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Samaritan Initiative Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2829
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2004-09-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Affordable housing
Alcoholism
Armed Forces and National Security
Auditing
Case management
Church and social problems
Continuum of care
Counseling
Data banks
Disabled
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to housing
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health counseling
Homeless
Housing authorities
Housing subsidies
Information services
Labor and Employment
Law
Leases
Management information systems
Medical tests
Mental health services
Nonprofit organizations
Performance measurement
Preventive medicine
Psychotherapy
Psychotropic drugs
Religion
Rental housing
Residential rehabilitation
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: 
Samaritan Initiative Act of 2004 - Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to establish a program through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under which a participating Federal agency shall make matching grants to eligible entities, including faith-based and community-based organizations, for permanent housing (provision of housing or rental assistance) and related treatment (including health and drug and alcohol treatment) and support services for chronically homeless persons. 
 
Requires: (1) a participating Federal agency to establish an interagency implementation and monitoring team; and (2) a grantee to establish a homeless management information system. 
 
Obligates specified authorizations of appropriations for: (1) HUD; (2) the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); and (3) the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Authorizes the participation of other Federal agencies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of the measure as introduced:  CR S9530-9533)
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9530)
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Healthy Marriages and Responsible Fatherhood Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2830
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2004-09-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aid to dependent children
American Samoa
Appropriations
Authorization
Block grants
Cash welfare block grants
Charities
Child abuse
Child support
Child welfare
Church and social problems
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
Employment subsidies
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Family services
Family violence
Fathers
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Guam
Health
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Internet
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Marriage
Marriage counseling
Married people
Mediation
Medicaid
Medicare
Mentoring
Minorities
Native Americans
Nonprofit organizations
Parent and child
Personal budgets
Public service advertising
Puerto Rico
Religion
Rescission of appropriated funds
Science, Technology, Communications
Sexual abstinence
Unmarried couples
Virgin Islands
Vocational and technical education
Welfare eligibility
Welfare recipients
Welfare waivers
Welfare work participation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: 
Healthy Marriages and Responsible Fatherhood Act of 2004 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to revise the TANF program. Repeals the bonus to States for reduction in illegitmacy ratio, replacing it with healthy marriage promotion grants.
 
Amends SSA title IV to add a new part C (Responible Fatherhood Program) under which the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall award grants to States to conduct demonstration programs promoting responsible fatherhood. Provides for: (1) a National Clearinghouse for responsible fatherhood programs to assist States and communities in efforts to promote and support marriage and responsible fatherhood; and (2) block grants to States to encourage media campaigns to produce broadcast advertisements that promote the formation and maintance of healthy two-parent married families, strengthen fragile families, and promote responsible fatherhood. 
 
Adds funding under TANF for research, demonstrations, and technical assistance.
 
Rescinds funds for bonuses to reward high performance States. 
 
Provides for extending: (1) the TANF program through March 15, 2005; and (2) the National Random Sample study through March 31, 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 714.
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Introduced in Senate
Governmental Pension Plan Equalization Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2831
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2004-09-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil service retirement
Crime and Law Enforcement
Defined benefit pension plans
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Executive compensation
Federal-Indian relations
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Labor and Employment
Minorities
Nondiscrimination provisions
Paramedical personnel
Pension funds
Police

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: 
Governmental Pension Plan Equalization Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to specify that rules for governmental plans also apply to plans established for their employees by Indian tribal governments or their subdivisions, agencies, instrumentalities, or entities which they wholly-own or control.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S9533-9534)
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9533)
action_date: 2004-09-22
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Social Security act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain employment as a member of a local governing board from social security coverage.

Bill: 108-s-2832
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2004-09-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Local officials
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security eligibility
Social security taxes
Tax exemption
Taxation
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Social Security Act to exempt from social security taxes remuneration paid to any elected or appointed member of the general governing board of any political subdivision of a State if such remuneration is not more than $1,000 and is paid for service performed on or after January 1, 2005. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Angel Island Immigration Station Restoration and Preservation Act

Bill: 108-s-2833
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2004-09-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California
Commemorations
Federal installations
Health
Historic sites
History
Hospitals
Immigration
Islands
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: 
Angel Island Immigration Station Restoration and Preservation Act - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of the Interior for restoring the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay, in coordination with the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation and the California Department of Parks and Recreation. Requires funds appropriated by this Act to be used first for restoration of the Immigration Station Hospital on Angel Island.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 9/24/2004 S9612-9613)
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Compliance Assistance Enhancement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2834
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2004-09-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Electronic government information
Government Operations and Politics
Government publications
Government publicity
Government regulation
Internet
Law
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: 
Small Business Compliance Assistance Enhancement Act of 2004 - Amends the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 to require an agency to prepare a compliance guide to assist small entities in complying with a Federal regulation whenever an agency determines that a Federal regulation will have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced:  CR 9/24/2004 S9614)
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 9/24/2004 S9613-9614)
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow penalty free withdrawals from retirement plans for victims of federally declared disasters.

