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To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange all or part of certain administrative sites and other land in the Ozark-St. Francis and Ouachita National Forests and to use funds derived from the sale or exchange to acquire, construct, or improve administrative sites, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-3744
Sponsor: Rep. Ross, Mike [D-AR-4]
Introduced: 2004-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arkansas
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Land transfers
National forests
Oklahoma

Summary:
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange certain administrative sites and land in the Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas and Oklahoma, and the Ozark-St. Francis National Forest, Arkansas. States that any resultant funds shall be available for acquisition, improvement, or construction of administrative facilities, land, or interests in land for the national forests in Arkansas or Oklahoma.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-04-28
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2004-03-17
text: Favorable Executive Comment Received from USDA.
action_date: 2004-01-30
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2004-01-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2004-01-29
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2004-01-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2004-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2004-01-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2004-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Tribal and Local Communities Relationship Improvement Act

Bill: 108-hr-3745
Sponsor: Rep. Shays, Christopher [R-CT-4]
Introduced: 2004-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal advisory bodies
Federal-Indian relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Gambling
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Health
Housing and Community Development
Identification of criminals
Independent regulatory commissions
Indian economic development
Indian education
Indian housing
Indian lands
Indian law enforcement
Indian medical care
Infrastructure
Investors
Law
Legislation
Licenses
Minorities
Organized crime
Presidential commissions
Sports and Recreation
Standard of living
State government-Indian relations

Summary:
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: 
Tribal and Local Communities Relationship Improvement Act - Amends the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to make invalid any tribal-State compact entered into after the enactment of this Act unless it is approved by the Governor and legislature of the State with which the compact was negotiated (with an exception for compact renewals that do not expand covered gambling operations). Requires approval by a State legislature (as well as by the State Governor, as under current law) of Indian gaming as regulated under such Act on lands acquired in trust by the Secretary of the Interior after October 17, 1988.
 
Prohibits the conduct of class III gaming on more than one parcel of land of an Indian tribe (unless under valid existing Tribal-State compacts, but on no more parcels than those on which gaming is conducted on the date of enactment of this Act). 
Directs the President to establish the Advisory Committee on Minimum Regulatory Requirements and Licensing Standards for Indian Gaming. Requires Committee recommendations to be submitted to specified congressional committees, the National Indian Gaming Commission, and each federally recognized Indian tribe. 
Establishes the Commission on Native American Policy to study and report to Congress on living standards in Indian country, including health, infrastructure, economic development, educational opportunities, housing, crime control on Indian reservations, the influence of organized crime on Indian gaming, and other specified matters.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-01-30
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: Introduced in House
To designate the community center at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, as the "Robert J. Dole Community Center" in honor of World War II veteran and former United States Representative and Senator Robert J. Dole.

Bill: 108-hr-3746
Sponsor: Rep. Tiahrt, Todd [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2004-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Air force
Armed Forces and National Security
Community centers
Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
History
House of Representatives
Kansas
Military bases
Names
Senate
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: 
Designates the community center at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, known as Emerald City, as the Robert J. Dole Community Center in honor of World War II veteran and former United States Representative and Senator Robert J. Dole.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Wallowa Lake Dam Rehabilitation and Water Management Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3747
Sponsor: Rep. Walden, Greg [R-OR-2]
Introduced: 2004-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Animals
Construction costs
Dams
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Federal aid to water resources development
Lakes
Minorities
Native Americans
Oregon
Salmon
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: 
Wallowa Lake Dam Rehabilitation and Water Management Act of 2004 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation: (1) to provide funding to the Associated Ditch Companies, Incorporated, to plan, design, and construct facilities needed to implement the Wallowa Lake Dam Rehabilitation Program; and (2) in cooperation with tribal, State, and local governmental entities, to participate in the planning, design, and construction of facilities needed to implement the Wallowa Valley Water Management Plan.
 
Limits the Federal share of the cost of activities authorized under this Act to 80 percent and prohibits the Federal Government from holding title to any facility rehabilitated or constructed under this Act. Permits only the Nez Perce Tribe to own and operate any facility located at the Dam for trapping and transportation of migratory adult salmon.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-24
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2004-01-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Cost Integrity and Fairness Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3748
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2004-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Coinsurance
Cost of living adjustments
Costs
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Insurance premiums
Medical economics
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: 
Health Care Cost Integrity and Fairness Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a limited (up to $3,000 annually) advanceable tax credit for amounts paid for qualified health insurance for coverage of the taxpayer, his spouse, and dependents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Local Government Internet Tobacco Sales Enforcement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3749
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2004-01-28 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Business records
Cigarettes
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Confidential communications
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Directories
Electronic commerce
Electronic government information
Excise tax
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Indian lands
Injunctions
Internet
Interstate commerce
Law
Local taxation
Minorities
Native Americans
Sales tax
Science, Technology, Communications
Smokeless tobacco
State government-Indian relations
State taxation
Telephone
Tobacco
Tobacco tax
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: 
Local Government Internet Tobacco Sales Enforcement Act of 2004 - Amends the Jenkins Act to require each person who engages in an interstate sale of cigarettes or smokeless tobacco or in an interstate distribution of cigarettes or smokeless tobacco to comply with all applicable excise, sales, and use tax laws in the State and place in which the cigarettes or smokeless tobacco are delivered.
 
 Prohibits the cigarettes or smokeless tobacco from being delivered to the buyer unless in advance of the delivery the excise tax has been paid and any required stamps or other indicia that such tax has been paid are properly affixed or applied, with an exception. 
 
Authorizes a State attorney general or the chief law enforcement officer of a local government that imposes an excise tax on cigarettes or smokeless tobacco to bring a civil action to obtain appropriate relief against anyone who violates such prohibition or who knowingly assists or participates in such a violation. 
 
Declares that the Act does not prohibit an authorized State, local, or tribal government official from proceeding in State or tribal court. 
Makes the Act's provisions regarding State tax collection inapplicable to certain sales that occur exclusively in Indian country. 
Expresses the sense of Congress that unique harms are associated with the remote interstate sales of cigarette and smokeless tobacco. Affirms Congress' longstanding interest in encouraging compliance and enforcement of State laws that relate to remote (including Internet) sales of such products.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-01-28
text: Introduced in House
Pacific Insular Areas Rural Telemedicine Act

Bill: 108-hr-3750
Sponsor: Del. Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [D-GU-At Large]
Introduced: 2004-01-30 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
American Samoa
Commerce
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Guam
Hawaii
Health
Housing and Community Development
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Northern Mariana Islands
Telecommunication industry
Telecommunication rates
Telemedicine

Summary:
action_date: 2004-01-30
text: 
Pacific Insular Areas Rural Telemedicine Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require a telecommunications carrier, in providing telecommunications services to health care providers for American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam (collectively referred to as territories), to treat Honolulu, Hawaii, as the urban area whose telecommunications rate shall be used for comparison purposes in determining the appropriate rate to be charged for telecommunications services to health care providers for such territories.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2004-01-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-01-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E79-80)
action_date: 2004-01-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-01-30
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the restoration of the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-3753
Sponsor: Rep. Hoeffel, Joseph M. [D-PA-13]
Introduced: 2004-02-03 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Architecture and the disabled
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Disabled
Exhibitions
Government Operations and Politics
Intellectual property
Inventors
Lighting
Maintenance and repair
Monuments and memorials
Museums
Pennsylvania
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientists
Sculpture
Signs and signboards
Tourism

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, through the National Park Service, to rehabilitate and make improvements to the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial, including the Memorial Hall and the Franklin statue, located in The Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
 
 Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a cooperative agreement with the Franklin Institute to: (1) repair and restore the dome of the Memorial Hall; (2) construct ramps and handrails in the Institute to improve access to the Memorial; (3) clean and refurbish the entrance stairs, marble walls, and floors of the Hall, and the statue; (4) create an updated visitor education experience for the Memorial that includes sound, video, and holographic technologies, and a 10,000 square foot exhibit adjacent to the Hall dedicated to Benjamin Franklin; and (5) update lighting and signage, inscribe inspirational quotations, and make audiovisual additions for the Memorial.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-05
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2004-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Introduced in House
Fraudulent Online Identity Sanctions Act

Bill: 108-hr-3754
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2004-02-03 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Copyright
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Directories
Evidence (Law)
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Internet
Names
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Trademarks
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: 
Fraudulent Online Identity Sanctions Act - Amends the Trademark Act of 1946 and Federal copyright law to provide that a trademark or copyright infringement violation shall be considered to be willful if the violator knowingly provided material and misleading false contact information in making, maintaining, or renewing registration of a domain name used in connection with an online location.
 
