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Direct Support Professional Fairness and Security Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5197
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2004-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Auditing
Caregivers
Community health services
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost of living adjustments
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Home care services
Labor and Employment
Medicaid
Paramedical personnel
Performance measurement
Planning
Recruiting of employees
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Respite care
Social Welfare
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: 
Direct Support Professional Fairness and Security Act of 2004 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide funds to States to enable them to increase the wages paid to targeted direct support professionals in providing services to individuals with disabilities under the Medicaid program. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services, to audit a sample from among the States in order to assess the effectiveness of progress made in reducing or eliminating the wage gap between targeted and reference direct support professionals through funds under this Act.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the wage equalization and recruitment and retention of direct support professionals who are providing services and supports to individuals with disabilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Introduced in House
To clarify issues of criminal jurisdiction within the exterior boundaries of Pueblo lands.

Bill: 108-hr-5198
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Tom [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2004-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Federal-Indian relations
Indian lands
Indian law enforcement
Jurisdiction
Law
Minorities
New Mexico

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: 
Amends the Pueblo Lands Act of 1924 to allocate jurisdiction over offenses committed anywhere within the exterior boundaries of any grant from a prior sovereign to a Pueblo Indian tribe of New Mexico to: (1) the Pueblo for any offense committed by a member of a federally recognized Indian tribe or by any other Indian-owned entity; (2) the United States for any specified Federal offense that is committed by or against such a member or entity or that involves any Indian property or interest; and (3) the State of New Mexico for any offense committed by a person who is not a member of a federally recognized tribe, which offense is not subject to U.S. jurisdiction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Introduced in House
Military Families Leave Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5199
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Tom [D-NM-3]
Introduced: 2004-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Families
Family leave
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Military dependents
Military personnel

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: 
Military Families Leave Act of 2004 - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, and Federal law relating to the Armed Forces, to entitle eligible employees to certain leave because of any qualifying exigency arising out of the fact that their spouse, son, daughter, or parent is a member of the Armed Forces who is serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation or has been notified of an impending call or order to such active duty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2004-09-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2004-09-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2004-09-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2004-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Introduced in House
No Child Left Behind Improvement and Flexibility Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5200
Sponsor: Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1]
Introduced: 2004-09-30 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Administrative remedies
Compensatory education
Department of Education
Disabled
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Illiteracy
Language arts
Law
Licenses
Mathematics
Rating of teachers
Reading
Rural education
School administration
School choice
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Teacher education
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: 
No Child Left Behind Improvement and Flexibility Act of 2004 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise certain requirements which were added by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, including ones relating to: (1) academic assessments and adequate yearly progress; (2) teacher qualifications; (3) special education students; and (4) rural schools.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on electron guns for cathode ray tubes (CRT's) with a high definition television screen aspect ratio of 16:9, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-5201
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2004-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Equipment and supplies
Science, Technology, Communications
Tariff
Television
Video display terminals

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2006, the duty on electron guns for cathode ray tubes (CRT's) with a high definition television screen aspect ratio of 16:9, liquid crystal display (LCD) panel assemblies for use in LCD projection type televisions, and plasma display panels for use in plasma flat screen televisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Introduced in House
To clarify the treatment of supplemental appropriations in calculating the rate for operations applicable for continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2005.

Bill: 108-hr-5202
Sponsor: Rep. Young, C. W. Bill [R-FL-10]
Introduced: 2004-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget resolutions
Continuing resolutions
Federal budgets
Supplemental appropriations

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: 
Declares that supplemental appropriations shall be included in the calculation of the rate for operations in FY 2004 appropriations Acts specified by Public Law 108-309 only in accordance with the attachments to Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 04-05 entitled &quot;Apportionment of the Continuing Resolution(s) for Fiscal Year 2005.&quot;

action_date: 2004-10-04
text: 

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

 
Declares that supplemental appropriations shall be included in the calculation of the rate for operations in FY 2004 appropriations Acts specified by Public Law 108-309 only in accordance with the attachments to Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 04-05 entitled &quot;Apportionment of the Continuing Resolution(s) for Fiscal Year 2005.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7977)
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H7977)
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5202.
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7977-7978)
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Mr. Young (FL) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5203
Sponsor: Rep. Stenholm, Charles W. [D-TX-17]
Introduced: 2004-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Agricultural subsidies
Animals
Commerce
Crop insurance
Department of Agriculture
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal budgets
Finance and Financial Sector
Fruit
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Law
Livestock
Losses
Minorities
Native Americans
Off-budget expenditures
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Trees
Weather

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: 
Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide emergency financial assistance to agricultural producers who have incurred qualifying 2003 or 2004 crop losses due to weather or related conditions. Permits producers with qualifying losses in both years to elect to receive payments in either, but not both, of such years. Makes producers ineligible for crop disaster assistance if they did not: (1) get Federal crop insurance for insurable commodities; and (2) file required paperwork and pay related fees for noninsurable commodities. Sets forth waiver provisions. Reduces payments for amounts received under a specified crop loss program announced in 2004.
 
 Directs the Secretary to provide payments to livestock producers who have incurred 2003 or 2004 losses in an emergency-designated county, with discretionary set-asides for the American Indian livestock program. Permits producers with qualifying losses in both years to elect to receive payments in either, but not both, of such years. 
 