Bill: 108-s-2835
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL]
Introduced: 2004-09-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Annuities
Disaster relief
Disasters
Emergency Management
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exempt qualified disaster-relief distributions from the ten percent penalty on premature distributions from tax-exempt retirement plans; and (2) allow repayment of such distributions to the retirement plan within five years after the date of such distribution. Defines a &quot;qualified disaster-relief distribution&quot; as a distribution to an individual who has sustained a loss in excess of $100 from a major disaster declared under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act if such distribution is made within one year after the disaster declaration and the distribution does not exceed the amount of the loss and is not covered by insurance or otherwise. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 9/24/2004 S9614-9615)
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Continuing Care for Recovering Families Act

Bill: 108-s-2837
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2004-09-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
EBB Terrorism
Families
Health insurance continuation
International Affairs
Married people
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: 
Continuing Care for Recovering Families Act - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to allow an eligible individual to elect continuation coverage for group health benefits as provided for in the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) during the 120-day period that begins on the later of the date of enactment of this Act or the date on which the individual experiences a terrorism-related loss of coverage. Provides that: (1) the maximum period required for such coverage shall not be less than the period during which the individual is an eligible individual; and (2) the period between the loss of coverage and the first day of the election period shall be disregarded for purposes of determining the waiting period for coverage of preexisting conditions. 
 
Defines an &quot;eligible individual&quot; as an individual who: (1) is a child or spouse of an individual who suffered physical harm or death as a result of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; (2) that has experienced a terrorism-related loss of health benefits coverage associated with the death, injury, or loss of employment of such an individual; and (3) is not otherwise covered under a health benefits plan or entitled to Medicare benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9670-9671)
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10 West Prospect Street in Nanuet, New York, as the "Anthony I. Lombardi Memorial Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-s-2838
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2004-09-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Names
New York State
Postal facilities
United States Postal Service

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 10 West Prospect Street in Nanuet, New York, as the "Anthony I. Lombardi Memorial Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 555 West 180th Street in New York, New York, as the "Sergeant Riayan A. Tejeda Post Office".

Bill: 108-s-2839
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2004-09-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Marines
Names
New York City
Officer personnel
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 555 West 180th Street in New York, New York, as the "Sergeant Riayan A. Tejeda Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2004-10-10
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text as passed Senate: CR S11125)
action_date: 2004-10-10
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text as passed Senate: CR S11125)
action_date: 2004-10-10
text: Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S11125-11126)
action_date: 2004-10-10
text: Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S11125-11126)
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail Designation Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2841
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2004-09-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Federal advisory bodies
Floods
Geology
Government Operations and Politics
Idaho
Land transfers
Maps
Montana
National parks
Oregon
Sports and Recreation
Tourism
Trails
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: 
Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail Designation Act of 2004 - Designates the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail, a trail from Missoula, Montana to the Pacific Ocean, to provide for the public appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the nationally significant natural and cultural features of the Ice Age Floods and to promote efforts to interpret and educate along the pathways of the floods. 
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to administer the Trail. Allows the Secretary to establish and operate a Trail management office within the vicinity of the Trail.
 
Requires the Secretary to prepare a cooperative management and interpretation plan for the Trail.
 
Allows the Secretary to acquire not more than 25 acres of land for public information and administrative purposes to facilitate the geographic diversity of the Trail.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Clean Trucks Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2842
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2004-09-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental health
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Law
Motor vehicle pollution control
Motor vehicle registration
Pollution measurement
Public health
Standards
Transportation planning
Truck drivers
Trucking
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: 
Clean Trucks Act of 2004 - Amends Federal transportation law to require motor carriers, as part of registering with the Secretary of Transportation to provide transportation, to comply with the heavy duty vehicle and engine emission performance standards and related regulations established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
 
Directs the Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to: (1) collect annually information on the year, make, model, certification level, travel routes, trip duration, fuel quality and consumption, and related activities of long-haul heavy duty trucks operating in the United States; and (2) submit such information to the Adminstrator of the EPA for use in developing and publishing estimates of the total national emissions of all criteria pollutants and hazardous air pollutants associated with long-haul heavy duty trucks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 9/24/2004 S9638-9639)
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate Poland as a program country under the visa waiver program established under section 217 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Bill: 108-s-2844
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2004-09-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Europe
Poland
Tourism
Transportation and Public Works
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: 
Designates Poland as a program country for purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act's visa waiver program, notwithstanding designation requirements of current law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-24
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 715.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 9/24/2004 S9643)
action_date: 2004-09-23
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve and extend housing, education, and other benefits under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-2846
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2004-09-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colleges
Commemorations
Community colleges
Higher education
Land transfers
Monuments and memorials
Nevada
Recreation
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-24
text: 
Nye County Higher Education Campus Conveyance Act - Requires the conveyance, without consideration, of all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to specified Bureau of Land Management land in the State of Nevada to the University and Community College System of Nevada for use as a campus for the Nye County Nevada Higher Education Campus in Pahrump Valley, Nevada.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9673-9674)
action_date: 2004-09-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9673)
action_date: 2004-09-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to reauthorize the Water Resources Act of 1984.

Bill: 108-s-2847
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2004-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Authorization
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to water resources development
Government Operations and Politics
Hydrology
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-27
text: 
Authorizes appropriations for the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 through FY 2010, including for research which focuses on water problems of an interstate nature.

action_date: 2004-10-11
text: 

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

 
Authorizes appropriations for the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 through FY 2010, including for research which focuses on water problems of an interstate nature.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (text as passed Senate: CR S11327)
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(text as passed Senate: CR S11327)
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S11327)
action_date: 2004-10-11
text: Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S11327)
action_date: 2004-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2004-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Foundation for Nevada's Veterans Land Transfer Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2848
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2004-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Building construction
Land transfers
Nevada
Veterans' hospitals

Summary:
action_date: 2004-09-27
text: 
Foundation for Nevada's Veterans Land Transfer Act of 2004 - Transfers administrative jurisdiction over specified Bureau of Land Management land in Clark County, Nevada, from the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to be used for the construction and operation of medical and related facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2004-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate