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Small Community Options for Regulatory Equity Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4717
Sponsor: Rep. Otter, C. L. (Butch) [R-ID-1]
Introduced: 2004-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Arsenic
Environmental Protection Agency
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Nonprofit organizations
Potable water
Public utilities
Radon
Social Welfare
Standards
Uranium
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: 
Small Community Options for Regulatory Equity Act of 2004 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require States exercising primary enforcement responsibility for public water systems to exempt any nonprofit small public water system (serving 10,000 or fewer persons) that so requests in accordance with this Act from the requirements of any national primary drinking water regulation for naturally occurring contaminants, including arsenic, radon, radium, uranium, and specified disinfection byproducts.
 
Requires exemption requests to include a finding that the system's compliance with applicable national primary drinking water regulations is not economically feasible. Precludes judicial or administrative review of such findings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1289)
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Agricultural Business Security Tax Credit Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4718
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, Ron [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2004-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural chemicals
Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Costs
Environmental Protection
Income tax
Pesticides
Security measures
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: 
Agricultural Business Security Tax Credit Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a retailer of agricultural products or a manufacturer, formulator, or distributor of food-use pesticides a business tax credit for up to 50 percent of the cost of protecting certain hazardous chemicals or food-use pesticides from unauthorized access. Sets an annual limit on such credit of $2 million and a per facility limitation of $50,000 (reduced by credits received for the five prior taxable years).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Mortgage Market Protection Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4719
Sponsor: Rep. Baker, Richard H. [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2004-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Damages
Debtor and creditor
Housing and Community Development
Law
Legal fees
Liability (Law)
Limitation of actions
Mortgages

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: 
 Mortgage Market Protection Act of 2004 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act governing liability of a creditor assignee to redefine a &quot;violation on the face of the disclosure statement&quot; as one where: (1) the disclosure can be determined to be incomplete or inaccurate from a comparison of any disclosure provided pursuant to specified statutory criteria; or (2) credit disclosures do not contain the terms required by such criteria.
 
Repeals a consumer's right to rescind a credit transaction as against an assignee.
 
Extends joint and several liability to the mortgage assignee, the original creditor, and prior or subsequent assignees for material violations committed by the original creditor, to the extent that the violation is apparent on the face of the disclosure.
 
Revises the limitation on damages to: (1) provide that a cause of action for a liability may be asserted by the borrower only in an individual action; (2) limit the amount of relief to the total amount that the borrower has paid in connection with the loan, including reasonable attorney's fees; (3) bar such action from being brought after the end of the three-year period beginning on the date of the violation giving rise to the liability; and (4) provide that such cause of action shall constitute the exclusive remedy of the consumer against an assignee of a mortgage.
 
Denies a consumer the right to void or rescind high cost mortgages as against an assignee of such mortgage.
 
 Repeals assignee liability for consumer credit transactions secured by real property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Family Fairness Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4720
Sponsor: Rep. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2004-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Families
Family leave
Health
Hours of labor
Part-time employment
Sick leave

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: 
Family Fairness Act of 2004 - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to make an employee eligible for coverage under such Act if that employee has been employed for at least 12 months by a covered employer with respect to whom such leave is requested. (Eliminates the requirement, under current law, that the employee have served at least 1,250 hours during the 12-month period prior to the leave request.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2004-07-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Government Reform, and House Administration, 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: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Estate Tax Deferral for Working Farms and Land Conservation Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4721
Sponsor: Rep. Bishop, Timothy H. [D-NY-1]
Introduced: 2004-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Conservation easements
Environmental Protection
Estate tax
Families
Family farms
Farm lands
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: 
Estate Tax Deferral for Working Farms and Land Conservation Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude property used by a decedent's heir as farmland from the gross income of the decedent's estate. Imposes an additional estate tax if the decedent's heir disposes of such farmland or ceases to use it for farming purposes. Repeals the $500,000 limitation on the estate tax exclusion for land subject to a qualified conservation easement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the establishment at Antietam National Battlefield of a memorial to the officers and enlisted men of the Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth New Hamphire Volunteer Infantry Regiments and the First New Hampshire Light Artillery Battery who fought in the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-4722
Sponsor: Rep. Bradley, Jeb [R-NH-1]
Introduced: 2004-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Civil War
Commemorations
Fund raising
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
History
Infantry
Maryland
Military parks
Military personnel
Monuments and memorials
New Hampshire
Volunteer forces

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to authorize the establishment, at a suitable location approved by the Secretary within the boundaries of Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland, of a memorial to the officers and enlisted men of the Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiments and the First New Hampshire Light Artillery Battery who fought in the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-06
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2004-07-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an exclusion from gross income for student loan payments made by an employer on behalf of an employee.

Bill: 108-hr-4723
Sponsor: Rep. Bradley, Jeb [R-NH-1]
Introduced: 2004-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Discrimination in employment
Education
Employee benefit plans
Excise tax
Higher education
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Part-time employment
Scholarships
Student loan funds
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an exclusion from gross income of student loan payments made for an employee by an employer. Imposes upon such an employer a tax for failure to make comparable payments on certain education loans of employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner Services Coverage Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4724
Sponsor: Rep. Burr, Richard [R-NC-5]
Introduced: 2004-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Medical fees
Medicare
Pharmacists
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: 
Medicare Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner Services Coverage Act of 2004 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage of authorized clinical pharmacist practitioner (CPP) services involving toxicology, therapeutics, clinical pharmacokinetics, pharmacoeconomics, and other life sciences for the direct care of patients, which would otherwise be covered if furnished by a physician, or as an incident to a physician's professional service. Requires such services to be performed under State law or regulation in a collaborative practice agreement. 
 
