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SACRIFICE of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2516
Sponsor: Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2004-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Air force
Armed forces abroad
Army
Commemorations
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional tributes
Defense budgets
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Health
Iraq compilation
Maintenance and repair
Medical research
Medical supplies
Medical technology
Military and naval supplies
Military dependents
Military medicine
Military research
Military transportation
Navy
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: 
Service Act for Care and Relief Initiatives for Forces Injured in Combat Engagements (SACRIFICE) of 2004 - Honors the sacrifice of members of the U.S. Armed Forces who have been killed or critically wounded in service, recognizes the heroic efforts of Armed Forces medical personnel, and supports advanced medical technologies that assist such personnel in saving lives and reducing disability rates among members of the Armed Forces.
 
Requires the Secretary of Defense to: (1) prescribe Department of Defense (DOD) policy for providing timely notification to next of kin of the status of members of the Armed Forces who are seriously ill or injured in a combat zone; and (2) transmit a copy of that policy to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees.
 
Authorizes FY 2005 appropriations to fund medical equipment and combat casualty technologies for the DOD.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6737-6738)
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Ronald Reagan Commemorative Coin Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2517
Sponsor: Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO]
Introduced: 2004-06-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Alzheimer's disease
Charities
Coins and coinage
Economics and Public Finance
Ex-presidents
Federal aid to health facilities
Finance and Financial Sector
Gold
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health education
History
Home care services
Reagan Administration
Silver
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Ronald Reagan Commemorative Coin Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue five-dollar gold coins, one-dollar silver coins, and ten-dollar bimetallic coins emblematic of the presidency and life of former President Ronald Wilson Reagan.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6739-6740)
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6738-6739)
action_date: 2004-06-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Omnibus Low-Level Radioactive Waste Interstate Compact Consent Act to make the consent of Congress to certain compacts contingent on party states sharing the long-term liability for damages caused by radioactive releases from regional facilities.

Bill: 108-s-2518
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Ben [D-NE]
Introduced: 2004-06-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress
Congressional oversight
Energy
Environmental Protection
Government liability
Hazardous wastes
Interstate compacts
Law
Liability for nuclear damages
Radioactive pollution
Radioactive wastes

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: 
Amends the Omnibus Low-Level Radioactive Waste Interstate Compact Consent Act to state that Congress grants its consent only if the Compact provides that all party States to the Compact are jointly and severally liable for the cost of long-term liability incurred in connection with the radioactive release from a regional facility in a Compact host State (in excess of funds available from the extended care and long-term liability fund of the host State and from property and third-party liability insurance), based on the proportionate share of the total volume of waste placed in the regional facilities by generators located in each party state.
 
Declares this condition inapplicable to a party State with a total volume of waste recorded on low-level radioactive waste manifests for any year that is less than ten percent of the total volume recorded on those manifests for the region during the same year. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Iraqi Women and Children's Liberation Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2519
Sponsor: Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2004-06-15 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Administration of justice
Child health
Children's rights
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Constitutions
Credit
Crime and Law Enforcement
Decision making
Democracy
Dictators
Economic assistance
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Ethnic groups
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign leaders
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Human rights
Immigration
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Judges
Labor and Employment
Law
Legislators
Middle East and North Africa
Minorities
Nongovernmental organizations
Police
Police training
Political participation
Political parties
Recruiting of employees
Refugees
Security measures
Subcontractors
War relief
Women
Women in business
Women in public life
Women's education
Women's employment
Women's health
Women's organizations
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: 
Iraqi Women and Children's Liberation Act of 2004 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the United States should ensure that women and children in Iraq benefit from the liberation of Iraq; (2) women of all ethnic groups in Iraq should be included in the economic and political reconstruction of Iraq; and (3) the Government of Iraq should adhere to internationally accepted standards on human rights and rights of women and children.
 