Directs the Secretary to provide assistance under the tree assistance program to tree farmers who have suffered losses during the 2003-2004 winter.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Introduced in House
Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park Boundary Extension Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5205
Sponsor: Rep. Case, Ed [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2004-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boundaries
Hawaii
Land transfers
National parks

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: 
Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park Boundary Extension Act of 2004 - Extends the boundary of the Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park in the State of Hawaii.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1793-1794)
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income certain hazard mitigation assistance.

Bill: 108-hr-5206
Sponsor: Rep. Foley, Mark [R-FL-16]
Introduced: 2004-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Disaster relief
Emergency Management
Flood damage prevention
Income tax
Tax exclusion
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income hazard mitigation payments received under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act or the National Flood Insurance Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to increase the amount of the military death gratuity from $12,000 to $75,000.

Bill: 108-hr-5207
Sponsor: Rep. Fossella, Vito [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2004-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Families
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Military dependents
Military pensions
Survivors' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: 
Increases to $75,000 the amount of death gratuity payable with respect to members of the Armed Forces. 
 
Makes this increase applicable with respect to deaths occurring on or after September 11, 2001.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Introduced in House
Gun-Free Hospital Zones Act

Bill: 108-hr-5208
Sponsor: Rep. Meehan, Martin T. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2004-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Fines (Penalties)
Firearms control
Health
Hospitals
Sentences (Criminal procedure)

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: 
Gun-Free Hospital Zones Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit the possession of a firearm in a hospital zone. Makes exceptions with respect to possession: (1) on private property that is not on hospital grounds; (2) on public property outside any enclosed structure by an individual who has a license provided by the State or local government which requires law enforcement authority verification of the individual's eligibility; (3) in accordance with a contract with the hospital; or (4) by a law enforcement authority acting in official capacity. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Introduced in House
Lowell National Historical Park Boundary Adjustment Act

Bill: 108-hr-5209
Sponsor: Rep. Meehan, Martin T. [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2004-10-04 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boundaries
Commemorations
Commerce
Historic sites
History
Industrialization
Land transfers
Massachusetts
National parks

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: 
Lowell National Historical Park Boundary Adjustment Act - Modifies the boundary of the Lowell National Historical Park to include certain properties in the City of Lowell, Massachusetts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-04
text: Introduced in House
Troops Phone Home Free Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5210
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2004-10-05 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Armed forces abroad
Families
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military dependents
Military pay
Science, Technology, Communications
South Asia
Telecommunication rates
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: 
Troops Phone Home Free Act of 2004 - Requires the Secretary of Defense to provide, wherever practicable, prepaid phone cards, or an equivalent telecommunications benefit which includes access to telephone service, to members of the Armed Forces deployed outside the United States who are directly supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom to enable such members to make telephone calls to family and friends in the United States without cost to the member. Limits the value of such benefit to not more than $40 per month per person.
 
Terminates such benefit on the date that is 60 days after the date on which the Secretary determines that both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom have ended.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: Introduced in House
New Shipper Review Amendment Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5211
Sponsor: Rep. Pickering, Charles W. "Chip" [R-MS-3]
Introduced: 2004-10-05 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Collection of accounts
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Countervailing duties
Customs administration
Department of Commerce
Dumping
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Imports
Law
Surety and fidelity

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: 
New Shipper Review Amendment Act of 2004 - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 with respect to with respect to reviews by the administering authority to establish an individual weighted average dumping margin or an individual countervailing duty rate (as the case may be) for a new exporter or producer that: (1) did not export the merchandise that was the subject of an antidumping duty or countervailing duty order to the United States during the period of investigation; and (2) was not affiliated with any exporter or producer who did.
 
Suspends, until three years after enactment of this Act, the requirement that the administering authority direct the Customs Service to allow, at the option of the importer of such merchandise, the posting, until completion of the review, of a bond or security in lieu of a cash deposit for each entry of the subject merchandise (bonding privileges). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: Introduced in House
Save Every Child Using Restraints Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-5214
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2004-10-05 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child safety
Department of Transportation
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Motor vehicle safety
School buses
Seat belts

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: 
Save Every Child Using Restraints Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe regulations establishing a safety standard requiring that all school buses with a gross vehicle weight of more than 10,000 pounds be equipped with three-point safety belts on all seats.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: Introduced in House
Senior Elder Care Relief and Empowerment (SECURE) Act

Bill: 108-hr-5215
Sponsor: Rep. Burns, Max [R-GA-12]
Introduced: 2004-10-05 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adult day care
Caregivers
Chronically ill
Costs
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Income tax
Long-term care
Respite care
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: 
Senior Elder Care Relief and Empowerment (SECURE) Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a nonrefundable income tax credit for 50 percent of expenses exceeding $1,000 that are incurred for the care of chronically ill individuals who have attained normal retirement age (as determined under the Social Security Act). Allows the credit for certain long-term care services, respite care, or adult day care, but disqualifies expenses that are compensated by insurance or paid to a nursing facility. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on chloroneb.

Bill: 108-hr-5216
Sponsor: Rep. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2004-10-05 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Chemicals
Environmental Protection
Fungicides
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 2007, the duty on Chloroneb. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-10-05
text: Introduced in House