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Prescription Plan Preservation Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4978
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health insurance
Labor and Employment
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Retiree health benefits
Social Welfare
Subsidies
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Prescription Plan Preservation Act of 2004 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to condition the payment of Medicare employer prescription drug subsidies on the maintence of current prescription drug benefits.
 
Requires the actuarial value of prescription drug coverage to be at least equal to the greater of actuarial value of: (1) standard prescription drug coverage (as under current law); or (2) the employment-based retiree health coverage in effect as of December 8, 2003.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Women's Pelvic Floor Health Education and Awareness Act

Bill: 108-hr-4979
Sponsor: Rep. Nethercutt, George R., Jr. [R-WA-5]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aging
Childbirth
Clinical trials
Commemorations
Communication in medicine
Congress
Congressional tributes
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Directories
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Families
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Gynecology
Health education
Health information systems
Higher education
Internet
Medical education
Medical research
Medical technology
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Peer review organizations (Medicine)
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Surgery
Technological innovations
Tissue banks
Urology
Web sites
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Women's Pelvic Floor Health Education and Awareness Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to educate health professionals and the public on bladder and bowel dysfunction (including incontinence), pelvic organ prolapse, and other pelvic floor disorders.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Director should establish a national registry for surgical treatment of such disorders.
 
Requires the Directors of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to: (1) expand and intensify the activities of such Institutes with respect to women's pelvic floor disorders, including developing proposals for research on such disorders; and (2) provide for the continuing operation of the Urinary Incontinence Treatment Network and the Clinical Trials Network for Female Pelvic Disorders. Commends such Institutes for their support of such Networks and such Networks for their research toward improving women's pelvic health.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress as to efforts that such Institutes should undertake, including increasing their research, recruiting established scientists, and developing a national data registry and tissue bank of people suffering from incontinence.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to arrange for the carving of the figure of former President Ronald Reagan on Mount Rushmore National Memorial, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-4980
Sponsor: Rep. Ose, Doug [R-CA-3]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Economics and Public Finance
Ex-presidents
Fund raising
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
History
Reagan Administration
Sculpture
South Dakota

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to arrange for the carving of the figure of former President Ronald Reagan on Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
 
Creates in the Department of the Treasury a fund for carrying out this Act. Requires all associated costs, including the cost of carving the figure of such former President on the Memorial and other administrative costs, to be provided or reimbursed by non-Federal sources.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-08-02
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2004-08-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Probation and Parole Officer Safety Task Force Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4982
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Correctional personnel
Criminal justice information
Criminal statistics
Department of Justice
Employee training
Equipment and supplies
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal employees
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Health
Labor and Employment
Occupational health and safety
Parole
Probation
State employees
State laws
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Probation and Parole Officer Safety Task Force Act of 2004 - Establishes within the Department of Justice the Probation and Parole Officer Safety Task Force to study and report to Congress and the Attorney General on: (1) Federal and State policies and practices as they affect the personal safety of probation and parole officers during the execution of their duties; and (2) guidelines for the safety training of, the use of force by, and equipment standards for such officers, including regarding whether to arm such officers. 
 
Requires the Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (after the Task Force terminates) to carry out and report to the Attorney General on an annual, comprehensive statistical review of the incidence and effects of violence perpetrated against Federal and State probation and parole officers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit to businesses whose employees teach at community colleges.

Bill: 108-hr-4983
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Community and school
Community colleges
Education
Higher education
Income tax
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Teachers
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a business tax credit of $1,000 for each of their employees who teaches a course at an accredited community college for which the employee receives no compensation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Stand By Your Internet Ad Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4985
Sponsor: Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Campaign funds
Congress
Congressional elections
Election candidates
Government paperwork
Internet
Political advertising
Presidential elections
Radio
Science, Technology, Communications
Telephone
Television advertising

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Stand By Your Internet Ad Act of 2004 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to: (1) apply to campaign communications transmitted through the Internet the same presentation requirements currently applicable to their counterpart authorized printed campaign communications, including communications expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate; (2) require communications paid for and authorized by a candidate, and communications paid for by other persons but authorized by a candidate, to include a clearly readable statement identifying the candidate and stating that he or she has approved the communication; (3) require such communications transmitted through the Internet to meet applicable requirements with respect to any audio and video portions; (4) subject to disclosure requirements campaign communications made through prerecorded telephone calls; and (5) provide for the treatment as audio communications of prerecorded telephone calls, thereby subjecting them to applicable requirements pertaining to communications transmitted through radio.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Currency Rate Adjustment and Trade Enforcement Act

Bill: 108-hr-4986
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike J. [R-MI-8]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Balance of payments
China
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Currency devaluation
Dispute settlement
East Asia
Export subsidies
Exports
Foreign exchange
Governmental investigations
Imports
International Affairs
International agencies
International competitiveness
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Currency Rate Adjustment and Trade Enforcement Act - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to analyze the exchange rate policies of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to determine whether the PRC maintains the rate of exchange between its currency and the U.S. dollar in a manner that interferes with effective balance of payments adjustments or confers a competitive advantage in international trade that would not exist if the currency value were set by market forces. Directs the Secretary, if such determination is affirmative, to compute the rate of undervaluation against the dollar in the form of a percentage.
 
Requires the Secretary to determine the PRC global balance of trade by comparing China's import and export data by country, as reported by the Chinese Government, with its export and import data, as reported by the government of each country that is a trading partner of China, taking into account reexports to and from China through Hong Kong.
 
Requires the President, in any case in which a report of the Secretary to specified congressional committees includes a rate of undervalution, to seek authorization in the World Trade Organization (WTO) through dispute settlement to: (1) offset the subsidy inherent in the undervalued currency by the application of across-the-board equivalent tariffs, on the basis of the rate of such undervaluation, on the importation into the United States of all PRC products; and (2) take measures to offset the disadvantage resulting from such undervaluation to exports to the PRC of U.S. goods and services.
 
Requires annual modifications of such measure, consistent with U.S. and WTO obligations, to the extent necessary to comply with the Secretary's most recent report.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to modify any imposed measures or modifications 30 days after notifying Congress of a substantial change in the PRC's degree of currency undervaluation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To provide for priority funding of water, waste disposal, and wastewater facility loans and grants and community facilities loans and grants for the communities in Burlington and Camden counties in New Jersey, affected by the flood which occurred on July 12, 2004.

Bill: 108-hr-4987
Sponsor: Rep. Saxton, Jim [R-NJ-3]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural credit
Agricultural wastes
Disasters
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
New Jersey
Potable water
Refuse and refuse disposal
Sewage disposal
Sewerage
Standards
Waste water treatment
Water Resources Development
Water purification
Water storage
Water supply
Water treatment plants

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
 Provides for priority funding of water, waste disposal, and wastewater facility loans and grants and community facilities loans and grants under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act for the communities in Burlington and Camden counties, New Jersey, affected by the flood of July 12, 2004. 
 
Sets forth grant rates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Play Fair at the Olympics Act

Bill: 108-hr-4988
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Child labor
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Collective bargaining
Commemorations
Commerce
Corporations
Discrimination in employment
Emblems
Families
Fees
Forced labor
Freedom of association
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Hours of labor
Industrial arbitration
Intellectual property
International Affairs
International agencies
Law
License agreements
Licenses
Minimum wages
Nonprofit organizations
Occupational health and safety
Olympic games
Signs and symbols
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Subcontractors
Trademarks

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Play Fair at the Olympics Act - Amends Federal law relating to the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) to direct the USOC to require observance of certain labor standards by companies that enter into licensing agreements with it, and by subcontractors and suppliers of such companies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Liberty List Act

Bill: 108-hr-4989
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Democracy
Dissenters
Government Operations and Politics
Human rights
Mass media
Nongovernmental organizations
Press
Religion
Religious liberty
Science, Technology, Communications
Security classification (Government documents)

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Liberty List Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to direct the Secretary of State to submit to Congress an &quot;Annual Report on the Promotion of Religious Freedom, Democracy, and Human Rights in Foreign Countries by Individuals, Nongovernmental Organizations, and Media Groups and Organizations.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6690, E1510)
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 8135 Forest Lane in Dallas, Texas, as the "Dr. Robert E. Price Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-hr-4990
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Names
Postal facilities
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 8135 Forest Lane in Dallas, Texas, as the "Dr. Robert E. Price Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 9130 Markville Drive in Dallas, Texas, as the "Vaughn Gross Post Office Building".

Bill: 108-hr-4991
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Government Operations and Politics
Names
Postal facilities
School personnel
Teachers
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 9130 Markville Drive in Dallas, Texas, as the "Vaughn Gross Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Ensuring Access to Emergency Rooms Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4992
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Appropriations
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Contractors
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Government liability
Group medical practice
Hospitals
Law
Liability (Law)
Medical malpractice
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Physicians
Public health personnel
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Ensuring Access to Emergency Rooms Act of 2004 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to deem hospitals, emergency rooms, physicians, and physicians groups that provide emergency care to uninsured individuals employees of the Public Health Service for purposes of any civil action that may arise due to items and services furnished and post-stabilization services provided to such individuals. 
 
Requires the Attorney General to make separate estimates as to the cost of claims expected to arise under this Act and to establish separate funds for such claims. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to limit the total amount of payments under this Act to the amounts appropriated in advance for such purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Care Liability Relief Act

Bill: 108-hr-4993
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Contractors
Damages
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Finance and Financial Sector
Group medical practice
Hospitals
Juries
Law
Legal fees
Liability (Law)
Liability insurance
Medical malpractice
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Physicians
Punitive damages
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
Emergency Care Liability Relief Act - Limits noneconomic and punitive damages for injuries arising from the provision of uncompensated care by emergency care providers.
 
Authorizes the award of attorney's fees and costs in actions in which a party's liability or such damages are contested. Requires liability for such awards to be allocated to the nonprevailing party personally, the attorney or law firm representing such party if representation was on a contingent fee basis, or both, taking into account specified factors.
 
Requires the court, in actions in which liability or noneconomic or punitive damages described in this Act are contested, to instruct the jury that it must take into account the effect of the amount to be awarded in damages on the price and availability of health care liability insurance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
High School Athletics Accountability Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4994
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2004-07-22 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Athletes
Athletics
Clothing
Economics and Public Finance
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Equipment and supplies
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health
Labor and Employment
Maintenance and repair
Salaries
Secondary education
Sports and Recreation
Sports facilities
Sports medicine
Sports personnel
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Women
Women athletes

Summary:
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: 
High School Athletics Accountability Act of 2004 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to direct coeducational elementary and secondary schools, if they participate in any ESEA program, to: (1) report certain information on equality in their school athletic programs to the Commissioner for Educational Statistics; and (2) make such information available to their students and potential students, upon request, and to the public.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-09-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1722-1723)
action_date: 2004-09-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-07-22
text: Introduced in House