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A bill to provide certain enhancements to the Montgomery GI Bill Program for certain individuals who serve as members of the Armed Forces after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-2849
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2004-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Education
Executive orders
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
Iraq compilation
Military pay
Military personnel
National Guard
Payroll deductions
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-27
text: 
Exempts from the mandatory payroll deductions ($100 for the first 12 months of active duty pay) under the veterans' basic educational assistance program, members of the Armed Forces and Selected Reserve on active duty between November 16, 2001, and the termination date of Executive Order 13235, who elect to receive basic educational assistance. Provides for reimbursement of payroll deductions taken prior to the enactment of this Act. Allows such members to withdraw an election not to receive basic educational assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduce: CR S9724)
action_date: 2004-09-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9723-9724)
action_date: 2004-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to authorize the President to posthumously award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Fred McFeely Rogers, in recognition of his lasting contributions to the application of creativity and imagination in the early education of our Nation's children, and to his lasting example to the Nation and the world of what it means to be a good neighbor.

Bill: 108-s-2850
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2004-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Child welfare
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Education
Educational television
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Ethics
Families
Science, Technology, Communications
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-27
text: 
Authorizes the President to posthumously award a gold medal, on behalf of Congress, to Fred McFeely Rogers (&quot;Mister Rogers&quot; of &quot;Mister Rogers Neighborhood&quot; public television program) in recognition of his lasting contributions to the application of creativity and imagination in the early education of our Nation's children, and to his lasting example to the Nation and the world of what it means to be a good neighbor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2004-09-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9724-9725)
action_date: 2004-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to establish certain conditions under which a Farm Credit System institution can terminate its status as a System institution.

Bill: 108-s-2851
Sponsor: Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD]
Introduced: 2004-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Agricultural credit
Farm Credit Administration
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Public meetings

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: 
Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 with respect to the termination of a Farm Credit System institution's participant status to require the Farm Credit Administration to: (1) hold public hearings in the affected States; and (2) not approve or disapprove the termination plan until at least 180 days after its submission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9814)
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Special Olympics Sport and Empowerment Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2852
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2004-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Sports and Recreation
Subjects: Athletes
Civics education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health education
International Affairs
Medical screening
Medical tests
Mentally disabled
Olympic games
Service learning
Social Welfare
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: 
Special Olympics Sport and Empowerment Act of 2004 - Authorizes the Secretaries of Education, of State, and of Health and Human Services to award grants to, or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with, Special Olympics for specified education, international, and health activities, including ones promoting Special Olympics and a greater understanding of contributions to society by individuals with intellectual disabilities both within and outside of the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 746.
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9814)
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require a report on the methodologies utilized for National Intelligence Estimates.

Bill: 108-s-2853
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2004-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Central Intelligence Agency
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: 
Requires the National Intelligence Council to submit to Congress a report that includes the following: (1) the methodologies utilized for the initiation, drafting, publication, coordination, and dissemination of the results of National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs); and (2) such recommendations as the Council considers appropriate regarding improvements of the methodologies utilized for NIEs in order to ensure the timeliness of such Estimates and ensure that such Estimates address the national security and intelligence priorities and objectives of the President and the Director of Central Intelligence.
 
States that the report under subsection shall be submitted in an unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Intelligence.
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to facilitate alternative analyses of intelligence by the intelligence community.

Bill: 108-s-2854
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2004-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Central Intelligence Agency
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Intelligence community staff

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Director of Central Intelligence should consider the advisability of establishing for each element of the intelligence community an element, office, or component whose purpose is the alternative analysis (commonly referred to as a red-team analysis) of the information and conclusions in the intelligence products of such element of the intelligence community. Requires, not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of Central Intelligence to submit to Congress a report on the actions taken to establish for each element of the intelligence community such an element, office, or component.
 
States that the report shall be submitted in an unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Intelligence.
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend chapter 25 of title 18, United States Code, to create a general provision similar to provisions found in chapter 47 of such title, to provide for criminal penalties for the act of forging Federal documents.

Bill: 108-s-2855
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2004-09-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Conspiracy
Counterfeiting
Criminal negligence
Forgery
Government Operations and Politics
Government publications
Public records

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: 
Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit : (1) counterfeiting a Federal document, record, or writing; (2) knowingly or negligently uttering or publishing such counterfeit (or unverified) information as true; or (3) knowingly or negligently transmitting such information to any office of the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9816)
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9814-9816)
action_date: 2004-09-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Restoring the Everglades, an American Legacy Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2857
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL]
Introduced: 2004-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Estuaries
Everglades
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Flood control
Florida
Infrastructure
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Reservoirs
Restoration ecology
Water quality
Water supply
Wetlands

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: 
Restoring the Everglades, an American Legacy Act of 2004 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to carry out the project for ecosystem restoration, water supply, flood control, and protection of water quality, Indian River Lagoon, South Florida, at a specified total cost, in accordance with the recommendations of the report of the Chief of Engineers, dated August 6, 2004. 
 
Deauthorizes certain projects authorized under the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 and the Flood Control Act of 1968. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to carry out the project for ecosystem restoration, Picayune Strand, Collier County, Florida, at a specified total cost, substantially in accordance with the project implementation report for the project, and subject to the conditions recommended in a final report of the Chief of Engineers, if a favorable report of the Chief is completed not later than December 31, 2004.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Uniformed Services Differential Pay Protection Act

Bill: 108-s-2858
Sponsor: Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH]
Introduced: 2004-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Payroll deductions
Pension funds
Tax administration
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Wages
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: 
Uniformed Services Differential Pay Protection Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat differential wage payments as a payment of wages by an employer to an employee for income tax purposes. Defines &quot;differential wage payment&quot; as any employer payment to an individual serving on active duty in the uniformed services for more than 30 days which represents wages such individual would have received if such individual were performing services for the employer.
 
