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Combating Methamphetamine Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2934
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Arrest
Child support
Community policing
Criminal justice information
Criminal statistics
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug abuse treatment
Drug courts
Drug law enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Environmental Protection
Families
Family courts
Family services
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Hazardous wastes
Health
Indian law enforcement
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Mentoring
Methamphetamine
Minorities
Police training
Prosecution
Searches and seizures
Social Welfare
Social work

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Combating Methamphetamine Act of 2004 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General, through the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), to make grants to States to address the manufacture, sale, and use of methamphetamine (methamphetamine use) to enhance public safety. Lists eligible programs, projects, and activities, including: (1) arresting individuals violating methamphetamine laws; (2) undertaking clandestine methamphetamine lab seizures and environmental cleanup; (3) providing community-based education, awareness, and prevention; and (4) providing Drug Court and Family Drug Court services to address methamphetamine use. Sets forth grant application requirements.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General, through BJA, to make grants to States, Indian tribal governments, and multijurisdictional or regional consortia thereof to develop a comprehensive, cooperative strategy to address methamphetamine use to enhance public safety. Earmarks specified sums (according to a specified formula) to each State.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to: (1) collect systematic data on the effectiveness of the programs assisted under this Act in reducing methamphetamine use; (2) establish a national clearinghouse of information on effective programs to address such use that shall disseminate to State and local agencies a description of the results of research on reduction efforts and information on effective programs, best practices, and Federal resources; (3) establish a program within the Department of Justice to facilitate the sharing of knowledge in best practices among States addressing such use; and (4) provide technical assistance to State and local agencies implementing effective programs to reduce methamphetamine use.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10731-10732)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in Senate
TAA Health Coverage Improvement Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2935
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Appropriations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Death
Divorce
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Families
Federal employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health insurance
Health insurance continuation
Income tax
Insurance companies
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medicare
Risk
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Trade adjustment assistance

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
TAA Health Coverage Improvement Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the tax credit for the health insurance costs of trade adjustment assistance (TAA) workers to, among other things: (1) increase the amount of such credit from 65 to 95 percent; (2) allow for the full amount of such credit and for full payment of TAA worker health insurance premiums for months prior to the issuance of a qualified health insurance costs credit eligibility certificate; and (3) set forth new tax credit eligibility rules for TAA workers and their family members.
 
 Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to establish a program to offer TAA workers enrollment in the Federal Employees Health Benefit program (FEHBP).
 
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to: (1) prevent a lapse of health care coverage for TAA workers; and (2) align coverage periods under such Acts with eligibility periods for TAA workers. 
 
Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require a State or entity to use national emergency grant funds to provide TAA workers and their family members with health insurance coverage for periods prior to their first eligibility month. 
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to extend: (1) through FY 2006 funding for the creation and initial operation of State high risk health insurance pools; and (2) through FY 2009 funding for allotments for the operation of existing State pools. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10735-10738)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S19733-10734)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Enterprise Rancheria Land Restoration Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2936
Sponsor: Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: California
Indian claims
Indian lands
Land transfers
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Enterprise Rancheria Land Restoration Act of 2004 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to place into trust status not to exceed 41 acres of land of the Enterprise Rancheria (one of several Federally recognized tribes of Maidu Indians in California), if the land is approved for trust status.
 
Provides that, to restore the Enterprise Rancheria No. 2 parcel, the Enterprise Rancheria may purchase not to exceed 41 acres of replacement land within the 40 mile radius of Enterprise Rancheria No. 2 parcel and within the aboriginal boundaries of the Estom Yumeka.
 
Allows the Secretary to place the replacement land into trust status, the title to which shall be held in trust by the United States for the benefit of Enterprise Rancheria.
 Provides that: (1) the acquisition of land above shall be treated as the restoration of land for an Indian tribe that is recognized by the Federal Government; (2) this Act does not limit the authority of the Secretary to approve or deny any land application for trust status; and (3) on the placement of replacement land into trust status, the Enterprise Rancheria shall be considered to have relinquished all equitable compensation claims the Enterprise Rancheria may have against the United States and California arising from the sale of Enterprise Rancheria No. 2 parcel.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10738-10739)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10738)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Services for Ending Long-Term Homelessness Act

Bill: 108-s-2937
Sponsor: Sen. DeWine, Mike [R-OH]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Affordable housing
Case management
Community health services
Congregate housing
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuum of care
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Dental care
Disabled
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Family services
Federal aid to housing
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health education
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Labor and Employment
Management information systems
Mental health services
Mental illness
Nonprofit organizations
Parent and child
Performance measurement
Personal budgets
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Services for Ending Long-Term Homelessness Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to design national strategies for providing services in supportive housing that will assist in ending chronic homelessness and to implement programs that address chronic homelessness.
 
Requires the Secretary to make matching grants to eligible entities to provide services that promote recovery and self-sufficiency and that address barriers to housing stability to chronically homeless individuals in, or who are scheduled to become residents of, permanent supportive housing and to other individuals and families who have voluntarily chosen to seek other housing opportunities after a period of tenancy in supportive housing.
 
Directs the Secretary to require grantees to report data regarding the performance outcomes of projects carried out under this Act, which shall include measuring and reporting specific performance outcomes related to the long-term goals of: (1) increasing stability within the community for individuals who have been chronically homeless; and (2) decreasing recurrence of periods of homelessness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10739-10741)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10739)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to grant a Federal charter to the National American Indian Veterans, Incorporated.

Bill: 108-s-2938
Sponsor: Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Alaska
Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Federal incorporation
Hawaiians
Indigenous peoples
Minorities
Native Americans
Veterans' organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Grants a Federal charter to the National American Indian Veterans, Incorporated (a nonprofit corporation organized in the United States). 

action_date: 2004-10-09
text: 

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

 
Grants a Federal charter to the National American Indian Veterans, Incorporated (a nonprofit corporation organized in the United States). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-11-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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: 2004-10-09
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S11007-11008; text as passed Senate: CR S11007-11008)
action_date: 2004-10-09
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S11007-11008; text as passed Senate: CR S11007-11008)
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 788.
action_date: 2004-10-07
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 S10743-10744)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10742-10743)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in Senate
Assistance for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children in Developing Countries Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2939
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Agriculture and Food
Caribbean area
Child health
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Community health services
Community organization
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Developing countries
East Asia
Economic assistance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Estates (Law)
Families
Family services
Food relief
Government Operations and Politics
Haiti compilation
Health
Higher education
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Indigenous peoples
International agencies
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Law
Mental health services
Nongovernmental organizations
Orphans
Performance measurement
President and foreign policy
School lunch program
Teacher education
Widows
Women
Women's rights
Youth employment

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Assistance for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children in Developing Countries Act of 2004 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to provide assistance, including through nongovernmental or international organizations, for basic care for orphans and other vulnerable children in developing countries, including assistance for: (1) community-based care; (2) school food programs; (3) education and employment training; (4) mental health care; (5) protection of inheritance rights; and (6) HIV/AIDS care.
 
Directs the President to develop a coordinating strategy for such assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10744-10745)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10744)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in Senate
North American Investment Fund Act

Bill: 108-s-2941
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Canada
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic assistance
Economic development
Economic integration
Economic stabilization
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Gross national product
Higher education
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Latin America
Mexico
Negotiations
North America
President and foreign policy
Road construction
Science, Technology, Communications
Taxation
Telecommunication systems
Transportation and Public Works
Wealth

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
North American Investment Fund Act - Authorizes the President to negotiate with Canada and Mexico to create a North American Investment Fund to: (1) promote economic and infrastructure integration among Canada, Mexico, and the United States; (2) promote education and economic development in Mexico; and (3) reduce the wealth gap between Mexico and Canada, and between Mexico and the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that combat pay be treated as earned income for purposes of the earned income credit.

Bill: 108-s-2942
Sponsor: Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2004-10-07 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Earned income tax credit
Earnings
Income tax
Iraq compilation
Military pay
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow combat zone compensation (otherwise excludable from gross income) to be treated as earned income for purposes of the earned income tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10745)
action_date: 2004-10-07
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to convert certain temporary judgeships to permanent judgeships, to create an additional judgeship for the district of Nebraska, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-s-2943
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2004-10-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
California
Congress
District courts
Government Operations and Politics
Hawaii
Judges
Judicial tenure
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Presidential appointments

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: 
Requires the conversion from temporary to permanent status the existing district judgeships for the eastern district of California, the district of Hawaii, the district of Kansas, and the eastern district of Missouri.
 
Directs the President to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, one additional district judge for the district of Nebraska.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide that no funds may be expended by the United States Trade Representative to negotiate data exclusivity provisions for certain pharmaceutical products.

Bill: 108-s-2944
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2004-10-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Clinical trials
Commerce
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Drugs
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Epidemics
Generic drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Human immunodeficiency viruses
International Affairs
Malaria
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
Trade agreements
Trade negotiations
Tuberculosis

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: 
Prohibits funds appropriated or otherwise obligated to the U.S. Trade Representative from being expended to negotiate data exclusivity provisions with any country with respect to public health pharmaceutical products or to require actions of another country which interfere with a country's access to such products.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10848)
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10847-10848)
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Introduced in Senate
No Guns for Felons Act

Bill: 108-s-2945
Sponsor: Sen. Corzine, Jon S. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2004-10-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Criminal justice information
Department of Justice
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Ex-offenders
Firearms control
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Judicial review
Law
Licenses

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: 
No Guns for Felons Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to limit the applicability of provisions authorizing persons prohibited from possessing firearms to apply for and obtain relief from federally imposed disabilities comprising such prohibition. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, upon granting such relief, to include in the information to be published in the Federal Register: (1) the name of the person; (2) the disability with respect to which the relief is granted; and (3) if the disability was imposed by reason of a criminal conviction, the crime for which and the court in which the person was convicted. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10848)
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10848)
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Growth Act

Bill: 108-s-2946
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2004-10-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Authorization
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Economics and Public Finance
Employee health benefits
Employee training
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health insurance
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Manufacturing industries
Securities
Small business
Tax credits
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: 
Small Business Growth Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain small business employers a business tax credit for a percentage of the amount paid for employee health insurance expenses and for employee training expenses. Directs the Internal Revenue Service to implement an educational program to ensure awareness of the tax credit for employee health insurance expenses. 
 
Authorizes appropriations for general business loans under the Small Business Act for FY 2005 through 2007. Provides for an inflation adjustment for authorized loan amounts after FY 2007. Establishes new limits for individual small business loans.
 
Extends until taxable year 2008 provisions allowing an increased tax deduction (up to $100,000) for small business assets in the year such assets are placed in service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Taxpayer Abuse Prevention Act

Bill: 108-s-2947
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2004-10-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Commercial arbitration
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Debtor and creditor
Earned income tax credit
Electronic benefits transfers
Electronic data interchange
Finance and Financial Sector
Garnishment
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Income tax
Law
Loans
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Tax refunds
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: 
Taxpayer Abuse Prevention Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that advance payments of the earned income tax credit are not transferable or assignable or subject to the claims of any creditors, except outstanding claims of the Federal Government.
 
Prohibits: (1) the collection of a debt from a debtor's Federal tax refund by means of a refund anticipation loan; and (2) mandatory arbitration as a condition of providing a refund anticipation loan.
 
Terminates the Department of Treasury Debt Indicator Program. 
 
Excludes tax returns that have been filed subject to a refund anticipation loan from any determination of whether goals for electronic filing of tax returns have been met.
 
Allows earned income tax credit benefits to be paid through electronic transfer accounts. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) develop and implement a program to encourage the greater use of the advance earned income tax credit; and (2) enter into cooperative agreements with federally insured depository institutions to provide low- and moderate-income taxpayers with the option of establishing low-cost direct deposit accounts using appropriate tax forms.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10849-10850)
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10848-10849)
action_date: 2004-10-08
text: Introduced in Senate