Amends the Federal criminal code to require the maximum imprisonment otherwise provided for a felony offense to be increased by seven years if the defendant, in furtherance of that offense, knowingly provided material and misleading false contact information in connection with a domain name registration.

action_date: 2004-06-09
text: 
Fraudulent Online Identity Sanctions Act - Amends the Trademark Act of 1946 and Federal copyright law to make it a violation of trademark and copyright law if a person knowingly provided, or caused to be provided, materially false contact information in making, maintaining, or renewing the registration of a domain name used in connection with the violation.
 
Amends the Federal criminal code to require the maximum imprisonment otherwise provided for a felony offense to be doubled or increased by seven years, whichever is less, if the defendant knowingly falsely registers a domain name and uses that domain name in the course of the felony offense. Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to review and amend sentencing guidelines with respect to a conviction for the false registration and use of a domain name during the course of a felony offense.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-09
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 310.
action_date: 2004-06-09
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 108-536.
action_date: 2004-06-09
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 108-536.
action_date: 2004-05-12
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2004-05-12
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2004-03-31
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2004-03-31
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Introduced in House
To establish a National Commission on Digestive Diseases.

Bill: 108-hr-3756
Sponsor: Rep. Blunt, Roy [R-MO-7]
Introduced: 2004-02-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Clinical trials
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Digestive diseases
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Epidemiology
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Health planning
Health surveys
Higher education
Imaging systems in medicine
Legislation
Medical education
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical technology
Medical tests
Mortality
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Nutrition
Preventive medicine
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human and Human Services to establish a National Commission on Digestive Diseases, which shall: (1) study the incidence, duration, and mortality rates of digestive diseases, as well as their social and economic impacts; (2) evaluate public and private facilities and resources (including trained personnel and research activities) for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of such diseases; (3) identify related disease management programs (including biological, behavioral, nutritional, environmental, and social programs); and (4) develop a long-range plan for the use and organization of national resources to effectively deal with digestive diseases. 
 
Terminates the Commission 30 days after submission of its final report.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 23, United States Code, to permit States to carry out surface transportation program projects on local roads to address safety concerns.

Bill: 108-hr-3757
Sponsor: Rep. DeMint, Jim [R-SC-4]
Introduced: 2004-02-03 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Highway finance
Highway maintenance
Infrastructure
Road construction
Roads and highways
Traffic accidents and safety

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: 
Authorizes a State to undertake a surface transportation program project on any State-maintained public road, including a road functionally classified as a local or rural minor collector, if the State determines that the project is necessary to address high fatality rates or other safety concerns.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines.
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Introduced in House
Transform America Transaction Fee of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3759
Sponsor: Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2004-02-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative fees
Collection of accounts
Community development
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumption
Department of the Treasury
Depressed areas
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Excise tax
Executive reorganization
Federal employees
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Fiscal policy
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Health
Health insurance
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Infrastructure
Job creation
Labor and Employment
Law
Medically uninsured
Misconduct in office
Progressive taxation
Public debt
Public schools
Revenue sharing
Rural economic development
Sales tax
Saving and investment
Secondary education
Tax credits
Tax exemption
Tax expenditures
Tax incentives
Tax penalties
Tax rates
Tax rebates
Turnover tax
Urban affairs
Urban economic development
Waste in government spending

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: 
Transform America Transaction Fee of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to conduct an in-depth study on the implementation of a transaction tax in the United States, including a detailed feasibility and impact analysis of, and an implementation/action plan for, a proposal to replace all existing Federal taxes with a per transaction fee based on the value of the transaction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H256)
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Introduced in House
Port of Lewiston Development Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-3760
Sponsor: Rep. Otter, C. L. (Butch) [R-ID-1]
Introduced: 2004-02-03 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Civil engineering
Commerce
Emergency Management
Flood damage prevention
Harbors
Housing and Community Development
Idaho
Industrial buildings
Infrastructure
Land transfers
Land use
Marine terminals
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Real estate development

Summary:
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: 
Port of Lewiston Development Act of 2004 - Extinguishes for specified deeds located in Nez Perce County, Idaho: (1) the reversionary interests and use restrictions relating to industrial use purposes; (2) the restrictions that no activity be allowed to compete with services and facilities offered by public marinas; and (3) the human habitation or other building structure use restriction in each area in which the elevation is above the standard project flood elevation. Authorizes the use of fill material to raise low areas above the standard project flood elevation for such deeds, except in any low area constituting wetland which requires a permit under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-02-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-02-03
text: Introduced in House