Requires Medicare beneficiaries to pay 20 percent coinsurance.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop, and report to Congress on, CPP fee schedules meeting specified requirements for services furnished by January 1, 2007. Requires CPP's to be reimbursed at 85 percent of applicable physicians' rates as of January 1, 2005, until such fee schedules are implemented.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2004-06-25
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: 2004-06-25
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: 2004-06-25
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: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Glover River Wild and Scenic River Act

Bill: 108-hr-4725
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Brad [D-OK-2]
Introduced: 2004-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: National forests
Oklahoma
Water Resources Development
Wild rivers

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: 
Glover River Wild and Scenic River Act - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of the Glover River in the Ouachita National Forest in Oklahoma as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to develop and administer the comprehensive management plan for that segment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-06
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2004-07-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To prevent discriminatory taxation of natural gas pipeline property by the States.

Bill: 108-hr-4726
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, John R. [R-TX-31]
Introduced: 2004-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Commerce
District courts
Energy
Gas pipelines
Government Operations and Politics
Industrial property
Interstate commerce
Jurisdiction
Local taxation
Property tax
Real estate appraisal
State taxation
Tax rates
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: 
Describes the following as acts that unreasonably burden and discriminate against interstate commerce, and prohibits States, political subdivisions, and any other taxing authority from: (1) assessing natural gas pipeline property at a value that has a higher ratio to its true market value than the ratio used to assess other commercial and industrial property in the same assessment jurisdiction; (2) levying or collecting a tax on such an assessment; (3) levying or collecting an ad valorem property tax on natural gas pipeline property at a rate that exceeds the rate applicable to commercial and industrial property in the same assessment jurisdiction; or (4) imposing any other tax that discriminates against a natural gas pipeline providing transportation subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
 
 Grants jurisdiction to U.S. District Courts over cases involving violations of such prohibitions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-08-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Market Access Program Elimination Act

Bill: 108-hr-4727
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2004-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural credit
Agriculture in foreign trade
Economics and Public Finance
Export finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government lending

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: 
Market Access Program Elimination Act - Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to repeal the market access program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to rename the earned income credit as the Ronald Reagan earned income credit.

Bill: 108-hr-4729
Sponsor: Rep. Emanuel, Rahm [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2004-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commemorations
Congress
Congressional tributes
Earned income tax credit
Ex-presidents
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Names
Reagan Administration
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to rename the earned income tax credit as the Ronald Reagan earned income tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To maintain and expand the steel import licensing and monitoring program.

Bill: 108-hr-4730
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2004-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Commerce
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government statistics
Import restrictions
Imports
Iron
Iron and steel industry
Law
Licenses
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Steel

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: 
Declares that the steel import licensing and monitoring program established by the Secretaries of the Treasury and of Commerce shall remain in effect and be established by the Secretary of Commerce as a permanent program.
 
Requires the Secretaries to expand the program to include all iron and steel, and all articles of iron and steel, specified in this Act. 
 
Requires release of the import and licensing data made available to the public as part of this program, based upon classifications at the tenth digit level of the Harmonized Schedule of the United States.
 
Grants the Secretaries authority to maintain the program and to expand it as necessary and appropriate in accordance with this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Federal Whistleblower Protection Tax Act of 2004

Bill: 108-hr-4732
Sponsor: Rep. Gerlach, Jim [R-PA-6]
Introduced: 2004-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Damages
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Dismissal of employees
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal fees
Limitation of actions
Tax administration
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax refunds
Wage restitution
Whistle blowing

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: 
Federal Whistleblower Protection Tax Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income damages (other than punitive damages and lost income) and amounts awarded as attorney fees and costs for claims under Federal whistleblower provisions prohibiting the discharge of, or discrimination, retaliation, or reprisal against, an employee for asserting rights or taking permitted actions. Provides for the averaging of such lost income for income tax purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To provide improved income security for members of the Individual Ready Reserve who are called to active duty.

Bill: 108-hr-4733
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2004-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Disabled
Fringe benefits
Labor and Employment
Military pay
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: 
Requires the Secretary concerned to pay a monthly bonus for each month of active duty to members of the Individual Ready Reserve who are ordered to active duty for a period of more than 30 days without their consent.
 
Preserves veterans disability compensation benefits for members of the Individual Ready Reserve who are ordered to active duty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Benefits.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to include a definition of initial reservation and consultation, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-4734
Sponsor: Rep. John, Christopher [D-LA-7]
Introduced: 2004-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-Indian relations
Gambling
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Indian lands
Land transfers
Law
Minorities
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Sports and Recreation
State government-Indian relations

Summary:
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: 
Amends the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to define initial reservation (geographical area) and consultation (with State, local, and tribal governments within 50 miles of land proposed to be taken into trust for a gaming facility).
 
Revises consultation requirements for an exception to gaming restrictions on certain land. Specifies that the State or local governments or nearby Indians tribes with which the Secretary of the Interior is required to consult on a proposed gaming establishment must have jurisdiction over land located within 50 miles of the land proposed to be taken into trust for the establishment. Declares as a favorable determination alternative to the currently required best interest of the Indian tribe and its members, with no detriment to the surrounding community, that the gaming establishment would not have a negative economic impact on businesses, governments, or Indian tribes within a 50 mile radius of the land proposed to be taken into trust.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-07-06
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1281)
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-06-25
text: Introduced in House