Authorizes the President to provide assistance for: (1) education and health care for Iraqi women and children living in Iraq or living as refugees in other countries; and (2) enhancement of political participation, economic empowerment, civil society, and personal security of women in Iraq. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should ensure that such assistance is: (1) provided in a manner that protects and promotes the human rights of all people in Iraq, utilizing indigenous institutions and nongovernmental organizations, especially women's organizations; and (2) conditioned on the government of Iraq making continued progress toward internationally accepted standards of human rights and the rights of women. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6806-6807)
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6805-6806)
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Healthy Families Act

Bill: 108-s-2520
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2004-06-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Business records
Caregivers
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Collective bargaining
Commerce
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional employees
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Department of Labor
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Dismissal of employees
Employee rights
Employers' liability
Families
Family leave
Family violence
Federal employees
Fines (Penalties)
General Accounting Office
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Grievance procedures
Health
Informers
Injunctions
Labor contracts
Labor productivity
Labor statistics
Law
Leave of absence
Legal fees
Library of Congress
Limitation of actions
Married people
Medical records
Medical tests
Parents
Part-time employment
Personnel records
Preventive medicine
Right of privacy
Sick leave
Signs and signboards
Social Welfare
State employees
Wage restitution
Whistle blowing

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: 
Healthy Families Act - Requires certain employers with at least 15 or more employees to provide a minimum paid sick leave of: (1) seven days annually for those who work at least 30 hours per week; and (2) a prorated annual amount for those who work less than 30 but at least 20 hours a week, or less than 1,500 but at least 1,000 hours per year. 
 
Allows employees to use such leave to meet their own medical needs or to care for the medical needs of certain family members.
 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to exercise certain investigative and enforcement authority with respect to this Act's provisions regarding employees covered by title I of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 or the Government Employee Rights Act of 1991. Provides that, for employees under their jurisdiction, such authority shall be exercised by the Librarian of Congress, the Comptroller General, the Board of Directors of the congressional Office of Compliance, or the Merit Systems Protection Board.
 
Declares that the requirements under this Act are minimum requirements, and are not to be construed to discourage employers from adopting or retaining more generous leave policies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain rayon staple fibers.

Bill: 108-s-2521
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2004-06-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Synthetic fibers
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2008, the duty on certain rayon staple fibers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the maximum amount of home loan guaranty available under the home loan guaranty program of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-2522
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2004-06-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgages
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' loans

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: 
Amends Federal veterans' benefits law to revise the maximum amount of home loan guaranty available under the home loan guaranty program of the Department of Veterans Affairs, specifically the guaranty of any loan of more than $144,000. Replaces the current formula of the lesser of $60,000 or 25 percent of the loan with the lesser of a certain maximum guaranty amount or 25 percent of the loan.
 
Defines maximum guaranty amount as the dollar amount equal to 25 percent of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) conforming loan limit limitation determined under the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act for a single-family residence, as adjusted for the year involved.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6807)
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6807)
action_date: 2004-06-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to exempt the Great Plains Region and Rocky Mountain Region of the Bureau of Indian Affairs from trust reform reorganization pending the submission of Agency-specific reorganization plans.

Bill: 108-s-2523
Sponsor: Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD]
Introduced: 2004-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Indian lands
Land transfers
Law
Legislation
Minorities
Planning
Probate law and practice

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from: (1) reorganizing the BIA at the Agency level in its Great Plains Region or its Rocky Mountain Region except with respect to the reform of probate procedure and efforts to encourage land consolidation; and (2) imposing trust management infrastructure reforms on, or altering, the existing trust resource management system of a BIA Agency within such Regions unless the reforms are expressly agreed to by the Indian tribe covered by the Agency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6885-6886)
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6884-6885)
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the provision of health care, rehabilitation, and related services to veterans suffering from trauma relating to a blast injury, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-2524
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL]
Introduced: 2004-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Biological warfare
Bombings
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuum of care
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Epidemiology
Explosives
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government publications
Government publicity
Head injuries
Health
Higher education
Iraq compilation
Medical education
Medical innovations
Medical research
Mental health
Military medicine
Prosthesis
Quality of care
Research centers
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Spinal cord injuries
Trauma care
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' rehabilitation
War casualties
Wounds

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Secretary) to establish and operate at least one, but not more than three, centers for research, education, and clinical activities on blast injuries.
 
Requires the Secretary to designate a center or centers upon the recommendation of the Under Secretary for Health subject to specified requirements and findings.
 
Requires the official within the central office of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) responsible for blast injury matters to establish a peer review panel to assess the scientific and clinical merits of proposals for the designation of centers.
 
Authorizes clinical and scientific investigation activities at each center to compete on a priority basis for the award of funds from amounts appropriated to the Department of Veterans Affairs for medical and prosthetics research.
 
Requires the Under Secretary for Health to ensure that useful information produced by the centers is disseminated throughout the VHA.
 
Gives responsibility for supervising operation of the centers to the official within the central office of the VHA responsible for blast injury matters.
 
Requires the Secretary to designate at least one center no later than January 1, 2005.
 
Directs the Secretary to submit reports on center activities to the House and Senate Veterans' Affairs Committees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6887-6888)
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6886-6887)
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to suspend the duty on certain educational toys and devices.

Bill: 108-s-2527
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2004-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Education
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Science, Technology, Communications
Tariff
Toys

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2007, the duty on certain educational toys and devices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Unshackle Seniors Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2530
Sponsor: Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN]
Introduced: 2004-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Commerce
Consumer discounts
Consumer protection
Drugs
Fees
Medicare
Pharmacies
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: 
Unshackle Seniors Act of 2004 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permit Medicare beneficiaries to purchase more than one prescription drug discount card.
 
Authorizes an individual to elect to disenroll from a prescription drug program, and receive a mandatory refund of the entire annual enrollment fee, if: (1) the individual is involuntarily disenrolled from the program for a reason that is not the individual's fault; (2) the negotiated price of a covered discount card program increases; or (3) the card sponsor changes the applicable formulary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Keeping American Jobs at Home Act

Bill: 108-s-2531
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2004-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Age
Business travel
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporation directors
Department of Labor
Depreciation and amortization
Dislocated workers
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Employment subsidies
Executives
Families
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government insurance
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health insurance
Health insurance continuation
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Law
Liability (Law)
Local employees
Location of industries
Losses
Married people
Medical economics
Medicare
Occupational retraining
State employees
Surveys
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax refunds
Taxation
Trade adjustment assistance
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Trusts and trustees
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Keeping American Jobs at Home Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) prohibit tax credits or deductions for certain expenses relating to the outsourcing of goods and services from the United States; (2) provide for advance payments of the health insurance tax credit for trade adjustment assistance workers (TAA workers) for months prior to the issuance of a qualified health insurance costs credit eligibility certificate; (3) cover spouses of Medicare-eligible TAA workers under such tax credit; and (4) increase the amount of such tax credit from 65 to 75 percent of health insurance costs.
 
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to: (1) extend trade adjustment assistance to workers in the service sector and public agencies; (2) increase funding levels for job retraining programs; and (3) establish a wage insurance program for displaced workers which includes health insurance benefits.
 
Creates a business judgment defense to shareholder lawsuits to protect corporate officers or directors who determine that it is in the best interest of their corporations to keep jobs or other business activities in the United States. 
 
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) prevent a lapse of health care coverage for TAA workers; and (2) align coverage periods under such Acts with eligibility periods for TAA workers. 
 
Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require a State or entity to use national emergency grant funds to provide TAA workers and their family members with health insurance coverage for periods prior to their first eligibility month. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6895-6898)
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6894-6895)
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Montgomery GI Bill for the 21st Century Act

Bill: 108-s-2534
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL]
Introduced: 2004-06-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: College costs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational tests
Families
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Graduate education
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Indexing (Economic policy)
Labor and Employment
Married people
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgages
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' education
Veterans' loans

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: 
Montgomery GI Bill for the 21st Century Act - Reduces, for purposes of certain student financial aid computations, the expected family contribution for individuals receiving educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill (MGIB) by an amount equal to the statutory reduction in basic pay or voluntary separation incentives for such individuals. 
 
Authorizes enrollment in the MGIB basic educational assistance program by certain individuals who participated in or were eligible to participate in the post-Vietnam era veteran's educational assistance program.
 
Provides for commencement of the ten-year delimiting period for the receipt of certain training program benefits by veterans, survivors, and dependents upon commencement of such training.
 
Makes MGIB educational benefits available for payment of fees associated with national admissions exams and national exams for credit at institutions of higher education.
 
Increases the maximum loan guarantee amount for veterans seeking assistance under the Veterans Administration home loan guaranty program by indexing that amount to the Freddie Mac conforming loan limit, adjusted annually.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6904-6905)
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6902-6903)
action_date: 2004-06-16
text: Introduced in Senate