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To improve the efficiency of the Department of Energy's Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-4298
Sponsor: Rep. Wamp, Zach [R-TN-3]
Introduced: 2004-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Energy
Environmental Protection
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Health
Law
Occupational health and safety
Physicians
Radiation victims
State laws
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: 
Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 regarding the composition of physician panels to instruct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) select an individual to serve as panel member based on experience and competency in diagnosing occupational illnesses; and (2) either appoint such individual as a panel member, or obtain by contract the individual's services as a panel member.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2004-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2004-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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: 2004-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-05
text: Introduced in House
Eastern Municipal Water District Recycled Water System Pressurization and Expansion Project

Bill: 108-hr-4300
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2004-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
California
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Irrigation
Water conservation
Water districts

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: 
Eastern Municipal Water District Recycled Water System Pressurization and Expansion Project - Amends the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the Eastern Municipal Water District, California, to participate in the design, planning, and construction of permanent facilities needed to establish operational pressure zones that will be used to provide recycled water in the district. Limits the Federal share to 25 percent of project costs. Bars the use of funds provided by the Secretary for project operation or maintenance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-23
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2004-05-12
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2004-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
To authorize an additional district judgeship for the district of Nebraska.

Bill: 108-hr-4301
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2004-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Congress
District courts
Government Operations and Politics
Judges
Judicial districts
Nebraska
Presidential appointments

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: 
Requires 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: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
American Schools Abroad Support Act

Bill: 108-hr-4303
Sponsor: Rep. Berman, Howard L. [D-CA-28]
Introduced: 2004-05-06 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arab countries
Economic assistance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Foreign students
Iraq compilation
Islamic countries
Middle East and North Africa
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: 
American Schools Abroad Support Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that additional funds should be made available to American-sponsored schools in Arab and other predominantly Muslim countries to provide full or partial merit-based scholarships to students from lower- and middle-income families of such countries to attend such schools.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of State, acting through the Director of the Office of Overseas Schools of the Department of State, to make grants to such schools to provide scholarships to such students. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2004-06-24
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Preservation and Anti-Privatization Act

Bill: 108-hr-4304
Sponsor: Rep. Boswell, Leonard L. [D-IA-3]
Introduced: 2004-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Case mix (Medical care)
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government trust funds
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Insurance companies
Managed care
Medical fees
Medicare
Social Welfare
Subsidies

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: 
Medicare Preservation and Anti-Privatization Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA), as added by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, to eliminate the MA Regional Plan Stabilization Fund.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide, beginning with 2005, for adjustment of payment rates to Medicare+Choice organizations so that they reflect only the payment at 100 percent of the fee-for-service rate.
 
Provides that, in applying risk adjustment factors to payment to Medicare+Choice organizations in a budget neutral manner, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall assure that such factors, in the aggregate, take into account the actual characteristics of the entire Medicare population, and not merely the population of individuals enrolled under a Medicare+Choice plan under part C (Medicare+Choice) of SSA title XVIII.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2004-05-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2004-05-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2004-05-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Children's Online Safety Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4305
Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Robert A. [D-PA-1]
Introduced: 2004-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child welfare
Commerce
Deceptive advertising
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Internet
Labeling
Names
Pornography
Science, Technology, Communications
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: 
Children's Online Safety Act of 2004 - Amends the Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today Act of 2003 (PROTECT Act) to prohibit knowingly using a misleading domain name or meta tag (currently limited to a misleading domain name) on the Internet with intent to deceive a minor into viewing material that is harmful to minors on the Internet. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Jobs Creation Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4307
Sponsor: Rep. Chocola, Chris [R-IN-2]
Introduced: 2004-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax credits
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: 
Small Business Jobs Creation Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an employer with annual gross receipts of less than $25 million a business tax credit for 50 percent of the excess of unemployment insurance wages paid in the current year over 102 percent of such wages paid during the preceding calendar year. Limits the annual amount of such credit to $100,000. Terminates the credit after 2009.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Territorial Trade Enhancement Act

Bill: 108-hr-4308
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2004-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Federal advisory bodies
Federal-state relations
Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
Governors
International Affairs
Trade agreements
Trade negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: 
Territorial Trade Enhancement Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the President to consult with the: (1) governor of any State or U.S. territory before entering into trade agreements; and (2) governments of U.S. territories on trade policies, including those on trade in services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Clean Air Act to provide needed flexibility to States regarding the designation of certain counties as nonattainment areas for ozone under the 8-hour ozone standard, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-4309
Sponsor: Rep. Hill, Baron P. [D-IN-9]
Introduced: 2004-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Air pollution control
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Law
Ozone
Planning
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: 
Amends the Clean Air Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to redesignate as transitional any area designated as a nonattainment area for the eight-hour ozone national primary or secondary ambient air quality standard (the standard) if: (1) the area is a single county; (2) the county does not qualify as a rural transport area because of an adjacent standard metropolitan statistical area or consolidated metropolitan statistical area; (3) the county is not in an established ozone transport region; (4) the Governor of the State demonstrates that ozone control measures in effect for the county will provide for attainment of the standard by the deadline for submission of applicable State Implementation Plan (SIP) provisions; and (5) the Governor makes a binding commitment that the State air pollution control agency will apply lowest achievable emission rate determinations to stationary sources as if the redesignation had not occurred and obtain emission offsets for ozone and ozone precursors for each such source if the standard is not met by the SIP deadline.
 
Requires each county redesignated as transitional to be treated as an attainment or unclassifiable area for purposes of provisions addressing the prevention of significant deterioration of air quality. 
 
Directs the Administrator to review transitional counties within three years of redesignation and to redesignate as nonattainment those counties that have failed to attain the standard. Requires States to submit SIP revisions for such counties that provide for the emission offsets mandated by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
State and Local Government Economic Empowerment Act

Bill: 108-hr-4310
Sponsor: Rep. LaHood, Ray [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2004-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative fees
Bridges
Capital investments
Collection of accounts
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Federal-territorial relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Interest rates
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Local finance
Minorities
Native Americans
Refuse and refuse disposal
Road construction
Sewerage
State finance
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation engineering
Tunnels
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: 
State and Local Government Economic Empowerment Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to issue an interest-free loan to any State, county, incorporated municipality, or Indian tribe upon obtaining appropriate assurances that the proceeds of the loan will be used solely for funding capital projects, including the construction of or improvements to: (1) streets, highways, bridges, and tunnels; (2) water and sewer systems; (3) waste disposal systems; and (4) public buildings and other public facilities. Sets maximum loan limitations. Entitles each such unit of government to obtain an interest-free loan unless it is delinquent in repaying a prior loan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Video Description Restoration Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4311
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2004-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Appellate courts
Blind
Disabled
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Judicial opinions
Law
Television broadcasting
Television news
Television programs
Television stations

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: 
Video Description Restoration Act of 2004 - Considers authorized and ratified by law the video description rules of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) contained in the year 2000 FCC report and order identified as Implementation of Video Description of Video Programming, notwithstanding the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., et al., v. Federal Communications Commission, et al.
 
Directs the FCC to: (1) reinstate such rules; and (2) initiate a proceeding to consider whether it is economically and technically feasible and consistent with the public interest to include &quot;accessible information&quot; in such rules. Authorizes the FCC to amend, repeal, or otherwise modify such rules.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2004-05-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E790)
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Antibullying Campaign Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4313
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2004-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Demography
Disabled
Discrimination against the disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Governmental investigations
Minorities
Public schools
Racial discrimination
Religion
Religious liberty
Secondary education
Sexual harassment
Students
Women
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: 
Antibullying Campaign Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of Education to make matching grants to applicant States for antiharassment programs that prohibit harassment in public schools and on public school grounds for any reason.
 
Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on harassment in public schools. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
To ensure that the total amount of funds awarded to a State under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 for fiscal year 2004 is not less than the total amount of funds awarded to the State under such part for fiscal year 2003.

Bill: 108-hr-4314
Sponsor: Rep. Ramstad, Jim [R-MN-3]
Introduced: 2004-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Secondary education
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: 
Requires the total amount of funds awarded to a State under part A (Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Educational Agencies) of title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 for FY 2004 to be not less than the total amount of funds awarded to the State under such part for FY 2003. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Fort Peck Lake Protection Act

Bill: 108-hr-4315
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Dennis R. [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2004-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Animals
Dams
Droughts
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Infrastructure
Lakes
Missouri River development
Montana
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reservoirs
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: 
Fort Peck Lake Protection Act - Prohibits: (1) the Secretary of the Army from releasing water from Fort Peck Dam if the water level of Fort Peck Lake, Montana, is 20 feet or more below the reservoir's full pool; and (2) the outflow from any release from exceeding the volume of water flowing into the lake.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
To name the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic located in Lufkin, Texas, as the "Charles Wilson Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic".

Bill: 108-hr-4317
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Jim [D-TX-2]
Introduced: 2004-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Armed Forces and National Security
Clinics
Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
Health
House of Representatives
Names
Texas
Veterans' hospitals

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: 
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Lufkin, Texas, as the Charles Wilson Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic.

action_date: 2004-06-01
text: 

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

 
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Lufkin, Texas, as the Charles Wilson Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-02
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3555)
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H3555)
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4317.
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3555-3557)
action_date: 2004-06-01
text: Mr. Miller (FL) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
Sexual Harrassment and Reporting and Posting Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4318
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2004-05-06 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Colleges
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grievance procedures
Higher education
Sexual harassment
Signs and signboards
Student aid
Victims of crimes
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: 
Sexual Harassment Reporting and Posting Act of 2004 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to require institutions of higher education that participate in any HEA student aid program to disseminate to prospective and enrolled students information describing procedures for receiving and responding to complaints of sexual harassment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-06
text: Introduced in House