from enactment. 
 
Requires the Chief Justice of the United States to promulgate regulations for the orderly transfer of all claims pending before the Court to appropriate U.S. courts.
 
Requires the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to submit a report to Congress containing recommendations for legislation to carry out this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-04-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Jornada Experimental Range Transfer Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2294
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2004-04-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Environmental Protection
Hazardous wastes
Land transfers
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Natural areas
New Mexico
Parks
Research natural areas
Right-of-way
Surveying
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-07
text: 
Jornada Experimental Range Transfer Act of 2004 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the Chihuahuan Desert Nature Park Board (Board) for educational purposes not more than 1,000 acres of land that is located in the Jornada Experimental Range in the State of New Mexico and that is subject to an easement granted by the Agricultural Research Service to the Board.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S3927)
action_date: 2004-04-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3927)
action_date: 2004-04-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to give the Commonwealth of Kentucky the first option on the Louisville Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Kentucky, upon its conveyance, lease or other disposal by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 108-s-2296
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2004-04-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Kentucky
Land transfers
Leases
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Surplus government property
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-07
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, upon determining to convey, lease, or otherwise dispose of the Louisville Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Kentucky, or any portion thereof, to negotiate for such disposal solely with the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Requires such exclusive negotiations to continue for one year after their commencement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2004-04-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2004-04-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Employee Stock Ownership Plan Promotion and Improvement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2298
Sponsor: Sen. Breaux, John B. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2004-04-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Dividends
Education
Employee ownership
Finance and Financial Sector
Higher education
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Minimum tax
Mutual funds
Small business
Stockholders
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax deferral
Tax penalties
Tax refunds
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2004-04-07
text: 
Employee Stock Ownership Plan Promotion and Improvement Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) treat certain distributions by S corporations to an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) as deductible dividends; (2) exempt deductions for ESOP dividends from corporate alternative minimum tax adjustments based on adjusted earnings and profits; (3) allow deferral of the recognition of gain for certain sales to ESOP's sponsored by any domestic corporation, including S corporations; (4) allow reinvestment of ESOP stock proceeds eligible for nonrecognition of gain in certain mutual funds; (5) modify certain ESOP stock ownership rules; and (6) allow early distributions from an ESOP for higher education expenses and first-time homebuyer purchases without penalty. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-04-07
text: Introduced in Senate