Treats an individual receiving differential wage payments as an employee and treats differential wage payments as compensation for retirement plan purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9938-9939)
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9938)
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Natural Stock Conservation Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2859
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2004-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Aquaculture
Commerce
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental health
Federal-state relations
Fishery management
Fishing
Food safety
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Law
Licenses
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Preventive medicine
Seafood
Sports and Recreation
Territorial waters

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: 
Natural Stock Conservation Act of 2004 - Amends the National Aquaculture Act of 1980 to prohibit specified agencies with aquaculture regulatory jurisdiction from issuing permits for marine aquaculture facilities in the exclusive economic zone until requirements for such permits are enacted into law. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9939-9940)
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9939)
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2860
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2004-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Emergency Management
Equipment and supplies
Fire prevention
Income tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to classify automatic fire sprinkler systems as five-year depreciable property. 
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Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9940)
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Student Loan Abuse Prevention Act

Bill: 108-s-2861
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2004-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: 
Student Loan Abuse Prevention Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to reduce certain special allowance payments to holders of student loans.
 
Appropriates, for each fiscal year after enactment of this Act, an additional amount to increase the maximum Pell grant for that fiscal year. Makes such amount equal to the amount by which expenditures for such special allowances are reduced by this Act for that fiscal year, as determined by the Congressional Budget Office.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Education for All Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2862
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2004-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Accounting
Canada
Charities
Child development
Child health
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Curricula
Developing countries
Disabled
Dropouts
East Asia
Economic assistance
Economic development
Economic growth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Educational planning
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Europe
Extremist movements in politics
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal employees
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
France
Free enterprise
Germany
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Health education
Higher education
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Immigration
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
International agencies
International cooperation
Italy
Japan
Literacy programs
Nongovernmental organizations
Orphans
Poverty
Preschool education
Refugees
Russia
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Strategic planning
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
U.S. Agency for International Development
United Kingdom
Waste in government spending
Women
Women's education
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: 
Education for All Act of 2004 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to establish as a policy priority of the United States the achievement of universal education by working with foreign countries and international organizations to: (1) assist developing countries committed to serious reforms in providing all children with quality elementary and secondary education; and (2) provide incentives to encourage educational system reform and educational service improvement in countries lacking such commitment.
 
Requires the President to establish an Education for All Task Force to carry out such policy and to develop a unified strategy to promote universal basic education. 
 
Authorizes the President to provide funds or other assistance to eligible entities to assist a foreign country in developing and implementing a comprehensive national education plan that allows its citizens to access and complete basic education. Sets forth requirements for such plans.
 
Authorizes the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to establish an education fellowship program at USAID to increase the expertise of agency personnel in promoting universal basic education and to carry out this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Freedom From Foreign Oil Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2865
Sponsor: Sen. Dayton, Mark [D-MN]
Introduced: 2004-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alcohol as fuel
Automobile industry
Automobiles
Commerce
Consumer education
Department of Transportation
Energy
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Fines (Penalties)
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Labeling
Law
Motor vehicle pollution control
Signs and symbols
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: 
Freedom From Foreign Oil Act of 2004 - Amends Federal transportation law to require that passenger automobiles, automobiles capable of off-highway operation, or light trucks that are manufactured after model year 2005 be capable of operating on a flexible fuel mixture (mixture containing at least 85 percent of ethanol by volume with gasoline). Requires the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe regulations requiring such automobiles or trucks to display prominently (including in the owner's manual of each vehicle) information indicating that such vehicles are capable of operating on a flexible fuel mixture.
 
Directs the Secretary to promote the use of a mixture containing at least 85 percent of ethanol by volume with gasoline in motor vehicles in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Commodity Assessment, Protection, and Reform Act

Bill: 108-s-2866
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2004-09-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural credit
Collection of accounts
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Marketing of farm produce
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: 
Commodity Assessment, Protection, and Reform Act - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to collect commodity assessments from the proceeds of a marketing assistance loan made in accordance with an agreement between the Secretary and a State. 
 
Defines &quot;assessment &quot; as funds that are: (1) collected with respect to a specific commodity; (2) paid by the first purchaser of the commodity; and (3) not collected through a tax or other revenue collection activity of a State.

action_date: 2004-11-21
text: 

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

 
Commodity Assessment, Protection, and Reform Act - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to collect commodity assessments from the proceeds of a marketing assistance loan made in accordance with an agreement between the Secretary and a State. 
 
Defines &quot;assessment &quot; as funds that are: (1) collected with respect to a specific commodity; (2) paid by the first purchaser of the commodity; and (3) not collected through a tax or other revenue collection activity of a State.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-24
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2004-11-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2004-11-24
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2004-11-21
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR 11/20/2004 S11839; text as passed Senate: CR 11/20/2004 S11839)
action_date: 2004-11-21
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR 11/20/2004 S11839; text as passed Senate: CR 11/20/2004 S11839)
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 752.
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9955-9956)
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9955)
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to increase the amount of the military death gratuity from $12,000 to $50,000.

Bill: 108-s-2867
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2004-09-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Defense budgets
Department of Defense
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government travel
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Military dependents
Military pensions
Reprogramming of appropriated funds
Survivors' benefits
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: 
Increases the death gratuity payable with respect to members of the Armed Forces from $12,000 to $50,000. Makes this increase applicable to deaths occurring on or after September 11, 2001.
 
Requires the Secretary of Defense to derive funds for payments under this Act in FY 2005 from travel funds for personnel of the Office of the Secretary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10063)
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10063)
action_date: 2004-09-30
text: Introduced in Senate